Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Changbai didn't want to hide it from Changfeng, and said: "Instead of worrying about a heartless woman, you might as well think about what to do next. Father didn't report this to grandmother because he was afraid that she would get sick again, but he did tell her, saying..."

"say what?"

"Don't let Ayan have the last name Sheng."

"If not Sheng, what would your surname be?"

"You can choose any surname you want, but it can't be Sheng, and you can't put her in the family tree, and you can't let anyone know that she is your daughter."

"Hehe, now I think everyone in the family knows that this is my daughter, right?"

"My father said that it didn't matter whether the family knew about it or not, but we must not let anyone outside know about it. Otherwise... otherwise he would beat the child to death."

Chang Feng felt a chill in his heart: "How could father be so cruel!"

"You were wrong in the first place. How dare you keep a mistress when you are not married? Who will dare to marry you in the future?"

"Didn't father marry my mother after getting her pregnant? Besides, Man Niang is just an orphan with no one to rely on. Even if he married her as a concubine, wouldn't our family be able to support her?"

Changbai shook his head suddenly and said, "How dare you discuss my father's private affairs!"

Chang Feng: "This is not a secret. My mother talks about it in the yard every day, but my father hasn't done anything."

Changbai: "That's them. How can we, as their children, be the same?"

Chang Feng let out a sigh, "Oh, I didn't intend to bring her back to the mansion in the first place. I just wanted to give her some money every month to keep her away. I don't know who was so smart and actually told my father about this."

Erbaoshen coughed awkwardly and didn't want to answer.

Chang Feng pondered for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter if she doesn't have the surname Sheng. As long as she can have food to eat and grow up in this courtyard, that's enough."

Changbai: "It's good that you know. Don't go to your father to make trouble. This arrangement is already a special favor from your father. If you want to do good for the child, then you should concentrate on studying hard and strive to pass the imperial examination. Only then will you have the confidence to find a good future for the child in the future."

Chang Feng: "I understand, brother. Father... Father didn't say anything else, right?"

Changbai: "Father wants you to be grounded."

Chang Feng laughed bitterly: "He beat me like this, I can't leave without stopping."

"You can still laugh?" Changbai squinted at him. "Such a big thing has happened. You should reflect on yourself. You let so many girls follow you. If your father sees you, he will beat you again."

"Oh, I'm so injured, and my mother and sister don't come to take care of me, so I can only rely on these girls to serve me... By the way, where's Mei'er?"

"Who?"

"Mei'er, that's the one in my yard outside."

Changbai felt a chill when he thought of Mei'er's eyes: "She was betrayed."

Chang Feng said regretfully: "It happened so soon... I didn't even have time to say goodbye..."

Changbai: "What's the situation now? What's going on in your mind?"

Chang Feng: "Hey, didn't Brother Gang say that? Now that things have come to this, there's no point in being anxious."

Changbai stood up angrily and said, "I see you haven't gotten enough of being beaten by your father yet! Why are the people from Dongrong being punished so lightly?" After saying that, he didn't even look at Changfeng anymore and walked out the door.

……

In the next few days, the Sheng family was very busy and no one had the time to care about Lin Qige.

With the recommendation of Old Madam Sheng, Minglan became the new housekeeper of the Sheng family and moved into Mucangzhai next to Shou'an Hall and had her own courtyard.

Wang Ruofu, thinking of the hermit master, spent a lot of money to renovate Minglan's new courtyard, which made the old lady and Sheng Hong praise her very much.

Wang Ruofu was praised and felt that Minglan's family was indeed her lucky star. She treated Jing'an Jushi and Sheng Changdong even more attentively. She even went to Jing'an Jushi in person to tell her the good news about Minglan's establishment of a courtyard and asked her if she wanted to perform a ritual for Minglan's new courtyard.

Jing'an only knows how to recite scriptures and pray on a daily basis, so how could he know anything about performing rituals? After several polite refusals, Wang Ruofu was still unwilling to give in, so he took out a scripture he had copied himself and told Wang Ruofu that the scripture had the strongest magical power.

Wang Ruofu was overjoyed and left happily with the book in her hands. She turned around and secretly put the book under her pillow without mentioning a word to Minglan.

After Minglan moved into Mucangzhai, Changbai gave her an official kiln flower mushroom. Minglan loved it so much that she placed it in the main hall so that everyone who came in could see it at a glance.

Molan sent a painting of "Deep Love between Mother and Child". Minglan smiled and had it placed in the main hall, together with the painting of "Lady Li Guarding Niangzi Pass" given to her by Jing'an before he became a nun.

Danju said disdainfully: "She kicked the young lady and now sent a painting like this. Does she think that the young lady is now the head of the family and wants to curry favor with her so that the young lady can remember the sisterly love?"

Minglan shook her head: "She wanted me to remember that she has her father as her backer."

Danju said angrily: "Then we still have the old lady as our backer!"

Minglan: "Grandma is so kind to us, so we shouldn't make enemies for her everywhere. If she wants to show off, let her show off. Hang the gift she gave us in the most conspicuous place."

Danju: "Why? You deserve to be thrown out to feed the dogs."

Minglan said gently and elegantly, "Not even dogs would eat this."

The master and servant laughed.

Minglan comforted Danju, saying, "Right now, we have just established a new courtyard and taken over the affairs of the whole family. The most important thing is to lay a solid foundation first. Everyone in the family knows that father favors the people of Linqi Pavilion. Even if they cause a huge disaster, as long as father does not take action, no one else can do anything."

Danju: "That's true. Miss Lin insulted the old lady and was beaten with fifty sticks. But she was alive and kicking in a few days! This means that the person who beat her must not have used too much force. Who doesn't know that it was the master's will?"

Minglan nodded: "The whole family knows the situation and knows that only by climbing up the 'high branch' of Linqi Pavilion can there be a future. If these people are deliberately making things difficult at the behest of Linqi Pavilion, can we still do our job as housekeepers smoothly?"

"This..." Danju felt speechless.

"So," Minglan took a duster and carefully swept away the non-existent dust from the painting, "right now we have to stabilize the people in Linqi Pavilion first, and not let them think that we are going to fight them openly. This will buy us time to consolidate our position, and also prevent the mother and daughter of Linqi Pavilion from finding a reason to cause trouble."

Danju: "If that's the case, why didn't the girl ask for the people the old lady gave her? Wouldn't it be more helpful if you have more people of your own?"

Minglan: "I didn't say I didn't want the person my grandmother gave me. I just don't want it now."

Danju: "When do you want it?"

Minglan: "After everyone else has sent their children away, we will naturally go to Grandmother to ask for their children."

Danju: "Who else can send someone to us?"

Minglan: "Just wait and see."

Sure enough, the next day, when Minglan went to Weiruixuan to pay her respects to Wang Ruofu, Wang Ruofu sent two second-class maids to Minglan, one named Ginkgo and the other Jiuer, who was Mother Liu's biological daughter.

That afternoon, Molan sent a few crying maids to Minglan in the name of Lin Qinshuang. Seeing them crying so sadly, Minglan advised Molan to take them back, but Molan just said, "This is a gift from my mother. Sixth sister, please don't be ungrateful," and left without looking back.

Danju pretended to comfort the girl for a long time before she realized that these girls were the ones who served in Changfeng's room on weekdays. Two of them were the ones Changfeng valued the most. Others said that these two might be promoted to concubines in the future.