Eat My Childless Life: The Little Fisher Girl is Poor and Fierce

Chapter 376 Resembling the Princess Consort of Beizhen, the Third Master's Aunt

"This..." Liu Zi rested his chin on his hand, pondered for a long while, then nodded and said seriously, "I feel that Third Master's personality is not like that of the mistress..."

Hearing this, Lin Chang'er silently muttered to herself, "Oh no, unlike his mother, he just wants his father's sugarcane..."

Then Liu Zi said, "He doesn't seem like the head of the family either."

Lin Chang'er: "..."

Lin Chang'er asked curiously, "Who does it resemble?"

Liu Zi gripped the reins with both hands, lost in thought for a moment, "She looks like the Princess of Beizhen, Third Master's aunt."

"Oh, really?" Lin Chang'er became interested. She had heard Wu Qingfeng mention this aunt before, so she looked at Liu Zi with great interest, waiting for him to say what he had to say next.

Unexpectedly, Liu Zi scratched his head and said, "Miss, Third Master forbids us from talking about that person casually."

Lin Chang'er pouted, "Fine!" She was never one to force others to do things against their will.

Liu Zi didn't think so. Seeing that she immediately lost interest, he assumed that she was unhappy. He was anxious, as if he were scratching his head. Although they were Third Master's men, Third Master had given them to Miss Lin. Could it be said that Miss Lin had become their first master?

Thinking this, Liu Zi chuckled twice and said, "But you're not an outsider, so it's alright for me to say something."

Lin Chang'er turned her head and asked, "Really?" Her gossipy heart was burning again.

Liu Zi nodded, and Lin Chang'er giggled, "Then you tell me!"

Liu Zi glanced into the distance, as if recalling something, and then spoke, "Speaking of this person, we have to start with our mistress."

"Our mistress is a very strong-willed person. When she married our master, she was the envy of countless young women in the capital!"

"But who could have known that our patriarch had already secretly harbored feelings for someone else..."

Lin Chang'er frowned, thinking that this melon was probably spoiled.

Liu Zi continued, "Back then, we hadn't entered the manor yet. We only heard about it from the elders, so we didn't know much. We just heard that in the second year after Third Master was born, the head of the family brought his beloved into the manor, and from then on, he never stayed overnight in the mistress's courtyard again."

“Poor mistress, she comes from a military family and is very upright and stubborn. At first, she thought it was because she had done something wrong.”

"Later, when she learned of the concubine's past relationship with the head of the family, our mistress naturally refused to suffer in silence. She went to the head of the family to reason with him, but to no avail. Instead, she was scolded by the head of the family for being jealous and was even asked to give the Third Master to that concubine to raise..."

"Damn it, I've only ever heard of giving a son of a concubine to his legal wife to raise, I've never seen a legitimate son being given to a concubine to raise. You can't do something like this without ten years of brain thrombosis!" Lin Chang'er was really angry, her blood pressure soared, and she blurted out some foul language.

Liu Zi never paid attention to these details. Instead, he thought that Miss Lin was indeed a reasonable person. He immediately chimed in, "That's right! If Third Master were to be raised by a concubine, wouldn't he have to be three points inferior to everyone he meets?"

Thinking of something, he asked again, "Young lady, what exactly is a ten-year cerebral thrombosis?"

Lin Chang'er was in the middle of a heated discussion when she heard him ask that question. She was momentarily stunned, then waved her hand and said, "That? It's a disease, and it's also a curse word. It's not important. You can continue. What happened after that?"

Liu Zi sighed, "Of course the mistress refused, but she was also depressed about it and soon fell ill. The head of the family then used the excuse that the mistress needed to rest and confined her to the backyard, while he took the third master away..."

Lin Chang'er: "..." It's really tied up...

Lin Chang'er: "Damn it, isn't your mistress going to fight that rotten sugarcane to the death?"

Liu Zi slapped his thigh and said, "That's why we say you can't be too upright. You have to know when to bow your head! Isn't our mistress the eldest sister in the family?"

"I'm so afraid that if my marriage doesn't go well, it will affect my sisters in the family. It's so frustrating..."

Lin Chang'er was at a loss for words. Of course, she also knew that she couldn't judge people of this time by the same standards as those of later generations who believed in gender equality and that women could hold up half the sky.

As a woman born and raised in this era, it's perfectly normal for Wu Qingfeng's mother to have such thoughts.

Lin Chang'er almost gritted her teeth as she said, "Then, what happened next? Didn't your mistress's family care?"

"Of course we have to manage it!" Liu Zi became interested again when his maternal family was mentioned. "Back then, the Princess Consort of Beizhen was not yet the Princess Consort of Beizhen, and the Prince of Beizhen was not yet the Prince of Beizhen, but the heir apparent of the Prince of Beizhen."

"They are both from military families, and the two of them can be considered childhood sweethearts. Our aunt, when she first heard that her elder sister was ill, came to the mansion to visit her. But when she learned that her sister was being treated so badly by the head of the family, she immediately refused to stand it up."

"He went to that concubine's courtyard all by himself. Poor Third Master, a two-year-old child, was wearing only a thin shirt and trousers in the dead of winter. There wasn't even a charcoal brazier in the room where he stayed. He was so cold that tears streamed down his face. Our aunt was so angry that she grabbed that concubine and threw her into the pond..."

"Well done!" This aunt really got the hang of it. "And then, tell us, tell us quickly."

"Then, we made that concubine soak in the cold water pool for an hour until that rotten sugarcane came back. Our aunt didn't bother with him. She wrapped the Third Master in her cloak, picked up our mistress, and was about to go home. She even threatened to go to the palace gate to beat the Dengwen Drum and accuse that rotten sugarcane of favoring his concubine over his wife and harming his legitimate son."

Lin Chang'er immediately clapped her hands until they were almost worn out, then asked, "Did it work out?"

Liu Zi chuckled, “They’re all noble families, and they all move around in the capital. We can’t afford to break off relations. Third Master is still young. Even if we get a divorce, the mistress might not be able to take him with her.”

"In the end, it was the old lady who had long been enjoying her retirement on the estate who came forward to plead for the family head, guaranteeing that the head of the family would only have the mistress as his principal wife. She also petitioned to appoint the Third Master as his heir so that he could inherit the title, and put all her dowry and private property under the Third Master's name."

"The old lady is a good person, but she just can't bring herself to be ruthless. She's also mindful of the relationships between the two families, so in the end, she still left that troublemaker alive..."

Lin Chang'er clicked her tongue, feeling a bit disappointed. "A doting mother spoils her son," she thought, "this is exactly what they mean by a pushover..."

"However..." Liu Zi seemed to remember something else, and chuckled again, "It was our grandfather's uncle, who wasn't engaged to our grandfather's aunt at the time!"

"After hearing that our master's aunt had caused a scene at the Wu residence, she secretly put rotten sugarcane sacks over several times in order to avenge our mistress and our master's aunt!"

"He was also put under pressure in the court. In a way, the Third Master benefited from the misfortune. After that, his aunt took him back to her parents' home to raise him for a while. Later, his aunt went to the northern border with his uncle and would take the Third Master to stay there for a period of time every year."

"It could be said that Third Master's skills were all taught to him by his aunt and uncle, but unfortunately later..."