Chapter 443 Another Conflict
I originally thought that this matter was completely over.
If Zhao Xiang had not been pardoned and returned to Beijing, this might have been true. But Zhao Xiang did return.
The Hu family naturally prospered and became the most prominent family.
Zhao Xiang and Deng were grateful for the generosity of the Hu family. Not only did they adopt Hu Ling as their adopted son, they also gave the Hu family a house in the capital, a farm in the suburbs of the capital with 300 acres of fertile land, and several boxes of antiques worth at least 50,000 taels of silver.
Housekeeper Hu and his wife originally refused, but Zhao Xiang, Deng, and Zhao Liya were determined to give it to them, so they accepted it.
Butler Hu and his family still work for the Zhao family.
After all, the Zhao family couldn't find a more suitable steward for the time being. After two or three years, when someone took over, they could step down.
Hu Ling has been helping to manage business matters. Together with Qu Yutao, he is also the manager. The annual dividends are enough to make many people jealous.
The Hu family had made a remarkable comeback, and their former neighbors were envious, all of them lamenting that good deeds are rewarded and that the Hu family deserved their prosperity.
After all, not everyone could do what the Hu family did in that situation.
Some admired and envied the Hu family, while others mocked the Xu family's shortsightedness. While joking around, some would jokingly ask if the Xu family regretted their decision. Did they regret it to death?
Of course the Xu family said they had no regrets, and then everyone laughed at them for being stubborn!
Don’t you regret this?
Anyone would regret this to death!
Of course, the Xu family regretted it to death! If Xu Qianrong hadn't broken off the engagement with Hu Ling, their marriage would have been so glorious!
The entire Xu family will benefit from this.
Not to mention anything else, just talking about the betrothal gift, I don’t know how much I can get!
You know, the Hu family is a kind family! Otherwise, the Xu family wouldn't have fought so hard to get this marriage.
But who would have known that this marriage, which was so hard to obtain, would be ruined by his own family in the end.
If Hu Ling had not married yet, then the Xu family might still be able to shamelessly cling to him, saying that although they had broken off the engagement, their daughter still missed Hu Ling, so she had not married in the past few years and was waiting for Hu Ling. But by God's mercy, Hu Ling really came back.
But unfortunately, Hu Ling is already married!
He has a wife. According to the information that the Xu family found out through roundabout ways, Hu Ling's wife is the daughter of Mrs. Zhao's sister-in-law, and Mrs. Zhao loves her very much.
With Madam Zhao's support, there is absolutely no way our family can win.
After Hu Ling left, his daughter actually talked to the other man, but later the two families broke up because they couldn't agree on the betrothal gift.
Later, I couldn't find a suitable family, so it was delayed.
Who would have thought that by coincidence, after the emperor ascended the throne, Xu Qianrong accidentally had the son of Mi Fei's younger brother see her and fall in love with her at first sight.
At this time, Concubine Mi was still Concubine Mi. Although the Mi family had become powerful, it was still not very noticeable.
But no matter how insignificant he is, he is still a royal relative!
More importantly, Concubine Mi is the mother of the emperor's only son! Her meteoric rise to fame is just around the corner!
Although the second young master of the Mi family wanted to take Xu Qianrong as his concubine, it was still a good deal after all.
If you want to move up in social class, you can't just rely on your hard work, you have to seize opportunities like this.
Although being a concubine has risks, it is not a disgrace for a commoner woman to become a concubine of a newly rich family.
The Xu family agreed and sent Xu Qianrong to the Mi family in a sedan chair.
The Mi family had experienced ups and downs, and only now had they finally regained their strength. A lean camel is bigger than a horse, and even when the Mi family was beaten so badly that they dared never to rise again, they were still a wealthy family that was beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Therefore, although Xu Qianrong became the concubine of the second young master of the Mi family, many neighbors envied her.
After all, this is marrying up!
The Xu family also felt proud, as if they had regained their dignity, and they straightened their backs when they went out.
But in the end, I still didn't have the confidence to show off in front of the Hu family, and I felt deeply regretful.
The Xu family's parents were secretly betting on this, thinking that once their daughter gave birth to a son for Young Master Mi, wouldn't they be so proud? By then, their status would be secure, and who would dare to look down on them?
It’s a pity that although they tried their best to “win honor”, Xu Qianrong’s life in the Mi family was not easy.
Especially since the Mi family and the Zhao family had a feud over the matter of the eldest prince, the wife of the second young master Mi seized on this point and often blamed Xu Qianrong for it. The second young master Mi and the Mi family actually took their anger out on her. Xu Qianrong, who had not been in favor since the novelty of the second young master Mi wore off, had a harder and harder time.
Besides, Young Master Mi has more than one concubine.
She cried countless times behind people's backs and was filled with deep regret.
If she had known this, she would have just found a random family to marry. It would have been better than this! She shouldn't have taken this gamble and tried to climb up the social ladder. In the end, she ended up being neither human nor ghost, with no way back.
Who would have thought that on this day, when I was helping Mrs. Mi Ershao go out to buy something at a jewelry store, I happened to run into Hu Ling.
Xu Qianrong was a little out of control and distraught at that time.
Hu Ling naturally saw her, but his expression was indifferent, his eyes fixed on her, as if he hadn't seen her. After the two sides broke off the engagement, they were already strangers. Furthermore, the Xu family had once urged them not to mention their family again. The Hu family felt cold-hearted at the time, and now they would ignore the Xu family even more.
Seeing him like this, Xu Qianrong became even more depressed and heartbroken.
She couldn't help but secretly wonder, if she had married Hu Ling, would everything be different? Why didn't she wait a little longer?
The maidservant beside the second young master's wife was sharp-eyed and saw Xu Qianrong's expression clearly. She went back and told the second young master's wife what she had said.
Mrs. Mi Er Shao was already fed up with these concubines. Now that the Mi family had risen again and was becoming more powerful, she knew in her heart that her husband would take more concubines, definitely not just two. She was afraid that two more would be too few! She didn't dare to stop him.
Having caught Xu Qianrong's weakness, she certainly won't be polite!
In this way, Hu Ling's identity was forced out of Xu Qianrong.
She ignored Xu Qianrong's pleading and ran to her husband excitedly to complain that Xu Qianrong was indecent, still having an affair with her ex-fiancé, and flirting with him.
(End of this chapter)
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