Nanny Yu soon came over with a few prominent housekeepers.

Yuzhin followed them with her head down and a sad look on her face.

First, Nanny Yu scolded Yuzhan harshly in front of everyone, praised Tuoniang, and then asked Tuoniang, "What else did she give to Daqing's wife?"

Tuoniang was a straightforward person. She told them everything. Haitang also added to her story. Nanny Yu looked uglier and uglier. When they finished, she was furious and ordered a mother named Huo beside her: "Go find Daqing's wife."

Mother Huo hesitated for a while, but still went out.

Yu Daqing's wife was wearing a silk summer gown and gold-plated earrings, revealing her charisma. When she saw this, she pushed all the blame onto Yuzhan: "...She said she wanted to recognize me as her sister. It's common for sisters to give each other gifts, and they were just small things, so I didn't take it seriously. Who would have known that Yuzhan had secretly taken it without the knowledge of the fourth young lady?" As she said this, she ran away, "I'm going to return all the things she gave me."

"Stop right there!" Nanny Yu shouted at her coldly, "Seventh Master entrusted the affairs of the inner house to me, and that's the dignity of us servants. Don't take advantage of being my daughter-in-law and do whatever you want in this mansion..."

Dou Zhao didn't want to listen any more.

As long as she knew how Nanny Yu handled the matter, she would know Nanny Yu's attitude towards the matter.

Dou Zhao returned to the inner room.

Jasmine followed immediately.

Dou Zhao spread out the rice paper and practiced calligraphy, while Jasmine was grinding ink beside him.

After a while of noise outside, it became quiet.

Tuoniang and Haitang, who was complaining angrily, walked in through the curtains: "...Yuzhan was only fined two months' salary. According to the rules of the Dou family, such a person should be beaten with a stick and kicked out of the house in front of everyone. And Yu's sister-in-law, she has long said that she doesn't want to work for the Dou family. Now that Yu Ma has relieved her of her duties and not allowed her to enter the house, maybe it's just what she wants!"

Tuoniang said, "Why are you saying all this? We just need to take good care of the Fourth Young Miss. You should be smarter in the future and don't let anyone take advantage of the Fourth Young Miss again."

Haitang nodded repeatedly.

Dou Zhao, however, just listened to the pause in the pen.

In her previous life, she used people from Tianzhuang and Cui family.

They followed her from Zhending to the Jining Marquis' Mansion, and those who were able to stand by her side in the end were all loyal, smart and insightful people.

In this life, she was still planning to use the old people. However, she was still young, and if she rashly recruited these people around her, it might backfire. It would be better to wait for two or three years. Even if she had something suspicious, she could just brush it off with the excuse of "precocious wisdom".

She never counted on these people from her mother's side. She thought that Wang Yingxue was her stepmother in her previous life. Cleaning the backyard and doing housework were things that every stepmother would do. But she was ignorant and naive at that time, and she had no younger brother to support her. It was understandable that the people around her mother saw no hope, but after a long time, they had their own plans.

Even though she can understand it, it doesn't mean she can forgive it.

Therefore, Dou Zhao seems to be a bit laissez-faire.

As long as everyone could fool around for the next two or three years, before her people took over, she was willing to turn a blind eye and consider it as a thank you for their service to her mother.

But now it seems that it was her fault.

Nanny Yu's family are just servants, so why does Yu Daqing's wife say that she doesn't want to work for the Dou family?

He just used the opportunity of helping his mother with household chores to fill his own pocket and looked down on the little money he earned from working for the Dou family.

Suddenly, an unknown fire started burning in her heart.

When her mother passed away, Nanny Yu cried bitterly. She believed in Nanny Yu's feelings for her mother, but when she thought of how Nanny Yu treated Yuzhuan and her daughter-in-law, she also believed in her own judgment.

Perhaps, in her previous life, Wang Yingxue was able to control her mother because she had something bad going on with Yu Daqing.

Thinking of this, Dou Zhao put down his brush and told Tuoniang, "Bring me the box with the peony painted on it."

Tuo Niang went to get the box. Dou Zhao asked Jasmine and Haitang, "Can you tell the difference between honey jelly and topaz?"

Both things are yellow.

Jasmine and Haitang were both a little surprised.

The fourth young lady seldom spoke to them.

After a moment's silence, Jasmine shook her head. Haitang hesitated for a few seconds and then also shook her head.

I knew it would be like this!

Dou Zhao frowned slightly.

Her mother died suddenly, and the inner house was in chaos. These new maids did not receive adequate guidance, and her age was a fatal flaw. Even if she wanted to use them, they would not be able to do the job. Moreover, she trusted no one in this family except Tuoniang! Tuoniang only learned a few words after following her. As a result, Yuzhan, who could read and write, became the only choice for the maid in charge of her house.

Tuoniang brought the box over.

Dou Zhao took out a stack of gift lists from the box.

Her past life experience had made her bold yet cautious. She put away all the gift lists out of habit, but now they came in handy.

If the maids had any ulterior motives, the most direct and effective method was to pretend to obey but secretly disobey, not put things on the register, and not even know if they were stolen.

All the food, clothing and other expenses in her house were paid by the public, and the account book was kept by her third uncle. Her aunt personally supervised the account of her mother's things, with one book in her father's hands, one in her aunt's hands, and one in Yu Ma's hands. The only thing Yu Zan could move was the reward she had received these days.

It looked like she would have to count the rewards herself.

Come to think of it, she hasn't done this kind of thing for more than ten years.

"All of you should go away!" Dou Zhao said to Tuoniang and the others, "Just don't let Yuzhan in."

Tuoniang agreed and went outside.

Haitang and Moli, who were following Tuoniang, walked to the door but stopped.

"Miss Fourth, do you want to count your things?" She said nervously, "My grandmother once served the old lady. We have a few old things that the old lady gave us. My grandmother often took them out to wipe them..."

Dou Zhao said: "Then come over and help!"

Haitang agreed happily and sat beside to help Dou Zhaoqing with things.

With Dou Zhaolue's guidance, she immediately learned how to distinguish between agate and amber.

With more experience, you will be able to use it.

Dou Zhao nodded secretly in his heart.

During this time, a servant beside Dou Shiying came over and reported: "Seventh Master said that he and Sixth Master had something to do these days, so he asked Fourth Miss to practice calligraphy by herself."

Dou Zhao didn't want to see his father either, so he nodded and asked Jasmine to reward the servant with a few copper coins, and then continued to look for things with Tu Niang and the others.

In the afternoon, they counted the items and found that a gilt garnet hairpin inlaid with a symbol of fertility and good fortune and a string of agarwood Buddhist beads were missing.

Dou Zhao ordered Tuoniang: "Go and tell Nanny Yu to get these two things back."

Tuoniang was so angry that she jumped up and down, saying, "Yuzhun is so bold. There are people who can catch thieves for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days. I think we should tell Master Qi about this..."

"No need." Dou Zhao said, "Just find the things back."

After hearing what Dou Zhao said, Tuo Niang had no choice but to let the jade hairpin go. She took the gift list and went to Nanny Yu angrily.

Dou Zhao had other plans.

The reason why Yuzhan was so bold was because she was young, and Nanny Yu was in charge of the affairs of the inner house.

This matter was reported to my father. Given the kind of person he was, he would at most give Yuzhuan a few beatings and kick her out. He would not think too much about it.

It seems that all men are like this, as if they are blind to the intrigues going on in the inner house.

She might as well figure it out on her own.

Dou Zhao and Haitang were packing up when Xuancao ran in.

Seeing that there were only three of them in the room, she immediately became very excited: "I'm telling you, there's a fight going on in Qixia Courtyard!"

Dou Zhao was stunned.

Jasmine and Haitang couldn't wait to ask, "What happened? Sister Xuancao, please tell me!"

Xuancao likes to gossip about other people, and Tuoniang has been complaining about her for this matter. Seeing that everyone was looking at her eagerly, she felt very proud and said, "Just now, Aunt Wang's eldest brother and eldest sister-in-law came to pick her up, but she refused to go back, so Aunt Wang's eldest brother slapped her and made half of Aunt Wang's face swollen. Aunt Wang's second sister-in-law said that Aunt Wang's eldest sister-in-law was cruel and instigated Aunt Wang's eldest brother to beat Aunt Wang. Aunt Wang's eldest sister-in-law was so angry that she quarreled with Aunt Wang's second sister-in-law, and Aunt Wang hugged Ming Jie'er and wanted to commit suicide..." She said with a sigh, "It's so noisy over there, and Seventh Master is not at home, so the old lady had to go over to mediate."

"No way!" Jasmine and Haitang exclaimed in unison, "How did you know?"

Xuancao said proudly, "It's not just me. Wan'er beside Aunt Ding and Qinghai beside Master Qi were all hiding there to watch the fun! Qinghai was even caught by the old lady. Fortunately, he was smart and said that Master Qi had told him to go check out any movement in Qixia Courtyard before he left. The old lady was in a hurry to go to Qixia Courtyard, so he got away with it and was sent by the old lady to the East Palace to find Master Qi."

Dou Zhao was speechless: "Auntie Wang quarreled with her eldest brother and his wife in front of the old lady?"

Hemerocallis nodded repeatedly.

Dou Zhao sneered.

I've seen stupid people, but I've never seen anyone stupider than Wang Yingxue.

Why did she regard Wang Yingxue as her rival in her previous life?

She instructed Hemerocallis: "Then go see if there's anything else going on."

These words hit the mark right on Hemerocallis. She nodded and ran away in a flash.

The noise didn't stop until it was time to turn on the lights.

Xuancao sighed, "... Aunt Wang is such a beautiful and gentle person, I never thought she had suffered so much in the past."

Jasmine and Haitang couldn't help but surround her. Even Dou Zhao said "Oh" and listened to her further talk with great interest.

Xuancao told the story of how Wang Yingxue cried and complained about the pain she felt when the Lei family broke off her engagement, how she was grateful to her elder sister-in-law for marrying into the Wang family, how she secretly swore in her heart that even if she had to eat coarse food in the future, she would never leave out a bite of porridge from her elder sister-in-law and nephew, and how difficult it was for her to do business in the past few years... She left Wang Zhibing and Gao speechless.

"Her second sister-in-law is so powerful!" Xuancao said fearfully, "Not only did she speak for Aunt Wang, she also scolded Seventh Master and the old lady. She said she would sue Seventh Master and the old lady, making Seventh Master unable to be an official and making the old lady lose face... The old lady was so angry that she couldn't say a word. Aunt Wang's second sister-in-law even asked the nanny beside her to call all the brothers from her mother's family, saying that she wanted to sue the Dou family!"

Dou Zhao laughed out loud.

Pang Yu Lou, always so lovely!