Among Ximenqing's six wives and concubines, Meng Sanniang is undoubtedly the most transparent. Compared with the other five, she has a unique thoroughness in her bones.
When Ximenqing died, the endings of the other wives and concubines were different: Li Bei'er died first, Li Jiao'er remarried Zhang Erguan, Pan Jinlian was killed by Wu Song because of her entanglement with Chen Jingji, Sun Xue'e committed suicide, and the maid Pang Chunmei married Zhou Shoubei, and finally failed to escape the tragic fate.
However, Meng Yulou, with her unique demeanor and calm attitude, married Li Yanei with her dowry and became the ultimate winner.
Some people say that Meng Yulou is the ideal female image of Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, so he designed the best ending for her.
Meng Yulou was originally a wealthy widow, and was introduced by Xue's sister-in-law to marry Ximenqing, although she did not have a high status, wealth, and appearance among Ximenqing's many wives and concubines, she was the only woman who did not rely on Ximenqing to control her fate.
There is a good saying, "the daughter who marries spills the water", but in reality, even if you marry into a wealthy family, not all of them can live a good life.
Ximen Qing married Meng Yulou, most of the reason was because she was rich, so that when she was in a hot fight with Pan Jinlian, she took the lead in marrying Meng Yulou.
But Meng Yulou is different from Li Bei'er, after marrying into Ximen Mansion, although Meng Yulou has a lot of dowry, but after she remarried, Wu Yueniang took her dowry as her own, leaving her only with the one stepping bed.
This makes us think, is the dowry really our own dependence? Or, if you marry into a wealthy family, can you really live a good life?
On the day of Meng Yulou's wedding, her ex-husband's uncle Zhang Long questioned her for taking away all the Yang family's property and asked to open the box and inspect the goods. Meng Yulou was always calm in the face of this insult, and responded that she only owed a few hundred taels of silver, and had already left most of her property to her brother-in-law.
Taking advantage of the quarrel between Fourth Uncle Zhang and her ex-husband and aunt, Meng Yulou successfully escaped from the scene with a bed tent, makeup, and cage, and married into Ximen Mansion.
Although Meng Yulou's dowry has always been her secret, according to the matchmaker, she has a good sum of money in her hand, as well as Nanjing's Babu bed and four seasons clothes, etc., with a total of thousands of taels of silver and 300 cylinders of three-shuttle cloth.
With these dowries, Meng Yulou was prosperous in Ximen Mansion, but she knew that Ximenqing's marriage to her was for their own interests, and as long as she kept her dowry, she would have enough power.
Although the matchmaker deceived her into marrying Ximenqing is wife, and Ximenqing also said that she would let her manage family affairs, which is a kind of ** for Meng Yulou. But she still married Ximenqing without hesitation, and she was full of expectations for becoming a wife.
However, when she discovered Wu Yueniang's shrewdness and Ximenqing's many wives and concubines, her hopes of becoming a wife were dashed, and she was even more reluctant to take out the dowry to subsidize Ximenfu.
However, fate sometimes can't. Ximen Qing died suddenly, and Wu Yueniang and Meng Yulou became the only two women in Ximen Mansion. Meng Yulou met Li Yanei when he was incense during the Qingming Festival, and he came to the door to propose marriage to Meng Yulou.
At this time, Meng Yulou was a little hesitant, because she had no children, and she was not young, she was worried that Li Yanei would be able to give her a pension and send her to the end of her life?
In the end, she decided to seize this opportunity and married Li Yanei with the bed tent dowry box cage and started her new life.
Sister-in-law Xue was familiar with Meng Yulou's thoughtful character, so when Ximen Qing had just died in a concubine's room, she skillfully matched the two.
Although Meng Yulou was not satisfied with this marriage, she hid her scheming deeply, did not quarrel or make trouble, and finally kept the clouds open and saw the moon.
She was shrewd and capable, saw the opportunity, and decisively carved out a new life for herself.