Dad, open the door. I'll bring your mistress back for you.

In Ganhua Hutong, Shen Jingwan was rummaging through the box where she kept her money. "Mom, where is the money in my box?"

Xiangxue stammered, "Your uncle needed the money urgently, so I took it for him."

Shen Jingwan dropped the box and stood up. "Take it away? That's the capital I'm going to use to start a business. Why can you just take it away like that?"

Xiangxue walked up to Shen Jingwan and gently stroked her back. "Wan'er, don't be angry. Your uncle just needs money urgently. He said he would pay it back in two days. At worst, you can get some advance money from Wanbaoxuan. It's easy for you to draw those pictures anyway."

Shen Jingwan was furious. "My painting is easy, but I earn it penny by penny. If you really want to help your uncle so much, why don't you pawn your jewelry?"

Xiangxue quickly covered Shen Jingwan's mouth and said, "Keep your voice down. If you pawn the jewelry, your father will find out. If your father finds out, neither of us will have a good life."

Shen Jingwan pushed Xiangxue's hand away and said, "Then let Dad send the money."

Xiangxue sighed, "Your father hasn't been here for so long. If he doesn't come, how can I give birth to a son? You said it would be great if you had a son. Mother could go back to the mansion and be his concubine."

Shen Jingwan got goosebumps. She didn't understand what was so good about living in that big courtyard, never leaving the front door, and spending every day fighting with other women for men.

Shen Jingwan traveled from the 21st century to the Great Yong Dynasty. She thought that she could, like other time-traveling women, show her talents and reach the pinnacle of her life.

Who would have thought that the beginning would be hell mode. She was reborn as the illegitimate daughter of a concubine. As the mother of a concubine, she should be favored, but in the two months since she came here, she has only seen her father a few times.

There was an uncle who showed up from time to time, but basically every time he came he was asking her mother for money.

Shen Jingwan wanted to learn from other time-traveling women and start some business, but she had no capital. Then she remembered the jewelry designs she had seen in fashion magazines in her previous life and began to draw the blueprints.

I finally saved some money a few days ago and spent five taels to buy a maid. Before I could even warm the remaining silver, her mother took it away and gave it to her uncle. Life is really just a waste of time.

Shen Jingwan didn't want to listen to her mother's nagging, so she took her maid Fuzi and prepared to go out to look for business opportunities when she heard someone knocking loudly at the door.

As soon as Mrs. Liu tried to open the gate, she was pushed to the ground by someone who rushed in.

Fuzi quickly pulled Shen Jingwan back a few steps to avoid being hit by the oncoming person.

Seeing the stranger breaking into the house, Fuzi stepped forward and protected Shen Jingwan behind him, "Who are you? How dare you break into a private house? This is against the law."

"Breaked the law? I am the law?" The person who came was Feng Yucai, who had clashed with Shen Chuning and Zhou Lin in Fengming Mountain.

Xiangxue heard the noise outside and came out. "I wonder who you are, gentlemen, and what brings you to my humble abode?"

A burly man beside Feng Yucai replied, "Our master is Prince Ning's brother-in-law. The concubine we just took back yesterday has run away. Someone saw her enter this courtyard."

Xiangxue heaved a sigh of relief when she heard that they weren't looking for her. "That person must have made a mistake. My courtyard is so small that you can see the end at a glance. There's no room for anyone to hide there."

"Whether there are Tibetans or not, I will know after searching." Feng Yucai said arrogantly.

Xiangxue quickly stopped them and said, "Gentlemen, please don't do this. All the women live in my courtyard. If you search it, it will be bad for your reputation if it gets out."

"You don't want me to search? My master has a concubine running away, so it's not impossible for you to compensate my master, brother, and concubine." Feng Yucai touched his chin and looked at Shen Jingwan with lustful eyes.

Seeing that Xiangxue had no intention of speaking up for her, Shen Jingwan felt disappointed. "Mom, let them search. We are upright and have never done anything wrong. We are not afraid of ghosts knocking on our door in the middle of the night. What can't be searched?"

"Young lady, you know what's going on. Search for me."

After Feng Yucai finished speaking, he waved his hands and more than a dozen people around him rushed into the house one after another.

Xiangxue stamped her feet anxiously in the yard and scolded, "Why are you butting in? How can you let people go in and search?"

He turned around and said to Mrs. Liu, "Mrs. Liu, hurry back to the Shen residence to report the news. I'm afraid these people are not easy to deal with."

After hearing this, Mrs. Liu hurried out the door without even bothering to pick up her dropped shoe.

Feng Yucai was sitting on the stone table in the yard drinking water when he heard a voice from inside the house: "Master, we found it."

Then someone came out of the house carrying a box containing jewelry.

Xiangxue's heart skipped a beat when she saw this, and she quickly stepped forward to snatch the box back, "Master, these are all my jewelry, they are not worth much."

As he said this, he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and handed it over.

The person holding the box pushed Xiangxue to the ground without even looking at her, and then placed the box on the stone table in front of Feng Yucai.

Feng Yucai opened the box, and pieces of exquisite and gorgeous jewelry appeared in front of everyone.

He picked up a kingfisher hairpin and looked at it in the sun. "This hairpin belongs to my Feng Mansion."

Xiangxue got up from the ground and hugged the box, "Nonsense, this is clearly mine, don't even think about taking a penny away."

The courtyard gate was surrounded by a crowd of people watching the excitement.

"I can't believe this mother and daughter are so rich."

"That's not good. This family originally had a maid, and their daughter bought a maid a few days ago. Who in our area has a servant?"

"But there's no earning man in this family, and the mother and daughter rarely go out. Where did all this money come from?"

"You don't understand this, right? Who says you have to go out to make money? I've seen different men enter this house. One time, I came home late at night, and the screams coming from the yard were enough to make anyone lose their soul."

As soon as the words fell, a fat woman twisted the ear of the man who had just spoken and said, "Get the hell away from this yard." Then she said to the people gathered around, "Keep an eye on the men in your families. Don't let this mother and daughter take away all your wealth."

After saying that, she pulled her man's ear and walked out of the crowd.

Feng Yucai raised an eyebrow and looked at Xiangxue, "Could it be that you really earned all this from the prostitution business? I haven't tasted the feeling of being served by a mother and daughter together. I see that you still have your charm. Otherwise, I will bear the injustice and take you both in, and I will give you all the jewelry in this box."

"Bah, this originally belonged to me. My man gave it to me. I don't have the person you're looking for in my house. Get out of my house now, or I'll report you to the police."

Feng Yucai seemed to have heard a huge joke and laughed out loud, "Report it! I told you to report it to the authorities."

"You...you..." Hearing that Feng Yucai was not afraid of the government, he hesitated again, not knowing what to say.

Feng Yucai stood up and brushed off the non-existent dust on his body. "If you don't report it, I will report it to the authorities."

"Shitou, go and invite Lord Wang, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture."