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"Oh my lady, please keep your voices down. The marriage has just been decided and the children are still young. We don't want to let everyone know about it."

"You know my Hua'er is still young, how could you drink a few cups of wine and sell my Hua'er without caring about anything, and you dare not let me say anything."

Wang Ruofu was concerned about her daughter's reputation, so she subconsciously lowered her voice, flicked her sleeves, sat sideways on the chair, and spoke sarcastically without even looking at Sheng Hong.

Sheng Hong knew he was in the wrong, but he was used to it. He also leaned over and glanced at the lady while talking, his hands constantly adjusting his cuffs:

"Am I someone who would easily promise my daughter to someone else? Brother Mingyun, you've seen this before. A few days ago, I didn't know who it was, but he kept praising me. How come he turned against me the moment he left?"

Wang Ruofu stood up and pointed at Sheng Hong, angrily saying, "You are the one who praised his literary talent and character in front of me every day. I got tired of you and agreed with you once or twice. How come it's my fault?"

Sheng Hong choked and argued, "Brother Mingyun, tell me everything you can about their family. Although he himself has no official title and the two nephews of the Su family are still young, Brother Mingyun's elder brother is an official in the same court as me, and his family is also a noble family, which is more than enough for our Hua'er."

"By the way, this time Brother Mingyun and I have agreed that Hua'er will be betrothed to their youngest son, the sixth son of the Su family, named Su Zhe. He has extraordinary literary talent at a young age, and what's more rare is that he is calm and measured in his work. Compared with their fifth son, he will be more suitable for the officialdom in the future."

Although Wang Ruofu was about to explode with anger, the marriage had already been decided, so when Sheng Hong said this, she still subconsciously pricked up her ears. However, Sheng Hong was feeling guilty at the moment, so he didn't notice.

"Hey, this is a token of engagement given to you. Keep it well. If anything goes wrong with nephew Su in the future, I will make plans for Hua'er even if I have to sacrifice my life and reputation."

Seeing that his wife ignored him, Sheng Hong put the jade pendant on the table angrily. After saying a few nice words in a very uncomfortable manner, he fled from Weiruixuan and went into his study.

In Weirui Pavilion, the eldest lady was angry for a long time before she remembered that her children were still unaware of this.

So he quickly sent Mother Liu to invite the three older ones, and went to Rulan's room. He looked at the child's sleeping face for a while, wiped his tears, and then went back to the main room to wait for Chenlan and the others.

She didn't know how many times she cursed Sheng Hong in her heart. The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. Why was it that every time she gave birth to a girl, everything was so unlucky?

"At first, Chen'er and Hua'er's full-month banquet was going well, but it suddenly became a cold reception. The two children were tired and hadn't seen their father for a long time."

"Ruer's full moon banquet seemed to be going well, but I didn't expect that the master would be betroth Huaer to someone else without knowing it."

Wang Ruofu didn't have to wait long. Chenlan and Hualan, holding Changbai's hand, walked in in an orderly manner under the watchful eyes of a group of maids and servants. They performed the standard family etiquette and then sat next to her at Wang Ruofu's request.

After Chen Lan sat down, she instructed the servants standing beside her, "Madame Chen, Madame Li, and Madam Liu, my mother and I have something to say in private. You can take the others down first."

The two maids looked at each other and knew that they were going to be sent out to have a private conversation. Although they were sent from the palace, they were here to serve Chen Lan, so they did not want to disobey her orders and retreated respectfully.

Wang Ruofu and Hua Lan breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that they had all gone down. They instantly lost their previous restraints and relaxed visibly.

Although Chen Lan often saw this scene, she still couldn't help laughing out loud: "Mother and second sister are still so cute. I have said it so many times. This is our own home. How can I restrain myself just because of the two maids who serve me?"

Wang Ruofu: "I know that's the case, but I don't know why, every time I see them, I feel scared. Okay, let's not talk about this for now. I called you here today mainly to tell you about Hua'er's marriage."

Chen Lan was a little puzzled. She knew from childhood that she was special and might marry the prince in the future, but her sister was not yet at the age for marriage. Why was her mother so anxious? She asked this question out of curiosity.

"Mother, my second sister and I are only eight years old. We are not even nine years old in age. Why are we arranging a marriage for my second sister?"

Although Changbai was younger, he still knew some of the social situations he should know. Most families would only start arranging marriages for their daughters when they reached the age of 14, so he looked at his mother with confusion.

Although Hualan was shy, she couldn't help but look at her mother, wanting to hear what she thought.

Whenever Wang Ruofu thought of what Sheng Hong had done, her anger kept rising, so her tone of voice inevitably became a little aggressive.

"It's your good father who sold out our Hua'er after drinking a few bowls of yellow soup. Here, this is the engagement gift your father received, Hua'er, keep it well."

When the siblings heard this, they immediately became anxious and asked, "Mother, do you know which family did father marry our second sister to? What is the family background and character of that family?"

Wang Ruofu was a little embarrassed. How could she know so clearly? When Sheng Hong told her before, she was busy being angry and had no time to ask in detail. Now the children were looking at her expectantly. Madam Wang, who was usually fearless, now spoke in a hesitant manner.

"Hua, Hua'er, was betrothed by your father. He stayed at our Su Langjun's house a few days ago. It seems, it seems to be their Liu Lang, his name is, his name is Su something..."

The siblings never expected that their parents were so unreliable. Their father arranged the marriage of their second younger sister (second older sister) just after drinking a few more glasses of wine, and their mother couldn't even clearly say who the engagement was.

The three siblings, who had known their mother's temper since childhood, were unwilling to embarrass their not-so-bright mother. They all pointed their fingers at the culprit and rushed to the study room in a rage.

Wang Ruofu finally came to her senses. Her three children, all of them so old, were gone. Somehow, she felt a sudden lightness on her shoulders, as if something invisible had dissipated a lot.

Sheng Hong, who was handling official business here, had no idea that he would be bombarded by three heavyweights.

The three siblings, who were in high spirits, had already discussed on the way to the study that they would first follow the procedure of using courtesy before force. As for how to treat their father when they got to the study, they would just have to act accordingly.

Sheng Hong, who was writing official documents, suddenly had his eyes jump and had a bad feeling in his heart. But before he could think about it, the three brothers and sisters had already arrived at the battlefield.

Without knocking on the door, the three of them walked in and stared at their father.

In the past, Sheng Hong's first reaction when he saw them being so unruly would be to scold them first. However, looking at the cold eyes of the three children, he could no longer remember the rules and coughed dryly in embarrassment.

"Why are you three siblings coming to my study so late? Uh, is there something going on?"

Chen Lan and the other two didn't know what was going on, so they changed their arrogant attitude and found a chair to sit down.

"Dad, we came here just to ask what's going on with the second sister's marriage that mother mentioned?"

Sheng Hong's heart skipped a beat, but he explained without showing any emotion: "Oh, you are asking about Hua'er's marriage. Normally, this matter should be decided by the parents and the matchmaker, but it is related to you siblings, so it doesn't hurt to tell you about it."

"As you know, a young man lived in our guest house a few days ago. He was first introduced to my father by Ouyang Zhizhou, but later my father was impressed by his extraordinary literary talent and asked him to stay for a while."

After saying this, Sheng Hong pretended to drink tea, secretly looked at his children's expressions, and continued: "While we were talking, I learned that your Su Shibo family has two very outstanding young men, so I asked a few more questions."

"After learning that Liu Lang of their family had extraordinary literary talent at a young age, they quickly arranged for him to be given to Hua Er to prevent him from being snatched away by others in the future."

Changbai nodded in understanding, and then asked again: "Father, do you know what their family background is like and what their family relationships are like?"

When Sheng Hong saw that his three precious children did not seem particularly angry, the weight in his heart suddenly fell off, and he told them the information he knew very easily.

She also promised them that she would carefully examine Su Liulang in the future, and if he really was a hopeless case, she would find a way to cancel the marriage.

The three siblings got the answers and assurances they wanted from Sheng Hong, and returned to their respective residences contentedly.

But for a long time afterwards, they didn't like their father very much, and even instigated Wang Ruofu to dislike Sheng Hong.

Therefore, one day a month later, Wang Ruofu, who had gone out to visit someone, bought the daughter of a scholar in distress on her way back, intending to make her a concubine for Sheng Hong in order to suppress Lin Xiaoniang, whom he was too lazy to pay attention to.

Although she didn't want to bother with her master, Wang Ruofu couldn't stand Lin Xiaoniang's arrogant face, so she chose the time to pay her respects and gave Lin Xiaoniang this gift.

"Wei Shuyi, come here." Seeing the elegant and refined Wei Shuyi, Wang Ruofu looked at Lin Xiaoniang sarcastically and introduced her, "Lin Xiaoniang, you come here too, let's greet each other."

Seeing Lin Qinshuang staring at Wei Shuyi, Wang Ruofu didn't beat around the bush (actually she didn't know how to do it) and introduced her directly: "This is our newly hired concubine, the daughter of a scholar with a clean family background. From now on, you can replace her with Sister Wei."

After staring at Lin Qinshuang who was reluctant to pay respect to the newcomer Wei Xiaoniang, Wang Ruofu pointed at Lin Qinshuang and said to Wei Shuyi, "This is the humble concubine Lin Xiaoniang in the mansion. She has the fourth son Changfeng and the fifth daughter Molan."

After Wei Xiaoniang finished greeting Lin Xiaoniang, Wang Ruofu started talking about the old sayings of the ladies: "You should get along with each other in the future, and you should also work hard to have more children for our Sheng family."

"You must abide by your duties in the future. If anyone brings discredit to our Sheng family, I don't mind selling her off. Well, you can go back to your own courtyard first. You don't have to come to visit me every morning and evening. Just come to pay your respects to me on time at 9:00 p.m. on every Friday morning."

Although a hint of arrogance flashed in Wei Shuyi's eyes, he still bowed dutifully and prepared to leave.

And Miss Lin, seeing that her master had rarely come to Weiruixuan during this period, looked at Wang Ruofu with some pride, performed the greetings perfunctorily and prepared to leave.

Seeing that Miss Lin was so disrespectful to her mother, Chen Lan narrowed her eyes dangerously. Nanny Chen and Nanny Li were both smart people who held important responsibilities in the palace. How could they not see the young master's dissatisfaction? They immediately prepared to help the master to discipline Miss Lin.

Aunt Chen: "Little Miss Lin, wait a minute."

Although Lin Qinshuang didn't want to pay attention, but when she thought of the identity and background of this nanny, she stopped obediently no matter how unwilling she was.

Seeing that everyone was looking at Nanny Chen in confusion, Nanny Li quickly explained, "Madam, the palace sent two old servants to serve as tutors for the young lady in the mansion. They want her to learn the rules subtly at a young age."

After saying this, he looked at Lin Xiaoniang with some disapproval, and continued, "Although the eldest girl has been very talented since she was young and has learned all kinds of rules very well, Lin Xiaoniang in the mansion is really too unruly. I am worried that if the girls accidentally learn from her, the palace will blame them, and this..."

The naive Madam Wang was frightened by Nanny Li's words and actually took them seriously. She immediately glared at Lin Qinshuang.

Seeing that Lin Xiaoniang was still standing there so rudely, she angrily asked Mother Liu to use the family rules to give her a severe lesson.

After Madam Liu finished beating Lin Xiaoniang, she ignored her crying mother on the ground and looked at the two maids cautiously. She asked with a forced smile:

"Please forgive me, Madams. I will take good care of the rules of the mansion in the future. If there is anything else you need, please let me know."

Nannies Chen and Li were here to vent Madam Wang's anger, so they dared not accept Madam Wang's gift. They immediately bowed in fear and trepidation:

"Madam, this is too serious. Logically, we two shouldn't get involved in this matter. But since it concerns the eldest girl, I said a little too much. I hope you can forgive me."

Chen Lan knew that her mother was sometimes very timid, so she quickly came to her rescue and said, "Okay, mother, we will just follow the rules from now on."

Then he looked at the two maids and thanked them with a smile in his eyes: "Thank you for your guidance. I will trouble you to help guide the rules of the mansion in the future. Chen Lan would like to thank you in advance."

After that, she instructed the maidservant beside her: "Dongxue, take the two insect repellent sachets on my dressing table to the two maids later, so that the two maids can have a good sleep in this summer."

Dongxue leaned forward happily and said, "Don't worry, young lady. I will go back and give it to the two maids in a while."

The two maids thanked them happily and then left.

After paying their respects, the young masters of the mansion left first, and then the two young ladies bowed politely and left.

One was filled with resentment in his heart, while the other was reminding himself that he must be low-key and tolerant in the future.