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

At this time, Meng Wan, wearing a light green double-breasted jacket made for her by Kong's mother and a dark green skirt, sat on the kang, a small kang table covered with papers. Her hair was braided into two braids and intertwined on her head.

Cai'er and the others particularly like Meng Wan's way of combing hair. Actually, Meng Wan is also helpless. There are no leather covers in this era. If she just relies on a headband to tie her hair, it will become loose after a while. She doesn't like to apply hair oil or anything like that, so she can only braid her hair to make it stronger.

I heard the door curtain rustle and saw Chuan'er enter the room. "You're back so soon?"

"Yes, I have given the letter to the Third Young Master, and he said he will go there tomorrow."

"As for mother, does she understand what I mean?"

"The Crown Prince's wife said that it was thanks to you that I went back today. She had originally planned to talk to the Marquis, his wife, and the Crown Prince about the Third Young Master in the evening. Since you thought so carefully, she will not talk about it for now. The Third Young Master also said that it would be better for the Marquis of Pingxi to talk to our Marquis about this matter, so as to avoid the Crown Prince blaming his wife or the Third Young Master having other ideas."

The Third Master refers to Meng Hai.

Meng Wan nodded. She had discussed with Zhou Yu yesterday that Wang Shi should not be allowed to tell anyone about Meng Wei going to Sichuan. It would be better to ask Lord Yue to come forward. The reason was that Yue Zhen would be taking up his new post next year, and he would always have to be surrounded by a few people who knew him well. After looking around Beijing, he thought Meng Wei was a very good person.

Meng Changfeng would definitely agree with this. Except for Meng Shao who would inherit the mansion in the future, no matter how hard he tried, the other grandsons would only be able to get the favor of the emperor. The emperor couldn't give it to all of them. Instead of waiting in the capital, it would be better to find an opportunity to go out. Besides, Meng Wei was not a good student, so it would be extremely difficult to expect him to pass the imperial examination. If he followed Yue Zhen for a few years, he should have no problem getting a sixth-rank rank.

As long as Meng Changfeng agreed, Meng Wei could follow Yue Zhen openly. As for whether to stay with Yue Zhen or go to Lord Qin in Sichuan, that was up to them.

This way it wouldn't attract too much attention from Meng Hai.

"The Crown Prince's wife looks fine. Madam Guo said you don't have to worry. She will always make sure she takes her medicine. Besides, Third Madam is with her. These days, Third Madam has been taking the children to Shanzhi Hall to accompany Madam."

"Isn't the third sister-in-law going to go with the third brother?"

"The Third Young Master said that he didn't know what was going on over there yet, and that he had to settle down before he could bring the Third Madam over. And the Third Young Master was worried about the Crown Prince's wife being alone in the mansion."

Meng Wan sighed. It seemed that Meng Wei was also dissatisfied with Meng Shao.

"When I went to Mama Liu's place, I saw Sister Qingrui leaving."

"Ah? Sister is back?"

Qingrui and Jiaohong were Meng Qi's concubines. Qingrui's husband Lin Qing managed Meng Qi's dowry shop, while Jiaohong and her husband went to Meng Qi's dowry farm.

"I am going to say goodbye."

"Goodbye? What do you mean?"

"It is said that the fourth young lady asked sister Qingrui and brother-in-law to go to the south."

"South? Any idea what to do?"

"I don't know. Sister Qingrui said she didn't know what to do either. It's just that the fourth lady asked them to go ask someone, and then they'll know what it is. Sister Qingrui said it won't be long, they'll be back in two months."

Meng Wan was puzzled. What was she going to the south to find someone or do something? Meng Qi had never left the capital since she was a child. Why would she let Qing Rui go to the south to find someone?

She remembered that Meng Qi had asked her to find a girl with a mole on her forehead. Why did everything Meng Qi had to do now seem so confusing and disorganized?

"Mother Liu, do you understand my intention?"

"Yes, she knew it as soon as I told her. She asked me to tell you that she doesn't have a proper job in the mansion now, so she has plenty of time. She goes out to look around whenever she has time. Whether it's the charity bureau, the temple, or the market, she can always meet someone suitable."

Meng Wan nodded. She didn't want to use any of the servants in the courtyard. She would buy some from outside after she had cleaned up the mess. She would let Mama Liu choose them first, and then train them properly. Then she would send them in together, saving her the trouble.

"Also, regarding the girl with the mole on her forehead that you asked her to look for, Mother Liu went to the homes of the two matchmakers she knew, but there was no such person. Mother Liu said that she would continue to keep an eye out."

"Well, we can't rush this matter. Let her take her time. It will take some time to clean up the mess in the garden. Have Qin and Feng settled down?"

"Yes, I went to the back street when I came back. Sister Feng will go to the farm with Brother Zheng after the New Year, so she will temporarily live with Brother Gu's family."

"You think, when Gu He goes to the shop, you can take Mama Liu over. It will be convenient for her to do anything then."

Chuan'er looked at the papers on the table, and next to them was a charcoal pencil for drawing eyebrows. She had long been accustomed to Meng Wan's writing habits, so she picked up the charcoal pencil and trimmed it lightly with scissors.

"Help me check if there is anything missed." Meng Wan stood up and straightened her back. She had been working on this for the whole morning, but she still had no idea whether she had sorted out the relationships between these characters correctly.

Chuan'er picked up the pages of paper and saw that on each page there was the name of a master of the palace, followed by the situation in their courtyards, and then the people related to Qinghe Garden and these courtyards. The relationship was written very clearly.

"Second Madam, you can just ask me to come back and do it. This is too much work for my eyes."

Meng Wan shook his head. "I know what I did. I was in the room when you asked me, so I didn't hear some of it clearly. I was afraid I remembered it wrongly. You can ask Caiyun to take a look later. If there is nothing wrong, we can start."

"Second Madam, do you have any rules?"

Meng Wan nodded. "I wanted to use Mother Fan as a scapegoat, but I still need her to play the villain. So let's see who will come up between Chuntao and Wanxia."

"Mother Fan..." asked Chuan'er.

"After you left, I asked Mother Kong to look for her, thinking of putting the dowry in the warehouse in the back room. There weren't many big items in my dowry, and I thought the people in Qinghe Garden would be enough, so there was no need to look for Grandma. But I didn't expect that Mother Fan said she was not in charge of personnel now, so she couldn't do anything about hiring people."

Chuan'er frowned. What was wrong with this Madam Fan? She knew that the Second Young Master was having a hard time in the mansion. Even if the Second Madam was not what she expected, she should at least protect her. Especially since the Second Madam had just come in, in front of these servants, when she, an old lady, needed to give some advice, she was just a hands-off manager.

"She is angry that you gave the power to manage the servants to Mother Kong."

"It's half and half. My behavior these past few days is also one of the reasons. I don't know if it was intentional or if she said something beforehand, but when Mama Kong went to look for the maids in the yard, all of them couldn't do the job. Some had backaches, some had broken hands, and some had stomach upsets. Haha, in short, no one could do the job."

"Second Madam, this is too, too..."

"It's okay, just some kid's tricks. What's going on in the warehouse?"

Chuan'er told Meng Wan what he had seen when he came back just now, as well as what he had said, "You go now. Everyone who works in the yard today will be paid one hundred yuan."

"One dollar? That much?"

"Yes, let everyone know. People, once it comes to interests, I want to see if they can still be so united. Also, let Mother Kong send all those who find excuses not to work today back home, and tell them that I sympathize with their poor health and take good care of them. Let them take care of them, and we'll talk about it when we can beg Mother Kong for help."

Chuan'er nodded in agreement, picked up the key from his waist and opened Meng Wan's money box.

Soon, word spread in the palace that everyone who helped the Second Madam to sort out her dowry today would be rewarded with a hundred coins. This had never happened before in the palace, not to mention that it was what they were supposed to do, even if it was a reward, a dozen copper coins would have been enough, but no one expected the Second Madam to be so generous.

In the afternoon, word came out that four maids in Qinghe Garden were forced by Second Madam to go back home to rest. She said Second Madam was considerate of them and told them not to rush back to work but to recover completely.

Several women were walking in the back streets. The one at the front stopped, turned around and said to a woman with a round face, "You gave me such a bad idea, saying that if we teamed up, nothing would happen. Now look, we let someone else take away a hundred dollars for nothing, and now they want us to go back home, saying that they will keep us, but when will they let us go back?"

"How could I know this would happen? We had already inquired about it in advance. If we didn't do anything, Sister Hei would bring up the matter of Miss San's flower tree again, and naturally she would leave her dowry there for three or five days to embarrass her. Who knew Sister Hei would do it again and get the money. Besides, this was also what Mother Fan wanted, and I couldn't just ignore her. I thought she had arranged it all, who knew it would be like this."

"We shouldn't have come out just now. We should go and apologize to Second Madam and then we'll be fine."

"You're not coming out? Mother Kong called us one by one early in the morning. You had a headache, she had a stomachache, and I had a backache. She asked us to go back at this time. You said you were fine and didn't need to go home?"

"This Madam Fan has done us so much harm. She is the second young master's wet nurse, so she is not afraid of him, but she has done us so much harm."

Everyone was talking at once, feeling very depressed, fighting for that little money, and also trying to find an excuse to say when they recovered and went back to work.

The old woman walking at the end touched the few copper coins in her purse, thinking that the fat black man got a hundred dollars for taking the lead, and she would ask her for it later.