Spoiling my mistress and swallowing my dowry? After my rebirth, I changed my marriage to a powerful

Xu Li left with Changming and Bomu.

Xu Erlang was the most confused. At that moment, he felt that it was not Xu Li who was gone, but his life.

However, Xu Li could not see their ending for the time being.

If he stayed to watch the joke, Xu Tiezhu and Liu Ermei might keep grudges against him. Only if he left without hesitation could Xu Erlang despair.

After running a few miles, he reined in his horse and said to Changming, "Changming, you stay and quietly watch what happens next."

"Then where shall I go to find the general?"

"Go to the capital city. His Majesty has already returned to the capital city."

Xie Zhaozhao and Zhou Shaoyu have already returned to the provincial capital, but Zhou Shaoyu took Xiao Heng'er to Changhe Town.

Xie Zhaozhao did not go because Manman and Moyan, who had gone to Jianmen Mountain to look for Tang Caiyun before the New Year, came back with Hao Yonggan.

Also coming with them was a beautiful middle-aged woman with a long haircut practicing Buddhism.

Manman came back with a pair of beautiful eyes filled with tears.

"Master, I have found my family." Manman whispered, "I did not tell her your identity."

Xie Zhaozhao nodded with satisfaction, feeling completely satisfied and extremely loyal.

Manman initially confirmed that he was a member of the Yu family.

Xie Zhaozhao raised her eyebrows. She had gained a lot from this trip out of the palace.

Not only did he inspect the experimental site, but he also found Manman's relatives by chance.

Manman cut the Gordian knot and told Xie Zhaozhao a story about her life, but it was a bit melodramatic.

The Yu family is a century-old prestigious family in Lizhou.

Yu Changrong, the eldest son of the Yu family, is the transport judge and deputy envoy of Lizhou Prefecture, and is also Manman's biological father.

Manman’s grandmother is Madam Yu, who was summoned by Xie Zhaozhao for questioning a few days ago. She has two legitimate sons and three illegitimate sons.

When Yu Changrong was old enough to get married, Madam Yu wanted to strengthen the relationship and marry her niece Cai Ping'er to her eldest son.

Cai Ping'er has been living in Yu's house and has always admired Yu Changrong.

However, Yu Changrong's grandmother (Manman's great-grandmother) was still alive at that time and did not agree to the marriage. Instead, she arranged for Yu Changrong to marry Tang Caiyun, the legitimate daughter of the governor of Jianzhou.

Madam Yu’s brother from her mother’s family was just a county magistrate, and was nothing compared to the Tang family.

In a rage, Cai Ping'er married Yu Changrong's younger brother Yu Changlin.

Yu Changlin was a sickly man who had not even passed the imperial examination, so Cai Ping'er was a good match for him. The two families had no objections, and Cai Ping'er married Yu Changlin smoothly.

As a result, less than a month after their marriage, Yu Changlin caught a cold and died.

Tang Caiyun knew nothing until she married into the Yu family and realized that something was wrong with the relationship between Cai Ping'er and Yu Changrong.

She and Cai Ping'er were both pregnant. Cai Ping'er was sick here or in pain there every other day, and she would come to her eldest cousin for everything.

Especially after ten months of pregnancy, Cai Ping'er gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. Whenever the children had a headache or fever, they would cry and call their cousin.

Every time Yu Changrong went to help, he said, "My brother passed away and my cousin has difficulty taking care of two children alone," but he neglected his own children.

Under Cai Ping'er's deliberate instigation, Yu Changrong became more and more displeased with his wife and children.

Tang Caiyun is the eldest daughter-in-law in the eldest son's house and is in charge of household affairs. Cai Ping'er feels unwell every other day and asks for all kinds of supplements. If they are not available, she pretends to be sick and cries in front of Yu Changrong.

As time went on, although no one in the mansion said anything on the surface, all the concubines in the courtyard were discussing it in private. Tang Caiyun reminded Yu Changrong to be careful, but Cai Ping'er started crying and blamed her instead.

Yu Changrong scolded Tang Caiyun, saying that she was not kind enough and was too harsh on her family.

Inheriting the true teachings of Cai Ping'er, Cai Ping'er's son Yu Huaimin specializes in stealing things from Tang Caiyun's eldest son Yu Huaian.

Whenever there was a conflict between the two, Yu Changrong would punish his son every time.

After Yu Changrong's grandmother passed away, her mother-in-law took even more control over Tang Caiyun.

Overtly or covertly, the old lady allowed her eldest son to take care of her niece from her mother's side.

When Yu Huaimin pushed Yu Huaian into the lake and nearly drowned him, Tang Caiyun asked someone to send Yu Huaian to study with Jinshi Feng Yizi, and was away from the mansion for a long time.

Tang Caiyun's second child was a daughter named Yu Huaizhu. She was cute and fair from birth, and Tang Caiyun and Yu Changrong were very happy.

Unexpectedly, Cai Ping'er held a grudge, always feeling that her cousin was too good to Yu Huaizhu, and kept making trouble. When Yu Huaizhu was a little over one year old, a servant took Huaizhu to watch a dragon dance and was pushed into the Jing River. Yu Huaizhu was washed away, and the servant was blocked by Cai Ping'er and beaten to death.

Tang Caiyun searched frantically in the river for a long time and searched hundreds of miles downstream but still couldn't find it.

Just like that, the eldest daughter was gone.

During the days when her daughter was lost, Cai Ping'er's daughter Yu Hanyan said that she had injured her knee and fainted from the pain, and asked Yu Changrong to take her to the hospital and take care of her.

Tang Caiyun lost her daughter inexplicably, and hated the unclear relationship between Yu Changrong and Cai Ping'er, as well as her mother-in-law's dishonest character. Even though the Yu family was full of corruption, she was disheartened and went to the nunnery in Jianmen Mountain, never returning to the Yu family.

Cai Ping'er got the power of household affairs and doted on her children. She tried her best to suppress Yu Huaian, but ended up raising a pair of lawless twins.

Yu Hanyan originally wanted to participate in the selection (Emperor Hui), but her son Yu Huaimin was inferior to Yu Huaian in every way. He was annoyed by Cai Ping'er's nagging about his incompetence, so he actually started a no-cost business with his own uncle - tomb robbing!

This really made money quickly. They started by digging up the tombs of ordinary landlords and selling the jewelry they dug up to other states, earning tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Not yet satisfied, they began to rob the tombs of emperors of previous dynasties. The tombs were extremely rich, with countless jewels, all of which were top-quality and quite profitable.

Just by digging up a tomb from the previous dynasty, he received a reward of hundreds of thousands of taels.

He even took back the most exquisite pearl hairpins for his grandmother, mother and concubines to wear.

Those pearl hairpins are all masterpieces of top-quality quality and exquisite workmanship. The Yu family is a prominent family, but Old Madam Yu is of humble origin and does not have a list of pearl hairpins from the empresses of the previous dynasty.

She accepted all of them and gave them to Yu Hanyan and other granddaughters and daughters-in-law as rewards. They all wore them every day and she praised Yu Huaimin highly.

Cai Ping'er also gave Yu Changrong a few jade pendants. Yu Changrong didn't think much about it and accepted them all, and also gave them to others...

It was because he gave the tomb as a gift to his colleagues that it was discovered to be a tomb of the previous dynasty, and the case was reported and investigated. Yu Huaimin had been stealing for five years.

What's worse, he also seized the land of the common people in the name of Yu Changrong and forced a family of five to death; in order to seize a woman, he beat the other party's brother to death.

When the truth was exposed, the people were furious and the government was shocked. Zhou Shaoyu only said one word: severe punishment!

It's just too bad. They actually dug up the tombs of the previous dynasty. How can this be recorded in history books? How could the Yulong Kingdom be so poor that it dug up the tombs of the previous dynasty?

So after they die, will the next dynasty also dig up his and Xie Zhaozhao's graves?

In a rage, the Lizhou government executed Yu Huaimin and Cai's uncle immediately, dismissed Yu Changrong from his post, confiscated the property of the Yu and Cai families, exiled the males, and sold the females.

A century-old family was destroyed in one day.

Tang Caiyun has been in a nunnery for nearly twenty years. This crime did not affect the Tang family, but Yu Huaian was implicated. He had originally planned to go to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination this year.

Yu Huaian was also among those exiled this time.

……

It's quite melodramatic!

"I don't have any special birthmarks. I was hit by the corner of a table when I was a child, and there is a one-inch scar behind my ear. In addition, my head shape is inherited from my grandmother's family, and my eyebrows and eyes are 70% similar to Tang Caiyun." Manman said.

Xie Zhaozhao said: "It's hard to confirm that you are the blood of the Yu family. I sent a message a month ago. The secret doctor in the palace will come and check your bloodline."

He kowtowed with great joy to express his gratitude.

Xie Zhaozhao asked someone to call Tang Caiyun in.

Tang Caiyun probably spent her years quietly in the nunnery. She didn't look old at all and indeed looked very similar to Manman.

She is the daughter of the famous and prestigious Tang family. She is full of energy and has the bearing of a lady of a mansion, and more importantly, she is indifferent like a person from outside the world.

Tang Caiyun looked at Xie Zhaozhao and felt that although she was young, she had an extraordinary demeanor and was definitely not an ordinary official mistress.

Tang Caiyun kowtowed respectfully to Xie Zhaozhao, thanking her for adopting and caring for her.

Xie Zhaozhao said: "You can't be sure that they are mother and daughter just because they look similar. This still needs to be verified."

"I am willing to verify it."

Although there was no blood test to identify the relative, Tang Caiyun treated Manman as her own daughter and looked at her with gentle and loving eyes.

She was very skillful with her hands, and so was Manman. The mother and daughter sat together and made shoes for Xiao Heng'er.

Although there were special embroiderers in the palace, Manman was used to making shoes, clothes and embroidering handkerchiefs for Xie Zhaozhao herself.

Tang Caiyun taught Manman the Tang family's unique secret acupuncture technique that she knew.

"If your brother could take part in the imperial examination...sigh, he could have been your backer." Tang Caiyun sighed, "It's all mother's fault. If she had been more ruthless at that time, she wouldn't have been unable to protect you. In the end, it's still mother who is useless."

Manman held her hand and said, "Don't be sad, everything will be fine."

Manman came back and didn't see Xiao Heng'er. Avoiding Tang Caiyun, Manman asked Xie Zhaozhao: "Your Majesty, where is His Highness?"

"Emperor Chen must take him to Changhe Town."

Zhou Shaoyu had a stubborn preference for Xiao Heng'er. Except for the one month when Xiao Heng'er was raised by Aunt Chai and Uncle Chai, he almost never left Xiao Heng'er's side after that.

He carries Xiao Henger wherever he goes. Now that Xiao Henger can walk, he holds his hand and walks with him.

"His Majesty the Emperor loves His Highness too much, mainly because His Highness is smart and cute." She said with full of nostalgia, "I haven't seen His Highness for a month, and I miss him so much."

Zhou Shaoyu and Guo Rong went to Changhe Town for inspection and decided to build a large trading market in Changhe Town. Zhou Shaoyu said he wanted Xiao Heng'er to watch.

Xie Zhaozhao didn't know what a little kid like Xiao Heng'er could understand, and Zhou Shaoyu stubbornly wanted to carry him.

Xie Zhaozhao once asked Zhou Shaoyu with a smile: "Why do you like to take care of Xiao Heng'er so much? Do you love children especially when you are old?"

Zhou Shaoyu knocked her head and said, "Don't remind me that I'm older than you. Don't worry, I'm in good health. I will definitely be with you until old age. I can live at least one day longer than you!"

"Then do you feel that you should spend more time with Xiao Heng'er because you didn't have your parents around when you were a child?"

"Not entirely. I want to take care of him myself, hoping that this child can support the entire Yulong Kingdom, so that you don't have to suffer the pain of childbirth anymore."

Xie Zhaozhao's eyes widened: "You plan to have only one child? Aren't you afraid of being impeached by the Censorate?"

Zhou Shaoyu said confidently, "What's wrong with one? One promising son is enough. Would you be angry if I gave birth to a whole bunch of useless ones?"

It seems to make sense.

He said seriously, "Have fewer children, let Heng'er grow up quickly, and leave Yulong Kingdom to him. This way, I can accompany you to discuss cases in the Dali Temple every day, and no one will snatch you from me."

This guy, even when he speaks sweet words, is so...down to earth!

Xie Zhaozhao, as an emperor and an old couple, was actually shy.