"Mother!"

Cheng Qiniang walked out of the house and looked at Mrs. Cheng who had driven away the maid sent by the second master, with a look of aggrievement.

"I can't sleep well because of bug bites..."

Mrs. Cheng Er felt distressed as she watched her daughter transform from a pink and jade girl into a withered and yellow village girl in just a few days.

Don't tell me that my daughter can't sleep well. How can she sleep well?

Her eyes fell on the front, where the door was ajar. The girl had just cleaned up and seemed to be burning the iron to warm the bedding.

"Since your sister isn't at home anyway, why not go to her room and lie down first?" she said.

Cheng Qiniang showed a bit of disgust.

"I don't want to go to that fool's house!" she said.

"Don't be such a fool!" Mrs. Cheng Er shouted in a low voice, "Whether we two can turn over or not depends entirely on her."

She said, pulling Cheng Qiniang and walking over, opening the door to the other half of the room. The room was warm and fragrant.

Mrs. Cheng Er could not help but be stunned for a moment.

"Qingtaixiang!" she couldn't help but say.

It is said that this is the best incense in the world. My family once bought some of it, but Mrs. Cheng later removed it because it was too extravagant and wasteful. She replaced it with something else. Although it was also very good, Mrs. Cheng still felt dissatisfied.

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Who would want to use a second-rate product after using it well?

I didn't expect this kid to use this.

Cheng Qiniang didn't know this. She only knew that she was about to be smoked to death these days. The aroma here saved her, and she stepped in without any hesitation.

"Mother, I want to sleep here!" she announced immediately.

Mrs. Cheng Er patted her and walked in without saying a word, looking at the room with a bit of surprise.

It was not much bigger than the house they lived in, with bamboo mats hanging on the walls and soft straw mats on the floor. As I watched Mrs. Cheng's expression, she became more and more surprised.

"This is Mr. Wu Shan's painting..." she couldn't help but say, looking at the screen, she couldn't help but reach out and touch it, "...the workmanship..."

"Mother, mother, look at this lantern. It's so beautiful. There are paintings on it..." Cheng Qiniang said, kneeling on the ground and looking at the lanterns.

A thin white paper lantern sits on the carved table, with simple lines outlining a half-opened lotus.

"...Mogan..." She reached out and touched the signature on it.

Mrs. Cheng Er took another breath and sat down on her knees. She picked up the lamp and looked at it in disbelief, her eyes widening.

"It's the lamp of the Mo family in Yanzhou!" she said, "This is the family that pays tribute..."

"My grandfather also has one," Cheng Qiniang said with a curl of her lips as she also recognized where she had seen it.

"Your grandfather treated it like a treasure. Not to mention using it, he couldn't bear to take it out to look at it." Mrs. Cheng Er said, while turning the lamp.

She just took it and used it casually...

What a waste...

There was a clanking sound, and Cheng Qiniang opened the zhazuo case over there again, making a sound.

"Mom, her game is like a backgammon board..." she said with a smile.

As the mother and daughter were watching, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door.

"What are you doing?" Banqin shouted in surprise.

Mrs. Cheng Er hurriedly put down the lamp in her hand with some embarrassment, while Cheng Qiniang pouted and pushed the drawer open with a bang.

"Let's see if we can help." Mrs. Cheng Er said.

"Get out quickly, get out quickly." Banqin said.

Mrs. Cheng Er had also seen this kind of disgusting look on her face, when a low-level servant woman in the family accidentally entered the house and was chased away by the servant woman beside her.

"What are you shouting about? You are just a servant."

Cheng Qiniang shouted that although she was a child, children were more sensitive. Coupled with the events that had happened one after another in the past few days, when she felt the girl's unabashed disgust, she finally couldn't help it anymore.

"I won't leave, I'm going to sleep here!"

Mrs. Cheng Er was not as unscrupulous as a child, so she laughed with her.

"Banqin, you see, Jiao Niang is not at home either, why not let Qi Niang sleep here first." She said, pointing to the couch, "We don't want to sleep on the couch, just sleep on the mat here."

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"Second Madam, how can that be done?" Banqin asked anxiously, "My wife doesn't like others in her house. Even I rarely sleep here at night."

"Who do you think you are?" Cheng Qiniang snorted, "You are just a servant!"

Banqin's face turned red. When it came to speaking, she couldn't compare to Qingmei who followed Mrs. Zhang, nor could she compare to Mrs. Zhang's family's Su Xin.

Looking at the embarrassed girl, Mrs. Cheng Er secretly laughed in her heart.

"Banqin, Qiniang is her sister and she is young, so let her sleep here first. I don't think Jiao Niang will say anything if she is here," she said with a smile.

Banqin bit her lower lip and looked at the mother and daughter in the room for a moment. Without saying a word, she turned around and walked out.

Cheng Qiniang pouted at her back.

"How dare you put on a show in front of me with such a small hoof! I'll slap you again and you'll cry!" She said, lying down, stretching her legs, feet and arms, and letting out a long sigh of comfort, "This is the place where people should live.

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Mrs. Cheng Er smiled and reached out to touch her head, and continued to look around.

From this point of view, the seemingly simple furnishings in this house are not simple, but they are all made of high-quality things. The Zhou family is so rich, and they are so willing to treat this woman...

"Boil some water and wash it in a while, then you can go to sleep..." She lowered her head and said Cheng Qiniang.

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of footsteps outside the door. Banqin left and came back again, followed by Manager Cao and several other entourages.

"You are here just in time, go to my house to get some for me..." Mrs. Cheng Er said as she looked at them.

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ban Qin.

"Throw them out!" she said, pointing.

What?

Before Mrs. Cheng Er came to her senses, she saw several attendants stepping in and extending their hands involuntarily.

"What do you want to do! Ah, let go! It's the other way around!"

Screams and yells echoed in the yard.

However, this movement did not attract any onlookers. The children outside the door who seemed to be playing but were actually wary of the surroundings just turned their heads and glanced at it and ignored it.

Mrs. Cheng Er stumbled and was pushed out of the door. Cheng Qiniang fell to the ground immediately after her. She was frightened, angry and embarrassed. She burst into tears. Mrs. Cheng Er couldn't help but cry and stretched out her arms to hug her.

"Where are you injured?" She asked repeatedly, then looked behind her bitterly, "How could you do this?"

Banqin looked at them, her expression still flushed, and she slammed the door without saying a word.

If she can't speak, then she shouldn't speak and just do what she should do.

"Hey, hey!" Mrs. Cheng Er was shocked and quickly stood up and rushed over, "You can't drive us away. We were prevented from entering because of your wife's fault. How can you drive us away? Where do you want us to go?"

"What do you mean my wife harmed you?" Manager Cao frowned and said, "It's not our wife who kicked you out of the house."

"If your wife hadn't asked us to testify, how could I be here today?" Mrs. Cheng Er said angrily.

"Are you going to die if my wife asks you to?" Manager Cao smiled, "After all, if you don't want to, who can force you?"

"It's you who forced me!" Mrs. Cheng Er shouted angrily.

"Why are you being forced?" Manager Cao asked with a smile.

If she doesn't testify, she won't marry...

Manager Cao even smiled.

"Mrs. Cheng, what does it have to do with you if my wife doesn't get married? Could it be that it's hindering your interests? Otherwise, why would you be so anxious?" He said, shaking his head, "In the end, it's only you who is forcing you."

Sure enough, he was very sharp-tongued and unreasonable. No wonder he could make the old man faint in court!

Mrs. Cheng bit her lower lip and tried to rush forward, but Manager Cao's expression darkened.

"Second Madam, you don't think that Mrs. Cheng is the only one who dares to hit you, right?" he said.

Mrs. Cheng Er's face turned pale and she stopped, looking at Cheng Qiniang who was crying on the side, and then looked at the looks from the Nancheng people around her...

"You, you dare!" she said tremblingly.

Manager Cao said nothing and took a step forward. Mrs. Cheng Er screamed, grabbed Cheng Qiniang and ran away.

Looking at the mother and daughter staggering away, Manager Cao clapped his hands.

"Let's take a walk, I'm still busy." He said.

Here, Mrs. Cheng Er took hold of the crying Cheng Qiniang. After several hesitations, she still stood in front of the corner door and opened the door.
To be continued...