She got pregnant after the swap marriage, and the scumbag's family regretted it so much they cr

After Ziyao stormed out in a huff, Bizhu grabbed Lu Huan's mischievous hand.

"Miss! You know perfectly well that my palms are ticklish, yet you still tease me like that, you're so mean! If you keep doing this, I'm not talking to you anymore!"

Seeing Bizhu so vibrant again, Lu Huan felt a lump in her throat.

She pressed down on Bizhu and quickly walked to the window, watching as Ziyao walked through the guests and left the Gao family home.

Bizhu followed her gaze and sighed, "Ziyao is really spoiled! Miss, are you really willing to let her leave like this?"

"What's there to be reluctant about?"

Lu Huan's gaze was somewhat unfathomable to Bi Zhu; she seemed different from the young lady she used to be.

"Miss, I've noticed you've changed a lot."

"But things have changed! Come with me!"

Lu Huan grabbed Bi Zhu's hand and dragged her to the deepest part of the room, then suddenly rolled up her sleeves.

"Oh dear! Miss, what are you doing!"

Lu Huan wasn't finished with just one hand; he then grabbed Bi Zhu's other hand and said, "Let me see if you're injured!"

"No! Really, no! Oh! Miss, where can't I touch you! Hahahaha!"

Bizhu struggled several times, kicking off her embroidered shoes on the footstool, her whole face flushed.

She was nothing like the deathly pale woman she was in Lu Huan's arms in her previous life.

"Miss, why are you crying!"

With a soft thud, a large tear fell onto the wedding quilt, spreading out in a blur. The bright red brocade quilt, soaked with the tear, turned a deeper maroon.

"No, I'm just happy. I'm afraid the Li family will target you!"

Bizhu took Lu Huan's hand and placed it against her cheek: "I'm really fine! I was a little hungry before, but after eating the meal Miss gave me, I'm not hungry at all!"

I'm just a little worried. Miss, you've been living a life of luxury since you were a child. How can you endure such hardship?

How could your wife have chosen such a husband for you!

In her previous life, Lu Huan had attended many banquets hosted by wives of officials and understood the difference between the powerful and the wealthy. How could she not see the deeper meaning behind her mother's actions?

Merchants may appear glamorous on the surface, but they are nothing more than easy prey in the eyes of the powerful and wealthy.

The Cheng family fell apart back then precisely because the powerful figure they relied on collapsed, and they were also purged along with him.

If Lu Huan's maternal grandfather hadn't made the decisive move by approaching the Prince of Yan's residence, the Lu family might have been implicated.

However, Cheng did not expect that Lu Huan would later be instilled with so many ideas of the Three Obediences and Four Virtues by Li, and even lose contact with the old members of the Cheng family.

Sunlight streamed through the window into the canopy bed. Another group of guests had arrived in the courtyard. The villagers, having eaten and drunk their fill, gradually grew louder with laughter and conversation.

Lu Huan recounted her experience of the day to Bi Zhu: "Today I can say I walked on the edge of a cliff. Do you think I should change?"

Bizhu patted her small chest repeatedly: "It should change! Why should you, Miss, be given something that Lu Ruyi doesn't like? No way, where is she now? I'm going to go and beat her up!"

Without wasting a moment, Bizhu rushed outside.

Before she could even put her shoes on properly, Lu Huan pulled her back: "I think you should change your personality! You're always so impulsive!"

Don't worry, I didn't lose out at all today. Look at my dowry list, Li Shi really lost out!

Bizhu took the dowry list, did a quick calculation, and smiled so broadly that her eyes narrowed, just like a little mouse that had stolen some sesame oil.

"Isn't Lu Ruyi furious! Look at these jewelry pieces, and this ruby ​​one too—she begged and pleaded with Miss to take them from her before!"

"Absolutely! Now it's all benefiting your young lady, haha!"

Hearing this, Bizhu felt much relieved, but she couldn't help but remind Lu Huan: "Miss, no matter how much she tries to play the victim, you can't give her any more money!"

"Don't worry, little housekeeper!" Lu Huan pinched her slightly chubby cheeks.

The two basked in the warm sun, feeling somewhat drowsy.

Just then, Gao Yan's voice rang out from outside: "Huan'er, I'm going to see off a few of my uncles and elders, then I'll come back to cook!"

Lu Huan seemed to have been hit on the head, instantly sobering up. She nudged Bi Zhu: "It's getting late, you should go back!"

"Go back?" At this, Bizhu's sleepiness vanished. "Go back where? You sent Master here so I could stay and serve you, didn't you?"

Lu Huan beckoned to her with his finger: "Come here, I have something very important to tell you!"

Lu Huan and Bi Zhu whispered to each other for a while. Bi Zhu's expression became serious, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and her face showed a hint of reluctance.

"Miss, Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang are both old members of the Cheng family. They wouldn't betray us, would they?"

Lu Huan's gaze drifted, her thoughts seemingly wandering elsewhere: "The Cheng family has been gone for almost ten years. How many people truly still remember the Cheng family?"

Just tell your parents what I said, and I'll come to talk to them in person the day after tomorrow.

"I understand, Miss."

Bizhu bit her lip, finally making up her mind. "Ziyao, we've served Miss together for so long, I hope we'll never be on opposite sides!"

She carried the bundle she had brought with her and walked out without looking back.

Lu Huan watched her walk out of the courtyard gate, and then bolted the door.

The woman in the bronze mirror, adorned with jewels and tinkling ornaments, seemed somewhat out of place in the farmhouse courtyard outside the window.

She picked out all the dresses from her dowry that were clearly in Lu Ruyi's style and placed them separately on the heated kang bed by the window.

The outfit she chose for herself was the most elegant one from her dowry—a light pink narrow-sleeved top, covered with a light green short-sleeved top, and paired with a lilac long skirt embroidered with a round circle pattern.

All the gold hairpins on her head were removed, and she used only a lotus-colored ribbon to tie between her hair buns as decoration.

She no longer looked as imposingly wealthy as she had when she first arrived at the Gao family's house that morning; instead, she exuded a more gentle and refined air.

A sharp glint flashed in her eyes as she casually collected all the valuable hairpins and jewelry from the dressing table into her spatial storage, and then replaced them with a number of silver ornaments.

These silver ornaments were all obtained from Wu Xuefei; they were well-crafted but not very valuable.

After doing all that, she took the clothes she had packed earlier and walked out of the west wing.

There were only a few aunties left outside, all of whom were familiar with Zhou Shi. When they saw Lu Huan come out, their eyes looked her up and down.

When Zhou saw her come out, her face immediately fell: "Why did you come out!"

Lu Huan pretended to be frightened and said aggrievedly, "Mother-in-law, I just took out a lot of clothes that my younger siblings can wear from my dowry."

"It's just that I can't easily go to the backyard, so I'll have to trouble my mother-in-law to make the trip!"

Just as Zhou was about to get angry, she saw that even the cloth used to wrap clothes in Lu Huan's hand was made of fine silk, and the color was one that she could wear, so she snatched it away.

"Okay! I'll take it to her in a bit."

"Mother-in-law, I'm going to check on how Ayan's cooking is going." Lu Huan pretended to be shy, nodded, and jogged towards the kitchen across the street.

Even before the person had gone far, one could still hear the women's flattery: "Your eldest daughter-in-law seems quite docile, not as scary as you described!"

"Of course! Once you're married into this family, even a dragon would have to coil up before you!"

"You can't say that! There really is a prince in Yanjing!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Pshaw! I didn't say anything, so don't go around spreading rumors!"