Chapter 3442 - 3443: Filled with Mockery

Chapter 3442: Chapter 3443: Filled with Mockery

But to be honest, she really didn’t want to return to her hometown.

She even suspected that her husband, having her take their daughter back to their hometown, might have been coaxed by those concubines in the mansion.

If she actually left, she definitely wouldn’t be able to return anytime soon. By then, how would she be able to control the backyard of the State Duke’s Mansion?

Who knows, by the time she comes back, there might be a few more sons and daughters in the State Duke’s Mansion?

After all, men typically prefer young and beautiful women. Although the State Duke had treated her well over the years, there were still quite a few women around him.

She was afraid, afraid that by the time she left and returned to the mansion, she would have lost her standing.

"Lord State Duke, how about letting Ying’er go back by herself first?" she suggested.

Even if she really had to go back, she needed to arrange everything in the backyard clearly before she could leave. Otherwise, how could she feel at ease?

"You’re being foolish!"

The State Duke glared at her.

"Letting Ying’er go back alone, do you know where she would go?"

He thoroughly understood in his heart that his wife was simply not at ease with him, thinking that the women around him would lead to her falling out of favor.

But after all, those women were just concubines. As the State Duke, would he do something like favoring concubines over his wife?

"Hurry up and tidy things up, don’t let Ying’er do anything detrimental to the State Duke’s Mansion. If such things happen again, even the Emperor would have a hard time justifying it!"

Hearing this, the Duchess An could no longer say anything. She could only quietly nod her head, acknowledging the fact that she had to return to her hometown.

However, no sooner had the Duchess An left than the State Duke promptly added a few beautiful and gentle concubines to his backyard, who attended to him daily.

He dared not openly accept the women sent by ministers currying favor with him; instead, he merely instructed the steward to buy several young and beautiful maidservants from a broker. After being tidied up, they were placed by his side.

Now, as long as he was in the mansion, he always had a few maidservants with him.

...

When Sui Zimo and Lin Caisang received this news, they chuckled, never having seen someone so mindless.

The trouble caused by his own daughter hadn’t even been fully resolved, and he seized the opportunity of his wife’s absence to take in several concubines with dubious status in the mansion.

If news of this reached the Emperor’s ears, the State Duke’s Mansion could forget about advancing any further in the future.

"Everyone outside says the two young masters of the State Duke’s Mansion earned merit in battle at the border, and all of it was credited to their sister. Seems it might not be entirely true?"

Lin Caisang remarked wistfully.

"Indeed,"

Prince Heng, who had come to the Princess’ Mansion as a guest today, quickly agreed upon hearing his cousin’s words.

With the presence of the State Duke in the State Duke’s Mansion, there was no need for the original Yingying to be any hindrance. His actions alone had given the State Duke’s Mansion enough to deal with.

"Cousin, you have no idea how many women Duchess An dealt with on behalf of the State Duke over the years. I do quite admire Duchess An; does she not know what kind of character her husband has?

Yet she could still trustingly take her daughter and return to her hometown. I estimate that by the time she comes back, her hair will turn significantly gray again!"

His tone was full of sarcasm.

"How can someone like the State Duke still thrive like this in Jianan City?" Lin Caisang also found it astonishing.

"The State Duke’s Mansion was granted during the lifetime of the Old State Duke, it has nothing to do with the current State Duke," Lin Changfeng explained.