After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife always wanted to leave her father behind and keep her

Haitang nodded. Her young lady's so-called damaged embroidery was just because she was not satisfied with it. In fact, it was much better than the work of ordinary embroiderers. She was naturally happy that her young lady's most skilled Shu embroidery would not be wasted, but she was also a little puzzled.

"Miss, isn't this what you've been preparing day and night to give to the mistress and son-in-law?" Haitang asked, "Why don't you give it to me when I need it today?"

Cheng Songan did not explain, but simply said: "If you give them the best right away, they will demand more in the future. It is better to give them something worse so that they will beg for it in the future. Then give them something better and they will be ecstatic."

Thinking about how in her previous life, her mother-in-law asked her to work day and night to embroider a nightgown for the queen in order to curry favor with the new queen, and even fell seriously ill after she finished embroidering it, and her eyes were damaged, she couldn't help but feel sorry for herself at that time.

In this life, even if they begged her, she would never ruin her body again.

Haitang couldn't help but nod in agreement, and she just took out the one with lotus pattern that symbolized longevity, and picked out a Sichuan embroidery round fan at random.

Several people surrounded Cheng Songan, and as soon as he stepped out of the door, he saw Cui Yuanqing appear under the eaves in front of the door.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his back to the door, his posture upright, like a beautiful orchid in a garden.

Cheng Songan was a little confused for a moment. Shouldn't he have gone to Cheng's house last night? Did he escape unscathed?

Haitang and Mudan hurriedly greeted him: "Son-in-law."

Cui Yuanqing turned around, his handsome face expressionless: "Since you have entered the mansion, there is no need to call me son-in-law, call me..."

"Call the master." Cheng Songan asked calmly, "When did the master come?"

She called out "Sir" in a very natural and familiar way, because she had called him that for ten years in her previous life.

Other people's wives would call their husbands "husband", "sir", or "official". At the very least, some ordinary people would call them by their names. Only Cui Yuanqing did not like these titles and just let them call him "sir" like other people did.

Cui Yuanqing frowned. He did intend for her to call him that, but she brought it up indifferently first. He felt annoyed because she didn't even have the slightest desire to be intimate with him.

His annoyance was only fleeting. He blinked his eyes calmly and said slowly, "After all, it is the first day of marriage. I will take you to pay respects to your mother."

Cheng Songan sneered in his heart. He was clearly a playboy last night, but now he was pretending to be a gentleman.

Since he pretended to be so calm, she played along.

As soon as he stepped down the stone steps, Cui Yuanqing suddenly asked, "Do my father-in-law and mother-in-law have any preferences? I can prepare a return gift."

After saying this, Cheng Songan was certain that what happened yesterday was done. He was not taking her to pay respects to her mother-in-law. In his previous life, he didn't see anyone the whole next day, and it was the nanny in the courtyard who took her there.

He came here just for his sweetheart.

In fact, thinking back carefully, in his previous life, when he was at the highest position in the government, he once gave her a chance to divorce him. However, in order to save the Cheng family's dignity, she compromised and treated him more carefully, but this made him even colder towards her.

Although Cui Yuanqing didn't love her, he had never harmed her in any way. Perhaps she could divorce him earlier in this life.

If she had known that her father would be suspected and suppressed by the new emperor, and then demoted back to his hometown in Yizhou, and never saw her until his death, she should have agreed to divorce. After all, the family should share life and death together.

Thinking of this, Cheng Songan chuckled and said, "Don't worry, sir. I will prepare these things."

Cui Yuanqing was a little surprised: "Huh?"

Cheng Songan waved his hand to let Haitang and the others leave, then said: "Marrying me is not your original intention, I know that, so I don't ask for true love, I just ask for a peaceful life. If one day, you think I am not a good match, just let me go home."

After hearing this, Cui Yuanqing sneered: "You are my legitimate wife, and it's only the first day of our marriage. Are you so impatient for me to divorce you?"

Cheng Songan smiled slightly: "I wanted to ask for a divorce, if you think it's appropriate, then that's fine."

Cui Yuanqing's face suddenly showed a trace of anger, but after calming down for a while, he said coldly: "Then wait until you commit one of the seven offenses."

Cheng Songan didn't say anything for a while, and the two of them walked silently towards Chunhui Garden, the upper room where the old lady was.

Chunhui Garden is a small courtyard set aside in the backyard of Cui's mansion. It can be regarded as a garden within a garden, with mountains, water, winding paths and secluded places, making it very suitable for the elderly to live in.

Although the Cui family had never produced any important figures, they had three generations of officials in Beijing, and their family was richer than the more noble Cheng family. Now, the only legitimate elders living in the mansion were the old lady and Cui's parents. Because there was no one in the other branches who could take on the responsibility, although they had already separated, they still lived in the Cui mansion.

The Cui family was very satisfied with Cheng Songan, the daughter-in-law from a prominent family, especially the old lady. If she had not died before her in the previous life, Cheng Songan would never have fallen into that state when she was sick.

In the previous life, Cui's parents actually did not agree with Cheng Wanxin marrying into the family. Given Cui Yuanqing's status at the time, there were countless prominent families in the capital who were eager to marry him as successors.

Cui Yuanqing must have told them his attitude towards Cheng Wanxin and explained Yong Ge'er's background. He was already thirty years old at the time, and Mrs. Cui Zhang was eager to have a grandson, so even if she didn't like him, she had to let him marry her.

Cheng Songan snorted in his heart. He could never let them get their wish in this life. Whether this Yong Ge'er could be born was another matter.

In her previous life, old lady Yu died in the second year after she entered the mansion. Cheng Songan hadn't seen the old lady for eight or nine years. When they met for the first time, her sincere concern for her came to her mind again.

Cheng Songan stepped forward to greet him and kowtowed.

Old Mrs. Yu hurriedly asked the maid to help him up.

The maidservant beside her had already brought the teacup over, and Cheng Songan followed the procedure, offered tea to the Cui couple, and changed his words.

Zhang asked calmly, "Is my daughter-in-law adapting to life in the mansion? Are the maids and servants dissatisfied?"

Cheng Songan smiled slightly. She didn't intend to hide it. Since Zhang couldn't hold her temper and took the initiative to bring it up, she stood up and bowed to Zhang again, saying, "Please forgive me for my recklessness, mother-in-law."

Mrs. Yu's face immediately darkened. How could there be unpleasantness on the first day of marriage? She asked in a surprised look, "What happened?"

Cheng Songan looked at Haitang, and Haitang understood and walked outside. Mudan just came to the garden with those maids.

"Tell me why I beat you up?" Cheng Songan looked at them one by one and asked in a gentle voice, "Don't miss a single word."

The maids looked at each other, tears on their faces. They kowtowed to Zhang and Old Madam Yu with red and swollen faces, crying, "We have made the young lady unhappy, so we will let her beat and scold us without any complaints."

Cheng Songan was not angry either, she had seen many of their tricks of avoiding the main issue and focusing on the key points. They deliberately did not say what mistakes they had made, but only said that they had provoked her, making her, as a young lady, seem petty and angry with the maids.

She glanced at Haitang again, and Haitang immediately understood and asked sternly, "Tell me, how did you make the young mistress unhappy?"

A maid said boldly: "I don't know either."

Haitang snorted coldly, pointed at her and said, "You don't know? Let me tell you, he made the most obvious mistake without knowing it, this is the first point. You said that the day after the young mistress came in, the young master stayed in the study, it must be that the young mistress has no ability and can't win the man's heart, this is the second point."

The girl was so frightened that she fell to the ground, not daring to say a word.

Haitang looked at the other person again and continued, "What you mean is that this mistress is shameful and obviously incompetent..."

Old Madam Yu's face was covered with frost. She signaled her not to say anything more. She looked coldly at the people kneeling on the ground and asked, "Is this true?"

Several maids kowtowed one after another: "Grandmaster, we know we were wrong, and we will never do it again."

Old Madam Yu slammed her cane on the ground and cursed, "Asshole! Do you think I'm too old to care about the affairs of this mansion? Do you think I'm blind or deaf? How dare you send such a fool to Yunxiang Pavilion?"

Zhang immediately stood up and bowed to apologize: "Don't be angry, it was my daughter-in-law who was careless..."

Seeing that his mother was wronged, Cui Yuanqing also stood up and said, "Grandma, please calm down."

Cheng Songan then slowly came to Old Madam Yu, stretched out her hand and hugged her arm and said, "Grandmother, if you blame mother, I will be ashamed. Mother originally felt sorry for me, so she sent a few smart maids to me. She is kind-hearted, how could she know that these maids would bully newcomers? I taught them a lesson not because I was angry, but because mother-in-law is kind and soft-hearted. How can I let a few gossips affect her reputation?"

Zhang had no choice but to respond: "My daughter-in-law has a good reputation. To save my life, she beat a maid in the mansion the day before, which damaged her reputation. This shows her filial piety. Well, I will take these maids back and pick out a few good ones to send to you."

The maids below were trembling with fear.

Cheng Songan smiled and said, "There's no need to bother my mother-in-law. They just said a few words. I've taught them a lesson today, and I treat them as my own. I'm sure after this, they won't dare to do it again."

Several maids kowtowed quickly: "Yes, we will never dare to do it again."

Cheng Songan said, "It's my fault today. I hope my mother-in-law and the ancestors will punish me."

As he said this, his knees went weak and he was about to kneel down.

Old Madam Yu quickly asked someone to help her up and said with a smile, "You did a good job, who would dare to punish you?"