Chapter 6: The Concubines Show Their Skills

The Great Princess’s attitude was firm, she made it clear that she would absolutely not accept the appearance of a bastard son.

Before Gu Wanning gave birth to a legitimate son, no one else could give birth.

“You are still young, you can wait, there’s no rush.” The Great Princess comforted Gu Wanning, “Your body is weak, take care of it slowly. Grandmother will ask someone to find some tonics from the treasury and send them to you, you must eat them on time…”

She was like the most kind elder, “Right, now that Weibei is back, he should accompany you back to visit your parents.”

He left on the day of the wedding, and didn’t return for three days, this was indeed unfair to Gu Wanning.

“No, no need,” Gu Wanning quickly waved her hand, “The Marquis has just returned, he is busy with affairs.”

Just kidding, that family, the previous owner didn’t want to go back at all, why should she get involved?

Perhaps for the Gu family, she was simply superfluous.

Gu Wanning didn’t want to see so many people either, she didn’t want to cause trouble.

The Great Princess was kind, she thought of everything for her.

But it was all, well-meaning but doing bad things.

“Etiquette cannot be abandoned.” The Great Princess insisted, “I will ask someone to send gifts later. Also, Weibei has received many rewards this time. You open the treasury, choose gifts according to the preferences of your family, and then have someone send the gift list to the Princess’s mansion for me to look over.”

It must be a grand gift.

Gu Wanning’s head was buzzing, but she still agreed.

Xu Weibei had been keeping a cold face all this time, as if someone owed him eight hundred taels of silver.

“And also,” the Great Princess said, “Without rules, there is no order. You arrange it later, which day Weibei goes to whose courtyard, so that there won’t be any fighting later, which would disrupt the Marquis’s mansion and break the rules.”

Good heavens, she had to make a “sleeping schedule”?

She was really so miserable.

Also, she arranged who, Xu Weibei had to go and sleep with who, this…

Would Xu Weibei be willing?

Hurry up and object, stallion!

Shouldn’t stallions be free and easy, whoever they like, they like?

But Xu Weibei didn’t say anything, he actually acquiesced to this?

Gu Wanning was annoyed, but later she thought, what the heck, four people, one person for seven days, the remaining two days, let Xu Weibei choose freely.

Kill her!

She had to make the schedule, didn’t she?

She would definitely not include herself!

The Great Princess gave her some more instructions before returning to her mansion, Xu Weibei wanted to send her back.

After sending off these two big Buddhas, Gu Wanning could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

She was still thinking about her chickens, ducks, and geese, so she said to the four concubines, “Today, you just listen to what the Great Princess said, I will discuss with the Marquis later about how to proceed. Before that, the Marquis goes to whose courtyard, you just serve them well.”

The four of them all looked surprised.

Because Gu Wanning had changed so much from before, they didn’t dare to believe it.

Was it because the Marquis had returned, so she had restrained herself?

“Also, you don’t have to go to the garden to work anymore.” Gu Wanning said again, “You just take care of yourselves. Morning and evening greetings, you don’t need to serve me, just remember, don’t cause me any trouble, and I will let you have a good life.”

“Yes!”

Gu Wanning looked at the expressions of the four of them, she thought to herself, you don’t have to work anymore, why don’t you seem happier?

Go, go, she felt suffocated looking at them.

Gu Wanning didn’t care about the four of them, she went to the backyard to work.

Er’ya was still worried about her, “Madam, are you okay.”

“I’m fine, the Great Princess came to support me. Hurry up and work, have you caught all the chickens, ducks, and geese?”

“They are all here.”

“Okay, you take people out and sell them all.”

“Yes.”

The four concubines didn’t communicate much, except for the fourth concubine, who was closer to the eldest concubine in private, the others didn’t have much interaction.

The fourth concubine was simply because she was good at martial arts, and the eldest concubine was gentle, which reminded her of her deceased mistress, so she dared to secretly interact with the eldest concubine.

The four of them returned to their own courtyards, not to mention.

Speaking of the Great Princess, she persuaded Xu Weibei, “You have to look at the good side. You saw the chickens and ducks flying and the dogs jumping, but I saw that Wanning, because she was afraid that you wouldn’t like it, so she rearranged the backyard…”

Xu Weibei said, “Grandmother, you don’t have to worry about our affairs.”

“How can I not worry? Wanning is a good child, she has suffered a lot that she shouldn’t have. She grew up in the countryside, she hasn’t been cared for by anyone. Be kind to her, and she will depend on you wholeheartedly…”

Xu Weibei’s lips were tightly closed, he looked like he didn’t want to talk anymore.

The Great Princess didn’t say anything more, she had someone pick out some things and let Xu Weibei take them back.

Xu Weibei sent someone to deliver the tonics to Gu Wanning, he didn’t even want to step into the backyard, he went directly to rest in the outer study.

The poultry sold for a total of seventeen taels of silver, so Gu Wanning now had over thirty taels of silver, a huge sum.

She stared at the blood bird’s nest and cordyceps that the Great Princess had given her, she thought to herself, if only these could be turned into cash.

The gifts for her family were directly loaded onto the carriage and not unloaded.

Gu Wanning looked at the gift list, although there were many items, they weren’t expensive, they were practical, and everyone was taken care of.

For example, her father and brothers received mostly books, stationery, and Fenjiu, her mother and sister-in-law received fabrics and snacks, and her nephews and nieces received small gold and silver trinkets.

It would be great if she didn’t have to return to her family, she could keep the things.

“Madam, didn’t you say that the Great Princess asked you to arrange for someone to serve the Marquis at night?” Er’ya asked foolishly, “Have you arranged it?”

“I’m too tired today, let’s talk about it tomorrow.” Gu Wanning said.

She would have to call the four of them over, let them choose their own time slots, and avoid their periods.

Gu Wanning felt a sense of resistance towards doing this.

She felt like she was a pimp…

Fortunately, Xu Weibei seemed to disdain her, he shouldn’t be so desperate to sleep with her.

If she were to participate in their game of wives and concubines, then Gu Wanning would be ready to flip the table.

She wouldn’t live anymore, she would start over!

She was lying flat, but she didn’t know that Xu Weibei was restless in the outer study.

“Yes, Marquis, it’s getting late, you should rest early.”

“Hmm.”

Gao Lan quickly went to help Xu Weibei make the bed.

Before the bed was even made, someone outside reported, “Marquis, the eldest concubine requests an audience.”

“No!” Xu Weibei waved his sleeve.

What was she asking to see him for in the middle of the night?

It must be to offer herself to him.

He hated restless women.

The people outside quickly sent the eldest concubine away.

Gao Lan muttered, “The eldest concubine is gentle, she often takes care of the fourth concubine, the two of them are very close. She is usually a well-behaved one, I don’t know why she is so impatient now.”

As the Marquis’s number one lackey, he had to be familiar with all the situations in the mansion upon his return.

After a while, the second concubine came again.

Xu Weibei didn’t budge, he sent her back.

“Next, wouldn’t it be the third concubine? Did they plan this today?” Gao Lan couldn’t help but mutter.

They had been quite quiet for the past few days, how come they were showing their fox tails after only a few days?

Tsk tsk.

The Marquis is really amazing, the women in the mansion started to fight for him as soon as he returned.

Gao Lan’s crow’s mouth was half right.

Someone did come again, but it was the fourth concubine.

Xu Weibei couldn’t take it anymore, “Get in here!”

He wanted to see what kind of mischief these women were up to tonight!

He even felt that Gu Wanning was too kind to these things, which allowed them to come to the outer courtyard to harass him in the middle of the night.

Was there no order in this Marquis’s mansion?

He couldn’t do it like Gu Wanning, simple and brutal, he should just make them kneel!