Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune

Chapter 479: Chapter 479, Cold Heart and Emotions (3 more)

The relationship was ambiguous and unspeakable, with speculation that Xie Zhinuan had already climbed into His Highness Prince Han’s bed and lost her virginity.

But in her eyes, Zhinuan was not that kind of person.

“What are you hoping for? Hoping that I go bankrupt, and end up worthless?” Xie Zhinuan asked with a smile.

Lian Shi hurriedly shook her head, “No, no, no, that won’t happen!”

“Certainly not!” Xie Zhinuan laughed out loud.

Seeing that it was getting late, she had Lian Shi help send off the servant that Mu Rourou had purchased.

She took Mu Rourou and left first.

The two of them did not take a carriage but instead casually strolled down the streets.

Mu Rourou found it novel, her face full of joy.

“When you get to the big city, you can go see the night market!” Xie Zhinuan said.

“…” Mu Rourou turned to look at Xie Zhinuan.

Like her name, warm.

A warm-hearted older sister was indeed correct.

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Full of heroism and tender emotions, if she were a man, Rourou would have pledged herself to her.

It was just a pity…

Mu Rourou sighed, “This is my first time walking on the main street!”

It felt truly different.

“Sister Xie, may I ask you a question?” Mu Rourou spoke softly.

“Go ahead!” Xie Zhinuan responded.

“…”

Mu Rourou bit her lip, fidgeting with her handkerchief, hesitating for a good while before she finally spoke, “Sister Xie, you’ve never met my birth mother, what kind of person do you think she is?”

“…”

This?

Her birth mother…

After thinking for a moment, Xie Zhinuan asked, “How is her family’s status?”

“Very good, in Yangjiang Prefecture they are also a respectable family, and her ancestors once held high office!”

This was the aspect of which her birth mother was most proud, always saying she came from a family of scholars.

Xie Zhinuan understood.

These were the conflicts every family faced, the struggle between wives and concubines, and the dispute over family property.

“She works tirelessly to manage household affairs, has to accept concubines for her husband, managing a whole courtyard of concubines, yet she herself is childless. Even if she adopts a child from among the concubines to raise as her own, she worries that one day they will turn against her, failing to offer sincerity and unabashedly withholding their true hearts. As a young girl in her boudoir, she was also a kind and gentle lady, but over time, everything gets worn away by life. Of the three grave offenses, childlessness is the greatest. Being infertile, to a woman, is akin to committing seven departures from propriety. She swallows her pride and dignity, even though none of it is her fault. She has to grind her teeth and swallow the blood, harboring a heart full of desolation, unknown to anyone. People only perceive her as mean and hypocritical, but if she had a son or a daughter, Rourou, what do you think, how would she be?” Xie Zhinuan asked in return.

Mu Rourou was left dumbstruck.

She had never imagined Xie Zhinuan would sympathize with her birth mother.

“I thought, Sister Xie, you would share my hatred!”

“Why should I?” Xie Zhinuan countered, “Just because we are acquainted, are business partners, am I supposed to lie outright? Rourou, if you were in your birth mother’s shoes, how would you handle it all?”

Mu Rourou shuddered.

Being childless was a fatal blow to a married woman.

“Sister Xie, if your husband had concubines and children, would you take them in to raise?”

“I wouldn’t. I’d rather pick up a child from the roadside, caring for them with a true heart, than raise the children of concubines. Because if they turn out well, the credit is not yours. Nobody will remember your kindness, the concubines will resent you for taking their child, and the children born of concubines will hate you for separating them from their mother. But if they are spoiled, all the bitterness is yours to bear. You will be accused of harboring jealousy towards the concubines, of deliberately ruining the children. Rourou, you too are to be someone’s wife. If you put yourself in her place, you will understand the difficulties your birth mother faced!” Xie Zhinuan said gently.