in2ebook Chapter 265 Separation
Chapter 265 Separation
On the second day, when Hai was paying respects to her uncle and aunt, Wang Ruofu just forced a smile and said nothing.
Lin Qinshuang followed Wang Ruofu's style and did not say much. She just gave Hai a decent gift and said a series of auspicious words with a smile.
Compared with Wang Ruofu's stiffness and poor speaking ability, Lin Qinshuang's contrast made Hai, who had just arrived, feel suspicious.
Lianlian thought to himself that this Lin was not simple.
As the eldest lady and mother-in-law, Wang Ruofu only needs to be a hands-off boss, but as the daughter-in-law, Hai has a lot more to consider.
Whether Changbai can inherit the family business in the future, whether her son can safely hand over the family business from Changbai, her status in the Sheng Mansion... and so on.
These matters became very troublesome because of the presence of Lin's second wife.
As for Old Lady Sheng, she naturally has to be respectful to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang, and she also needs to respect Mrs. Lin, her father-in-law's wife. At the same time, she also has to be kind to her two younger sisters-in-law who are about to get married.
It’s okay for Miss Sheng Wu, after all, she is her husband’s biological sister, but Miss Sheng Si is very embarrassed.
If the Sheng family sisters were really getting along well with each other, it would be easy to deal with.
If he was just pretending to be nice, or was the kind of person who hid a dagger behind his smile, then the Sheng Mansion would be doomed to be in chaos within ten years, with Lin above him and the fourth Miss Sheng below him, as well as Changtong, the top scholar who was raised by Lin and is destined to be of the same family, and Changluo, who is known as a young genius.
In any case, Hai felt that her top priority was to fight for her own piece of land and give birth to a boy as soon as possible.
In this way, even if people find out in the future that the Sheng Mansion is just in name only, she will not end up in an embarrassing situation.
She was extremely panicked and even thought of the worst outcome. After Changbai was kicked out of the house, how would she use her dowry to help Changbai make a comeback? She felt like she was walking on thin ice these days.
But she concealed her thoughts very well. Except for Lin Qinshuang who was reminded by Molan, everyone thought that Hai's restraint was just the shyness and nervousness unique to a new bride.
Changbai married late in order to wait for the results of the imperial examination.
It has always been advocated to "start a family before establishing a career", so Changfeng, who had just been assigned to the Hanlin Academy to do "hard work", also got married three months after Changbai's marriage.
Chang Feng married Lin, the legitimate daughter of the Zhongshan Marquis family.
Lin's family background was noble, no worse than Hai's, who came from a scholarly family. This made Hai, who was already anxious about Lin, even more worried.
Lin likes reading, is fond of elegance, and is good at reciting poems and composing couplets. He has some knowledge of housekeeping but is not proficient in it, and has some knowledge of managing interpersonal relationships but is not sensitive either.
She is somewhat like Rulan's character combined with Molan's talent. She is innocent and naive with a bit of intellectual beauty, as if she had a brain.
She was different from the cautious Hai, and she felt that Sheng Mansion was a paradise!
The family is wealthy and all the members are scholars. There is no sense of roughness in the way they look at things, do things and behave like no nouveau riche. Instead, they reveal the refinement, propriety and nobility that only princes, nobles and aristocratic families can have.
Especially Miss Sheng Si, her husband’s younger sister.
How can there be such a perfect girl!
Rulan, who I thought would be awkward to get along with, turned out to be very kind-hearted and a great eater, and she was unexpectedly 'simply elegant'!
The days in Sheng Mansion made Lin feel like she was in a fairyland.
I have my sisters to keep me company during the day, and Chang Feng to share my romance at night.
so happy!
Seeing Lin's heartless appearance, Hai frowned and sighed in her heart.
She even began to doubt herself.
Is she living too darkly?
Hai's awkwardness and the hidden problems in the Sheng Mansion that have not yet been brought to the surface need to be resolved quickly, fairly, justly and openly.
Therefore, while Lin Qinshuang was busy preparing Molan's dowry, she took the initiative to propose the idea of "dividing the family" to Old Lady Sheng.
This "separation" is only in a formal sense.
One reason was to divide the residence area for the five men in the family, including Changtong and Shengtang. After all, it would be inconvenient for so many wives and children to squeeze together in the future.
In recent years, the Sheng Mansion has been expanding its "territory" outward. Now, almost the entire "fang" around the East Market has been taken over by the Sheng Mansion. It is more than enough to divide out six plots of land for everyone to build several four-courtyard houses and add some small courtyards for other uses.
Second, Lin Qinshuang hoped to clarify Changbai’s inheritance rights as the eldest son.
Lin Qinshuang thought very clearly that since Molan had great ambitions, Changfeng, as Molan's biological brother, would naturally have no worries about establishing his own business.
It’s better to distinguish them clearly.
Now that everything is written clearly on paper in advance, in the future we will follow the rules and regulations that we have kowtowed to and burned incense in front of our ancestors, which will be the least likely to be criticized and the most appropriate.
Lin Qinshuang explained the reason clearly, without mentioning the "second" plan in her mind, but mentioned to Old Lady Sheng that "this way we can avoid being schemed against by others and causing disunity among brothers and demoralization among family members."
This is not an exaggeration for Mrs. Sheng.
After listening to it, she frowned and pondered carefully for nearly a quarter of an hour, and then waited for Sheng Hong to finish his work and called him to discuss it.
When Sheng Hong heard the word "separation", he initially disagreed.
But after listening to what Old Lady Sheng and Lin Qinshuang said, he nodded after careful consideration.
This is "seemingly divided", "like divided", and "not divided".
In addition to avoiding the verbal schemes of villains, it also leaves several escape routes for the Sheng Mansion's chariot.
If he encounters misfortune in the future, only Changbai's family will be implicated. The two branches headed by Changfeng and Changtong will still have a chance to make a comeback, redress his name or seek revenge for him.
Changtong is the top scholar in the imperial examination and lost his mother at a young age. Now, his brother has started a family and he is forced to separate from the family. For him, this is not only a burden, but also a highlight on his resume.
Young people have many hardships, and God will give them great responsibilities...
Changbai would naturally suffer much less trouble, because bullying a 15-year-old child who had lost his mother and had separated from his family was inappropriate and disgraceful.
As for Chang Feng, he has the support of Marquis Zhongshan, so as long as he has not committed any serious crime such as treason or the ten evil deeds, he can be saved.
Molan was both a specially-appointed county lady and a member of the royal family.
They were considered the second branch with Lin Qinshuang as the head. They seemed to be the legitimate children but they lost the inheritance rights and most of the family property. But in fact, their branch was the safest.
No matter what changes happen in the Sheng Mansion in the future, there will always be the shade of a big tree to rely on, and nothing will go wrong, and no one will be killed.
They can also protect Lin Qinshuang and ensure that she has no worries about food and clothing, and lives a wealthy and stable life, which is very good.
As for the shade of a big tree, even if she were to fall into trouble one day and could not get out, Hualan, who already had the power of the mistress of the Princess's Mansion and the grandchildren of the Pei Mansion, would certainly not give up on helping Changbai and his children and wives.
At most, Changbai was exiled and not allowed to return to Beijing, but he was alive, with brothers and sisters and various in-laws in front of him, and the eldest wife of Sheng Mansion, the richest man in Youyang in the future.
So...she will have no worries even if she dies.
This family is well divided.
It not only solved the problem of the inner house, but also solved the worries of officials in the previous dynasty.