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

"Princess, my mind is very confused right now. I need to discuss this matter with the Second Master again." Meng Wan said weakly.

"That's right, that's right. After all, it's not a trivial matter. I was also shocked when I heard Chuntao say that just now. This girl is capable of doing big things. She solved your problem quietly." Mrs. Hu patted Meng Wan's hand.

"Let's go. Let us know when Chuntao is promoted to be a concubine. After all, she is the first concubine in Qinghe Garden. I will ask Li to come and congratulate her."

After that, he walked to Chuntao and said, "Don't worry, you see, Second Master and Second Madam believe you. You just need to take good care of your pregnancy and give birth to a big fat boy for Second Master and Second Madam. I'm telling you, don't think that you are spoiled just because you came out of my yard, became a concubine, and gave birth to a concubine's eldest son. If I hear you disrespect Second Madam, I will be the first one to not forgive you."

Chun Tao suppressed her smile and said, "I dare not. I thank the princess. I will serve the Second Master and Second Madam well and give birth to more children in the future to help Second Madam relieve her worries."

Ha, if it weren’t for the wrong occasion and atmosphere, Mrs. Hu would have laughed out loud. This Chuntao is really good at talking.

Seeing that Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Hong had returned victoriously, Zhou Yu shouted, "Mother Kong, take Chuntao away and send someone to wait on her. Don't make any mistakes." Then he looked at Mrs. Fan and said, "Come in with me."

After saying that, he walked towards the west room first.

Meng Wan glanced at Mother Fan with a complicated expression, then followed Zhou Yu to the west room.

Meng Wan returned to the east room. Chuan'er looked at Meng Wan, who was sitting there and had taken off his coat, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Cai'er helped Meng Wan change into casual clothes, mumbling things like "he has no conscience", "he can't tell insiders from outsiders", and "she always has to cry".

Meng Wan smiled and said, "Look at you, you clearly know what happened and what the result will be, why do you want to make yourself angry for nothing?"

"I am just so angry. How can there be such a stupid person?"

"The so-called stupidity without knowing it refers to this kind of people." said Chuan'er.

"That's right. We don't need to worry about such things. Go to the outer courtyard to see if Brother Wu has returned. If he has, go directly to Guishu Hutong and deliver it to Third Aunt." Meng Wan ordered.

Cai'er's face, which had been gloomy just now, brightened up instantly, and she responded shyly that she was going out.

Chuan'er looked through the glass window and saw that Cai'er did not leave the yard directly, but went back to her room first. After a while, she changed into brightly colored clothes before going out.

"Second Madam, did you notice that Cai'er seems to be a little bit abnormal?"

Meng Wanzheng took out a piece of paper and spread it on the table, then took out a charcoal stick wrapped in bast paper and turned it around in his hand.

After traveling here for so long, she still wasn't used to using a brush. Her original owner was illiterate and had never written anything. She also couldn't use a brush in her previous life, which resulted in the words she wrote being as ugly as possible.

Although she was forced by Wang to practice calligraphy before she got married, her handwriting could just be considered neat. Even Dongmei and Chuan'er wrote better than her.

So, she asked Zhou Yu to make her various charcoal pencils of different thicknesses, and she used them to write on weekdays. Zhou Yu also praised her for being smart, saying that she could write whenever she wanted without having to spend time grinding.

"Oh? What's wrong?" Meng Wan was flipping through the account book that his seventh sister had rewritten last time, and was writing and marking on the paper.

This account book is the original account book of Wang's that Xueyan stole. It was this that Guan Wei's wife and Mrs. Zhong wanted to modify a while ago.

Every time Xueyan stole a book, the Seventh Sister would rewrite it and bring it to Meng Wan, and then Zhou Yu would recall one by one where the things went, which ones he used, which ones Hu tampered with, and which ones Hu left for her to show off.

Then a new one was drawn up, which was what Zhou Yu thought his mother should leave to him, and those things could be spit out again by Mrs. Hu, and then the seventh sister would rewrite it by imitating the handwriting of the original account book.

After writing, Zhou Yu needed to take it out and make it look old again according to the way Xueyan stole it back. In this way, an account book that had been revised according to their wishes was completed.

Because Guan Wei's family and Fuchun's family were busy with the New Year's account books, Hu focused all her energy on setting a trap for Xie Fen. Therefore, Xueyan succeeded very smoothly. Wang left a total of ten account books, and Meng Wan was now looking through the last one that the seventh sister had copied again.

"From what I've seen, Cai'er has been very happy every time she goes to the outer courtyard, and she dresses up carefully."

Meng Wan didn't even look up, but smiled and said, "She's grown up and knows how to be beautiful. This girl finally has a chance to be coquettish. Among the batches of fabrics that her mother brought last year, I remember there was a batch of plum blossom pink with dark stripes. That color looks good on Cai'er. Go find some for her and let her make some spring clothes. I see that she has grown a lot taller after the New Year."

Chuan Er smiled, "Second Madam, do you want Cai Er to wear it when she goes home to attend her brother's wedding? Aren't you afraid that she will outshine her sister-in-law?"

Meng Wan chuckled, "When her brother gets married, remember to remind me. If there is time, ask Mother Kong to go there on my behalf. At least I have to give Cai'er face."

"You haven't given Cai'er enough face. If Cai'er hadn't had her hair done as a girl, her neighbors would have thought she was a concubine."

Meng Wan turned another page of the account book, "Speak nonsense, be careful or she will pinch you."

Chuan'er walked to the door and opened it, and heard the crying of Fan's mother and Zhou Yu's low scolding from the west room. Shanling was sitting on a small stool sewing a purse belt, watching Chuan'er push the door open and try to stand up, but Chuan'er waved her hand.

Meng Wan looked at Chuan'er and then remembered what she had just said. "Who did you say you saw?"

"I went to the Dongsheng Pharmacy to get the medicine today."

"Dongsheng Pharmacy?" Meng Wan frowned.

"It's the one on the east side of the city, next to the south side. I don't want to catch them near us, for fear of running into acquaintances and causing unnecessary trouble."

Meng Wan nodded, "Go on."

"Yes, when I was turning around after getting the medicine, a man came in. I didn't pay attention at first, thinking he was also here to get medicine. I only heard the pharmacist who had just gotten the medicine for me call out to him, 'Brother Shi Jian, why did you just come back? The shopkeeper has been waiting for you for a long time.'"

Seeing Meng Wan stop flipping through the account book and look up at her, Chuan'er pursed her lips and said, "I just felt that the name Shi Jian was very familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere before, so I turned back to take a closer look. The man was just turning into the counter and handing the bag on his back to the pharmacist. When he turned around, I could see clearly that he had a mole here, and there were several long black hairs growing on it."

"have you seen?"

"Yes, I didn't think of him at the time. I didn't dare to stay any longer and left. I was wondering who this man was all the way. I must have seen him before. It was only after I entered the yard and saw He Wen that I remembered who he was."

"Who?"

"Hewen's cousin is the brother of Hewen's aunt, but her aunt's family does not work in our house."

"Where do their families work?"

"I don't know about this. The reason why I know he is He Wen's cousin is because I once went to Mama Fan's house and saw his cousin go to their house in the back street. He Wen's eldest brother brought him with him."

Meng Wan stood up and said, "He Wen, He Wen." She did doubt He Wen for the medicine that Fan Mama had prepared, but because He Wen had carefully considered both the prescription and the medicine, there was nothing suspicious about it. She then specially arranged for Ying Pozi and Xiang'er from the courtyard to watch her, and there was nothing unusual.

Because until now she and Zhou Yu still didn't understand how Mrs. Hu put the medicine that could make her infertile for life into Mother Fan's medicine. It was impossible to do anything in Mother Fan's medicine box, because Mother Fan basically kept the medicine with her since she got it.

So, they analyzed that the medicine was added in the middle. But where was it added from? From the time He Wen sent the finished medicine to Fan's mother, to Fan's mother taking it to the medicine shop to grind it, and then to taking it back, there was no chance for others to add it.

No, something must be wrong.

Meng Wan walked back and forth on the ground, and suddenly thought of something. Could it be that the medicine that He Wen gave to Fan's mother was mixed with it? And He Wen must have gotten the medicine from Shi Jian's medicine shop.

"I see."

"Second Grandma, what have you thought of?" Chuan'er asked nervously.

"Poisoned."

"Poisoned?" Chuan'er was stunned at first, frowned and thought for a while, then whispered, "Second Madam said that the herbs that He Wen gave to Mama Fan were all soaked in poison."

"That's right. So, Madam Fan didn't notice anything wrong. When she took it to the medicine shop for research, the medicine shop couldn't see anything unusual. And if the princess wanted to poison these herbs, she wouldn't do it in the shop in the palace. So, it must be He Wen, her cousin who helped."