However when she was fifteen or sixteen years old she fell in love for the first time with Liao Qinghe who came to study in Minnan Prefecture, and he also fell in love with her at first sight.

The Lao family was a scholarly family with little money and lived far away from the Wen family. At the beginning, Wen Niang’s parents did not want her to marry Liao Qingge until they learned that in the Liao family, their members could only take concubine if they turned forty and yet still have no children.

Although the Liao family had no money, they didn’t allow the taking of concubines . . . How many men in this world could do without concubines?

Afterward, father and mother Wen finally agreed to marry their only daughter to Liao Qinghe. But fearing that their daughter would be wronged, they gave her dowry, just at the bottom of her box there was more than two hundred thousand silver.

Wen Yingniang then married from Minnan Province to Hexing Province.

She had thought that the days after she got married would be very beautiful, but in fact, it was just the opposite.

Liao Qinghe insisted on marrying Wen Yingniang, but  father and mother Liao didn’t like Wen Yingniang, a merchant’s daughter. Originally, they wanted Liao Qinghe to marry an official’s daughter.

But Liao Qinghe insisted that Wen Yingniang had a large dowry, so they agreed to the marriage.

Although they agreed, they didn’t like Wen Yingniang very much, so they naturally found fault with everything about her, and did not let Wen Ying Ninag have authority within the family.

Wen Ying Ninag put up with it at first, but then father and mother Liao became more aggressive and tried to arrange a concubine for Liao Qinghe; a concubine could only be taken if you were childless for a woman to be considered concubine.

Wen Ying Ninag who couldn’t stand it anymore and finally confronted father and mother Liao. As a result, from that time on, Wen Yingniang’s reputation started to grow worse and worse.

The Liao family didn’t have much money, so they relied on her dowry in order to live a good life. But they still took turns accusing and slandering her outside. Wen Ying Ninag was dissatisfied in her heart and was no longer willing to let father and mother Liao to establish the rules.

In this way, father and mother Liao became even more disgusted with her. Liao Qinghe also thought she had done too much and was too unfilial.

Wen Yingniang’s heart turned bitter, but she could only lay low for the time being until her relationship with Liao Qinghe improved. But then she actually found that Liao Qinghe frequented a flower house . . .

Wen Yingniang couldn’t help herself and made a scene again. They weren’t even married for one year at that time!

But Liao Qinghe didn’t think he was in the wrong for going to a flower house, and others also didn’t think he did anything wrong; it was only Wen Yingniang that acted unreasonable.

Since then, the relationship between Wen Yingniang and Liao Qing was no longer like it used to be. At the same time, Wen Yingniang’s reputation got worse and worse.

At first she wanted to explain, but then she simply let it go and even began to break the jar. Anyway, her reputation was already bad so when Liao Qinghe dare went to the flower house, she even dared to break in and take Liao Qinghe out!

Wen Yingniang and Liao Qing have been married for ten years, and her love for Liao Qinghe has almost been eroded by the constant bickering. Her only regret was that she has never had a child, and this only made her reputation worse.

Married for ten years without a child was just and she did not let Liao Qinghe get close to others . . . She was really a jealous and poisonous woman.

But Wen Yingniang’s heart was also bitter, the doctor said that her body was very good, so she didn’t know why she couldn’t get pregnant till now; even the medicines she took every day had no effect . . .

The first time she saw Zhao Jinge, Wen Yingniang also went to see the doctor.

As a result, not waiting for her to cure her body to give birth to a child, Liao Qinghe unexpectedly brought back a woman named Lu Luan this day, saying that she was pregnant with his child and wanted to take her as his concubine.

Wen Yin Niang was dumbfounded.

After so many years, she was not as angry as before about Liao Qinghe having another woman, but the child . . .

People from the Liao family only knew how to spend money and didn’t know how to make money. When she married, they not only had not much money, but they also owed a lot of debts to other people. Currently, it could be said that the whole Liao family was supported by her dowry.

If she had a child, even if it was just a daughter, she had the means to give all her money to her daughter as a dowry, but she did not have a child!

Hearing Liao Qinghe say that the child that will be born and would call her mother, Wen Yingniang immediately exploded.

She didn’t want a child that didn’t come out of her belly! She was even more unwilling to use her dowry to support someone else’s child!

In fact, Wen Yingniang also knew that after ten years of not being able to have a child, they most likely would not be able to have any.

In that case . . . was it possible that her money would be given to the child in Lu Lan’s belly?

She was so furious that she wanted to drive Lu Luan out. But as result, Liao Qinghe asked the maids to protect Lu Luan and stop her as he ran outside.

These servant girls all got their money from her hands and relied on her support. They used to listen to her every word, but since Liao Qinghe spoke, they all surprisingly stood on Liao Qinghe’s side and protected that Lu Luan that came from nowhere.

That was . . . thinking that she was unable to have children, they wanted to curry favor with their little master and future mistress in advance?

Wen Yingniang got angrier and angrier when she thought about it, so she grabbed the horse to catch and whip people with her whip. But she was stopped by Jiang Zhen.

“Ying Niang, get off the horse,: Liao Qinghe also advised. “If you admit your mistake, I will not pursue what happened today . . . Ying Niang, after the baby in her belly is born, you can take over and raise it . . .”

“Who would want to raise this woman’s child?” Wen Yingniang asked angrily. This Liao Qinghe wanted her to raise other people’s children but also say she was taking advantage. That was just too ridiculous!

“Ying Niang, this is my child!” Liao Qinghe said, then started to call out subordinates around him. “You guys help the madam down from the horse and take her back to the house to rest . . .”

The subordinates of the Liao family quickly went towards Wen Yingniang.

The horse was pulled by Jiang Zhen and surrounded by people from the Liao family, so Wen Yingniang had nowhere to run even if she wanted to.

Seeing that the person who once treated her respectfully, saying “Madam” were now not taking her seriously, Wen Yingniang became furious. She leapt off the horse, sneering at Jiang Zhen. “You are very good . . . This feud, I will definitely ask for it back on another day.”

If it wasn’t for this msn, would she have fallen to this point?

Wen Yingniang was very angry, but Liao Qinghe was very grateful toward Jiang Zhen. If it weren’t for Jiang Zhen, Wen Yingniang might have already gotten rid of the child in Lu Luan’s belly . . . 

“Madam Liao,” Jiang Zhen suddenly said, “I can understand your anger, but I think you should find the right culprit.”

Wen Yingniang was stunned, could this . . . be something else?

“It was your husband who had someone else outside and had a child with someone else. It had nothing to do with those maids. As for this woman . . . can she even force herself on your husband?” Jiang Zhen said, “This is your husband’s fault, you should not hit others.”

Wen Yingniang was confused again.

Jiang Zhen put the whip in his hand into Wen Yingniang’s hand. “Why should a woman make things difficult for another woman? If I were you, I would definitely beat up the person who dares to wrong me first!”

 

Edited by: Faro

Proofreader: Xiao Hua

 

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