As we all know, Sheng Xuan is a person who regards his face as more important than his life, when Liang Han of Mo Lan's private association was arrested, he thought about poisoning Mo Lan, such as when Wen Yanjing of The Lan private meeting was bumped into by Gu Tingye, he said that the whole family would die together, and there was no trace of the idea that "it is better to die than to live", once he encountered something humiliating, he could not hide it, Sheng Shao's first reaction must be to save face with death, which shows how important face is to him.
With Sheng Shao's self-proclaimed Qingliu personality, it is reasonable to say that his sons and daughters should not have climbed the branches, but among his four daughters and two sons, in addition to Rulanxia marrying Wen Yanjing, the rest of the marriages were all cross-class high climbing, and Wen Yanjing and Rulan Ding had already won the list, and the trend of the entire Sheng family was obviously upward. Although this was not deliberately done by Sheng Shao, almost all of his children were highly married, so why did no one in the outside world gossip, but also said that Sheng Shao was a Qingliu family?
Ordinary people's marriages are with interests, if Sheng Xuan gets any benefits because he marries a girl gao and marries his daughter-in-law, the spit star of Fenjing alone can drown the Sheng family, but starting from Sheng Xuan's marriage to his first daughter, Hua Lan, he did not ask for any benefits from his relatives, and usually did not even have the move of getting closer to him, and even ignored the feat of using his daughter to marry his daughter, and anyone who saw it would think that the Sheng family had lost a lot of money.
Sheng Xuan's more powerful point is that he not only never shows off how high his daughter-in-law's son-in-law's family lineage is, but also stops Minglan when her new marriage is too ostentatious, and since then Minglan has never sat in a luxurious carriage with four cars when she returned to her mother's house. Mo Lan wanted to swagger, but she did not have the strength, she did not have much dowry, and she did not have any say in the in-laws' family, so the whole Sheng family gave people a very low-key feeling, and high marriage seemed to be an ordinary marriage for them.
Coupled with the fact that the Sheng family also has a loyal old lady sitting in town, the old lady Sheng is widowed in less than thirty years, and she can still find a good son-in-law in a good old age, but she is willing to give up the opportunity to remarry, and the concubine is carefully cultivated in her own name, and the outside world admires her, and even with the Sheng family, she will also look up to the Sheng family, as for the fact that she raised Lin Jiaoshuang to make concubines for Sheng Xuan, it is also normal in the eyes of the outside world, after all, the mother of the concubine gave her own adopted son to a concubine, which was very common in society at that time.
Most importantly, the original work also said that with Minglan's beauty, if you want to marry the children of the royal family and be a side concubine, it is more than enough, but if Sheng Shao is willing to give up that old face to send his daughter out, the Sheng Shao family will be much better in Kyoto. However, for the sake of face, the Sheng family looked for Minglan to find some households with portals lower than their own, the Gu family's family affair, but Gu Tingye personally came to the door to ask for marriage, it is said that the Sheng family also carefully considered for many days.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Sheng family's style of acting is definitely a down-to-earth Qingliu family, and the lord of Pingning County also wanted to ask Minglan to be a concubine for Qi Heng, and the Duke of Qi reprimanded his wife for the first time in the world, saying that she was whimsical, which showed how strictly Sheng Xuan established his external image.