Of course, there is also the most important point - offspring!
Whose family marries a daughter-in-law not to have children and continue the family line?
But Nanping is sick and weak. It is difficult for her to survive. How can she endure the pain of childbirth?
...There is only one daughter-in-law like this. She cannot be talked to or controlled. She has to be coaxed by her mother-in-law and supported by her husband. She cannot even have children.
What to do with marriage?
Make trouble for your own family?
Or bring trouble to the family? !
But Nanping was favored by the supreme mother and son in the palace, and all the noble ladies were worried that their families would be used as "sacrifices" by the saint or the queen mother.
Now, the Queen Mother and the Saint want to choose a son-in-law for Nanping from a humble family, so all these powerful families can escape.
While everyone was secretly rejoicing, they were also waiting to see the excitement in the Han family.
Hey, I wonder if Princess Nanping will fall ill from vomiting when she knows this news.
In a sense, marrying down is also a form of disrespect and even humiliation to women.
"Haha! Good! The Queen Mother is wise! The Saint is wise!"
In the nunnery, a middle-aged lady who looked a little haggard laughed excitedly when she heard the rumors outside.
There was pleasure and a hint of madness in her eyes.
These past few years, she was almost suffocated to death.
Back then, she caused trouble for Princess Yongjia as her cousin.
Later, Yongjia's daughter became ill and added to her troubles.
The wife of the Crown Prince of a dignified Duke's Mansion has become a laughing stock among the common people over tea after dinner.
The stepmother's mind, which was not very broad to begin with, was directly distorted.
Her heart was filled with hatred.
The Queen Mother was so noble that she dared not bear grudge.
The stepmother blamed all the problems on Yongjia and his daughter.
During the three years she spent in the nunnery, she cursed the statue of the Bodhisattva every day: "Yongjia will not rest in peace after his death, and will never be reborn! Nanping will be plagued by illness and will not die a good death!"
The curse lasted for three years, and the stepmother also had to make figurines out of it for three years.
Even though it was Princess Nanping Han Jiaojiao who pleaded for her and the stepmother was able to return to the Duke's Mansion, she did not feel any gratitude towards Han Jiaojiao.
She hated it even more: "This little bitch did it on purpose. She wanted to tell me that without her, I can't even return to the capital!"
Han Jiaojiao: ...Isn’t this true?
It was indeed true, but the stepmother felt humiliated.
In front of Han Jiaojiao, she, the stepmother, seemed to have lost her dignity and decency!
Han Jiaojiao: ...pretentious!
Han Jiaojiao didn't take her stepmother, a defeated opponent, seriously at all.
Han Jiaojiao paid back all the trouble she had caused her mother, plus interest.
Well, the grudges are settled!
However, the stepmother did not think so. She kept all the new and old grudges in her heart.
I just hate that God is unfair. The Queen Mother and the Saint both protect Han Jiaojiao.
The stepmother did not dare to provoke.
However, the stepmother may not find fault, but she cannot stop her from "gloating over other people's misfortune."
"Oh, I want to go and congratulate our princess."
"What a good match! She comes from a poor farming family. My mother-in-law must be a great person. She raised my son with great difficulty and even paid for his education..."
The stepmother became more and more excited as she spoke.
After all, she was once the mistress of the Han family. She was knowledgeable and a scholar raised by a widowed mother. Wow, it just sounds "very interesting".
In the past, when my stepmother was still my cousin, she heard a piece of gossip in the capital.
He was also a newly-minted Jinshi who was raised by a widowed mother and was taken to be the son-in-law of a certain earl's family.
As a result, the daughter of the Bo family was worn down and turned into a nanny.
This is not a big deal. After all, there is no mother-in-law in the world who doesn't torture her daughter-in-law.
The reason why this family's story became a famous "strange story" in Beijing was that the mother and son's words and deeds were too extraordinary.
Can you imagine that on the wedding night, the groom did not sleep with his wife, but went to sleep with his mother.
After the marriage, the couple finally consummated their marriage. When they went to bed, the mother-in-law was waiting outside the window.
As soon as the two of them got a little intimate, the mother-in-law started knocking on the window.
The next day, she pointed at her daughter-in-law and scolded her, "You little whore, you only know how to flirt with men." The young lady from the baron's family was so ashamed and embarrassed that she wished she could faint!
It was clearly she who stopped her daughter-in-law from getting close to her son, and she even thought her daughter-in-law was a hen that didn't lay eggs!
Outsiders were shocked when they heard this strange story.
This "magical" widow has single-handedly brought discredit to the group of widows and increased the difficulty for them to find wives for their sons.
In fact, this is only a very small number.
Most widowed mothers are pitiful and respectable.
But, precisely because it is rare, it becomes news and is discussed by the world.
Gradually, people developed prejudices against widowed mothers.
In fact, the stepmother didn't know which poor boy the empress dowager had chosen.
It's just that the story back then was so novel that whenever she heard about a scholar from a poor family, she would think of the magical widowed mother-in-law.
"I hope Han Jiaojiao can also meet such a 'good mother-in-law'!"
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