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Chapter 1699 The Country Girl Looked Down Upon 20
You must understand that instigating Master Zhou to kill Master Zhou is different from instigating Zhou Erlang to gamble. The former is a serious matter involving death, while the latter is just a trivial matter of life. Therefore, the former cannot be said casually, lest it be done without being absolutely certain and Master Zhou finds out, and the plan fails, thus alerting the enemy.

This is why the person behind the scenes waited until Master Zhou came out to play before secretly stirring up trouble in front of him. Although all parties had prepared to stir up trouble before, they had not taken any action.

Of course, the reason they didn't try to sow discord between Master Zhou and the others when they were restricted from leaving the mansion was not only because they were afraid that if they did so within the mansion, they would be discovered by Old Master Zhou's men, but also because killing Master Zhou would require finding someone to help. Master Zhou didn't have much power within the mansion, so he would most likely find someone on the street to do it. In this way, even if they tried to sow discord between Master Zhou and the Zhou family before they were allowed to leave the mansion, it would be useless if Master Zhou couldn't find anyone to do it. That's why they only tried to sow discord between Master Zhou and the Zhou family after the three-month confinement was lifted.

Linlang didn't take Master Zhou's abilities seriously.

In the original world, Old Master Zhou suffered a stroke, and Master Zhou handled the affairs of the mansion on his own. Even when Master Zhou the Second tried to harm him, it didn't have much of an impact on Master Zhou the First.

In this world, Old Master Zhou is safe and sound, but he is currently paying closer attention to the mansion—due to the misdeeds of Zhou Erlang and Master Zhou before—and it's estimated that it will be even more difficult for Master Zhou to pull any tricks than in the original world.

Of course, Linlang would also help keep an eye on things, and if anything went wrong that Old Master Zhou couldn't handle, she would immediately inform him.

Leaving aside the fact that Master Zhou was already planning to deal with Master Zhou in order to seize the title, let's just say that because Linlang was about to get married, Madam Zhou had been preparing for her wedding.

Because the household had previously confiscated the property of ten stewards, the household's high-interest loans had long been paid off, and the household had acquired some estates and still had some money on hand.

Because he had money, and because Old Master Zhou felt that even if Linlang got married, he would still need her help in the future, and because she was marrying into a royal family, her dowry would be too small and unattractive, he decided to give Linlang five thousand taels of silver as a dowry. He also stipulated that all the girls in the manor would receive three thousand taels of silver as a dowry when they got married. The reason Linlang gave so much was because the money the manor received was all earned by Linlang after receiving anonymous tip-offs.

They said that if Linlang had these anonymous whistleblower letters and instead of giving them to him, she would have privately contacted the stewards and asked them for money, the manor would still be in debt, and Linlang would have an unknown amount of private savings. They asked them to think about whether this made sense.

Everyone agreed with this statement, so they didn't say anything more.

Don't think that Linlang couldn't secretly hide her private stash of money. They used to think that if they collected too much money, they would have nowhere to put it, and they couldn't hide it at all.

When they arrived in the capital, they realized that it could actually be hidden.

This all started with the congratulatory gift that my great-aunt sent to the mansion.

When Madam Zhou saw the congratulatory gift from her aunt, it was a light red envelope. She wondered why it was so light, but when she opened it, she found it was a silver note from the largest money shop in the capital, containing a silver note with a face value of fifty taels.

Only then did everyone realize that there were such things as banknotes in the world. There was no need to worry about having a large amount of private money that was too conspicuous and would be discovered by others. After all, banknotes were small things that could be hidden in any secluded place, and no one would know how much money you had.

I've heard there are also gold notes, which would be even more convenient. Even if it's tens of thousands of taels of silver, a gold note costs one hundred taels, so just ten notes would be enough. Who would be able to find out?

In this way, if Linlang received the whistleblower's letter and contacted the stewards privately, and they gave her silver notes—which don't take up much space—she could easily hide a large amount of money. Since Linlang was so selfless, showing the anonymous whistleblower's letter to Old Master Zhou and getting the money given to the household, it's only right that she receive five thousand taels of dowry money for her marriage, since she's the one who obtained this money.

Soon it was time for Linlang to get married.

Although Linlang's wedding was quite ordinary for many prominent families in the capital, it was extremely luxurious for the Zhou family. After all, who in the countryside would give a girl such a large dowry?

After Linlang married the son of the General of the State, she found him to be a decent person. The two had met a few times before the marriage and had some understanding of this. If his character were too bad, Linlang would not have agreed to marry him.

He has a good character and is good-looking; these two points alone made Linlang satisfied.

Li Yu is quite good-looking, thanks to his biological grandmother.

The reason why a prince's son would be granted the title of General Who Guards the State is naturally because he is a son born out of wedlock. Otherwise, even if he was not the eldest son of the legitimate wife, but just an ordinary legitimate son, he would still be granted the title of Prince of the County.

Since he was born out of wedlock, his mother must have been quite attractive; otherwise, the King of England wouldn't have visited her so frequently, resulting in her becoming pregnant.

Because his biological grandmother was good-looking, Li Yu, the son of the General Who Guards the Nation, was also good-looking.

Linlang was satisfied with Li Yu, and Li Yu was also satisfied with Linlang.

He had some reservations when he heard that his father was going to arrange a marriage for him with a woman from the countryside. It wasn't that he thought she was a bad person, but he was afraid of being laughed at by others for marrying a village girl. He wasn't afraid of being laughed at, because it was common for members of the imperial family to marry women from the common people. Even princes and emperors married women from the common people. As long as the woman liked him, he could marry a woman from the common people. So no one would laugh at him for marrying a village girl.

Li Yu was dissatisfied simply because he felt that the country girl might not be knowledgeable enough and wouldn't be able to connect with him. He wanted a partner he could talk to and didn't want to just find someone casually.

But when he met Linlang in person, he found that she was not what he had imagined; her manner of speaking was different from that of an ordinary village girl.

Considering that the other party's ancestors came from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, he thought that it seemed that they had only fallen into poverty for two or three generations, and the family's foundation was still there. Old Master Zhou had taught the children very well. He had not seen the performance of the other girls in the Zhou family, but he felt that Linlang's behavior was due to Old Master Zhou's teaching. After all, outsiders knew that Old Master Zhou had seen a lot in his youth, so it was normal for him to teach the children.

Since Linlang was eloquent and could be spoken to, and also quite good-looking, Li Yu was naturally satisfied.

After they got married and spent more time together, Li Yu became increasingly satisfied.

The reason he was increasingly satisfied was that he found Linlang to be very emotionally stable, unlike some women in the capital whose emotions were volatile. He was a little afraid to deal with such emotionally volatile people. Dealing with someone as emotionally stable as Linlang meant that he wouldn't panic no matter what happened, and seeing her would calm him down. This naturally pleased Li Yu.