Chapter 831: The Prostitute and Concubine in the Brothel 5
Chapter 831: The Prostitute and Concubine in the Brothel 5
"Princess, it's already this late, could you please stop being so unreasonable?" Qin's father was already annoyed to death, and he became even more annoyed when Qin's mother acted like this.
"I am being unreasonable," Mother Qin stopped crying and slammed her hand on the table. "Qin Hanyang, you know best whether I am being unreasonable or not. Don't think that you hide your thoughts well. In fact, as long as you move your fox tail a little, I will know what you are up to."
"I'm telling you, if you want to kill my son so that you can make way for your other sons, you better give up on this idea! As long as I'm around, don't even think about touching my son."
"Humph!" Mother Qin wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief. "Isn't it just taking a brothel girl as a concubine? What's the big deal? In order to prevent you from having an excuse to kill my son, I must let my son take that brothel girl home."
"You...are you crazy?" Father Qin pointed at his wife, his face reddening with anger. "I can see that you are being unreasonable with me on purpose."
"Princess," Qin's father suppressed his inner anger and tried to speak in a calm tone, "I know you love your son, but don't I love my son too? But we can't indulge our sons in foolish things just because we love them! Zhan Han is going to pursue a career in politics in the future, so it's best if his reputation is not tainted."
"If we really agree to let him take a prostitute as his concubine, how will outsiders evaluate him, and how will they evaluate us as parents?"
"Anyway, I won't agree to this matter no matter what you say, you just..."
"If you don't agree, are you going to watch my son starve to death?" Qin's mother said in a high voice, "You said it so high-soundingly, saying that it's for the good of my son. If you really want to do it for the good of my son, how can you watch my son starve to death and do nothing?"
"Qin Hanyang, if I say I agree to this matter, then I agree. No matter how much you object, it will be useless. You want my son to die so that you can make way for your other sons, but that also depends on whether I am willing or not."
Qin's mother naturally knew that she was being unreasonable, but so what? If she wasn't being unreasonable, she wouldn't be able to suppress Qin Hanyang with a clear conscience.
There was no way. Qin's mother was so afraid of losing her son. During the days when her son was on a hunger strike, she felt like her heart was about to break and she was almost scared to death.
So what could she do? Naturally, she could only satisfy her son's request.
"You..." Father Qin was so angry that he could hardly speak. After all, they had been married for twenty years, and Father Qin knew his wife very well.
Since his wife said so, it meant that she had made up her mind. No matter how much he objected, it would be useless. So what else could he say?
"Just spoil your precious son! Spoiling a son is like killing him. When your son becomes so spoiled that he does something terrible one day, it will be too late to regret it." After he finished speaking, Qin's father flicked his sleeves and walked out.
"My princess, the master seems to be really angry," Madam Lu said worriedly, "Do you really want to agree to let the eldest master welcome that prostitute into the house? From the look of the master, what will we do if he becomes alienated from you because of this incident?"
"If Qin Hanyang really wants to break up with me because of this, then let him break up with me. Hasn't he done enough to hurt my heart over the years?" Mother Qin said, "As early as when Qin Hanyang took his first concubine, I knew that the only person I could rely on in this life was my son, so I would never allow anything to happen to Zhan Han."
When Qin's mother and Qin's father first got married, they had a sweet time. At that time, the young and naive Qin's mother thought she was different from other women. But when she became pregnant, Qin's father took in a maid arranged by her mother-in-law, which made Qin's mother feel like she was struck by lightning.
Over the years, her husband had taken in many concubines, and the days he came to her room every month gradually became only special days like the first and fifteenth of the month, which made Qin's mother's heart numb.
Under such circumstances, Qin's mother naturally loved her son even more and could not afford for her son to make the slightest mistake.
"Hurry up and make arrangements," Qin's mother continued, "Since we want to let that brothel girl in, we have to redeem her from the brothel and put her in my villa on the outskirts of the city. After all, we can't just let the princess's sedan chair go to the brothel to carry her into the mansion."
"Yes, I'll do it right away." Madam Lu said:
Jiang Chunxi was carried into the Princess's Mansion a month later. Although she was only taken as a concubine, Qin Zhanhan made the event very lively for fear of wronging Jiang Chunxi. It can be said that except for the worship of heaven and earth, everything else was done.
With such a grand banquet, people who didn't know would think that Qin Zhanhan was getting married, not taking a concubine.
Some things, once compromised at the beginning, can only continue to be compromised. Since Qin's mother compromised with her son and let Jiang Chunxi marry into the family, of course she could only compromise again and again on the specifications of her son for taking a concubine.
Therefore, even though she knew that holding a grand banquet would make people laugh at her, Qin's mother still met her son's request and received the guests at the banquet with a forced smile.
Fortunately, none of the guests who came to the banquet dared to make any insinuations against her, which made the forced smile on Qin's mother's face not look so fake.
"Junwen," Mrs. Zhao, a close friend of Qin's mother, finally had time to come to Qin's mother and talk when the banquet started, "What on earth is going on? I was so shocked when I received the invitation. I wanted to send you a letter to come to the Princess's Mansion to ask about you, but it just so happened that my mother-in-law was sick."
Mrs. Zhao's mother-in-law was indeed ill, and she liked to torture her daughter-in-law. Whenever she was sick, she would ask her daughter-in-law to take care of her, leaving Mrs. Zhao with no time to come to the Princess's Mansion.
It is worth mentioning here that the wife Qin Zhanhan married in his previous life was Madam Zhao's daughter, so Qin Zhanhan was the son-in-law that Madam Zhao had targeted for a long time. When Madam Zhao learned that Qin Zhanhan wanted to take a brothel girl as his concubine, it would be strange if she was not anxious.
But she was constrained by her difficult mother-in-law, so she had no time to go out. She was even exhausted by her difficult mother-in-law during this period of time, and she didn't even have the energy to write a letter to Qin's mother to ask about her.
"Oh! Don't mention it," Mother Qin couldn't suppress her inner grievances as soon as she opened her mouth to face her best friend, "Limin, I feel so miserable!"
"Those guests just now, although they all said flattering words, I know in my heart that they are probably laughing at me in their hearts," Qin's mother wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "But it's true, which respectable family would treat taking a concubine as if it were a wife, and the concubine was brought in from a brothel."
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