Marrying a rich man after rebirth: The daily life of a legitimate daughter

The old lady tapped the cane in her hand vigorously: "This is the good wife Liu Chen married. I thought that the daughter of a wealthy family would be more sensible and filial, but I didn't expect that she didn't know the rules."

He Shuzhen doesn't care about these things. Her status is there. The He family is her backing, and she doesn't need to look at anyone's face in the Liu family.

If she took out the food, the old lady would definitely give it to the fourth concubine. During this period, the fourth concubine seemed to have discussed it with her.

They used tricks to make Liu Chen take turns staying in their rooms overnight, ignoring her for a long time. At this time, these concubines wanted to eat her rice, which was simply crazy: "How can I not understand the rules? I didn't buy the rice with the money of the Liu Mansion, so of course I can't give it to you."

"You..." It was the first time that the old lady was confronted by someone. She didn't know how to respond. She left the yard with a lot of anger.

The four concubines didn't want to leave just like that. The feeling of being hungry was really uncomfortable, so they deliberately kept a distance from the old lady and huddled together to discuss in a low voice.

"Is that the end of it?"

Aunt Mei glared at Aunt Lan who was speaking: "How can I just let it go like this? I don't want to be hungry again."

"That's right." Aunt Zhu was displeased: "It's fine if we all starve together, but He Shuzhen has to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day."

"He Shuzhen is unwilling to take out the food, so we can only continue to starve."

The three of them looked at Aunt Ju who was speaking and remained silent. Aunt Ju was telling the truth. He Shuzhen was unwilling to take out the grain, and they had no way to stop her.

Aunt Ju continued, "We can ask the young master to go find He Shuzhen. In order to retain the young master's favor, He Shuzhen will definitely take out the food."

Aunt Zhu disagreed: "He Shuzhen is the second daughter of the He family, and the young master is just a seventh-rank official. How can the young master control her?"

This made the three of them react. Aunt Ju said in frustration: "This won't work, that won't work either. What should we do? The price of food won't go down in a short time. Are we going to starve forever?"

Aunt Ju fled from the countryside to the capital. She had done all kinds of frauds to survive. After hesitating for a long time, she said what she was thinking in order to have enough food: "He Shulan doesn't want to give out the food, so we can steal it. I learned from the servants that He Shuzhen cooks her food in the small kitchen in her yard every day. She must have hidden the food in the small kitchen. We can just steal the food without making a sound."

The three of them looked at each other. At this time, they stopped being polite. Aunt Mei spoke first: "I think this method is feasible. Even if He Shuzhen suspects that we did it, we have no evidence."

"Yes, let's go tonight," Aunt Ju decided immediately.

The old lady who was walking in the front saw that the concubines had not caught up with her and asked: "What are you doing there?"

The four concubines hurriedly followed.

At night, the four concubines left their personal maids and came to the wall of He Shuzhen's courtyard. He Shuzhen was the mistress of the Liu Mansion. The wall of the courtyard was built quite high, and the concubines could not climb up.

Aunt Zhu asked, "What if we can't climb up?"

"Let's go in through the back door," Aunt Ju led the three of them to the back.

"The back door is locked, how do we get in?" Aunt Mei asked puzzledly.

"Just pry the door open." Things had come to this point, and Aunt Ju no longer hid anything. No one knew when the refugees in the capital would leave, and they had to survive.

The three looked at Aunt Ju in horror: "How could you do this?"

"I learned it before I entered the Liu Mansion." Aunt Ju was silent for a while, but finally told the truth.

The three of them stopped talking and became wary of Aunt Ju. The courtyard of the Liu Mansion was not very big, and the four concubines' courtyards were close together and not very far away. The three decided to add a lock on the gate of their own courtyard after they returned.

Aunt Ju, who was guarded by the three men, picked up a dead branch on the ground, inserted it into the crack of the door skillfully, and pried open the lock of the back door.

The four of them quietly walked to the small kitchen, rummaged through the drawers and cabinets, and found a bag of rice in the rice jar next to it, as well as the remaining meat and vegetables in the cupboard.

"Why is there only so little food?" Aunt Lan could hardly hide the disappointment on her face.

"He Shuzhen is really an old fox. She must have hidden the food she bought," Aunt Ju replied.

Aunt Zhu heard the cat's cry coming from outside. She was afraid that He Shulan would find out: "This bag of rice will be divided among the four of us. It will last for a month. There is plenty of time to find the rice that He Shulan has treasured. Let's go back first."

Although the other three were reluctant, they still did as they were told and walked out carrying the rice.

Aunt Mei thought about He Shuzhen's sarcasm towards them today. She couldn't swallow the anger in her heart, so she stopped and said, "Wait for me here." After that, without waiting for the three people's reply, she lifted her skirt and ran to He Shuzhen's yard.

He picked up the cat poop on the ground, put it on He Shuzhen's doorstep, hurried to the backyard, and left with the rice.

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The next day, He Shuzhen was still asleep when she was awakened by the shouting of a maid. She put on her clothes, pushed open the red wooden door and walked out. Black cat feces fell on her head and clothes, and the pungent smell almost made her vomit.

She was so frightened that she jumped around as she had a mysophobia and wiped off the cat feces on her body and head, but she still had a faint stench. She was so angry that her expression became distorted: "Who is so bold as to put cat feces on the door frame of my room?"

The maid in the yard knelt on the ground in fear: "I don't know anything."

He Shuzhen remained somewhat calm despite her rage. The maids serving in her courtyard were all brought from the He Mansion and would definitely not do such a thing. If she found out who it was, she would definitely skin her alive.

He angrily asked, "What are you yelling about in the yard so early in the morning?"

The maid replied, "There was a thief in our yard. The rice in the kitchen and the meat left over from yesterday were stolen."

"What?" He Shuzhen ignored the stench and went to the small kitchen. The tidy little kitchen became messy. She opened the rice jar and found that the rice inside was gone. The thief must be someone from the Liu residence. How dare he steal from her so brazenly? "Come with me to the old lady's yard."

At this time, the old lady, accompanied by several concubines, was having breakfast. When she saw He Shuzhen, she walked into the room angrily. She was almost vomiting the rice she had eaten because of the stench on her body. She put down her chopsticks in anger and said, "Why do you stink so much? Why don't you change your clothes before coming back? Do you want to suffocate me to death?"

The four aunts present almost couldn't hold back their laughter.