Spoiling my mistress and swallowing my dowry? After my rebirth, I changed my marriage to a powerful

Xie Zhaozhao told Yin Jinan the specific plan. When Yin Jinan heard that she might jump off a cliff, he immediately looked incredulous: "Jump off a cliff? No! No!"

"What if, I mean what if there is an emergency, I might jump off the cliff." Xie Zhaozhao explained, "I certainly don't want to commit suicide. I don't even want to live in the mountains."

Yin Jinan became famous.

"If you want to die, I can't stop you. I have endless things to do, why should I collect your body for you?"

"You can't get a tiger cub without risking it, you know this principle..."

"I don't understand! You're willing to sacrifice yourself just to catch a few damn bandits? Are you crazy?"

"So you have to help me pave the road and make sure I don't fall to my death!"

"No, I hate people like you who are looking for trouble. It's obviously avoidable, but you have to make it so complicated!"

Xie Zhaozhao had no choice but to promise not to jump off the cliff and tried hard to persuade her mother-in-law not to live on the mountain.

If the bandits really come, send a signal at the critical moment.

Yin Jinan then sat down and listened to her talk about the plan with disdain and a frown on his face.

After discussing the plan to catch the bandits, I also told her about the implementation of the plan to go north.

“The several ships from Xiandou and Haixi that set out during the Lantern Festival have all returned. According to what we agreed on during the New Year, all the cargo will be left in Shi’an City.

In Shi'an City and Nanhai City, Yunyang and Yunyuan recruited and trained 5,000 elite soldiers. After the New Year, Gu Chongjin has been training. All the equipment is ready, and I look majestic.

Together with the food and fodder, this time we will arrange for 3,000 people to board the ship and transport it from the open sea to the salt-alkali lands of Damozhou and Dongyingzhou."

Soldiers, horses, and food supplies were shipped directly from the open sea to the north without alerting the countries along the way. They quietly landed in Dongying Province and first occupied the saline-alkali land of Damo Province and Dongying Province.

These two places that neither the Tatars nor the Khitans want will be the first stop of their northern plan.

Yin Jinan snorted coldly and said, "You better live well. If you die in the bandit's den this time, we will occupy all the routes and territories. If you die, they will all become ours."

Xie Zhaozhao's lips curled up: "Okay, I will cherish my life and wait for you to occupy the thirty-six northern states."

Yin Jinan didn't stay long and left quickly. The woman was going to the bandit's lair, so he had to make some arrangements quickly.

The next morning, all the female members of the various rooms in the Bo's mansion, including the mistress, concubines and maids, led by Gu Boyu, went to Ouyang's old house to attend the funeral.

Xie Zhaozhao was riding in her own two-wheeled carriage. The old lady discussed with her and wanted to ride with her, and Xie Zhaozhao did not refuse.

If Gu Chengyan or Guan Yingying did something bad, they would have to be more cautious if the old lady sat in her carriage, because at least she would be her amulet on the road.

Their progress on the road was not slow and was very smooth. On the fifth day, they entered Ouyang County. People from the Gu family's old house were already waiting to greet them ten miles away.

The old house of the Gu family is in Pingyang Town, Ouyang County. It was originally a village, but because of the emergence of the old Marquis Pingyang, it gradually prospered and eventually became a town.

Moreover, the name of the town was changed from Ouyang Village to Pingyang Town.

This is to commemorate the birth of Marquis Pingyang here.

The Gu family respectfully welcomed everyone from the Bo Mansion back to the town, and the whole town was in an uproar.

"People from Pingyang Marquis's Mansion are here."

"Wow, look at that carriage, it's so majestic."

"The horse's hooves are snow-white, so beautiful."

The common people didn’t know that the Marquis’ Mansion had been downgraded to an Earl’s Mansion. In their impression, the old Marquis was a legend among them.

The common people followed them all the way to see the novelty, their faces full of excitement, and they were curious and afraid of them from the bottom of their hearts.

He chased them all the way to the Gu family’s old house.

The old lady was extremely satisfied.

The courtyard of the old marquis' hometown was renovated by the clan when he was alive, and a large courtyard with three entrances was built, in the hope that the people in the marquis' mansion would come back often to visit.

The clan leader Gu Yongtai is older than the old marquis, and Xie Zhaozhao calls him fourth uncle.

Fourth aunt Sun was afraid that Xie Zhaozhao didn't understand the funeral etiquette, so she helped her put on mourning clothes and hat. Holding a banner wrapped with white paper in her hand, she cried in front of the second grandmother's coffin. Following the master of ceremonies' instructions, she knelt three times and kowtowed nine times as she performed a ritual.

According to the rules, the old lady had to offer condolence money and funeral expenses.

Because the Bo family had not split up, the mourning money and the funeral gifts were taken out together by Gongzhong.

The old lady was very conflicted. If she took too little, she was afraid that people would laugh at the poor performance of the Bo family. But if she took too much, she would be reluctant to give it away.

However, neither Mrs. Tu nor Mrs. Lu wanted to give more. The Gu family in the old house was a burden to the Bo's mansion, so it would be useless even if they gave more.

Gu Boyu said, "Why should we hesitate? My father was taken care of by my second grandmother when he was alive. We should take a little more to repay her."

Before he came, he asked Lu to bring three hundred strings of silver from the account.

In the countryside, three hundred strings of cash is definitely considered polite, but the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion is so famous that three hundred strings of cash is not really too much.

Xie Zhaozhao also advocated giving more. Not to mention that the second grandmother had saved the old marquis' life, there were so many people coming to the Earl's Mansion, and they would need food, accommodation and transportation for nearly ten days. If things went wrong, three hundred strings of cash would not be enough for him to spend.

Because the body of my second grandmother had been at home for almost half a month, the people in the Bo's house saw the old lady's remains, performed a ritual, and prepared to bury her the next day.

After the ritual was completed in the afternoon, my second grandmother's son asked someone to prepare a banquet to entertain the people from the uncle's house and other relatives.

The banquet had fish, meat and vegetables, but the spring wind was very strong, blowing up dust and rustling the elegiac couplets.

Even in the main room, the food was covered with mud.

The old lady became unprecedentedly inflated, acting like an old lady, ordering her daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law around in circles, allowing people to see her absolute authority.

She was too lazy to even reach out for the food, and ordered Tu and Lu to block the wind and sand, blow away the dirt and feed it into her mouth.

The old man's family was so envious that their eyes dropped. They swallowed the words they originally wanted to call her "sister-in-law" and huddled together to bow and wish "old lady good health."

Wow, the Marquis’ Mansion (Bo’s Mansion) is after all the people in front of the emperor, so majestic.

Seeing Xie Zhaozhao eating without making any noise, Mrs. Lu pretended not to hear anything, carefully cleared away the dust, and continued to eat without changing her expression.

The next day, he was buried.

The tomb is in the Gu family cemetery on Nanshan Mountain.

Outside the garden are several rows of houses, which are where the family guards the graves and usually stores food or other items.

Just like in her previous life, the old lady wanted to guard the forest for her second grandmother on the mountain.

Xie Zhaozhao strongly objected: "Mother, there is no one living on this mountain. If anything happens, we won't be able to find anyone to help."

The old lady said righteously, "What could possibly happen? I heard that there are some people who specialize in digging up new graves and stealing tombs. No matter what, your second grandmother's grave cannot be dug up. We must guard it for your father."

Xie Zhaozhao continued to advise, saying that there were rumors that there were bandits in Nanshan, and that they were all women, and if they encountered bandits, it would be difficult to resist.

The old lady was unhappy: "Bah, bah, bah, what a crow's mouth! The bandits have never harassed Pingyang Town. They all respect the old marquis... It's settled, don't make irresponsible remarks."

Xie Xiangxiang sneered, "Eldest sister, you have the most guards, are you so afraid of death?"

Guan Yingying also fanned the flames: "Patriarch Gu said that the people are living a better life now and there are no more bandits."

The old lady became even more determined to go up the mountain, saying that she would burn paper money and wheat straw for her second grandmother who had just passed away at night to light the way to the underworld.

Xie Zhaozhao was helpless. The old lady had already accused her of filial piety. If she didn't listen, she would be challenging the old lady's absolute authority!

Gu Yongtai and Gu Yongnian were actually not very willing to let them live in the mountains. There were so many people in the Bo Mansion, and they had to carry them up from the foot of the mountain for food, drinks, and entertainment, which was very inconvenient.

However, the relatives in the countryside were afraid of offending the people in the Earl's Mansion, so they could only let the old lady do as she pleased.

There were not many rooms on the mountain. Due to the strict separation of men and women, the women stayed on the top of the mountain. Several men in charge of the family lived in the hunter's rest house halfway up the mountain. The rest of the tribesmen returned to the town to prepare food for the next day.

Everything is the same as in the previous life.