0p0 Chapter 1051 The eldest daughter is as bright as spring flowers (173)
Chapter 1051 The eldest daughter is as bright as spring flowers (173)
Chapter 1051 The eldest daughter is as bright as spring flowers (One Hundred and Seventy-three)
The Chen family had a generation of unsuccessful sons, but they had many daughters, eight golden flowers.
Song Chen had two older brothers. The eldest had two sons and three daughters, while the second had one son and five daughters. The Chen family had not yet split up, and the two branches lived together. This fourth daughter, Chen, was a concubine of the first branch, while the seventh and eighth daughters were both concubines of the second branch.
The first wife has no legitimate daughter, but the second wife has two legitimate daughters who have already been married.
Miss Chen Si, raised by her stepmother, seemed even more arrogant than the other two. She held a faint disdain in her eyes towards the sisters who tried to curry favor with the Song and Chen clans, but her tone towards Qingli was even more enthusiastic. The young woman was sweet-tongued, and after accepting the jewelry gift from Qingli, her flattery was even more endearing.
A beautiful and ambitious girl is not annoying, as long as she doesn't scheme against herself.
Qingli treated them as ordinary relatives, politely yet distantly. She didn't reveal anything about the Prime Minister's Mansion's privacy, especially her brother's whereabouts.
After checking in at Song Chen's place, she returned to Xianyueju.
The three girls visited the Prime Minister's Mansion every day. They went to the main courtyard three times a day and went to the Bamboo Courtyard once a day as well.
Naturally, they would go to Xianyueju, but Qingli often went out of the house, and she didn't want to stay at home these days, so the three cousins couldn't catch her.
It was hard work for her sister-in-law, having to entertain three girls, especially with their own ulterior motives. Even her brother came to her, saying that he had run into three cousins: first Chen Si, then Chen Qi, and finally Chen Ba. It was just a trip back to Xiuzhu Courtyard, but the constant stopping and starting was exhausting, and dodging was even more tiring.
One was about to pounce on him while catching a butterfly, another was about to touch him while playing hide-and-seek, and another was so engrossed in admiring the lotus flowers that she fell into the water and needed his help...
Qingli laughed heartily, especially when he heard that Chen Si was about to jump into his arms, but he dodged and fell to the ground.
Chen Qi walked towards him with his eyes blindfolded, and Song Lingji immediately stepped back and took another route.
When Chen Ba fell into the water, Song Lingji asked a woman to go down and rescue him, and then he left.
"Brother, don't you want to be gentle with women?"
"The Ministry of Personnel has a lot of things to do. Every day when I come home, I just want to take care of your sister-in-law and your nephew. How can I have other thoughts? Sister, you should think of a solution quickly. We are all relatives. At most, I can be a little cold and hard, but it is not easy to drive them away directly."
They're just small matters, easily resolved. It all depends on whether he's willing to resolve them. Qingli offered advice: "Brother, you know what the Song and Chen families are up to. Just don't take the bait. If you really find them annoying, then try to divert their attention. The Chen family has many daughters, so they get less attention, and their dowries aren't necessarily that good. The husbands their stepmothers find for them aren't necessarily high-quality either. Brother, you're already married, so being a concubine is no match for being a wife, right?"
Song Lingji naturally doesn't think that he is so popular that all girls have to like him.
Although he had good looks and abilities, wasn't it his status as the son of the Prime Minister that attracted them? Although he was a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel and was considered a promising person among his peers, in reality, he was still far from the achievements of his father, Prime Minister Song.
He might even have to be grateful to them for not targeting his father, otherwise there would be even more jokes in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Tomorrow is a day off, and I'm inviting a few unmarried staff members to be my guests."
"Then remember to ask for someone who is handsome, has a good family background, and has good character. If your conditions are too poor, how can they be attracted? The girls don't have bad intentions, they are just trying to improve their careers! They don't need you to be a matchmaker, you are just inviting a good friend to your house for a chat."
"Don't worry, sister."
Song Lingji understood what his sister meant, and he didn't need to do anything extra.
That evening, Qingli had just watched the horse race with some close friends, and when she returned home, she learned that her three cousins had left.
It was too late, so she didn't pay much attention to it. The next day, when she went to pay her respects to Song Chenshi, Song Chenshi looked unhappy and said to her, "You two are really amazing siblings."
"Why do you say that, ma'am?"
"Hmph, don't play dumb."
"If Madam feels bored, you can spend more time with Second Sister."
"You know she..."
"Madam, you might as well wait a little longer. Second sister will give you a surprise."