Zong Mengtao was the daughter of Nan Anhou's second wife, but unfortunately her biological mother died after giving birth to her, and Nan Anhou remarried his third wife and gave birth to a son and two daughters.

In this case, Zong Mengtao did not have the blessing of her biological mother, and her life in the back house of the Hou Mansion was not easy.

In addition, the marquis of Nan'an's Hou family was the last generation to be passed on to her father, and if her father was not there, the Hou Mansion would be defeated.

Perhaps because of these, Nan Anhou only wanted to cling to the powerful, and his daughter became a tool for him to cling to the powerful.

Nan'anhou's original partner also gave birth to a daughter, and when Emperor Hongwu was in power, Nan'anhou sent his eldest daughter to the back house of the Five Princes' Mansion as a side concubine, with the purpose of attaching to the Five Princes.

Nan'anhou is not standing in line with the five princes, but it just happened that the Five Princes' Mansion was going to choose a side concubine, and his eldest daughter was just the right age.

He felt that even if the fifth prince could not become an emperor in the future, but after all, he was a prince, and his life would not be too bad, and his daughter could help the family when he married.

Unexpectedly, not long after being sent over, the five princes rebelled, and although the Nan'an Hou Mansion was not implicated, it also dealt a big blow to the family.

Later, the fourth prince Leng Xuqi, that is, Emperor Honghui, succeeded to the throne, and the eldest lady of Nan'an Hou Mansion was imprisoned together with the fifth prince.

Nan Anhou didn't think that he chose such a path for his daughter, but complained about his daughter, who failed to bring glory to the family, but became a shame for the family.

The eldest lady of Nan'an Hou Mansion originally wanted her father to find a way to rescue her, after all, the rebellion of the five princes had nothing to do with her, and at that time, even the family members of the five princesses walked around and rescued the five princesses.

I didn't expect to get such a reply in exchange.

Disheartened, the eldest lady of Nan'an Hou Mansion committed suicide by swallowing gold in a forbidden place.

Probably because the situation is similar, Zong Mengtao and the eldest sister have a close relationship, the two sisters are five years apart, and Zong Mengtao was still young when the eldest sister committed suicide, and she couldn't do anything she wanted.

But it was also because of the death of the eldest sister that Zong Mengtao understood that she, like her sister, was just a pawn of her father clinging to the powerful.

Even the two daughters born to her stepmother were later sent by her father to other nobles, let alone someone like her who had no mother?

Zong Mengtao felt that she was much luckier than her eldest sister.

After she married into Yanwang's Mansion as a side concubine, although she did not get the favor of Leng Mo Dye, she had a good relationship with the ladies in the mansion, and she was also trusted by Xiao Xixi.

Probably because Zong Mengtao saw that there was no hope of competing for favor, she didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and stayed with the ladies honestly.

The death of the other side concubine, Hu Shi, had no effect on Zong Mengtao, it was impossible.

Zong Mengtao was afraid that death would come to him for a long time.

Although she also knows that she is different from Hu Lepei, she should not invite death.

But how can this kind of thing be said accurately?

Zong Mengtao was more cautious in the later days, only doing what he should do and what he could do, and when Leng Mo dismissed the female dependents of the house, Zong Mengtao did not want to return to Nan'anhou Mansion.

And she also felt that Nan'anhou Mansion couldn't accommodate her.

Under Xiao Xixi's decision, Zong Mengtao remarried a subordinate named Chu Jiang of Leng Mo Ran.

Chu Jiang has been by Leng Moran's side for many years, he is loyal, and he is in charge of many guards under his hands, saving a lot of silver taels.

Coupled with the reward of cold ink dyeing, the two lived a very good life after marriage.

Even if the Nan'an Hou Mansion wanted to let Zong Mengtao do something again, with Xiao Xixi and Leng Mo dyeing, there was no way to interfere anymore.

(End of chapter)