Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

Regarding his wife in the country, Meng hinted to Qi Sheng intentionally or unintentionally that she was his first wife, and the marriage contract also stated that she was his first wife. Qi Sheng had a preconceived idea and determined that Meng was his first wife, so naturally he would not ask whether he had another wife in the country.

In addition, there is the annual ancestor worship. Logically, Qi Sheng should go back to the mountain village to worship, if not every year, at least once every three to five years.

The reason why he has never returned to Dashan Village in the past ten years is that his parents' graves have been moved to the capital, and Dashan Village is a place that has long disappeared from his memory.

In order to prevent Qi Sheng from returning to Dashan Village, Mrs. Meng had two skeletons selected for a mass grave and buried them with honor. The names of Qi Sheng's parents were written on the tombstone, and she said, "My husband is busy with state affairs, and as the mistress of the house, I will take care of the family affairs."

What she meant was that she had already arranged for people to move the graves, so he didn't need to ask for leave to go back to the mountain village. He just needed to do his job conscientiously and not miss any opportunity for promotion.

Officials of the fifth rank were all small fry in the capital. Qi Sheng had already felt what it meant when a higher-ranking official could crush a person. With Meng's constant whispering in his ear, he was encouraged to work hard. Qi Sheng focused all his attention on studying how to get promoted and make money, and he had gotten into the habit of leaving all the big and small matters at home to Meng.

Meng said that the two graves were those of his parents, and he really believed it and visited the graves of his "parents" every Qingming Festival.

As for other ancestors, Meng had another story. She had also heard him say that his parents fled to a mountain village, and their hometown had been destroyed by floods, so he could no longer tell which one was his ancestor.

Meng was not afraid of him investigating. As long as he didn't go to the mountain village and was given an address of a wasteland, he could investigate however he wanted.

The reason why Meng didn't take action against Aunt Qi and her son and wipe out the roots was not because she was kind, but because she was disdainful.

For Aunt Qi and her son, their husband (father) Qi Gousheng had died on the battlefield and had nothing to do with Qi Sheng.

Furthermore, when Aunt Qi and Qi Gousheng got married, they did not go to the county government to sign a marriage contract, but only held a wedding banquet in the village. According to the laws of the Zhao Kingdom, she was the first wife, and Aunt Qi and her son were at most concubines.

As long as the mother and son did not come to disrupt her current life, Meng would not attack them. Most importantly, she did not take a country woman seriously at all. Killing them was as easy as crushing an ant.

For more than ten years, one important reason why no one suspected that Meng was cheating on Qi Sheng was that Qi Sheng and Meng's white moonlight Han Yao were four or five points similar, and Meng's daughter was two or three points like Qi Sheng. Everyone would subjectively think that she was Qi Sheng's biological daughter, and even Qi Sheng himself thought so.

One of the main reasons why Meng chose Qi Sheng to be the savior was to use him as a substitute. Otherwise, with the power of Meng's family, choosing a promising poor scholar and directly telling the other party the truth, many people would volunteer to be a father.

In order to fool Qi Sheng, Meng paid a lot.

Meng's youngest son was indeed Qi Sheng's biological son. His birth was an accident. It was mainly because Meng and Han Yao had a quarrel. Meng drank to drown her sorrows and had sex after drinking. Two months later, she found out that she was pregnant.

As the mistress of the house, not having a son would be disadvantageous to her position in the long run, so she decided to give birth to the child.

Mrs. Meng was a bit lucky. She wanted a son and she happened to give birth to a son.

Of course, she would not waste this opportunity. Even if she failed to give birth to a son, she had already prepared a "son" early. As for raising someone else's son, she treated it as raising cats and dogs. Anyway, everything in the Qi family belonged to her daughter.