Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

The Queen Mother walked very fast, and Zhu Neiguan trotted beside her. When they entered the Funing Palace, Zhu Neiguan knelt down with a bang: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

The Queen Mother: "Why didn't you tell me earlier what your subordinates did? I had to ask the Emperor for the news!"

Zhu Neiguan: "I just heard about it! There are too many manors under my management, and each of them has a lot of things to do. The manager basically only comes to report to me once a month. Guyan Manor is a big manor, and my nephew outside is taking care of it personally. He came last month and said that everything was normal. I didn't expect that Marquis Gu would suddenly take care of the manor..."

The Queen Mother said: "So, it's hard for you to manage so many farms, right? If you can't manage them, there will naturally be people who can."

Zhu Neiguan: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Majesty, please forgive me! That is not what I meant! It is all my fault that I did not do my job well. I will send someone to find that damned nephew right now!"

Zhu Neiguan sent people out to look for him that night, but where was his nephew? It was said that a group of people took the severance pay given by Gu Tingye and fled the capital overnight, but they were robbed about five miles west of the city. Not only was their money robbed, but they were also killed. It was really a loss of both their wife and their life.

The Queen Mother almost laughed out of anger when she heard the report from Eunuch Zhu: "Robbers? Oh, the leader's surname is Gu, right?"

Zhu Neiguan wiped his tears pitifully and said, "I don't know. Although my nephew deserved to die, he was my only blood relative outside the palace... Now he is gone, and the children in the palace have to be released. From now on, I will be a lonely ghost..."

The Queen Mother sighed, "Alright, alright, you are still with me, right? How can you be a wandering ghost when I am here?"

Zhu Neiguan looked at the Queen Mother with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty!!!"

The Queen Mother said: "I originally thought that the Emperor would be alone, but I didn't expect that he would have such a supporter like Marquis Gu. For the Emperor, he would actually sacrifice his life and money. He is truly loyal."

Zhu Neiguan: "Loyalty? Why do I feel that it is because there is no other way. Think about how bad the reputation of Gu's Erlang was in the capital? Who in the Gu and Qin families didn't say that he was disobedient and unfilial? Even now, his uncles and aunts from the fourth and fifth rooms still scold him every day. If he hadn't been lucky enough to catch the emperor's cold stove, he would have died somewhere now. Now, besides the emperor, who else in the court can support him? That carefree Lord Sheng?"

The Queen Mother glared at him, and the master and servant looked at each other and suddenly laughed: "When it comes to finding a relative, the most important thing is to find a suitable match. Gu Tingye is so good that he would rather marry a concubine's daughter from a fifth-rank official family than to marry one of the many wealthy families in the capital."

Zhu Neiguan: "It just so happens that this concubine's daughter has also married into the empress's family and has become a new noble among the female relatives. Speaking of which, it is another kind of well-matched marriage."

The Queen Mother laughed out loud: "You mischievous ghost!"

The master and servant laughed for a while, and the Queen Mother asked, "Does Lady Sheng from Marquis Gu's family come to the palace often?"

Zhu Neiguan: "Yes."

The Queen Mother said: "Please ask me when she will come next time. I have a great gift for her and the Queen."

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After the third month of mourning for Sheng Hong, the Sheng family finally took off their mourning clothes.

According to the custom in Sheng's hometown, the whole family has to have a meal together on the day when they take off their mourning clothes, and the married daughter also has to return home.

When Minglan got home, she was surprised to see Aunt Kang was also at the table.

Minglan smiled and said, "How come Aunt Kang is free to come home today?"

Wang Ruoyu looked up at her with the demeanor of a mistress of the house: "When you see an elder, not only are you not polite, but you start asking questions right away. What kind of rules do you follow?"

Minglan did not want to have an argument with Wang Ruoyu today, so she smiled and said, "Aunt is right. Please do as you please." Then she turned back to look for her grandmother.

Wang Ruoyu stopped her and said, "You disrespectful thing! Why did you leave on your own when I didn't ask you to? Do you really think that you can show off at home just because you have the title of county lady?"

Aunt Kang was raised by the Wang family and spoiled to the point of losing her objective perception of herself. She thought she was the most noble woman in the world and should be obeyed by everyone in the world. Unfortunately, fate made her marry Kang Haifeng, a useless idiot who spent all his enthusiasm on women and made no achievements in his official career. Wang Ruoyu, who was ambitious, could not hold her head up among the nobles in the capital, and gradually she could not even compare with her third sister, whom she had looked down upon since childhood. In the imbalance of high and low, Wang Ruoyu developed a habit of abusing the weak. She would step on anyone she could, regardless of whether it was beneficial or not. Only in the crying and begging of the weak could she regain the honor that belonged to Miss Wang.

And in her eyes, Minglan is just such a weak person.

She had no power or influence in the Sheng family since she was a child, and only had an old woman to support her. Why couldn't she bully someone who could bully her useless third sister? Even if she was lucky enough to become a county lady, what would happen? Wasn't she still a concubine who could be bullied by others?

Wang Ruoyu became even more excited at the thought that he could step on the head of a county lady.

She was like a high-spirited fighting cock, ready to attack Minglan at any time.

She wanted to let the world know that even the noble county lady had to call her "Aunt" and listen to her lectures honestly.

Unexpectedly, Minglan seemed not to hear her shouting behind her, and walked towards her grandmother's yard, asking as she walked: "Langya, why do I hear a dog barking?"

Langya: "Madam, as long as I am here, no dog can get close to you." After saying that, he turned around and gave Aunt Kang a toothy smile.

Aunt Kang met Langya's smile and said angrily, "Hey! How dare she glare at me! She's a servant, how dare she glare at me!"

Wang Ruofu, who had been afraid to speak, hurried to pull Aunt Kang: "Big sister, she is a female warrior. I heard that she can pull the big bow in the army. Sister, don't bother with such a person!"

Aunt Kang shook her hand off: "What's wrong? Are you leaning against the wall?"

Wang Ruofu: “No, no! I didn’t…”

Aunt Kang: "You'd better not! Don't forget, I have all the evidence of your murder in my hands. If you dare not listen to me, I will make sure your whole family knows the real cause of Sheng Hong's death!"

Now, the whole family knows that Sheng Hong died from having sex with Wang Ruofu, but there is still no evidence as to whether Sheng Hong used the drugs himself or Wang Ruofu took them behind his back. Mother Liu's words "Who can tell whether he was murdered or not" were so powerful that the Sheng family could not find any fault with Wang Ruofu.

Aunt Kang was the only one who could produce the evidence, and she used it as an excuse to hold Wang Ruofu hostage. In the three months since Sheng Hong's death, Aunt Kang had taken five land deeds and more than 300 taels of silver from Wang Ruofu. If Chang Bai Xiaoqi had not been unable to marry, Aunt Kang would have brought her own concubine into the Sheng family as a concubine.

Now, Aunt Kang wants to control the entire Sheng family through Wang Ruofu, including the married daughters, especially Minglan. After all, Minglan's husband is the highest-ranking son-in-law in the Sheng family, and he holds great power. As long as Sheng Minglan is taken down, Kang Jin's future will not be a problem.

Wang Ruofu huddled in her chair, trembling.

During these days, she cried every day. Everyone thought she cried for Sheng Hong, but only she knew that it was because of her own stupidity.

She foolishly believed her elder sister, thinking that what she gave her was just a magical aphrodisiac, which resulted in the death of her husband and the disgrace of her entire family.

Now, with the evidence of murdering her husband in her elder sister's hands, Wang Ruofu had no choice but to lower her head and let her elder sister do the bidding. She had no room for resistance at all.

Moreover, she couldn't tell anyone about this, not even her own children or Mother Liu. Once these people knew the truth, not only would they not help her, they might even make things worse.

Don't tell anyone about this!