The empress is pregnant, and the emperor's incense continues

The mother of the original owner was the daughter of a merchant and came from the Su family, the richest man in Suzhou. The Su family made their fortune as a salt merchant. After a few generations, the family had a huge business and was as rich as the country.

It is said that half of the land and shops in Suzhou belong to the Su family, so the Su family is also called Su Ban City in Suzhou.

But even so, in a dynasty where merchants had low status, the Su family was still looked down upon by scholars.

The original head of the Su family, the grandfather of the original owner, actively wanted to marry his daughter into a noble family, hoping to change the family through in-laws.

Back then, the Su family spent hundreds of thousands in dowry to marry the daughter of the Su family to the second son of the Meng family.

The Meng family comes from a scholarly family. The head of the Meng family is also the grandfather of the original owner. He is also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. His students are all over the government and the public. He is extremely noble.

The marriage between the two families was originally a happy one, but when the Su family daughter came to the Meng family and gave birth to a daughter, she died within two years, and the effect of the marriage between the two families was greatly reduced.

The Su family didn't get any benefits from the Meng family, and even lost a daughter to go in, so they wanted to get the dowry back.

How could the fat in the mouth be spit out? The Meng family quickly arranged a marriage for the young Meng Wenyao. When Meng Wenyao grew up, the dowry left by the Su family for her mother became Meng Wenyao's dowry.

However, the Su family is not thoughtless. A large amount of land and shops included in the dowry are all located in Suzhou, and the stewards are all from the Su family.

Therefore, although the Meng family received hundreds of thousands in dowry in name, it was actually just a little rent collected from shops and properties every year.

Important things such as the land deed were still in the hands of the Su family, so the Meng family had no choice but to surrender Meng Wenyao, otherwise if she died young, the Su family would not send rent to the Meng family.

Because she was raised by her grandmother, she hated her grandfather's shop and had little contact with her grandfather's family.

Therefore, there is a strange picture in the Meng family. The Meng family looks down on Meng Wenyao and suppresses and mocks her at every turn, but openly wants to please her at every turn.

In her previous life, she was naive and romantic, thinking that her family was really good to her.

Unfortunately, she didn't realize until her death that it was just a scam.

Meng Wenyao had an aunt who married Marquis Wen Yuan and gave birth to a son named Lu Chenghuan. This Lu Chenghuan was Meng Wenyao's child bride.

When Meng Wenyao's mother died early, the Meng family betrothed Meng Wenyao to Lu Chenghuan in order to keep the dowry and not want to take advantage of others.

Meng Wenyao has liked Lu Chenghuan since she was a child and knew that she would marry her when she grew up. Every time she saw this cousin, she could giggle happily for a long time.

Her mother was just a merchant girl, and she herself had no talent. How could she be married to the charming Crown Prince Wenyuan.

In her previous life, her love was humble yet intense. After marrying the prince, no matter how coldly he looked at her, she gave her love with enthusiasm.

Then she got pregnant, and many people came to her family during the birth, and she felt very valued.

When she was about to pass out, her cousin Meng Baiqin, the aunt's daughter, came to the delivery room.

She knelt down and whispered in her ear: "Sister, does it hurt? If you are not stupid, you should go earlier and stop struggling in the world."

Meng Wenyao was in agony and didn't understand what her gentle cousin meant.

"Sister, giving birth is so painful. I can bear it. I will give birth to the child for the prince."

Meng Baiqin chuckled and looked at Meng Wenyao like a fool.

"Sister, do you really not know? The reason why my family has pampered you all these years is just for your mother's dowry. Letting you marry cousin Chenghuan is also so that the dowry will not be left to others.

Cousin Chenghuan is the crown prince of Wenyuan. How can he have a wife like you, so you will definitely die today, and then I will marry cousin Chenghuan, and your dowry will also become mine. "

After a married girl dies, her mother's family can claim her dowry back. After a girl from the Su family dies, the Su family can ask the Meng family for a dowry.

As Meng Wenyao gets married, those are already Meng Wenyao's dowry. If Meng Wenyao dies, the Su family will no longer be able to come over and ask for the dowry.

In this way, the Su family's money was laundered into the Meng family's money, and Meng Wenyao's life was only saved by getting involved.

"I don't believe it, sister, you lied to me, right?"

Meng Baiqin looked at Meng Wenyao with pity and said: "We are from a Qingliu family. Which of the sisters is not proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but you are the only one who knows nothing. You think your mother is really from a merchant, and you are not smart enough to learn." Won't?

Because from the moment you were engaged to brother Chenghuan, you were destined to die early. Why would your grandmother bother to train you? The reason why Wenyuan Houfu agreed to this marriage was because they wanted your dowry, but unfortunately they don't want you. Do you really think you can occupy this position for a long time? Do you think you are the matron of the house? "

Meng Wenyao remembered that when she was a child, her sisters studied together. No matter what they studied, her grandmother would hold her hand and say: "My dear, your mother died early. I love you the most. Don't learn that. Grandma feels sad when she sees it."

She really thought that her grandmother loved her, and others coaxed her and indulged her. She became the only straw bag in the Meng family, and no one in the family ever blamed her.

She thought she was lucky and loved so much by her family, but it turned out that she was just a tool, a tool to transfer money to the Meng family and the Lu family.

No wonder the Lu family didn't like her, but they still agreed to let her be the crown prince's wife, because they all knew that she would not live long, and the dowry was the money she paid for the title of crown prince's wife.

She finally understood now, understood, but it was too late, she was about to die.

"The Meng family is willing to give all my dowry to the Lu family?"

She still didn't want to give up. The Meng family cared so much about the dowry, so why did they agree to give it to the Lu family.

Meng Baiqin smiled strangely and said: "Sister, you don't know, right? The emperor has no children. I heard that the prince of Anping County will be made the crown prince. With your dowry, the Lu family can marry brother Chenghuan's sister to Anping County. If the king becomes the royal concubine, then the Lu family will have a queen, and our Meng family will also benefit from it."

"Now they are here to discuss how to divide your dowry. My good sister, your dowry is so much! Back then, my eldest sister's dowry was only ten thousand taels, but you have hundreds of thousands of taels. Who can not be moved? "

No wonder she launched an attack here, and the entire Meng family came over to visit her, not caring about her, but just to see when she would die and how the dowry would be divided.

She is unwilling, unwilling...

what……

"Miss, what's wrong with you?"

Meng Wenyao woke up again, and a worried little face came into view.

"Jinshu, where is Grandma Yu?"

The girl Jinshu is a girl sent by the Su family. She was loyal to her in her previous life, but I don't know how this girl will live after her death.

Aunt Yu is Meng Wenyao's nanny and a person from the Su family. She treats Meng Wenyao as her own daughter. They are the only two trustworthy people in the family.

Jin Shu secretly wiped his tears and said: "The young lady was frightened by the black dog and fainted. The old lady said that Aunt Yu didn't take good care of her, so she had to kneel down for a day. The servant also didn't serve her well, so she had to kneel for two hours. Aunt Yu gave up. The slave will come here to take care of the young lady first."