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Chapter 1765 The Country Girl Looked Down Upon 86 (The End)

The King of England lived to be nearly ninety years old before passing away, by which time the Crown Prince had already died.

However, there's no need to worry about the King changing the heir apparent after the Crown Prince's death. The King did not do that; instead, he made the Crown Prince's son the Crown Prince's grandson, who will inherit the title when the King passes away.

Actually, this is for the best. The Crown Prince did not inherit the title, but his grandson inherited it directly, which saves the trouble of downgrading the title once. Originally, when the Crown Prince was a Prince of the County, the title would be downgraded every four generations. Now that the Crown Prince's son is a Prince of the County, the part that the Crown Prince did not inherit will not be counted. Instead, the inheritance of the title will start from the grandson. So, it is equivalent to the line of the Crown Prince's grandson being able to inherit the title one more time, which is naturally a good thing.

After the King's death, and since the Queen had already passed away, the various families naturally began to divide the household.

Consort Zhang was quite old at this time, but thanks to Linlang's care, she was still alive.

Of course, Consort Zhang was already quite old and had long since stopped managing the household.

In fact, Consort Zhang only managed the household for more than ten years before retiring due to exhaustion.

Actually, she was in good spirits at the time. However, the Crown Princess of England no longer wanted the concubines to manage the household affairs. After all, she had already given them power for more than ten years, which was enough. She couldn't let these concubines manage the household affairs indefinitely.

So they found Consort Zhang, who was the oldest at the time, gave her a large sum of money, and asked her to take the lead in retiring.

At that time, Consort Zhang was already old and could not manage the household for many more years. Now that she didn't have to manage the household, she got a large sum of money for free. Consort Zhang was naturally willing to cooperate with the Crown Princess of Ying. So she told the Crown Princess of Ying that she was too old and did not want to manage the household anymore.

The Crown Princess immediately agreed, and then told the other concubines that Concubine Zhang had already retired. She was highly respected and no longer managed the household affairs, so it was not appropriate to let the other concubines manage the household affairs as well. Therefore, she revoked the management rights of the other concubines.

These concubines are not as favored as Consort Liu was back then. Even if their power to manage the household is taken back, they would lose face if they complained to the King of Ying.

After all, the Crown Princess only gave the household management authority to several families because her mother-in-law, the Crown Princess, had committed murder, and she didn't want to be ostracized in the household. It wasn't that the King asked the Crown Princess to relinquish power.

Now that the Crown Princess has taken back the power, even if they complain to the King, he certainly won't say anything. So the Crown Princess has successfully regained control of the household.

Of course, the reason it went so smoothly was because it was justified. After all, Consort Zhang had given up her power to manage the household. There was no reason why other consorts could manage the household but she couldn't. Since she wasn't managing it, no one else could either.

Because Consort Zhang cooperated with the Crown Princess in regaining power, and because Consort Zhang was always honest and didn't cause trouble, the Crown Princess would come up with some pretexts every year to give Consort Zhang and the second wife some benefits.

As the head housekeeper, she held considerable power. She could give benefits to any family she wanted simply by fabricating a pretext that only that family could afford. Therefore, after Consort Zhang relinquished her position as head housekeeper, the second branch of the family's income decreased, but it didn't disappear entirely, unlike the other branches, which were reverted to receiving only monthly allowances and annual stipends.

They used to receive money, but now they don't, which makes them quite uncomfortable. They want to cause trouble, but naturally, they can't succeed. On the contrary, their troublemaking behavior makes the Crown Princess increasingly dislike them, so instead of giving them benefits, she sometimes secretly deducts money from those who cause trouble.

Because the Crown Princess often provided subsidies to Consort Zhang and the second wife afterward, the second wife's life was quite good.

When the King of England passed away and the royal family divided their property, Linlang and Li Yu already owned six houses and six shops, with annual rents amounting to several thousand taels of silver.

Even after moving out of the mansion, in addition to the stipends for Li Yu and the adult children with titles in the mansion, there were still several thousand taels of rent, and they still lived a carefree life.

The reason why Linlang and her husband separated from the Prince of Ying's Mansion after the division of the family, instead of staying with Master Li and his family, is that Master Li and his wife passed away not long after separating from the family. This is quite normal. As long as Linlang did not provide gene repair fluid to slow down their aging, given the average lifespan in this world, it is normal for them to pass away soon after separating from the family, since they were already around seventy years old.

Linlang and her husband moved out of the mansion and lived a good life. Some other branches of the family, however, did not fare so well. They had little money, no land or shops, and after moving out, they could only rely on the meager stipends of the imperial family to make ends meet. Their standard of living was not as good as it was in the Prince of Ying's mansion.

Fortunately, they at least had titles and stipends, which guaranteed their income regardless of drought or flood, and they still had to make a living. Unlike the branches of the Zhenguo Duke's mansion, who had neither titles nor stipends, nor held official positions, but were just ordinary people with little land, shops, or money to generate income, they could only sit and eat their savings until they eventually became ordinary people.

Linlang has lived for many years and can naturally see the development of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion over the next few decades.

She couldn't manage the relatives who had left the main household. At most, she would look after the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion to prevent them from causing any trouble. After all, the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion before the Zhou family took over had died out because it was too troublesome. She naturally couldn't let the current Zhenguo Duke's Mansion be like that, at least not while she was alive. So she didn't care about ordinary family feuds, but if anyone caused trouble and even killed someone, she would expose them in time. Not only would they fail to cause trouble, but they would also die of illness or go to jail because of the exposure. They wouldn't be able to cause any trouble.

Of course, over the decades, the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion did produce some capable people. Some of his sons were successful, passed the imperial examinations, and obtained official positions. However, these were all from collateral branches. The main branch never amounted to much. This was probably because the thought of inheriting the title and having enough to eat and drink in the future gave them no motivation to strive. Fortunately, they didn't cause any trouble, which was fine.

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For her new adventure, Linlang chose a modern world to explore. After all, staying in ancient times was too boring; she wanted to experience the technological world of the modern era.

However, Linlang has always been cautious about choosing worlds with supernatural abilities or high technology, such as interstellar, cultivation, or magic, because those worlds are too dangerous. Unless there is a special reason, she will not go there, so as not to lose her life or damage her spiritual body.

This time, Linlang chose a very ordinary world, seemingly a world from a novel.

The original owner's identity is suspected to be the true love and white moonlight of multiple male protagonists... a substitute.

Substitute novels are no longer popular, yet there are still such novels. So, Linlang, feeling resentful towards the female supporting characters in novels, decided to come to this world for fun.