Because his body was full of ulcers when he died, they did not dare to stop his spirit1停灵, tínglíng: stop spirit (to keep a coffin in a temporary location before burial), so they directly sealed him in the coffin that had been prepared long ago and buried him in the ancestral grave of the Xiao family.
Because it was a scandal, the Xiao family only invited a very small number of people on the day of the funeral. It was said that the person standing with the new Duke’s heir who was wearing filial piety clothes that day was a girl who was fifteen or sixteen years old and somewhat unremarkable.
The girl had a delicate appearance and no sad expression on her face. Instead, she was very interested in the funeral arrangements and the strangers who came to express condolences. However, because of her innocent eyes, no one thought that her behavior was excessive.
That girl must be the fool that Duke Xiao’s heir married in the countryside according to rumors. Because she was stupid, she couldn’t distinguish the occasion and couldn’t pretend to be sad.
It had been three months, but Duke Xiao’s heir still had not divorced his wife. He even asked this silly girl to mourn her father-in-law.
As the saying goes, if the heir’s wife could accompany the heir to serve the three years of his father’s mourning, even the Old County Duke couldn’t drive away his grandson’s wife at will.
In the seventh month after Xiao Lingdong’s return, one hundred days of filial piety had passed. The new Duke’s heir, who had returned to the upper-class circle, had received temptations from all sides.
Invitations were always sent to him and his wife on different banquet occasions. However, the Duke’s heir always went alone, and his idiot wife never appeared at the lady’s tea party.
This made some people who were originally interested in the title of Duke’s wife ready to move. In their view, this was a sign that the Duke’s heir did not value his wife. Perhaps he had not divorced his wife before just to keep a good reputation.
To put it bluntly, how could a fool deserve to be the wife of the County Duke?
However, although the Duke’s heir never took his wife to those social occasions, people often saw the Duke’s heir not shying away from outsiders’ eyes, taking his wife to eat at roadside stalls.
Some people also saw the Duke’s heir taking his wife to visit a Buddhist temple, picking up his wife who could not walk halfway, and carrying her all the way to the top of the mountain.
At this time, those people realized that he never took her to those banquets, not because he looked down on her, but because he liked her, so he protected her.
The position of Duke’s wife was unbreakable.
Everyone thought that Old Duke Xiao, who was least likely to accept the existence of this silly granddaughter-in-law, would not remain silent.
But, his body was not functioning anymore and he occasionally used his experience to teach his grandson. So, the power of the connections in the Duke’s mansion was gradually transferred to Xiao Lingdong’s hands.
How did they know that Old Duke Xiao didn’t want to do it, but just didn’t dare.
Huo Lindong made the right bet. Rather than having a stupid granddaughter-in-law, Duke Xiao was more unwilling to see his bloodline cut off from Xiao Lingdong.
In the fifth year, his Aunt’s family and the Jiang family all missed their friends and relatives in their hometown. Huo Lindong simply took his wife and family back to his hometown to see the place where he once lived.
At this time, Xu Baozhu, who finally married Lin Pingchun, heard these strange but very familiar names and felt only bitterness and unwillingness in her heart.
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