Quick Wear: She Became the Beloved of the Short-lived Male Supporting Character

[Supernatural, not scary]

The Zhou family has been doing business for generations.

The grandfather of the Zhou family died at the hands of mountain bandits while traveling. His body was sent back and the huge family business was taken over by his eldest son Zhou Shixiong.

Zhou Shixiong is a hopeless case.

Since he took over the business, he has been causing a lot of trouble and coming up with a lot of bad ideas. The shop has been in trouble one after another, and the Zhou family's business has been on the decline.

Seeing that Zhou Shixiong was not up to the task, his uncles and brothers were afraid that he would squander the family fortune, so they all joined in the fight for the family property.

Thanks to Zhou Shixiong's wife Zhou Zou's advice behind the scenes, he was able to get hold of several of the most prosperous shops and dozens of acres of fertile land.

With his wife taking care of the business, Zhou Shixiong became more and more reckless, indulging in alcohol and sex all day long. He was known for his playboy nature, and brothels were his second home.

His romantic affairs were known to everyone in Yinzhou City, and his first wife Zou Xiping was also the subject of much talk among many people in the city.

Although she is not good-looking, she is a very virtuous woman. She has been married to Zhou Shixiong for three years but has not been able to get pregnant, and she never restricts Zhou Shixiong from having fun.

Whenever a woman outside became pregnant with his child, he would bring her back home to raise her.

Zou Xiping treated his three concubines well, treated their children as his own, and even hired a wet nurse to take care of them.

Zhou Shixiong gave birth to several children without caring about anything else, just caring about his own happiness. No one knows whether Zhou Shixiong's health was ruined by alcohol and sex, or it was retribution.

There were five children in the house, three boys and two girls, and only one daughter survived.

Maybe due to illness or some other reason, it’s all gone.

After the child was lost, the third concubine was devastated. Two of them jumped into the river, and one went crazy.

Zhou Shixiong eventually died of a stroke, and Zou Xiping fainted from crying. The doctor took her pulse and found out that Zou was three months pregnant.

Zou gave birth to a boy and named him Zhou Changyuan.

She never dared to delegate tasks to others, and kept people by her side, protecting them like her own eyes. Wherever she went, she was always surrounded by a group of servants.

Zhou Changyuan was extremely intelligent. At the age of eight, he started to follow the shop owners in managing their business with an abacus in his hands.

However, when he was ten years old, he was lying by the pond feeding the fishes and somehow fell into the pond.

Even though he was quickly pulled out of the water by servants, he still fell seriously ill.

Since then, Young Master Zhou has been plagued by illness and has become a sickly person, unable to bear the wind or the cold.

Until I came of age, the number of times I left the house could be counted.

Although this Young Master Zhou is frail, everyone has heard that he is as handsome as Pan An, with an elegant appearance and handsome appearance.

The Zhou family is not as wealthy as before, but a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. The monthly harvest from those fertile fields and shops alone is enough for an ordinary farmer to eat for a lifetime.

Even though they are merchants, and even though Young Master Zhou is in poor health, there are still many families willing to send their daughters there.

However, Young Master Zhou got married three times this year, and each time something happened to the new bride on the wedding day, turning the happy event into a sad one.

Under the successive blows, Young Master Zhou was unable to marry and was even too ill to get out of bed. He invited doctors one after another, but they all shook their heads and sighed.

A master was invited to check the feng shui. It was found that there was a lot of negative energy in the house and Young Master Zhou had a weak horoscope. When he fell into the water, an evil spirit was summoned. If the evil spirit could not be eliminated, he would not be able to keep the girls even if he married many girls.

Find a girl who was born at an unlucky time to bring good luck.

The Zhou family did not expect a new daughter-in-law to come in and have children for the Zhou family as soon as possible. They only hoped to find a girl with a strong life to come in and suppress the evil spirit.

Anyone who wants the Zhou family's property should think twice before sending their daughters to jail.

[Jiang Wan] is the fourth bride of the Zhou family.

Her family lived in a small village nearly a hundred miles away from Yinzhou City. Her two older brothers and one older sister were all married.

She had just turned fifteen and was old enough to get married.

The matchmaker from the next village said that he had found a perfect match. He asked about the birth dates of several girls and felt that Jiang Wan was a perfect match. The family lived in a large mansion, with a large number of maids and servants, endless delicacies to eat, and endless silks to wear, so he said that he wanted to bring the two families together.

The Jiang family was worried as they wondered why such a wealthy family would take a fancy to their family.

The matchmaker only said that the family was good in every way except that they did not have enough offspring. She found a match based on her daughter's horoscope, which was just right.

The Jiang family still took a day to follow the matchmaker to the city. As soon as they entered the Zhou family, they were dazzled by their wealth.

The Zhou family randomly found a handsome young servant to pretend to be Young Master Zhou for a day in order to cover up the truth.

The Jiang family thought that the young master was not very handsome, but well-proportioned, so he was a very good match.

When they returned, they prepared for their wedding.

According to the Zhou family's wishes, they found an auspicious day to get the job done.

There was music and dancing all along the way, it was very lively.

The bridal sedan entered the Zhou family's home, but [Jiang Wan] had no idea that the Jiang family had hired an old rooster to perform the wedding ceremony.

It was not until she entered the bridal chamber that she realized her husband was a sickly man who could not get out of bed.

How come the husband who was said to be honest and kind turned into a sickly person?

She cried, it was wrong, everything was wrong.

The housekeeper rushed in with several old women, not giving her a chance to speak, and stuffed a handkerchief into her mouth. They stripped off her wedding dress, changed her into a white nightgown, tied her up with ropes and took her to the ancestral hall.

Her mother-in-law was kneeling on a mat, holding a string of Buddhist beads in her hand. Her expression was compassionate. When she saw her lying on the ground tied with ropes, she even stroked her cheek lovingly.

She let the old woman press her down and make her kneel on the mat while she listened to her chanting.

The fortune teller stained his fingers with dog blood and drew incomprehensible talismans on her pajamas.

He burned the talisman paper to ashes, mixed it with some potion and forced her to drink it.

The Zhou family welcomed the bride not for the purpose of bringing good luck but for the purpose of offering a sacrifice. They wanted to offer the new bride, whose horoscope was suitable, to the evil spirits in the hope of obtaining peace.

They hung her from the rafters.

She felt a sharp pain in her abdomen and could not even open her mouth to beg for mercy. The fortune teller saw her struggling in pain and her clothes soaked with cold sweat, so he said that an evil spirit had possessed her and it was time to exorcise it.

They laid her down, held her limbs, and gave her needles on the top of her head.

Zou Xiping watched the scene calmly, turning the Buddhist beads in her hand and muttering something.

The people on the ground gradually lost their breath.

The mourning hall was set up early in the morning.

The old housekeeper directed the servants in the mansion to take down the red silk on the door and replace it with white cloth, and also to replace the red lanterns with big red wedding characters on both sides with lanterns made of white paper.

A lot of people gathered outside Zhou's house early in the morning.

They gathered in groups of three or five, pointing and talking about it, some with pity, some with sympathy, some in fear, and some... just watching the fun.

Is the person really dead?