Transmigration into a Book: My Lord, Your Wife Has Taken Another Concubine for You

Maintaining Lin Yanran's dietary standards for Chu Xiyao and her three children would undoubtedly be extremely expensive.

In addition, Chu Xiyao and the others lived in the guest courtyard, and they would occasionally add this or that, without spending their own money, which made them very happy!

A month after Chu Xiyao and her three children settled in the Marquis's residence, Chu Mochen looked at the account books in the front yard, his face dark with anger.

He was reluctant to spend money on himself, even when his own son bought medicinal herbs, he would calculate the cost-effectiveness.

As a result, the money was all spent by his married sister and someone else's son, which naturally angered Chu Mochen.

As soon as Chu Mochen got angry, he went to find Lin Yanran.

Seeing Chu Mochen enter with a dark expression, Lin Yanran guessed why and pretended he didn't exist, not wanting to say anything that would only bring trouble upon herself.

Finally, Chu Mochen couldn't help but ask, "When exactly are my little sister and the others leaving?"

"Those are your own sister, nephew, and niece. How would I know? I don't have a good relationship with them."

Lin Yanran spoke bluntly, leaving Chu Mochen speechless.

Chu Mochen remained silent for a moment, then forced a fawning smile, hoping Lin Yanran would play the bad guy. "Should Madam ask her tomorrow?"

Lin Yanran refused without hesitation, "I'm not going."

Chu Mochen remained silent for a moment. Thinking of the discord between his wife and younger sister, he came up with a new idea: "Aren't you afraid that if they, as cousins, live in the same residence for too long, they might develop some other kind of affection?"

Chu Mochen didn't get the words he wanted to hear, but instead received Lin Yanran's mockery, "Oh, your eldest son has been living away from home for over a month, and you didn't even notice? You're quite the good father."

As soon as Lin Yanran finished speaking, Chu Mochen jumped up. "What? That unfilial son Chu Yunxuan moved out? Where did he go? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

Lin Yanran glared at Chu Mochen threateningly, "What does the Marquis call Xuan'er?"

Looking into Lin Yanran's eyes, Chu Mochen replied ingratiatingly, "Good son, is my 'good son' enough?"

Lin Yanran warned with a forced smile, "Then you'd better remember this, Lord Marquis. If you call me by the wrong name outside, don't blame me for going crazy."

Chu Mochen looked a little embarrassed. "I still have some sense of propriety."

In this era, being unfilial is a serious offense, and Lin Yanran didn't trust Chu Mochen's words at all. "You had better have one, otherwise if you ruin Xuan'er's future, don't blame me for ruining yours."

Chu Mochen was extremely indignant. "A doting mother spoils her son. You're just protecting him!"

"Let's not talk about Xuan'er anymore, the accounts in the front yard are almost empty." Chu Mochen was more anxious about this.

Lin Yanran looked at Chu Mochen with great confusion, "I don't really understand either. My second and third brothers have also lived in the Marquis's mansion with their families for seven or eight years. Why don't I see you in a hurry?"

Even if my younger sisters and their friends spent a little more, it was nowhere near as much as what my second and third brothers spent, right?

Chu Mochen replied without hesitation, "How can they be the same?"

Lin Yanran stared at Chu Mochen without moving, waiting for his next move.

"The two characters 'Chu' cannot be written in the same stroke. Chu Yunyu and the others are still of our Chu family bloodline. If they are smart enough, I would be happy to spend a small fraction of the clan's assets."

But Ma Mingzhen and her group don't share the surname Chu.

"Oh." That was Lin Yanran's reaction.

Now it was Chu Mochen's turn to be puzzled. "What's with Madam's reaction?"

Lin Yanran gave a perfunctory explanation, "It just means I understand, I get it."

"What about my little sister?" Chu Mochen looked at Lin Yanran expectantly.

"Oh, then there's nothing I can do." Lin Yanran didn't want to take on this mess.

Chu Xiyao and her three children have been in Cangming for over a month, and they still haven't sent anyone to clean up the General's Mansion, which shows that they have no intention of moving out.

Chu Mochen could only reluctantly take out a one-thousand-tael silver note and place it in front of Lin Yanran, "How about I give you this?"

Lin Yanran glanced down at her face. "Too little, I won't do it."

Chu Mochen's expression changed repeatedly, and finally he took out a 10,000-tael note from his sleeve and placed it in front of Lin Yanran. Chu Mochen reached out to take back the 1,000-tael note.

Lin Yanran swiftly grabbed both silver notes. "Since the Marquis is so sincere, I'll reluctantly play the villain!"

Chu Mochen: After working hard for several months, all the money went into his wife's pocket. Chu Xiyao and her son are bad luck with his finances.

Having deliberately ruined his fortune, Chu Mochen, seeing that Lin Yanran had agreed, didn't want to stay in this place that caused him so much heartache for even a moment longer.

After leaving Lin Yanran's main courtyard, Chu Mochen went straight to the courtyard of his 'savior', Miao Tongfang.

Since Miao Tongfang entered the mansion, Chu Mochen went to her room twice when he entered the backyard.

When Concubine Miao first saw that Chu Mochen visited her frequently, she was very careful, afraid that the madam would dislike her because of it.

After a period of anxious vigilance, Miao Tongfang discovered that the madam did not care at all about who was favored in the inner quarters. The madam only wanted peace and quiet, and unless they took the initiative to provoke her, the madam would not even give them a second glance.

After Miao Tongfang found her bottom line, she tried her best to please Chu Mochen, and Chu Mochen naturally became more and more willing to go.

The next day, Chu Xiyao and the others discovered that their food quality had dropped significantly, they could no longer withdraw money from the treasury, and when they wanted to buy something, the people in the manor began to make excuses.

Ma Mingzhen and the others certainly wouldn't dare to go to Lin Yanran, so they could only stir up trouble with Chu Xiyao.

Chu Xiyao, naturally furious, went to find Lin Yanran.

After spending more than a month together, Chu Xiyao realized that her sister-in-law was completely unyielding, and she had given up on the idea of ​​getting along well with Lin Yanran.

So when Chu Xiyao arrived at Lin Yanran's courtyard, she went straight to the point, "Sister-in-law, what's going on with the expenses for the four of us? Why has it suddenly decreased so much?"

"Your older brother and I only treated you and your three children so well because of our sibling bond, but you've gone too far. You're treating your older brother and me like suckers!"

Lin Yanran threw a thick bill directly in front of Chu Xiyao.

Even if Chu Mochen didn't give Lin Yanran any money, Lin Yanran wouldn't want to serve these ancestors anymore. The four of them spent more than 80,000 taels of silver in just over a month. Who could afford to raise such money-devouring beasts?

Chu Xiyao was quite surprised when she saw the bill. She knew they spent a lot, but she didn't know that the four of them, mother and children, had spent so much.

Despite this, Chu Xiyao would not back down in front of Lin Yanran. "It only cost 80,000 taels of silver. Was it really worth all this fuss, sister-in-law?"