Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

After hearing all the bad things Mrs. Xue said about her, Mrs. Zhong could no longer bear it.

"So what about you? You're luckier than me, though. You got a good daughter-in-law, but you don't cherish her. When your eldest son arranged for your fourth daughter, wasn't it because he wanted her to take care of him? But you protected him, afraid he'd be bullied, and you scolded her all day long. If it weren't for that, your fourth daughter wouldn't have taken advantage of your protection and ignored Wang, and he wouldn't have gone too far, leading to his death."

Mrs. Xue really wanted to get up and leave, but when she saw tears in Mrs. Zhong's eyes and her lips trembling, her heart softened.

She advised, "You advised me before not to get angry with my children at my age. The Zhong family still depends on you. No one can change the world while you are alive. If you are gone, who knows what will happen."

Madam Zhong said grimly, "I'm not afraid of you telling me this. Yesterday, I went to the palace to see the Queen Mother and stripped Meng of her imperial title. I told everyone she was insane. Without her, I can't expect to make a comeback!"

Madam Xue didn't know whether she admired Madam Zhong or thought she was cruel.

However, few mothers-in-law like their daughters-in-law, let alone a daughter-in-law like Meng who ruined the Zhong family.

She herself didn't know she was wrong, as she had just said. She still complained about Wang. If she could have won her son over, he wouldn't have been living a life of debauchery, contracting an illness, and leaving no children. Even if a concubine gave birth to a child, it would still be her son's bloodline. But she didn't dare to say that.

She asked, "Was Li really forced to death by Meng?"

Madam Zhong snorted, "Rather than saying that it was Meng who forced her to death, it's better to say that it was my mother-in-law who forced her to death. My mother-in-law often complained that Li had been childless for three years, and then she said in a sarcastic way that the Li family's family traditions were just so-so. Which woman could accept that? After Li died, my mother-in-law wanted to set off firecrackers. She didn't do it because of Li, but because she was targeting me. She felt that she had won over me!"

She became angrier as she spoke, her chest heaving.

The mother-in-law took the eldest son away when he was just two years old. The eldest son grew up with his mother-in-law and is not close to her.

Meng lived in her mother-in-law's courtyard. The eldest son paid his respects to his mother-in-law every day and saw Meng more often.

What Mrs. Zhong regretted most was that she should not have married Li. Firstly, it was to compete with her mother-in-law, and secondly, she really liked Li, they were a good match, and she and Mrs. Li were good friends.

Who knew that her mother-in-law would take out all her anger on Li.

On the first day of the eldest son's marriage, the mother-in-law pretended to be sick and called her eldest son over at night. Later, she said that Li's horoscope was not good and would bring bad luck to her.

This was also the main reason why she was so harsh to Mrs. Meng. Just as her mother-in-law took out her anger on Mrs. Li, she took out her anger on Mrs. Meng.

If it weren’t for the mother-in-law, how could such a good grandson of hers become someone else’s son?

Other families would think that no matter what, the son is their own son, and they would forgive him even if they didn’t know he was wrong.

She wouldn't. She wanted her son to carry this mistake with him for the rest of his life.

She had tried her best to persuade her son with all her heart, but he just listened to his mother-in-law and was obsessed with Mrs. Meng. He was cold to Mrs. Li, so Mrs. Li said she couldn't bear it anymore.

Mrs. Zhong said, "Do you want your Xue family's wealth to be taken away by outsiders? Back then, Mrs. Meng wanted to give her three daughters as a high dowry. When I'm gone, she wants to give the entire Zhong family to her three daughters. Will our Zhong family be extinct or will we have no descendants?"

Just as she was talking about this, the imperial decree was read out in the palace to cancel Meng's imperial title. Madam Zhong sent someone to call Meng. Madam Xue did not come out of the room and looked out the window.

She saw Madam Zhong, later called Mrs. Meng, with a pale face, walking towards her supported by two maids. She looked dazed and had no reaction at all. The maids forced her to kneel down.

After the imperial edict was read, Meng screamed at Madam Zhong, "Do you hate me so much? My cousin likes me, what have I done wrong?"

Mrs. Zhong ignored her and stood up, slipped a silver note to the eunuch delivering the imperial edict, and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, my daughter-in-law has gone insane."

The eunuch took the banknote, smiled knowingly, and turned away.

Mrs. Xue noticed that Meng's speech was lisp, and when she looked carefully, she found that her front teeth were gone.

She was startled. Could it be that Madam Zhong had ordered someone to beat him?

No matter how angry she was with Wang Huilan, she never asked her servants to beat Wang. To be honest, they couldn't beat her anyway.

Mrs. Zhong sent the housekeeper to escort the eunuch out. She turned and said to the maidservant beside Meng, "Take her back. Remember to tell the master what she just said."

He went into the house and said to Mrs. Xue: "I am sorry to have embarrassed you with the shame of our family."

Madam Xue tutted her tongue and said, "You're old, your hair is all white, and you still say such things. What happened to Meng's front teeth? Did you have someone hit you?"

Madam Zhong said, "Your daughter-in-law's senior sister beat her. She humiliated herself when she came to your house. Why don't you marry an idiot like this whose head is full of romantic dreams? In their hearts, family is not as important as whether a man likes her. If a man likes her, she thinks she is capable."

She took a deep breath and said, "I can only blame my son."

Mrs. Xue was still frightened. Fortunately, her eldest son was not like that and did not listen to her.

At that time, she also hoped that her eldest son would marry her niece. In the future, her eldest son would guard the border, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would be close at home. Her niece also loved her son deeply.

But except for her, the whole family was unwilling, especially her son. They said, "If I marry my cousin, should I take her to the battlefield, or stay with her every day as she wishes?"

At that time, her son also told her that her cousin needed to marry a husband who was devoted to her, who would draw her eyebrows in the morning, coax her to eat at noon, and hold her hand in watching the moon at night.

At that time she was still not convinced and said, "Isn't it good enough that your cousin only has you in her heart?"

Later, her niece married another man and complained all the time that her husband didn't care about her and didn't pay any attention to her.

One time, she couldn't bear it anymore and asked her niece, "If you were going to marry your cousin and your cousin was at the border, what would you do?"

Unexpectedly, my niece said that if I married my cousin, he would definitely stay with me and not go to the border.

Mrs. Xue was stunned. She couldn't believe that this was the daughter-in-law she had chosen back then. The Xue family's family lineage and loyalty and filial piety were not in her niece's eyes. She would be satisfied as long as the man stayed by her side.

Mrs. Xue felt discouraged after thinking about it, thinking that she was no match for Mrs. Zhong, so she went home and reflected on herself.

After returning, she heard that Wang had come to the general's mansion and was with the eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liao. She called the two of them over and told them about the Zhong family. It was Mrs. Zhong who went to the palace in person to ask to see Queen Mother Wang.

Seeing that the two of them didn't look surprised, she asked, "You all know?"

Madam Liao shook her head and said, "I guessed that if Madam Zhong didn't take the initiative, the court would revoke Madam Zhong's imperial title. Queen Mother Wang hates people who favor concubines over their wives the most."

Madam Xue didn't dare to speak, as she had been called upon by Queen Mother Wang before.

Wang Huilan was gloating on the side. If her mother-in-law had not scolded her before, who knows how she would have made things difficult for her?

I really want to ask my mother-in-law, where are you being arrogant at home? Do you dare to say a word in front of the Queen Mother?