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Chapter 824: Many Cheats 145
Although the Wang family did become a bit arrogant after Concubine Wang became favored and prosperous, and even did some illegal things by trading money for power, the Wang family is not good, but people like Shen Yuanniang's husband's family who are opportunistic and treacherous are not good people either.

When they saw others were successful, they ran up to them and currying favor with them. Now that they are down and out, they quickly dump them. No one will say that what these people did is right at any time.

So even though Shen Yuanniang's husband's sister came back, it was difficult for her to remarry. It was not just because of her age, but other families were also afraid that if their family fell into poverty in the future, she would run away again, so no one dared to marry her.

So when Shen Yuanniang's husband's sister came back and tried to marry again, she was not able to marry a man of either high or low status, and she never got married.

Fortunately, her husband's family is rich and powerful, and it is not a big problem to feed one more mouth to feed, so Shen Yuanniang's husband's sister can still stay in her parents' home. At most, she will sometimes have some conflicts with her sisters-in-law. This is also normal. It is difficult to avoid conflicts when a large family lives together.

Of course, what they are most worried about now is that Shen Yuanniang’s father-in-law, whose position as a third-rank official is very likely to be taken away.

Not only Shen Yuanniang's father-in-law had this worry, but also other families who had been promoted quickly because of Concubine Wang had this worry.

These people were promoted to official positions by currying favor with the Wang family. Now that the Wang family has fallen, their official positions are naturally shaky. After all, if a king rises by this, he will fall by this.

Their worries were not unnecessary. Soon, many people were stripped of their official positions, and it was considered good if they could be demoted back to their previous rank. Some who were too close to Concubine Wang were found to have committed crimes and were arrested.

The evidence of these crimes were basically true, and the court did not wrongly accuse them. After all, most of those who climbed up the social ladder by currying favor with Concubine Wang were shameless, and how many of them could withstand investigation?

Most people were demoted, except Shen Yuanniang's husband's family, who were also demoted, but not completely, and still retained some dignity.

The reason is that Shen Yuanniang's sister is now the queen.

The reason why the younger sister is the queen and her husband's family is demoted is very simple. First, Linlang did not say anything good to them. Second, the new emperor, the Prince of Anjiang, is just a figurehead for the time being and has no real power. In this way, the new emperor cannot refute any decision made by the previous ministers. It is already for the sake of the new emperor's face that he can keep some dignity for Shen Yuanniang's husband's family.

In fact, Prince Anjiang said that there was no need to give respect to Shen Yuanniang's husband's family for his sake, because although his wife and Shen Yuanniang were sisters, their relationship was ordinary. It was estimated that the queen had never thought about keeping Shen Yuanniang's family rich.

By now, the Earl of Jing'an had passed away due to old age, but his wife was still alive. If the Earl of Jing'an were still alive, she might have pleaded for her eldest daughter's in-laws. However, it was impossible for the wife of the Earl of Jing'an to plead for her concubine's daughter's in-laws.

The wife of Jing'an Bo would not treat concubines harshly, but who could like the children her husband had with other women, just like a man could like the children his wife had with other men? It was difficult for men to do so, and the same was true for women, so the relationship between the wife of Jing'an Bo and Shen Yuanniang was just a face-saving relationship, so how could she plead for her?

This was Lady Jing'an's attitude towards Shen Yuanniang, and Linlang naturally had similar thoughts. Concubines were legal in this era, so she would not target Shen Yuanniang, the daughter of her aunt, but she also couldn't like her. It would be strange for her to like the child of her father and another woman.

If Shen Yuanniang's concubines were arranged by Lady Jing'an to Marquis Jing'an, then she might still treat them like her own sisters. After all, it was her own mother who made the arrangement, and she would have a responsibility for the children born to those concubines.

But Shen Yuanniang's concubine was not arranged by Jing'an Earl's wife to Jing'an Earl. She was arranged by Jing'an Earl's old lady as a concubine for Jing'an Earl before marriage, and was promoted to concubine after marriage. Naturally, Linlang would not have any feelings for the children born to such a woman, let alone feel any responsibility towards them.

So don’t say that those ministers didn’t ask Linlang for her opinion. Even if they did, Linlang would only let them do things according to the rules.

Anyway, she wouldn't make things difficult for Shen Yuanniang, but she wouldn't help her either.

Although Linlang did not help Shen Yuanniang, just because Linlang was the queen, her family was directly promoted to a marquisate according to the rules, and Shen Yuanniang's status in the capital also rose sharply.

Not only did her status in Beijing rise sharply, but her status in her husband's family also rose like a rocket.

After all, looking at the other families who curry favor with Concubine Wang, their official positions have either been stripped or reduced to their original status, but my family has not been stripped, and even if it was demoted, it was only demoted to the fourth rank, instead of being reduced to the original status of the fifth rank. It is clear that it is thanks to having the queen's sister as a daughter-in-law that I was able to keep the fourth rank official position. Otherwise, I would at least be demoted to the fifth rank. If I am unlucky, I might be demoted to the lowest rank.

Knowing who brought the benefits, Shen Yuanniang's status in her husband's family naturally rose. It was not just a matter of rising water, but rather it rose like a rocket.

Before, because Shen Yuanniang's husband's family was promoted to a third-rank official, and her father had passed away, her brothers had no prospects and could only inherit the title and be given an idle job, which was considered to be a down-and-out situation. Although Linlang was a princess, she was only the princess of a prince, and there were quite a few princes in the capital, so she was not worth much. Therefore, her status in her husband's family was getting lower and lower as her husband's family became better and better.

At the beginning, her husband's family was only of the fifth rank, and she was from the Jing'an Marquis's Mansion, her father was a third rank official, and her sister was the princess of a county prince. In every respect, they were out of reach for ordinary fifth rank officials, so when she first got married, her husband's family treated her with pampering and loved her very much.

But now, her husband's family is already a third-rank official, and as for her family, her father who held real power has passed away, and her brothers from her natal family are not helpful. To the powerful officials of the third-rank official, although the prince and others dare not look down on them, it is just that, that is to say, the things that she was proud of before, are no longer taken seriously by her husband's family, so her status in her husband's family has naturally declined.

There were even a few times when someone in her husband's family made sarcastic remarks about the fact that she had broken off an engagement and married someone before. The implication was that their family was now well-off and her husband could marry a better woman, and they thought she was not worthy of him.

Some people even poked at her sore spot and laughed at her for having no vision, saying that her ex-husband had passed the imperial examination and was now in a high official position, yet she just threw him away like that.

Knowing clearly that she hated talking about how well her ex-husband was doing, those people still said those things, which naturally made Shen Yuanniang very unhappy.