So she has always focused her attention on the prince, hoping that when he gains power, she will be able to be by his side with legitimate reasons.

If there is one, there can be two.

Since she gave birth to the prince's first child, she could give birth to the second, third, and fourth...

So although the prince did not come very often in the past few years, she was still able to give birth to another daughter, who is now being raised in the Ling family.

Princess Min originally wanted to bring another child into the palace, but the prince's concubines and other girls were keeping a close eye on her. The fact that the crown prince's wife gave birth to a son in the past was almost exposed. If she now gave birth to a daughter in addition to her son, she was afraid that the past would also be dug up. Therefore, she gave up the idea.

It has to be said that Shang Qinnan's fate has changed a lot because of this daughter.

Although she is only one year old now, she is very smart, cute and clever. People like her at first sight. This is true for the Crown Prince and Princess Min as well.

Therefore, when looking at Shang Qinnan, he was extra tolerant and never mentioned the fact that she had served the old prince in the past.

Shang Qinnan had been a humble servant for more than ten years when she was in the Duke's Mansion, so in front of Princess Min and the Crown Prince, she was still as well-behaved and docile as ever. This made the mother and son very satisfied. They felt that she was not a scheming person who was difficult to deal with, so they tolerated her.

Look, the prince's hands were groping and wandering around her body. The meaning was clear. The look in Shang Qinnan's eyes made the prince feel even more itchy.

She had suffered a lot in the past, so now that she had the chance to live a good life, she would naturally seize it.

Her daughter is now one year old. If she wants to enter the mansion smoothly, the safest way is to get pregnant again. Therefore, she tried her best to please the prince. The sounds of their teasing and playfulness could be heard from the room.

The Ling family's parents in the next yard were holding their unrelated granddaughter and smiling happily.

"You are the golden nugget of our Ling family. Even when you grow up and move into the mansion, you must remember your grandfather's house, okay?"

The little child was so amused that he giggled. His pair of sparkling peach blossom eyes looked very much like Shang Qinniang.

Although the Ling family's parents had impure intentions and wanted to use them to climb up the social ladder, fortunately they were genuinely kind to Shang Qinnan and the child, so the relationship between them as father and daughter was very harmonious.

After the prince stayed for half a day and left, the mother of the Ling family immediately brought a pregnancy-maintaining medicine. They had obtained this prescription with great difficulty, and the medicine was very effective, ensuring that Shang Qinnan gave birth to two children smoothly.

She drank it in one gulp, then Shang Qinnan took a piece of candied fruit and put it in her mouth to get rid of the bitterness, then said with a smile.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, where's Baoer?"

"She is playing with your father in the house. She is really smart. She can walk and talk at only one year old. Let us teach her until she can say the word 'daddy' more clearly. The next time the prince comes, we will send her over so that he can have fun too."

Although Ling's parents and Shang Qinnan are not biological children, they are better than biological children.

Her previous parents, one would only beat and scold her for being a useless daughter, and the other would only silently tolerate and ask her to do the same, so Shang Qinnan had no feelings for that pair of parents a long time ago, and this was even more so after so many years.

The reason why she begged the Crown Prince and Princess Min to help her get rid of her biological father was just to make them think that she was a person with conscience, so she was not stingy with any person or thing that could be used.

Then he took out a silver note from his pocket and handed it over.

"This is what the prince left when he came here just now. I don't need much money at home, so please accept it, mother. The New Year is coming soon, so we should prepare it well so that our family can have a happy reunion year."

A silver note with a face value of ten thousand taels is nothing to the prince, but it is a huge sum of money to the Ling family.

And the money came easily, so Ling's mother took it with a smile and patted her chest to make a promise.

"Don't worry, I will use all this money on you and Bao'er. I will never let you and your daughter suffer."

"Thank you for your consideration, mother."

The two of them looked at the bowl of pregnancy-maintaining medicine, hoping to get good news in a few days. In this way, she would have the opportunity to enter the mansion with a legitimate reason, so after drinking the medicine, she lay down.

Seeing this, Ling's mother retreated. Before leaving, she instructed the maids serving her to keep the floor heating hot so that the room would not be left cold.

The Ling family had a sweet dream, but poor Shang Qinnan's fifth branch of the same clan did not have such a good time this year.

In the Osmanthus Alley.

As soon as Sanlang's wife left, the people in the fifth room looked at the "big but not thick" New Year gifts and felt quite unhappy.

In the years since the fifth old master passed away, the life of the fifth room has been getting worse and worse.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Now the eldest brother was also sentenced to exile, so their year was even more miserable. The fifth old lady cried until her eyes were about to go blind, but there was nothing she could do.

Now the Fifth House has no one to rely on and no money to support it, so how can it possibly provide Shang Yuding with a way out? So this time, he might not be able to return alive.

Shang Yu'an and Shang Wulang are now the ones in charge, but the setbacks they encountered in the past few years have completely made them lose the arrogance they had when they were in the Duke's Mansion.

With the inheritance they received, they were able to have enough food and clothing, but it was impossible to have any surplus.

"Look at the way Third Sister-in-law is dressed in gold and silver. She is really enviable. How can brothers from the same clan live like this? To put it bluntly, isn't it because she is good at marrying up? She talks about how close she is to Sixth Brother's wife every day. How can the business of this shop be bad?"

Wulang's wife has not had a happy life in recent years, so she has become more and more mean. When she speaks, she doesn't give anyone face and she hopes to embarrass everyone so that she will feel better.

"Will you die if you don't speak?"

Shang Wulang also had a lot of complaints about his daughter-in-law, but she still had some dowry from her parents' home, and they needed her to supplement the family expenses from time to time, so it was not easy to completely break off relations with her.

When Wulang's wife heard this, her true nature was exposed even more obviously, and she spoke in a hoarse voice.

"It's New Year's Day, and you're cursing me to death? Are you planning to kill me, your legal wife, to make room for your little witch outside?"

"What are you talking about? Where did this little goblin come from?"

"You still don't admit it? You're the seventh house in Baoyin Lane. Do you think I don't know your little story? My father-in-law, mother-in-law and grandmother are here today, so just tell it and let everyone judge it!"