Chapter 530 The fate of those people

It is said that after returning from the recognition banquet at the General's Mansion that day, the Prime Minister's Mansion was in a state of commotion.

Mrs. Zhang was determined to demote Zhang Bai to a concubine, and then let her son, Prime Minister Zhang, marry her natal niece as his wife. She also gave Prime Minister Zhang several young and beautiful concubines.

Zhang Bai cried aggrievedly and tried his best to make Prime Minister Zhang, who was originally dissatisfied with him, soften his heart.

The soft-hearted Prime Minister Zhang refused to demote Zhang Bai to his concubine, so he had a big quarrel with Mrs. Zhang, which made Mrs. Zhang so angry that she fainted again. As a result, the doctor diagnosed that Mrs. Zhang was angry. Heart disease.

Under Mrs. Zhang's sincere persuasion, firstly for the future of the Prime Minister's Palace, and secondly, she was worried that she would really make her old mother angry and be charged with unfilial piety.

In the end, Prime Minister Zhang could only agree to demote his favorite Zhang Bai to a concubine and marry Mrs. Zhang's natal niece Zhang Weng.

And this Zhang Weng is worthy of being the next mistress of the Prime Minister's Mansion that Mrs. Zhang has chosen. As the legitimate daughter of the Weng family, she has learned how to be a good mistress since she was a child.

Not long after, she took over the affairs in the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion from Mrs. Zhang.

As for Zhang Bai, who was demoted as a concubine, she initially wanted to use her charming ways to keep Prime Minister Zhang's heart with her, thinking that as long as she could get Prime Minister Zhang's favor, it didn't matter whether she was his wife or not.

However, having lost her position as the head wife and having no power as a mistress, she had no authority at all in front of the new young and beautiful concubines, and anyone could step on her.

Under the overt and covert instructions of his wife, Zhang Wengshi, several concubines joined forces to deal with the once most favored Zhang Baishi, causing her to suffer a lot.

Gradually, even Prime Minister Zhang got tired of her crying all the time.

Prime Minister Zhang, who was reprimanded by the emperor a few times in the court and was laughed at overtly and covertly by his colleagues after going down to court, was already in a irritable mood. When he returned to the palace, he was still pestered by the crying Zhang Bai.

The delicate and frail Prime Minister Zhang, who had always liked her, finally got tired of her due to physical and mental exhaustion. When he returned to the mansion, he either hid in the study or stayed in the room of his wife or the young concubines.

Zhang Bai, who had lost her favor, began to regret and panic. However, it was useless to try to regain Prime Minister Zhang's heart.

She had always relied on the methods taught by her mother to please men, but when this method didn't work, she panicked and couldn't find any other good methods.

Zhang Bai, who had lost the favor and nourishment of her husband, became increasingly haggard, and soon seemed to have aged several years.

As for her biological daughter Zhang Yunxiang, she was punished by Prime Minister Zhang to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days and three nights after she returned home from attending the marriage recognition banquet.

After being carried out in a coma, she was locked in the boudoir and not allowed to go out.

She had cried and made trouble, but she could no longer arouse the tenderness of her father, who had always loved her. She wanted to ask her mother for help, but found that her mother had fallen out of favor and she could not save herself.

Zhang Yunxiang, who was punished to copy women's wedding rings 100 times in her boudoir, cursed the little village girl from the countryside with mud-legged words every time she wrote a word.

Compared with the miserable situation of Zhang Yunxiang's mother and daughter, Zhang Yunwan, who used to be aggrieved in the house, is now doing better.

She has always been gentle and sensible, and she is already more popular than Zhang Yunxiang among outsiders.

She worked hard to gain favor in front of her new stepmother, and Zhang Weng also needed the support of some people in the mansion, so she treated this stepdaughter who was not a threat to herself, making Zhang Yunwan's life in the mansion better than before. Quite a few.

Zhang Yunxiang was filled with jealousy when she heard that Zhang Yunwan's life was much easier than hers, so Zhang Yunwan was added to the list of people she cursed.

After talking about the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mrs. Zheng patted Qiao Ran's hand and said to her apologetically:

"Ran Ran, grandma didn't expect that girl Yue Lan to give false testimony. It was grandma who felt sorry for you and caused you to be almost slandered. Grandma also doesn't understand why a girl who was so sensible and well-behaved in the past turned into what she is now. Like this? Your aunt has punished her severely after she went back, I hope she can remember the lesson this time."

Thinking of the fate of the people who targeted her at the marriage recognition banquet, the corners of Qiao Ran's mouth twitched slightly.

She never takes the initiative to cause trouble, but if others take the initiative to provoke her, she will not be afraid of trouble.

Those people are all to blame for themselves. They are really tired of living a good life and want to have some excitement.

She doesn't understand those people's brain circuits very well. She has no enmity with them. Isn't it better for everyone to live their own lives? Why do you have so much malice towards strangers?

However, she has no control over what others think. Anyway, she has a clear conscience. If anyone takes the initiative to provoke her, she will not be polite.

For the next period of time, Qiao Ran went to pick bamboo fungus and dig bamboo shoots every morning.

At noon, the clerk from Juxianlou will drive a carriage to take away the bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots.

In the afternoon, she went up the mountain with her family to plant fruit trees.

As Qingming approaches, the rain begins to increase.

When it rains lightly, you can go up the mountain to plant trees. When it rains heavily, you can only stay in your tent. You can't pick bamboo fungus, dig bamboo shoots, or plant trees.

When she was bored at home, Qiao Ran also learned embroidery from her mother and the others for a few days.

Although she had no foundation, she picked up the work very quickly. As long as she had seen it a few times, she could embroider it by herself very quickly.

She even drew all kinds of beautiful flowers herself, including the cute panda eating bamboo shoots, the tiger flapping butterflies, the rabbit nibbling carrots, the tortoise and the hare racing, as well as the auspicious longevity star holding peaches, the God of Wealth blessing, Guanyin sitting on the lotus, and the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. Waiting for a variety of novel and beautiful patterns.

Zheng Huiniang, Lin Guizhen, Qin Niangzi, Wu Qianqian and others were all amazed when they saw it, and they all asked her for it.

Qiao Ran only embroidered one piece of panda eating bamboo shoots, and all the other patterns were given to them.

Everyone felt like they had found a treasure. They finished embroidering a pattern themselves, and then exchanged patterns with others.

Half a month later, Qiao Ran's first batch of silkworms were born.

When a little black silkworm, smaller than an ant, crawled out of the silkworm egg, the little guys who originally thought they would see a fat and white silkworm baby were suddenly disappointed.

"Sister, why are these silkworm babies so ugly?"

"Yes, sister, didn't you say that silkworm babies are white? Why are they so small and black? They are so ugly!"

"Sister, are these really silkworm babies? Could they be other bugs? I don't want to raise such ugly bugs!"

Qiao Ran laughed, touched the little guys' heads and said:

"This is what silkworms look like when they are first hatched. Now they are small and black. They are called ant silkworms, which means silkworms as small as ants. They are too small now to eat mulberry leaves that are too old and too hard, so we have to give them to them. They eat the young mulberry leaves that have just grown. Then, these ant silkworms will slowly grow up, molt, and go dormant. After a while, they will turn into white and fat silkworm babies."