Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

How the Zhou family will repay their debts is unknown, but their lives are certainly not going to get better.

In fact, Linlang originally wanted to take revenge on the Zhou family by locking up Zhou's father and grandfather. However, she later thought that the two were extremely destructive and it would be better not to lock them up and let them cause trouble in the Zhou family, making the Zhou family suffer and unable to live a good life.

So sometimes, some families don't need revenge at all. Their lives are hard enough on their own, and it might be better to keep things as they are.

Sure enough, the Zhou family endured wind and rain, begging their way back, looking neither human nor ghost. After finally returning home, life became even more difficult.

Before they left, they made a big fuss about it, saying that their daughter had become a prince's wife—they didn't even call her a concubine, just a princess, they were very arrogant—they were now the in-laws of a prince and were going to the capital to enjoy a life of luxury. It caused a sensation in the village, after all, no one in the village had ever had such a big figure before. The last time the whole village was in an uproar was when a villager passed the imperial examination and became a scholar.

Because many people in this world are snobbish, quite a few families in the village did believe this story and came to curry favor with the Zhou family. Some even rushed over to arrange marriages with the Zhou family, wanting to marry their daughters to Brother Zhou.

Brother Zhou was quite old at the time, and he was willing to choose the best one from among these women. However, his father and grandfather stopped him, saying that they were all from the royal family and could marry any kind of good girl they wanted. Why marry a village girl like this? They could choose someone with better conditions when they got to the capital.

After hearing what his father and grandfather said, Brother Zhou agreed.

Who knew that this attempt would fail? As a result, the villagers immediately mocked them, saying that they were delusional and that there was no such thing as a free lunch. They had wasted their trip to the capital. Others ridiculed the Zhou family for being tactless and looking down on the village girls, saying that it was fortunate they hadn't made a decision yet, otherwise those girls would have been in big trouble. They wondered who Zhou Dalang would marry now.

The ridicule was one thing, but the Zhou family was thick-skinned enough to pretend they didn't hear it. However, the eldest brother of the Zhou family was a little angry. He was angry that outsiders were laughing at him for being ungrateful and not wanting a girl from the village, and he was also angry that his father and grandfather had stopped him from getting engaged back then. After all, if they had gotten engaged back then, he would have a wife by now, unlike now, where his sister, who was a benefactor, didn't recognize them, and he had lost the wife he almost got. He was caught between two sides.

When it came to his sister not recognizing them, Brother Zhou didn't feel much. Although he felt that his parents selling his sister was better than him, since he hadn't been sold and had suffered a lot at home.

But since they've already sold it, it's perfectly normal not to acknowledge them.

It was only when the villagers mocked him that he became resentful towards Linlang, thinking that she was clearly his sister and why she didn't acknowledge his family. If she had, he would immediately become the prince's brother-in-law, and he could marry any woman he wanted without being mocked by the villagers.

So he was also very angry with Linlang.

But what good was his anger? He couldn't do anything to Linlang anyway, so it just turned into white smoke.

The biggest problem facing the Zhou family right now is still how to solve their huge debts.

Grandfather Zhou used the same old method: going to his two daughters' homes to ask their husbands for money. But Father Zhou was helpless; he had sold all his daughters, and he couldn't even find a place to make ends meet. He could only run away to avoid his debts, leaving the others to suffer in front of the debt collectors.

For Brother Zhou, getting married is truly impossible. As he gets older, he grows increasingly resentful of his father and grandfather. After all, if it weren't for those two—one living a life of pleasure and the other gambling—his family wasn't badly off, and he would definitely have been able to find a wife. He wanted to find his brothers and sisters who had been sold off, to see if any of them had become successful and could help him, but he found that they had all been sold quite far away, making it virtually impossible to find someone to lend him a hand.

Consort Zhou from the capital was even considered relatively close and well-off, but she didn't acknowledge him or help him. As time went on, he grew to hate Linlang more and more.

Linlang didn't care what he was thinking. Now that she had gotten rid of the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion, she was free from all disturbances and her days were much more peaceful.

Her only task now is to prevent the second prince from making a comeback and taking over the throne.

Although the emperor has deposed the second prince and reduced him to a commoner, it doesn't mean that he can't make a comeback. So we still need to be careful, lest the second prince ascends the throne in the future and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion rises again, and all our efforts will be in vain.

Linlang was mainly concerned about this; she didn't need to worry about anything else. Because in the Prince's mansion, since she was out of favor and had no children, no one bothered her. After all, there was no need for someone who didn't have children and was out of favor to fight.

Linlang didn't decide to have a child until Prince An established a crown prince. By then, it would be much safer to have a child, because no one would interfere.

Of course, it wasn't through having sex with Prince An, but rather through in vitro fertilization. Anyway, under the influence of the illusionary props, Prince An believed he was having sex with Linlang and that she would produce sperm, which would be easy to collect.

The reason she had a child was that she didn't want to have to live at the mercy of the next Prince An and Princess An after Prince An passed away, and she didn't want to have to please people to avoid being left with scraps. After all, what if the next Princess An wasn't as kind as the current one? Wouldn't that be terrible? She didn't want to live a miserable life when she was old.

With her own child, she wouldn't have to be afraid. When Prince An passed away and her son had a title, she could move out to live separately with him, becoming an old noblewoman in her own household. It would be much easier than dealing with someone who wasn't her son.

Linlang gave birth after Prince An established his heir, and sure enough, nothing happened. After all, things had settled down and the household was much calmer, so she was able to have a child.

Of course, even if they fight, they will only target the crown prince and will not cause trouble for her children.

As long as the young master is not a truly wicked person, Linlang will not allow him to be killed and cause infighting within the manor, since she only wants a peaceful environment.

In addition, Linlang also helped the emperor by extending his lifespan.

Originally, the emperor was estimated to live to be only fifty or sixty years old, but Linlang thought that since the emperor and Prince An were brothers, and Prince An was favored and would benefit more while the emperor was alive, and besides, this emperor was also a decent person and governed the country well, so if he lived a little longer, the country would be more peaceful for a longer period of time, which was also what Linlang hoped for. So Linlang had the robot secretly feed him some gene repair fluid so that the emperor could live a little longer. It didn't need to be much, just one time would make his body much better, and living to be over seventy years old would not be a problem.

In this way, the Prince An's mansion could enjoy benefits for another one or two decades, thanks to the emperor's reign. (End of Chapter)