Daming female local tyrant

The Xiao family's patriarchal house occupies the best part of Baishi Street, a five-story house.

Shen Wan and his party got out of the carriage and entered the mansion. The servants saluted her one after another when they saw her, and some maidservants went in to report to Shen Wan's parents-in-law that Shen Wan was back.

Mother Xia came and led Jing Lan and the others to the Yuanyang Building, while Shen Wan took An Chun and An Dong to the main hall to meet her in-laws.

Even if she is determined to reconcile with Xiao Yulang, but as the daughter-in-law of the Xiao family, she still has to be filial to her elders, and she still has to be filial to her elders, and she still has to be polite.

After entering the main hall, she saw her mother-in-law Tang, Tang Wenyuan's wife Wu, and her two children, Tang Hao and Tang Duanshu.

Her father-in-law Xiao Yanlu was not there, probably because he looked down on the Wu family and was impatient to receive such relatives.

Tang Wenyuan was a poor Confucian student who hadn't studied, and couldn't carry his shoulders or hands. He sat in a school in a township and taught a few children to support his family. Naturally, he lived a tight life.

Fortunately, the wife he married, Mrs. Wu, was very social, and often got some benefits by currying favor with some wealthy relatives of the Tang family.

Tang Shi, the eldest wife of the Xiao family, is one of the people she tries to curry favor with.

Because the Tang family can be regarded as the best married woman in the Tang family, it is not easy for the daughter of an ordinary landlord's family to marry into such a prominent family as the Xiao family.It's just because Tang was one of the most famous beauties in Jinling City when he was young, and his fame spread far and wide. Once he went to Tanjue Temple to offer incense, and ran into Xiao Yanlu, the young master of the Xiao family at that time.

Xiao Yanlu fell in love with her immediately, and later asked a matchmaker to come to her door to propose a marriage. The marriage was settled immediately, so the Tang family married into the Xiao family, one of the four famous families in Jinling.

Except for the Tang family, most of the daughters of the Tang family married country gentlemen who were of the same rank as the Tang family. Naturally, the first person the Wu family wanted to curry favor with was the Tang family.

Wu's two sons and daughters are both beautiful, especially the 16-year-old daughter Tang Duanshu is as beautiful as peaches and plums, very bright.

By flattering the Tang family, the Wu family sent his 12-year-old son Tang Hao to the Xiao family school. He could go to school with the Xiao family's children without spending a penny, and the family school also subsidized him for books and food.

As for her 16-year-old daughter Tang Duanshu, the Wu family has never found a family for her, but she just wants her daughter to be able to climb the dragon and the phoenix and marry into a wealthy family.

The wealthy family in Wu's heart is either the other family or the Xiao family, and the son-in-law she has her eyes on is Xiao Yulang, the son of the Tang family whom she has tried her best to fawn on.

But she is also very clear about the situation of her family. It is impossible for her daughter to be married to Xiao Yulang, who is the eldest grandson of the Xiao family.But if her daughter could be Xiao Yulang's concubine, she thought it was very possible.However, Wu's positioning for her daughter's future is not just Xiao Yulang's concubine, she hopes to be a concubine at first, and later become the main wife, or Xiao Yulang's successor.

The Wu family had this idea when their daughter was 12 years old, when Xiao Yulang and Shen Wan got engaged.

The marriage between Xiao Yulang and Shen Wan was made by the elders of the two parents, and they got married after one year of engagement.

The Wu family watched this marriage with a cold eye, and hoped that Shen Wan, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, who is known as the famous family in the south of the Yangtze River and the first family in Jinling, would have an accident, so that her daughter would be able to take the throne.

In order to achieve this goal, she often brought her daughter to Tang Corporation.

On the grounds of visiting his son, Mrs. Wu brought her daughter to live in Xiao's house all year round. They lived there for several months. They didn't feel embarrassed at all to eat, drink, and benefit from Xiao's house.

Because she would please the Tang family, the Xiao family didn't think that their mother and daughter lived and lived in the Xiao family and could make the Xiao family poor.Besides, the money they spent on eating and drinking was also counted on Tang's head, and no one wanted to make trouble and offend Tang's.

In her previous life, although Shen Wan didn't like Wu and her daughter, she still dealt with them just like everyone else, and didn't offend them on the surface.

After Shen Wan married Xiao Yulang, there was no movement in her stomach for a year, two or three years, but Wu Shi was very happy.She felt that this was God's wish to fulfill her daughter.

In fact, one year after Shen Wan married Xiao Yulang, and she was not pregnant, Mrs. Wu had already heard about her sister-in-law, Mrs. Tang.

The Tang family quietly told her that since the Shen family was the head of the most prominent families in Jinling, the Xiao family wanted to show face to the Shen family, if not, they would give their son Yulang a concubine and have to wait.

Naturally Wu asked how long it would take. Tang said it would take three years. If Shen Wan could not conceive after three years, then the Shen family would have nothing to say about taking a concubine for their son Yulang.

Over the years, Mrs. Wu brought her daughters to visit Mrs. Tang, and Mrs. Tang also understood what Mrs. Wu meant.

Tang thought that if his son wanted to take a concubine, it would be appropriate for her son to take her niece Tang Duanshu.One is because Tang Duanshu is related to the Tang family, and she feels that giving her son such a concubine is considered a well-know thing.The second is that Tang Duanshu was born with a good appearance and a well-proportioned figure. It can be seen that she is a good child.The third reason is that Tang felt that his son Yulang always spoke affectionately every time he saw this cousin, and Tang Duanshu always liked to see his son, and when the two looked at each other, there was a sense of flirting with each other.

Combining these three things together, the Tang family regarded Tang Duanshu as the primary candidate for his son's concubine.It's just that she didn't understand what she meant to Wu.She was worried that Mrs. Wu was not strict with her mouth. If Mrs. Wu knew what she meant and said it everywhere, and let her daughter-in-law Shen Wan hear it, Shen Wan would hate her mother-in-law.And when the members of the Shen family found out, they would be hated too.

Seeing Shen Wan coming back from Qixia Temple to visit her, Tang asked her to get up, and then said lightly: "Go back to your room and rest, Yulang went to Yangzhou with the Xiao family's fleet after you went to Qixia Temple , I'm afraid I won't be able to return to Jinling until next month."

Shen Wan nodded: "My wife understands."

She didn't take the initiative to say hello to the Wu family and the others, her eyes wandering around the three of them was regarded as a salute.It's the Wu family and others who want to thank her, the grandson of the Xiao family.

Shen Wan nodded slightly towards them, then turned around and left the main hall, accompanied by An Chun and An Dong who were waiting outside, back to the Mandarin Duck Tower.

Tang and the others were used to her cold and distant style, so they didn't care.

Before exiting the main hall, Shen Wan glanced at Tang Duanshu inadvertently, and saw that after seeing her, she did not always flatter and flatter her as she did in the past, but stood there with a look of color.

In her previous life, she noticed this and didn't think much about it.

But in this life, she suddenly understood why Tang Duanshu stopped flattering herself, and couldn't hide her pride.

The reason is that during the few days when she went to Qixia Temple to pay homage to the Buddha and incidentally celebrate the Shangsi Festival, Tang Duanshu had already hooked up with Xiao Yulang.And before her belly grew big, she successfully became Xiao Yulang's concubine.Two months after Shen Wan gave birth to her daughter, Tang Duanshu gave birth to a son.

In the previous life, when Tang Duanshu was fighting with Shen Wan, she had personally said that she and Xiao Yulang had been in love with each other for a long time, and the relationship between the two could even be traced back to before Xiao Yulang married Shen Wan.It was only because of her poor family that Xiao Yulang could not marry her as his wife.Xiao Yulang married Shen Wan as his main wife, but it was a last resort to follow the arrangement of the elders in the family.Moreover, Xiao Yulang also said that Shen Wan was not feminine, and holding her in his arms was like hugging an iceman, and he lacked interest in her.Therefore, he only touched her once a month or two, and he always used the excuse of doing business for the family to make money to go out and avoid Shen Wan.

These words are that Tang Duanshu colluded with her cousin Wu Qingyuan to frame Shen Wan for committing adultery with Tanjue Temple monk Hui Ding, and Jing Lan took the blame. Shen Wan later took revenge on Tang Duanshu and made her suffer the consequences. When she was kicked out of Xiao's house, Tang Duanshu said from.

The later things in this life haven't happened yet. For example, after Tang Duanshu gave birth to her son, she was carried to Shen Wan to raise her son. Because of this, Tang Duanshu hated Shen Wan even more.

And because she hated Shen Wan more and more, what happened later was that she colluded with her cousin Wu Qingyuan to frame Shen Wan.

Facing Tang Duanshu in this life, Shen Wan didn't automatically put in the hatred from her previous life, she just felt that she could achieve her goal by using some things she knew in her previous life to successfully reconcile with Xiao Yulang.

When Shen Wan saw Tang Duanshu standing in the main hall of Xiao's house with a serious face, her heart fell to the ground. She had already figured out how to carry out her plan, as long as Tang Duanshu didn't change here, it would be fine as it was in her previous life. .

In a relaxed mood, Shen Wan quickened her pace to go to the Mandarin Duck House on Xiaojia West Road.

It was her and Xiao Yulang's residence in Xiao's house. It was a two-story house located to the west of the main hall of Xiao's house.Among the houses of the Xiao family's clan, Yuanyang Building is also a pretty good place to live.

The mandarin duck building is partitioned by a carved flying hood in the middle, and the north and south sides are separated. It is warm in winter and cool in summer. You can see the lotus pond garden through the window.

There were more than a dozen maidservants serving Shen Wan and Xiao Yulang in the Yuanyang Tower. As the hostess, Shen Wan went back, and they had already lined up in front of the Yuanyang Tower. After seeing her, they all came forward to salute her.

Shen Wan called out, and was surrounded by them and went to the south building.

The south building is where Shen Wan usually lives and rests, and the hall below the south building is where she receives female guests.

The north building belongs to Xiao Yulang, and the master bedroom of Yuanyang Building is in the north building. Compared with the south building, the north building is more spacious. Xiao Yulang lived in the north building when he was at home.

After Xiao Yulang and Shen Wan got married, they spent less time at home, and Shen Wan later moved her belongings to the smaller south building.After a long time, I got used to living in it. Even if Xiao Yulang came back, she would not go to live in the North Tower, and Xiao Yulang would not come to ask her to go back to live in the North Tower.In this way, it is almost the same as separation.

Stepping on the red-painted stairs, Shen Wan went up to the south building, returned to her room and was served by An Chun and An Dong, and changed into the half-worn rose-purple peony-patterned beanie she usually wore at home, and went to the south window with a mahogany arhat covered with spring ink cushions. Sit on the bed.

After receiving the Longjing tea brought by Xia's mother, Shen Wan drank a few sips, put down the tea cup, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Mama Xia who was standing on the side laughed and said, "Young Mistress looks very good. If you want to come here to worship the Buddha at Qixia Temple and have an outing for the Shangsi Festival, everything will go well."

Mother Xia is Shen Wan's wet nurse. After she married into Xiao's family, she followed Shen Wan to Xiao's house as a companion. Her man Zuo Xin took care of the shops where Shen Wan came to marry.Therefore, both of them can be regarded as Shen Wan's confidantes, especially Xia's mother, who is almost the same as her biological mother in Shen Wan's heart.

Shen Wan trusts Mama Xia very much, and will tell Mama Xia if she has any worries or difficult decisions.This time she went to Qixia Temple to pay respects to Buddha, but she didn't take Mama Xia with her because Mama Xia had a cold a few days ago and she was not feeling well, so she asked Mama Xia to rest at home and take care of the maids at home by the way.

After Shen Wan heard Mama Xia's words, she said that as Mama Xia said, everything went well on her trip to Qixia Temple, and she brought back two capable and obedient maidservants.

Then she asked Xia's mother if her cold was better.

Xia's mother smiled and said: "Thanks to the young mistress, the old man is getting better."

Shen Wan: "That's good. I haven't been at home these few days. Is there nothing going on at home?"

Mother Xia said it was all right, but when Shen Wan was not around, the Wu mother and daughter came here to enjoy the flowers in the garden north of the Yuanyang Building, and Young Master Sun was still accompanying them.Later, Young Master Sun invited Wu's mother and daughter to dinner and drank a lot of Huadiao wine. When Young Master Sun was drunk, it was Wu's mother and daughter who wanted sober soup for Young Master Sun to drink.

Hearing this verse, Shen Wan laughed, maybe it was on the day of Shangsi Festival that Xiao Yulang hooked up with Tang Duanshu when he was in the other courtyard of Shen's family.And the Wu family also played a role, she contributed to the flames, let her daughter and the drunk Xiao Yulang achieve good things, and cooked rice with raw rice.

Shen Wan waved away the maids in the house, leaving only Mother Xia alone, and then said to her: "Mom, I have something to tell you, but please don't object after you hear it, and help me accomplish it. "

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