Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

The act of taking money to cheat victims also led to the deaths of countless people, including the wife of the Duke of Cheng'en.

Because the wife of the Duke of Chengen had committed numerous crimes, no matter how much she protested her innocence, the three judicial departments, including the Court of Judicial Review, still reported the evidence they had collected to the emperor, which enraged the emperor, who then stripped the Duke of Chengen of his title and confiscated his property.

To be honest, if it weren't for her status as the emperor's aunt and her daughter-in-law being the empress's sister, she would definitely have been executed immediately. Simply stripping her of her title and confiscating her property was too lenient for her.

But Lady Cheng'en, of course, did not think that she had been let off easy just because she was not beheaded. She watched as her family was stripped of their title and their property was confiscated. Then all her private savings were also confiscated and put into the national treasury. She could not bear it and fainted.

Of course, part of it was because she couldn't bear it and fainted, but another part was that she was afraid of being blamed by her family, so she fainted half-heartedly.

But what's the point of fainting like that? After all, you can't stay unconscious forever. When you wake up, you'll still get scolded by your whole family.

Soon, the officials from the Three Departments came to the door and kicked the Chengen Duke's family out. After all, their title had been stripped and their property confiscated, so they naturally couldn't be allowed to stay there any longer.

Fortunately, the Song family still had some clan property. This property belonged to the Song family, and the confiscation of their title and property did not include it. So they moved to a manor registered under the family name and made further plans.

They originally wanted to seek refuge with Madam Song's family, but Madam Song's family house was not big enough to accommodate so many of them, so Madam Song naturally refused and suggested that they stay at the clan's estate.

When the former Duke Cheng'en, now Master Song, saw that Madam Song the Second was unwilling to let them stay, he was a man of pride and naturally wouldn't keep pestering them. So, seeing that Madam Song the Second had rejected their request for refuge, he immediately took his whole family to the clan's estate and ignored Madam Song the Second.

When Madam Song saw that Master Song was unhappy with her refusal, she immediately stormed off with her entourage. She just smiled, not caring at all. After all, who was afraid of him getting angry? Anyway, their family had the Empress's sister as their daughter-in-law. When Liu Si Niang went to her parents' home to get some money, wouldn't they be able to live a good life again? They didn't need her help at all.

Speaking of Liu Siniang, she was dumbfounded when she saw that the Duke of Chengen's mansion had been stripped of its title and its property confiscated.

No, the heir of the Duke of Cheng'en is the male lead! How could the male lead have his title stripped and his family property confiscated?!
What happened? Shen Linlang married the heir of the Duke of Cheng'en, and the Duke of Cheng'en's mansion was fine, but when I married the heir of the Duke of Cheng'en, the Duke of Cheng'en's mansion was stripped of its title and its property confiscated? What's going on? Compared to Shen Linlang, where is she lacking?
Linlang also found it strange that Liu Si Niang had this question. After all, a person's personality cannot be changed. If it weren't for Liu Si Niang's seduction, the heir of the Duke of Cheng'en might have married the original owner of the body. But given the character of the wife of the Duke of Cheng'en, how could she agree? Even if she did agree, given her personality, she would probably still lend money at high interest rates, and in the end, the Duke of Cheng'en's mansion would still have trouble.

Nothing happened in the world that Liu Siniang knew. Linlang guessed that if this world was really a book, either the novel would end when the heir of the Duke of Chengen married the original owner of the body, and the book would not describe how the Duke of Chengen's family would develop afterward; or... before the old lady died, the heir of the Duke of Chengen married the original owner of the body, and then the old lady knew that the wife of the Duke of Chengen was not satisfied with the original owner of the body, and was afraid that the original owner of the body would be bullied after she died, so she directly put the original owner of the body in charge of the household.

Since the Duchess of Chengen no longer managed the household, she naturally didn't need to worry about how to support the family. After all, she had plenty of private savings and wasn't short of money. As a result, none of the later events would have happened.

As for the original owner's butler, given his honest nature and the fact that the old lady had passed away and the family was in mourning, he was likely to be frugal. So he simply said that there was no money in the family's accounts. Taking advantage of the mourning period, the family did not need to socialize and could reduce expenses, which would allow them to get by.

Anyway, no one knows what it would have been like if the original owner had married the heir of the Duke of Chengen. In Linlang's world, the Duke of Chengen's mansion got into trouble because of the Duke of Chengen's wife's indiscretions. Now that the Duke of Chengen's mansion has been stripped of its title and its property confiscated, Liu Siniang is starting to regret marrying the heir of the Duke of Chengen.

She is indeed love-struck, but she is also a person who cares about her reputation. Otherwise, she wouldn't have tried to snatch the Crown Prince of Chengen away as soon as she discovered he was the male lead of the book. She only wanted to take him because she thought he was handsome, had a high status, and was the male lead.

Now that the heir of the Duke of Chengen has lost his title, he will be just an ordinary citizen from now on, and he won't even have any money. He's still counting on her to go to her family home to get money for everyone so that they can continue to live a good life. Naturally, Liu Siniang can't accept this.

Moreover, after falling from grace, the heir of the Duke of Chengen lost the sense of superiority that came with his status and position, and without the backdrop of his luxurious clothes, he was no different from an ordinary person. In any case, he was no longer as elegant as before, and Liu Siniang instantly stopped liking him as much.

However, she has been married to the heir of the Duke of Chengen for several years and has already had a child. If she no longer likes the heir of the Duke of Chengen, leaving will not be so easy, because her family may not allow her to divorce the heir of the Duke of Chengen and go back home.

The reason is simple: her sister is the empress in the palace. If she were to divorce and return to her family because the heir of the Duke of Chengen had fallen on hard times, people might say she was a snob who abandoned someone when they were down on their luck. Her family was afraid that the Liu family would get such a reputation, so they would definitely not allow her to divorce and return to her family. Even if she did something illegal or criminal under the guise of the Duke of Chengen's family, she would not want to continue associating with such a family and would sever all ties, but she might not be able to succeed.

Even if she succeeds, if the emperor dislikes her treatment of his maternal uncle's family, he will then extend that dislike to her sister as well. For this reason alone, her maternal family might not agree to her doing so. You see, there are favored concubines in the palace, and they also have two princes. Her sister's life in the palace is not very stable, and her maternal family is very afraid of incurring the emperor's displeasure and losing the position of crown prince.

Even if her sister is the empress, as long as the emperor deposes the empress, her sister's son cannot become the crown prince.

Therefore, it is highly likely that her family did not want her to make any noise, lest it incur the emperor's displeasure towards her sister.

Although the Duke of Chengen's family did such a thing, the emperor should not stand up for his maternal uncle's family in principle. But what if the emperor does not want to make her sister's son the crown prince? He can use this as an excuse to make trouble for her sister. Her maternal family certainly does not want such an accident, so they will definitely prevent her from leaving the Duke of Chengen's heir.

This wasn't just her wild guess; she had gone back to her parents' home to get information, and her mother immediately stopped her—she had figured it out.

Her mother meant that she couldn't just leave someone who was down on their luck; their Liu family daughters couldn't do that.

She didn't know if the Liu family was really so morally upright; she guessed it was because of Empress Liu in the palace.

The thought that she couldn't possibly leave the heir of the Duke of Cheng'en and marry someone else filled Liu Siniang with depression. (End of Chapter)