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Chapter 698: Many Cheats 19
Shen Yuanniang happily got married, looking forward to becoming the wife of a high-ranking official of the third rank in the future.

People around her just don't understand why she chose such a family and could be so happy after getting married. After all, most people marry up, but she is considered to be marrying down. After all, her father is now a third-rank assistant minister of the Ministry of War, a civil official, while the other party's family is a military officer. Although the titles are of the same level, in fact, a first-rank military officer is sometimes not even as high-ranking as a third-rank civil official, not to mention that he comes from a third-rank military family. There is no other reason, because military officers do not need to take the imperial examinations, and it is actually quite easy to be an official. It is much less difficult than the civil service group. After all, civil officials have to take the imperial examinations, which is too difficult.

Military generals also have military examinations, but they are much easier to pass. After all, how many people practice martial arts and take part in the examinations? How many people are willing to join the army? This leads to rapid promotion of military officers.

And things that are promoted quickly are naturally worthless at this level.

Shen Yuanniang could see the expressions of the crowd, but she didn't take it to heart, because, before long, even if these people didn't know that her current husband could pass the imperial examination and become a high-ranking official, and then envied her for her vision and good choice, they would at least understand why she didn't choose her ex-fiancé's family, because her ex-husband's mother-in-law was about to die - in her previous life, her mother-in-law died not long after she got married, and she got married earlier in her previous life, so according to the time, her ex-mother-in-law was about to die - and her father-in-law was about to marry a second wife, who would give birth to a son, and a bunch of concubines would also give birth to sons, causing the value of the property that the only two sons of her ex-husband's family could share to drop rapidly.

I heard that the ex-husband's family is now engaged and the girl is about to get married. So she hopes that the ex-husband's mother will pass away before the girl gets married. Then the man will have to observe mourning for three years, and the girl will know that the man's family is rubbish - the ex-husband, as a son, has to observe mourning for three years, but the ex-husband's father, as a husband, does not need to observe mourning for his wife for three years. So only half a year later, the ex-father-in-law remarried, and then other concubines also became pregnant. When the ex-husband's three-year mourning period is over, he will have a bunch of younger brothers and sisters. In this way, the girl will know that something is wrong with the man, and she can cancel the engagement before the man's mourning period is over and before proposing marriage, so as to avoid the pit.

The reasons are easy to find. Just say that the woman is old and can't wait any longer. It goes without saying that the man is not as good as before and is no longer worthy of the woman's family.

I think as long as the girl's family is sane, they will cancel the engagement. After all, I heard that the girl arranged by her ex-fiance's family this time comes from a family with similar conditions to hers, and she is a legitimate daughter. It is natural for a legitimate daughter to be paired with a legitimate son like her ex-fiance. When the engagement was made, her ex-fiance's family even made fun of her, saying that she broke off the engagement so that their family could find someone better, but she could only find someone worse. What about now? With such a thing happening in her family, it is not certain whether the better man will still marry into their family. After all, generally girls want to marry up. It would be fine if they marry equal, but who would be willing to marry down?

Her ex-father-in-law was probably controlled too strictly by his ex-wife. After his wife died, he let himself go very quickly, which made life difficult for his two sons.

Yes, even the eldest son suffered.

Normally, in order to prevent the family's strength from being weakened by a low-end version of the Enfeoffment Order, the eldest brother in the capital would generally be given 70% of the property, and the other brothers, regardless of whether they were legitimate or illegitimate, would share the remaining 30% equally.

However, I don’t know if it was because her ex-father-in-law was controlled too strictly by her ex-mother-in-law, which led to his rebelliousness. He disliked his ex-wife’s two sons. Therefore, unlike other wealthy families in Beijing, he did not divide his property clearly before his death, so as to avoid dividing it according to the royal law after his death, in which case all the sons would share it equally, and the family would fall apart in an instant.

Because the former father-in-law did not divide the family property clearly before his death, the eldest brother could only share the property equally with other brothers after his death, which almost made the eldest brother angry to death. Although it seems that the ex-husband and the eldest brother share the property equally, it seems to be much better than only sharing 30%, but you have to know that before her former mother-in-law died, there were only two sons in the family. Logically, his brother should get 70% and he should get 30%; although he and his brother share it equally now, it seems that he has got more, but in fact, it is not the case, because there are so many brothers now, he can't get 30% at all, which is even less than when his brother got the majority. Therefore, the two brothers are full of complaints about the former father-in-law. If they are not afraid that things will get too awkward, the old man will give all the property to other sons and not to them, otherwise, according to their true thoughts, they don't want to care about this old man at all. This can be seen from the fact that the two brothers hastily held the funeral after the former father-in-law passed away.

Shen Yuanniang's hope was not in vain. Before her ex-husband got married, her ex-mother-in-law passed away, and her ex-husband could not get married because he had to observe mourning.

Then, as expected, her ex-fiancé remarried within less than half a year. Not long after the remarriage, she became pregnant. Then, the concubines in the backyard became pregnant one after another. It was estimated that it would not be long before her ex-fiancé in this life would have many brothers and sisters.

Seeing the state of Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiance's home, many people were surprised, and then discussed privately how Shen Yuanniang was so smart.

Before, people laughed at her for canceling a good marriage, but now it seems that this is a trap. Originally, her ex-fiance could get 30% of the family property, but now she has so many younger brothers. If so many people share 30% of the family property, how can there be any family property to be divided? This condition is immediately not acceptable. Although the illegitimate son of the Loyal and Brave Earl is a illegitimate son of a military officer and his status is a bit lower, but their family has only two sons besides the eldest son. If 30% of the family property is given to other sons, this illegitimate son can get 15% of it.

It's not like Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiancé's family. Obviously, apart from the eldest son, there will be more than two sons in the future. Seeing so many people are pregnant, it is estimated that there will be several. By then, the property they have will be even less than the property of the Loyal and Brave Marquis's Mansion.

Except for the eldest son, no one in these noble families has a title. So, the comparison is about property, and with less property, the conditions are obviously worse. No wonder everyone says that Shen Yuanniang has avoided a trap. Then everyone sympathizes with the girl who has not yet married Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiance, thinking that she is too unlucky to meet such an unreliable father-in-law.

Just as Shen Yuanniang thought, the girl who was engaged to Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiance, saw that she was not marrying up but marrying down, and now her fiancé's family was in such a situation, she was immediately unhappy. After discussing it with her family, she also broke off the engagement with Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiance's family. The excuse they found was exactly what Shen Yuanniang thought, saying that Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiance still had to observe mourning for three years, and she was too old to wait that long, so she broke off the engagement.

Although she said this on the surface, everyone knew in their hearts that she was dissatisfied with the poor conditions of Shen Yuanniang's ex-fiancé, so she didn't want to marry him.

And the girl also felt that she had done her best. After all, when she saw her fiancé's mother passed away, she didn't say anything and was willing to observe three years of mourning and wait for him. But now, with her father-in-law fooling around like that, there was no point for her to wait any longer. Naturally, she broke off the engagement.