Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

When He Wenyan saw that his wife didn't tell him about the gift she prepared for him to visit the Wang family, he wanted to ask, but then he thought forget it. He just happened to have some money on hand, so he went out and bought some himself.

Mo Chenxi deliberately did not mention that He Wenyan was visiting the Wang family to buy gifts. She wanted to see whether he would ask for it himself or wait for her to prepare it.

Seeing that he didn't mention it, she wondered if Mrs. Mo had prepared everything for him in the past and thought she would do the same now.

Then let him be dumbfounded tomorrow, she won’t prepare anything for him in advance.

The next day, I was dumbfounded because He Wenyan said he was going out to buy some gifts.

Mo Chenxi thought, maybe he was used to it before, and since no one prepared him, he would know what to do himself.

Whether in ancient times or modern times, when a family has children studying with a teacher, the husband, the head of the family, always has to come forward to thank the teacher, which shows respect.

So Mo Chenxi didn't object to He Wenyan going to Wang's house. She didn't go with him, and He Wenyan didn't ask her to go with him.

He Wenyan asked his followers to send a notice in advance, saying that he was going to visit. When he arrived, Wang Dongjia and Nie Chengping were waiting at home.

He looked at his son's homework yesterday and asked some questions. He had to admit that Mr. Nie had his way. In a short period of time, his son seemed to have gotten the hang of it and made great progress.

When Wang Dongjia saw the servant at the door reporting that Lord He had arrived, he went out to greet him.

"Sir He, I'm sorry for not coming to greet you."

He Wenyan said, "I'm sorry for being rude. I should have come earlier. I've been in Tongzhou recently and only came back yesterday."

Wang Jingye greeted him warmly as he came in. Nie Chengping stood up and saluted only after he came in.

This time, He Wenyan was obviously much more respectful than the last time they met, and he expressed his gratitude very sincerely.

Nie Chengping didn't say much, it was Wang Dongjia who was talking. The servant outside the door said that the second young lady was looking for the master, so Nie Chengping apologized and left.

He Wenyan also thanked Wang Dongjia for his help to his father-in-law's family.

Wang Jingye said, "It's a small matter, not worth mentioning. I also want to thank Uncle Mo. I have always wanted to build a restaurant."

He Wenyan asked directly: "Why doesn't Mr. Wang build one himself? It can also be a way to make a living."

Wang Jingye thought that compared with Lord He and his brother He Wenliang, this man was a little dull.

He said, "I'm not good at running a restaurant. Building one is a hassle for me. I have to manage it. If I don't, it's my own business and I don't want to spend that effort. If I spend money to build it for others, there are plenty of people who can. I'm not a philanthropist. I have to have a purpose for everything I do. If not to make money, I have to have fun."

He Wenye was thinking, how much money did you spend on this happiness? You said you would pay it back when you had money, but what if you lose money?

But since he lost money, the Mo family could just mortgage the shop to him.

He Wenyan came here originally wanting to have a good chat with Mr. Nie, but Mr. Nie went out, so he didn't stay long and said goodbye.

Because He Wenyan came back, Mo Chenxi didn't go anywhere. She asked Mother Wang to make medicine for her. As long as there was the smell of medicine in the house, it would be fine, so that He Wenyan would not think that staying in the main house was giving respect to his wife.

She doesn't want this respectability.

Mo Chenxi didn't go out, and when Mrs. Zhao came, she knew there was gossip again.

As expected, after Mrs. Zhao came in, she went straight to the topic of gossip, "You don't know yet, I guess you definitely don't know that the Zhong Hanlin family has split up."

Seeing Mo Chenxi's surprised expression, she became even more excited as she spoke.

"I knew you didn't know. I went to Doctor Wu's house yesterday and heard what Mrs. Wu said. Mrs. Wu heard it at the Peng family's banquet. I think Mrs. Zhong was angry with Mrs. Zhong. Mrs. Jiang said that Mrs. Zhong did this to prevent Mrs. Zhong from giving the Zhong family's property to her three biological daughters when she was gone.

"Back then, Madam Zhong wanted to give her three daughters a grand dowry, but Madam Zhong didn't agree. Madam Zhong's adopted son also got married, and before that, Madam Zhong was the housekeeper. This time, when the family split up, she directly handed the housekeeping power to her grandson and his wife, since they were all her grandsons anyway.

"Now the family property is divided, with half going to each of the two biological sons, except for the illegitimate children. When Madam Zhong is gone, Madam Zhong can't openly give the Zhong family's property to her daughter. How can she rely on her own dowry? She was fostered in the Zhong family at the beginning, so how could she have any dowry? Some of it was also subsidized by the former grandmother of Hanlin Zhong. I heard that Hanlin's original wife died, and Madam Zhong asked for all the jewelry that the original wife had given to this cousin back. Outsiders found out that it was Hanlin's grandmother who spread the news. When she was alive, she never said a good word about her daughter-in-law. She was famous in Beijing for the discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."

Mo Chenxi felt that Madam Zhong was a rare good mother-in-law. If she had not traveled through time last year and her original body had died, she believed that Madam Jiang would have remarried her son and would have spoken ill of the former daughter-in-law in front of the new daughter-in-law.

Women, you not only need a good husband, but also a good mother-in-law.

Zhong Hanlin's original wife only had a good mother-in-law, but not a good husband.

Madam Zhao continued, "Why do I feel so happy about Madam Zhong's actions? If it were someone else's family, where the wife had no sons and adopted one, all the property would go to the adopted son, and the biological daughter wouldn't get much. I wouldn't be happy about that.

"But Madam Zhong forced the original wife to death, climbed into the upper echelons of the imperial family, and became a first-rank imperial consort. Her three daughters married well. If all the Zhong family fortune went to her daughters, God would be blind. Fortunately, Madam Zhong was a sensible person. My mother-in-law lectured my master all night, saying that the Zhong family had been a century-old Hanlin Mansion, but so what? It was ruined by a woman's belly.

"These are my mother-in-law's exact words. Didn't my old master also dream of favoring his concubine and abandoning his wife?"

她说到这儿又要向着自家男人说话，“不过他也没有太过分，偷着给那个妾买了几个首饰，我婆婆说当初揍你你还说不就是买了几个首饰吗？怎么上升到宠妾灭妻？我婆婆说今天买首饰，明天就有可能买房产，后天就会心疼妾生的儿子，恨不得把所有家产给了你心爱的儿子。要么为何说宠妾是败家的根。钟翰林不宠妾，宠表妹，以正妻之位待她，钟家的家风、风骨，就这么没了。

"My mother-in-law also said, 'You men want me to like a woman, how can this be related to family traditions? I asked you to come here today to let you see if there is any connection? My family members dare not say a word.'"

Mo Chenxi really likes Old Madam Zhao and has a righteous heart, so Madam Zhao sincerely respects her mother-in-law. She agrees to let Jingyi marry into the Zhao family because the Zhao family has Old Madam Zhao, and Madam Zhao will follow her mother-in-law's pace, so her son will not go too far astray in the future.

All women are interested in this kind of thing. Young ones are interested, and older ones are even more interested.

Mrs. Xue from the General's Mansion was a good friend of Mrs. Zhong. She was worried about her friend and came to her house as soon as she heard about the Zhong family's split.

She scolded him, "Have you lost your mind? You're still alive and you're dividing the family property. How will outsiders talk about your two sons? Will they say they're unfilial?"

Mrs. Zhong sneered in her heart. The eldest son was ashamed, but the younger son was very happy because the eldest son adopted his second son, which meant that he would get all the property of both families.