When Liu heard that Marquis Cheng'en agreed so easily, she almost jumped up with joy, "My Lord, are you serious?"
Seeing Liu's delight, Marquis Cheng'en sighed helplessly, but it was hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words. "Madam and the third son should learn a lesson. Many things are not something you can just accept when someone asks you to."
"Well, I agree. You ask the third brother and his wife to write a letter of guarantee, promising to take care of it for five years. You sign it and I'll stamp it with the seal of the Marquisate, so that you don't try to take care of it when things are going well, and then leave it to others when things get tough."
Marquis Cheng'en spoke so formally, hoping that the third brother and his wife would give up. This was like giving them another chance!
However, Liu didn't understand the meaning at all. Instead, she became even happier, thinking that the agreement written in red paper was more secure.
Marquis Cheng'en took advantage of Liu's good mood and quickly told Zhou Qiongyue about his promise, "I wrote a promise to Yue girl, saying that all the private property under her name is hers, and she can do whatever she wants with it.
It was stamped with my personal seal and the imperial seal. I have also told the Empress and His Highnesses about this matter."
Liu pursed her lips. She was definitely unhappy. Since the family hadn't been divided, how could the younger generation have private property? But now that she had given the third son the power of housekeeper, she felt embarrassed to turn against him. She didn't care about Zhou Qiongyue's trivial remarks:
"Alright, just give it to her! I knew that girl was cunning and wouldn't let herself get hurt. I'm afraid her two uncles would take advantage of her."
Marquis Cheng'en was really impressed by his wife, who even wanted her beloved third son to take advantage of a little girl.
After saying so much, Marquis Cheng En was full of breakfast. "Okay, take your time eating! I have something else to do in the front yard, so I'll go back there first."
After saying this, Marquis Cheng'en immediately left with his men. He was afraid that if he didn't leave, his foolish wife would be angry to death. It was better to ignore it!
As soon as Marquis Cheng'en left, Liu immediately sent someone to invite the third son and his wife, hoping to end the battle quickly, fearing that something might happen if it dragged on for too long.
As soon as Liu told the Marquis the order, the third son and his wife immediately wrote a guarantee, and Liu quickly signed her name.
Finally, Liu Shi feared it wasn't safe enough, so she also put her own private seal on it. She also asked the third son and his wife to put their own seal on it, which they were of course happy to do.
So when Marquis Cheng'en had just sat in the front yard for a while and had not even finished two cups of tea, the letter of guarantee was placed in front of him.
Marquis Cheng'en... If this wasn't his biological son, he would really want to call him an idiot.
He looked at the joy on the third brother's face and tried to hold it back, but in the end he couldn't help it and asked many more questions, "Are you sure you're okay?
In fact, there's nothing lucrative about being a housekeeper; it's a thankless job. Are you sure you want your wife to take this job?"
The third son, Zhou Wenfu, didn't believe what his father said. If the situation was really that dire, how could the daily life of this marquis's family not be affected?
Zhou Wenfu quickly promised, fearing that if he was a second late, this overwhelming wealth would be gone. "Dad, don't worry! My wife and I won't regret it."
Marquis Cheng'en was really feeling a little regretful at this time. He and his wife's partiality had really made the third son a person with high expectations but poor skills.
Neither he nor his wife are competent parents! Their blind favoritism ultimately harmed him.
"It's okay as long as you don't regret it." After saying this, Marquis Cheng'en immediately took out his personal seal and the official seal of Marquis Cheng'en's Mansion, and stamped them with two clicks.
After doing all this, Marquis Cheng'en felt that he had aged a lot in an instant and could no longer take care of the child at his knees!
"Thank you, Dad." The third son, Zhou Wenfu, was particularly sincere in his greeting. He felt that his father still favored him. Thinking of the wealth he had accumulated in the past five years, he wanted to take over the power of steward immediately.
Marquis Cheng'en looked at his troubled and foolish son and waved his hand feebly, signaling him to get out. He could already see that his and his wife's peaceful life was completely over.
Zhou Wenfu didn't understand his father's painstaking efforts at all. He took the stamped paper and left happily.
When Zhou Wenfu's wife, Sun, took the paper and went to Xieyang Courtyard to take over the account books and warehouse keys, Zhou Qiongyue happened to be in Jin's yard.
After all, Zhou Qiongyue had just returned from the spring hunt and wanted to spend more time with her mother. The most important thing was that Zhou Qiongyue wanted to build a secret room in Qiongyue Pavilion, so she wanted her mother to agree to let her renovate part of Qiongyue Pavilion.
This would allow her to build a secret room. She didn't intend to let anyone know about this place. She was preparing for the drought two years from now. She planned to store some food in the secret room over the next two years.
Although nobles like them must have food stored in their mansions, she knew that it was definitely not enough.
"Hello, Third Aunt." Zhou Qiongyue quickly stood up from her seat and saluted.
Sun quickly pulled Zhou Qiongyue up, took off a bracelet on her hand, and put it directly on Zhou Qiongyue's hand.
Zhou Qiongyue struggled hard for a few times, but failed to get her hands off. She thanked him sincerely, "Thank you, Third Aunt."
"Third Aunt is not a good person. I hope Yue-ya-tou doesn't despise her." Although Sun wanted the power to be the housekeeper, she had no intention of becoming an enemy of the eldest wife.
Jin already knew what Sun was here for. If she were the housekeeper and didn't even know about such a big thing, then she would have been managing the Marquis' Mansion for so many years in vain.
Although Jin knew about it, she pretended not to know and greeted Sun warmly, "Third sister-in-law, how come you have time to come here?"
"I came to you today mainly because of something. My father has asked me to take charge of the Marquis' Mansion for five years, and I have no choice. What do you think, sister-in-law?"
As Sun spoke, she took out the letter of guarantee from her purse.
Jin took it with a smile. Her face showed no expression, but she was very happy in her heart. At least for a long time, she wouldn't have to worry about the mess in the Marquis' Mansion. How could she not be happy?
"Third sister-in-law, I can hand over the housekeeping power to you, but this piece of paper must stay with me. If you don't do it, we can just argue about it again."
Jin didn't want to take back the mess after just two or three days of leaving it.
Sun was stunned when she heard this, but she thought that she had the support of her mother-in-law and father-in-law, and she was not afraid of her elder sister-in-law and others making trouble, so she nodded in agreement.
So Jin let Zhou Qiongyue play here by herself for a while, and she took Sun's people to get the keys and account books.
Because the mother-in-law has been making trouble for the housekeeper's power, Jin has always been very good at keeping accounts and is always ready to throw this mess away.
So when Sun wanted to take over, Jin directly handed everything over to her.
Even so, it took them three hours to complete the handover. Zhou Qiongyue was so hungry that she had eaten two plates of snacks.
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