The abandoned concubine who transmigrated woke up shouting "Long live the widow!"

When the butler arrived, Ye Muchen was in the study.

"What is it?" Ye Muchen asked, raising his eyes.

"Your Highness, I have already settled Miss Feng in the Plum Blossom Garden. I made a few clothes for her today. I think we should arrange a few more people in that courtyard. There are only two old women, which is a bit too few! How about we send the gardener, Old Tan, over there as well? He can do some of the rough work!" The steward thought of what Old Tan's wife, Granny Wang, had told him and felt that it made sense, so he brought it up.

"Meilan Garden? The courtyard next door?" Ye Muchen asked. He went to Ye Musi's residence last night, and when he came back, everyone was asleep. Even when he came back tonight, the lights in Meilan Garden were not on, so he didn't notice.

He also felt a little uneasy, but since everything was already arranged, he figured it was pointless to make any more moves and the young girl would overthink things. So he let it go.

The steward didn't glean anything from Ye Muchen's expression and was quite pleased with himself. "Yes! This servant thinks that having several courtyards in a row with the master living there makes the place more lively!"

Ye Muchen frowned slightly. The word "master" felt a bit awkward, but if he wasn't a master, he was a servant. He didn't know what word was correct, so he said lightly, "Okay! Just take good care of the people! If you don't have enough manpower, just transfer a few over."

"Your Highness, I wanted to ask, Miss Feng's clothes have been made, and the two old women said they would make shoes for her, but Miss Feng doesn't have a single piece of jewelry!"

Ye Muchen was about to suggest that the Princess Consort make the arrangements, but then he realized that Jingxue didn't care about the affairs of the household at all. He only wanted to take good care of Feng Cuier and didn't intend to mold her into a young lady of the household. However, he wasn't good at these matters of the inner quarters, and he didn't want to trouble Jingxue with things that involved money.

"Then check the storeroom to see if there are any suitable pieces of jewelry for her. If not, take some silver and have a few made. You'll have to handle these kinds of things from now on!" Ye Muchen said, his brows furrowing slightly. He told himself to be patient. Now that she was in his palace, he had to take good care of her to be worthy of Feng Yi.

"Yes!" The butler left after asking for permission, now he had a clear understanding of the situation.

The next day was the day Xiaoman and Liqiu went to the palace to give the empresses beauty treatments.

Xiaoman was alright, but Liqiu was a bit nervous. Jingxue told them to contact the Empress if they needed anything, and then arranged for a carriage to take them to the palace.

Jingxue has things to do today. Last night, she spent a long time thinking in her space to figure out all the things she needed to make tofu. After growing the soybeans, how to turn them into food is also an important thing. Besides, Qin Jing's hot pot is about to be launched, so how can it be without tofu!

Of the 20 servants who remained, some had nothing to do, so Jingxue planned to make tofu in the courtyard next door.

Jingxue asked a servant to bring these people over. When she looked, there were eight people, all men. They all respectfully bowed and greeted Jingxue.

"No need for formalities! What did you all do in the household before?"

One by one, everyone answered. It turned out that among these eight people were the cook Fu Ma and Lian Ma's husband. Each of their families had a boy who had been taken to the shop by Li Xia.

The remaining six people were all former odd jobs in the mansion.

The rich mother's husband was the kitchen's purchasing agent, and even the mother's husband was a minor steward in the mansion.

These arrangements were made by Butler Yuan and Lixia, and Jingxue didn't interfere. Now it seems that they didn't want to separate the couple.

"You all lived in the capital at the beginning, right? Are there any who later moved to Jizhou and entered the government office?" Jingxue asked.

Both Fu Ma and Lian Ma took their husbands' surnames. Uncle Fu replied, "Miss, since we arrived in Jizhou, the number of servants in the mansion has basically not increased, except for that groom!"

"Okay! Uncle Fu, here's what you do, take two people and buy all the items on the list, and have them delivered the larger items!" Jingxue said, handing Uncle Fu a list and a fifty-tael silver note. The items were tools for making tofu, such as a millstone.

Since it was a purchasing matter, the person should be literate. Sure enough, Uncle Fu took the list with both hands, glanced at it, and said, "Don't worry, Miss, this servant knows where to buy these!"

After saying that, Uncle Fu called two young servants out.

Jingxue then took out another sheet of paper with blueprints for a wooden box. "Uncle Lian, do you know carpentry? Can you understand this?"

Uncle Lian waved his hand, "Miss, this servant only knows his own name, but he can read!" As he spoke, he pulled over a young man beside him.

The man bowed and said, "Young Miss, my father is the accountant in the manor. I have been weak since childhood and cannot do heavy work. Therefore, the Princess Consort asked me to learn accounting from my father!"

"What's your name?"

"This servant's name is Zhang Kang."

"Then take a look at this blueprint!"

"Yes!" Zhang Kang took the blueprints and examined them carefully. "Young Miss, do you want us servants to make this wooden trough ourselves?"

“Yes! We’re going to make a kind of food, and this is one of the tools. Because of its special size, I’m afraid it’s not available for sale, so I want to make it myself.”

Uncle Lian also turned his head to look. "Young Miss, do we have any carpentry tools in our manor? We can try to make it ourselves."

Jingxue didn't know if the manor had these tools. "Zhang Kang, calculate how much wood and tools we need, and then go out and buy them. Ideally, we can make these wooden boxes and troughs today!"

Jingxue then took out a 10-tael silver ingot and handed it to Zhang Kang.

Zhang Kang and Uncle Lian left together with their men.

Before Jingxue could stand up from the stool, the doorman came in and reported, "Miss, the girl who came yesterday is here again!"

"Miss?" Jingxue remembered; it was Feng Cuier.

"Yes! It's the girl who lives in the front yard."

"Let her in!"

A moment later, Feng Cuier entered with two old women, and the three of them bowed in greeting.

"Greetings to the Princess!"

"No need for formalities!" Jingxue looked at Feng Cuier, who was dressed in the same maid's clothes as Xiaoman and the others.

"Please sit down! How are you? Are you settling in comfortably? If you need anything, just tell the steward." Jingxue gestured to the chair by the window.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness! I'm doing quite well. The steward has already made some clothes for me," Feng Cuier replied obediently as she sat down in the chair.

"Oh! That's good! I'm usually quite busy, so you don't need to come and pay your respects to me every day. I don't have that many formalities here!" Jingxue didn't intend to chat for long, nor did she have anyone serve her tea or snacks.

“Yes! I don’t know the rules of the Prince’s mansion either. I just wanted to see if Her Highness the Princess had any instructions for me to do!” Feng Cui’er said.

Jingxue: Ye Muchen has already arranged for people to take care of you. You're not a servant. Why would I bother making you do chores?

"There's nothing for you to do here. Hasn't the Prince already arranged everything? With the old woman taking care of you, I'm at ease!"

Although Feng Cuier had heard from the two old women that this princess did not concern herself with the affairs of the household, she did not expect her to be so unapproachable.

The two then had nothing more to say to each other, so Feng Cuier had no choice but to take her leave.

On the way back, Feng Cuier asked, "Aunt Liu, is the Princess Consort always like this to people? Does the Princess Consort not like me?"