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Assigning people to Prince Ming's fiefdom requires careful planning, even from the Emperor. It's not something that can be done on a whim. Moreover, the person assigned must be loyal to the Emperor.

If you're not loyal enough, you might end up in Prince Ming's fiefdom and be turned against him, which wouldn't be fun.

"Yes, please rest assured, father-in-law, I have already made preparations."

Lord Wen greatly admired Ling Silang, saying, "That's excellent."

After we finished discussing business, we started chatting about everyday things.

Lord Wen asked, "Is there anything you're not used to?"

"There's nothing I'm not used to, except that the house is small, and my father dotes on me, so he arranged for a lot of people to go there. My husband also bought a few people, which has led to the courtyard being overcrowded."

Lord Wen immediately said, "I will give you a three-courtyard house right away, and you can move in today."

"No need, Father. Since we're leaving soon, why bother? Besides, even if we leave, we won't need so many servants, and we can only take a few with us. So, I came back today to tell you that we should select a few people to stay and let the rest return to the Wen residence. What do you think?"

Lord Wen did not refuse, "Sure, but you can tell me which people you want to keep."

Du Mingxian explained her and Ling Silang's ideas, and Lord Wen nodded after only a slight hesitation, "Alright, keep these people who are in the public eye. Your two maids won't do. I'll look around in the next couple of days to see if I can find any skilled martial arts maids to arrange for you."

"Thank you father."

"I will arrange a few more secret guards for you. These guards will stay in the shadows. When you arrive at Prince Ming's fiefdom, if anything happens that you cannot handle on your own, you can arrange for the guards to take care of it."

"Thank you father."

"Don't stand on ceremony with your father." Lord Wen waved his hand. "Knowing you were coming back today, I arranged for Shiyan to take Wu Erniu to the Cheng family."

Du Mingxian was deeply moved. "Father, the arrangements are so thoughtful."

"It's just that there's this opportunity. I don't know what Wu Erniu said, but Shiyan, who had previously planned to participate in the talent show, is no longer willing to go. Her relationship with Wu Erniu has also become public."

"I'm afraid they'll get married soon."

"It's actually a good thing that she's getting married." Du Mingxian strongly agreed with Wen Shiyan's decision to marry out and bring trouble to the Wu family.

After lingering in Lord Wen's study for a long time, Du Mingxian and Ling Silang went to Old Madam Wen's place. Although they were ridiculed, Du Mingxian did not argue with them for Lord Wen's sake.

At lunchtime, Lord Wen, two from the second wife's family, two from the third wife's family, and Wen Yibin were present; none of the younger generation attended.

After the meal, Du Mingxian went back with Ling Silang. The two sat in the carriage for a while, and then she wanted to go out for some fresh air. It was springtime, and although it was still a bit chilly, the air was nice.

Ling Silang naturally accompanied her.

The two walked together, so the coachman went back first.

The two were walking slowly when Du Mingxian suddenly saw a familiar figure coming out of the escort agency ahead. "That looks like Wu Erniu."

“That’s true.” Ling Silang replied.

Du Mingxian felt something was amiss. "Let's go take a look."

As soon as the two entered the escort agency, someone immediately came forward and asked, "What brings you two here?"

"My brother just came over to take care of something, thank you for your help." Du Mingxian said, handing over a piece of silver. "This matter is very important."

Upon hearing this, the young man immediately became more serious, accepted the silver, and solemnly stated, "Rest assured, gentlemen, our escort agency never makes a mistake when delivering messages. We will definitely arrange for someone to deliver it to the recipient."

"That would be a lot of trouble." Du Mingxian said and was about to leave, but then suddenly remembered something and turned back. "Could you please let me take a look at the letter? I'm afraid my brother might be careless and miss some important information."

The young shop assistant had no suspicions whatsoever, because Du Mingxian had just come in and given him money, and her familiar manner made it impossible to detect any flaws. He reached into the counter drawer, took out the letter, and handed it over.

Du Mingxian opened the letter in front of the shop assistant, and her face darkened when she saw its contents.

This was indeed written by Wu Erniu to Wu Sanniu. It also told Wu Sanniu to go to Lingjia Village and tell the Ling family that she had married someone else, and that Ling Silang was dead and she had remarried.

She is still the eldest daughter of the Wen family, and the man she married is an official. The fourth son of the Ling family was killed by her and the female officer.

"This kid can even make mistakes when writing a letter. I knew he was unreliable. It's a good thing we came along," Du Mingxian complained, then borrowed paper and pen from the shop assistant and scribbled something down.

When the young man wasn't looking, she took a blank piece of paper, stuffed it into the envelope, resealed the letter, and handed it over in a very good-natured manner, saying, "Thank you for your help."

"No trouble."

Du Mingxian added, "This letter is very important."

"Yes, sir, rest assured, the message delivered by our escort agency will never be wrong."

"That's good."

Du Mingxian followed Ling Silang out of the escort agency with a smile, but her face immediately darkened. "I knew Wu Erniu was a troublemaker. He dared to slander me. He's asking for death."

"The letter hasn't been sent yet, so he doesn't know. Right now, he's focused on marrying Wen Shiyan. We'll be leaving in a few days, so there's no need to hold it against him." Ling Silang wasn't angry at all.

But Du Mingxian was furious. "No, I must get my revenge tonight."

Before, when she was at the Wen residence, she could only go out at night secretly. Now that she is married to Ling Silang, she can go out at night openly, in front of Ling Silang, and come back in front of him.

That night, Du Mingxian quietly went to the courtyard where Wu Erniu and the others were staying. When she arrived at the courtyard, she assumed that Wu Erniu and Du Mingwei were asleep, since it had been quite some time.

But when she went to the main house to look for someone, she heard indescribable sounds.

Then... she extracted the owner of the voice from the sound.

Wu Erniu was having an affair with... Du Mingwei.

His sister-in-law.

Wu Erniu was a lecher in his past life, but... Du Mingxian didn't know what to say.

In her previous life, she came to the capital. After Du Mingwei married into Lingjia Village, she knew that Ling Silang had passed the imperial examination and died. She didn't know anything else, and she didn't pay attention to how Du Mingwei lived afterward.

Unexpectedly, while Wu Daniu was working hard for the Wu family outside, his younger brother and his wife were having an affair back home.

Du Mingxian, who was still a little angry, lost her temper and, not wanting to hear those sounds of lovemaking that were too irritating to her ears, quietly left.

When she returned, Ling Silang was waiting for her. He was quite surprised to see her back so quickly. "You're back so soon?"

"Yeah, I saw some really cringe-worthy things."

"Oh?"

Du Mingxian told Ling Silang what she had seen Wu Erniu and Du Mingwei fooling around together. Ling Silang's expression turned strange. "If Wu Daniu finds out about this, he'll probably go crazy."

She can go crazy, but she's amazing at not going completely insane.

Wu Daniu has deep feelings for his younger siblings and treats them very well, so he will definitely blame all the mistakes on Du Mingwei.

One can imagine that Du Mingwei is in a terrible situation.