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

Mrs. Wang cried with joy at Nie Lingxuan's recovery.

Otherwise, I will not be able to face my father in the underworld.

Wang Jingye also breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since Dr. An came, his wife had been both looking forward to and worried. If anything happened to her sister-in-law, she would be the first one to collapse.

So he was always nervous and couldn't sleep well at night.

The Nie Chengping brothers felt both sad and happy.

Xiao Xiangming and Shang Yuanwu lived in a house in the capital. Wang Jingye did not allow them to follow him and found a job for them to help the Mo family.

Nie Chengping had no interest in painting because of his sister's affairs and only painted a few pictures. Xiao Xiangming became interested and painted one picture every day, hung it up the next day, and asked Mo Xinzhi how the painting went.

However, he did not say that he painted it, but said that it was his friend's. He did not sign it as Xiguan Jushi, but as Xiaoyaoke.

Mo Xinzhi looked at it for a long time and said, "I still think Mr. Nie's painting is good."

But Xiao Xiangming was so angry that he painted a few more paintings and hung them in the lobby, saying that he would let customers come and evaluate them after the business opened.

The name of the store on the door plaque, Jiujiangli, was written by Mo Yuanji. His handwriting is like him, with rounded and full characters and smooth and natural strokes.

Mo Chenxi also asked his father in detail about whether officials in ancient times could do business. He learned that there were regulations, but officials could not support their families with salaries alone, so they had to run businesses through their family members or relatives and friends, and adopt the term "investment".

Just like the Mo family restaurant, it is the Zhou family's shop, and the Mo family has invested in it. People who understand the situation will naturally know this. So many wealthy families do this.

Unless someone insists on reporting it.

There is a saying in China: To cut off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. The hatred for one's parents is irreconcilable.

Therefore, no one would risk his life and property to report anyone, unless there is a blood feud. In that case, it is not reporting, but reporting to the government.

There are a few days left before the opening, and the Liao family has sent out invitations. The Liao family's deputy general, who never gets married and people say he has health problems, is getting married. His wife is Mrs. Wang, the fourth wife of Xue. The wedding date is the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.

The Xue family also sent invitations, and General Xue sent the invitations personally.

The people in Beijing were in an uproar.

I heard that the matchmaker was General Xue.

Everyone was confused. How could there be such a ridiculous thing?

Does General Xue have a grudge against his younger brother or his brother-in-law?

Lady Gaoming hurriedly inquired about it. It would be abnormal if Madam Xue did not make a fuss. According to her personality, she would at least go to the Liao family and scold them.

Someone familiar with Madam Xue, like Madam Peng, said, "Madam Xue doesn't dare to say a word about what General Xue decides."

Those who had previously been discussing that Mrs. Xue Si had found a lover suddenly realized that the lover was Lieutenant General Liao.

No one was talking about their affair, because Lieutenant General Liao had not been in the capital for many years and had just returned with General Xue. It seemed that General Xue was really the matchmaker.

It’s just that this medium is a bit... incredible.

The Liao family now relies entirely on this son-in-law, and since their son is willing, they agreed to the marriage reluctantly.

Madam Xue only said twice at first, and then just as Madam Peng said, she didn't dare to say a word.

Liao looked aggrieved and awkward again. Mrs. Xue felt embarrassed that she had forced her son to give the daughter-in-law she didn't want to marry to his in-laws.

She asked her daughter-in-law to go back to her parents' home to help with her brother's wedding. She felt even more embarrassed when she thought about the marriage being so soon and it was her own son's decision.

Mrs. Xue took the initiative to propose to her son, saying: "Wang's family is not here. She has a sister who is a merchant. She might as well marry into the Xue family. I will adopt her as my daughter."

There is such a thing. After losing their son, the parents-in-law married off their daughter-in-law as their own daughter.

That's because they really get along well, and the parents-in-law treat their daughter-in-law as their own daughter.

But Mrs. Xue had been scolding her daughter-in-law for ten years, and it was shocking that she could do such a thing.

General Xue praised his mother so much for the first time. Mrs. Xue was so excited that she prepared a dowry for Wang.

General Xue was happy to see his mother like this. He had originally wanted to give his wife a few banknotes to help prepare the dowry, but he gave them directly to his mother.

Mrs. Wang would not let her junior sister down, so she picked out most of the valuable jewelry from the high-end jewelry store, some of which she would wear but some would not, and these could be left for her future children.

Wang Jingye said, "Don't let the Liao family look down on you. It's obviously Junior Sister who has been wronged. She married a bastard before, and now people are saying things like, 'What happened to Junior Sister?'"

Brother Nie Chengping will not give less either, and so will Xiao Xiangming and Shang Yuanwu.

The jewelry shops in Beijing were so busy that they were at a loss. They had no idea how rich people in Guanzhong were.

People with the surnames Wang, Nie, Xiao, and Shang, especially the two young men with the surnames Xiao and Shang, are very rich and always pick the most expensive things for me when they buy things.

Xiao Xiangming can earn money on his own. Shang Yuanwu's family may not be as big as the Nie family, but compared with ordinary businessmen, they are still wealthy and powerful.

The day before the wedding, there was another surprise because there were two teams delivering the dowry, one from the Xue family and the other from the Wang family.

There was no long procession of red wedding dresses for those from the Wang family, but everyone knew that they were all valuable.

The next day, when the wedding took place, the female relatives looked at the dowry and thought it was so golden and glittering. They were so envious that they couldn't express it enough. For eight hundred years, it had been unheard of for a woman to remarry and marry the brother of her ex-husband's sister-in-law.

He Wenyan came back, not because the Mo family's restaurant opened, but because of the Laba Festival.

The officials there gave him two days off in advance, saying that things here were almost done and asked him to go back and submit the documents.

In fact, it was also a tactful way of saying that you can return to Beijing to report and don’t need to come here again.

He Wenyan was also very puzzled. He had mentioned it tactfully the last time he came back, but Doctor Wu seemed not to have heard it and told him to do his job well.

He saw that Doctor Wu's attitude towards him was better than before, but he didn't know why.

He has little dealings with people from other departments, so it's impossible for him to offend anyone, and he doesn't make any mistakes at work.

I remembered that my second sister once said that Mrs. Jiang Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Works used to be very affectionate when she saw her, but now she just ignores her.

The second sister said that she and Mrs. Jiang had no connection and just passed by to say hello. It could only be that the eldest sister-in-law offended Mrs. Jiang.

He Wenyan thought about going back and asking his wife this time. If he knew the reason, he could go and apologize to her.

Jiang Yuanwailang was of the same rank as him before, but he had connections in the palace and interacted with high-ranking officials. Unlike him, he didn't know many people above the fourth rank.

Mo Chenxi was a little depressed when she saw He Wenyan coming back early, because Mrs. Wang invited her to attend Wang Huilan's wedding banquet at General Xue's mansion.

She also thought that since He Wenyan was not there, she would take her eldest daughter with her. He Jingyi was already engaged, so she would not let others say that she was trying to climb up the social ladder.

If her husband was not in the capital, she could explain that he was not at home. But when her husband came back, she could not hide the fact that she was attending the wedding banquet. Secondly, usually, the couple would go to such banquets together.

Mo Chenxi thought that sooner or later everyone would know, and it would be impossible to hide it, so she told the truth.

He Wenyan was so surprised that his jaw dropped. First, the marriage between the Xue and Liao families was ridiculous. Second, his wife was going to General Xue’s mansion to attend the wedding banquet?