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

Meng Wan took Zhou Yu's hand and got into the carriage. As she was adjusting her clothes, Zhou Yu lifted the corner of his robe and followed her into the carriage.

"You don't ride horses?"

"It's cold, it's warmer to sit in the sedan." Zhou Yu said as he moved closer to Meng Wan.

Meng Wan looked outside. Although it was autumn at the end of October and the mornings and evenings were indeed much cooler, it was still warm at around nine o'clock. This guy could lie without blushing.

He tilted his head to look at Zhou Yu again, and saw that Zhou Yu was wearing a dark red outfit today, and his jet-black hair was fixed with a jade hairpin. He had sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a high nose bridge, red lips and white teeth, and the slightly curved corners of his mouth showed that he was in a good mood at the moment.

After Zhou Yu sat down, he put his arm around Meng Wan, first lowered his head and gently kissed her cheek, then took Meng Wan's hand and gently stroked it finger by finger, "Tell me, what happened this morning?"

"It's child's play. Just hitting me during the greetings."

"When is the time to pay your respects? Didn't Mother Fan tell you?"

"I told you. I even asked Dongmei to ask. The princess should have arrived early."

"Heh, how shameless! I have to get everyone involved just to find you doing something wrong." Zhou Yu took Meng Wan's hand and kissed it gently, saying with disdain.

"She doesn't need to get up early. Her daughter lives nearby and can be there in a few steps. As for other people, she doesn't even bother to ask any questions." Meng Wan liked Zhou Yu's little actions. She felt that people in ancient times were not like modern people. They could date for a long time and get to know each other slowly. No matter their behavior, character, habits and hobbies, they would get together only when they thought it was suitable and acceptable.

Therefore, if there is no chance for a proper relationship, such pleasant little actions that can enhance feelings are very good.

Meng Wan raised her head slightly and kissed Zhou Yu's lips gently. Just as she was about to leave, Zhou Yu held her waist and deepened the kiss. Meng Wan felt that the carriage had run so far away, but Zhou Yu had not let her go.

"Oh, wuwu, okay, you've eaten all my lip balm." Meng Wan said coquettishly.

Zhou Yu chuckled, "You seduced me."

"Seducing? That's really ugly." Meng Wan smoothed her hair that was messed up by Zhou Yu. "By the way, you asked the fourth family of Shen to carry the return gift back. What should we do? We can't go back to the Marquis' Mansion empty-handed, right?"

"Don't worry, my sister has prepared everything for us."

"Ah? You went to your eldest sister's house early in the morning?"

"How is that possible? We are just going to her dowry yard. My sister prepared it for us yesterday."

"Did you expect the princess to make things difficult for me during the return ceremony?"

"Well, that kind of person, even if she becomes a princess, will still be petty-minded. Besides, the gifts she prepared for the return visit will not be good. Not having good things is the worst. If she mixes in some random things, and my mother-in-law eats them or gets sick after eating them, or your second and third rooms will watch the fun, then it will not be worth it."

"Ah? No way? How dare she do such a blatant thing?" Meng Wan really couldn't believe it. This time, all the gifts had to be registered in a book. If they were used improperly or any problems arose, it would not be a complicated matter to investigate.

"Why wouldn't she dare? Last time when Li's mother was sick, my second sister went to ask her for a hundred-year-old ginseng. My father promised Li in front of the princess. As a result, my second sister's grandmother didn't eat it, but she almost died after eating it. Fortunately, she was treated in time. Later, the doctor said it was the ginseng. Hu wiped her tears and said that the servants took it by mistake and sent the Adenophora acuminata instead of the hundred-year-old ginseng. She also complained about Li's family, asking why they didn't take a good look at it when eating. If the Li family had been more careful, this would never have happened. Her words were full of ridicule for my second sister's grandmother's family being ignorant and not being able to tell the difference between human ginseng and Adenophora acuminata. But my father thought Hu was right and scolded Li."

Meng Wan was speechless. What kind of magic potion did Zhou Yiheng have that made Hu trust him so much and believe whatever he said? But Meng Wan was still very touched by Zhou Yu's attentiveness and consideration. She didn't expect that he, at such a young age, could think so carefully. Of course, maybe Zhou Yingrong was thoughtful, but it didn't matter. Zhou Yu's behavior proved that he cared about her, which was good.

"The princess also treats people differently based on their social status. I think she treats the two concubines well." Meng Wan recounted the story of how Hu and Zhou Yingning bullied Li and Zhou Yinghan respectively this morning.

"Okay? That means she has to be useful. Li gave birth to my eldest brother, so Hu had to keep him around to handle the government affairs for her son. Besides, how could they target you in the inner house without Xie as the first to take action? Besides, Yu was originally her distant relative. For a while, my father fell in love with a storyteller and rarely came home. She had no choice but to find someone who looked 50% like the storyteller and brought him home, so my father 'accidentally' met her. Hum, what a dirty thing."

Meng Wan knew that Yu was a distant relative of Hu, but she didn't know how. When Zhou Yu heard her ask, he moved his hand from Meng Wan's shoulder down and placed it on her waist, "She is the daughter of Hu's mother's concubine's younger sister, and the sister-in-law of her husband's family."

Meng Wan was overwhelmed and stretched out her hands to calculate the relationship. Zhou Yu looked at her serious look and couldn't help laughing. He held Meng Wan's five fingers and said, "Why waste your time? You just need to know that they are in the same group."

"You don't understand. I have to study everyone around the princess, especially those who are close to her, to see which ones can be used, which ones can be turned against her, and which ones can be killed like chickens."

Zhou Yu felt an inexplicable pain in his heart when he heard Meng Wan say this. He fiddled with her fingers gently and said in a depressed tone, "I'm sorry. Even if others are not very good at getting married, they just can't adapt. But you haven't even stayed for three days and you have to think about how to face these people. You have to deal with each person differently. I'm incompetent for making you worry like this."

Meng Wan had just figured out the relationship between the Yu family and the Hu family. After hearing what Zhou Yu said, he turned to look at him and said, "Wang Xiaoer, I don't want to hear this anymore. I told you at the beginning that I am not afraid to deal with everything that comes next with you. Your situation in the palace and today's situation are not your fault, nor are you incompetent. You don't have to belittle yourself. I have never thought that you are incompetent.

"On the contrary, the fact that you have not grown up crooked under such high pressure from the Hu family is enough to show that you are very capable. If it were someone else, he would have been a real playboy. So, we should just lie dormant now. With time, there will always be a day when our wish will come true."

Zhou Yu frowned and sighed, "Okay, I won't say anything more like this. We are united as husband and wife and will definitely make Mrs. Hu get what she deserves. I will make her pay a hundred times or a thousand times the price to make amends for my mother. By the way, what is high pressure? And what do you mean by pediatrics?"

"High pressure means that the pressure is very high, which exceeds the tolerance of ordinary people. Pediatrics is a trick played by children. Don't be afraid of it, but don't underestimate the enemy. Just deal with it seriously."

Zhou Yu placed his chin on Meng Wan's forehead and rubbed it gently. "You are really amazing. I always hear you say something I have never heard before, but it is so accurate. Teach me more later. This can be used as a secret code between the two of us, and let them guess."

Meng Wan's eyes lit up. Should he teach Wang Xiaoer some simple English words? He could pass on some secret messages, which was not bad.

"Oh, by the way, the story about Yu is not over yet."

"What else does she have?"

"Have you ever heard about how when Mrs. Hu interfered with my marriage with Meng Qi, she brought one of her cousins ​​into the mansion?"

Meng Wan raised her head, her eyes wide open, her face full of gossip, "Yeah, I haven't asked you yet, where is your cousin?"

"What cousin? She is not worthy of being called my cousin. She is just a poor woman, but she actually dreams of climbing up the ladder of the royal palace." Zhou Yu said contemptuously, "She is not Hu's cousin niece. In fact, she is Yu's cousin niece. Her family just got rich by using the money that Yu got after becoming a concubine in the royal palace. They bought land and servants, and became a local rich man."

"That status is too low. What is the princess thinking? She actually wants to marry such a woman to you? Even if the prince wants to save the reputation of the county prince's mansion, he will not agree. The princess doesn't know this, right?"

"Of course Mrs. Hu knew. She had no intention of letting that niece be my legal wife. She just wanted me to have a bastard child before I married a legal wife. This way, I could prepare for both situations. If the engagement with the Meng family was cancelled at that time, she would find someone who was not presentable for me. If the cancellation was not successful, she would have a bastard child, so that my wife and I would be alienated and the Huainan Marquisate would be disappointed in me. Even if neither of these two things worked, I would like to ask, which wealthy family in Beijing would let their daughter marry a man like me who took a concubine and had a child before marrying a legal wife?"

Meng Wan didn't know there were all these stories. Mrs. Hu was really worried about Zhou Yu's marriage.

"Where's that girl?"

"I left. After the matter between you and me was settled, I was sent away by Yu."

Meng Wan turned her head and looked Zhou Yu up and down. Zhou Yu felt uncomfortable being looked at by her. "You, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Is Yu's cousin's niece very pretty?"

"Ah? She's okay, right? I haven't even taken a good look at her." Seeing Meng Wan's unbelieving expression, he continued, "She just has a pretty face."

"You haven't taken a good look at her, have you? How do you know she's just good-looking?"

Before Zhou Yu could explain further, cries of pain and low pleas for mercy were heard from the carriage.