In the front hall of the Minister's Mansion of the Ministry of Industry, Minister Lu Zhi was playing chess with a man in a green shirt.

The doctor from the Royal Palace replied next:

"The eldest lady of the Xu family must have been poisoned. The poison is not strong. The person who poisoned her didn't want to kill her, but just wanted to make her feel uncomfortable for a few days. The official saw the prescription she was taking, and it was none other than Meng Chuntang. The detoxification prescription. Judging from the pulse, the remaining poison in her body has been cleared, but her body is severely deficient."

"From what you see, how to treat it?" Lu Zhi used black stones to break the murderous intention in the chess game.

"The lower official has prescribed a nourishing and warming prescription for her, supplemented with precious medicinal materials. I think it will not delay the Chinese Valentine's Day banquet four days later."

"Your medication is the safest. Don't rush for results and hurt her body."

"Don't worry, my lord."

Lu Zhi nodded, glanced at the man in green shirt across from him, and snorted coldly: "This Xu Chaoqian is really a father in vain. In order to bring his second daughter to the Chinese Valentine's Day banquet, he actually allowed Xu Xian to poison his eldest daughter!"

"Judging from the symptoms, the Xu family's wife did not dare to kill her." The palace doctor replied truthfully, "However, when the official diagnosed the Xu family's young lady's pulse, she found that she was quite malnourished. The doctor who served her The two maids are also very thin, and their faces are not as gentle as those of the eldest girls from wealthy families."

"Crack!" was the sound of the chess piece breaking into pieces.

The man in green shirt sitting opposite Lu Zhi stood up without saying a word, threw the crushed white chess piece in his hand into the chess basket and left the table.

The palace doctor was startled: "Sir, Marquis Weiyuan is..."

Lu Zhi comforted him and said, "It's okay, he's just upset. Who wouldn't be upset after hearing this nonsense about the Xu family? You are a sixth-rank official, but the back house is full of smoke and smoke. From tomorrow on, you will go to the Xu family every morning. , No matter what kind of medicinal materials you use, if you can’t buy them outside, you can just get them from the house.”

The doctor in the palace nodded repeatedly and left after Lu Zhi finished his instructions.

"Wait." Lu Zhi took the white chess basket and handed it to the palace doctor.

"grown ups?"

"Help pick out the chess pieces that were crushed just now."

Royal doctor: "..."

Outside the door, Weiyuan Hou Mu Rong stood with his hands behind his back. When he got closer, it was not difficult to see the veins on his hands.

The subordinate next to me asked: "Sir, what are your orders?"

The man's tone was cold: "There are some eyesores in Xu Chaoqian's house. Go and remove them."

"Yes!"

……

In the early morning, Xu Rongrong woke up from his dream.

It had been three days since she was reborn, but in her dreams every night, she was still trapped in the Hou Mansion, and every detail of the past six years was replayed in her dreams over and over again.

Wen Yao and Luo Shu were not there, so Xu Rongrong stood up and drank the cold water on the table.

After taking a breath, I feel more relaxed.

Under the window lattice, two rough girls in charge of sweeping were whispering.

"Have you heard? Last night, our house manager Liu, who is in charge of purchasing, had his leg broken at Chunfeng Tower."

"No wonder the warehouse was in a mess early this morning. I waited for a long time before I received the cleaning supplies."

"Isn't that right? Guanshi Liu always carries the key to the warehouse, so how could anyone care about us when everyone else has fainted."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to finish my work this morning. I can just do some sweeping here."

After they left, Xu Rongrong opened the window.

When Luo Shu carried hot water into the yard, he saw such a quiet beauty: a slender girl leaning against the window in a daze with her cheek in her hands. The morning sun cast a soft light on her face, which made her face look a little... rosy.

Luo Shu admired through the window: "The doctor from the Royal Palace is really a miracle doctor. After just one or two doses of medicine, the young lady's complexion has improved a lot."

Xu Rongrong came back to her senses: "Why have you been gone for so long?"

"You don't know, the whole house is in a mess today! When I went to the kitchen to get water, even the stove was cold. I finally boiled a pot of hot water, but Wen Yao was still there waiting for breakfast. "

"What happened in the house?" Xu Rongrong asked curiously.

"That's Manager Liu in our mansion. I heard that he went to Chunfeng Tower last night and had his leg broken when he was jealous and was thrown outside the door of the mansion. He was discovered when the door opened this morning. This manager Liu is not from the same clan as Madam. Really? His wife ran to Madam's Ronganyuan and started howling loudly. The house was busy reporting to officials and inviting doctors, and it was a huge commotion this early in the morning."

The more Luo Shu talked about it, the happier he became: "He deserves it. Because he is from the same clan as Madam, he often defrauds our hospital. I heard that one of his legs was smashed to pieces. I'm afraid he will never stand up again in this life."

Xu Rongrong cupped her chin and listened. She was very familiar with Manager Liu.

He is a distant relative of Xu Liu's clan, so naturally he and Xu Liu's family share the same problem. There are never enough portions in Wutong Yuan, and things are always left over by others. Even the food is often cold and in short supply.Even if she complained to Xu Chaoqian, Manager Liu would just say "I'm aware of my mistake", and then Mr. Xu Liu would cooperate with her by saying "It's hard to be a stepmother" and the whole thing would be over.

Later, she was given a marriage to Mu Rong, the Marquis of Weiyuan, and according to the specifications of the side wife, she could bring a maid into the house.So on the eve of the wedding, Guanshi Liu locked Wen Yao and Luo Shu into the woodshed and let his own daughter Liu Ying'er enter the roster of the Hou Mansion as a dowry maid.

When she found out, it was already too late. Her father, Xu Chaoqian, turned a blind eye, and Weiyuan Queen Mu Rong had nothing to do with her. She, a 16-year-old girl with little experience in the world, had no ability to rescue those two girls.

On the day she returned home, Mrs. Xu Liu told her that the Xu family had found a good way out for Wen Yao and Luo Shu...

As for Liu Ying'er, in the second year after entering the Marquis Mansion, Mu Rong ordered her to be dragged back to her yard and killed with a cane because she tried to climb onto the bed.

She watched with her own eyes a living person, who shouted "Mrs. Side is incompetent" every day, turned into flesh in front of her.

The blood turned her eyes red...

Seeing that her expression was wrong, Luo Shu quickly twisted a handkerchief and helped her wipe her face.

After Xu Rongrong calmed down a little, Luo Shu continued: "I'm afraid Manager Liu will be retired. I wonder if our yard will be better off in the future."

Xu Rongrong raised her head and covered her face with the hot handkerchief, and breathed a long sigh of relief. The warmth made her feel relaxed.

"Without Manager Liu, there will be others. As long as that person is in charge, we will be a thorn in her side. Others cannot count on us. If we want to live a good life, we can only rely on ourselves."

Now that she has resurrected her life, she will naturally not go back to the Hou Mansion and make the same mistakes again, but the Xu family is not a place where she can stay for a long time. She still has to find a way to get herself and these two girls out of the quagmire as soon as possible.

After washing, Xu Rongrong asked Luo Shu to guard the door while she dug out a small carved mahogany box from the box at the bottom of the wardrobe and opened it gently.Inside were some jewelry that was no longer fashionable, and a few banknotes.

This was left to her by her biological mother He.

He was born into a scholarly family. His grandfather fell behind in the family life and dismissed his servants, while he went to teach in a local academy to make a living. Xu Chaoqian was his grandfather's favorite student, and he and He were childhood sweethearts.

When He was married, her grandfather decided to marry Xu Chaoqian. Shortly after He got married, her grandfather died in a fire. From then on, she had only Xu Chaoqian to rely on.

Four years later, the two gave birth to Xu Rongrong. When she was born, she was also pampered by her parents.

In the second year after she was born, Xu Chaoqian won the imperial examination and was sent to serve as an official. He had to follow Xu Chaoqian's tossing around, and died of illness only a year later.

Xu Chaoqian worked his way up to the fifth position as the prefect of Heyang, but when he was very proud, his first wife died. In addition, with his handsome appearance, a large number of girls rushed to renew his marriage.

Xu Liu was the winner among them. The cardamom girl had a beautiful appearance, and she gave birth to three children in a row five years after her marriage. Xu Chaoqian was so happy that she held her in her hands every day. Over the past few years, she had completely stabilized her position in the Hou Mansion.

However, Xu Chaoqian's official career has stagnated since then. Although he no longer goes out to the outside world, he returned to Beijing as an official and was demoted one level. He was just a sixth-grade minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Gradually, the Xu family became a woman.

Xu Rongrong's maternal grandfather's family no longer had much money. He was a smart person. She knew that Xu Chaoqian would definitely marry another woman after her death, so she sold all the dowry that she could move and exchanged it for silver notes and left them to her daughter. That's all.

Xu Rongrong counted the things in the box. Although the jewelry was out of date, it was the only thought left by He's family. Naturally, it could not be touched.

The remaining silver notes totaled more than 800 taels, which was a huge sum of money for her now.

In her previous life, she had always been reluctant to part with flowers, and wanted to take her to the Marquis' Mansion, but without Mu Rong's favor, no one would take her seriously even if she had money.

In this life, she has to plan carefully.

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