It takes more than a month to travel from Dongguan City in Jiangnan to the capital by water.
But at this time, Bei Lingyao's letter and the imperial edict had not yet arrived in Wanyun City.
In Guanyun City, the Bei family was shrouded in gloom.
From the impact on the family's financial business, freight was intercepted, warehouses were burned down, etc.
In addition, news came from the capital that Bei Lingyao was divorced by the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion.
An almost fainted. Her daughter had been married to the Yong'an Earl's Mansion for seven years without having a child. As a mother, it would be a lie to say that she was not worried.
Moreover, their daughter always reported good news but not bad news, so they didn't know whether their daughter was living well in the Yong'an Earl's Mansion.
So it was a pleasure to send money to the Yong'an Earl's Mansion.
First, she hoped that the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion would provide her with shelter, and second, she hoped that the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion would treat her daughter better.
Unexpectedly, the Yong'an Earl's Mansion divorced Bei Lingyao on the grounds of having no children for seven years.
Being childless for many years is one of the seven crimes, and the Bei family is helpless with this reason given by the Yong'an Earl's Mansion.
But even if he wanted to divorce her, he had to tell the Bei family in advance so that they could be mentally prepared.
He divorced the person without saying a word.
The Bei family felt somewhat desperate and resentful as they had collected huge sums of money from them for seven years but were still so ruthless.
Now that the Bei family's industries have been impacted in all aspects, they can't take care of Bei Lingyao who was divorced in the capital for the time being.
He couldn't even make decisions for Bei Lingyao.
I can only write a letter to ask the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the second wife to take care of it.
Little did he know that the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the second wife were planning to give the original owner to a high-ranking official as a concubine.
The men of Earl of Yong'an rode at full speed and took four days to reach Wanyun City. They held Earl of Yong'an's token and expressed one message: Stop, stop, stop quickly.
Some people in Wanyun City were dissatisfied. They could immediately swallow up the Bei family's property, but they were asked to stop.
Although they agreed to cooperate with Earl Yong'an and let Earl Yong'an take the lion's share, at the critical moment, Earl Yong'an withdrew and treated them as nothing.
Although they are not as powerful as the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion in the capital, they are also local tyrants in Jiangnan.
"The Bei family cannot be moved. The Bei family daughter has been brought into the palace by the Emperor and has been named Consort Zhuang. Bei Chengye has been named Earl of Chunyi. The imperial edict will arrive soon."
"What?"
These local tyrants were shocked.
"Which girl from the Bei family is this? The one who married into the Yong'an Earl's Mansion and was divorced?"
"Exactly."
The confidant of Earl Yong'an also had a serious look on his face, and told the story of Bei Lingyao saving the emperor and being taken into the palace and made a concubine.
He had only set out for one day when he received a letter from the Earl of Yong'an, saying that the divorced third wife was promoted to concubine on the first day and noble concubine on the second day.
Bei Chengye was also granted the title of Chunyi Earl.
The Bei family can't move anymore, otherwise if the higher-ups come to investigate, no one will be able to escape.
The local tyrants were silent for a long time.
This is so unacceptable.
The Bei family is engaged in business in Guanyun City. Grandpa Bei’s grandfather was a peddler and made his fortune as a traveling merchant.
Then Mr. Bei's father bought the shop and started selling cloth. He married a wife with excellent embroidery skills and opened a cloth workshop, a dyeing workshop, an embroidery workshop, a garment shop, etc.
By the time of Old Master Bei's generation, he married the county magistrate's concubine, and the Bei family was protected and the family business began to grow.
But the county magistrate could not protect the Bei family forever, not to mention that he had passed away.
Old Master Bei married his eldest son to An, the niece of the fifth-rank prefect of Wanyun City.
An lost her biological mother when she was young, and her father remarried.
The eldest daughter who lost her mother could not be married, and with the help of her stepmother, An's reputation was damaged. The marriage was ruined and snatched away by the stepmother's daughter, making marriage a very difficult matter.
But it is difficult to marry someone of equal status or someone of higher status, but if someone marries someone of lower status, many families are still willing to marry them.
After all, An had an uncle who was a prefect, but his father was incompetent.
In consideration of the wealth of the Bei family, An's father married his eldest daughter An into the Bei family as the eldest daughter-in-law.
After An married into the family, she had a good relationship with Bei Chengye and his wife, but the Bei family also became the An family's money house.
The An family's official career was paved with the Bei family's financial resources.
He asked for money for various reasons, even for An's sister and brother's weddings.
That’s not all. The An family’s next generation will still have to pay for their marriages.
The An family's appetite is growing, and the Bei family can't cope with it.
Even the An family's relatives wanted to get benefits from the Bei family.
Especially the daughter of An's stepmother, the man who snatched An's marriage away, her dowry was paid by the Bei family.
After marrying the son of an official, she could ask An for money when she was short of money, and she had the right to do so.
An was dissatisfied, but helpless.
Merchants without power or influence are fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The Bei family naturally had to find a way out, and originally wanted to find a new prefect as a backer.
Unexpectedly, the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion took a fancy to the Bei family and wanted to marry a girl from the Bei family to the third son of the Marquis' Mansion.
This is undoubtedly a godsend for the Bei family.
The Bei family was in disbelief and even suspected that the third son of the Earl of Yong'an had some kind of illness.
But after asking around, it was found that Mr. Lin San was a handsome man with no problems or bad habits.
How could the Bei family not be happy?
Even though they knew that the Yong'an Earl's Mansion was coming for the Bei family's money, they were still very happy.
It is a great move up for a merchant's daughter to marry the eldest son of an earl's family.
Not to mention the position of the main wife, even taking a concubine would be considered too high for the Bei family.
Therefore, the Bei family was very happy with the respect from the Bo Mansion.
The An family also restrained themselves because of this.
The original owner married into the Yong'an Earl's Mansion and had no children for seven years. The Bei family felt very guilty and gave the Yong'an Earl's Mansion money without hesitation when asked for it.
At this time, the Bei family did not know that the impact on the Bei family's business was caused by the Yong'an Earl's Mansion behind the scenes.
The An family didn't know either, but they knew that the Yong'an Earl's Mansion would not protect the Bei family, and several local tyrants in Jiangnan had taken action against the Bei family.
Because the Bei family married into the Yong'an Earl's Mansion, the An family received much less money from the Bei family in the past seven years than before. Naturally, they were dissatisfied with their greed and were unwilling to take care of the Bei family.
Their inaction towards the Bei family made the Bei family very disheartened.
Bei Chengye and An came to his house several times, but An's father avoided them and even sent someone to tell An that she didn't need to come back.
My uncle, who had been transferred to another place to serve as a prefect, also ignored it.
He was a civil servant and could not rely on the relationship with the Yong'an Earl's Mansion. He had already used money to build up connections and found a backer.
Although he could speak for the Bei family, Prefect An was unwilling to use up this favor for the Bei family, and even more unwilling to offend several local tyrants in Jiangnan.
An could hardly hold her head up in the Bei family.
Ever since she married into the Bei family, she has been the money bag for the An family.
Even though her daughter married into the Yong'an Earl's Mansion, An Shi did not act frivolously and ignore the An family.
Not to mention that her daughter had been in the Yong'an Earl's Mansion for seven years without any children, so An had no confidence at all.
However, the Bei family sends a large sum of money to the Yong'an Earl's Mansion every year, so naturally they cannot satisfy the An family as they did before and let the An family have whatever they want.
But every time she sent money back, the An family accepted it.
Now the Bei family is in trouble, the uncle ignores them and the father avoids them.
When An returned to the An family, she was treated coldly by her aunt and ridiculed by her stepmother and married younger sister.
In this mental state, An fell ill.
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