In my previous life, I killed my whole family. In my next life, I killed the royal family.

The next morning, the sun was shining brightly and the breeze was blowing gently. A group of people gathered in front of the Qi Mansion. They stood together with solemn expressions, sending General Qi and his wife to the other courtyard to recuperate.

General Qi was sitting in a carriage, and the old lady was carried to another carriage. Beside the carriage, Qi Yuan and Qi You were leading the horses, ready to escort their grandfather and grandmother.

The old lady's face was as pale as paper, her lips trembled slightly, and her eyes revealed a hint of fear and uneasiness.

She made a whining sound, trying to express her dissatisfaction, but she couldn't utter a complete sentence. She didn't want to leave the mansion, she wanted to stay here.

Seeing this, Nanny Shi comforted her softly, "Madam, my aunt is going too, so don't worry. Get well soon and come back to take charge of the household soon!"

The old lady shook her head, her eyes looking at Pei were full of anger and resentment, as if they were about to spit out flames. She moved her fingers, wanting to raise her hand to slap Pei. However, her body could not move, and she could only let the servants do whatever they wanted.

Nanny Shi continued, "Think about it. If you don't go to the other courtyard, and the master goes there alone, what if he takes in a few concubines and has a boy or a girl? Then you will become a thorn in the eyes of others!"

This sentence made the old lady fall into deep thought, and her expression gradually became gloomy. She knew that what Aunt Shi said made sense.

Finally, the old lady fell silent, stopped whimpering, and slowly closed her eyes. She seemed to accept the fact and was sent to another hospital to recuperate.

Nanny Shi breathed a sigh of relief. She leaned forward and gave First Madam Pei a reassuring look, indicating that she had successfully persuaded the old lady.

Pei also nodded to her, indicating that everything had been arranged.

Following the order, the carriage slowly drove out of the gate of Qi Mansion and headed towards the other courtyard, with Qi Yuan and Qi You following closely behind. The entire team gradually went farther and farther, leaving behind a silent street.

When Qi Wan went to the upper house to pay respects to his mother last night, he came up with an idea, "Subdue one of the maids around the old lady and let her control the old lady."

"The two old women are Ding family's dowry. Can they listen?" Pei asked.

"They have plenty of weaknesses." Qi Wan smiled and winked.

She wants to "give people a taste of their own medicine".

The old lady and the third wife used Lan Ting to control her, and she could do the same.

Pei tapped her daughter's forehead lovingly, "You are becoming more and more clever now."

Pei called Nanny Shi and offered her son in exchange, "You take good care of the old lady, and your son will be the third manager of the cloth shop in the West Market. You know what to do!"

"Okay, Madam." Nanny Shi was extremely surprised and agreed without hesitation.

The Yuanfa cloth shop in Xishi is the largest cloth shop in the capital, with sufficient supply and reasonable prices.

The shop owners of cloth shops in various counties and prefectures, and the stewards of major prefectures, mostly sourced their goods from cloth shops, and their business was extremely good.

This shop was Pei's dowry.

No matter how jealous the old lady and the third lady were, they could not intervene, let alone arrange for their servants to participate in the business.

The shopkeeper and the waiter received annual bonuses ranging from a thousand to several hundred taels, which was more than the annual salary of the second young master of the eldest house as a minister.

From then on, the old lady came under the control of Nanny Shi, and Nanny Shi turned to the eldest lady.

After seeing off the convoy, the people from the Qi Mansion turned around and prepared to enter the mansion.

A horse-drawn carriage came from the entrance of the alley with a clanging sound.

Everyone stopped and turned to look.

A simple carriage stopped at the gate of Qi Mansion.

The servant who was trotting behind the carriage stepped forward breathlessly and saluted, "When our grandmother left, she asked us to send the two young ladies to the Qi Mansion."

Maids and servants helped the two young ladies get off the carriage.

"Uncle, aunt, third uncle, third aunt..." Yuan Zhaodi and Yuan Pandi got off the carriage and stepped forward to pay their respects.

Qi Lu smiled and nodded, "Okay."

He said to Pei, "Madam, please arrange accommodation for them. My eldest son and I still have work to do." After that, he strode away with his eldest son.

Pei frowned slightly, thinking about how to arrange for these two cousins.

Qi Yuehua had two daughters, Yuan Zhaodi, fifteen, and Yuan Pandi, thirteen, neither of whom had been engaged.

Yuan Pandi loudly proposed, "We want to live with our eldest cousin."

Yuan Zhaodi lowered her head and said nothing.

Pei glanced at Qi Wan.

Qi Wan smiled and said, "Cousin Yuan, it's noisy over there. I have to get up at midnight to study, and I have to practice martial arts and piano at night."

"I..." Yuan Pandi wanted to say, 'We are not afraid of quarrels.'

Qi Wan waved her hand to interrupt her and said firmly: "I have never had the habit of living with others. I am afraid that I will neglect you. It is best for you to live somewhere else."

"You..." Yuan Pandi was speechless. She didn't expect to be rejected on the spot. Without her mother's advice, she didn't know how to live in Qi Wan's yard.

When the sisters came, Qi Yuehua was tough and repeatedly told her daughter: "When you go, you must live in Qi Wan's yard. You should take whatever she has. Wherever she goes, you should follow her..."

"Especially Zhaodi, you are fifteen years old now, and you can only be considered a good relative if you follow Qi Wan."

So when the Yuan sisters arrived, the younger sister asked to live in the same courtyard with Qi Wan.

Yuan Zhaodi whispered, "Aunt, my sisters and I have caused trouble for the Qi family. Please just find a place for us."

She blushed and said, "If we don't come, mother won't agree."

"We originally wanted to go to the villa to serve our mother, but she insisted that we come to the Qi Mansion..." Yuan Zhaodi's voice became lower and lower. She was embarrassed to tell her mother's plan out loud.

Pei looked at this sensible and polite child and thought of her father, Doctor Yuan, who was very kind to everyone in the Qi residence. As soon as he heard that someone was sick, he would rush over to see the patient and prescribe medicine.

She softened her heart and decided not to transfer her hatred for Qi Yuehua to the child. If the child was obedient and sensible and treated her better, it would be considered as repaying the kindness of Doctor Yuan for treating her over the years.

Pei smiled and said, "Why don't you sisters live together with the Fourth Young Miss? You have all lived in the Fourth Young Miss's embroidery building in the Qi Mansion over the years."

Qi Jiao's embroidery building has two floors, which can easily accommodate the Yuan sisters.

Qi Jiao was pinched by her mother and refused, "I won't live with them." She also rolled her eyes at the Yuan sisters.

The Yuan sisters lowered their heads in shame.

Even their biological cousins ​​openly disliked them.

The two sisters' third uncle and aunt had fake smiles on their faces and looked around, but never at their nieces, the Yuan sisters.

The couple had the same idea:

The Yuan sisters came to the Qi Mansion this time, clearly intending to stay for a long time.

Obviously, they came to get married.

The third wife was afraid of losing two dowries.

Qi Wan suggested: "Mom, let the two cousins ​​live in that empty yard."

"The courtyard where the old lady lived is now empty. You sisters can move in." Pei arranged with a smile.

Yuan Zhaodi bowed and said gratefully, "Thank you, aunt."

Seeing that his third uncle and aunt were unwilling to help, Yuan Pandi could only pout and agree, "Okay."

At home, she heard her mother say, "You can have whatever you want by following Qi Wan." She was very excited. She knew that she could have all the beautiful jewelry and dresses she wanted by following Qi Wan.

Every time she saw Qi Wan dressed like a princess, she felt extremely envious and jealous.

However, Qi Wan was not like what her mother said. "Qi Wan is a stupid and heartless idiot. If you say she wants to live with you, she will be very happy."

Qi Wan publicly refused to let them stay in Yilan Courtyard, which made Yuan Pandi very disappointed.

The Yuan sisters each brought a maid and a servant girl with them.

Pei also assigned a maid and three servants to each of them.

The food and drink for the two sisters of the Yuan family were all arranged by Qi Wan and Qi Jiao.

Zheng asked in confusion: "Mother, providing them with the same food and drink is the way to entertain guests. Why do we need to arrange for several of our servants to stay with them? If they stay for a long time, the cost will be very high."

Pei smiled and didn't answer.

She turned to ask Qi Wan, "Ah Wan, do you know the reason?"

In the past, Qi Wan didn’t know what her mother meant.

Now she knew, Qi Wan smiled and said, "For safety reasons."

Zheng still didn't understand, "What is safe?"

Qi Wan said vaguely, "Sister-in-law, if two unmarried cousins ​​live in our house for a long time, think about it. If something happens, how will we explain it to the Yuan family?"

Zheng thought about it and finally understood.

The men in the eldest house included her husband Qi Ze and her younger uncle Qi Yuan, and the third house had Qi You. If Qi Yuehua ordered her servants to accuse her of lying, she would never be able to clear herself even if she jumped into the river.

My brother-in-law Yuan Shisheng is not that kind of person, but my aunt Qi Yuehua has always been a shameless and unscrupulous pauper, so we have to be on guard against her.

Qi Wan thought to herself, "If Qi Yuehua dares to plot against the eldest son's wife again, I will make her have a stroke, and the two mother and daughter will lie together, staring at each other, unable to speak or hurt anyone."

For the sake of Doctor Yuan, she decided to give Qi Yuehua another chance.

The couple of the third room were very dissatisfied when they heard about the arrangement made by the eldest sister-in-law Pei. "The money from the public treasury was spent so carelessly, and we had a share of it."

The Third Lady has been helping the Old Lady run the household for many years. She has been able to get whatever she wants and is used to be overbearing in the Qi Mansion. It has only been two days since she was deprived of the power to run the household, and she has not yet learned to shut up.

She went straight to the upper room and vented her unhappiness, "Pei, can you be the head of the family?"

"Sister-in-law, please speak." Pei looked up at her.

"The Yuan sisters each brought two servants with them, and you generously arranged a few more for them. Will you pay for this?"

"Don't use the public funds to do favors. Our third room's share won't be paid!" Xiao Ding said aggressively with her hands on her hips, her eyes rolled up, revealing the whites of her eyes.

Pei raised her chin and asked, "Has your third room ever paid a penny to the public office?"

Qi Wan burst out laughing.

Xiao Ding was stunned, and her eyes turned white and returned to normal, looking at Pei.

Only then did Xiao Ding remember: "My husband is a commoner and has not earned a penny."

The public money came from the dividends from a farm and three shops purchased by the Qi family, as well as the salaries of the three men of the first branch of the Qi family and the father and son of the second branch.

All the masters and servants in the mansion have to pay a common fee for their food and drink expenses.

If each room wanted to buy more and better clothes, jewelry and other things, it all depended on the mistress's dowry.

Xiao Ding's dowry was very little and could not cover the expenses of a whole family.

Seeing Qi Wan's sneer on her face, Xiao Ding suddenly understood: "It turns out that our third room is also eating and drinking for free."