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

Ling Silang knew she was a woman of her own mind, so he supported her, saying, "You can arrange it as you see fit. If there are any problems, just come to me."

"Don't worry, I know. You only need to worry about things in front of you. I'll take care of things in the back."

Ling Silang chuckled, “There’s nothing to worry about ahead. Ping County doesn’t have a large area, so the magistrate is all-powerful. There isn’t even a county assistant magistrate. I just need to get familiar with it. But I haven’t been here long. I might take some people to inspect it in a couple of days and learn more about Ping County. If I can think of a way to improve the lives of the people, that would be even better.”

"That's good too, it saves us a lot of trouble."

"Yes."

After eating, the two went to bed early. The journey had been very bumpy. However, since they hadn't bought a bed, they went straight into their personal space to rest.

In this space, which is their own world, Ling Silang likes to torment Du Mingxian, and he doesn't care how much noise they make that others might hear.

Du Mingxian was groggily awakened by Ling Silang, who said, "Take me out."

The space belongs to Du Mingxian, so only she has the right to enter and exit. Ling Silang can only be brought into the space by Du Mingxian each time, or sent into the space by her.

Hearing the noise, Du Mingxian looked up and saw it was the spatial dimension. She rolled her eyes at Ling Silang and said, "You know we've been busy lately, but you still don't know how to restrain yourself. You were up so late last night."

Ling Silang smiled, "I couldn't help it."

Du Mingxian also decided not to sleep, as she had things to do during the day. The two of them left the space together.

"Go back inside and sleep for a while. I'll have Xiangyang and the others watch over you until you wake up, then they can come in."

"No need, I have other things to do today."

After the two had breakfast, Ling Silang went to do his work, but Du Mingxian began to give Xiangyang instructions and conducted one-on-one training.

"From now on, Xia Yu will serve me. You will manage the affairs of the backyard. When you have nothing to do, deal with the old women in the backyard. Be lenient with them and get along well with them."

Xiangyang didn't quite understand, but she still wanted to do her best to complete the task assigned by her master.

"Does Madam wish to hear some news?"

"Yes, whether it's useful or not, you should compile it all together and then tell me about it all tonight."

Xiang Yang nodded slightly. It seemed that only she was suitable to do this kind of thing. After all, Xia Yu looked cold and aloof and was not easy to get along with. Even if the other party had gossip, they probably wouldn't want to tell Xia Yu.

Xia Yu saw Xiang Yang nod and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She definitely couldn't do this kind of thing. She could serve the madam, kill people, and fight, but she definitely couldn't just chat with people.

"Don't worry, I'll give you some silver and some things to pave the way. It's not difficult at all. You just need to show that you're particularly interested in gossip from now on."

As Du Mingxian spoke, she suddenly missed her sister-in-law at home. If her sister-in-law were here, she wouldn't need to be taught how to do things, and she would definitely have all the information she had gathered.

After making the arrangements, Du Mingxian gave Xiangyang some pastries from Beijing so she could use them to build relationships with others, and then she took Xia Yu out.

She was going to pick out some nice furniture; after all, she was now known to the public as the eldest daughter of the Wen family.

There was still plenty of furniture for sale, so she picked out several items, all for the rooms she would be living in. She also had some bookshelves custom-made and wanted to set up a study for Ling Silang.

After finishing all that, she didn't have anything else she wanted to buy, so she took Xia Yu to a teahouse to listen to the news.

They ordered a pot of tea, some pastries and dried fruit, and sat there bored. After a while, a few people from the next table came over and started gossiping, which revolved around the government office.

"The new magistrate has taken office, but when the former magistrate's wife left, she sold all the furniture in the backyard, leaving the house empty. I wonder how our new magistrate sleeps at night."

"They certainly won't sleep on the floor; those yamen runners will take care of that."

"This is nothing. I heard that our new magistrate's wife is the daughter of Minister Wen, but she didn't bring many people or much stuff with her. Yesterday afternoon, she even hired a few servants' family members to help in the backyard."

"Why didn't you go and buy servants?"

Someone then smiled mysteriously, "What do you know? They obviously don't have the money to buy one. It would be much better to just buy a servant with a contract of indenture. Why use the family members of the yamen runners? It's because they don't have to spend too much money at once."

"Besides, this 'Lord Wen's daughter' is a fake. My neighbor's daughter's in-laws' uncle's youngest daughter's maternal uncle's family has someone working in the Ming Prince's mansion."

"The news has already spread far and wide. The county magistrate's wife is not a rich young lady at all; she's a fake. Our magistrate has really lost out. He originally thought that marrying her would be a meteoric rise to power, but it turns out she's nothing at all."

"Haha, isn't this an opportunity? I heard that our Liu family head wants to get on good terms with this new magistrate. Hearing this news, he'll definitely send his beautiful daughter over there."

"Why send her there? To be a concubine? No matter what, the Liu family is still a prominent family. How could they let their daughter become a concubine to a county magistrate? Only if she were the wife of a county magistrate would she be worthy of him."

Xia Yu was furious when she heard this, and she even asked in a very low voice, "Madam, should I go and teach them a lesson?"

"No need, just listen. It'll be good to see what people outside think about this." Du Mingxian had complete confidence in her relationship with her.

If Ling Shilang really does something to betray her, she will not leave, but she will kill him.

The gossip continues over there.

"I'm afraid that won't work. Even if the current magistrate's wife is a fake, she was still brought into the family with great ceremony, so it's impossible for her to be divorced. The Liu family has probably made a mistake this time."

“We’ll just wait and see what happens. The Liu family dotes on their daughter. I’ve heard that our new magistrate is very handsome. Who in this world doesn’t like good-looking people and beautiful things?”

Du Mingxian smiled as she thought of Ling Silang's face. It was true; she also liked good-looking people and beautiful things.

She was especially happy when she thought about how good-looking he was, and that he was hers.

That's all the gossip I heard. There are still many speculations. Du Mingxian listened to most of it and went straight back to the mansion. Xiangyang hadn't come over yet, which shows that there was quite a bit of gossip going on in the backyard.

When Ling Silang came back for lunch, he asked Du Mingxian what she had been doing. She honestly told him everything without hiding anything, and even told him the gossip in great detail.

Looking at the bright light in Du Mingxian's eyes, Ling Silang reached out and pulled her back. "You don't look angry."

"Why should I be angry? I'm not angry, and you certainly won't, nor would you dare to."