In the end, Marquis Cheng'en compromised. After all, the Marquis' Mansion was so large, and if it really involved them, he would definitely be curious. "Tell me! What do you want?"

"A house in Yuan'an's inner city with two entrances would be fine. I need three."

Zhou Qiongyue felt that her price was truly reasonable. When the drought struck, Yuan An could sell as many houses as he wanted. The key point was that for the future of the Marquisate, she hadn't asked for any farmland or anything, which was quite kind of her.

Marquis Cheng'en's eyes widened instantly, with an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"You want three more houses in the inner city? You might as well just rob them. But we don't have any! We don't have any!" Marquis Cheng'en said this with great determination.

"But I only want a two-story house! With such a large family estate, there must be a small house like this. Anyway, no one likes this kind of small house, so why not give it to my granddaughter?"

Zhou Qiongyue wanted three houses because she wanted one for each of her eldest and fifth brothers. So she had no room for bargaining.

Marquis Cheng'en...Who does he look down upon? Who?

"Is there really no room for negotiation?" Actually, there were mansions like this in the Marquisate, and sometimes they were used as gifts. Three of them wouldn't be a big deal. But he still didn't want to give them away!

Zhou Qiongyue spread her hands and said truthfully, "No, I plan to have one seat each with my two brothers. If there's less, there won't be enough to share!"

Marquis Cheng'en...Okay! Giving it to his grandson is like putting the meat in the pot, so he feels a little better.

"Okay, go ahead and tell me! Let's see if your information is worth those three houses."

Seeing that her grandfather agreed, Zhou Qiongyue immediately put down the teacup in her hand, strode directly to the side of Marquis Cheng'en, and whispered to him about Xie Zixin's dream about the drought.

The main reason was that Zhou Qiongyue felt that she had already told Her Royal Highness the Princess, and she would feel guilty if she didn't tell the palace about it.

As for whether her grandfather believed it after hearing it, it was none of her business.

Marquis Cheng'en accepted it well, but instead warned Zhou Qiongyue not to talk about it everywhere and be careful not to get into trouble.

Marquis Cheng'en thought he understood the current emperor, but he wasn't someone who would simply believe anything others said. Since he believed it, it meant the emperor had already verified it using his method.

At this time, Marquis Cheng'en was extremely envious of Marquis Xuanping. He didn't know how many benefits he would get for free by having such a granddaughter.

Marquis Xuanping: Have you ever heard of the saying "darkness under the lamp"? If he knew his daughter was so peculiar, would he have agreed to let her become the Second Prince's concubine?

It has to be said that this is also the main reason why the emperor asked the second prince to get married quickly. It is better to keep people under reasonable control in the palace as soon as possible.

Otherwise, who knows how many more things will happen later! The emperor doesn't want to clean up the mess for anyone.

Zhou Qiongyue nodded quickly after hearing her grandfather's instructions. She wasn't stupid. "Anyway, I won't acknowledge this once it leaves this study. And that person doesn't have any intention of making it public right now. So, grandfather, do you understand what I mean?"

What Zhou Qiongyue meant was to just find a way to manage the Marquis' Mansion itself, and not worry about those aunts and uncles for the time being, otherwise if they got into trouble later, it would be no joke.

Marquis Cheng'en nodded heavily. He also knew the seriousness of the matter. The blame for the leak of the news was something that his Marquis Cheng'en Mansion could not bear.

After making his decision, Marquis Cheng'en thought about many things. He didn't know what excuse the emperor would use to break the current situation, so the Marquis Cheng'en Mansion didn't dare to act rashly for the time being.

If he ruined the emperor's good deeds and implicated the marquis's mansion, it would be a small matter. But if he implicated the empress and the two princes in the palace, he would never be able to atone for his sins even if he died.

Moreover, when Marquis Cheng'en was thinking about the drought, he naturally thought about the marriage in the mansion. Marquis Cheng'en thought about the emperor's recent actions and the marriages of several grandsons.

Thinking about these confusing and messy things, Marquis Cheng'en felt unhappy when he saw his granddaughter sitting leisurely beside him.

"Okay, go back! I'll have someone deliver the things to your yard later." Marquis Cheng'en is a man who only wants to burn bridges after crossing them.

Zhou Qiongyue originally came to talk about this matter, and as for asking for things, it was just a coincidence.

When her grandfather asked her to leave, she stood up with the book in her hand and said, "Granddaughter, take your leave!"

After Zhou Qiongyue finished her greetings, seeing that her grandfather had not yet reacted, she took the book and left.

In fact, Marquis Cheng'en saw the book in his granddaughter's hand, but since he saw that she liked it, he did not say anything to her. He thought that this was a reward for her giving him this important information.

Early the next morning, Jin from the first wife, Zhao from the second wife, and Sun from the third wife all received the news, asking them to arrange the marriages of the three brothers within the year.

He even required that all three grandsons get married before next summer, and the others could be delayed for a few more years.

According to Marquis Cheng'en's idea, the top five brothers could all marry wives, but he was too hasty and was afraid that the emperor would notice something, so he could only allow the top three brothers to marry wives first.

The most difficult situation for Marquis Cheng'en was Sun Shi, the third wife's wife, as she was now primarily responsible for the household expenses. This meant that in less than two years, the family had to marry off a daughter and find wives for three brothers. The expenses were simply unimaginable.

Sun immediately went to her mother-in-law, the wife of Marquis Cheng'en, and cried, but this matter was decided by the Marquis himself, and she had no choice. She never opposed the Marquis's opinion.

Finally, the third uncle Zhou Wenfu could only go to Cheng'en Hou to plead his pity. In the end, Cheng'en Hou gave his third son a fertile farm in Yuan'an, and Zhou Wenfu left contentedly.

Zhou Wenfu took over the manor but did not give it to Sun, so Sun had to solve this problem by herself in the end.

Sun has regretted countless times why she fought for this mess.

Among the three families, the one with the easiest life is Jin from the eldest family. The marriage of her eldest son Zhou Zhiyi has been decided long ago, and the other party's mourning period has just ended. Recently, the two families have been discussing the marriage, so they just need to follow the procedure.

The second-born was Zhao's eldest son, Zhou Zhiyu, who was born in the same year as Zhou Zhiyi. Both of them had already passed the imperial examinations. Outsiders jokingly called them the twin heroes of the Cheng'en Marquisate.

However, Zhao was thinking of waiting until her son passed the imperial examination before considering marriage. Now she didn't even have a single candidate. Suddenly, Marquis Cheng'en did this, and the couple from the second house were so anxious that their mouths were covered with blisters.

The third child was Zhou Zhikun, the eldest son of the third wife's concubine. He had the same concubine as Zhou Nanqian, who was quickly married off to a distant place. Sun's own son, the eighth child, was still very young.

So Sun was not in a hurry. Either she would send someone to propose marriage to the one the father and son liked, or she would just choose one at random.

Anyway, she found the eldest son of a concubine quite annoying, and it was impossible for her to really work hard for him.