MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming

 Chapter 7 Promise

 The couple had just entered the yard.

I heard an old woman's voice coming from the main hall. It sounded a bit arrogant and vulgar.

"Let me tell you, this Liulang's wife is lucky. It's been three years since she came here, and you haven't said anything to her. Look at how long we've been waiting in this room, and she still hasn't come. Tell her. , I’m afraid people outside will laugh at us because we have no rules in the Duke’s Mansion!”

　　A cold snort followed.

Du Jingyi didn't even need to look to know that it was the third old lady with a nose like a bull's nose who loved to chirp, who was talking.

She has been showing off her power in this mansion for many years, and she likes to take it out on the younger generation so that others can "honor" her more.

It's a pity that Du Jingyi rarely left Xitang Courtyard after marrying into the Duke's palace. She just wanted to be arrogant but had no place to show it, so she chose this time to deliberately tell Shang Ji and Du Jingyi.

 The first thing is to show off Shang Ji's face.

Secondly, we have to give Du Jingyi a hard time so that she can be more sensible.

It would be best to send a lot of valuables to your own house in Beiyuan, so that she will not be embarrassed as an elder.

Du Jingyi still had a slight smile on his face, but the indifference in his eyes was exactly the same as that of his husband Shang Ji next to him.

Those who knew it said that the couple came to pay homage to their ancestors, but those who didn’t know thought they came to the ancestral hall to offer incense.

 The two of them stood still in the courtyard without saying a word.

 I heard another female voice coming from inside, which sounded soft and gentle.

"Don't be angry, third aunt, she is still a child. She was just a hair-haired girl when she entered our Duke's mansion, and she is only eighteen now. Don't be anxious, just teach her slowly."

"No wonder people outside say you have a good temper. I've seen it, you are obviously easy to bully."

 “A family, where does this overnight feud come from?”

A few people said something to each other in a strange manner, and it was clear that they meant it to Shang Ji and Du Jingyi.

 In other words, it was mainly meant to be told to Du Jingyi, the newly promoted emperor's darling, the general.

Du Jingyi didn’t believe it. The maids and women in the courtyard were all blind. It was clear that they all walked into the courtyard, so no one informed them?

Now everything is saying that she doesn't understand the rules.

Du Jingyi really didn’t have a good impression of the people in this room at all.

　　Not only do you want to get some small profits from her, but you also always say some sarcastic words.

It’s not that she had never heard these words before, but she never took them to heart.

After all, Du Jingyi, who has been struggling in the business world for many years, has no right to make her angry with these harsh words from the housewife.

Just because she believes in a truth: anything that can be solved with money is not worth mentioning. However, she thinks so, but Shang Ji next to her doesn't think so.

Just because he has been away from home for three years does not mean that he has forgotten the faces of these relatives.

 In the past, when my mother and sister-in-law were in charge of the house, they would sometimes be dissatisfied with one thing or another.



But the question is, how many years has passed since their eldest brother was buried as Andu? If he was so filial, why didn't he invite himself to stay at the funeral?

 So as soon as he heard it, he knew that this was being told to him with a gun and a stick.

 The purpose is also very simple, to make him misunderstand a wife whom he is not familiar with.

 Actually, Shang Ji understood somewhat when Du Jingyi did not show up at the palace banquet yesterday.

Hearing these words again today, it further confirmed his thoughts.

He didn't even need to ask to know that his little wife was not having a satisfactory life in the house, so he looked sideways at Du Jingyi and asked with some worry.

"Did you not go to the palace banquet yesterday because you were in poor health?" "What do you think, general?"

Du Jingyi threw the question back again, not afraid of offending anyone at all.

As soon as these words came out, Shang Ji couldn't help but look at her one more time, thinking that his wife was a submissive person at home.

 Unexpectedly, he is very articulate.

I suddenly remembered the scene when I entered the backyard this morning. My old and shabby martial arts training ground was very incompatible with the surrounding landscape that was obviously carefully crafted.

Shang Ji understood a lot. The Du girl in front of him was a woman who would not wrong her.

That's good.

 After all, neither he nor his wife had anything to do with it, so Shang Ji smiled faintly at the corner of his lips and called out.

 “Luo Yuan.”

He only called his name, and his personal attendant, Luo Yuan, who was also good at getting things done, immediately shouted into the room at the top of his lungs.

 “General Hussars, the general’s wife has arrived.”

Shang Ji naturally prefers the identity of a general that he created with his swords and guns, compared to the identity of a young prince with no real power.

What's more, the Hussars General is a second-grade general, considering his current age of less than thirty years old.

  It can be said that he is a talent sent from heaven, and the star of Wu Qu has come down to earth.

Hearing this deafening sound, the "nobles" of the Duke's mansion in the room, who were still a little naughty at first, all booed.

 There was a bit more embarrassment and ridicule on the faces, especially those old guys.

 They had no official rank or degree, so they should have stood up and bowed to Shang Ji and Du Jingyi.

 But they consider themselves to be the elders in the family, so they shamelessly sit on the armchairs and wait for them to come in.

Shang Ji and his wife took a quick look after entering the main room of Yunjin Courtyard.

 It was indeed crowded with people.

A large group of Wu Yan, sitting sitting, standing on the station, this huge main hall is almost enough.

 I would like to know.

The three-bedroom and four-generation family has a total of fifteen people, and the five-bedroom and four-generation family has a total of nine people, which actually squeezes the three generations of the serious Duke of Guo to the side.

Shang Ji saw the widowed sister-in-law and young nephew in the corner at a glance. It was obvious that they were once the most important people in power in the family, but now they were squeezed out to such an extent.

Thinking of this, Shang Ji became a lot more angry.

 The originally indifferent face became even more solemn.

The relatives present were immersed in the excitement of their ancestor's glory and did not notice Shang Ji's expression at all.

 In other words, Shang Ji always looked like this when facing them, and everyone was already used to it.

Du Jingyi stood beside him, feeling all kinds of eyes on him.

　There are jealous, envious, and unwilling people, and naturally there are also happy ones.

No matter which one it was, she didn't take it to heart and just faced the front calmly.

 Sitting at the top is the current Duke Shang Yukuan.

He is over fifty years old and looks a little chubby. He has a gentle personality and looks like he is not the son of a military general but a scholar.

 There is a little bit of the temperament of a literati in him, but not much.

 (End of this chapter)