In other words, because Sanfang was not the eldest son, he could not inherit much property from the old Duke. Mrs. Zhou could not give Sanfang much money because of the small dowry. In this way, Sanfang still spent Money is like running water, how can the family bear it?
Especially Master Zhou, when Dafang had to bear the expenses before, he not only spent all the monthly allowance given by Dafang, but also took money from his own family to eat, drink and gamble.
Yes, Mr. Zhou not only looks for flowers and flowers, but also goes to gambling houses.
The only good thing is that Master Zhou is not the kind of person who gambles excessively.
Although I am not a gambler, I still lose money. If I don’t lose in a year, I will lose thousands or tens of thousands of taels. In the past, when the big house could afford the expenses, three-bedroom apartments could still be afforded, but now , The big house can no longer afford the expenses, and they don’t want to lower their living standards. They already spend more than 10,000 taels a year. On Wednesday, the master will lose thousands more. This adds up to more than 20,000 yuan. Three bedrooms and one apartment How can I earn so much money in Nian? Naturally, I can only sit back and have nothing in the end.
Seeing money dwindling like water, Mrs. Wednesday will be worried.
She was now worried that after Master Zhou spent all his money, he would ask for her dowry money to spend. That was not what she wanted to see.
Although women in this dynasty have the right to dispose of dowries, which is much better than those cannibal dynasties that are not friendly to women at all and women cannot dispose of women's dowries. Once they enter the house, they will be handed over to the father-in-law to handle, but the law is the law Everyone is a human being. Mr. Zhou is going to run out of money. If he asks Mrs. Zhou for money, how dare she refuse to give it?
And when she thinks that her dowry will be lost by Master Zhou, can Mrs. Zhou not feel worried?
She didn't dare to blame Mr. Zhou Zhou for spending money like water, so she scolded the big house for not supporting their third bedroom. She thought that if she continued to support their third bedroom as before, they would have no money to use the third bedroom?
Especially seeing the prosperous and prosperous life of Dafang, Mrs. Zhou hated Dafang even more.
But I never thought that a big house could support three people for a lifetime? When Mrs. Zhou dies, they will definitely have to leave the Duke's Mansion. Then won't they still have to live on their own?
Therefore, if we don’t solve the problem of Mr. Zhou’s spending money like water, it’s useless to blame anyone. Sooner or later, Sanfang will lose all his family assets. It’s just a matter of time.
However, she is still in the mood to complain about the big house, but soon she will no longer be in the mood to complain, because something is going to happen to the imperial concubine in the palace.
But she said that the empress has been ridiculed by the imperial concubine these years, and then the emperor prefers the imperial concubine's son. He has been reluctant to make the eldest son the crown prince, and wants to make the second prince of the imperial concubine the crown prince. Doesn't she hate it in her heart? It's impossible not to hate her, but she can't do anything about the emperor and the imperial concubine. After all, the emperor just likes the imperial concubine, what can she do?
In fact, she has been thinking of a solution.
Originally, she didn't want to target the imperial concubine. After all, it didn't matter to her that the emperor liked other women.
In this era of legalizing three wives and four concubines, who doesn’t know that a rich and powerful man will definitely have other women? A poor man with a few pennies will still go to the building to find a girl, let alone a rich and powerful man. He is a powerful man. If he cares about it, he can't care about it. After all, without the imperial concubine, there are other women.
However, the emperor wanted to make the imperial concubine's son the prince, which she had a problem with, so since knowing this, she began to target the imperial concubine.
These methods include but are not limited to ordinary poisoning, or plotting against the imperial concubine, trying to make the emperor misunderstand the imperial concubine and alienate the relationship between the two, etc., but none of them succeeded.
Another thing is to arrange beautiful beauties and select them during the draft in an attempt to gain favor from the emperor and the noble concubine.
For her, it is not terrible to have another person with the same honor and favor as the imperial concubine. After all, it will take a long time for the other person to give birth to a prince and grow up. It is better than being favored by the imperial concubine all the time. After all, her son has already grown up.
But it is a pity that those beauties are like fireworks. They may be a little favored when they come in, but soon they are no longer favored. Only the imperial concubine is still favored.
But nothing is absolute.
There is really no beauty in the world. Can she replace the imperial concubine?
Will not.
There are so many beauties in the world, and the fact that they cannot replace the imperial concubine means that there is always something not to the emperor's liking about her, but as time goes by, she will always meet someone who suits her.
The beauty chosen to enter the palace this time has been favored for three months and has no signs of falling out of favor.
This was something that was unimaginable in the past, because the beauties and emperors in the past were always fresh and tired of them after a few days.
This phenomenon aroused the vigilance of the imperial concubine and her natal family. They were afraid that this person would really be favored more than the imperial concubine. By then, the imperial concubine's family would be in trouble. After all, in history, many favored concubines were only pampered for a period of time. Time has fallen out of favor, and a new favorite concubine has appeared, so they see that this woman has been favored for more than three months, how can they not be wary?
The imperial concubine's natal family is vigilant. As a member of the imperial concubine's natal family, Mrs. Zhou is naturally vigilant as well.
Because she knew that once the imperial concubine fell out of favor, her status in the capital would definitely decline. Unlike now, because of her dual status as Duke Chengen and the imperial concubine's cousin, although she did not have the status of the princess's wife like Linlang. , her status in Beijing is still good. When others see her, they will look up to her and dare not look down on her.
But in fact, she has no status. This is entirely because of the relationship between Cheng'en Palace and the imperial concubine's cousin, especially the benefits brought by the latter.
If the imperial concubine is no longer favored, what status does she still have? Just look at the Queen's natal family. Although it is the Queen's natal family, their family members are outside and have not been praised by others. After all, everyone knows that the Queen is not favored, and the Emperor still wants to give the throne to the son of the Imperial Concubine. Who can value this? No wonder no one fawns over him anymore.
——Actually, those who are fawning over Mrs. Wednesday are all people who follow the trend, or are siding with the imperial concubine’s family. The big families who are not involved in the fight for the throne are neither fawning over the imperial concubine’s family nor the queen’s family, because they don’t want to take sides. , she was afraid that if she stood in the wrong team, it was not what she thought the Queen's family would look down upon.
And it is normal that there are more people who are fawning over her and her natal family than the empress's family, because there are many people who favor the concubine's natal family and want to get benefits from the favored concubine. This has been the same in all dynasties.
It's just that since these people still rely on the imperial concubine to gain benefits, they must have an average status, otherwise there is no need to curry favor with the imperial concubine's family.
It was precisely because the front door of the queen's natal home was deserted that Mrs. Zhou was afraid that her cousin would fall out of favor and suffer bad luck.
But she was not the person involved, so she didn't know how to deal with it. She had no other choice but to be worried and pray that the newcomer would fall out of favor.
Of course, that doesn't mean there's nothing she can do. She was so anxious that she even went back to her parents' home and told her parents about her ideas, such as poisoning the newlyweds, but her parents rejected her advice because it was so simple. How could the empress know that she was still the one to bring up the idea?
