My Lord, your wife is spreading rumors about you again.

Chapter 12: Little Third Aunt, Understand!
The housekeeper felt a chill down her spine when she was stared at. She silently loosened her hand and stepped aside.

Hearing this, Zhu's pupils dilated in an instant.

"Ahahaha." Zhu hurriedly covered her mouth and laughed, "The second girl has really grown up. Her temperament has become much more cheerful and she knows how to joke now."

"It's really a joke, don't take it seriously, Aunt San."

Mingli turned around and asked, "Aunt San, would you like to come into my room, have a cup of tea, and chat?"

Mingli seemed to be reborn this time after returning. He was not as easy to fool as before. She had to be more careful.

She tossed and turned last night and couldn't sleep. She thought about Mingli's changes for ninety-nine times and eighty-one times, and finally figured out something. Perhaps, the second girl had been hiding her incompetence and forbearing for many years, and she exploded in one day because of the death of Mingyi and Mingxin.

People like this are often the most terrifying.

None of the women in the first wife's house are easy to mess with. Although she has devoted herself to the old lady, she still has a pair of children. She has to make plans for her children. She sees that there will be a bloody storm when the second girl comes back.

When gods fight, mortals are better off staying away to avoid getting covered in blood.

Under pressure from the pious woman in Renshou Hall, she had to do something to prove her loyalty. But did Mingli see the means she sent out?
No, she had to think of a way. Even if she couldn't make friends, it would be best not to make enemies.

Seeing that Zhu didn't answer for a long time, Mingli asked her, "Third Aunt?"

"what!"

Zhu came back to her senses, and quickly held Mingli's hands, saying with a smile, "Don't sit down, don't sit down. Third Aunt originally came to call you to try on clothes, not to ask for tea. Now that you are awake, why don't you go with Third Aunt while there is still an hour before the flower viewing banquet, Second Girl?"

"Okay." Mingli agreed readily: "Then Third Aunt goes first, I'll be there right away."

Zhu patted Mingli's shoulder and smiled: "Okay, okay, I'll do as you say!"

After saying this, Zhu's face changed suddenly, and she left quickly with the two maids.

“Camellia.”

Mingli called Shancha, and Shancha walked closer to her. Mingli took out a packet of powder from his sleeve and stuffed it into her hand, whispering, "This is the Ecstasy Powder. There's a man hiding in the closet in my room. I just gave him a packet of the drug. He won't wake up within three hours. Go find a rope to tie him up. If I'm not back in three hours, give him another packet."

"Wha, what?"

Shancha was stunned. There was a man hiding in the closet? Where did he come from? What was he doing here? Didn't the second girl just come back? How could she drug someone and make him faint?

Mingli saw through Shancha's doubts and said bluntly, "I guess it was sent by Zhu to me for adultery. She fell asleep naked on the couch like that. She is considered a talent."

"Adultery?!"

Shancha felt that the shock she had received in the past two days was more than a hundred times greater than what she had received in the past ten years. She was about to ask a few more questions, but when she looked up again, she found that Mingli had turned around and left after saying this.

She was left alone. Zhu stood outside the courtyard waiting. She looked up at the dilapidated courtyard. It was called a courtyard, but in fact it was just a few small houses connected together. There was not even a small kitchen for cooking.

Even the rooms where several second-class maids lived in her room were much more luxurious than Mingli's.

The ground was covered with withered yellow leaves, the words on the yard sign had long been weathered beyond recognition, weeds were overgrown, and a few dead trees and old vines grew shriveled on one side, burning out their last second of life.

Guo Cui, the maidservant beside Zhu, was full of doubts and asked, "Madam, are we trying to show our good will to the second young lady?"

"I'm not in a hurry to show my goodwill. The second girl has improved a lot. If she and the old lady of Renshou Hall really have a falling out, I can't guess who will win this round." Zhu sighed, "But we can't offend the old lady for the time being. My Yun'er is going to discuss marriage. If she relies on Ming Shuyuan, that talent killer, Yun'er doesn't know which poor family she will marry into. If she meets someone who doesn't strive for success and makes no progress, she will never be able to make a name for herself in her life! But once we add the title of the first wife, it will be different. When my Yun'er marries into a wealthy family and Cao'er marries a new wife, we can completely get rid of the old woman of Renshou Hall."

Guo Cui said tremblingly: "But we have always looked down on the second young lady. With our overtures in the past two days, can she trust us?"

"No matter what, the eldest wife, Mrs. Meng, has been in seclusion for more than two months. She will soon be back to take charge of the family again. If Yun'er's marriage is left to her, then it will be over! For now, we can only deceive both sides. There is no better way."

After she finished speaking, Zhu saw Mingli leaving the door. She hid the worry on her face and hurriedly went to meet him: "Second girl is here, so soon, Third Aunt has only been waiting for a short while."

Mingli smiled back: "Aunt San, please take me to Renshoutang first. I want to pay my respects to my grandmother and ask for some breakfast."

"Pay your respects to the old lady?" Zhu's face changed. She did not expect Mingli to make such a request.

Mingli nodded: "Yes, is it inconvenient for Aunt San?"

"No, no, you've already said it, so Third Aunt will naturally agree."

Zhu clutched her handkerchief, and because of her nervousness, some lip balm on her teeth. She leaned close to Mingli and whispered, "Second girl, the old lady has bad intentions towards you and treats you as a thorn in her side. Third aunt watched you grow up and get married, and she loves you so much that she is giving you this advice. You must remember how good Third aunt is to you."

Mingli glanced sideways and met Zhu's gaze. She smiled suddenly, "Didn't Third Aunt confront me yesterday in the theater to protect Grandmother, like a bandit meeting a gangster? Why are you acting like an elder today? Third Aunt is indeed from a brothel. Her acting skills are much more exciting than yesterday's Wutong Rain."

"Third Aunt." Mingli's smile disappeared, her eyes were dark, and her words were cold: "Servants of two families have never died a good death since ancient times. Those who are both in office and in power always have a miserable end."

Zhu pursed her lips tightly, and the silk handkerchief was crumpled into a ball in her hand. Her face was very unfriendly. She never expected that Mingli would not care about their face at all. She greeted him with a smile, but this damn girl slapped her in the face.

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. In this case, it seems there is no room for negotiation.

"you"

"But, I am different from others. I am very optimistic about people like Third Aunt who are versatile and know how to protect themselves."

Mingli smiled again, with stars twinkling in her eyes, as if the female Shura who had just frightened Zhu so much that she trembled all over and was covered in cold sweat was not her.

Mingli said, "When I was in school, I read a sentence that I deeply agree with. It says that parents who love their children will plan for them in the long run. The marriage of my third brother and fourth sister is an important matter. No one in the world, whether it is the stepmother or the grandmother, will care more about it than you, my third aunt, as their biological mother."

(End of this chapter)