Chapter 551 The stepmother learns that Wanchun is the Crown Princess
Zhang Qiuhe nodded. "That's right."
"My goodness, we're actually acquainted with the Crown Prince and the Empress!" Madam Miao couldn't help but exclaim.
At this moment, Du Damei also woke up. She rubbed her eyes, still feeling a little dazed.
"I had a dream today that my Wanchun became the Crown Princess. You tell me, am I getting senile? How could I have such an absurd dream?"
As she spoke, she began to laugh at herself.
Madam Miao quickly said, "Aunt Du, that's not a dream, it's real. Manager Du is indeed the Crown Princess."
"What? It's not a dream?" Du Damei exclaimed in surprise, her steps faltering slightly.
Zhang Qiuhe quickly helped her up and said with a smile, "Auntie, it's really true."
With her help, Du Damei sat down. "Really? How could it be true? I remember when Wanchun married into the Zhou family, I only heard that the eldest son of the Zhou family was poor and disabled. How come he has suddenly become the crown prince?"
Zhang Qiuhe laughed and said, "Well, that's fate. Wasn't Wanchun originally going to be given to that good-for-nothing son of Magistrate Li? It was her stepmother who interfered and gave the marriage to her daughter instead."
"If she hadn't tried to steal this marriage, none of this would have happened. So, it's all fate, ordained by heaven."
Du Damei nodded, much calmer now. "I'll go to Wan Chun's father's grave in a few days and tell him about it."
Du Wanchun's father passed away a year ago.
He never came looking for his daughter until his death, which can be considered as him saving face for himself.
Unlike some men who, despite having hurt their children's feelings, still hope that their children will forgive them and enjoy family life with them when they are down on their luck.
Many things in this world are a matter of reaping what you sow.
In the end, Du Wanchun did what she should do as a daughter, giving him a proper burial and finding him a good burial site.
Now Du Damei is going to his grave to tell him this, and she wonders if he will feel remorse when he hears this from the afterlife.
If he hadn't mistreated his daughter so much back then, he could have now been related to the royal family.
Zhang Qiuhe said seriously, "We should go and talk to him, let him suffer in the underworld."
Du Damei nodded in complete agreement.
As for Liu, the stepmother who ran away with the merchant, she was sold three or five times before becoming an old nanny in a household.
They did the dirtiest and most tiring jobs.
She would occasionally go out and hear about the Zhou family's eldest son, how he first became a county magistrate and later a high-ranking official in the capital.
Liu always just smiled and let it go. Now that she's in such a sorry state, she doesn't expect to be able to compete with Du Wanchun anymore.
But when she heard that Du Wanchun had become the Crown Princess, her deep-set eyes seemed to lose all their color, as if she had lost her soul.
All the resentment and regret that Liu had accumulated over the years suddenly surged up, and she couldn't catch her last breath, so she fell into the chamber pot.
"Wrong, everything is wrong. I shouldn't have married Lanzhi off to the Li family. I should have married her off to the Zhou family! She should have married her off to the Zhou family!"
She screamed like a madwoman.
Because of her momentary greed, she ruined her daughter's life.
After Liu Lanzhi was divorced by the Li family, she became a concubine for a merchant. Later, because she was young, she was sold to an old man in his seventies or eighties to be his concubine.
Later, the old master suddenly fell ill and died in her boudoir, and the family kicked Liu Lanzhi out of the house.
After that, Liu never saw her daughter again. Perhaps she was sold into a wealthy family to work, or perhaps she was sold into a brothel to sell her smiles to everyone.
Liu was trembling with anger, still shouting, "Wrong, everything is wrong."
In the eyes of someone like her, she was still thinking that if she married her daughter into the Zhou family, Liu Lanzhi might become the Crown Princess.
However, she never considered that everything the Zhou family had now was inseparable from Du Wanchun. She also never imagined that if she had treated Du Wanchun well, she wouldn't have ended up like this.
Although the Zhou family's affairs caused a minor stir in Cheng'an County, things quickly returned to normal.
The Zhou family's rice shop remained open as usual, and the incense shop was still bustling with people.
Du Wanchun had already made arrangements for everyone here. Even though she was in the palace, the amount of silver coming in every day hadn't decreased at all.
As long as she has money, she won't have a bad life no matter where she is.
Inside the palace, Du Wanchun personally paid for the renovation of the entire East Palace. To prevent Zhou Ruiyuan from constantly recalling unhappy events from the past, she also added many new decorations to the courtyard.
For example, they planted five or six cherry blossom trees and even installed a small swing under them.
Meanwhile, inside the general's mansion in Xuzhou, Granny Zhou had been restless for several days.
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