Chapter 172 Mission 016

Faced with Wang Nianyun's questioning, Xiao Ying was slightly startled, put down what he was holding, sighed, and said: "She was once my wife, right?"

Wang Nianyun was surprised: "Yes?"

Xiao Ying said slowly: "Su Ling is my aunt's daughter. Her parents died young and she was adopted by my family. I originally treated her as a sister, but I didn't expect..." He smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect my mother to worry that my family was poor and it would be difficult to marry a wife, so she let Su Ling be my... my child bride..."

"Ah?" Wang Nianyun was very shocked. Obviously, he didn't expect that Shao's mother would do such a thing as letting her niece be a child bride for her son!

You know, the status of a child bride in the husband's family is very low, which can be said to be equivalent to a slave.

Although Wang Nianyun felt that his mother-in-law was really cruel, he was relieved in his heart. Because in this ancient society of polygamy, a child bride does not affect a man's marriage. In other words, the original owner Shao Qingyun and Su Ling's marriage was just a simple wedding, but it was not included in the family tree, and she did not really become the Shao Su family, so she could not be considered Shao Qingyun's real wife. His original wife should be Wang Nianyun, who was later married home in a formal way. This is also the reason why Shao's mother in the original work could easily demote Su Ling to a concubine. She did not have a stable position as Shao Qingyun's wife.

Just as Xiao Yan expected, Wang Nianyun, a pure ancient woman, did not care whether he had other women before marrying her. What she cared about was whether he had true love in his heart and the status of his wife.

Wang Nianyun was angry before because she thought that the Shao family had concealed the fact that Shao Qingyun had married a wife a long time ago, so that she married a second-married man without knowing it and became a successor. Now after listening to Xiao Yan's explanation, she is no longer angry. After all, in her opinion, the existence of Su Ling is no different from the maids that those rich young masters took in before getting married, and it will not affect her status at all.

Xiao Ying had been paying attention to Wang Nianyun's expression. Seeing that she listened to his explanation and was no longer angry, he felt relieved. As long as he no longer showed his true feelings for Su Ling like the original owner, Wang Nianyun should not turn evil and cause trouble for Su Ling, right? Let Su Ling and the male protagonist Jiang Li be happy together.

In fact, his previous explanation to Wang Nianyun was all true. Rural families pay attention to de facto marriage. As for changing the family tree, which is similar to going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a marriage certificate, it is usually done after a child is born. Now that Su Ling's pregnancy has not been exposed, Su Ling only held a wedding with the original owner Shao Qingyun but did not enter the family tree. As for Wang Nianyun, Shao's mother was afraid that this golden boy daughter-in-law would run away, so she urged Shao's father to enter Wang Nianyun into the family tree as soon as they got married. Now she should be called Shao Wangshi.

Xiao Ying's explanation successfully dispelled Wang Nianyun's idea of ​​questioning Shao's mother. Although she felt that this mother-in-law was really cruel, since it was not a big deal and did not harm her interests, she did not need to risk being unfilial to question her mother-in-law.

So the relationship between Wang Nianyun and Xiao Ying returned to the state before she did not know about Su Ling's existence. One was thoughtful and the other was intentional. The two got along very well and seemed to be happy.

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However, Xiao Ying's relationship with Wang Nianyun quickly entered the late stage of running-in, but the heroine Su Ling was not so good.

Her pregnancy was discovered by Mr. Li's daughter-in-law Zhang!

Zhang was the daughter-in-law of Mr. Li's only son Li Guisheng. She was a bit fierce and selfish. She was the kind of person who would not deliberately harm others but was unwilling to do good things that would harm others and benefit herself. The Li family was not well off. When Su Ling's parents died, Su Ling was not accepted by the rest of the Su family. Mr. Li originally wanted to bring her back to the Li family to raise her, but it was because of Zhang's strong opposition that Shao's mother succeeded in intercepting her.

Now Su Ling is so old, and she has become Shao Qingyun's child bride, but she was taken back by Mr. Li, which made Zhang very dissatisfied. If she had known this would happen, she would have raised Su Ling in the Li family when she was young, and she could get a betrothal gift when she got married in the future. Now she is not innocent, and her reputation is bad. It is a trouble that cannot be shaken off if she is brought back, and it will be difficult for her daughter to get married!

Zhang was unhappy, but she did not dare to express her dissatisfaction to Mr. Li clearly, so she had to find ways to find fault with Su Ling, and make a few indirect accusations, hoping that she would leave the Li family on her own.

Since she wanted to find fault with Su Ling, Zhang was of course very concerned about her, so she noticed something was wrong - as a person who had given birth to three children, how could Zhang not suspect that Su Ling's various signs were pregnant?

However, Zhang was still cautious and did not shout out when she was just suspicious. Instead, she made a pot of fish soup at lunch and placed it near Su Ling. As she expected, Su Ling vomited continuously when she smelled the fish soup, which basically confirmed her suspicion. Zhang immediately lost her scruples and said it mercilessly in front of the whole family at the table: "I say, niece, are you pregnant?"

Before, except Zhang, no one else thought about pregnancy. Now that she shouted it out, several pairs of suspicious eyes were immediately fixed on Su Ling.

If Su Ling was just an unmarried girl, everyone would think that she had a stomachache when they saw her vomiting like this. But Su Ling had been married to Shao Qingyun before. It had not been long since she divorced and moved into the Li family. How could she not be suspicious when she heard Zhang mention it?

Su Ling had long expected that she could not hide it. After all, her belly was getting bigger day by day as time passed.

So when the audience was silent after Zhang asked, Su Ling said calmly: "It seems to be true."

When Mrs. Zhang saw Su Ling admitting, she said to Mr. Li in surprise and surprise: "Dad, do you think we should send Su Ling back to the Shao family? After all, she is carrying the seed of his old Shao family." She is eager to do so now. Get rid of this scourge Su Ling immediately, otherwise this girl will live and eat in the Li family and give birth to children in the Li family. Will her daughter still get married?

Mr. Li also stroked his beard hesitantly, not knowing what to do. In his opinion, one is his grandson and the other is his granddaughter. It is good for the two to be close together, but now his promising grandson Shao Qingyun has married a wealthy lady with his granddaughter Heli. If you try to force the two of them together, I'm afraid your granddaughter will be harmed. But the child in Su Ling's belly belonged to the Shao family, so how could he be qualified to forcibly keep another person's heir?

After thinking for a long time, Mr. Li stroked his beard and looked up at Su Ling: "Come to my room later. I have something to explain."

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The Shao family was originally poor, but later he married a young lady from a wealthy family. Naturally, the original poverty was relieved, and the family also bought several servants. Plus Wang Nianyun's servants as dowry, the Shao family had quite a lot of people.

After her son got married, Shao's mother kept asking people to inquire about the relationship between her son and daughter-in-law every day. Although she was a little dissatisfied after hearing how extravagant Wang Nianyun was, this dissatisfaction was nothing compared to the harmonious relationship between Shao Qingyun and Wang Nianyun.

Just a few days after the Shao family's wedding, Shao's father and Shao's mother were both at home. Suddenly, Shao's mother's natal family sent some gifts and a letter.

Shao's mother thought it was a letter from home, so she happily opened it and read it.

Although the Shao family is poor, Shao's father is a child after all, so Shao's mother has learned a lot from her, so it is still very simple to read a letter.

However, it was this look that surprised and frightened Shao's mother. To her pleasant surprise, she received a notification from her parents' family that Su Ling was more than two months pregnant. Su Ling had been at Shao's house more than two months ago, and he was watching under her nose. He must be her son's father; but what frightened her was this matter. If her daughter-in-law Wang Nianyun knew about it, her in-law Wang's family would knew……

Shao's mother felt that the best way was to let Su Ling abort the fetus and completely separate her relationship with Shao Qingyun. But when she thought about Su Ling's belly being her chubby grandson, she couldn't help it.

Shao's mother is a typical person who is very good to her own family but very selfish to outsiders. As long as it concerns her son and grandson, she can't harden her heart.

She was stunned for too long with the letter, which finally aroused Shao's father's suspicion. He came over and asked curiously: "What's wrong? What did my father-in-law write in the letter?"

Shao's mother handed the letter in her hand to Shao's father. Shao's father took it and read it ten lines at a time. After being silent for a while, he looked at Shao's mother and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Shao's mother took out a pen and paper to write a reply. She polished the ink and said, "No need to ask, of course it's to bring Su Ling and her son back! You can't let go of your fat grandson, but I can't!"

Shao's father asked again: "What about Qingyun's wife?"

Shao's mother handed the brush to Shao's father: "Now that we are married, can the Wang family take his daughter back and remarry her? At worst, we can wait until the grandson is born, and then let Su Ling go back to my father's house." This makes sense. Shamelessness has almost become natural.

Shao's father picked up his pen, thought about his words, and then wrote according to what Shao's mother just said.

After writing nearly a thousand words eloquently, Shao's father blew out the wet ink with satisfaction and said, "Okay, it's done."

Shao's mother took it and read it carefully, making sure that there was nothing wrong with the content of Shao's father's reply and that the wording was very careful. After the ink dried, she folded the letter paper and put it in an envelope, planning to send it back to someone.

After taking two steps, Shao's mother suddenly put the envelope down again: "No, I'd better go back in person."