I just want to live a happy life

Qingyue didn't want to say anything more to this hypocritical person. It was fine for her to manage the Marquis' Mansion. From the beginning, she had never intended to give up the right to be the housekeeper of the Marquis' Mansion.

She wants to be a real lady of a marquisate.

Just now at lunch, she had put a puppet pill in the soup that Gu Yankai drank. There were some things he had to do even if he didn't want to.

Qingyue looked into Gu Yankai's eyes and said slowly, "Gu Yankai, now you go and give me the keys to the warehouse and doors of the mansion, as well as the account books, land deeds, and house deeds, and tell everyone in the mansion that from now on, I, the eldest lady, will be in charge of the mansion."

Gu Yankai seemed unable to control his body, fear appeared in his eyes, but he said, "Yes."

After saying that, he stood up and left the main courtyard. After returning to the front courtyard, he asked the servant beside him to take the things Qingyue wanted and deliver them to the main courtyard.

The whole journey was done with great fanfare, and soon all of Gu Yankai's brothers and sisters and the servants in the Marquis' Mansion knew about it. The former did not care and were even happy to hear about it, for everyone knew that Bai's dowry was generous, and if she were the one in charge of the household, it would definitely be better than Gu Yankai's stinginess.

The latter were also very happy. They knew that the eldest lady was not good at housekeeping and was easy to fool. If she were in charge, they would definitely have a lot more free time and maybe they could even get some things.

It was obvious that they were so happy that they forgot that they would never be able to find out any information from the main courtyard without Qingyue's permission, and they were still dreaming of getting benefits.

After Qingyue obtained the stewardship of the Marquis' Mansion, she first let the people she had trained before take over the main gate and various small gates of the Marquis' Mansion.

Before she completely controlled the Marquis' Mansion, no one could go out. Of course, she did all this quietly and not many people noticed.

Early in the morning, the gate of the main courtyard opened and two teams of burly old women came out. They separated into groups of several and headed towards different directions of the mansion.

When they arrived at the place where the maids lived, the leading old woman pushed open the door and signaled to the people behind her. They immediately took action and searched the room regardless of the maids' obstruction.

A maid came out first, with an angry look on her face, and said, "What are you doing? How can you just come into our room?"

The other maids followed suit.

The leading maid snorted coldly, "Your room? This is the Marquis's Mansion, not your home. We are following the orders of the Madam to search the Marquis's Mansion. Can you stop us?"

The maids looked around and glanced at each other from time to time. A pretty maid said, "We didn't do anything. Why did the lady search where we live?"

The leading maid did not hide it and said, "In recent years, our eldest lady has not had a housekeeper, and it has been managed by the people around the Marquis. Who knows if any of you have embezzled the Marquis's things."

Hearing the old woman's words, one of the maids' heart skipped a beat, panic flashed in her eyes, and her feeling of uneasiness grew stronger and stronger.

The maids couldn't stop them and could only watch as the old women rummaged around in the room.

One of the maids opened a cabinet in the corner and took out clothes and other things. She found a box in the deepest part of the cabinet. She opened it and saw a lot of jewelry and silver inside, which were not owned by an ordinary maid.

She quickly took it to the leading maid and said, "Mother Chen, I found this in the cabinet over there. What do you think we should do?"

The leading maid, Madam Chen, took a look at the contents of the box, then looked away at the maid and asked in a deep voice, "Whose cabinet is that?"

The maids were all surprised and confused, but they all turned their eyes to a maid named Xiao Rui behind them.

Xiao Rui was so frightened that she took a few steps back, waving her hands constantly, saying, "That's not mine, it's not mine. I don't know why there are these things in my cabinet. Someone must have wronged me."

Mother Chen didn't listen to her explanation. After the maid finished searching, she took the box and asked someone to take the maid named Xiaorui out.

Looking at the backs of these old women, the maids in the room did not speak for a long time. One of them swallowed her saliva and said, "It's too scary."

"Yeah, I didn't expect that Xiao Rui actually hid so many things. Do you think she can come back?"

Several maids looked at each other, and no one made a guarantee. They all knew that this possibility was not high. They had heard before that the eldest lady was not good at housekeeping and was not liked by the Marquis, so she had not had a housekeeper since she married into the Marquis's Mansion.

Now that she has the power of housekeeper, she will certainly not be too strict with them. However, no one expected that on the first day, the lady gave them a warning. They are afraid that they will have to work seriously from now on, because the lady is not someone who can be fooled easily.

In the courtyard where Qingyue’s two younger siblings live.

Although there were old women guarding the gate of the courtyard and maids and old women serving in the courtyard, Qingyue's people were more numerous and powerful. There were not only Qingyue's people, but also the servants assigned to her by Gu Yan. They couldn't stop them even if they wanted to.

At this time, Qingyue's two younger brothers and sisters were drinking tea and chatting in the room. Suddenly, they heard a noise coming from outside. Gu Silang's wife leaned out and asked Gu Wulang's wife, "What are you doing in your courtyard? Why is there such a big noise?"

Gu Wulang's wife was also confused, she didn't know what was going on outside.

At this time, Gu Wulang's wife's personal maid ran in and said anxiously, "Madam, please go outside and take a look. It's Madam's people who broke in. They said they followed Madam's orders to search the entire mansion. We have to search here too."

Gu Silang's wife couldn't sit still first. She had always looked down on the Bai family. Don't think that just because she had the power of housekeeper in the Marquis' Mansion, she could go anywhere. How dare a person from a merchant family come to their place?

She walked out quickly, looked at the mess in the yard, and shouted, "What are you doing? Stop it."

None of the maids, old women and servants who broke in listened to her. They only followed the orders of the lady of the marquis's mansion. Upon hearing her words, they went straight into the room in the courtyard without stopping.

Gu Silang's wife was so angry that she jumped up and down, but she couldn't stop him.

After a while, the maids and servants came out of the room with things and took away several people in the yard.

Gu Silang's wife watched them walk towards the courtyard where she lived, and tightly grasped Gu Wulang's wife's sleeve: "What should we do? After searching your courtyard, they searched mine. Look at what they took away. Think of a way."

Gu Wulang's wife pulled out her sleeves and said, "You were making a lot of noise just now. Did you stop us? I don't have the ability to resist so many people. It seems that I have to ask the master to think of a solution. The eldest brother loves his two younger brothers so much, I think he will definitely make the decision for us."

Gu Silang's wife also came to her senses: "You are right, my brother has never liked Bai. She did such an excessive thing today, my brother will definitely teach her a lesson. Maybe we can even get a lot of compensation."

The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they saw the scene of Bai coming with a large sum of silver to apologize to them.