Chapter 41 The salted fish eating melon 13
Wang Xi didn’t know that when he was providing disaster relief, the people praised him. It was in front of him, so naturally they had to praise him, but behind his back, not many people said good things about him. .
Because when Wang Xi needed to rely on disaster relief to gain favor with the old emperor so that the old emperor would not confiscate his property, the Wang family was already quite powerful. In this case, it would naturally have happened to the Wang family at this time. There are things like robbing women and exploiting women for profit, and the people have known about these things for a long time. In addition, he has too much money and leads a high-profile life - building such a large manor and marrying so many women - showing off his wealth too much. Many people have long disliked him. Especially during natural disasters, people think of him. My life is so pitiful, and the Wang family's life is so luxurious. It would be a lie to say that I have no objection to the Wang family.
So now that the Wang family has fallen, and has been found out, and has done so many bad things, how can any common people say anything good about him?
Among the people who dislike him, there are those who he thinks are haters of the rich, but there are also quite a few who simply see him doing evil and hate him.
And because he couldn't die, and the Wang family couldn't stand up, Wang Xi had been living in the Anding uncle's house and was bullied. Wang Xi couldn't help but feel angry. He never expected that after his glorious life, he would end up in old age. Oh, and ended up like this.
It is normal for Anding Bofu to bully Wang Xi.
Wang Xi stopped talking to the Anding family when he became rich. Later, he took away the voice of the Anding family and became the invisible patriarch of the Wang family. The Anding family was poor at that time and needed to rely on the king. Xi supported him and didn't dare to say anything, so he could only follow Wang Xi as the invisible clan leader, but he must be unhappy in his heart. After all, who could like being robbed of the clan leader's power?
At this time, the Wang family has fallen, and the people in the Anding House no longer need to be afraid of Wang Xi, so they naturally vent their unhappiness back then, so it is normal for them to bully Wang Xi.
Not to mention how Wang Xi felt sorry for himself and hated heaven and earth in the Anding Count's House, nor how he bullied Wang Xi in the Anding Count's House, but said that because of the fall of the Wang family, Linlang's marriage naturally did not have to worry about being obstructed anymore. It was done quickly.
Linlang herself is willing to do this.
The first point is that she must be tall enough. The second point is that the family tradition is also good. There is a rule in the family that only those who are 40 years old and have no children can take a concubine. This is naturally suitable for Linlang. , after all, not many families in ancient times had such rules.
So when this family proposed marriage, Linlang agreed.
Of course, the main reason is that Linlang has also inspected this man. His private life is quite clean, unlike some people who say that there is a rule in the family not to take concubines, but he is also lustful and does not want to live without other women. What should he do? Well, just go to a brothel, or have a concubine, or not take concubines, just take them, like the women with no status in Wang Xi's backyard.
This person has no such reputation. In this case, Linlang naturally agreed.
And just when Linlang was preparing to get married, the second wife received a letter from cousin Ye who had traveled all the way to ask the official who exiled her to bring it back.
Cousin Ye was luckier than the original person and did not have any trouble on the way to exile, but it was not easy when she arrived at the place of exile.
This dynasty likes to exile people to the bitter cold places in the northwest. When Cousin Ye went there and saw it, people couldn't stand it.
Not only is it desolate and cold, the wind and sand are also strong, which is no place for people to stay! So Cousin Ye wrote another letter asking her parents to find a way to get her back to the capital, saying that if she stayed in a place like this, she would die soon.
Besides, they don’t just live there. They are exiled and have to work.
She couldn't accept just living, let alone working, so as soon as cousin Ye got there, she begged the official to bring the letter she wrote to the Ye family, begging them for rescue. The official knew that he would get money if he sent such a letter to the master's house, so he was willing to take it with him.
So the official sent the person back and brought such a letter to the second room of the Ye family.
The second room of the Ye family received the letter and knew that they could only ask the eldest room for help. It just so happened that the eldest room’s Ye Linlang, the person they were recently engaged to, had a better background than the Ye family. The eldest room said before that he could not help. , now that Ye Linlang's in-laws are helping, it should be OK.
However, the second room was still afraid that the eldest room would not be willing to help, so he sent out the old lady, the two brothers’ mother.
Old Mrs. Ye has become very old these years, and she usually doesn't take care of things. She only stays in her courtyard and chants Buddha's name, but now she was begged by her younger son to come to the door. In addition, she also felt pity for Cousin Ye, a girl. Every family had a hard life in such a bitter and cold place, and they would not survive and lose their lives, so they agreed to help the younger son, and together with him, they persuaded the eldest son to help cousin Ye.
When Father Ye and Mother Ye saw that their younger brothers and sisters had approached the old lady to intercede, they naturally couldn’t refuse them outright. Besides, although Cousin Ye had all sorts of faults, her crime was not worthy of death. It was true that she didn’t help before. I couldn’t help, but now that I have a good in-law, I might be able to help, so Ye’s father immediately said to the old lady: “I’m going to ask my in-laws if there is anything they can do. If they don’t have it, then there’s nothing I can do, mother. You know our family With so much energy, if we want to bring the exiled people back, our family can't do it."
What Father Ye said is true. Mrs. Ye is naturally not an unreasonable person. After all, Father Ye is also her. She could not embarrass one son for the sake of another son, so she immediately said: "Just try your best."
Then Father Ye went to ask Linlang's fiancé's family if they could do anything about this matter. .
Linlang’s fiancé is the second son of a down-and-out noble family.
Even the second son of a noble family cannot marry into an imperial businessman's family like the Ye family.
The reason why this family chose to marry the Ye family is because the family is really in poverty. Knowing that the Ye family is an imperial merchant family and rich, they are saving up to marry a rich wife and improve their family life. The marriage proposal was based on certain conditions.
Linlang married her because her family had a good family tradition.
As for the noble family's downfall, this is a natural phenomenon.
Like these noble families, after a few generations, if the children of the family have no future, they will be in poverty.
But they are a noble family and they still need to show off outside.
Pomp is needed, but the children in the family have no future. If the family fortune saved by the previous generation is used up, and the ostentation is not supported by just a small salary, it will become poorer and poorer. It is normal to live in poverty and live in poverty. .
The family that Lin Lang married into was extremely poor until the fourth generation. It was already entrusted to their family's rule that they could only take concubines after they were forty years old and had no children. As a result, there were not many masters in the family. Like those families They don’t have much money, they pretend to be fat, and they have a lot of concubines at home, many of them are The poor eat dirt, so they can only fool the ordinary people outside. Anyone who knows a little bit about the situation knows that those poor people who foolishly enter the house as concubines do not enjoy much happiness, and are often taken by the hostess. I do needlework to support my family, and I even have to work very late at night.
(End of this chapter)