The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

Lord Wen's heart turned cold, and his tone became stern, "But she is not Huan'er."

Wen Yibin stopped his nonchalant attempt to sleep, slowly sat up straight, and asked seriously, "So, what does Big Brother intend to do with her?"

"Let's observe first. I want to know what her purpose is in impersonating her."

"Why don't you just ask her directly, brother?" Wen Yibin analyzed without any pretense. "It's possible that she's just impersonating someone because she's after the Wen family's wealth. If that's really her intention, brother should kick her out of the house immediately."

Lord Wen looked at his younger brother in confusion, "If she is only after the wealth of the Wen family, then let her stay. From now on, she will be Huan'er, and Huan'er will be her."

“That won’t do, brother. I’ve thought about it. That girl is an excellent cook. Rather than letting her marry out with the title of the eldest daughter of the Wen family, you should just kick her out and then I’ll marry her myself.”

Wen Yibin started by talking nonsense, but the more he talked, the more plausible it seemed. "We won't have to worry about food at home anymore. We can eat delicious food for the rest of our lives."

Lord Wen glared at Wen Yibin, "You've gotten like this after just one meal?"

"Then the older brother has eaten so many meals that she could replace Huan'er without any purpose. In this life, eating and drinking are the two things. It's not wrong for the younger brother to miss out on some of her cooking skills."

Lord Wen was speechless. He couldn't stand Wen Yibin's aloof demeanor outside, but he always acted like an unreasonable child in front of him. "Get out of here. You don't look like a junior minister at all."

"Do I resemble Shaoqing? I am Shaoqing."

While they were discussing it here, Du Mingxian was also discussing it on her side.

Du Mingxian was studying a recipe, and Chuntao was standing next to her.

“Miss, we have been sending food to the master recently. I expect it won’t be long before you can enter the Ministry of War.”

Du Mingxian narrowed her eyes slightly and said in a calm tone, "Haste makes waste. Besides, if we go straight to the Ministry of War, we'll definitely be seen through. Lord Wen is an old minister who has seen countless people, so it's better to be careful."

"Yes, Miss's concerns are valid, but... Chun Tao is just thinking that if Miss makes progress sooner, she can leave the Wen family sooner. Could it be that Miss really wants to marry the second young master of the Feng family?"

Du Mingxian chuckled, "No, no, no, that's not true. But things take time to develop. It's not like I can just say whatever I want."

"Yes, yes, Miss is right."

Seeing that Chun Tao seemed to have something on her mind, Du Mingxian slowly flipped through the book, but in the end she didn't ask Chun Tao anything. She just read the book by herself, her thoughts already drifting far away.

The next day, Du Mingxian made extra food while cooking. Just as she was about to leave with the food box, Wen Yibin's follower came over.

"Miss, Fourth Master sent me to get you some food."

Du Mingxian thought to herself, "Thank goodness I prepared an extra one." She handed over the extra one, saying, "This is for Fourth Uncle."

The follower glanced at the portion that Du Mingxian still had in her hand, then immediately turned and left.

Du Mingxian still took Chuntao and Ke'er to the Ministry of War, but this time the servant did not take the food box. Instead, he said to her, "Miss, you only come here for a short while. Why don't you go in and sit down? The master is inside."

Du Mingxian hurriedly shoved the food box into the other person's hands, saying, "We won't go in. You should take it in and give it to your father, or it will get cold."

Du Mingxian left quickly after speaking, as if someone was chasing her, which puzzled Chun Tao and Ke'er greatly.

However, as soon as she returned to the courtyard today, the old woman from Madam Wen's courtyard came to tell her to come over. Du Mingxian thought to herself that after delivering meals for so many days, she was finally getting restless in the backyard.

There were quite a few people in Madam Wen's courtyard, including Madam Wen, Madam Wen the Second, Madam Wen the Third, as well as the daughters and daughters-in-law of the Second and Third branches of the family.

She didn't recognize any of these people. They hadn't even given her a proper introduction when she came back. So when she went in and saw them, she simply bowed respectfully to Old Madam Wen and Madam Wen, and then stepped aside.

Everyone cast scrutinizing, appraising, disdainful, or contemptuous glances at her, but Du Mingxian remained unmoved, as if these people weren't looking at her at all.

Madam Wen was an impatient woman. When she saw that Du Mingxian had no intention of greeting them, she immediately became very unhappy. "Mother, this young lady really doesn't take us aunts seriously at all."

“Even if our master is born out of wedlock, shouldn’t the eldest daughter still address him as Second Uncle or Third Uncle? How come she has no manners at all when she sees us aunts?”

Du Mingxian looked at the person who spoke with a surprised expression, but she wasn't angry. She just stared at him.

Madam Wen also scolded from the side, "Huan'er, haven't you been learning manners from Granny Gui these days? Granny Gui often praises you, saying that you learn things quickly. But what about the etiquette and manners you've learned? Is this all? You don't even know how to greet people when you see them?"

“Mother, don’t worry. Perhaps Huan’er is still adjusting after just returning. She just likes to cook and run errands. She’s probably forgotten how to greet people properly,” Madam Wen chimed in from the side.

Du Mingxian immediately choked up, her face full of grievance, and she cried out pitifully, "Grandmother, your granddaughter is innocent."

"In truth, since my granddaughter returned, she hasn't seen many people. At home, she has only met Madam, Sister Shiyan, the two young ladies of the Cheng family, Fourth Uncle, Father, and Grandmother. She hasn't met anyone else."

"Moreover... my granddaughter really can't call them all out, can't tell who's who, and no one has introduced them to her. They're all family, but my granddaughter grew up in the countryside and has never met them before."

After she finished speaking with a wronged expression, she looked at Aunt Wen, who had just caused trouble, and stepped forward to give a very serious bow. "Aunt, please don't be offended. This is the first time I've seen you since I came back. I wasn't taught anything when I was little in the countryside, so I really don't know how to recognize people, and no one recognizes me properly."

"I hope my second aunt will be magnanimous and not hold it against her niece."

Aunt Wen was speechless. Only then did she remember that the day after this country girl returned, they had come early to wait for her and had even prepared a gift for their first meeting.

Who knew that this girl would fall ill? At the time, she was afraid that the girl wouldn't make it, so she didn't even send a gift. She only went to see her once with the old lady when the girl was delirious with fever.

There were so many people that time that she couldn't even tell whether the person was round or flat.

Strictly speaking, this really is our first meeting.

Madam Wen was also somewhat embarrassed. She remembered what had happened earlier. She thought that since the person had been back for so many days and had been coming and going every day, living in the same mansion, they would have run into each other by now, and probably had already met in private. But she never expected that she had never seen him even once.