bookcurios Chapter 646: The Sister Who Married in Place of Others 1
Chapter 646: The Sister Who Married in Place of Others 1
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Name: Luo Chen (Female Supporting Role)
Working experience: 5 years
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Guo Luochen was the illegitimate youngest daughter of Jing'an Earl Guo Yan. Guo Yan's wife was Li Rumei, the general's sister, who had a hot temper.
After marrying Guo Yan, she gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Every time she became pregnant, she would give a maid to her husband as a concubine. There were a total of three concubines in the Bo family.
Li Rumei controlled the mansion very strictly. If a concubine became pregnant, if it was a boy, she would secretly abort the baby. If it was a girl, she could give birth to the baby. All the doctors in the mansion were hers.
The concubines were all bought by her from outside, or brought as dowry maids from her mother's home. In short, they had no roots in this mansion and could only depend on the mistress for their living.
Therefore, apart from Aunt Zhou who had a miscarriage and was unable to give birth again, Aunt Wang gave birth to the eldest daughter Guo Lingyi, and then there was Aunt Fang, the mother of Luo Chen.
Luo Chen's mother was a servant that Li Rumei brought from her own family. When Li Rumei was pregnant with her daughter Guo Yueqing, Guo Yan suddenly fell in love with a prostitute.
He also wanted to take the girl back, but Li Rumei refused, so he asked her parents' family to find a beautiful maid to be Guo Yan's concubine.
Guo Yan was also excited for a while, but when Li Rumei gave birth to Guo Yueqing, she was also pregnant with Luo Chen. Then she became quiet after giving birth to Luo Chen.
Guo Yan liked Aunt Fang more and more, and Luo Chen was also liked by Guo Yan, even surpassing Guo Yueqing at one point.
When Aunt Fang became pregnant again, Li Rumei brought Luo Chen to her side so that Aunt Fang could take good care of the baby.
Guo Yueqing was often bullied by her father because his father liked the younger sister more. When she was with Aunt Fang, Guo Yueqing didn't dare to do anything too excessive.
When Luo Chen was raised by Li Rumei, Guo Yueqing, under the protection of her mother, bullied Luo Chen a lot.
When she learned that Aunt Fang was pregnant with a boy, Li Rumei took decisive action and gave birth to the baby at Guo Yan's 40th birthday party when the baby was five months old.
Aunt Fang was allowed not to attend the event. While she was taking a walk outside, she was pushed into the river by her personal maid Xi Que, and then immediately went to the front yard.
At this time, everyone else in the mansion was helping in the front yard, and no one saved her. Xi Que was Li Rumei's man.
In order to get money to save her father, she agreed to the eldest lady's conditions and took action.
After the banquet, Aunt Fang was found drowned in the pond. Xi Que said that it was Aunt Fang who asked her to go to the front yard to give a gift to the uncle.
I went to see the third lady, Luo Chen, and when I came back I found that Aunt Fang was missing. I thought she went out for a walk, but she didn't come back until dark.
The servants went out to look for her, and Li Rumei's maid confirmed that it was indeed the case. Xi Que had indeed gone to the front yard and had indeed gone to the lady's place to visit the third young lady.
After accompanying her for a while, three-year-old Luo Chen nodded and said that Sister Xi Que had come to play with her.
Guo Yan thought that it was Aunt Fang who fell into the river and died, and that it was bad luck for him on his birthday, so he didn't want to investigate further.
Disgusted, he quickly wrapped Aunt Fang in a tattered mat and threw her out, and he also disliked Luo Chen.
Li Rumei thought that Guo Yan didn't want to see Luo Chen, so she threw him to live on the farm and never took care of him again.
In a blink of an eye, Luo Chen was sixteen years old, Guo Yueqing was seventeen years old, and Qian Fugui, the younger brother of the favorite concubine of the time, Concubine Lan, was twenty years old and still unmarried.
Concubine Lan then thought about finding a noble lady to marry her brother.
Concubine Lan was born into a commoner family. When the emperor was on a secret tour, he encountered danger and was rescued by Concubine Lan, who brought him back to the palace.
Concubine Lan and her family were also brought to the capital, and the Qian family suddenly became wealthy, especially since they had a favorite concubine of the emperor as their protector.
He was a tyrant in the capital, doing all kinds of evil. He was rich and indulged in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and was a complete devout person. He also had three or four illegitimate children at home.
None of the families were interested in her. Mrs. Qian had previously gone to the Princess's residence to ask for her son to marry the princess, but was kicked out by the Princess.
The case was reported to the emperor, and Concubine Lan quickly apologized humbly, and the matter was over.
Later they approached many powerful families, but were rejected because Concubine Lan had no power.
He only has the immature 13-year-old Fourth Prince and the eight-year-old Princess, and he has no family influence at all.
No matter how much the emperor doted on her, he would never let her harm his capable courtiers, so Concubine Lan had no choice but to give up and set her sights on finding someone with a good family.
However, there is only one family that has no capable sons in the court, namely the Guo family.
Guo Yan inherited the title of earl from his father. He himself did not have much ability, but he was timid and did not dare to cause trouble.
So the general chose him to marry in order to give his sister a good life.
Now that Concubine Lan has set her eyes on the daughter of the Bo family, Li Rumei is reluctant to let her daughter marry such a person, so she immediately goes to Guo Yan and asks him to find a solution.
They absolutely cannot let their daughter marry such a man. With their daughter's character and appearance, she is worthy of marrying a prince.
Guo Yan also wanted to refuse, but before he entered the palace, he heard that Concubine Lan was pregnant, but the pregnancy was not good. He was worried about his brother's marriage.
For the sake of his own prince, the emperor quickly found Guo Yan and ordered him to let the daughter of the Bo family marry Qian Fugui within three months, otherwise it would be a crime of disobeying the emperor's order.
Because the emperor also knew what kind of person Qian Fugui was, he wanted to save his face and didn't want to issue an edict to bring shame on himself.
So he just gave the order orally, so that the Guo family got married on their own initiative and it was not forced by him.
Guo Yan immediately dared not speak, agreed to the emperor, and went home, but he saw the legitimate daughter who was raised with noble airs and beautiful appearance.
Under Li Rumei's brainwashing, she wanted to use this daughter to marry into a wealthy and powerful family, and not let her life be wasted. However, her eldest daughter Guo Lingyi had been married for six years.
There are already two sons, and there is only one legitimate daughter and one illegitimate daughter left in the family, but the emperor wants the legitimate daughter.
At this time, Guo Yueqing said that the emperor's order was for the legitimate daughter, but he did not say who it was, so Luo Chen should be registered under the mother's name, and she would become the legitimate daughter.
Anyway, Luo Chen had been raised by Li Rumei and was considered a half-legitimate daughter. Guo Yan and Li Rumei immediately had someone bring Luo Chen back.
Guo Yan and Li Rumei happily accepted the Qian family's proposal, and then began to prepare some flashy dowries, which looked very beautiful.
But in reality, there were only a few hundred taels of silver, and there was not a penny left in the bottom of the box.
The Qian family's purpose of marrying a noblewoman was not only to have a daughter-in-law of noble status, but also because the dowry of aristocratic women was large and could support the Qian family.
His family was a commoner family, not good at business, and had no foundation. He could only rely on the money given by the emperor and the rewards from Concubine Lan every year.
He had to live on gifts from the people he wanted to curry favor with, and he only had a few thousand taels of silver a year, which was not enough to spend, so he wanted to marry a rich and noble lady.