My wife wants a divorce; if she ruins my life, I'll leave.

Changling Pavilion.

Shen Yunlan only brought her personal maid Ying'er and an old woman named Dong Mama with her to the capital this time. The two of them were originally from the Song family. The old lady had assigned them to her because she had few people around her. When she left the capital, Song Chang sent the two of them to accompany her.

Therefore, as soon as Shen Yunlan mentioned returning to the Song residence, the two of them followed her back, since their relatives were all there.

After changing her clothes with Ying'er's help, Shen Yunlan asked, "Is there any hot water prepared? I want to take a bath."

"It's ready." Ying'er knew that her mistress was clean and tidy. When the weather was so cold in Yanzhou, she would take a bath every three to five days.

After a month of running around, Shen Yunlan was sore all over. She had finally finished dealing with the Song family and was in no mood to chat with Ying'er. She waved Ying'er away as soon as she entered the bath room.

She wasn't used to being waited on while taking a bath.

Shen Yunlan closed her eyes, enjoying the warm feeling of being enveloped by water, and carefully recalled the past.

She has been in this world for one year and three months!

She had gone to the Northwest for tourism, hoping to see the magnificent scenery of "a lone plume of smoke rising straight from the desert, the setting sun sinking round in the long river," but she unexpectedly suffered an accident and when she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a dynasty that did not exist in history.

Shen Yunlan was not valued in the Shen family. Her stepmother only showed her superficial kindness, giving her only a stipend and nothing more. As a result, she lived a very frugal life and didn't have much money. Moreover, the original owner's fiancé had passed away a year ago, and her stepmother was arranging her marriage.

She coldly observed that her stepmother would definitely use her marriage to her own advantage, and she didn't want to spend her whole life working for someone else's benefit.

Fortunately, she inherited all of the original owner's memories, knowing that her maternal family had once been very prestigious, that her two uncles cared for her deeply, and that she frequently corresponded with her cousin. Therefore, she decided to come to the capital to make her way in the world, confident that with her knowledge and skills, she could carve out her own path.

Don't you see that those time-traveling women in novels are all blessed by the heavens? Otherwise, how could they possibly travel through time?

Now that she's here, she's the main character!

After receiving the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, she looked at the gift list again and again, and felt that her uncle's family must be living a wealthy life, otherwise they would not have brought such a cartload of things. There were sixteen bolts of silk and satin alone, and they were all materials and patterns that were not available in Yanzhou.

Of course, all these things went into the warehouse, and she couldn't even touch a single thread!

The Shen family is on the decline. The grandparents are old and have many illnesses, and it costs a lot of money to seek medical treatment every year. The stepmother is not good at managing money and only collects rent for two seasons a year, which is barely enough to cover the family's expenses.

The gifts sent by the Song family were naturally seized by the stepmother, who said she wanted to save them for her younger sister's dowry.

How could she bear to let her stepmother take her things? So she begged her father to let her go back to Beijing to offer incense to her maternal grandparents and to find an opportunity to pull some strings for her father so that he could be transferred back to Beijing as soon as possible.

After much deliberation, Mr. Shen, despite his stepmother's objections, finally agreed to her request.

In fact, he vaguely sensed his daughter's thoughts. Although Song Chen'an was already married, he had passed the imperial examination at a young age, and with the Song family's connections, his future career would surely be smooth. Even if his daughter could not become the matriarch of the Song family, she could still build a good relationship with the Song family, which would also help his future career.

Finally, Shen's father contacted a reputable merchant caravan and arranged for Shen Yunlan to come to the capital with him.

She, Ying'er, and Dong Mama rode in a caravan's carriage. Because the caravan was in a hurry to get on the road, they didn't have time to send a message in advance, so they got off the carriage directly in front of the mansion today.

Shen Yunlan opened her eyes and carefully scrubbed the dirt off her skin, feeling that the water here was much cleaner than in Yanzhou.

As the water cooled, she didn't need Ying'er to serve her; she washed herself clean, put on clean nightgown, and returned to her inner room.

Three suitcases were already piled on the ground. She took out a set of keys and opened the suitcases.

I casually flipped through the pages and, seeing that nothing was missing, I felt relieved.

She called Ying'er and Dong Mama over and instructed them, "You both have family here, so you can take turns going home to visit them tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, the two immediately agreed with great joy.

They were all born into the Song family, and the whole family served in the Song household. However, they no longer had any close relatives, otherwise they wouldn't have been sent to Yanzhou. Although they had no parents or siblings, they still had some distant relatives and friends to visit.

Silent all night.

The next day, Shen Yunlan woke up and saw the pale yellow sunlight shining through the window. She hurriedly got up.

In ancient times, people valued going to bed early and getting up early, and they were required to pay their respects to their elders morning and evening, with many rules in place. Although she disdained these rules, she had no choice but to abide by them in order to avoid being discovered that she had been replaced.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the sun rising high in the sky; it must be late.

Hearing the noise, Ying'er knocked on the door and asked, "Is Miss awake?"

"Wake up, come in."

This was also a rule she changed after she woke up: no maids were needed to stand guard at night, and everyone had to knock before entering the room.

As soon as Ying'er came in, she said, "Miss, don't worry. It was the Second Madam who instructed us not to call you. She said you must rest well today after a long journey."

Shen Yunlan was slightly relieved after hearing this. "What time is it?"

“It’s almost Chen Shi (7-9 AM).” Ying’er brought in the hot water and said, “Miss, there’s no need to rush. The Second Madam is still dealing with family matters in the side hall. Even if you go there, you’ll have to wait.”

Shen Yunlan washed her face and then applied a hot towel to her face. Through the towel, she asked in a muffled voice, "Is it still Aunt who's in charge of the household? My second sister-in-law has been married into the family for three years now, and she doesn't do anything about it?"

"Also, why was it Aunt Lü who cleaned our room yesterday?"

Logically speaking, even if the second sister-in-law didn't manage affairs, she shouldn't have been bypassed and a concubine should have been allowed to take the lead. Even if Lü Ningshuang was the second madam's cousin's niece, she was still, after all, just a concubine of her cousin!

Could it be that they all felt they only deserved one concubine?

Ying'er didn't think much of it and just told the news she had heard that morning: "Some time ago, the Second Young Mistress found out that the Li family, who were working for her, were embezzling. The Second Master took it upon himself to kick the Li family out. But for some reason, a few days later, the Second Young Mistress returned the power of managing the household to her."

She paused and then said, "She also recommended the Third Miss and Aunt Lü, saying they could help manage the household. Later, the Second Madam really did give the kitchen to the Third Miss and the sewing room to Aunt Lü."

Shen Yunlan took the towel off and asked incredulously, "Isn't Aunt Lü even more glamorous than Second Sister-in-law, the legal wife?"

She knew that Aunt Lü had given birth to a son, who was now about three years old.

Ying'er pouted, "She's definitely more glamorous than the Second Young Mistress! She's the Second Young Mistress's niece and has given birth to two sons. Everyone in the mansion looks up to her!"

She recalled the news she had heard yesterday that the second young mistress and the second master had a bad relationship and had not shared a room for several months. It seemed that the Song family mansion would probably belong to Xuan-ge in the future.

"two?"

"Yes, the second young master named himself Brother Yu, and it hasn't been two months yet, so we haven't received any news."

Shen Yunlan sneered. In the past few years, Song Chen'an had been writing letters every year, and the emotions in his words were not what ordinary cousins ​​would have. She thought he was very affectionate, but she didn't expect that he was married and had children, and he didn't neglect his wife at all.