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

The group hurried back to Qinghe Garden. Zhou Yu got down from the sedan chair and, without waiting for Meng Wan, strode up the stairs. Mother Fan looked at Zhou Yu's gloomy face and thought to herself, "Oh no! Has he been scolded by the prince again?"

Just as she was about to ask a few questions, Zhou Yu walked past her and entered the main room.

Madam Fan could only look at Meng Wan who was walking behind holding Chuan'er's hand, "Second Madam, what's the matter? I see that Second Master is unhappy."

Meng Wan was very disgusted with Fan's mother's failure to understand her position. To put it bluntly, this was also because Fan's mother didn't take him seriously. If she continued like this, Meng Wan wouldn't mind taking back her power and calming her temper.

From Zhou Yiheng's behavior today, we can see how "redundant" Zhou Yu is in this family. For example, in today's incident, Zhou Yingning picked a fight with the new second sister-in-law and pointed at her. No matter how you look at it, it is unacceptable. Zhou Yiheng should have given enough face to the new daughter-in-law and reprimanded Zhou Yingning. But he didn't, and let the mother and daughter sing the same tune, and finally even wanted to use violence against Zhou Yu.

In light of what he learned tonight, Meng Wan had a clearer understanding of Prince Shen's Mansion. It would be worse and more troublesome than he knew and prepared for.

Therefore, she had to speed up her pace and change her mind about opening up the situation in the inner house with Zhou Yu playing the good cop and the bad cop. That was too slow. Just like Zhou Yu said, let's start from our own yard first.

Meng Wan glanced at Mother Fan and said nothing. Instead, she said to Cai'er behind her, "Go ask Shan Ling to cook two bowls of noodles and cut some side dishes that Second Master likes. Come in later."

Today, Meng Wan brought Chuan'er, Dongmei and Kong Mama back home, leaving Cai'er and Shanling in the yard.

Mother Fan saw that Meng Wan did not respond to her but kept giving instructions to Cai'er. She felt a little unhappy and asked again patiently.

Meng Wan retracted her legs that were about to climb the stairs. "It's getting late. Mother Fan, go back and have some rest. The princess just asked me to take care of the situation in Qinghe Garden in the next few days. Tomorrow I'll ask you to bring me the list of maids and servants in the garden."

Mother Fan watched Meng Wan quietly and politely talk to her and then turned back into the house, knowing that she would not be able to get anything out of him today. Thinking that the Second Master was angry after returning from Junyue Residence, it seemed that this new Second Wife had not caused any trouble to upset the Second Master, right?

Madam Fan turned around and went back to her room. The servants of the palace usually lived in the back street with a courtyard. Madam Fan's level had spacious courtyards near the front. Usually, when she didn't need to serve, she would go home when it was time to hand in the keys. Only Qinghe Garden had never had a mistress, and Madam Fan was used to worrying about everything, so she would not go back to spend the night unless there was a special situation at home.

Just as Mother Zhi Fan entered the room, a maid in purple clothes gently knocked on her door.

Meng Wan had just changed into her pajamas when Cai'er walked in. "Shan Ling is getting smarter and smarter. She has already rolled out the noodles and is just waiting for Second Madam to say something to put them in the pot."

Meng Wan smiled and said, "Isn't she afraid that we won't eat it?"

"She said she's not afraid. Even if Second Master and Second Madam don't want to eat it, Chuan'er, Sister Dongmei, and Mother Kong will definitely eat it."

Meng Wan sat at the table, looking at Cai Er, whose gossipy expression was like "quickly ask me" and laughed, "Go ahead, if I don't let you talk, you'll get sick of holding it in."

Cai'er chuckled and leaned over to look into the ear room, only hearing the sound of water.

"Today, I walked around the mansion with the candy jar. Many people said that the Second Master beat the Second Mistress, and the Second Mistress was clamoring to go back to her parents' home. They also said that the Second Mistress didn't know etiquette, and that she was deliberately late to pay respects on the first day, and she didn't listen to instructions."

"Where have you been?" Meng Wan picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.

"I thought it was not easy to enter the master's courtyard, so I went to the garden to find the maids under the pretext of sorting out the large dowry for the second wife. Then I went to the big kitchen under the pretext of giving them more food to express my gratitude. I also went to the storeroom twice and the sewing room once."

Meng Wan nodded. No one could match Cai'er's outgoing nature. She could use her own way to get along with others in the shortest time possible without making people feel disgusted.

"Where's Caiyun? You didn't bring her with you?"

"I brought it with me. She's really amazing. I went to the warehouse twice but still couldn't remember it. Thanks to her, her memory is really good. Chuan'er is really amazing, Second Madam. You said we also stayed in Qinyuan for so long, how come we didn't know that Caiyun had such a talent."

Meng Wan sighed. This is called different perspectives, and the information obtained is also different. Everyone focuses on different things. Just like Wanxiang was only concerned about how to be a concubine, she was only concerned about how to comb her hair, and Cai'er was only concerned about how to eat delicious food every day.

This rumor must have been spread by Mrs. Hu or Xie Fen, with only one purpose, to discredit Meng Wan and make the servants have a bad impression of the new grandmother. Being beaten by the husband on the first day of marriage, it is natural that he does not like her. The servants in these big families are the most selective in how they treat people. If she does not pay respects on time and does not listen to instructions, then it will be a problem of a woman's moral character if it gets out.

Is it necessary for Mrs. Hu to be so anxious?

Shan Ling had just brought the noodles over when Zhou Yu came out. Seeing Meng Wan placing the bowls and chopsticks himself, he whispered, "Tell them to change the water, and you go wash it."

"Don't worry, I'm hungry too. I'll go after I finish eating."

Zhou Yu nodded and sat down. He took the chopsticks handed to him by Cai'er and stirred the noodles. "The two who just followed me to Junyueju, Chuan'er and..."

"Dongmei." Cai'er said in a low voice.

"Well, let them have something hot too." Zhou Yu picked up the chopsticks, took a mouthful of noodles, and sighed with satisfaction.

Meng Wan picked up a piece of finely chopped pickled cucumber and put it into Zhou Yu's bowl. "Was the prince directed at you or at me just now?"

Zhou Yu picked up the pickled cucumber and put it into his mouth, chewing it carefully, making a crunching sound. "It's for my mother."

Meng Wan had just put the noodles in her mouth and had not yet swallowed them. When she heard Zhou Yu's words, she was stunned for a moment with the noodles in her mouth.

"For so many years, whenever I mentioned my mother, his former princess, he would act like this. This is also the easiest way for Mrs. Hu to control me. Whenever she wants to target me or have the prince teach me a lesson, she only needs to pick out a few things my mother did in the past and say a few words. I guarantee it will be more effective than that magic pill."

Meng Wan slowly swallowed the noodles in his mouth. "It's been so many years since my mother-in-law passed away. Even if she had a lot of hatred, she wouldn't be like this. Is there something hidden that you don't know?"

"My eldest sister and I have also speculated, but the few of us, including Mother Fan, have carefully recalled that it is true that my mother did not like him, but she also gave birth to my eldest sister and me for him. Just like you said, it is not that serious. Moreover, my mother is very gentle. Although there are not many elderly people in the mansion, they all miss my mother very much and are reluctant to let her go. We don't understand why my father hates my mother so much."

Seeing Zhou Yu smile at himself and then buried his head in eating, Meng Wan felt very distressed. This boy, no, this man didn't feel any fatherly love at all.

Just now at Junyue Residence, Zhou Yiheng carefully asked Zhou Ming about the things in Zhuangzi, and gave a detailed explanation to the questions raised by Zhou Ming. Then he was concerned about Zhou Zheng's study in the Imperial College, and asked Mrs. Hu to prepare enough silver frost charcoal and let the servants light it early. Originally, he wanted to test Zhou Qin's homework, but Mrs. Hu said that today was a good day and they would ask together next time. Zhou Yiheng touched his youngest son's head and smiled helplessly.

Not to mention that Zhou Yingning dared to lie on his shoulder and act coquettishly, even Zhou Yinghan was shown a few words of concern, but Zhou Yu alone didn't say a word.

According to normal fathers-in-law, today is the day when his daughter-in-law returns to her parents' home after three days, so he will definitely ask how the parents-in-law entertained her and who accompanied her. He will even care about his daughter-in-law and whether the parents-in-law are satisfied with the return gift.

But this prince didn't ask any questions, but kept on asking nitpicking questions. If Zhou Yu didn't look four points like him, Meng Wan would have doubted whether Zhou Yu was his biological child.