Little did Wang Xi know that when he was providing disaster relief, the people praised him in front of his face, so they naturally praised 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, the Wang family at this time naturally had a long history of robbing civilian girls and returning them. There are things about profiteering and exploitation of female family members, and these things have been known to the public for a long time. In addition, he has too much money and lives too high-profile - building such a big manor and marrying so many women - he shows off his wealth too much. Many people dislike him, especially during natural disasters. They think of how pitiful they are and how luxurious the Wang family is, and it would be a lie in their hearts to say they have no objection to the Wang family.
So now that the Wang family has fallen, and he has been found out, and he has done so many bad things, how can any common people say anything good about him?
Among the people who disliked him, there were those who he thought were haters of the rich, but there were also quite a few who simply saw him doing evil and disliked 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's normal for Anding's uncle to bully Wang Xi.
When Wang Xi became rich, he stopped paying attention to the Anding family. Later, he usurped 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 Wang Xi's help to survive, so he didn't dare to No matter what, I can only follow Wang Xi as the invisible clan leader, but I must be unhappy in my heart. After all, who can 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 how he hated himself and the earth in Uncle Anding's mansion, nor how he bullied Wang Xi in Uncle Anding's mansion, but he said that because of the fall of the Wang family, Linlang's marriage naturally didn't have to worry about being obstructed anymore, and it was settled quickly.
Linlang herself is willing to do this.
The first point is that he 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, such things can be done in ancient times. Not many people behave themselves.
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 lustful and does not want to live without other women. What should he do? Just go to a brothel. , or have a concubine, or do not take concubines, but only take concubines, like the women with no status in Wang Xi's backyard.
This person didn't have any of these tricks. In this case, Linlang naturally agreed.
And just when Linlang was getting ready to get married, her second wife received a letter from cousin Ye who had gone 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 goes there and sees it, people can'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 also have to work in exile.
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 when the official sent the person back, he brought such a letter to the second room of the Ye family.
The second roommate of the Ye family received the letter and knew that he could only ask the eldest room for help. It just so happened that the eldest room's Ye Linlang, the family he was recently engaged to, had a better background than the Ye family. The eldest room said he couldn't help before, but now he has Ye Linlang. It should be possible to ask my in-laws to help.
However, the second brother was still afraid that the first brother would not be willing to help, so he also 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 be able to survive and lose their lives, so they agreed to help the younger son, and together with him, they persuaded the older son to help cousin Ye.
Father Ye and Mother Ye saw that their younger brothers and sisters had come to the old lady to intercede, so naturally they couldn't refuse them outright. Besides, although Cousin Ye had all kinds of faults, her crime was not worthy of death. If she didn't help before, she really couldn't help, but now she has A good in-law might be able to help, so Father Ye immediately said to the old lady: "I'll go and ask the in-laws if they can do anything. If they don't have it, then there's nothing I can do. Mom, you know that our family has it." With so much energy, if we want to bring the exiled people back, our family can’t do it.”
What Father Ye said was true. Old Mrs. Ye was naturally not an unreasonable person. After all, Father Ye was also her son. She could not embarrass one son for the sake of another son, so she immediately said: "Just do your best."
At that moment, Ye's father went to ask Linlang's fiancé's family if they could do anything about the 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 was because the family was really in poverty. They knew that the Ye family was an imperial merchant family and had money, so they proposed marriage only after saving up to marry a rich wife and improve the family's living conditions.
Linlang, on the other hand, married because her family had a good family tradition.
As for the noble family's downfall, this is a natural phenomenon.
Like these noble families, if after a few generations, the children of the family have no future, they will fall into poverty.
But they are a noble family and they still need to show off outside.
There is a need for ostentation, but the children in the family have no future. If all the family property saved by the previous generation is used up, and the ostentation cannot be supported by just a small salary, the family will become poorer and poorer. It is normal.
The family that Linlang married into was extremely poor only in the fourth generation. It was already entrusted to their family's rule that only those who were forty and childless could take concubines. As a result, there were not many masters in the family. Like those families with little money and swollen children. Those who pretend to be fat and have a lot of concubines at home, many of whom are even poorer, can only fool the ordinary people outside. Anyone who knows a little bit about the situation knows that those poor people are stupid and stupid. Being a concubine does not bring you many blessings. The hostess often takes her to do needlework to supplement the family income, and she even has to work very late at night.
