After the replacement marriage, I was forced to fight at home

"Mom, this is impossible. How could Mr. Hong marry Meng Juan? What should I do? I will be laughed at to death by Meng Juan."

Seeing the big tears rolling down Meng Qi's cheeks, Wang hugged Meng Qi in her arms with heartache.

"Good boy, mother has long told you that Mr. Hong is not what you think he is. He has had bad intentions from the beginning. Now you can see that he is just using you."

"Using me? What is he using me for?"

"I'm using you to make you break off your engagement with Prince Shen's Mansion." Su Qing said.

"Ah? Why would he do that?"

"If my mother and I are right, he should be helping the princess, that is, helping Mr. Zhou San. You also know what Mr. Zhou and Mr. Zhou San are fighting about."

After hearing this, Meng Qi lowered her head and thought for a while, "How could this be? Mother, I still don't believe it. Could it be a mistake? Mother, can we go ask grandma?"

Looking at Meng Qi who was holding her hand and swinging back and forth, Wang thought about what Su Qing had just said and said with a hard heart, "Don't be naive. Can't you see what's going on? Sister Qi, you are not a child anymore. You should be able to see right from wrong. I will say it again today. From your acquaintance with Mr. Hong San, to later hearing that he had a crush on an engaged woman, to you picking up that storybook and coming up with that idea, to when he stopped the horse, he said one thing to others and another to you. Put it all together and think about it carefully. It was all planned. He has been calculating against you."

"That's right, Fourth Sister, you must not be fooled by him again. Because you are too naive, his scheme succeeded, so you must not be used by him again. Just treat this as the first time you have heard of it. When we meet Big Sister tomorrow, we should just happily congratulate her. Don't say anything unnecessary or show any emotion, understand?"

Meng Qi looked at Su Qing, "Second sister, is this true? Is it Meng Juan and Hong Zhe who are doing this? Have they been planning to get engaged for a long time, but I made such a big fool of myself."

"Fourth sister, it's never others who make you laugh, it's always you."

"Sister Wan..." Wang said hurriedly.

Su Qing used her eyes to stop Wang, "Don't be upset, think about it yourself. You are already engaged, even if you don't like Mr. Zhou Er, how could you do that before breaking off the engagement? It is precisely because you have such thoughts that their calculations will succeed."

"You can't blame me. I've said long ago that I don't want to marry Zhou Yu. I hate him, but who in the family listened? They all cared about themselves. Grandfather and father cared about the dignity of the Marquis's mansion. Mother cared about her promise to the former princess. Who asked me?"

Meng Qi stood up and said loudly, "That's right, Master Hong, I was bold and I did something wrong. I made everyone feel embarrassed. But, have you ever thought about me? I just like him. I liked him after just one look at him. I also thought that he was not sincere to me, but I still hope that after what happened last time, he will come to propose marriage. Even if I did something wrong, I shouldn't let others slap me in the face like this, right? Especially since he is a member of the Meng family, how can I get out of this in the future?"

After hearing this, Wang Shi hurriedly got down from the ground and hugged Meng Qi, "Mother knows that you feel wronged. It was my fault. I should have canceled your marriage earlier. Now look what has happened. Not only have I harmed you, but I have also implicated your sister..."

"Mom, what should I do? Everyone knows that I was waiting for Master Hong San to propose marriage, but when he came, he proposed to Meng Juan. What should I do?" Meng Qi cried.

"No."

"Second sister, what's wrong?"

"I mean, not many people know that you were waiting for Mr. Hong San to propose marriage. Everyone knows that you got on the wrong carriage in the Pingxi Marquis Mansion incident. Everyone also knows that I was the one who was engaged in the Shenjun Prince Mansion incident. So, as long as you stick to these two points, no one will laugh at you for this, do you understand?"

"That's right, your second sister is right. As long as we don't admit it, who can hold on to it? Just like your second sister, everyone knows that she used to work for you, but we don't admit it. Look, now everyone knows that your second sister came back for a blessing, right?"

Wang wiped Meng Qi's tears and said, "Good child, listen to me. Let's not think about Mr. Hong San. Wait until Meng Juan gets married, and your second sister gets married too. Everyone in Beijing will forget about this matter, and I will slowly find a good one for you."

"That's right. Besides, Mr. Hong San is not necessarily a good person. Do you think it will be easy for my elder sister to marry him?"

"Second sister, what do you mean?"

"Think about it, Mr. Hong is the second wife, and I heard that he has a very good relationship with his first wife, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed with her for two years. If my eldest sister gets married, she will be a shadow of someone else. No matter how well a living person does, they can't surpass a dead person. This is one reason.

"The second is that I heard that Mrs. Hong is a very powerful woman, and the two daughters-in-law of the Hong family are scheming against each other all the time. If Meng Juan marries her, she will suffer. Humph, just wait and see, Meng Juan will come back crying sooner or later, and you can just wait and see her make a fool of herself.

"And thirdly, we are just guessing that Hong Zhe must have wanted to get something from his uncle by marrying Meng Juan. If he didn't satisfy the Hong family, do you think they would still be nice to Meng Juan?

"So, let's just wait and see, and let her be proud first, and wait for mother to find a good family for you. When you are living a comfortable and happy life, you can go and see Meng Juan. At that time, you can make fun of her however you want."

Meng Qi blinked her big eyes and listened to Su Qing finish speaking, while Wang breathed a sigh of relief. The whole thing before was not as good as the last few sentences.

"That's right, your second sister is right. We'll just have to wait and see. My dear, I was just thinking about asking for your explanation, but your second sister persuaded me. If I were to ask why the Hong family proposed to Meng Juan instead of you, the third and second houses would laugh their heads off."

Meng Qi nodded, "I understand. Not only can I not be sad, I have to be happy. I can't let them laugh at me."

"Yes, that's it." Su Qing patted Meng Qi on the shoulder, "No matter how sad you are, don't let them see it. You don't want Meng Juan to look down on you, right?"

"Well, I hate her the most. Nothing good has happened since she came back."

At night, Meng Qi was lying on the bed. Hong Zhe appeared in her mind one moment, then Meng Juan. A moment later, the two of them were standing in front of her hand in hand. Meng Juan laughed loudly, thinking she was the loser.

Meng Qi knew that what her mother and Su Qing said were all right and for her own good, but she still felt uncomfortable and upset. It wasn't that she couldn't let go of Hong Zhe at this time. She just wanted to find an opportunity to ask him why he treated her like this. Even if he wanted to plot against Mr. Zhou Er, he could go find him in person. Why did he provoke her?

However, she didn't dare to think that if she met Hong Zhe privately again at this time, she would face consequences that she could not bear.

But I feel unwilling not to ask her. What should I do?

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"Second Miss, can Fourth Miss listen to your advice today?" Mother Kong said.

"Who knows? I don't expect her to listen to much, even one third is good. As long as she doesn't act too much in front of Meng Juan and Third Aunt, and can keep her emotions stable, as for the rest, we can take our time."

In fact, Su Qing can understand Meng Qi quite well. Meng Qi is a typical love-brained person in modern times. Some love-brained people will turn back after hitting a wall, while some will go all the way to the end. When I was watching a certain audio app in my previous life, this kind of thing was really common.

She now hopes that Meng Qi is the type of person who will come back. If she has other ideas, Su Qing really has no other choice.

This is just like the saying, you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.

However, what made Wang and Su Qing happy was that Meng Qi did not show too much about Meng Juan and Hong Zhe's engagement. Facing Meng Juan's implicit provocations, she said with a stern face, "You're so happy to be someone's second wife." This one sentence successfully made Meng Juan's originally proud face gloomy in an instant.

Mrs. Liu was in high spirits. Looking at her, Su Qing became more and more convinced that Meng Hai must be hiding something from the Meng family. She was actually worried.

Zhou Yu's choice must be different from Meng Hai's. At that time, it would be fine for her, after all, she was getting married. If Meng Hai failed, it would be the Huainan Marquis' Mansion that would be implicated. She didn't care about other people, but Wang Shi couldn't stay out of it.

Therefore, she really hoped that the one Zhou Yu supported would succeed, and then she could ask Zhou Yu to protect Wang.

Prince Jing is definitely out of the question, so it must be Prince Cheng or Prince Duan, or even the sickly crown prince?

Because Meng Juan is the eldest daughter, her wedding date is set for June of the following year, two months earlier than Su Qing and Zhou Yu.

Along with the first heavy snow of this year, the Huainan Marquis Mansion received an invitation from the Hong family, announcing that the eldest daughter of the Hong family was getting married.