Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Qi cursed angrily, "What nonsense this old hag is talking about! I have never heard of such bullshit in all my years!"

Shen Mingxuan said bitterly, "She is indeed talking nonsense. Youhe has great luck and will be a high-ranking official in the future. It is impossible for his luck to be lost just because of the marriage consummation. But Youhe is very filial and does not want to disobey his mother, so until now he still sleeps with his two brothers, and I sleep with his two sisters and his mother."

"what?!"

Qi couldn't believe her ears and she slammed the table in anger.

When she chose the Liao family, she was planning to let Shen Wantang marry there, so she tried to pick the worst ones.

She had specifically asked someone to find out. Liao Youhe had a very powerful mother whose reputation for ferocity spread throughout the entire county. He also had four younger brothers and sisters to support. Although Liao Youhe himself had some talent, he was foolishly filial and relied on his mother to make the decisions in everything.

It would be difficult for Shen Wantang to have a good life if she married into such a family.

But she never expected that the person she would marry was her own daughter.

What she didn't expect was that Liao Youhe's mother would not let her son and daughter-in-law consummate their marriage, and Liao Youhe actually listened!

She knew that the Liao family was poor, but she never imagined that they were so poor that they didn't even have a room and had to force their newlywed daughter-in-law to sleep with her mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law!

How can such a thing be possible in this world?

"No, I have to send someone to the Liao family to give that old hag a lesson! How dare she bully you like this? It's outrageous!"

Shen Mingxuan waved her hands and said, "Don't be angry, mother. I may be living a hard life now, but I will enjoy happiness in the future. In the future, everyone in the capital will envy me for marrying a good husband!"

Qi felt that she was insane, and couldn't help crying, "This is more than just a little bitter, this is the most bitter it can be! Why do you have to marry him? Even if you don't want to marry into the Ning Wang Mansion, then marrying a Beijing official family who is a good match for us is better than now!"

"I raised you with my heart in my hands, not to let you get married and be treated like this!"

Shen Mingxuan gritted her teeth and said, "Humph, what do you know? I'd rather marry Liao Youhe than anyone else! Things will get better in the future. The suffering now is only temporary."

"Okay, stop talking about this. Do you want some snacks? I haven't eaten much for three days. Bring me something to eat!"

Qi was shocked again. She hurriedly asked someone to serve snacks, and then asked anxiously: "You can't even eat at Liao's house? Didn't I give you a lot of dowry? If your mother-in-law doesn't let you eat, you can secretly ask someone to buy it for you!"

"I asked someone to buy them, but my mother-in-law took them all. She distributed them to my brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. I didn't get to eat any of them! They also took away a lot of my dowry!"

Shen Mingxuan gnashed her teeth and said, "I had a quarrel with their family yesterday and even got into a fight, but they were all like scoundrels. They clearly stole my things but insisted that they didn't steal them!"

Qi felt dizzy after hearing this: "Shameless! It's absolutely shameless! Report this to the police, we must report this to the police! The dowry is your private property, they have no right to take it away!"

Shen Mingxuan shook her head: "I can't report it to the police, otherwise I will completely offend Youhe. I still need to rely on him to live a good life in the future! But even so, he didn't say a word to me last night and this morning. He is angry with me."

"How dare he be angry with you? It was his family that stole your dowry, he should be protecting you!"

"Liao Youhe said that his brothers and sisters are the most sensible and it is impossible for them to steal my dowry. It must have been my maidservant who stole it."

After hearing this, Qi's eyes went dark.

She burst into tears: "My poor daughter, what kind of man did you marry?"

Shen Mingxuan brainwashed herself: "I'm not miserable. I will be the envied Madam Liao in the future! Everything I pay now is worth it! Shen Wantang is the one with a miserable life!"

At this time, the unfortunate Shen Wantang was sitting in her own courtyard to enjoy the cool air, eating grapes and listening to the maid Du Juan vividly telling her about Shen Mingxuan's life in the Liao family.

"The eldest lady's dowry was snatched away by the Liao family. Not only did Shaoyao and the others fail to get it back, but they were also accused by the Liao family of stealing the eldest lady's dowry and framing the Liao family. The old lady of the Liao family even wanted to sell Shaoyao and the others off!"

"As soon as Shaoyao and the others came back, they rushed into the kitchen, crying and stuffing food into their mouths. Miss, you didn't see that they looked like they had been hungry for days and nights."

"Old ladies like Fang Mama cried when they came back, saying that the eldest daughter was having a hard time over there, and had to share a bed with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law at night."

Shaoyao and Nanny Fang were both the companions assigned by Qi to Shen Mingxuan. In addition to the two of them, there were several other maids and nannies. The original intention was to let Shen Mingxuan bring more people with her to establish her authority at her mother-in-law's house.

It seems that Shen Mingxuan's authority was not established, but was instead controlled.

Shen Wantang smiled and said that Shen Mingxuan was stupid. She brought so much dowry and house, but lived like this.

She only brought two maids and one nanny as dowry, but she was able to subdue Old Lady Liao completely. Liao Youhe's four younger brothers and sisters all called her sister-in-law respectfully and vied with each other to do things for her.

Children from poor families are actually very easy to bribe. She only needs to make a list of things that need to be done by them, and then mark the amount of silver they can get when the work is completed, and they will all rush to do it.

On the second day after she got married, she asked her nanny to buy some wood.

At night, the Liao brothers and sisters made her a sturdy step-out bed according to the drawing she drew.

The children never thought that they could actually make a bed. They all gathered around the bed with their mouths grinning with joy. The moment they saw the finished product, their sense of accomplishment reached its peak.

In addition, their sister-in-law Shen Wantang rewarded the children based on their contributions and gave them silver according to their efforts. The children were as happy as if it were New Year's Day.

Originally, Old Lady Liao disliked Shen Wantang for spending money recklessly and for making her children do hard labor as soon as she got married. She wanted to reprimand her, but all the children spoke up for Shen Wantang and even started to argue with the old lady. All four mouths spoke at once and immediately silenced the old lady.

That night, Shen Wantang slept on the new bed and did not share a bed with the old lady and her sisters-in-law.

After Liao Youhe saw the drawings she drew and the finished bed, he treated her much more politely, because others did not know the value of the drawings, but he had been educated and had some experience, so he knew the value of the drawings.

To make a step-out bed, it is not enough to have just the basic structure, it also requires mortise and tenon joints. Even if an ordinary person has seen how others make a bed, he or she will definitely not be able to draw a blueprint, let alone direct others to make a bed.

Just one bed made Liao Youhe realize that Shen Wantang must be an extremely intelligent and wise woman.