The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

After the women from each family left, the west side room of Minghui Hall became quiet. Even the winter sun shining in didn't seem that warm.

Gu Jinchu shook his head gently, smiled and said softly, "Mother, don't worry."

Old Madam Chen sighed deeply, a trace of fatigue on her face, and said slowly: "Jin Chu should go back too. The weather is very cold. Go back and take a hot bath. Don't think too much about what happened today."

Gu Jinchu slowly stood up with the help of Bai Zhi, and then he found that there were new unfamiliar faces among the servants who had been serving Madam Jiang.

The maid named Qingyu was still there, but Xuezhu, who had cried so hard that day, was nowhere to be seen.

On the way back, Mother Cheng explained that Xuezhu had already been betrothed to someone else by Old Madam Jiang.

The wedding date was set after New Year's Eve, and she was sent to the farm last night to make the wedding dress.

Then the topic turned to the renovation of the kitchenette in each room.

Mrs. Jiang treated everyone equally, which allowed Gu Jinchu to save some money every month, but it was nothing to her.

For the Crown Prince's wife, Wang, this was a real increase in expenses.

"Madam, when the second lady took the account book, she looked so smug and like she had never seen the world." Mother Zhang stood beside Wang and said with a pout.

Her face was full of disdain, and her eyes revealed her contempt for Second Madam Liu.

Wang suppressed her anger, her face looked gloomy and her brows were furrowed.

The Duke's wife is really good at taking advantage of the situation, she is worthy of being from the family of the president of the Hanlin Academy.

Isn't it just to use the Ninth Young Master incident to suppress her and dilute her power over the family?

I thought that Liu was some good person!

Aren’t you afraid that after Gu Jinchu finishes her confinement, the rights you gave up won’t be easily taken back?

She had been in charge of the financial affairs of Duke Dingguo's Mansion for more than 20 years, and the housekeepers in various places had long been replaced by her people.

Everyone knows that the kitchen in a mansion has the most money, and the people and things involved are closely related and complex.

Even if Liu took the account book and the cards, those people still had to come and act according to her mood.

What Wang cared about was that the increased expenses were all paid with public property.

The Duke's wife did this in order to smuggle accounts for Yuanyuantang's small kitchen, which Wang found extremely ridiculous.

Although Mr. Jiang held a high position, he was an honest official; Mr. Jiang San was a hopeless person who had squandered one third of his mother's dowry; Mr. Jiang Si was an imperial censor, so he dared not make any mistakes; Mr. Jiang Wu...

Who knows whether the Duke's private property was given to Master Jiang Wu in private, and what about the dowry given by the Duke's wife? How could the couple treat the fifth room badly?

Apart from the monthly allowances of several masters, the ancestral property and business of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion were not much. The money in the public account was all earned by her over the years, and she had long regarded the property of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion as her own.

The wife of the Duke is known for her kindness as a mother-in-law. Now that Mr. Jiang Wu has started a family, she wants to step on her to pave the way for her own daughter-in-law?

There is no such good thing!

They are taking it for granted!

Thinking of this, Wang felt a little better.

Dai Qiao brought a cup of hot tea lightly and whispered carefully, "Master Jiu has been settled. Madam, please have a cup of tea to calm down."

Wang was holding the teacup. The temperature of the tea in the cup was too high. She frowned and her anger surged again.

She put the teacup down forcefully, and the clear tea spilled onto the pearwood table, spreading little by little to the sides, and the trace gradually grew larger.

"This little bastard is simply here to jinx me. Ever since the prince brought him back home, nothing has gone well!" Her eyes were filled with anger as she spoke.

Mother Zhang whispered, "Madam, you should have listened to Madam Wang from the beginning..."

Wang sneered, her face cold and mocking, "Are you pouring bowl after bowl of contraceptive soup into the mouths of concubines and maids? Or are you feeding them with abortion pills, so that the women in the backyard keep giving birth to stillborn babies?"

Ever since she could remember, her mother had been instilling in her that she would marry into a prominent family and become the head wife in the future.

Having children is a woman's natural duty. A qualified mistress of the harem should not give people the bad impression of being jealous.

In order to ensure that his position as the legitimate wife would not be shaken, he kept the fate of the women in the harem firmly in his own hands.

The rise and fall of favor is nothing more than whether or not one has children, whether they can give birth, and who can give birth, which is decided by the mistress and the wife.

So when she was in the boudoir, her mother taught her how to manage the inner house and how to control the fate of concubines and maids.

But she always felt that although these methods could maintain her position, they would harm too many innocent lives.

It was not until she married into the Duke Dingguo's mansion that she heard about the fate of the concubines in the mansion and saw that her mother-in-law had never treated any of the concubines harshly.

Those people whom she once looked down upon were all living with dignity. She felt that she could do the same to maintain her status.

She has always thought and done this over the years.

But today, she used the young child to achieve her goal of winning over the prince.

The ending was not what she expected...

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When Gu Jinchu returned to Yuanyuan Hall, Master Jiang Wu was sitting on the Luohan bed, with one elbow resting on the small table beside him, reading a book.

The bamboo cage that usually kept Doubao was also placed on the small table, with the cage door open and Doubao lying lazily inside.

Hearing the familiar footsteps, Doubao raised his head and meowed at Gu Jinchu.

Then he slowly walked out of the cage and stretched himself.

When Gu Jinchu reached out to catch it, he felt that Doubao seemed to turn around and look at Master Jiang Wu timidly.

This little thing is both arrogant and likes to act like a spoiled child, but becomes timid when it meets Master Jiang Wu.

"When did the Fifth Master come back? He just went to Minghui Hall." Gu Jinchu walked to Luohan's bed and said softly.

Jiang Nansheng hummed, took her hand and brought her to his side, and placed his warm big palm on her lower abdomen.

Ask her if she is tired from inspecting the store today, and whether the spicy hot pot she has been craving for is delicious...

When he heard that she had met Zhao Kuo, he whispered to her, "Did you meet the Sixth Prince today? Did he say anything to you?"

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