A car accident, our family of three crossed

At that time, Cheng'en Marquis Mansion.

Zhou Huan and his family returned to the Marquis' Mansion today and had a family dinner which lasted until nightfall.

This year, the old lady of the Marquis' Mansion did not let Zhou Ru live in the mansion. On the contrary, she was unusually friendly to Zhou Ru, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.

Zhou Ru was secretly happy that she didn't have to stay in the Marquis's Mansion. This way, she could go to the market with Song Ning every day.

Zhou Huan and Zhou Ting didn't think much about it. They just thought that the old lady was thinking about the little conflict between Zhou Ru and Zhou Yan last year, and was worried that the sisters would have another conflict because of their grudges, so she didn't want to keep Zhou Ru.

On the carriage back to the Zhou Mansion, Zhou Ru was happy and relaxed, and even hummed a little tune. Anyone could see that she was in a good mood at the moment.

However, Xiang Huan, who was sitting at one side, felt a little uneasy and asked in confusion, "Miss, do you feel that the old lady's attitude towards you seems to have changed a lot this year? And Miss Rong seems to be much closer to you than before."

When they were in the Marquis' Mansion, the men were talking in the study, and Zhou Huan and Zhou Ting had no idea how the women got along with each other.

But Xianghuan has always been with Zhou Ru, and she still feels that the attitude of the old lady and others towards Zhou Ru is not quite normal.

However, Zhou Ru didn't take Xiang Huan's words seriously, "Who cares about them! As long as I'm not with them every day, they can do whatever they want."

Xiang Huan was silent for a moment, curled her lips, and then continued: "But Miss, I always feel that they are not the kind of people who would suddenly be nice to someone. If they are suddenly nice to you, I am afraid they have some ulterior motives."

"You're just thinking too much." Zhou Ru waved her hand, denying Xiang Huan's guess, "They have always been high and mighty, and they don't think highly of me at all, so how could they possibly have any plans for me."

"Besides, there is nothing about me that is worth their plotting. If they want to plot, they will plot against my father. After all, my father has a lot of money and a lot of wealth. Maybe they want to get some benefits from my father by being nice to me!"

Zhou Rong's wedding date is approaching, and maybe she really wants her father to give her an extra dowry, but she is too embarrassed to bring it up directly, so she wants to make it happen through her.

"Okay, that seems to make some sense." Xianghuan listened to Zhou Ru's talk and thought that there seemed to be nothing wrong with it, so she temporarily suppressed her doubts.

In another carriage, Zhou Huan and his son Zhou Ting also talked about Zhou Rong's marriage. Zhou Huan believed that the Cheng'en Marquisate would not be willing to suffer such a big loss in vain after encountering such a thing.

Zhou Ting smiled and said, "That's right! As soon as Ling'an Marquis' son got into trouble, Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion came to cancel the engagement, but Ling'an Marquis's Mansion was adamant and refused to cancel the engagement. This matter was known to everyone in the city a while ago, but it has been quiet in the past few days."

He paused, smiled sarcastically, and put forward his own guess, "When Ling'an Marquis's Mansion proposed, the betrothal gifts were quite generous. After so much time, those gifts have probably been squandered by Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion. Even if Ling'an Marquis's Mansion agrees to cancel the engagement, Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion may not be able to pay back the betrothal gifts."

The Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion may look prosperous on the surface, but they know the real situation very well.

Zhou Huan stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then said, "So, the attitude of that family towards us today might be to play on their kinship, and if necessary, they want us to pay for the betrothal gifts?"

Zhou Ting did not deny it: "I think it is very likely. After all, they have always been coveting our family business, right?"

Zhou Huan sneered and said nothing more.

This is not the first or second time that the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion has wanted to make the fourth branch a sucker, but they have never been able to gain much advantage.

The father, his two daughters and his two daughters all thought the same thing tacitly. They never imagined that the Cheng'en Marquisate could be even more shameless this time. They didn't want their legitimate daughter to marry a useless man, but they also didn't want to give up becoming a relative of the Ling'an Marquisate.

Although the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion coveted the fourth branch's property, this time, Zhou Ru was their main target.

The next day, Song Ning got up early in the morning. Out of habit, he wanted to go to the kitchen as soon as he woke up, so he wandered around the house. Based on his impression of yesterday's tour, he found the big kitchen.

Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang, who were preparing breakfast in the kitchen, felt a little panicked when they saw her coming.

Could it be that the masters had nothing to eat and were hungry, so they came here on their own? I wonder if the masters will blame them for being too slow in serving the food.

"Oh my! Madam, why are you here? This is a cooking place with oil and smoke. I hope you won't be choked."

Song Ning didn't take it seriously and smiled at them: "It's okay, when I was in my hometown, I often went into the kitchen, it's not a problem, you guys just do your own thing, don't worry about me."

The reason why she came to the kitchen was, firstly, because she was used to getting up early and going to the kitchen, and secondly, she wanted to understand the food situation in the mansion.

So she started chatting with Aunt Zhang in a casual manner.

Aunt Zhang also took this opportunity to report to her the specifications of the three meals a day in the mansion. The meals for the master and the servants were prepared separately and the specifications were also different.

Song Ning learned from Aunt Zhang's report that there was nothing impeccable about the master's meals, except that the food the servants ate was a little worse.

Three meals a day are enough to fill you up, but they are more than enough to fill you up, and lack oil and water.

Meat can only be eaten once every three days. The staple foods on weekdays are mostly brown rice and coarse grain steamed buns. White rice and white flour steamed buns are also only eaten once every three days.

For servants in some ordinary wealthy families, this kind of food is not too bad, but for Song Ning, it is very poor.

It would have been fine if she wasn't here before, but now that she has become the owner of this house, she naturally cannot treat the people working under her unfairly.

Immediately, she made adjustments to the meals for the servants in the mansion.

"Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang, from today on, the food for all the servants in the mansion needs to be improved. They must have at least one meal of meat every day, and there must be enough white rice and white flour buns."

"Husband, Madam, what did you say?"

The couple thought they had heard it wrong and hurried to confirm it.

But even though Song Ning repeated what he had just said, they still found it hard to believe.

"Isn't this too extravagant? We eat pretty well, there's no need to spend this much money."

It’s not their fault that they feel stingy with the money, but there has never been a proper master in this house before. The previous masters just left them a sum of money regularly and let them distribute it as they wish.

Therefore, they try to save as much as possible when it comes to food, clothing and other daily necessities. They are not dissatisfied with eating meat once every three days.

Song Ning could understand their ideas, but did not agree with them.