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

The rule of the Prince's Mansion is to pay respects every morning, but not in the evening. Normally, the family gathers together for a meal at the end of every month. In case of special circumstances, temporary notification will be given, like yesterday and the day before yesterday.

Meng Wan was very happy that she didn't have to go to Junyueju. Everyone had been busy all day. Mother Kong took Dongmei and Caier to sort out their dowries, but she was very angry.

Those big items could not be moved by the maids alone, so they had to ask the servants to come. Cai'er went to look for Mother Fan twice, but the old woman said that she was no longer in charge of the staff arrangements in the yard and asked Cai'er to ask the grandmother to send someone over.

Meng Wan shook her head after hearing this, but she was not angry. She asked Cai Er to take the quick-talking Cai Xia to Zhong Cui Garden to look for Xie Fen. After Cai Er understood Meng Wan's intention, the two little girls kept a straight face and complained to everyone they met, saying that Second Madam couldn't control Mother Fan, and that Mother Fan gave Second Madam a bad face.

Looking at Cai'er who was happily following her maid to call for help, Xie Fen smiled coldly, "I really don't know what the wife of the prince of Huainan Marquis's mansion was thinking. Their own daughter is incompetent, but they find a few scheming girls to keep around her. I heard that this Cai'er is only a second-rate girl, and she can't even control her mouth. Now that's good, I think we don't have to bother asking about Qinghe Garden in the future."

Standing behind Xie Fen was her personal maid named Ruyi. She took her master's surname and returned to Zhongcui Garden after getting married to work as a housekeeper. She was very respectable and outsiders called her Mother Xie.

Ruyi put the jacket on Xie Fen and said, "No matter whether you ask or not, you will find out in the end. You also said that the Second Madam has just come in, and we don't know her temperament yet. Unless the princess instructs us, there is no need to find out anything."

Xie Fen nodded. She had been sick ever since she gave birth to Hong Ge. It wasn't a big deal during the really cold winter, but during late autumn and early spring, she was particularly afraid of the cold, her hands and feet were cold, and her body felt very weak.

"Whenever I think about the time I pinched Brother Hong yesterday, I feel so heartbroken. He has never had a bump or a bruise in his life." Xie Fen thought about the red mark on the inside of Brother Hong's thigh where she had pinched him yesterday after she came back, and she felt extremely resentful.

"I'm really incompetent. They use my son as a raft in their fight, and I have to send him off with a smile." Xie Fen wrapped her jacket tightly around her body.

"Grandma, it's not that you don't have the ability, it's that there is really no other way right now. What else can we do if we don't do what the princess said? Before the second grandma came in, you said that she was a powerful and shrewd one, and it would be best if she could compete with the princess, so that we can sit back and watch the show. But who would have thought that the second grandma would be such a useless person. It's only been five days, and so many things have happened, and each one was according to the princess's wishes." Ruyi gently stroked Xie Fen's back.

"I originally wanted to push Meng Wan to the front so that I could have a good rest, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even find a maid to deal with the dowry, and I couldn't even control the people in my own courtyard. If this is the case, I don't have to put too much energy on her."

Xie Fen rubbed his temple and turned around, "Go and bring Brother Hong back."

Yesterday, Hongge's wet nurse was sold away. To avoid him making a fuss at night, Xie Fen held him in her arms to sleep. Early in the morning, Li sent a maid to take Hongge to her place.

Xie Fen was sometimes really speechless about Li. Even if you were a concubine in the palace, you were still a concubine. He was the legitimate wife who was married in a formal ceremony. Logically, he only recognized Hu as his mother-in-law.

But Li didn't dare to do anything in front of others, but secretly acted like a mother-in-law. Whenever she did something unsatisfactory, she would go to Zhou Ming and cry to him, saying that she looked down on her as a mother-in-law, which made Zhou Ming unhappy.

What made her even more angry was that she had been married for three years and finally gave birth to a son. She had just established herself, but Li saw that she had gained some power as a housekeeper and came up to her eagerly. She wanted this today and that tomorrow, and she wanted her to do everything according to the princess's standards.

Xie Fen felt very upset. This power of stewardship was gained by her by humble herself and doing many unscrupulous things for Mrs. Hu, and they were all insignificant. How could Mrs. Hu let her do those big and lucrative jobs?

But Xie Fen had no way out. Zhou Ming was a filial son, and the sentence he said most often was, "Auntie has no choice. Grandfather's family is counting on her. If she doesn't get a little more, how can she take care of such a large family? You are gaining more and more trust from the princess. You can be more careful elsewhere, but Auntie will be able to take care of you here."

Xie Fen thought about Li's relatives from her mother's family, who would run to the back door every now and then, taking back large and small bags, and their eating habits were as ugly as could be.

Xie Fen had figured it out now. Just take it. It wasn't hers. The prince didn't say anything, and the princess didn't say anything. Why should she be the bad guy? She didn't believe that Li was taking things from her parents' home like this, and Hu wouldn't know about it. The reason why she pretended not to know was that she wanted to use Zhou Ming to make money for her son, to use Li to deal with the prince's concubines, and to use herself to compete with the new second wife.

It's just that they are of use to Hu Shi now. If the position of the crown prince really falls to Zhou Zheng one day, Xie Fen dare not imagine what kind of expression Hu Shi will have.

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Cai'er came back with a few maids. Wanxia went to get the booklet and was about to read out one item to let the maids move it. A tall woman with a dark face patted her clothes and said, "When we are done, this girl must take a good look. Although they are all large items and we can't move or carry them by ourselves, if there is any missing or damaged part, we will not be responsible once we leave this door."

A slightly younger woman next to her tugged at her sleeve, signaling her to stop talking. The woman said unhappily, "I just drank two mouthfuls of my bowl of porridge. You're in such a hurry. You can't ask people to work without eating."

Another older man said impatiently, "Alright, hurry up. Mother Hong wants us to move all the flowers and trees in Miss Third's yard to the greenhouse. There might be frost tonight."

"If that's the case, we have to move the flowers and trees in the Third Miss's yard first. They are living things and are afraid of the cold. The Second Madam's dowry is not afraid of the cold either. I think it won't be a big deal if we move it a day or two later, right?" the black-faced old woman said to Cai'er.

"Yes, although we are in charge of miscellaneous matters, we have to prioritize things. Besides, there are people doing miscellaneous work in Qinghe Garden, so there is no need to ask us to do everything, right?"

"If you ask me, why don't we go to the Third Young Lady's yard first? I know those flowers and trees. They were found by the Third Young Master specially for her. Each tree cost fifty taels of silver. If we move them too late and they get frozen, who will be responsible?" The black woman said to the older woman.

Just as the black woman finished her words, Chuan'er came back from work. He frowned and walked up to her and said, "Second Madam, it's nothing. If you really don't have time, go and do your own things. Let alone one or two days, even ten days or half a month will be fine. You won't be afraid of the cold if you leave it here."

Hei Po turned to look at Chuan Er, and seeing that she was well-dressed, with a shining gold bracelet on her wrist, she knew that she must be the capable servant of the Second Mistress. But no matter how capable she was, this new Second Mistress had caused so much trouble only a few days after coming in, and the servants who served her could not be much better.

"This young lady is right. In that case, let's go to the Third Miss first. If we finish quickly, we will come back to move it. If it's slow, we will have to trouble the Second Madam to wait a little longer." After the black woman said this, she turned around proudly and was about to go back.

The older women frowned and were about to speak when they saw the people following the black woman out in twos and threes, but Chuan'er said, "Our Second Madam is not in a hurry, but when the Second Master left early in the morning, he told us to store all of her dowry. What if the Second Master comes back and sees it?"

Cai'er was already furious with these old women. If Caixia hadn't been pulling at her clothes, she would have quarreled with the black old woman. When she heard Chuan'er bring Zhou Yu out, she suddenly thought, "Oh, Chuan'er, if you hadn't said it, I would have forgotten about it. What should we do? How about we go back to the Marquis' Mansion and ask the Crown Prince's wife to send someone to help put it away?"

Chuan'er nodded, then shook his head, "Caixia, go check who is in our yard and call them all over. Cai'er, go tell Grandma to thank her for sending people over, but we really didn't know that there was urgent work waiting for the Third Miss in her yard, and we're sorry to have caused Grandma so much trouble."

After listening to what Chuan'er said, Cai'er and Caixia responded with "yes" in unison.

The old woman grabbed Cai'er and said, "Second Madam, there aren't many of these things. If we act quickly, it will be done in two hours. We can also go to Third Miss's place in the afternoon."

After saying that, he glared at the black woman and walked to Caixia, "Miss Fan told us to move according to the book, don't make a mistake, or we won't be able to reconcile the accounts later."

Seeing Chuan'er nod, Caixia smiled and opened the booklet, then pointed to a screen and said, "Let's move this first."