Noble Lady

Yuzhu showed off her skills and made Miss Xue eat several of her favorite snacks, which finally appeased her.

It was already dark, and after much persuasion, he finally managed to get the person on the carriage back to the Marquis' Mansion.

Mother Xu sent Xue Luoyan back home, and she still looked guilty when she came back.

Xue Chenyu couldn't bear to see her like this, so she asked her to go down and rest.

Don't ask. If you ask, it means you understand that she is tired from the journey and let her rest for two more days.

After finally coaxing the cute but troublesome second girl away, Yuzhu dared to ask about the housekeeper Quan, to whom she had not been able to get an answer before.

Xue Chenyu poked her forehead and said, "You are the most persistent. If you were in my situation and faced a hot potato and no one was willing to take it, what would you do?"

"Just find a fool to answer it." Yumei blurted out.

"Yumei!" Yuzhu immediately called in a low voice.

Xiao Yumei suddenly looked like a child who had done something wrong.

Xue Chenyu couldn't help laughing, "I'm asking, if you were in my position and wanted to throw the housekeeper, this hot potato, away, but the old lady stopped you from taking it, what would you do?"

Yumei answered again: "Just find someone who doesn't know how hot this is."

Yuzhu also reacted, "Oh right, the old lady has managed the household and knows that this is not an easy job and it's thankless. But others don't know."

For example, it is easy for him to talk about He Minzhi, the editor of the Hanlin Academy who seemed to have grown up eating flowers and drinking dew.

He wants to take advantage of everything, but is unwilling to spend money or effort.

Qiu Hua and Dong Yue also smiled at each other.

They seemed to understand why the girl deliberately made Old Madam He angry.

Mrs. He was very shrewd and refused to do anything that would put her at a disadvantage.

But Lord He is "filial".

If the girl made his mother angry, he would take back the housekeeping power in a fit of rage, which was not impossible for him to do.

A few girls gathered together, each of them whispered something, and then they all became happy.

Xue Chenyu smiled and took a sip of tea slowly.

Just like what these little girls said, Liu is smart and it is not easy for her to give up the power of housekeeper.

As before, Liu always reported good news but not bad news to He Minzhi, and always put his interests first. The idea of ​​finding a fool to take over was unlikely to work.

But now with Ji Minrou, things are different.

Ji Minrou is a person who can have a say in front of Liu and He Minzhi. Some things that Liu doesn't want He Minzhi to know can be conveyed to him through Ji Minrou.

The most important thing is that Ji Minrou has never taken care of the household.

She grew up in the He family, but she only knew that the He family had lived a hard life in the past.

After coming back this time, I found that the He family now lives a good life, drinking bird's nest and eating delicious fish and meat every day.

Even the material and workmanship of the clothes he wore were more than two levels higher.

As for the entire He family, all the previously dilapidated courtyards have been renovated.

Take Ciwenyuan for example, all the furniture and furnishings are newly made, and each piece looks very valuable.

She had never managed a household, so naturally she didn't know how difficult it was to be the head of the household. She also wouldn't believe that anyone would be stupid enough to spend thousands of taels of silver to renovate her husband's house.

I just think that He Minzhi has become fat as a high-ranking official. With the power of housekeeper in his hands, there will be a lot of money.

Therefore, she would definitely find ways to take the housekeeper power away from Xue Chenyu.

Today she has set up the stage for Ji Minrou, and what she does next depends on her own performance.

If she can't persuade He Minzhi at this point, then it means she is useless.

……

Today, it was finally not the day when He Minzhi was away and the whole place was in chaos when he came back.

He wanted to see Ji Minrou, but it was not easy for him to go openly, so he went to eat with great enthusiasm.

But after seeing the vegetables and tofu on the table, his face inevitably turned green, and he threw down his chopsticks and refused to eat.

Liu also said she was full after eating a few bites, so Ji Minrou could only accompany her and leave.

As for He Ruyi, she simply didn't let anyone out and kept him locked up, only having someone deliver food to him.

In just a short while, most people had left.

Only the second wife and the fourth daughter of the first wife, He Jixiang, were left.

"What are we eating? Have we fallen on hard times again?" He Shuang flipped through the vegetables on the plate with a look of disgust on her face.

Before she could finish her words, the old lady from the second house slapped her hand and said, "Just eat, why are you constantly turning your chopsticks around? You don't want to eat it, but others still want to eat it."

He Shuang felt a pain and dropped her chopsticks. She looked at her mother in surprise, "Mom, you..."

But even her own mother didn't even look at her. Instead, she picked up some food for He Jixiang and said, "Fourth girl, if they don't want to eat theirs, you should eat more. Look how thin you are."

He Shuang: No, mother, who is your biological child? If you don't know, you might think that lady is your biological child.

……

Ji Minrou is the busiest person in the entire He family.

After coaxing the old lady, he turned around and prepared some side dishes to go see He Minzhi, coaxing her with sweet words, and also quietly reporting Xue Chenyu's case in a subtle way.

Why did she do it so discreetly? She was afraid that her complaint would be too obvious, and that He Minzhi would get annoyed and call her a troublemaker.

Of course, He Minzhi was furious as she expected. "When did our He family fall to the point where we have to use women's dowries to cover the family expenses? Since she works so hard, we don't need her to be the housekeeper anymore!"

Ji Minrou sighed, "My aunt won't agree."

He Minzhi suddenly felt embarrassed.

"My mother values ​​etiquette and rules the most, so she naturally feels that she should be the one to manage the household."

Seeing that her words had no effect, Ji Minrou tactfully shut up.

Next, after the lights were turned off, the man and woman would engage in a passionate love affair.

……

What happened in the dining room and study soon reached Xue Chenyu's ears.

She wouldn't be surprised by anything He Minzhi and Ji Minrou did, but the second wife's old lady, Zhang, seemed to be getting more and more weird.

In the previous life, because Liu suppressed the second wife everywhere, Liu also disliked the first wife in every way.

A concubine's daughter like He Jixiang became cannon fodder and was bullied from both sides.

Who would have thought that Zhang would still remember to treat her well?

Recalling her past life, Xue Chenyu instructed Yuzhu to bring He Jixiang two pieces of clothes she had worn and some food.

The first and second branches of the He family were crowded together, and the place was small, so naturally no one took care of the fourth daughter, He Jixiang.

She still lives in the same room with the maid.

She had taken care of the He family before, and they had made jewelry and clothes for her, but after her rebirth, she could not keep those things.

If she was given silver, she would not be able to keep it. If she was given some food, she would eat it up, but the servants did not dare to touch the clothes she had worn.

Yuzhu did as instructed.

However, Xue Chenyu was still observing the behavior of the second wife.

In the next few days, Zhang simply called He Jixiang to her room.

He Shuang is about the same age as He Jixiang, but she is much thinner and looks malnourished, so He Shuang's clothes need to be altered to be smaller so that she can wear them.

In fact, you don’t have to make any changes, just wear it a little bigger and looser.

But it was much better than what she was wearing.