Mingyue didn't speak for a while, and Qiao Yuning became more and more interested. "You can say it safely and boldly. To be honest, the more secrets we exchange between you and me, the better we can cooperate, right?"
Mingyue knelt on the ground and was silent for a while before finally speaking, "This servant originally belonged to the fifth prince's house."
"What?!" Qiao Yuning sat up in surprise, "What did you say?"
"Auntie, this slave has put all his wealth and life on my auntie."
Hearing Mingyue's words, Qiao Yuning just looked at her blankly.
It took a while before he finally came back to his senses, "Why didn't you say a word before?"
"How can a slave come out of the fifth prince's house and dare to explain his origins? At that time, the seventh prince was vigorously eradicating the influence of the fifth prince, and it would be a death sentence if he touched it casually.
I spent almost all my savings in the first half of my life before I found someone to hide my identity. How dare I mention it again?"
Qiao Yuning took a long time to digest it before completely accepting the news. She once again carefully looked at the maid in front of her.
No wonder.
She obviously paid for a little maid, but instead she got someone like this.
Although this Mingyue is a little older, both in terms of demeanor and work, she is a bit higher than other little maids of the same price.
After all, she was a young lady who had been raised in the uncle's house for many years. She still had such a pair of eyes for seeing people, so she bought Mingyue in.
And after this maid came in, she didn't have any stage fright in the face of the grandeur of the Wen family's house, and she acted in a very orderly manner. Not a single word of her affairs came out of her mouth.
Mingyue's explanation at the time was that she was sold from a wealthy family. Qiao Yuning did not go into details and just assumed that the previous master had trained her well.
Now all this has a new explanation.
She slowly thought about it clearly and put away her nervousness just now, "It turns out that he is from the Prince's Mansion. No wonder he looks down on our man. So with your knowledge, tell me, what should I do?"
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Ruyi quickly waved her hand and said: "How dare I tell my aunt? I used to serve the Holy Master, but now I am just my aunt's servant. Only slaves listen to my master. How can I say anything about my master?"
Qiao Yuning felt that her attitude was good, and she felt like she was being pleased, so she smiled and said, "I'm not talking about the rules with you. Get up! Stop kneeling."
Mingyue saw that although her expression was not good, but there was a smile on her face and eyes, she knew that she was not testing her, so she dared to get up slowly.
Qiao Yuning then pointed to an embroidered pier not far away, "You don't have to be so cautious when you are sitting and talking, and there are no outsiders in front of you."
Mingyue then slanted her body and sat with half of her buttocks, "This is because my aunt doesn't dislike the slave, so she treats me so politely."
"The fifth prince has been dead for a long time, the seventh prince has disappeared now, and the Holy Emperor has been on the throne for almost a year. Who is going to look at the old almanac? I like you more than the ignorant idiot.
This is a bit knowledgeable."
Qiao Yuning asked the question just now again, "I'm not asking you to give me some advice, but I'm asking you to tell me, in your opinion, what should I do? Are you still so inconsistent?"
Mingyue really thought about it seriously this time, "I only know that my aunt and my fourth grandma had some feelings for each other in the past, but if I say something treasonous, now it seems that the feelings between my aunt and my fourth grandma are nothing.
Even if there is, I'm afraid there won't be much left now."
Qiao Yuning sneered, "Yuan Xueqing? She is a very realistic person. In the past, I had friendship with her, just to get what we wanted. Her reputation is too bad. After all, I am a girl from the uncle's house, and I have always been...
There is no aggression. When we are together, she can follow me and socialize with others.
And when encountering trouble, she can also use her fierce energy to fend off it for me, saving me from having to do it myself. The aunts in her house have been treated by her so that they dare not move. What kind of good person can she be?
A good person?"
Seeing that she was no longer hiding, Mingyue's expression became more and more relaxed, "So, if you ask me, although our man seems to be accommodating to you, my aunt, he probably does have some feelings for you.
But the fourth master is too weak, and the fourth grandma’s foundation is not stable now. When she gets a firm foothold, our fourth master may not be able to speak, and then my aunt will really be alone and helpless."
What she said hit the mark on Qiao Yuning's mind. She put away the smile on her face and stared blankly for a while before letting out a long sigh, "To be honest, it wasn't until recently that I discovered that in the past
What he taught me was actually all wrong."
When she said these words, her eyebrows were obviously a little gloomy.
Mingyue didn't know who she was talking about, so she didn't dare to speak and just stayed by the side.
Qiao Yuning thought of her biological mother, Aunt Pei.
Since she was a child, she had watched her mother enjoy great glory in the uncle's house as an aunt. Compared to her useless aunt, her biological mother seemed to be more prestigious.
The truth taught to her by her biological mother is that as a woman, the most important thing is herself, followed by men. As for the rules and status, they are all discussed separately.
As long as you can capture a man's heart and stabilize your position in the man's heart, you can be called a concubine, or the main wife, just like a decoration.
She watched her biological mother use tricks in front of her father and her aunt-in-law, watched her aunt-in-law hold her in her hands with love, and then hid in the dark with her biological mother and laughed at her stupidity.
So she thought this was the truth, and thought that with this skill, her future would be as she wished.
But now, she realized that from the moment she chose to be a concubine, she had completely lost.
The Wen family is not the Qiao family, and in fact most other families are not the Qiao family. The Qiao family has no concubines, only one Aunt Pei, who is a relative of the old lady, so the difference cannot be seen.
Only when she got outside did she know what the so-called concubine trading meant, and what it meant to say that a concubine was only half a master.
But it was too late for everything.
She has even been wondering recently, is the person she hates the most really Qiao Yuyan?
Isn’t that man who keeps saying he wants to give her a future and make her a lifetime of glory not hateful?
Isn’t she hateful herself?
Thinking more deeply, shouldn't she hate her biological mother who taught her to behave like this?
Mingyue saw that she was thinking about things in a daze, and was afraid that she was obsessed with thoughts, so she whispered: "Actually, there is one more thing that I have not dared to tell my aunt."