A car accident, our family of three crossed

"The Marquis' Mansion is now in trouble. The enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light. We don't know what will happen next. We must restrain the people in the mansion these days. From the master to the servants, no matter who it is, they are not allowed to cause trouble outside. If someone catches us with something, I don't know how the emperor will deal with us."

After saying this with a serious face, Marquis Cheng'en stood up and prepared to leave.

The Marquis’s wife hurriedly grabbed him and said, “My Lord, what about Yan’er? What about Yan’er? Are you just going to ignore him?”

"I would like to take care of it, but when I went to the Dali Temple, I couldn't even get in." Marquis Cheng En shook her hand away fiercely and angrily said, "The Dali Temple is doing its job under the emperor's order. How can you let me take care of it? For one person, all of us in the palace are going to lose our heads?"

The Marquis's wife could not refute his words and could only watch him walk away in big strides.

The old lady felt a little sorry for the marquis's distraught look and could only say a few words to comfort her.

"Now that things have come to this, don't think too hard about it. As long as no one is killed, His Majesty will definitely show leniency and spare Brother Yan'er's life."

"But mother, Yan'er has lost his position as the crown prince, and it's still unknown whether he can come back safely. Li'er is in that state again. How am I supposed to live in the future?"

"You are the mistress of the Marquis's mansion. Even if Yan'er and Li'er are gone, all of the Marquis's sons will still have to respectfully address you as mother. No matter who becomes the crown prince in the future, he will never be able to surpass you, the mistress."

As the old lady spoke, her tone became much worse than before. She was truly a person with little knowledge and only cared about her own little piece of land. She had no sense of the overall situation at all.

Marquis Cheng'en ran around outside for a whole day but found no solution at all, so the next day he called all the people from other families back to his mansion to discuss countermeasures.

The fourth branch has the richest family among the concubines' branches, so it is natural that they will be called back. Even if they cannot contribute, they can at least give more money.

Zhou Huan was an old fox and would not let anyone take advantage of him. Before they even opened their mouths, he started crying poor, saying that he had invested all his cash in the shop and could not get it back for the time being.

Seeing this, people from other families followed suit. In the end, each family just took out some silver as a token of appreciation and got away with it.

Even if the Marquis' Mansion is dissatisfied, now is not the time for them to be picky. What the Marquis' Mansion lacks most now is money, and no matter how much the other rooms contribute, it is better than nothing.

Three days later, Zhou Huaiyan's case was settled, and the Dali Temple posted all his crimes.

Fortunately, although Zhou Huaiyan did not do many good things, such as robbing decent women and occupying land, he was a timid person and never got into any murder-related lawsuits.

After consulting the women he had forced upon them, many of them actually gave up hope, thinking that since their innocence had been ruined, there would be no good family for them to marry into if they returned home, so they simply went into the marquis's mansion to become concubines.

Those who refused to surrender took the compensation from the Marquis's Mansion and went home.

All the land that Zhou Huaiyan had forcibly seized was returned, and he also compensated the farmers for the grain and silver they had lost over the years.

Even with some of the money contributed by the other families, the Marquis' Mansion was still far from enough to pay the compensation. In the end, they sold a shop at a low price to raise enough money.

Even after paying all the compensation he owed, Zhou Huaiyan still couldn't escape the fate of serving a prison sentence and was sentenced to one year in prison. This was only because of the merits accumulated by the deceased old marquis of Cheng'en Marquisate that his sentence was given lightly.

For the Cheng'en Marquisate, this result was a way to avoid disaster by spending money, but the amount of money lost was quite large, which made them start to weigh whether it was worth spending so much money just to reduce the guilt of a deposed prince.

If this shop had not been given as a dowry by the Marquis' wife, I'm afraid the Marquis' Mansion might not have been so willing to sell it.

However, the Marquis's wife was unaware of their thoughts, otherwise she would have been even more heartbroken.

For the Marquis’ wife personally, as long as her son’s life could be saved, she would be grateful and she would be willing to pay any price.

A year in prison just passed by counting the days. As long as her son was still alive, there was hope for the future.

These days, the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion is in a state of panic and has no energy to care about the movements of the fourth house.

Zhou Ru finally no longer had to worry about being followed every time she went out. She felt very comfortable and went to the Hang family every day.

Therefore, Song Ning knew everything about the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion from beginning to end from Zhou Ru.

Even the shop sold by the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion was secretly bought by Song Ning because of the first-hand information brought by Zhou Ru.

With only eight thousand taels, they bought their first shop in the capital, which was in a pretty good location.

Zhou Huan analyzed that the location of the shop was not too remote. If he was not in a hurry to sell it, he would have to slowly negotiate according to the market conditions to get it. I'm afraid he would not be able to get it without tens of thousands of taels of silver.

He originally planned to secretly buy the shop and give it to Zhou Ru as a dowry, but then he thought about it carefully and felt that if the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion knew that he bought the shop, they would go to the fourth room to make trouble every day, and he would be embroiled in a mess again.

Thus, this great bargain finally fell into Song Ning's hands. However, no one knew how ugly the Cheng'en Marquis's face would be if they knew that their shop was bought by her, who had a grudge against the Marquis's Mansion.

At the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion, after the matter was settled, some people no longer cared about it, while others thought it had nothing to do with them. Some were happy, while others were sad.

The ones who didn't care were Marquis Cheng'en and the old lady, and the ones who didn't care were the concubines and illegitimate children in the mansion.

After the whole matter calmed down, the only one who would be happy was probably Mrs. Hou. Even Zhou Rong and Zhou Yan, who were brothers from the same mother as Zhou Huaiyan, were too calm about this matter.

Zhou Rong even felt resentful about the shop being sold at a low price, because her mother had said that the shop would be kept for her as a dowry, but now it was gone.

However, Zhou Rong is not as innocent as Zhou Yan. She will express her dissatisfaction directly if she has any.

In the eyes of her elders, she has always been an image of a good girl. She can only keep such things in her heart and will not take the initiative to bring them up.

However, she would not mention it, but who can blame her for having Zhou Yan, who is simple-minded but always talks nonsense and loves to show off, by her side!

I don’t know what method Zhou Rong used. She didn’t mention a word about this matter, but she made Zhou Yan rush to the Marquis’s courtyard to seek justice for her.

"Mother, didn't you promise to give that shop to my elder sister as a dowry? Now that the shop has been sold, doesn't that mean my elder sister's dowry shop is gone?"