Linlang said: "I am still assured of your ability, so don't refuse, just follow me and learn."
She turns out to be a capable person who manages her family in an orderly manner, so her daughter-in-law is naturally married to a good one, so she has nothing to worry about.
Seeing Linlang's insistence, Mrs. Li had no choice but to comply, and immediately followed Linlang to learn housekeeping.
Mrs. Li had already learned housekeeping from her mother when she was at her parents' home - this was also investigated by the original body. She knew that the girl was capable and had learned the art of housekeeping, so she hired her for her son - so now Linlang will When the affairs of the family in her mind were left to her, she quickly learned and was able to slowly take over the affairs in Linlang's hands, leaving Linlang free.
The family she originally married into was the Zhou family of Duke Chengen.
You can tell from the title that she is a royal in-law, from the Queen Mother's natal family.
The original person was married to the eldest son of Duke Cheng'en. Of course, now the old Duke Cheng'en, the elder brother of the current Queen Mother, has passed away, and the original husband has passed away.
According to the system, the in-law title of Duke Chengen is a downgrade. However, because the original husband, the crown prince of Duke Chengen, made great achievements in the imperial examination and passed the Jinshi examination, he is now an official in the court and is deeply loved by the current emperor, that is, he is the representative of the emperor. My brother valued me, so the emperor Long En, the original husband is still the Duke of Cheng'en, and has not been demoted to the title.
In addition, the Queen Mother is considered to have a long life in this era. She is still here and can take care of her mother's family.
Therefore, Duke Cheng'en's residence is now a favored one, a popular family in the capital, and the wealth is just a little worse than that of the emperor's favorite concubine, the imperial concubine's natal family.
But the Zhou family is not without worries.
Judging from Linlang's transfer of housework and contact with her daughter-in-law during this period, the Zhou family could actually get into trouble if they were not careful.
Of course, I can still lie down comfortably now.
The Zhou family has hidden worries both inside and outside.
Let’s talk about the outside first.
This is the matter of establishing a crown prince today.
The intention of the cabinet was to establish the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince, but the emperor liked the imperial concubine and always wanted to establish the imperial concubine's son as the crown prince.
In order to help the son of his beloved concubine, the emperor made his original husband Lord Zhou become the second prince's teacher.
The original husband didn't know the danger of doing this. Once the second prince was not regarded as the new emperor, something would happen to the Zhou family, so he definitely didn't want to do it.
He had never wanted to take sides. After all, the emperor had a good relationship with him. Even if he felt that his eldest son should be the crown prince, he would not be able to express it, lest the emperor would be unhappy.
But he didn't want to take sides with the imperial concubine. It was just the emperor's order, and he had to obey it.
So becoming the second prince's teacher is actually equivalent to tying the Zhou family to the second prince's chariot.
In other words, there is a sword hanging over the Zhou family's head and it will fall at any time.
The Zhou family could only hope that the emperor would live a few more years and let the sword fall slower.
Therefore, even though the Zhou family is doing well now, it is very likely that something will happen within a few years.
Any smart person in Beijing will think of this and will not get too close to the Zhou family, lest they be implicated in the future.
Of course, given that the Zhou family is currently very popular in front of the emperor, no one dares to offend the current Zhou family.
Under such circumstances, it is quite rare for the original mother to be able to find such a good daughter-in-law for her son. After all, most families would not marry their daughters to a family that might cause trouble like the Zhou family - in fact, it was the Li family. The natal family made a bet on both ends, marrying one daughter to the influence of the second prince and marrying the other daughter to the influence of the eldest prince. Otherwise, she would not have been able to find such a good daughter-in-law.
Forget about external troubles, there are also internal worries.
However, it is said that the original husband's biological mother died young, and then the old Cheng'en married another woman and gave birth to a son.
After having a son, Xu Xian has been making small moves, apparently wanting to kill her original husband and make his son the heir apparent.
Unfortunately, he was not very smart, and his natal family was not strong enough. In addition, the original husband was not young at that time, so it was difficult to kill a teenage boy, so the original husband successfully obtained the title.
But Xuxian was not willing to accept it, so he later asked a cousin from the imperial concubine's natal family who played well with her to be his daughter-in-law.
Because the imperial concubine agreed, and Xuxian was the nominal mother of her original husband, he could not object. He could only watch as the relationship between the Zhou family and the imperial concubine's family became tighter and tighter.
Who wouldn't understand Xu Xian's thoughts? He just wants to marry a high-status daughter-in-law so that his son's family will not be suppressed by the big family in the future.
Also, once the imperial concubine becomes the queen mother, if her daughter-in-law plays well with the imperial concubine, she will become a popular person in front of the queen mother in the future. In this way, her son can live a good life even if he does not have a title.
——But it can also be seen from this that this stepmother is really not very smart. Seeing that the imperial concubine is favored, in order to covet the immediate interests, she dares to side with the imperial concubine and marry her son to the imperial concubine's cousin. If the imperial concubine does not have this in the future, When she became the Queen Mother, her son married the imperial concubine's cousin. Wasn't something going to happen?
Of course, she may have thought that since her stepson was already the second prince's teacher, it would be the eldest son who would be the first to be unlucky, so she dared to do this.
Probably because she saw her husband's stepmother doing things like this, she didn't want to run away after the housekeeper got tired of taking care of her. She was afraid that her husband would also get married, and then her son would encounter the same thing as her husband.
As for the daughter-in-law that Mrs. Zhou married to Mr. Zhou Zhou, who is the cousin of the imperial concubine, she is really not a peaceful person and is someone who dictates things in the house. In addition, Mrs. Zhou always likes to cause trouble for the big house. , so naturally I support my daughter-in-law to make things difficult for the original person.
If the original person hadn't been so powerful and had punished the other party several times to let the other party know how powerful she was, or else at this moment, if she had been replaced by a cowardly and incompetent person, the one giving orders in the house would have been Mrs. Wednesday.
After several bad lucks, Mrs. Zhou was naturally unhappy, so she went to the palace to cry to her cousin, hoping to get her to deal with the situation.
However, although her cousin is favored now, her son has never been able to be established as the crown prince. She still needs to rely on Mr. Zhou. How can she dare to offend Mr. Zhou's wife? Therefore, the imperial concubine did not complain about her cousin coming to the palace. Go and reprimand him.
Since she can be the imperial concubine, she is naturally scheming and not so stupid.
Although she didn't dare to scold the original person, she did some tricks in order to help her cousin.
Soon, the emperor, who was offended by others, gave Lord Zhou several maids on the grounds of Lord Zhou's hard work and merit.
The emperor heard the imperial concubine say that Mr. Zhou worked too hard, so he really felt sorry for his cousin, so he gave it to him. He didn't mean to offend the original person.
But why does the imperial concubine have such a pillow style? Even a fool knows the reason.
So soon, Dafang had two concubines whom he could not offend - the emperor gave several concubines, but Mr. Zhou only kept two.
These two people are naturally from the imperial concubine, and they are naturally on good terms with Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Zhou. Together, these people naturally make it more and more difficult for the original person to manage affairs in the mansion.
This was the imperial concubine's plan - she couldn't reprimand Mr. Zhou's wife, which would anger Mr. Zhou, but she could still do it by giving Mr. Zhou a few beautiful concubines to make Mrs. Zhou angry.
