Seeing her impatience, Xie Yanzhi said slowly: "Don't be anxious, just listen to me carefully!"
Li Yuan also knew that she was impatient. If she wanted to know about that woman, she had to know what was going on with her husband's family and her natal family.
Otherwise, just knowing her name and whose daughter-in-law she is now is of no use.
Thinking of this, she simply pulled Xie Yanzhi into the kitchen.
"Thank you, brother, for lighting the fire for me. I have to cook and prepare meals for the way back. Well, while you are lighting the fire, tell me what's going on."
Although no one lives in this house all year round, there are pots, pans, and firewood.
Xie Yanzhi nodded when he heard this: "Okay! Don't touch these things first. You can use them after I heat up the water."
It was freezing cold, and Xie Yanzhi didn't want Li Yuan to touch these cold things.
Fortunately, when he was cleaning before, he washed the water tank and iron pot.
The water in the water tank is full now, and the iron pot is clean because he has boiled hot water before.
After he filled most of the pot with water and lit the fire, he said: "Ms. Chen, also known as Chen Qingqing, is the youngest daughter of the original wife of the Chen family. Her mother became increasingly weak when she was born. After a year, he gave up and went west.
She has a brother and a sister. My sister is three years older and my brother is one and a half years older. However, her brother died due to health problems less than half a year after her mother's death. The stepmother, now the mistress of the Chen family, was helped up by the original concubine. "
Li Yuan frowned when she heard this, subconsciously feeling that the death of her first wife and her brother who died in infancy might have been caused by the current matron of the Chen family.
She had read a lot of novels about house fighting in her previous life, and she also watched many TV series about palace fighting.
The secretive methods of the back house cannot be underestimated.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying: Whoever benefits the most is the murderer.
How can there be so many coincidences, one or two disappearing one after another.
In her opinion, if the current Chen Qingqing is really the daughter of the Zhang family, she and Yang Gaowu have been exchanged.
So this matter was probably done by the original concubine, the current mistress of the Chen family.
It’s just that there is no basis or evidence for this matter now, it is all her guess, so she can’t make a conclusion!
Xie Yanzhi obviously thought so too, so he continued to talk about what he had learned, one by one.
"It is said that the current mistress of the Chen family, Mrs. Wu, is Wu Yu'er. She is the cousin daughter of the old lady in the Chen family.
As for why she entered the house as a concubine, this matter is unknown. All we know is that less than three months after her original wife left for the West, she was made the official wife.
It is also said that this person has a gentle and generous personality and is kind to others. Chen Qingqing was raised by her since she was a child. "
Li Yuan found it interesting and asked: "Ms. Chen, um, where is Chen Qingqing's husband's family? According to you, she was the daughter of a wealthy family before and is now the wife of a wealthy family. She would not do such an unseemly thing. That’s it.”
"Mother Yuan, don't be impatient. Please listen to me as I continue. Wu Yu'er, the head of the Chen family, is said to have stayed awake day and night to take care of the three children left behind by her original wife.
The eldest girl is ignorant and cries for her mother all day long. The middle son, the legitimate son, gets sick from time to time and needs someone to watch over him all the time. The youngest, Chen Qingqing, was less than one year old, and she didn't trust the nanny and the girl to take care of her.
No, I just watch over the three children all day long, teaching the eldest to read and practice calligraphy, making medicine and feeding the middle one myself, and hugging and coaxing the younger one whenever she has free time. It is said that it was because of this that the master of the Chen family thought she was good, so he made her his wife. "
Li Yuan was a little stunned. This woman was not reborn like Can Niang. Because of what happened in his previous life, he treated his first wife’s child with such heart and soul.
So, needless to say, she does this for outsiders to see!
Anyway, the first wife died, and within half a year, the legitimate son also died.
The two legitimate daughters can be sent away with just a little dowry.
And she pretended for a few months, and then she changed from concubine to mistress. From now on, all the family wealth belongs to her and her children.
What's more, because of those so-called cares, he has gained a lot of good reputation.
"I heard that although the eldest lady of the Chen family had been taken care of by her when she was a child, she was not on good terms with her. Before she came out of the cabinet, she always rebelled against her. She chose a good marriage, but the eldest lady of the Chen family did not like her, and in the end she had to marry a poor man. The scholar is his wife.
Because of this, Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen were so angry that they disowned her as their daughter and granddaughter. It is said that it was Wu Yu'er who worked in the middle to allow Miss Chen to marry the person of her dreams as she wished, and she was not treated lightly when it came to the dowry. "
When Xie Yanzhi said this, he looked at Li Yuan's hand stirring the rice in the pot with a shovel and continued.
"Mother Yuan, the news I heard is that everyone calls the eldest girl of the Chen family a white-eyed wolf. Her stepmother treats her so well, but she says all the bad things behind her back.
Even though she received such a large dowry, her husband-in-law was able to study peacefully because he had no shortage of money, and finally passed the Jinshi examination, but he still did not praise her stepmother. "
When Li Yuan heard the word Jinshi, her eyes opened slightly, as if she understood something.
"Brother Xie, what about Chen Qingqing? What is her relationship with Wu Yuer, and who is she married to?"
"Chen Qingqing has been close to Wu Yu'er since childhood, and it was because of Wu Yu'er that she often quarreled with her sister. It is said that the two sisters completely turned against each other in their early years and did not recognize each other.
Chen Qingqing married the eldest son of the Gao family, because she was raised by Wu Yu'er since she was a child. When she got married, her dowry was 50% more than that of her sister. It is said that many of it was given by Wu Yu'er in private.
Oh, right. Now Wu Yu'er has also given birth to a son and a daughter. The daughter is fifteen years old this year and the son is ten years old. "
Li Yuan was speechless and wanted to laugh when she heard that Chen Qingqing had so much dowry, and that she was a legitimate daughter, but she married a concubine.
"Then why did she disregard her face and make such a fuss outside today?"
"The rice grain shop belongs to the Gao family, but the shopkeeper is the dowry steward arranged by Wu Yu'er for Chen Qingqing.
There was a sixteen-year-old girl in his family who was to be married, and she was Chen Qingqing's dowry girl. However, this girl climbed into bed behind her back and hooked up with the uncle of the Gao family, Chen Qingqing's man.
I heard that the eldest son of the Gao family wanted to take her as his concubine, but because Chen Qingqing was jealous, he refused because of his natal family. "
When Li Yuan heard this, she directly interjected: "It's her girl. She must have a contract of sale. If you don't want to, why don't you just sell him while the man is away?"
This kind of thing happened a lot in ancient times.
Not to mention the girls who sell themselves, there are also the favored maids and concubines, and the mistress of the house who sells them when the man is away from home.
By the time the man comes back, he will be gone.
And it is impossible for a man to end up falling out with his wife who is a good match and has children for him just because of a maid and concubine.
When Xie Yanzhi heard this, he said: "Mother Yuan, does she know what it means to be praised and killed?"
"Well! Brother Xie, what do you mean, her character is not good at all, is it Wu Yu'er's fault?"
