Chapter 3: Deep Hidden Merit and Famous Three

Information 3: Shen, as a woman who has not fully integrated into the noble family in the capital, her information and lace news are of course the most talked about by the noble lady. Shen's family, whether it is her maiden family or her in-laws, is treated like nouveau riche by these noble ladies. In the past, because of the relationship between Empress Dowager Li and the master of the house, ordinary people did not dare to discuss it casually. Over the years, the little emperor has gradually taken power, and he is not on the right path with this biological mother, so everyone began to talk about the Li family and the Shen family's maiden family, the Shen family, in private. Empress Dowager Li's father, Lao Hou Ye, and Empress Dowager Li's younger brother, are now Hou Ye, although a bit absurd, but still a bit low-key. However, the Shen family and the Shen family don't know for what reason, they have decided to appear in the high-level vision of the capital in a high-profile manner over the years. Some people speculate that the Shen family hopes to make one last effort while Empress Dowager Li is alive. Some people also speculated whether it would be because the Shen family wanted to ease the relationship with the little emperor. It is even more tempting to speculate that the Shen family wants to abandon the Shen family and find a new backer. Anyway, whether the Shen family is in the Li family or the maiden Shen family, the status is getting lower and lower, and it has become a big joke for the noble ladies.

The Shen family is not a descendant of the Shen family in Jiangnan, and her biological father is just an inconspicuous small family in the side branch of the Shen family. But in order to marry the Li family, the old head of the Shen family deliberately promoted the status of Shen's father, so as to enhance the status of the Shen family in the Shen family. Shen's father was passed under the name of a childless family, so Shen's father became a descendant from the Shen family's side branch, and Shen also became a young lady in the Shen family's lineage. Both the Shen family and the Li family knew the purpose and reason for doing this, but for their own interests, no one pursued and carefully investigated.

The real reason why the Shen family became a big joke in the capital was because of a half-truth and half-truth drunk remark by an old man of the Shen family. In order to develop in the capital, the Shen family sent an important person from the Shen family's lineage to Beijing for a long time. This person is not only an important person from the real Shen family, but also a person who knows the details of the Shen family. In order not to let outsiders know his identity, the Shen family did not move around too much with this titular cousin. Although this can avoid contact, it also makes this cousin think that the Shen family has entered the Li family and looks down on the Shen family. Therefore, whether it is the people of the Shen family or the descendants of the Shen family, they all have certain complaints about the Shen family. Some of the old people of the Shen family came to the capital to take care of their masters, and they would always say that some of the masters' past represented their old qualifications in the family. A member of the Shen family who likes to drink, not only likes to brag but also likes to talk when he is drunk. The people in the capital learned about the background of the Shen family through this old man of the Shen family, and began to laugh at the young grandmother of the Li family, the Shen family.

Once the old man of the Shen family was drunk, he broke out a very amazing inside story, which once again put the Shen family in an embarrassing situation. This old man is not only the old man of the Shen family, but also a neighbor who is very familiar with Shen's father. Although they are masters and servants, one is a descendant of the Shen family, and the other is a down-and-out son of the Shen family's side branch, so no one's identity is better than the other. This old man is not only a neighbor of Shen's father, but also a partner of Shen's father who grew up together. When Shen's mother married Shen's father, this old man not only attended the wedding but was also an important observer. Under the persuasion of everyone, this old man drank three or four taels of old wine and told a secret, that is, Shen's mother gave birth to Shen in the seventh month after marrying Shen's father.

As long as an experienced adult knows, it is generally impossible for a newlyweds to win the bid at one time on the wedding day. Even if you win the bid on the first night of marriage, it is impossible to give birth to a healthy child in the seventh month of marriage. In ancient times, winning the bid on the first night of the newlywed, this is called "bedside happiness", although it is a very auspicious thing, but it is actually very bad for the health of the newlyweds. According to the current scientific explanation, there are only two explanations for a woman to win the bid at one time, the first is because the husband is energetic, and the second is because the woman is easy to conceive. In ancient times, when there were no contraceptive tools and methods, a woman's easy conception led to the birth of all children in the family. Unless the couple does not live together, children will be born one after the other. If the husband is energetic, the wife will not be able to stand it, which will not only affect the life of the wife but also affect the relationship between the husband and wife. The question of Shen's parents is not here, but whether Shen is the biological son of Shen's father. If Shen was born to her parents "bedside happy", she would not have grown up healthy in seven months. If Shen was not born to her current parents, who is Shen's biological father? If you speculate like this, the Shen family is not a child of the Shen family, and the Shen family is a wild seed with no origin.

Whether it is a wild seed or a child born to "Bedside Joy", which version of the legend is very unfavorable to the Shen family. Not only the Shen family, but even the Li family will be laughed at. For this reason, the Li family immediately asked the Shen family's head in Beijing to come forward and make it clear, but the person in charge of the Shen family in Beijing, who is also the cousin of the Shen family, refused to express his position on the grounds that he did not know the truth. The Li family had no choice but to bite the bullet and say that the Shen family was already the daughter-in-law of the Li family, and the Li family would not care if the Shen family was the biological daughter of the Shen family. The Li family also summarized the performance of the Shen family after marrying the Li family, and the Li family was very satisfied with the Shen family's daughter-in-law. This suppressed the arrogance of the noble ladies in the capital, but the rumors about the Shen family still did not end. Over the years, there have always been people who have made a fuss about the Shen family, and even the Empress Dowager Li feels annoyed. After the Shen family experienced this incident, not only became more low-key, but also began to become more estranged from their mother's family, the Shen family. It is said that afterwards, the patriarch of the Shen family severely reprimanded the person in charge of the Shen family in Beijing, and beat the troublesome old man to death.

Information 4: The origin of Mrs. Xu, the Marquis of Weiyuan. Xu is not a native of the capital, nor is he a young lady of the rich family near the capital as recorded in the archives of Jinyiwei. When the Xu family is not famous and low-key, the noble ladies will not care about the wife of the expired Hou family. When the Xu family was favored by the little emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces at the same time, and became a close confidant of the queen, Xu's information was constantly excavated and exposed. Xu's father is not a northerner, nor is he a southerner in the true sense, according to the current statement, Xu's father should be regarded as a "returnee". Xu's father, who was a fisherman who lived by the sea, later became a wage laborer because of his participation in the maritime trade. Trading at sea is risky, but the benefits are staggering. Xu's ancestor gradually went from a hired worker to a small boss in partnership with the boss in just a few years. At that time, the ancestor of the Xu family had a wife and children in the mainland, and had a new family overseas. Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long, and the imperial court issued an order to ban the sea, and ordinary people were not allowed to participate in maritime trade. For this reason, the ancestor of the Xu family divided his funds into two, half of which was handed over to his wife and children in the mainland for safekeeping, and half of the gold and silver in exchange for an official trade qualification.

The ancestor of the Xu family used this trade qualification to change from a small rich family to a local rich man in more than ten years. This change not only made the villagers red-eyed, but also aroused the greed of the people in the yamen. The people of the Yamen found the ancestor of the Xu family on the grounds that their family's origin was unknown and that they had false qualifications for maritime trade. In order to settle these greedy people, the ancestors of the Xu family scattered most of their family wealth. In the end, the ancestor of the Xu family, who originally wanted to stop going to sea, decided to go to sea for the last time for the continuation and development of the family. This time I went to sea not only encountered wind and waves and lost all my money, but also met pirates on the way back. The ancestor of the Xu family swallowed his anger in order to survive, and finally found an opportunity to escape back. Unexpectedly, there was an accident at home at this time, and the people of the Yamen once again blackmailed the Xu family, and without getting the money, they arrested all the family members of the Xu family. A few days before the ancestor of the Xu family rushed back, because he couldn't get the money, the people of the Yamen were angry and made up a reason for the arrest of the Xu family and killed all of them. The ancestor of the Xu family had no relatives in the mainland, so he had to return to live in that family overseas.

In the past few decades, because of the pirates and pirates, the ancestors of the Xu family could not return home. More than 10 years ago, the Japanese were finally pacified, and Xu's father returned to the mainland with the encouragement of Xu's grandfather. The hometown was already a matter of people, and Xu's father had to go all the way north. Fortunately, Xu's father brought a batch of things that were not common in the mainland when he returned home, and he sold the goods all the way north. When he came to the capital, the goods were basically sold out, and he could have lived a good life, but because he didn't understand the people in the mainland, he was suppressed by the yamen and local gangsters, and his life became difficult. In order to make a living, in order to support his wife and children, the eldest man of the Xu family chose to continue to do maritime trade. Because this business is familiar to him, and it is also something that he feels is relatively safe and promising. The family settled in the countryside near the capital, and Xu's father helped people to do maritime trade at first, and then when he had money, he started his own business, and within a few years he became a rich man. Xu's father was smart this time, he took out half of the money to buy land and buy a house, and hid the rest of the money. Because he had a land and a house in the local area, and spent money to buy a squire status, he found a good place for his daughter.

Just when Xu's father was doing maritime trade, when the Xu family was not developed, Xu, as the eldest daughter of the family, took on housework early. Therefore, Xu knows more about operation and management than ordinary ladies from large families, and is also better at adjusting contradictions. Since the Xu family married into the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, although the Xu family has continued to use his mother's money to supplement the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, the people of the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion still look down on the Xu family. It wasn't until Xu showed her amazing management talent that Wei Yuanhou began to truly accept and respect Xu. But this is just a person from the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, and the rest of the people in the capital still look down on the Xu family. Even the little emperor and the queen mother who knew the details of the Xu family were the same, although they still valued the Xu family, but they knew very well in their hearts that the Xu family was just a person who could be used, not an equal person who could really interact. Because of this reason, Queen Wang decided to take the initiative to win over the Xu family, because this Xu family was flawed and could not become the enemy of Queen Wang. Empress Wang is very relieved about this, and can approach and use the Xu family to her heart's content.