Chapter 5 — Absolute Contract

She sat for a while, her face becoming more and more pale. She hadn't even finished drinking the fish fin soup before leaving as an excuse that she wasn't feeling well. The whole time, Khuong Oan Oan tried to force a smile. Ta Lam Xuyen drank one cup after another, as if he wanted to swallow all the whispers in the yard. I don't advise. Our most important job now is to protect the child in our belly. After returning to the palace, rumors in the capital exploded. In the tea house, people told stories as vividly as they were real. "The eldest son of Tinh An Marquis wrote a contract of renunciation for the sake of a beauty queen." "The first day the beauty queen entered the door, she forced the mother-in-law who was marrying her to sign a contract to cede the title." "The Marquis took out the contract right on the spot, and the Marquis directly removed the eldest son's name from the inheritance list."If it were before, I would have heard these words, I would probably be angry to the point of pain. head. Now I feel very peaceful again. The one who lost face is not me. On the contrary, when Mrs. Hua came to visit, she was so worried that she kept sighing. She is my best friend since childhood, and never talks in circles. "You are old and still pregnant, this is not a joke. Ta Nghien Son is really willing to let you take risks." I laughed: "It's my own wish." She glared at me: "I know you are angry with Lam Xuyen. But what if this child is like him, his mind is deviant?" I was made fun of by her. "If it's even more deviant, how much more deviant can it be?" Hua The lady thought and then seriously nodded: "That's right. A confused type like Ta Lam Xuyen is hard to see in a hundred years." I stroked my belly, my heart was extremely calm. This child is more obedient than I thought. Don't cause trouble, don't torment me. Except for making me a little more sleepy, there are almost no other reactions. We even vaguely feel that the child is helping us. Ta Nghien Son is even more stressed than me. He temporarily assigned the work at Bac Camp to the deputy general, every day he returned to the palace to have dinner, and personally watched me take antenatal pills. One evening, he sat by the bed and rubbed my sore feet, suddenly saying: "If it was a girl, I would like it too." I looked at him: "What if it was a boy?" He was silent for a moment and then took my hand. "Then we will teach him to become a person truly worthy of the Marquis Palace." My heart warmed slightly. The wind outside the window blew through the lanterns in the hallway. The old road has broken down. A new path has appeared under his feet. 7 Ta Lam Xuyen's life after becoming a child was not as glorious as he imagined. No matter how elegant a mansion is, it is not a Marquis' Palace. There is no public service, no large kitchen to serve, no butlers and front-of-house staff. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, monthly payments from servants, food for horses, coal for heating, everything requires silver. Previously, Ta Lam Xuyen never calculated his spending money. A folding fan costs three hundred taels, a Chieu Da Bach horse worth thousands of gold is hard to find, and the scraps of silver that can be easily rewarded in a competition are enough for an ordinary family to eat for a whole year. Now those habits cannot be changed immediately. Khuong Oan Oan is also not a person who knows how to save money. She said she didn't want to be rich, but she had to drink lotus tea shipped from Jiangnan, wear a jade nightgown, and invite a famous monk to come and play the piano every month. She also likes holding parties in the mansion the most. The invited people were all elegant writers who had flattered her before. On the outside, they praised her for being "unworldly" and praised Ta Lam Xuyen for being "in love", but when drinking, no one drank less than the other person. In just two or three months, the money in Ta Lam Xuyen's hand was gone. Originally this would not have reached my ears. Until Kim Nuong rioted at the forbidden guard house where Ta Lam Xuyen worked. She put her hands on her hips

standing outside the door, her voice was so loud that half the street could hear it. "That year, Khuong Oan Oan redeemed herself and only paid the money on the surface! The money for medicine, clothes, and money she owed to Luu Xuan Ward all had books clearly recorded in each item! Now that she can cling to the prince of the Marquis, do you want to pay off the debt?" Ta Lam Xuyen lost all face. The eyes of his colleagues looking at him changed from admiration to amusement. Khuong Oan Oan cried and said that Kim Nuong intentionally caused trouble, saying that those debts were all forced by people in the house to accept them. But on the notebook Kim Nuong took out, there were Khuong Oan Oan's fingerprints. Ta Lam Xuyen had no other choice but to pay back the money. After running out of money, he remembered the Marquis Palace again. Khuong Oan Oan began to continuously send letters. "Mother, Lam Xuyen told me that before he wrote the contract just because of temporary excitement. Waiting for people to calm down, he vowed to return from the street to confess his crime." "Mother, I have invited a famous doctor to take care of my body. The doctor said that although it is difficult, it is not completely without hope." "Mother, if the Marquis can ask for Lam Xuyen to be re-ordained, Oan Oan is willing to eat every day." fast, pray for the Ta family." She kept calling me mother, extremely close. I don't reply to a single letter. Ta Lam Xuyen personally came twice but was stopped outside the outer court by Ta Nghien Son. After that it didn't come anymore.