The male protagonist in "Like Jade in a Golden Heart" is definitely not the male protagonist of the sweet pet drama, and his wives and concubines add up to a total of seven women.
No matter how powerful and generous Xu Lingyi himself is as the protagonist, in the battle field of seven women, they have suffered a lot.
Of these seven women, two of the main chambers occupy the name of the main mother, and in order to live happily, they must be careful. The five concubines, if they are not careful, may embark on the tragic fate of rain and piaoping.
Among these five concubines, the person with the best ending and the most comfortable life is undoubtedly Aunt Wen.
Let's start with Aunt Tong. Aunt Tong has been Xu Lingyi's personal maid since she was a child, and she is very popular with Xu Fu. After Luo Yuanniang married Xu Lingyi, she was quite jealous of Aunt Tong. After Luo Yuanniang's first small birth, Aunt Tong became pregnant. This point in time is very awkward. Aunt Tong had difficulty giving birth during childbirth, and she died twice. Xu Lingyi was out on business at the time, and when he returned home, he suspected that Yuanniang was the murderer and was very dissatisfied with Luo Yuanniang, but he did not intend to pursue it. Regardless of whether Yuanniang is the murderer or not, she is responsible for the death of Aunt Tong, because Yuanniang is the head of the family.
This incident also hurt the feelings of Luo Yuanniang and Xu Lingyi, and the opportunities for the husband and wife to calm down and communicate in the future are less and less, and the trust is getting thinner and thinner.
Xu Lingyi also reflected his attitude towards his wife and concubine in the matter of Aunt Tong, and his duty was the bottom line. Safeguarding his wife, procreation, and family face is his goal, and right and wrong, good and evil are not the norm. Therefore, whether Aunt Tong died in vain, he would definitely not pursue it.
Let's talk about Aunt Qin. Aunt Qin and Aunt Tong were friends and became pregnant, and as a result, Aunt Tong died twice, and Aunt Qin successfully gave birth to Xu Lingyi's eldest son, Xu Siyi. Aunt Qin herself coveted the wealth of the Houfu, was short-sighted, and doted on her parents, so she was forbidden by Xu Lingyi to have too many contacts with her parent Xu Siyi. After his concubine Xu Sizhen grew up, Aunt Qin pretended to be a ghost at night to scare him, and wanted Xu Sizhen to fall ill and die. After the matter was revealed, it was quietly disposed of by the Xu family. Before dying, he went crazy and confided that the death of Aunt Tong was his doing. Witnessing the whole process of his mother's death, xu Sizhi, the parent of the child, has been studying hard ever since, and is bound to achieve fame, and he has walked out of the world by himself and no longer depends on the Xu family to live.
Aunt Qin was originally a servant by Mrs. Xu's side, and her business ability was particularly strong, so she was sent to Xu Lingyi by Mrs. Xu. This is a big fat deficiency in the eyes of the inner house. Otherwise, if they are sent to other sons, the height and status of life will be different. But Aunt Qin was fierce and had a narrow vision. Xu Lingyi wanted to send Xu Siyi to study and examine with a famous teacher, but she believed that xu Lingyi did not like her son and deliberately let her son go to a place with difficult conditions to be punished. Not to mention her act of killing Aunt Tong and wanting to kill Xu Sizhen. Her life is a tragedy and a victim of the inner house. She enjoyed the wealth of Xu Mansion with her concubines, but her vision and means could not control this fate.
Aunt Wen was the most capable and far-sighted of Xu Lingyi's five concubines. If she had not been born in a merchant family, with her ability and insight, she could have become a very good housewife and lived a prosperous life. Luo Shiyi's concubines were very cold to Xu Lingyi, but she trusted and admired Aunt Wen.
Aunt Wen was very capable when she was a child, and her brother once said happily that if she were a boy, the person who inherited the Wen family business would definitely be her. The family originally cultivated him according to the main room, but climbed Xu Lingyi, in order to maintain this relationship, or let her come to the Xu family as an aunt. When she arrived at Xu Mansion, Aunt Wen made a lot of private money doing business under Xu Lingyi's acquiescence. Xu Lingyi took away the big head, and Aunt Wen still had a good time.
Aunt Wen gave birth to Xu Lingyi's eldest daughter, so her position was stable and she would not be suspected by the main mother. She has no love for Xu Lingyi, but just wants to live in peace in Xu Mansion and has no bad intentions. The only weakness is the marriage of the daughter Zhenjie. When Xu Lingyi and Luo Shiyi niang carefully selected a safe husband for Sister Zhen, she had the courage to give luo Shiniang an opinion for the first time and expressed her thoughts. Luo Eleven Niang admired her and took the initiative to let her help organize Sister Zhen's marriage, so she was even more grateful to Luo Eleven Niang.
Luo Shiniang also chose to trust her. Aunt Wen was born into the Shangjia family and played a good calculation. Luo Eleven's wife did her best to let Aunt Wen help the Hou Mansion settle the account, and she also did her best.
Aunt Wen is particularly attentive to the people around her. After asking for the permission of Luo Eleven,she arranged an excellent affair for the close maid and added enough dowry. Xu Lingyi smelled the change in the direction of the wind, wanted to cut with the Wen family, and asked Aunt Wen to go out of the shop as soon as possible, her first worry was not the damage to the money, but how the treasurer who had followed her for more than ten years continued to survive. With the help of Luo Shiniang, the Xu family took out money and bought farms and real estate for these guys and properly placed them.
Didn't Aunt Wen suffer grievances in the Xu family? I must have suffered a lot of grievances.
Both Mrs. Xu and Xu Lingyi looked down on her origins in the Shangjia family, and she was treated a lot of contempt in Xu Mansion. When she was a child, she taught her daughter to plan the plate and recite the multiplication mantra, and she was angrily reprimanded by her mother-in-law, saying that she had taught the big lady of Xu Mansion badly, so that the good Houfu Qianjin was infected with the copper smell of money, and she was not allowed to approach her daughter Zhenjie from then on.
The funny thing is that in the finances of Xu Mansion at this time, the Wen family can contribute a lot.
In the marriage of her daughter, she also worked hard to plan to ensure that her daughter married the right family.
I think in the whole novel, Aunt Wen is the person who is most delayed by the entire inner house and female identity. If she is not married to Xu Mansion as a concubine, even if she marries into the Shangjia family as the main mother, her life will be much more exciting, at least flying wildly and showing her talents, rather than in the small inner house, struggling to face a loveless husband, only to protect herself.
Then came Aunt Joe. Aunt Joe was the least sympathetic of all the concubines. Although she had fallen into Luo Yuanniang's trap, if she was not too eager, with her origin, how could she go to be a concubine? After becoming Xu Lingyi's concubine, he disobeyed Luo Eleven and provoked her many times. All day long, I only thought about how to monopolize Xu Lingyi and get rid of the status of a concubine. The problem is that her talent, insight and way of dealing with the world are not as good as Aunt Wen's, she has a birth and beauty, and after the child miscarriage, she is disgusted by Xu Lingyi, and was once punished and sent to the temple. After being taken back to Xu Mansion, he was depressed and lived quietly. Aunt Qiao's mother's family, the family road fell, and when she exchanged gifts with Xu Fu, she was sent back by the gifts sent by Xu Fu in the past, which caused ridicule from the next person. Aunt Joe hasn't been making any fuss anymore.
The last one was Aunt Yang. Aunt Yang became Xu Lingyi's concubine and was forced. Her family is a side branch of the Yang clan of the empress dowager's mother's family, and the people are light-spoken and outstanding, and they have long become pawns used by the family to win over others. Under the strong pressure of the empress, Aunt Yang became Xu Lingyi's concubine, but Luo Shiniang never drank her respectful tea, so it was not considered a ceremony. After the death of the empress, the Yang family fell, and Sufu no longer had a foothold for her, so she went to the royal temple to become a nun and became a closed disciple of the abbot, which was also considered to have a good death.
Aunt Yang was the one that Luo Eleven Niang was most jealous of. This Lord, who has good means, can see the situation clearly, can bend and stretch, is a man who can live well everywhere he goes.
In the original work, Xu Lingyi's concubines had different fates. The restrictions of the inner house have suddenly narrowed their life options, but whether they can get to a good ending depends on the personal pattern. For example, Aunt Wen, from the heart of harmless people, but in the hands of Luo Yuanniang and Luo Eleven Niang can eat open; Aunt Yang after the defeat of the Yang family, knowing the Heart knot of Xu Fu, took the initiative to go to the royal temple, but won another world; Aunt Qin harmed people in the end, Aunt Qiao did not understand reality, and as a result, she took herself to the end.