Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

Xiao Lan has been busy these past two days. She knew that Wang was unwilling to let Cui follow their family to take up the post. She estimated that the old lady's behavior was probably instigated by the eldest brother's family.

As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate, so Xiao Lan naturally had to go and help her out.

Two days had passed, and Xiao Lan thought that Cui's anger should have subsided and her mood should have calmed down, so she turned around and walked out of the house.

"Xiao Lan, where are you going? There's not enough housework for you to do. Why are you hanging around outside all day?" Zhang asked her daughter hurriedly when she saw her daughter running outside.

"Mom, I'm going to visit Xiaoye's house." Xiaolan hurriedly explained to Zhang.

The reason why she didn't tell her mother that she was going directly to Cui was because she was afraid that Zhang would worry, and she also wanted to go around Xiao Ye's house and find out what the Sheng family had been doing in the past two days.

"Our aunt and sister-in-law have made our grandma happy these past two days, and she is not angry anymore." Xiao Ye said, "It's just that our grandpa hasn't been home these past two days. He goes out every day to chat with his old friends. Maybe he is reluctant to leave them since he is leaving Shengjia Village."

"Well, Xiaoye, who is in the upper room now?" Xiaolan asked.

"Only our grandma and aunt are here now. Our uncle and his family are packing their luggage in their own house." Xiao Ye said, "Sister Xiao Lan, why are you asking this?"

"Our grandma is leaving soon. I feel reluctant to let her go. I'll go find her and have some fun with her." Xiao Lan said.

Now the old lady's temper has calmed down and she won't lose her temper easily. Mr. Sheng and the people from the first and second rooms are not staying in the upper room. It's a good time for her to go and talk to the old lady and give the first room's family some help.

When Cui and Chunhua saw Xiaolan coming, they just turned their heads and glanced at her, and then ignored her. This was all thanks to Wang and Xu who persuaded the old lady to stop picking on Shengxuan and Shenghao's family. If she hadn't been coaxed by now, it wouldn't be as simple as just giving Xiaolan a cold look.

Xiao Lan was a flexible person. If the mountain didn't come to her, she would go to the mountain. She climbed onto the kang with a smile and sat next to Cui.

"Grandma, you are going to follow my uncle to take up the post. Then you will be the old lady of an official family, and my aunt will be the daughter of an official family. This status will be greatly raised. It is much better than us who have to dig for food in the fields of Shengjia Village." Xiao Lan complimented.

"Even if you envy us now, we won't take you there." Chunhua snorted and said disdainfully.

Xiao Lan laughed secretly. Unless her brain was damaged by a donkey, she would not follow them to take up the post. Didn't she know who the Sheng family was? If she followed them, she would just be a servant girl. How could she have a good life?

Now her family has a house, land, and a workshop, and they live a comfortable life. Is she dissatisfied that her good days are over, and wants to follow them to work and cause trouble?

"If you ask me, my grandma was used as a pawn by someone in what happened a few days ago. They had bad intentions and deliberately ruined her reputation so that she wouldn't be able to follow their family to take office. They instigated my grandma at this critical moment when she was about to take office. Isn't this deliberately looking for trouble?"

When Cui heard Xiao Lan say this, she thought about it for a moment and her expression immediately turned grim.

"Grandma, we all know that this matter must have been instigated by my eldest aunt. My eldest uncle is an official and attaches great importance to filial piety. He would definitely not think of such a shady trick. My eldest aunt is such a smart person. She didn't dare to tell you directly, so she must have instigated my uncle to come to you."

"Why did my aunt do this? It's to make you quarrel with us all the time, so that we can make you sick, and then you can't follow my uncle to take up the post. My aunt really has a good plan. She knows that if you follow her family, the power of the inner house will still be controlled by you. She deliberately set a trap for you to fall into."

"Look how well my aunt handled this matter. She got away with it unscathed, without losing any reputation at all."

Cui didn't say anything, but her expression changed with Xiaolan's words. Xiaolan knew that the old lady had heard her words.

Cui had always been at odds with Wang. When Xiaoru was still around, Wang had hidden her own private money and was caught by the old lady. And when they were making a fuss two days ago, she heard Xiaoye say that the eldest son and his wife were planning not to take her and the old man to the new post. She felt uncomfortable at the time. After all, Sheng Nuo was born from her. No matter how bad her son was, he was still her son. But Wang was different. She felt that the reason why the eldest son became like this was because he didn't choose a good wife, and her eldest son was instigated by Wang to be unfilial.

"Don't try to sow discord. My sister-in-law is not that kind of person. If she hadn't come to persuade my mother to be more forgiving, she would have been sick from anger and unable to get out of bed." Chunhua frowned and said, "You are saying this on purpose because you hate my brother's family. I tell you, this is not possible. When my sister-in-law and her family came, they told us clearly that they would take us to take up the post."

Cui glanced at her simple-minded daughter, helplessness flashed in her eyes, but she said nothing in the end.

"Did my aunt tell me when she came that we should let grandma take care of the household when we arrived in Hejian County?" Xiao Lan asked.

"Need I say more? Once we get there, your grandma will definitely be the one in charge." Chunhua said as a matter of course.

"Aunt, people's hearts are different. Can your thoughts represent the thoughts of my aunt? My aunt has been living in the town before. She is the wife of a scholar and has always been in charge of her own affairs. How long has she lived with you? Do you think she is at ease?"

"Now that my grandma has caused such a fuss, her reputation has been damaged, but my aunt is fine. If she were to use her virtue to suppress others, then it would be hard to say who would be the head of the family."

Cui was a smart person. After being slightly enlightened by Xiao Lan, she immediately understood. She had lived to such an old age and had eaten more salt than Chunhua had eaten rice. She was not as optimistic as her silly daughter.

Was all this really Wang's plan? Was it just to take the housekeeper's power from her? She had been fooled by Wang and was being used as a pawn by Wang. Even if she followed the boss to take up the post as she wished, she would probably be at a disadvantage when it was her turn to be the housekeeper.

Not to mention outsiders, just her own family, the old man is very dissatisfied with her now. And the second son's family, this family is a fence-sitter, whoever feeds them is their mother, and they probably won't take her side.