"Big sister, you are happy." As soon as Gu Lian left, Gu Wanyu, who had been sitting aside and trying her best to endure, bit her lip and looked at Wan Zhou angrily.

She sat aside and watched her mother's true colors being exposed step by step. She wanted to say a few words in her mother's defense, but she knew very well that if she spoke up for her mother again in this situation, her father would definitely hate her.

Her father originally liked Gu Wanzhou more, so she didn't dare to make a mistake. She also wanted to be the daughter favored by her father.

Of course Wan Zhou was happy.

In her previous life, Jiang tried to take her money and her life, and she just made Jiang lose her position as the housekeeper.

Although for a legal wife, having the power of housekeeper taken away by the concubine was a complete loss of face and dignity, but compared with what Jiang did to her in the previous life, she was not too kind.

"I am happy that father is back. Isn't my second sister happy?" Wan Zhou deliberately answered the question irrelevantly. He glanced coldly at Jiang, who was lying on the ground like a stray dog, and turned around and left the dining room with the maid.

……

The next morning, Aunt Xie, the acting housekeeper, came to see Wan Zhou.

"Miss, the master just came back and got promoted. Someone will definitely come to our house today. The mistress happens to be sick at this time. The master asked me to ask Miss for her opinion?"

"Are you sick?" A smile flashed in Wan Zhou's eyes.

"Go tell father to ask aunt to come over to help with the reception and tell her that the lady is ill and it would be bad to pass the illness on to the guests."

Didn't Jiang know that after Gu Lian got promoted, someone would come to visit his family, and that Aunt Xie could be the housekeeper in the back house, but couldn't go to the front to receive people. Gu Lian would have to ask her, the mistress, to come forward. So she pretended to be sick, thinking that when Gu Lian came to ask her to come forward, she would take back the housekeeper's power?

It’s a nice thought.

If you want to be sick, then be sick.

Although my aunt married the second son who doesn't take care of the household, her husband's family is now of the fifth rank, so there won't be any major problems if they help with the reception.

Aunt Xie's eyes lit up when she heard this, "I'll go right away."

"Miss, I'm afraid the Madam fell ill because she was stripped of her housekeeper rights," Qiu Ge said as she set the table.

Wan Zhou smiled, picked up the spoon and scooped a spoonful of chicken porridge. It was smooth and soft in the mouth, and the taste felt fuller than before.

Even the simple-minded Qiu Ge could see through Jiang's little trick. Who could she fool?

Gu Min was preparing to go to the Gu family to congratulate her brother on his promotion. Just as she was about to leave, the servants sent by the Gu family arrived. When they learned that she was to host the reception, she was very happy and packed a large bag of clothes and hurried over.

Jiang was still waiting in the house for Gu Lian to come and invite her. She started to get anxious as she waited and waited but no one showed up. Not long after Gu Min arrived, she heard the news and was so angry that she smashed the medicine bowl to the ground.

"Madam, please ask my aunt to come over. I heard it was the eldest lady's idea." Mother Qian said.

Hearing this, Jiang's eyes flashed with cruelty, "Silly girl, it seems she is determined to go against me to the end."

"Go, boil me a pot of bitter medicine." She had to pretend to be sick. She had to let everyone in the mansion know that she was sick, and let the guests who came know that she was drinking bitter medicine, otherwise she would really lose face.

The Gu family was extremely lively that day, with people coming to congratulate them in waves, exceeding Wan Zhou's expectations.

After some inquiries from the little elf Qiu Ge, Wan Zhou came to the conclusion that Ji Nanzheng was responsible for more than half of the reason why the Gu family was so popular.

Before Ji Nanzheng went to the battle, he was a second-rank Shenwei General and the commander-in-chief of the army. Now that he has returned victorious, the emperor directly promoted him to the title of first-rank Shenwei General, granted him the title of the Crown Prince's Junior Tutor, and named him the Prince of Duke Dingguo. He also changed the five-generation inheritance of the Duke Dingguo Mansion to hereditary succession.

Ji Nanzheng's father is the fifth generation Duke of Dingguo, and the next generation could only inherit the title of Marquis. The emperor changed the inheritance of the title of Duke of Dingguo's Mansion to hereditary, so the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion will be the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion for generations.

Not only that, the emperor also retained the marquisate that was supposed to be inherited by the next generation of the Dingguo Mansion. This means that after the current Duke passes away, the Dingguo Mansion will have a Duke and a Marquis.

Looking at the entire Yan State, the only two mansions that can still be called Duke's Mansions are the Dingguo Mansion of the Ji family and the Zhenguo Mansion of the Ye family. The Zhenguo Duke is also the last generation, and the next generation can only inherit the title of Marquis.

In other words, after the death of the nearly 70-year-old Duke Zhenguo, there will only be one Duke's Mansion in the entire Yan State, which is the Duke Dingguo Mansion.

In the future, Ji Nanzheng will be the only Duke of Yan State.

There is truly no greater glory than this.

In this way, there are countless people who want to get close to Ji Nanzheng. But how can such a person get close to you just because you want to?

Well, Ji Nanzheng is now the son-in-law of the Gu family. Those who want to curry favor with him but have no way to do so have to start taking the roundabout way of currying favor with the Gu family.

Many of the people who came to congratulate him were just trying to make friends with Ji Nanzheng's father-in-law under the pretext of congratulating Gu Lian on his promotion.

Wan Zhou shook her head. There was no need to do that. Her old father wouldn’t be the father-in-law for long. He was looking in the wrong direction.

When Jiang received the news, she was preparing to have lunch.

When she first heard this, her heart ached. Her husband also fought in the war and was only promoted to the third rank, but Ji Nanzheng was not only promoted to the highest rank, but also the future Duke of the State?

This gap is really infuriating.

Then she felt even more sad when she thought that such a powerful Ji Nanzheng had become the fiancé of that dead girl Gu Wanzhou, instead of her biological daughter Gu Wanyu.

I couldn’t eat lunch and just lay on the bed sighing.

But after a few flips, she suddenly had an idea and started to make some plans.

In any case, she is Wan Zhou's mother. After Wan Zhou gets married, she will be the general's wife. As the mother of General Ji's wife, her status in social circles is naturally different.

As Ji Nanzheng's sister-in-law, Gu Wanyu naturally reached a higher level in terms of marriage.

"No." Jiang stood up suddenly, her eyes full of ambition, "I'll go find that damn girl."

Jiang was busy looking for Wan Zhou and ran into Gu Wanyu who had just come in.

Jiang immediately analyzed the current situation for Gu Wanyu, "So, Yu'er, I have to go find that damn girl. Now I can see that your father is biased towards Huajiang and believes that I have treated her harshly. Your father will not let go until that damn girl speaks up."

Although she hated Wan Zhou to death, the situation was stronger than the person, so she had to repair the relationship, even if she had to be humble.

"Now, because of General Ji, many wives of powerful families have come here. It's time for us to make a name for ourselves in the upper class. Even if I have to go to ask Gu Wanzhou for favors, I have to show up in public and let people know that I am Jiang Xiuzhu, the mistress of the Gu family."

Gu Wanyu already knew about Ji Nanzheng's reward and was very jealous of it. This also made her more determined to seduce Ji Nanzheng.

However, she didn't want Jiang to ask Wan Zhou for help.

Gu Wanyu's eyes flashed with calculation as she said, "Mother, my elder sister has been fooling around with Huayang for more than a year. If the people in Duke Dingguo's Mansion knew about this, do you think she would still be able to marry him?"

Jiang's eyes widened when she heard this: "Yu'er, don't be confused. You must not tell anyone about this."

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