Jiaqi replied, "Madam, yesterday was supposed to be your wedding to the Marquis, but Madam Bai sent someone to summon the Marquis. As far as I know, Madam Bai has always been virtuous and would never do such a thing. I felt something was amiss, so I followed the Marquis."

After Jiaqi finished speaking, she looked at Lu Yan and said, "I wonder if My Lord heard the sound of the door being locked? I was at the door, but someone pushed me in and the door was locked."

Bai Wanyi naturally knew that the door was locked. She pretended to be surprised and said, "Someone kicked the door open yesterday. I didn't notice whether it was locked or not." She turned to her maid and asked, "Do you remember?"

Several maids thought, you didn't let us follow you last night.

But they couldn't say this, so they just said, "When the servants were cleaning up yesterday, they found that there was indeed a lock on the door."

The old woman carefully brought the dismantled door lock. Without the key, the things had to be taken apart before the door could be used.

After Lu Yan looked at it, he was sure that it was the maid who did it: "Catch her back alive."

Seeing that everything else was taken care of, Wu Ziya gestured for Jiayue to bring over some tea. "My dear husband, Jiaqi is my personal maid. We grew up together, and our bond is extraordinary. Since she's already married to my husband, let's officially take her in. It's a happy occasion, a double blessing for us."

Wu Ziya was good at speaking and she brushed off yesterday's events with ease.

Lu Yan had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Jiaqi offered tea to Wu Ziya first: "Madam, please have some tea."

"Okay." Wu Ziya took the tea with a smile and drank it. She took off another gold filigree bracelet inlaid with gems from her wrist and put it on her hand.

Jiaqi stood up and knelt in front of Bai Wanyi again: "Mrs. Bai, please have some tea."

Bai Wanyi lowered his eyes and looked at Jiaqi, his face gloomy and uncertain. After a while, he said in a strange voice: "Sister, you are so generous. You let others get to your wedding night first."

Wu Ziya smiled gently, looking sensible. "Sister, you're joking. When I married my husband, I knew he wasn't just my husband. He's the head of this mansion, and he's our sister's heaven. We must serve him well and let him have no worries. Now that he has a sister to share the burden, how can I be angry?"

Bai Wanyi stared at Wu Ziya closely, not believing that she was really not angry!

But it was unknown whether Wu Ziya was pretending or really not angry. She couldn't see any clues. Bai Wanyi had to give up. He drank the concubine's tea in a sullen manner and said, "There is not much room in the mansion. You can live in the same courtyard with Concubine Qi."

Qi Jing's residence couldn't even be considered a courtyard. It was originally where the servants lived. There was really no space in the mansion, so they squeezed here and there to make a courtyard.

Qin Wan is a generous person. Even though the time was short, she cleaned up Qi Jing very neatly and there was nothing wrong with her.

Wu Ziya listened, raised her eyes to look at Lu Yan, and said gently: "My husband, the sisters are about to get married, and it's not good for them to be crowded together. Why don't we take the opportunity to build a few more courtyards while we are building the main courtyard?"

Lu Yan frowned: "There is not much money in the mansion."

Wu Ziya had just married in and didn't know the background of the Marquis's mansion. She just acted virtuous and said, "It's okay. I can make up for the shortfall myself."

Bai Wanyi didn't say anything this time, he just sneered in his heart, "Not enough? How can it be not enough? There is nothing at all!"

It’s a pity that Wu Ziya didn’t know this. After dealing with what happened last night, Wu Ziya left. A lot of her dowry was lost and needed to be counted.

But it was not bad. All the important things were rescued. Only some cloth, clothes and some other things were burned.

Jia Meng felt fortunate: "Fortunately, the young lady's beds and wardrobes were not delivered, otherwise it would really be impossible to save them."

Wu Ziya's face was very long at this moment. Who can be in a good mood if their wedding night is ruined?

At this moment, she really wanted to live in the house she came with as a dowry!

If Bai Wanyi, the concubine, didn't exist in this house, she would have walked away last night, not to mention now!

Wu Ziya took a deep breath and asked, "How much loss did you report to the government?"

"They say most of it is damaged." Jia Meng whispered.

The Fourth Prince sent two maids, one was Jiaqi, now Concubine Jia, and the other was Jiayue, who accompanied Jiaqi to the new residence to pack her things.

Everyone here is Wu Ziya's people.

Wu Ziya smiled softly: "Of course, the Fourth Prince must also be informed of this matter. The fifty thousand taels of silver he gave me have been burned."

Jia Meng bowed her head and replied, "Yes. We lost at least 80,000 taels of silver."

Wu Ziya nodded in satisfaction and sent for the craftsmen: "We'll make do with this for now. I'll own the main courtyard. The rest of the residences must be built well. For the rest of the residences, have someone bring the blueprints from the palace so I can take a look."

Wu Ziya began to renovate the Pingyang Marquis Mansion with great fanfare. At the same time, the decree to appoint the fifth lady of the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, Lu Linglong, as the imperial attendant was also issued, and the whole capital knew about it.

The weather was growing colder. Qin Wan huddled on the kang, covered in a fox fur coat, examining the papers sent by the paper mill. Upon hearing the news, she froze for a moment, then pulled out a piece of paper and wrote, "Now, below the Empress in the palace, there are four concubines, nine imperial concubines, twenty-seven ladies-in-waiting, twenty-seven officials, and eighty-one imperial wives. Among them, the lowest rank was originally a concubine, of the eighth rank. I do know of an imperial concubine, of the seventh rank. What rank is this imperial attendant?"

The twenty-seven ladies in the imperial family include: Jieyushi, Meiren, and Cairen, with nine people in each rank.

The eighty-one imperial wives are: Baolin, imperial concubines, and talented women, with twenty-seven women of each rank.

None of these positions belong to Master Attendant.

Zhenzhen knew this: "Master Attendant was originally only a servant of His Majesty. In other words, anyone serving in the palace could be called Master Attendant. But Miss Lu Wu, this was specially canonized."

"Specially canonized, a palace maid?" Qin Wan was a little surprised, but also wanted to laugh: "It seems that there was a low-ranking concubine in the previous dynasty, that is, a royal attendant? There is no rank."

"Yes, if counted according to the folk standards, she is a maidservant, but in the palace, such a rank is not allowed to serve in front of the emperor." Zhenzhen nodded.

Qin Wan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Qin Yan brought her sister in, and seeing her like this, she couldn't help but laugh: "Sister, what are you so happy about?"

"Where's Xiao Lu Wu? Let me see who's here." Qin Wan looked over and saw it was Qin Chan. She exclaimed, "This is also the fifth sister."

Qin Chan pursed her lips and smiled, "Big sister is always teasing me."

As they were talking, the two of them got on the kang. When he saw the titles and ranks of the concubines in the palace that she had written, he instantly understood what she had been laughing at.

Qin Yan was overjoyed: "You probably didn't notice that Lu Wu's eyes were not honest on the day Pingyang Hou returned to the capital."