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

Mo Chenxi calculated the time and found that it would take at least a year and a half for Fan and Bao to be able to go out after they gave birth, and this was only if they were really pregnant.

Madam Zhao looked like she had something to say, and Mo Chenxi said, "Sister, just say whatever you want to say. Why can't you talk to me?"

Mrs. Zhao said, "I was afraid you might feel uncomfortable, so I wanted to tell you a long time ago."

Mo Chenxi said sincerely: "I know that my sister is really doing this for my own good. Why should I be angry? Just tell me directly, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night."

Mrs. Zhao said, "Then I'll tell you. I also heard it from my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law heard it from Old Lady Yang, who lives next door to the He family. There was a man whose original wife was paralyzed at home, and she took a second wife for her husband. She was her cousin from her natal family. I'm not asking you to find someone from your natal family. If you find someone to take your place and serve your mother-in-law and husband, others will still say you are filial and virtuous."

Mo Chenxi was stunned. Why didn’t he think of this good idea?

It was Old Lady Yang who told Old Lady Jiang that she wanted to give He Wenyan a second wife, and she also asked He Wenyan if the Mo family had any relatives who were doing business.

When Mrs. Zhao saw that Mo Chenxi didn't say anything, she thought that she was in love with her husband and didn't want him to have a second wife.

A second wife is different from a concubine. A concubine cannot do housework, show up in public, or entertain guests. A second wife can do so with the mistress's permission. Although she is still a concubine, she is at least half a mistress.

She knew that Mo Chenxi had been deeply in love with her husband before, so she said that because she was afraid that she would be angry.

Seeing that Mo Chenxi hadn't spoken for a long time, Madam Zhao hurriedly said, "Just pretend I didn't say anything and don't take it to heart."

Mo Chenxi came back to his senses and smiled, "I have to thank my sister for reminding me. I didn't think of it now because my brain is not good enough."

Madam Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that you can think it through. When you were younger, you wouldn't feel comfortable taking a concubine, let alone a second wife. Now that you have children, you'd be eager for someone to serve your husband, not to mention your health. Find someone suitable to shut your mother-in-law up, so that she won't say that you, as her daughter-in-law, don't come back to serve her. Although people outside say you are filial now, after a while, there will always be people like Madam Jiang who will spread nonsense."

Mo Chenxi said, "But who should I look for? Isn't this harming others?"

"How can this be called harming others? Some people want to send their daughters to the official family as second wives, not to mention that it was Madam Xiaojie who chose them personally. Let me say that it would be best if she was from your Mo family, so that they would be wholeheartedly loyal to you."

Mo Chenxi shook her head. What she was thinking was that the Mo family could not be allowed to fall into this fire pit again. Using modern thinking, the situation of the He family was a fire pit.

She went back to her parents' home and told her parents, "Can you buy a homeless woman? At least she can have enough food and clothes in the He family, and they can take care of her in her old age. It's better than selling her as a slave or to a brothel."

Mo Yuanji was the first to disagree, saying, "The person who bought it doesn't know the origin or the background, so who knows what will happen in the future?"

Mo Chenxi said: "Isn't it that I'm afraid of harming the daughter of a good family?"

Old Madam Mo said, "What harm is there? Some families are eager for it, and some women are willing to do it. It's better than being sent by their parents to serve an elderly man in his seventies or eighties."

Mo Chenxi quickly said, "You can't go with that kind of family. There will be endless troubles later."

Mo Yuanji said, "I'll go back and discuss it with the clan leader."

Mo Chenxi quickly said, "Don't look for someone in the family, otherwise what will I become? If someone in our family is poor, they can help out financially, but they can't let someone become a concubine just for my sake, especially in the case of the He family."

Mo Yuanji said, "Dad knows, but are you still worried about what I'm doing?"

Mo Chenxi smiled and flattered him, "I trust Dad the most. Dad is very thorough. The only thing is that the candidate can't be too young, and the appearance must be acceptable. She can't be the weak type, and must be able to endure hardships. Now she serves Jingyi's father, and in the future she will have to serve Jingyi's grandmother, so she must be strong. But she can't be illiterate, and she must have the approval of He Jingyi's father."

Mrs. Mo said, "You are so picky. Are you choosing someone for yourself or for your son-in-law?"

Mo Chenxi said: "Of course I will choose someone for me. This is not just to serve me, but he must be pleasing to my heart. Otherwise, I can just find a strong servant in the manor."

Mo Yuanji said, "Okay, okay, I get it, you don't have to worry about it."

Mo Yuanji's idea, of course, was to find the Mo family, or in simple terms, to control them.

He returned to the ancestral home and told the clan leader about it. The clan leader immediately said, "Find someone from the Mo family."

In the past, the Mo family had a Mo Yuanji who became an official, but he was only a seventh-rank official. Although the clan was a little disappointed, the clan always helped Mo Yuanji, and Mo Yuanji also took care of the clan, and the relationship between them was harmonious.

This is a big deal now. The entire Mo family, especially the Mo Yuanji branch, is an honor, especially since they have a Madam Xiaojie. The Mojia Village will erect a monument for Madam Xiaojie.

When Madam Xiaojie looked for a second wife for her husband, she couldn't choose from any other family, but had to be from the Mo family.

Mo Yuanji sighed and said, "My son-in-law is currently a disabled man, but Doctor An said that if he recovers well, he will be able to walk in the future. But my daughter is afraid that he will bring trouble to other women, so I can't waste her youth in the He family for her."

The clan leader shook his head repeatedly, "That's wrong."

He nodded hurriedly and said, "I understand Madam Xiaojie's kindness, but being able to serve Madam Xiaojie and help her is a blessing I earned in my previous life. Tell Madam Xiaojie not to worry about those things."

The clan leader told his wife about this, and she immediately thought of her niece's granddaughter. The clan leader said, "How old is your niece? She's not even eighteen. Madam Xiaojie said that being too young is not good. If she's a different generation, wouldn't that make people laugh?"

The team leader's wife said, "How about a widow? I have a niece on my mother's side who is a widow. She's under 30 and has no children."

The clan leader glared at her and said, "Don't even think about it. With so many people in the Mo family, can't we find someone? Why do we have to look for someone from your mother's family?"

Seeing that his wife was only thinking about her parents' home, he called his son to discuss the matter.

In fact, when Mo Yuanji proposed it, he already had a candidate in mind, his younger brother's youngest daughter.

His younger brother was not a good person. In his thirties, he had an affair with a beggar widow. The widow stayed at home with a pregnant belly. Later, she gave birth to a daughter, but died a few years later.

This niece grew up being beaten and bullied by his brother's wife. Even if he protects her, he can't live in his brother's house every day.

Later, he asked his wife to arrange a marriage for his little niece, but the marriage did not take place and the man died. Then his younger brother died.

His sister-in-law said that this little niece would bring bad luck to her father and husband and wanted to sell her. He stepped forward to stop her, but his sister-in-law told him to take her home and raise her.

Seeing that his niece didn't even have cotton clothes to wear in the middle of winter, he took her back and wanted to marry her off. However, his sister-in-law kept saying that his niece had a bad fate and was still staying at home at the age of over 20.

This even caused my wife to complain.

The clan leader wanted to give his niece to the He family as a second wife, killing two birds with one stone.

Mo Chenxi didn't expect that the problem she was worried about did not exist, and there were many people scrambling to enter the He family.