Favoring concubines and ignoring wives? The mistress of the marquisate remarried a powerful official

Cui Xiaoxiao got the key and became even more arrogant. As soon as Song Wanning left Rongfu Hall, Cui Xiaoxiao followed her and called out to her, "Stop right there."

Song Wanning turned around and looked at Cui Xiaoxiao, smiling slightly, "I wonder what Sister Xiaoxiao thinks?"

Cui Xiaoxiao looked at Song Wanning and saw that she was not upset at all because of losing her power. She felt strange and looked at Song Wanning and said, "I have taken away your power now. Aren't you sad?"

"Taking care of this family is exhausting and stressful, and no one is grateful for my efforts. Now that it's gone, there's nothing to be sad about. This power is what Xiao Xiao wanted." Song Wanning looked at Cui Xiao Xiao and said lightly, "Since Miss Xiao Xiao has got what she wanted, why do you have to question me?"

"That's because you don't know how to control people's hearts." Cui Xiaoxiao sneered and said with a smile, "For a big family like this, using money to win people's hearts is the most important thing. If you let everyone live in a hurry every day, how can anyone obey you?"

"It's easy to say it's easy with money." Song Wanning looked at Cui Xiaoxiao, who looked ignorant of the world, smiled and left.

Cui Xiaoxiao looked at Song Wanning who was leaving and cursed in a low voice, "Now that she has no power at all, she still dares to be so arrogant. I really don't know what gives her the confidence."

Cui Xiaoxiao looked at the key in her hand, and immediately said to Tianxiang, the maid beside her, "Tell the people below that the housekeeper has changed, and all the account books should be sent to my yard from now on."

Tianxiang said yes and was about to leave when she heard Cui Xiaoxiao continue, "From now on, everyone below will call me Second Grandma. If you don't change your name, you will be slapped in the face and your monthly salary will be deducted."

Tianxiang listened and hurriedly said, "Congratulations to the Second Madam for getting the housekeeper's power."

"That's better." Cui Xiaoxiao returned to the yard with a smile.

She was dazzled by the money flowing into the mansion every month. The mansion had more than a dozen farms and dozens of shops. The harvests of each shop and farm were different, some made money and some lost money.

The monthly expenses of the Marquis' Mansion were staggering. Money was spent like water, but now it seemed that the money earned and spent each month could only barely break even. If there was something important to do at this time, the Marquis' Mansion would be short of money.

Cui Xiaoxiao cursed at Song Wanning, "It's not worth a visit for a mistress to run her family's shop and farm like this."

Cui Xiaoxiao thought that her rouge shop was making money, so she gritted her teeth and looked at her mother and said, "I'm the housekeeper today. I'll ask the kitchen to buy a sheep to add to the dishes so that everyone in the mansion can have a good meal."

The mother beside her also smiled when she heard Cui Xiaoxiao say this, "Grandma still has to find something for us servants. I will find someone to buy sheep right away."

Everyone in the mansion of Marquis Zhongping received favors from Cui Xiaoxiao and were grateful to her. Even the servants who had originally despised her status changed their minds for a while.

Cui Xiaoxiao was immersed in the feeling of being in power, unable to extricate herself, but the manager of the rouge shop brought bad news.

The manager hurried to find Cui Xiaoxiao and said anxiously, "Grandma, the rouge shop is doing very well now, but we only made 400 taels of profit, and all the 1,000 taels of capital were spent. Our shop lost 600 taels, what should we do with this loss now?"

Cui Xiaoxiao didn't expect that the rouge shop would collapse so quickly, but now that she had just gained power, if she asked Wen Tingbo for help, she was afraid that Wen Tingbo would take away her housekeeper power. If so, she would be laughed to death by Song Wanning.

Cui Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and looked at the account book in her hand. "The business of the Rouge Shop is booming right now. If we can get two thousand taels of silver for turnover, the Rouge Shop will definitely be able to turn losses into profits."

When the steward heard Cui Xiaoxiao say this, he could only sigh and say, "Grandma, where can we get two thousand taels of silver now? Otherwise, why don't we go and discuss it with the Second Master?"

"No, you must not tell the Second Master." Cui Xiaoxiao's forehead was covered with cold sweat. She looked at the land deed and account book in her hand and set her sights on one of the profitable farms.

The monthly turnover of the Marquis' Mansion was as high as 10,000 taels. If she took 2,000 taels first and then filled the hole before anyone found out, she could do it without anyone noticing and no one would know that her rouge shop was losing money.

Cui Xiaoxiao thought so and did it. She looked at the manager and said, "It's a small problem. Go to the warehouse and get two thousand taels of silver notes to use in the Rouge Shop. After a while, when our competitors are defeated by us, our business will become more and more prosperous, and everything will be fine."

The steward looked at the cards in his hand and looked at Cui Xiaoxiao hesitantly, "Grandma, should we tell the Second Master about such a big thing? If the Second Master knows about it later, he will be angry."

"Don't tell Second Master yet, I have my own plans." Cui Xiaoxiao said, looking at the steward with a threatening look, "If Second Master finds out, I'll be scolded at most, but I can't say what will happen to you, the steward."

Seeing this, the manager had no choice but to go and collect the money.

Cui Xiaoxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief after distributing the monthly wages and purchasing money to each courtyard. But before she could take a break, the manager of the rouge shop came again.

The manager was so anxious that his mouth was full of blisters. When he saw Cui Xiaoxiao, he burst into tears, "Grandma, it's bad. Liu Da, the beeswax seller, said that you didn't pay him for the beeswax. He said that if you don't pay him, he will file a complaint with the government."

Cui Xiaoxiao frowned, remembering that Liu Da, who was selling beeswax, didn't sell it expensively, so she asked, "What? Then why don't you pay him for the beeswax?"

The manager wiped the sweat from his forehead and said fearfully, "Liu Da originally said one pound was one hundred coins, but he said that the materials he provided us later were better, so he wanted to raise the price."

"It's not a signed contract, how can he go back on his word?"

"That's the problem." The manager explained quickly, "The contract says one tael of silver per pound, and now we owe eight hundred taels of silver."

"Haven't you already read the contract? Didn't you say there was no problem?" Cui Xiaoxiao slammed her hand on the table and questioned the manager, "How could such a thing happen now?"

"I am old and my eyes are blurry. I hope you will forgive me this time." The steward slapped himself on the face and cried, "Please think of a solution quickly, otherwise Liu Da will go to the government office to file a complaint."

Cui Xiaoxiao threw the account book aside and was about to explode, but Wen Tingbo appeared at the gate of the yard, looked at Cui Xiaoxiao and said, "Xiaoxiao, what's wrong?"