GBP Chapter 213: The eldest wife, Song Wanyi, has many lives on her hands
Chapter 213: The eldest wife, Song Wanyi, has many lives on her hands
"What is Xia Dechang doing here?" Xia Qingqing asked curiously.
"Xia Mingchen said, please invite the old man to watch the show."
Shen Qiubai smiled. Qingqing's cheap uncle was a wonderful man and quite interesting.
"What show are you watching?"
Xia Qingqing was stunned for a moment, but soon she figured it out and couldn't help laughing: "My cheap uncle is quite sinister."
Even though she is insidious and treacherous, it's fine as long as you don't target her.
"Xia Mingchen asked you for half a pound of tea. He wants to bribe Master Buhui." Shen Qiubai said again.
"Bribe the master with what? Let me guess, don't tell me yet."
Xia Qingqing became interested. She leaned back in her seat, looked up at the ceiling of the car and thought about something.
"I see. Does Xia Mingchen want Master Buhui to interpret the fortune for the old man and then put the blame on Xia Yunzhe?"
Xia Qingqing slapped Shen Qiubai hard on the thigh.
The car made a sharp turn and almost hit a tree on the side of the road. Shen Qiubai braked suddenly and looked at her helplessly.
"I'm sorry, I forgot. Does it hurt?"
Xia Qingqing rubbed his thigh to please him. She was so excited that she forgot that Shen Qiubai was driving.
"Safety first, don't forget it again, or I won't let you learn to drive."
Shen Qiubai spoke in a stern tone. He said that other things could be accommodated, but when it came to personal safety, he had to strictly control it.
A while ago, Xia Qingqing said she wanted to learn how to drive, and he agreed and prepared to return to Shanghai to teach her. Now he regrets it. What if Qingqing gets excited while driving and he is not around? It would be too dangerous.
"I know, I know. I will definitely keep it in mind. Tell me first if my guess is correct!"
Xia Qingqing couldn't help but act coquettishly, and her soft voice quickly softened Shen Qiubai's heart. It took a lot of effort to maintain a stern expression. He started the car again, but not very fast.
"You guessed it pretty much. Xia Mingchen said he wanted Xia Dechang to see with his own eyes how the first wife tried every means to bribe the people around him and put him to death. Although Xia Dechang hated Old Madam Xia, he still had feelings for the first wife's descendants. He also made a distribution of the Xia family's property. The Xia Group was handed over to the first wife, and he gave another sum of money to support Xia Mingchen's business."
"The old man has a nice idea. How could the first wife tolerate Xia Mingchen being alive?"
Xia Qingqing looked sarcastic, saying that Xia Dechang was taking things for granted.
No original wife would allow the mistress's children to share the property.
That's not right. Xia Mingchen's mother cannot be said to be a mistress. She can only be said to be a concubine. After all, when Xia Mingchen was born, Hong Kong still practiced polygamy, and it was legal to take a concubine.
[Polygamy was not abolished in Hong Kong until 1971]
But the situation of the old lady of the Xia family is special. This old woman is cruel and ruthless, but she also truly loves Xia Dechang. She can tolerate Xia Dechang marrying countless concubines, but she will never tolerate Xia Dechang falling in love with a concubine.
For example, Chu Jiao and her short-lived grandmother.
Her grandmother was young and beautiful, and when she was brought into the Xia Mansion, she was favored for a while. Xia Qingqing heard from Sister Lu that during that period, everyone in Shanghai knew that Xia Dechang's fourth concubine had everything she wanted in the Xia Mansion, and Xia Dechang would satisfy her as long as it could be bought with money.
Her grandmother even dared to challenge the wife of the first wife, and more than once, her grandmother deliberately snatched away the jewelry and fashions that the wife of the first wife liked, and then wore them on herself to show off to the wife of the first wife.
These are what Sister Lu heard from her adoptive mother. Her adoptive mother advised her many times, but Grandma Xia Qingqing simply wouldn't listen. She really thought that with Xia Dechang's favor, she could act tyrannically in the Xia Mansion.
The result was that when her scumbag father Xia Mingyuan was three years old, her big-breasted, brainless beauty grandmother died of a common cold when Xia Dechang was out on business.
When Xia Dechang came back, her grandmother had already been buried in a thin coffin.
Xia Dechang had a quarrel with his wife for a while, but only half a year later, he married a beautiful actress and soon forgot about her grandmother.
Xia Qingqing didn't know much about the first wife named Song Wanyi. She mostly knew about her through Sister Lu, who in turn learned about her from her adoptive mother.
Although her adoptive mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease, when she was conscious, she liked to tell Sister Lu about her youth and the gossip among the wealthy families in Shanghai. As the top star of Paramount, the old lady knew a lot of gossip.
Moreover, because the old lady's sister was from the same clan and was a concubine in the Xia Mansion, the old lady paid special attention to the gossip in the Xia Mansion and knew a lot.
Song Wanyi was jealous and vicious. Although she and Xia Dechang were arranged by their parents, she fell in love with him at first sight on their wedding night because he was so handsome and romantic.
In the era of polygamy, it is definitely not a good thing for the wife to fall in love with her husband.
Song Wanyi and Xia Dechang had a sweet period, but it only lasted three years. Three years later, Xia Dechang began to hang out with other women outside and kept bringing women home. Song Wanyi made a fuss and quarreled with him, but this made Xia Dechang become increasingly cold towards her and he basically stopped going to the main room.
Then, Song Wanyi began to turn evil. Any woman brought in by Xia Dechang, if she was particularly favored, would die suddenly before long. Grandma Xia Qingqing was not the first one, there were two concubines who died suddenly before her.
Xia Dechang found out that it was Song Wanyi who was responsible for the murder, and he became more and more disgusted with her. However, Song Wanyi gave birth to a son and a daughter for him, and her family was not a small family, so he could not divorce her.
After that, Xia Dechang hid the women outside and basically did not return home at night. Before going to Gangcheng, he gave these women some money and set them free. He only took his first wife and a concubine who had no children to Gangcheng.
However, this old man is a playboy. He has never been short of women after he went to Hong Kong City. While he is having a good time outside, Song Wanyi is chanting Buddhist scriptures and throwing things at home. The couple has long become strangers. If they did not have children and grandchildren together, they would have divorced long ago.
Xia Qingqing has no good feelings towards these two old guys. Xia Dechang is a scumbag and Song Wanyi is vicious. Neither of them is a good person.
If the eldest wife had not harmed Xiaoyu in her previous life, she would never have had anything to do with this family.
But since there were grudges in the previous life, she and the first wife are in a hostile relationship in this life, and she will use any means to bring down the first wife!
In the afternoon, Shen Qiubai went out with half a pound of tea.
In a quiet teahouse box, Shen Qiubai and Xia Mingchen sat face to face drinking tea.
"Half a pound of tea."
Shen Qiubai placed a bag of tea in front of him.
"Thank you."
Xia Mingchen reached out and put the tea leaves into the bag. His hands were slender and white, with distinct joints, revealing abstinence and indifference everywhere, but it also made people unable to help but look at his hands.
"Then you and my eldest niece will have a meal with the old man."
Xia Mingchen said in a lazy tone. Now that the heirloom has chosen its owner, it is time to let the Xia family know.
"We will return to Shanghai in a week. It's better to hurry up."
"It's okay, we can go to Shanghai to eat, the old man won't be back so soon."
Xia Mingchen smiled slightly, but the smile on the corners of his lips seemed very cold, and there was not much respect in his tone when he addressed Xia Dechang.