Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 52: The eldest daughter is the daughter of the first wife, but the relationship is different.

Jingshu was still in a dazed state until she got on the carriage. As soon as the carriage started to move, she leaned on Li Ling's shoulder and closed her eyelids and fell asleep.

"We're almost here, wake up." It wasn't until Li Ling called her that Jingshu opened her eyes in confusion, opened the car curtain and glanced outside. Sure enough, the carriage and horse had already entered the alley, and they would be home after a short walk.

Having not returned to her parents' home for half a year, Jingshu was eager to return home. She took out a small bronze mirror from the package, looked around, and quickly arranged her clothes.

　　Having not been home for so long, she had to let her family see her bright and beautiful self.

Jing Shu was here when she saw Li Ling cast a deep look at him. She looked sideways at him and said with a dull face, "Why do you look at me like this?"

Li Ling said nothing and only pursed his lips towards his shoulder.

Jingshu looked over and saw a small patch of wetness there.

 Could it be that I was sleeping while leaning on him just now?

Jingshu subconsciously covered her mouth with a veil.

“I’m going to the palace to see the saint later.” Li Ling glanced at her with his deep eyes.

Jingshu turned sideways and quickly wiped his wet clothes with a handkerchief. She smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm so sorry."

Li Ling grabbed the handkerchief, flicked it for a few times, and said to her through gritted teeth: "When you go home tonight, you can wash this official uniform for me with your own hands. If you don't wash it well, you won't be able to sleep tonight."

Jingshu made a sound and retorted to him: "If you hadn't gone too far last night, how could I have been so tired that I fell asleep in the car, and how could I have spit on you."

Li Ling tugged at her ears angrily: "You are reasonable, right?"

Jingshu opened his hand and rolled her eyes at him: "You deserve it for soiling your clothes!"

She looked very irritated with a gloating expression.

Li Ling's face darkened, she glared at him and said, "Talk to me like this, it's against you!" After saying that, he reached out his hand to pull her ears again.

Jingshu quickly opened the car curtain and shouted to her family waiting at the door: "Father, mother, I'm back."

With that said, the car arrived at the gate of Shen's house. The driver stopped the car. Li Ling got up first. Before getting out of the car, he turned to Jing Shu and said bitterly in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "So arrogant. ! See how I deal with you when I go back tonight."

Li Ling jumped out of the carriage and reached out to help Jing Shu out of the carriage.

 Father Shen and his step-sibling Wang, together with sisters Shen Jinglan and Wang's youngest son Shen Xing, have been waiting at the gate for a long time.

Shen's father, Shen De'an, was naturally overjoyed to see his high-ranking son-in-law accompanying his daughter to wish him a birthday. Wang, half-hiding behind Shen's father, glanced at his extraordinary son-in-law and his stepdaughter, who was dressed dazzlingly. Her eyes darkened and she couldn't help but Looking towards his two children.

The two daughters he gave birth to were naturally very beautiful, but they lost their luster in front of this stepdaughter.

It’s no wonder that she was just a maid of the Jiang family at the beginning, so how could the daughter she gave birth to be comparable to the daughter of the Jiang family.

Wang was making random calculations here, and Shen Jingshu had already walked up to her gracefully, smiling and saying hello to her.

 Wang quickly came to her senses and started chatting enthusiastically with her stepdaughter. As they got closer, the tiredness in Jingshu's eyes naturally fell into her eyes. She remembered that her stepdaughter was like this when she came back from Sanchao.

She is someone who has experienced this before, so she naturally knows why the woman is so tired.

He couldn't help but look at his dignified uncle who was chatting with her husband: they had been married for so long, but his enthusiasm for his stepdaughter was still undiminished, and her heart sank again.

My eldest daughter is now of marriageable age. It would be great if she could also have such a good fortune.

Li Ling was about to enter the palace in a hurry, and he also exchanged greetings with Father Shen at the gate, ordered his entourage to present the birthday gifts he had brought, and left in a hurry.

When Mrs. Wang saw that her uncle was gone, she couldn't help but asked: "My uncle came so easily, why did he leave without entering the door?" Jingshu replied: "He has to go to the palace to meet the Holy Spirit today, so he can't delay."

Shen Jinglan asked: "Will my brother-in-law come back later?"

Jingshu smiled: "If I come back early, I might be able to catch up with my father's birthday party. If I come back late, there's nothing I can do about it."

Shen Jingxuan looked at Jingshu and whispered: "Brother-in-law is so handsome!"

Shen Xing also echoed: "Brother-in-law is such a handsome man!"

Shen Jingxuan glanced at her younger brother as if she were a close friend, and muttered: "If I can't come, my brother-in-law will really be in a big loss."

Shen Xing wondered: "Why did my brother-in-law lose money?"

Shen Jingxuan rolled her eyes at her younger brother and said angrily: "What a little nerd. My brother-in-law has given me so many birthday gifts. If I don't get the birthday banquet, wouldn't I be at a disadvantage?"

Jingshu looked at her younger sister and said with a smile, "Xuan'er still hasn't changed her greedy temperament."

Father Shen echoed: "She! She can't change. I don't know what kind of person she will be in the future who will be willing to marry such a glutton as a wife."

Shen Jingxuan was so embarrassed that she hid behind Jing Shu. Shen Xing listened to her father ridiculing Sister Xuan and clapped her hands happily: "If Third Sister can get married, a sow can climb a tree!"

Shen Jingxuan was so angry that she hit him, and the two siblings ran in after him.

The whole family entered the house in a lively manner. Jingshu chatted with her father and Mrs. Wang in the front hall for a while, then she asked to go back to her boudoir's yard to take a look. Father Shen said, "Your mother knows you are coming back today." , I took people to clean it up last night, you just go and have a rest."

Hearing this, Shen Jingxuan said unfairly: "My eldest sister is already married. I want to live in my sister's yard, but my father won't allow it. It's really partial."

In front of their father, his brothers and sisters often complained that his father was partial. Father Shen had long been accustomed to it, and he indeed favored his eldest daughter.

 The eldest daughter is the daughter of the first wife, so the relationship between them is different.

Jingshu said to her father: "If Xuan'er wants to live in that courtyard, just let her live there. Now that I'm out of the pavilion, why bother leaving it empty?"

“That’s right.” Shen Jingxuan pouted and agreed.

Father Shen glared at Xuannv and replied: "Even if you leave the pavilion, you will always return to your parents' home. If you have time, you can stay for a few nights. I'm afraid you won't be used to living elsewhere."

Her father has been planning for her since she was a child. Her father was born in a merchant family, but he is a talented person. Her mother, who was born in an official family, took a fancy to her father's character and talent. The maternal grandparents only had one daughter. Although there was a difference in family status, they agreed to marry her in order to fulfill her daughter's wish.

After marriage, the two naturally had a harmonious relationship, but later on, her father was promoted and moved to the capital. Her mother was very fragile when she was pregnant with her. When she arrived in the capital, she couldn't adapt to the climate, so she had no choice but to return to Chaozhou to raise the baby, and she was injured again when giving birth to her. , and has stayed in Chaozhou.

My mother was a very kind and good-tempered person. She was worried that her father would be left alone in the capital with no one to take care of him, so she made her personal maid, now Mrs. Wang, her father's concubine and asked her to go to the capital to take care of her father. Should live.

Although his father had a concubine, he always had a deep love for his mother. Whenever he had free time, he would go back to visit their mother and daughter regardless of the severe cold and heat. Later, he also tried many times to bring them back to the capital. However, Xu Shi's mother never had a chance to live in this bustling capital, and she would fall seriously ill every time she came to Beijing.

When she was six years old, her father was promoted to the fourth rank and participated in politics. He was too busy with political affairs and had no time to return to Chaozhou, so her mother took her all the way to the capital. She fell seriously ill again, and in the end there was no cure. , just leaving the father and daughter behind.

When my mother passed away, my father was only thirty years old. He was a friendly and honest official, and many people came to visit my grandmother in advance. At this time, he was already in the fourth rank of officialdom. He could have married a well-matched official girl, but his father Worried that the young woman would be angry with her stepmother, although Wang was born as a maid, fortunately she was not from a humble background, so her father helped his concubine Wang to be straight.

He was thinking that Wang was an honest person and was his mother's personal maid, so he would not let her be wronged.

　　Although Wang gave birth to two daughters and one son for her father, her father favored her the most among these children.

The younger siblings naturally complained about their father's favoritism, but fortunately, the eldest sister treated them kindly, so her father's partiality did not cause any rift between her and her younger siblings.

 (End of this chapter)