A car accident, our family of three crossed

That night, Zhou Rong kept all her sisters behind on the pretext that she was about to get married.

She said that she wanted to have some private conversations with her sisters before getting married, but after she gets married, she probably won't have so many opportunities to have a good chat.

In fact, this was done just to keep Zhou Ru.

The sisters, who had no feelings for each other, chatted awkwardly for the whole first half of the night until Zhou Rong started to put on makeup, and then they were able to go back and take a short break.

The next morning, the sisters went to Zhou Rong's room early to talk to her.

When Zhou Ru arrived, there were no other sisters in the room. The maid guarding outside Zhou Rong's door sent Xiang Huan away on the pretext that she needed help.

The master and servant did not think there was anything wrong with this. After all, the Marquis' Mansion was indeed busy today, and it was normal to need help.

After all, this was a happy day. Even if Zhou Ru was not close to the Marquis' Mansion, she would not make others unhappy at such a time, so she readily ordered Xiang Huan to help.

After chatting with Zhou Rong for a few polite words in the room, Zhou Ru felt a little bored. It was just that Zhou Rong kept finding topics to chat with her. She wanted to leave, but she didn't find a chance to bring it up.

The two chatted idly like this. Zhou Ru felt bored and just kept drinking tea.

As she drank, she felt a little sleepy. She thought it was because she didn't sleep much last night, but she didn't know that the tea she was drinking was drugged. The next moment, she was lying on the table and knew nothing.

This was also the first time for Zhou Rong to do such a thing. She was so nervous that her heart almost jumped out of her throat. Even when she saw the effect of the medicine taking effect after Zhou Ru drank the tea, she was still so scared that her hands were shaking and she couldn't even hold the teacup steadily.

At this time, the nanny and two trusted maids who had been hiding in the house beside the marquis's wife came out from behind the screen.

"Miss, you don't need to blame yourself. No matter how prosperous the Fourth House is now, it is still a merchant family. It is a blessing for Miss Ru to marry into the Marquis Boyuan's mansion and become the Crown Prince's Consort. If we hadn't chosen her to marry in your place, even if she had accumulated blessings for eight lifetimes, she would not have such a good marriage. Who knows, she might even thank you afterwards!"

The nanny comforted Zhou Rong, and two maids went over to help Zhou Ru to the bed, and began to do her hair, put on makeup, and change her clothes.

After hearing what the nanny said, Zhou Rong's guilt was immediately relieved a lot. She kept reminding herself that doing this would be good for both herself and Zhou Ru.

On the other hand, Xianghuan was called to help with some work. The maids in the marquis's mansion always gave her some small tasks. It was not tiring, but it was extremely time-consuming.

They were so busy that the groom's wedding procession arrived at the Marquis Cheng'en's Mansion amidst the joyful sounds of music and drums.

Xianghuan put down the work in her hands and looked everywhere for Zhou Ru, but she was nowhere to be found.

She came to Zhou Rong's door to ask, and was told that Zhou Ru had gone to the front yard to watch the fun.

So Xianghuan went to the front yard again, but still couldn't find Zhou Ru.

The Marquis' Mansion was quite large, and she didn't know where Zhou Ru would be at the moment. If she wanted to search every courtyard, it would take a lot of time.

When she was about to return to Zhou Rong's yard again, the bride got married.

Zhou Huaili, who had taken several days to recover from his external injuries, was now carrying his bride out of Zhou Rong's boudoir and heading towards the main courtyard.

Upon seeing this, Xianghuan quickly stepped aside to make way. On such a happy occasion, respectable people, when facing the newlyweds, would of course give way to them out of courtesy, not to mention that Xianghuan was just a servant.

She lowered her head and turned to the side, not noticing the nervous expressions of the nanny and maid following the bride when they saw her.

It was not until Zhou Huaili passed by carrying the bride on his back that Xianghuan raised her head and took a look, then turned and walked away to continue looking for Zhou Ru.

She would ask everyone she met: "Sister, have you seen my young lady?"

The answers I got were all unanimous shaking of the head, and they all said they had never seen it.

Xianghuan suddenly had a bad premonition, feeling that something must have happened to Zhou Ru. She hurried to the front yard, found Zhou Ting among the male guests, and told him what had happened.

After hearing this, Zhou Ting also felt that this matter was a little unusual, so he ordered Xiang Huan to go in and out of each courtyard and search carefully, and then sent secret guards to investigate secretly.

At that time, in the main hall, the bride was bidding farewell to her elders.

The prince of Marquis Boyuan's mansion was physically disabled and could not come in person to pick up the bride, so when it came to bidding farewell to the elders, everything was kept simple.

The accompanying maid said that the bride was not feeling well, so the old lady exempted the bride from kneeling, said a few polite words, and urged her to get into the sedan chair quickly, saying that she did not want to miss the time.

The bride was carried out of the house and placed on the bridal sedan before her feet even touched the ground.

Watching the bride being carried out of the mansion, the old lady of Cheng'en Marquis and his wife looked at each other tacitly, and the stone in their hearts fell a little. They just had to wait for the bride to enter the Boyuan Marquis's mansion and get married, and then the matter would be settled.

As the elder brother, Zhou Huaili was completely unaware of the substitutionary marriage. It was just that when he was helping the bride into the bridal sedan, he accidentally knocked the red veil off her head.

After seeing the sleeping face of the person in wedding dress in the sedan chair, he was petrified on the spot.

Before she had time to think about what was happening, the maid who was helping the bride into the sedan chair quickly covered her head with the veil again.

"Second Young Master."

The maid grabbed Zhou Huaili's arm and exerted force secretly, shaking her head slightly. She believed that the matter was of great importance and the second young master would not be unaware of the seriousness of the matter.

Zhou Huaili just stared in shock and stunned at the sight of the wedding procession leaving in front of him in a lively manner. It took him a long while to come back to his senses.

At this point, if he still couldn't figure out what was going on, then he would be really stupid.

After figuring out the whole thing, even though it was the coldest time of the year, he couldn't stop himself from breaking out in a cold sweat.

No one knew who came up with the idea of this substitutional marriage. He could hardly imagine what kind of revenge the Fourth House would launch against the Marquis' Mansion when it learned about this.

At this point, he could only continue to remain ignorant and watch how things developed.

Zhou Huaili stayed at the gate of the mansion for a long time, and after calming down, he turned around and went back to the mansion to entertain the guests.

When passing through the front hall, Zhou Huaili deliberately took a look inside. The Marquis had disappeared at this time. He looked back and forth between his grandmother and mother for a moment, wondering who was behind this big show.

Was it the grandmother, or the mother, or maybe neither of them knew about it, and it was Zhou Rong herself who did it secretly?