Wen Xiaoman insisted on getting an explanation in public. Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Lady Jianchang could only quickly organize her words in her mind.
However, before she could come up with an argument that would be acceptable to Wen Xiaoman and would not be too unfair to the younger cousin of the Jianchang Earl, the Jianchang Earl could no longer hold back and spoke.
He looked at Wen Xiaoman with disgust, as if she were some kind of dirty thing. "What do you want my mother to say? That you are of low birth, stinking of money, and unfit to be the wife of the prince of Jianchang Marquis's mansion? Or that you lack the gentleness and virtue of a woman, and actually questioned your future mother-in-law in front of all the guests on the wedding day?"
The wife of the Earl of Jianchang was unable to stop it, and the two words "it's over" appeared in her mind.
She somewhat regretted not telling her son the embarrassing fact that the Bo family was already heavily in debt and urgently needed Wen Xiaoman's dowry to fill the shortfall.
She always wanted to give her son the best and not let him lose his ambition because of money. However, she did not expect that her doting on her son would become the basis for him to destroy the marriage at this moment.
As she expected, Wen Xiaoman retorted without hesitation.
She looked at the man who almost became her husband with a half-smile, "Since I am of low birth and rich, why did your family go to Tongzhou to ask for my hand in marriage?"
"My Wen family has signed a marriage contract with your family. I, Wen Xiaoman, came here today to marry you in a dignified and legitimate way."
"On my wedding day, my future husband's family brought in a girl from nowhere at the same time as me, wanting my future husband to marry us both at the same time. And I can't even ask a question?"
"My marriage went awry, and I asked a question, and you ended up questioning my future mother-in-law in front of a room full of guests. And you actually labeled me insubordinate and unvirtuous."
"So what does your family want from me? Just accept it and swallow my anger?"
"That will truly disappoint your family. Even if I, Wen Xiaoman, cannot get married in this lifetime, I will never let anyone mistakenly think that the Wen family is trying to curry favor with the powerful or sell their daughter for fame and fortune because of my marriage."
She spoke a long string of words like popping beans, and the wife of the Earl of Jianchang tried to interrupt her several times but failed to get a chance. Finally, she stopped talking. Just as the wife of the Earl of Jianchang was about to speak, Wen Xiaoman turned around and left, pulling her brother Wen Yuan.
The wife of the Earl of Jianchang suddenly became anxious. She took two steps at a time to stop Wen Xiaoman, "Xiaoman, listen to my explanation. Things are not what you think."
Wen Xiaoman stopped and waited for Lady Jianchang to tell her a story.
The wife of the Marquis of Jianchang gritted her teeth and said, "This girl is my uncle's niece. She and my son grew up together and have been close since they were young. Now they have... My uncle and I have no choice but to let her marry into the marquis's house with you."
Her words were quite obscure, but the cousin with the veil still cried out "Aunt".
She was clearly still an innocent girl, so what right did her aunt have to say that to her? How could she face people in the future?
She wanted to defend herself, but just as she said the word "I", the wife of the Marquis of Jianchang raised her voice and interrupted her, "Xiao Man, don't worry, my uncle and I will marry you no matter what. You are the daughter-in-law I personally chose!"
When Lady Jianchang said this, the girl fell silent.
Lady Jianchang agreed to let her marry in order to appease the Prince of Jianchang and prevent him from feeling too aggrieved, but the reason she and her parents had this idea was to get a piece of the pie.
She was different from the Prince of Jianchang. She knew the economic situation of the Jianchang Marquis's Mansion. Even if Wen Xiaoman, the God of Wealth, was not about to marry into the Jianchang Marquis's Mansion, her mother would not have thought of marrying her back to her parents' home.
Because the Jianchang Marquis' Mansion had been out of the core circle for three generations by the time of her mother's generation, when her mother came of age, the only families willing to propose marriage to her were ordinary officials of average financial status.
Her mother was almost an old maid at home, and the uncle's family was unable to find a better marriage for her, so they could only pick out the tallest among the short ones and choose a relatively wealthy husband's family for her.
However, after her mother married her father, her father's career has been mediocre, and her mother is not as capable of making money as Wen Xiaoman, so their family has always lived an ordinary life.
Her mother was fed up with being short of money and having a low status, so she wanted to find a husband for her daughter who had both status and money.
However, this is easier said than done.
Her mother worked hard for five or six years, from when she was ten years old until she came of age, but she never found a husband for her that would satisfy her.
Just at this time, her mother heard that her cousin was about to marry a girl from the Wen family, a wealthy merchant family in Tongzhou.
At that moment, her mother felt as if her Ren and Du meridians were opened up.
Wen Xiaoman is rich, and the wives of the Crown Prince and the Earl's family have imperial decrees. If one can combine the two...
Thinking of this, her mother went to find her uncle and aunt.
It just so happened that the Jianchang Earl and his wife were also troubled by their son's unhappiness, so the two families hit it off.
However, what the Earl of Jianchang and his wife did not know was that what the Earl of Jianchang wanted was actually quite different from what the Earl of Jianchang wanted.
The Jianchang Earl and his wife wanted a daughter-in-law like Jianchang Earl's niece, who came from an official family and would not embarrass them when taken to banquets. They also wanted a money-making machine like Wen Xiaoman who could provide them with wealth continuously.
They wanted to keep things steady and let Wen Xiaoman serve the Jianchang Marquis' Mansion for the rest of her life.
The elder sister and brother-in-law of the Earl of Jianchang wanted their daughter to become the wife of the Crown Prince and a member of the Earl's mansion, and they also wanted to get the large amount of property that Wen Xiaoman brought into the hands of their daughter.
Their idea was simple. As long as Wen Xiaoman gave birth to a child, no matter whether the child was a boy or a girl, the Bo Mansion would have a reason to keep her dowry in the Bo Mansion after Wen Xiaoman's death instead of letting the Wen family take it back.
At that time, it would be natural for their daughter, as the wife of the prince of the Earl's Mansion, to help the elderly Lady of the Earl manage the properties.
The things are in their daughter's hands, and as parents, they will definitely get more benefits. This is much better than the lady of the house trying every means to get money from Wen Xiaoman, and then they try to curry favor with the lady of the house and pick up some things that the lady of the house doesn't want.
Who knows, after a long time, their daughter will have taken away everything Wen Xiaoman left behind.
At that time, whether she wanted to kill the little guy left by Wen Xiaoman or keep him/her to continue to show off her virtue, it would actually make no difference to them.
So although both of them want both, there is still a huge difference between their two families' demands.
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