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

When Zhou Yinghan arrived at Li's yard, he saw a little maid going out the door.

"Auntie, is there any news?"

Li grabbed her daughter's hand and said, "But what should we do? I just heard that the princess sent Mother Hong back to the Hu family yesterday, saying that she wanted the second wife of the Hu family to settle your matter immediately."

"Ah? Why are you in such a hurry?" Zhou Yinghan asked in surprise.

Li's eyes were moist, "What should I do? What should I do? What kind of person has she chosen? If she brings it up to the prince, he will definitely not object."

Both mother and daughter knew that as long as Mrs. Hu opened her mouth, no one outside would be able to find any fault with her, and it would definitely bring certain benefits to the Zhou family.

"Aunt, we can't wait any longer. Only my second brother can help me now. Didn't you hear what I talked about with my second sister-in-law yesterday? My second brother and his wife are waiting for us."

Li sat in a chair, "Will they help you?"

"Auntie, how can you know if you don't try?"

"But I always feel that Second Madam cannot beat the princess. Look at Chuntao. Everyone knows that she got pregnant because of the princess's protection. And Second Madam can no longer have children. In the future, Chuntao's child will be the one..."

"Auntie is confused. What does it have to do with us whether Second Sister-in-law has a baby or not? Second Brother just wants evidence. If you give it to him, he will naturally help me. If you don't give it to him, he will continue to think of ways to fight the princess. Moreover, if the princess knew that you had such a deadly thing in your hand, what would she do? Have you thought about it?"

Li stood there nervously, at a loss for a moment. Zhou Ying stamped her feet in anger, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything. Do whatever you like. Hold on to your things and continue to wait and see who will be the final winner. But by that time, the princess will have married me to that despicable family, or even given me to some old man as a second wife."

Seeing Zhou Yinghan turning around to leave, Li grabbed her hand and said, "No, I didn't mean that. I just wanted to be safe. I'm really worried about the strength of the Second Master and the Second Mistress."

"But now it's not a matter of whether you can be at ease or not. The princess has already asked Mother Hong to go to the Hu family. Maybe she has already found someone for me, but I don't know why she is so anxious. You just wait and see, the matchmaker will come to our door in a few days." Zhou Yinghan burst into tears.

"Don't cry, don't cry, I get it, I'll listen to you, all the same." After saying this, Li hastily returned to the inner room, and after a while, she took out a small box, "Here, take it, tell the Second Master and Second Madam, if they want to know what's in this box, as long as you arrange a marriage that satisfies me, I'll tell them everything."

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Zhou Yu and Meng Wan looked at the box in front of them, neither of them moved nor spoke.

After a long time, Zhou Yu slowly opened the box and saw several porcelain bottles, a piece of paper and several pieces of material inside.

Zhou Yu took out the piece of paper, which should have been the birth date of a child. Meng Wan took out the pieces of fabric, which included a bellyband for a child, which should be for a newborn. There were also two small quilts, which were obviously old.

The two looked at each other, both puzzled. "Whose is this?" Meng Wan asked.

"I don't know? Why would Li keep this? What does this mean?" Zhou Yu looked it up and down.

"My birthday is in the same year as mine, just a few months late." Zhou Yu folded the yellowed paper.

Meng Wan said softly, "If you don't know, don't guess. Since Li took this out and preserved it so well, there must be a deep meaning behind it. I think she will take the initiative to tell us after my second sister's marriage is settled."

Zhou Yu nodded, "Li should have evidence in her hands. Very good. It seems that your provocation has indeed worked. Hu still can't keep her composure."

"She is just too vicious. When she heard that we were going to find a husband for our second sister, she couldn't sit still. If she wasn't so anxious, Li Shi probably wouldn't have made a move."

"Well, Li has been subjected to Hu's harassment and humiliation for so many years. This should be her last resort. It is understandable that she doesn't dare to use it easily. Fortunately, your idea is good. It forced Hu to take action and made Li anxious."

Zhou Yu put the things back into the box and hugged Meng Wan happily. "Okay, we can always get surprises step by step. Once we have concrete evidence of Hu's murder of my mother, we can do something big. How is the aunt from Song Zhu's family?"

"Do you still remember?" Meng Wan smiled.

"Of course she doesn't remember. If she really remembered something, it would be valuable. You also said that she must have heard or seen something between my grandmother and Hu."

Meng Wan nodded, "Mother Kong went there a while ago and said that she is much better and can remember some things, but they are all from the past, some from the time when she was serving her grandmother. She can't remember anything else." There was disappointment in her tone.

"It doesn't matter. Don't worry. The competition between Zhou Zheng and I is closely related to the court, and the situation in the court will take another year or two to be resolved."

"Well, I thought that after our plan, I would be able to intervene in the affairs of the mansion, and it would be much easier to investigate mother's affairs. Besides, cousin Jun has been treating you better and better. I believe that it won't be long before Third Aunt will tell me some of mother's past."

"That's right, that's great, let's take it slow. I'm going to make Mrs. Hu pay back what my mother has gone through a hundred times." After saying that, he put away the box and put it in the secret compartment at the head of Duo's bed. "I'm going to go out for a while. Since Mrs. Li has given us such a big gift, we must let Second Sister get married as she wishes."

"Okay, go quickly. If there is any result, send a message to me as soon as possible so that I can let my second sister consider it. Only if they agree, can I tell the prince."

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The official matchmaker came to the palace of Prince Yun to ask for the marriage of Zhou Yinghan for the nephew of Lady Pingxi. Lady Pingxi's maiden name was Ding. Although there was no official in the court, the famous Ding Family Academy in Jiangnan belonged to the Ding family. It can be said that the family has a long tradition of learning and has many students. The plaque of their family's academy was written by the late emperor himself when he was incognito, and it is highly respected by the world.

The Ding family has been a single-line family for generations, and Mrs. Ding, the mother of the Ding family, has only this nephew, who is 20 years old this year. However, the marriage has been full of twists and turns. First, the girl who was engaged to him suddenly contracted a serious illness when she was 16 years old and was about to get married. Then the family arranged another marriage for him, but before the wedding, the girl ran away with her cousin, becoming a big laughing stock at the time. The young master Ding was so angry about this that he lay in bed for a whole winter.

This delay made the young master 19 years old. He got engaged again and when it was time for him to get married, Young Master Ding, who was drinking tea with his friends, discovered that his fiancée's younger brother was recruiting students under the name of his family and making a profit from it. He sent his servants to check and found out that his fiancée was the one who came up with the idea and that her reputation was not very good. Because the Ding family was anxious about his marriage, they did not know the details. So, this time, Young Master Ding broke off the engagement himself.

In this way, Master Ding became disheartened and didn't even look at her in the next few times. The 20-year-old Master Ding had a difficult marriage. Mrs. Ding was extremely anxious and wrote a letter to her sister-in-law. Mrs. Ding thought about it and simply took her nephew to Beijing to relax.

Ding and Zhou Yingrong's mother-in-law were close friends, and the two families lived close to each other and visited each other frequently. Zhou Yingrong knew about this, and after thinking about it, she mentioned Zhou Yinghan to Ding. At first, Ding was unwilling, because Zhou Yinghan was a concubine's daughter, and she looked down on people like Hu.

But he couldn't stand his nephew's current situation. He only read books and drank tea every day. He didn't care about these things. He didn't even look at the maid next to him. After hearing Zhou Yingrong mention it several times, he became interested.

Ding had seen Zhou Yinghan before. She was pretty and very steady. Although she was a concubine's daughter and had a harsh mother like Hu, she was not petty and was a proper lady from a prince's mansion. She was somewhat satisfied with her and wanted to let her nephew take a look at her.

Young Master Ding didn't want to do it at first, but since it was the first time his aunt asked him to do it, he couldn't refuse. Zhou Yingrong acted as a matchmaker and found an excuse to call Zhou Yinghan to her home. It was destined that the two of them would get along well. When Young Master Ding hid behind the flower wall to see each other, he saw Zhou Yinghan reciting a poem to a tree of brightly blooming albizzia flowers, petals blown down by the wind, and a pretty girl under the tree. The beautiful poem that Young Master Ding, who claimed to have read thousands of books, had never heard of instantly touched the young man's heart.