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I hope chapter one wasn’t too overwhelets much easier from here onwards

Translator's note: In the Manchus, it was true that secondary wives received a rank and were "legitimate" rather than a concubine This carried forward as they established the Qing Dynasty but it was corroded to soree by the Han culture over time The dynasty that this novel is set in contains ele court but those are cherry-picked Only the "legitiqi) is referred to as a wife in this translation All others would be qie or concubine

Chapter Two Ce Feiis StillQie

The ce fei and shiqie didn't think that they would see a beautiful play of brute force once they stepped into the zhengyuan They looked suspiciously at wang fei and then at the servants ere at their limits due to pain but didn't dare show it in their twisted expressions What had happened here?

Seeing that wang fei alking into the room, the four didn't care whether if it was respectful or not and followed Only Feng ce fei, when she passed, ordered for the people get carried back However, when she saw that no servant in the surroundings ed and she didn't speak further

At the front, Yin Liu and Jin Zhan lowered their heads as they guided the others along and held the curtains open for the four Fro over withand waited for the two to co that those teren't clear as to what had happened, the four exchanged glances and looked at the servants who had suddenly beco the curtain to enter the rooms

The rooms had already been cleaned The srance But Qui Qing Ju didn't like the solden beast brazier

Rui Xiang went forward i it for a fainter, less fragrant one Seeing wang fei's expression relax slightly, she breathed a sigh of relief as well

"Look at how clever wang fei's yahuan is No wonder that even wang ye co ce fei said with a faint s at the fact that a few days earlier, wang ye had taken one of Qu Qing Ju's yahuan as a tongfang[1] She dared to do so because of wang ye's favour but no one else dared to follow

Who knew that when she finished, Qu Qing Ju didn't even spare a look at her, as though she, a living breathing person, didn't even exist The roo Shu Kui's hand as she sat, Qu Qing Ju saw Mu Jin and Yu Zan entering with the meal boxes She spoke: "Serve it up"

The boxes were opened Various types of porridge were displayed out A bowl of lotus and lily porridge, a goblet of Eight Treasures chicken soup, a few sht Steah to see how much effort had been put in

"It looks like there are at least some that have skill in the kitchen Give those that cooked a reward of five taels[2] of silver each," Qu Qing Ju held a fine cera He, as standing to one side She was one of the shiqie in the wang fu Her status was very low but she was very good at being obedient Even if she wasn't very favoured, it wasn't that she wasn't favoured at all

"I heard that wang ye said you were very good at service, so today, you can serve the food," The porridge was passable and Qu Qing Ju'sabout, she wasn't irritated but asked in a slow voice, "Oh, Han shiqie isn't willing?"

"Nu[3] doesn't dare," Han shi's face showed a hint of hu fei She was only a shiqie, and it was in the natural order that she was to serve wang fei Even if she didn't want to, did she dare do otherwise?

The other three looked in disbelief at Qu Qing Ju, who had lowered her head to drink porridge Was wang fei crazy? Even though Han shiqie wasn't very favoured but she had been ang ye for a long ti fei, a not favoured wang fei, really dared to order Han shiqie to serve her food

Not caring what others were thinking, Qu Qing Ju blocked the chopstick of shepherd's purse[4] and pheasant Han shi had picked up, "I don't like this dish Remember to not serve this one next tihtly, the hand that held the chopsticks tightened but she didn't argue In the end, she only woodenly bowed: "May wang fei haveti fei would like the sa her, that she had seniority ang ye? Qu Qing Ju saze to a dish of lettuce stereatest hu fei didn't even look properly at Han shiqie, as though this woman wasn't different from any other shiqie who had to hold curtains and serve food for the wife in other noble fa s felt soft but they never received a word to sit, so they could only stand at one side, and look upon Qu Qing Ju elegantly ordering Han shiqie to serve her food

"Is there so Ju finally setting down her chopstick, the ce fei Feng Zi Jin couldn't resist any longer Her face still held a war fei call us here just for conversation?"

Qu Qing Ju took the tea that Jin Zan held to rinse and used rose and lemon water to wash her hands The sertips Qu Qing Ju finally looked at Feng Zi Jin: "I've always heard that Feng ce fei's personality was as soft as water, but today I've seen that this rumor is true, your personality just as rushed and i Zi Jin was ce fei Jiang Yong Xu, who upon hearing this, buried her head deeper to disguise the s Zi Jin always loved using a war fei purposefully said the exact opposite It could be seen that wang fei didn't really have the personality offu, had her oay of doing things