Traveling through time and space to become a concubine's daughter, leading the whole village to

Seeing the Duke's wife about to burst into tears again, Xu Miao quickly replied, "It's okay, Madam. I'm fine. Although our stepmother doesn't take us concubines seriously, she doesn't make things too difficult for us. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had the chance to marry into the Duke's mansion and meet Madam and A Yuan."

I didn't make things difficult for you before, but I don't know what the situation will be like from now on.

In the future, my personal interests will be involved, and I don’t know how my stepmother and the others will react.

"A Miao, it's been so hard. From now on, treat the Duke's Mansion as your own home. With me here, no one dares to bully you."

Xu Miao smiled: "Okay, madam, Xu Miao knows."

Xu Miao would never take such words seriously. Such words were only based on the fact that Zhou Jiyuan was blessed by her.

If Zhou Jiyuan's health doesn't improve in the next few days, it's hard to say how the Duke Dingguo's Mansion will react.

In short, you must be qualified to negotiate with others and be valuable to be used by others.

Xu Miao didn't want to continue this topic, so he changed the subject and started chatting with the Duke's wife.

"Madam, Yuan has been coughing for so long, he must have injured his lungs. He's too weak, and if we rashly give him supplements, it will be detrimental to his recovery. I'm thinking of letting Yuan eat some light porridge and side dishes for a while, to allow his body to slowly recover before giving him supplements. I'd like to ask Madam if this is okay?"

The Duke's wife nodded quickly. "Okay, okay, A'miao, whatever you think is fine is fine. I'll have the imperial physician come and check A'yuan's pulse tomorrow. You can discuss these matters with the imperial physician and see what's best for A'yuan."

She wasn't worried about Xu Miao doing anything in the Duke's Mansion. The Duke's Mansion was run like an iron barrel by the Duke. If she wanted to have any ulterior motives here, it would be harder than climbing to the sky.

In the evening, when Duke Zhou Chenli returned to the inner courtyard, he saw his wife bringing him a bowl of yellow stuff with a big smile on her face.

"What's this? What's wrong with you again? Is Yuan feeling better?"

Zhou Chenli glanced at the contents of his bowl with disdain. What's going on? The soup is watery and tastes bland.

The Duke's wife nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "A Yuan is much better. He still coughed today, but it's much better than before. That A Miao took good care of him. I stayed at A Yuan's place for a day and just came back."

"Don't be disgusted, Duke. Ah Miao called this porridge oil. It's the most essential ingredient in a pot of porridge. It's good for your spleen and stomach. If your spleen and stomach are healthy, the food you eat can be digested well, and your body can absorb more nutrients."

Zhou Chenli looked at the Duke's wife's serious expression, stuttering but still speaking coherently, and smiled and praised her: "Oh, my wife has made great progress. She can talk about so many profound principles."

The Duke's wife didn't care about Zhou Chenli's teasing. She was used to it and had heard it since she was a child.

The Duke's wife grabbed Zhou Chenli's arm and pointed at the bowl of porridge oil as if offering a treasure: "Master, try it quickly. They say it's best to drink it in the morning before dinner. I saw it at Yuan's place this morning. I mixed it in just because he was drinking it. They only prepared one bowl, but I didn't get any."

"When I got back, I asked the servants to cook a pot of millet porridge. They say the yellow color is good for the spleen, so I specially left a small bowl for you."

"Let's drink this in the morning from now on. A-Miao said that it takes a while for food supplements to show any effect. Let's try it slowly and see."

Zhou Chenli didn't care after hearing this. He walked to the table, picked up the bowl, and drank all the porridge oil in the bowl.

The bowl was so small, almost the same size as the bird feed bowl he used to feed the birds, and he finished it in one gulp.

The Duke's wife was so angry that she slapped his arm and scolded him: "That's not how you drink it. You're wasting food. You should drink it slowly, one sip at a time. Oh, I'm so angry."

Zhou Chenli: There are so many things to pay attention to when drinking a bowl of porridge. I think you are just bored.

Although he thought so, he didn't dare to say it.

He begged for mercy: "Starting tomorrow, I'll drink with you slowly. Don't be angry. You'll start crying again soon."

Zhou Chenli is ten years older than his wife and has watched her grow up. After getting married, he became a well-known wife-loving man in the capital.

Duke Dingguo Zhou Chenli was the emperor's cousin and companion of the emperor.

When the current emperor was the crown prince, he had two study companions: Duke Dingguo Zhou Chenli, who represented the royal family, and Lan Yuecen, the son of the prime minister, who represented the clan.

According to the current emperor, the three of them have been living together day and night since they were six years old.

Privately, they called it a collusion.

Later, Prime Minister Lan's wife gave birth to a daughter, and the three of them went to visit Lan Yuecen's little sister together.

Such a pink and tender little ball, blinking its big eyes and pouting its little mouth, blew bubbles at the three of them.

In an instant, he captured the hearts of these three young boys.

Later, Lan Yuerou, the young lady from Prime Minister Lan's mansion, grew on the backs and in the arms of the three of them.

At that time, the three of them would discuss every once in a while to see what kind of resentful husband they could find for Lan Yuerou, the crybaby, to ensure that Lan Yuerou would have a worry-free life.

Later, he became the resentful one. It was all fate!

The emperor ascended the throne, and Prime Minister Lan retired to his hometown, where Lan Yuecen took over. Zhou Chenli, uninterested in government affairs, took Lan Yuelin, the second oldest son of the Lan family and Lan Yuerou's older brother, into business.

Although he is called an idle prince, the current emperor knows that Zhou Chenli is the most important source of money in his private treasury.

Prime Minister Lan Yuecen knew that the money earned by Zhou Chenli and his second brother was the most powerful reserve force for their Great Zhou economy.

After Zhou Chenli had dinner with his wife in the backyard, he came to the study in the front yard and called over the housekeeper Qian.

"Uncle Qian, have someone keep an eye on the woman in A Yuan's courtyard. If the Duke's Mansion is honest, it wouldn't be a problem to have an extra idler. Just treat it as a way to entertain the Madam. If she has any ulterior motives, Uncle Qian, you know what to do."

Steward Qian quickly replied, "Don't worry, Master. We've already got someone keeping an eye on them. So far, we haven't seen anything amiss. They're taking good care of the young master and are very respectful to the lady."

Steward Qian is Duke Dingguo's confidant and loyal servant, and is the one Duke Dingguo relies on the most.

Zhou Chenli threw the book in his hand onto the table and said nonchalantly, "Time reveals a person's true character. Keep a close eye on her. If she makes any small moves, send her away."

When the Duke said to send someone away, he didn't mean to send them to the countryside as Madam Xu said. He wanted to kill them.

In his eyes, the life of a slave was not as valuable as the life of the canary he raised.

Butler Qian responded and went out to make arrangements.

Zhou Chenli sat at his desk, recalling the scene of meeting Xu Jingyi in the morning. He couldn't help laughing.

This Lord Xu is really an interesting person. I heard that in order to meet him, I went to all the teahouses he often visited.

When they saw him, they kept calling him "relative-in-law". If you didn't know, you would really think that their two families were related.

And there was Lord Xu's attire, a dark green robe with an emerald green headband on his head. From a distance, he looked like an old cabbage with new sprouts.

Haha, it’s too eye-catching.

Well, he'd gotten to know Master Xu a bit. He seemed quite talented, so promoting him wouldn't be a disservice to the Emperor. He might as well visit the palace in a few days.

If Xu Jingyi knew that Duke Dingguo was going to the palace for him, his blood pressure would soar to 280 degrees.

At this moment, he was sitting in the study of Xu Mansion and sighing.