Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 80 Mei Niang challenged her dignity

In the first month of the year, there is a sense of New Year everywhere, with festive couplets, bright red lanterns, endless banging firecrackers, and the wanton laughter of children wearing new clothes. There is excitement and joy everywhere.

Li Xian has been very worried these days. The whole family is celebrating the New Year happily, but her biological mother is alone in the temple.

Every festive season means he misses his family even more. On this festive day, he misses his mother even more.

 He is a filial son.

 Xu Wanning was playing with Brother Heng and Sister Zhuang in the house. When she saw Li Xian pushing the door open, she was startled, and her smiling face immediately turned serious.

 “Why are you so free today?” She glanced at Li Xian, then lowered her head and continued playing with her children.

Li Xian said nothing. He sat down on the chair and just looked at his wife and children in a daze.

Xu Wanning handed the daughter in her arms to the wet nurse beside her, looked at him and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Li Xian winked at the wet nurse. After the wet nurse took Sister Zhuang's son and led Brother Kun out, he looked at his wife and said, "It's already eleven today. Let's go to the family temple to see our mother."

Xu Wanning's mouth twitched and she snorted coldly: "Now you are thinking of me. Why don't you let that foxy girl accompany you?"

Li Xian stood up, walked to her, sat down, took her hand and said, "You are my wife, how can anyone else compare to her?"

Xu Wanning pulled out her hand fiercely, smiled coldly, looked at Li Xian and said sarcastically: "When you favored that **** in front of me, you didn't treat me as your wife."

Li Xian's eyes darkened and he hesitated: "It's been so long, how can you hold a grudge like this?"

"Fart! You do such a thing of doting on your concubine and killing your wife, do you still want me to forget about it so heartlessly?" Xu Wanning was trembling with anger, pointed at Li Xian, and said sadly: "I tell you, I The reason why I live with you like this is just for the sake of my two children."

Li Xian saw his wife getting angry, so he stepped forward and hugged her slightly trembling shoulders, and whispered: "It's all my fault."

Xu Wanning didn't accept this trick at all. She opened his hand angrily and turned away.

Li Xianfu took her hand again and said in a low voice: "We are husband and wife, please forgive me for the sake of our children, okay?"

Xu Wanning was silent for a long time. She sniffed, turned her head and looked at Li Xian and said, "Let me turn the page. You have to promise me one thing."

Li Xian hurriedly asked: "When?"

"Tell me, as long as I can do it, not just one thing, but a hundred things, I will do it for you."

Xu Wanning said: "Kick that **** out of the house, or send her to a village, or buy her a house outside. As long as she is not under my nose, I will not pursue it anymore."

Li Xian looked troubled and said, "You are not intolerant. How come you just don't like Mei Niang?"

 Xu Wanning is indeed not an intolerant woman. There are no princes and nobles like them who do not keep concubines. In addition to Mei Niang, Bitang Ju also had two other concubines. One was the girl Wang who had been serving Li Xian before. When Xu Wanning got pregnant with brother Kun the next year, she agreed to Li Xian's request. He kept the girl in his room. The other one was given to Li Xian by his mother Guo when she was pregnant with Sister Zhuang, named Caiping.

Some high-class mistresses were jealous and often treated their concubines harshly, but Xu Wanning never felt sorry for Li Xian's two concubines as a mistress.

On the one hand, she is not such a vicious person, and more importantly, the two concubines understand their identities and can position themselves correctly. They have always behaved as concubines and never dared to do anything disrespectful to their mistress. Things come up.

 But that Gong Ji Mei Niang challenged Xu Wanning's dignity as the mistress. Li Xian favored Mei Niang in her conflict with Mei Niang, which touched Xu Wanning's bottom line.

Although she is not a stingy person, she is a person who has a clear sense of grudges.

Xu Wanning didn't believe that Li Xian didn't understand her. She looked at Li Xian and asked coldly: "What do you think?"

Li Xian naturally understood. He lowered his head and muttered: "Mei Niang was given by the Holy Spirit, please don't embarrass me."

She was given by the Holy Mountain, and she was indeed different from other concubines, but if she were placed outside, even the Holy One would not be able to pick out anything. Besides, although Xu Wanning was a woman, she didn't believe that an emperor would have enough time to pay attention to where an unknown palace concubine who had been rewarded was placed.

Li Xian just couldn't bear it.

Xu Wanning sighed and said: "Since you are in trouble, then don't make things difficult for me. You also know that your mother has never liked me. If you want to see her, just go by yourself. I won't go."

He can't give her the respect that a head wife deserves, so why should she ask her to be decent and filial to him?

Li Xian saw that his wife was resolute. He thought for a long time and then said calmly: "Okay, I promise you, after the New Year, I will send Mei Niang to Zhuangzi."

Xu Wanning naturally hopes that the family will be harmonious. Even for the sake of the children, she is not willing to stay in such a cold relationship with Li Xian. Now that Li Xian is finally willing to give in, she looks at him and says: "Then let's make an agreement, wait and see." After the new year, I will send her away."

Li Xian nodded: "I promise you." After that, he sighed and said: "Let's go, it's getting late, the snow on the mountain is thick and it's difficult to travel, let's pack up and leave."

Xu Wanning called the girls and ordered: "Go pack some snacks and fruits that the second wife likes on weekdays, and then choose two sets of stable colors from the brocade clothes I made years ago."

 After a pause, Xu Wanning continued: "Pack on two new sets of thick quilts. It's cold on the mountain, so maybe I'll use them."

The girls happily agreed and went down to prepare. Li Xian stepped forward and hugged his wife, saying gratefully: "Thank you."

Although his wife has a rough temper and does not like him very much, Li Xian knows in his heart that she has no evil intentions. He also knew that his mother had always treated her harshly. Although she complained, she still had a filial piety in her heart.

　　Xu Wanning rolled her eyes at him: "Don't talk to me about these useless things."

Although she was still unforgiving, she did not open her husband's hand again.

The couple and their children, and the family of four, were about to go out when the grandma who communicated in the old lady's room happened to come in. Seeing them about to go out, she asked, "Master and madam, are you going out?"

Xu Wanning smiled and said: "We were going to the family temple to see my mother-in-law, and grandma came over, but does grandma have any instructions?"

Although the visitor still had a smile on his face, his expression became obviously gloomy, and he replied: "I have been ordered by the old lady to come here to inform the uncle and madam that the old lady will hold a banquet in Anxi Hall to welcome the ninth princess in the evening. Please You all are coming over."

The Ninth Princess was supposed to have a banquet when she came to the house yesterday, but later I heard that the Ninth Princess was tired, so she didn't finish the meal. Now the old lady clearly didn't want to skip the ceremony, and insisted on making up for it for her granddaughter.

Xu Wanning looked at Li Xian, and Li Xian replied to the visitor: "Let's just get back before the dinner."

After Mammy agreed and retreated, Li Xian took his wife and children out of Bitangju, got on the carriage, left the house, and headed towards the family temple.

 (End of this chapter)