I was a housekeeper in ancient times

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Yu Muyan was smiling the moment before, but the next moment, when she heard Nanny He say this, she was slightly stunned. Her eyes unconsciously fell on Yue Jie'er, and she stared at Yue Jie'er repeatedly.

Especially when compared with Sister Fan, Sister Yue really doesn't look like anyone.

Not to mention Yu Muyan, her biological mother, even the relatives of the Yu and Lu families couldn't tell who Yue Jie'er looked like.

This reminded Yu Muyan of when she had just given birth and held Yue Jie'er in her arms, she heard her crying, which was different from the baby's crying she heard when she was unconscious.

Moreover, the midwife said that the baby would definitely have bruises on its body because it took too long to give birth to her. However, at that time, Yue Jie'er's body did not have any bruises. Instead, it looked a little rosy, and she did not look like a baby who had only been born a few days ago.

At that time, she didn't think much about it. She just thought that the wet nurse fed her well and Yue Jie'er was in good health.

Now that I think about it, there seems to be something suspicious about Yue Jie'er. But on second thought, in the mansion of a great uncle, when she was giving birth, there were a group of maids and old women guarding her, how could it be possible... But what about the disappearance of the two midwives?

Is it possible...

She didn't dare to think about it further, but once this thought arose, if she didn't figure it out, it would become a thorn in her heart, making her feel uneasy.

That is her own flesh and blood that she carried for ten months, she can't just treat it in such a vague way.

When Lin Weiqiao saw Yu Muyan staring at Yue Jie'er in a daze, she knew that Yu Muyan had become suspicious and began to doubt Yue Jie'er's background.

Because Nanny He helped cure Wan Jie'er's nightmare, Yu Muyan gave her a lot of things as a reward when she left. Nanny He left Shuangxiyuan happily.

Before leaving the mansion, Nanny He found her daughter-in-law, Cuihong, and said angrily, "You are useless. Why do you have to serve a concubine? I originally wanted you to take my place and serve the lady. But you, you served the young lady first, but now you have fallen to serving a concubine."

Sister Cuihong said helplessly: "It was Madam's order, and Aunt Lian is pregnant now..."

"So what if she's pregnant? She's still a concubine. Even if she gives birth to a son, she still has to look at Madam's face. Concubine Lian is so useless. What can I achieve by following Concubine Lian?"

"I am just here to serve you temporarily. After the baby is born, I will go back to serve you."

"You, if I had another daughter-in-law, I wouldn't count on you alone. When I was here, you and Mother Lin were both serving the Madam, and we had to make the decision on everything. Now that I'm gone, Mother Lin is the only one in charge, and even you have to listen to her orders. I don't know when I can recover from my old bones. Can't you fight for me and earn back this dignity for yourself?"

"Mother, I am young and have only been with Madam for a short time, so I am naturally not as respectable as Madam Lin. Madam also trusts Madam Lin more and always discusses everything with her first. Madam Lin has made a great contribution by finding the fourth girl."

Nanny He was too lazy to say anything, thinking that her daughter-in-law alone could never defeat Lin Weiqiao, so she had to rely on herself. "Forget it, forget it. My health is like this. It can't get better, and it can't get worse. Instead of worrying outside, it's better to come back home. I'll recover for a while, and then I'll come back to help you."

In Shuangxiyuan, Yu Muyan dismissed everyone and only left Lin Weiqiao.

Yu Muyan held her wrist and asked quietly, "Mom, when did you notice this? If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have noticed it."

She said, "Madam, I just recently realized that Miss Seven doesn't look like you, or any of our other relatives."

"Then how do we investigate this? Where do we start? You say, it can't be..."

"Madam, everything is possible. This matter may not be impossible to investigate, but it will take more manpower and time. The two missing midwives and the maids who served them, they are missing, but don't they still have families? We will find out slowly, and we will eventually find out."

Yu Muyan entrusted the matter to her, “I’m at ease with mom doing it.”

She complained in her heart, "Of course you can trust me to do the work, I am the only one who is tired." Of course, even though she complained, she still had to say in a servile way, "It is my job to serve the madam."

Finally, Yu Muyan talked about the embroidery workshop in Bai's house. "Our family has a lot of expenses, and we can't just sit there and eat up all the money. Just a few shops are far from enough. Although we have land, we have to rely on the harvest. I think the embroidery workshop is feasible. I know that business is difficult, but how can you know if you don't try it?"

She thought Yu Muyan wouldn't care about these things, but she didn't expect that she would worry about them. "Then according to Madam's wishes, we will open an embroidery workshop. I asked Manager Li to prepare to find an embroiderer some time ago. We don't have to find the best embroiderer, an ordinary one will do. As for the embroidery, we can sell it to ordinary people and middle-class families. This way, the demand will be wider and the cost will not be too high."

When I returned to my room, it was already dark.

Hong Luo looked eagerly at the table full of food. When she saw her come back, she immediately said, "Mom, you are finally back! Let's eat!"

She sat down and saw that there were indeed two bowls of soup, one was old hen soup with codonopsis pilosula, and the other was old duck soup. The food on the table also seemed to be divided into two portions. "Why are there so many dishes tonight? Did the kitchen add more dishes?"

Hong Luo said, "No, the one on the left was sent by Sister Zhu'er, and the one on the right was sent by Sister Huan, saying that they were honoring mom."

When did she become so popular? Even the food was rushed to be delivered.

After eating and drinking, she still couldn't go to bed, so she turned around and found Papaya and asked him to do something.

Mugua asked in confusion: "Mom, what are you going to do so late?"

She said: "It's a wicked thing."

She told this mysteriously, and Mugua said she couldn't understand it after hearing it, "Mom, is this possible?"

She said confidently: "Of course."

Looking at Papaya's back as he walked towards the ancestral hall, she nodded with satisfaction.

She originally wanted to let Mugua scare Hua Jie'er to force her to admit what she had done, but then she thought that it would be easy to scare someone to death in the late night in the ancestral hall.

So she thought of a compromise, asking Mugua to write a few pieces of paper with scolding and threatening words on them, and put them in the ancestral hall while Huajie'er was asleep, so that Huajie'er would think that it was the spirit of her ancestors appearing.

Anyway, she had to make Hua Jie'er admit it. The incident of falling into the water couldn't just be left unsolved, otherwise Aunt Lian and Wan Jie'er would suffer in vain.

Early in the morning, she got up and washed up. Today was the day when Mother Liang came to pick someone up, so she had to go early, otherwise Mother Liang would take the person away without consulting her.

After hearing from Grandma Xia that Mother Liang was difficult to get along with and had a bad temper, she was worried that she wouldn't be able to win the argument, so she specifically asked Grandma Chen to go with her as her helper.