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

Zhou sighed and said awkwardly, "There are some things that I, as a daughter-in-law, shouldn't say, but I feel that Wenkang's idea is inappropriate. I heard that my father-in-law's family was in trouble back then, and it was all thanks to the Cui family's support. Now that they have become prosperous, if Wenkang changes his surname now, wouldn't it make my mother-in-law feel disappointed?"

This Zhou was a reasonable person who didn't blindly regard her husband as the most important person. Cheng Song felt relieved and didn't reveal his attitude: "How do you know that the mother-in-law is disappointed? Have you discussed this with her?"

Zhou paused, then shook her head and said, "That's not the case."

Cheng Songan said meaningfully: "What you said just now is very right. There are some things that we, as daughters-in-law, should not say. Although you gave birth to the child, you have no say in what surname he should be given. After all, they are mother and son, and both have the surname Cui, so how can there be any grudges? But you, who have just recovered..."

She stopped talking after that and asked Taxue to bring the pot of powder into the house. She slowly stroked the petals with her slender fingers.

Zhou was not a stupid person and understood everything immediately. She just felt that her mother-in-law was different from other families who deliberately made things difficult for their daughters-in-law. After all, she was from a wealthy family and was literate. It was a pity that she was born a woman. Even as the head of the family, she could not make a career. The only thing she could keep was the meager property left by her parents. She did not expect that her own son would change her family's fortune and she had worked in vain all her life.

But she forgot that mother and son are connected by heart. She was so considerate of her mother-in-law and advised her husband, which made her husband angry with her. Her mother-in-law might not appreciate it. How would she deal with it then?

Thinking of this, she bowed to Cheng Songan gratefully and said, "Thank you for your advice, auntie. I know what to do."

Cheng Songan smiled without saying anything, looked at her belly and said, "If you can take good care of yourself, it will be a blessing for the child."

Zhou nodded, and suddenly asked with a low laugh, "It seems that all the methods I taught Auntie have been put to use?"

Cheng Songan blushed. She was under control and had no chance to show her ability. But it was difficult to say such things out loud. She just covered it up vaguely and changed the topic to chrysanthemums.

She pointed at the pots of flowers outside that were not ordinary in appearance and said, "Kang'er has really made a lot of progress. The flowers he sent this time are actually quite elegant. Look, I got Goose Feather Powder and Tianmen Moon Moon, and Madam got Tianxia Yipin and Jinbei. How could he have thought of all this? It must be the credit of you and Wenxin, right?"

When she was the housekeeper in her previous life, she had a very clear understanding of everyone inside and outside the Cui Mansion. Cui Wenkang knew nothing about flowers and plants, and was always cunning and treacherous. He only knew how to take kickbacks and pass off inferior goods as good ones. That was why she did not give him the job at that time.

Zhou smiled and said, "Aunt, you are praising us. We are good at sewing, but we don't know how to do these things. Maybe Wenkang met a good businessman outside and gave him some advice."

Cheng Songan was a little skeptical. The merchant might recommend good varieties and good appearance to him, but it was impossible for him to guess the preferences of her and her mother-in-law Zhang.

After a while, Cui Wenxin followed Haitang to pick out the satin and brought it out. Cheng Songan put aside his doubts and said to her, "Some time ago, Concubine Liu gave me some gifts, so I wanted to embroider a fan and screen for her as a token of my gratitude. But I'm not feeling well, so I had to ask you for help."

Cui Wenxin shook her head and said, "Young aunt, if you ask me to do it, I can just give you a command. But I'm afraid my craftsmanship is not up to par with embroidering for the empress in the palace."

Cheng Songan hugged Qi Jie'er again and said with a smile, "I'll teach you, what are you afraid of? But let's be frank, I hired you, you just have to do the job. If you do well, you will definitely get benefits in the future. If you don't do well, humph, don't say it was me who taught you."

Cui Wenxin's eyes lit up. Giving her wages was not a favor. What was rare was that Cheng Songan was good at Sichuan embroidery and had a good reputation. If she taught her personally, she would be able to take on some embroidery work for wealthy families in the future, which would be better than just selling sachets and silk now.

She immediately rushed over, hugged Cheng Songan's arm and acted coquettishly: "Little aunt loves me, I will not let you down. If little uncle really bullies you in the future, I will fight him to the death."

Zhou laughed foolishly and said, "Silly girl, your uncle bullies your aunt, that's called the joy of the boudoir."

Cui Wenxin didn't believe it, twisted his neck and asked: "What's the fun in this?"

Cheng Songan's cheeks turned red, and Zhou urged, "I came here today to see if these flowers suit the tastes of Aunt and Madam. If they are satisfied, I will write to Wenkang and ask him to buy them according to these."

Cheng Songan had no objection to these flowers, but she was even more worried about Cui Wenkang. She thought for a moment and said to Zhou, "Go back and tell Kangge'er that he did a good job. If he wants to do something in the future, don't worry. Your uncle and I will definitely not stand idly by."

Zhou paused and looked back in confusion, but Cheng Songan had already started fiddling with her pot of fluffy flowers.

Cui Wenxin added: "I would like to thank my aunt on behalf of my brother."

Cheng Songan said, "Starting tomorrow, you will spend two hours every day in my room to learn embroidery. Don't delay my work. Leave all the household affairs to your sister-in-law."

Cui Wenxin agreed repeatedly, and then went back with Zhou and Qi Jie'er.

From then on, Cui Wenxin went to Yunxiang Pavilion on time every afternoon to learn Shu embroidery techniques from Cheng Songan.

After Cui Yuanqing was called into the Qianyuan Palace by the emperor the next day, he did not return home for several days. Cheng Songan knew that the trajectory of this life had been pulled back to the previous life, and the fraud case was still discovered.

The reason was that after Cui Yuanqing looked at the admission list, he casually looked at the hometowns of these candidates and found that most of them were from Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and some of them were relatives by marriage. He then joked that the mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River nourish people and make all the literati under the emperor's feet look inferior.

The saint had originally suspected that although the candidates recruited this time were not bad, he always felt that there was no particularly outstanding one. After Cui Yuanqing's teasing, he suddenly had an idea and asked him to look through all the other files. Then he found that some talents were deliberately buried, and the situation that followed was similar to that in his previous life.

It was Prince Fu who lost the qualification to compete for the throne first, leaving the competition between Prince Jin and Prince Shou.

Cheng Songan knew that within ten days, news of the incident of students from Jiangnan crying in the Confucian Temple would spread again. At that time, Cui Yuanqing would be sent to Jiangnan to investigate the case.

After reporting all this, Li Wenbin stood quietly waiting for her instructions.

Cheng Songan already knew the result and was not surprised. He instructed, "Tell father that Zheng Ji is useful. Pay more attention to him during the palace examination in the future."

Li Wenbin thought for a moment and replied, "Zheng Ji is not on the list of candidates this time. I think you remembered it wrong, young lady?"

Then he handed her the copied list.

Cheng Songan took it doubtfully and read it from beginning to end. Sure enough, there was no name of Zheng Ji, and the first place winner was clearly written as "Su Zhi of Yizhou".