After the old lady was buried, it was time to observe mourning. In fact, it was mainly for the people in Cheng'en Marquis Mansion. For Zhou Qiongyue, a married woman, the requirements were not so high.
Therefore, Zhou Qiongyue was reminded by Jin that she should only return to Cheng'en Marquis Mansion if she had any business, and not run to Cheng'en Marquis Mansion for no reason.
What could Zhou Qiongyue do, since she was her own mother? She could only silently agree. Anyway, she would just pretend to obey but secretly disobey when the time came.
Zhou Qiongyue was about to nod when she heard her fifth sister-in-law, Yu Xiyao, say with innocent eyes, "My father said that I can't go back to my parents' home unless it's something serious. Otherwise, it's against etiquette."
After Zhou Zhiquan married his beloved, he realized that although she seemed innocent and carefree, she actually had her own ideas and would not listen to advice. She would always say what her father, the Minister of Rites, said.
This Yu Xiyao is not really a bad person, she is just a little stupid, and she listens to her father who is the Minister of Rites.
But since he had married her, Zhou Zhiquan had no chance to regret it. After just one year of marriage, Zhou Zhiquan had become much more mature.
After all, he often has to clean up some inexplicable messes for his wife, so it's hard not to go bald.
At this time, Zhou Zhiquan followed his father, Cheng Enhou, to the front yard to busy himself. After not seeing him for a while, Yu Xiyao started talking nonsense again.
Zhou Qiongyue rarely glanced at her fifth sister-in-law, wondering in her heart whether she was really naive or just pretending to be naive.
Sometimes Jin Shi wouldn't even pamper her daughter, let alone her daughter-in-law. "If you can't speak, just shut up. Your family treated you like a burden and dumped you. This lady and the Marquis are not like that."
Yu Xiyao was a little sad at the moment and hurriedly explained, "Mother, this is not what my father meant."
"Whatever Lord Yu means, it has nothing to do with my wife Yue'er. As for whether you want to go back to your parents' home or not, it is none of my business."
After Jin finished arguing with Yu Xiyao, she furrowed her brows. This was truly like hunting geese all day only to have them peck her eyes. If she had known that Second Miss Yu had such a personality, she would never have agreed to this marriage.
Yu Xiyao felt extremely aggrieved at this moment. She immediately covered her mouth with a handkerchief and ran to the front yard crying.
At this moment, Yu Xiyao only felt that her mother-in-law disliked her and was targeting her everywhere. She wanted to go to the front yard to find her husband for help.
Although Zhou Qiongyue has been diligently visiting the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion over the past year, she is very busy and basically only comes to have meals with her father and mother.
Most of the time, they just had a meal at the same table, and Zhou Qiongyue didn't have much interaction with her fifth sister-in-law.
Especially often, right after everyone finished dinner, the fifth brother would find an excuse to take the fifth sister-in-law away. In the past, Zhou Qiongyue just thought that the fifth brother and the fifth sister-in-law were newly married and had a good relationship, so the two of them were just being affectionate.
And when Zhou Qiongyue met her fifth sister-in-law in outside occasions, she always looked innocent and kind.
In the past, Zhou Qiongyue didn’t really know this fifth sister-in-law, but today’s two sentences from the fifth sister-in-law really opened Zhou Qiongyue’s eyes.
Zhou Qiongyue watched the development of the situation in amazement, and could only look at her mother Jin again, "Mother, what is Fifth Sister-in-law doing..."
Jin didn't even raise her head. "Ignore this idiot. Whenever her interests are involved, she'll bring up her father, the Minister of Rites. He's a typical hypocrite."
It's not easy for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to get along with each other. Yu Xiyao's self-righteous behavior makes Jin feel that her stupidity is about to come out.
If it weren't for the recent turmoil, she would have wanted to just split up the family.
When Zhou Qiongyue heard her mother say this, her brows furrowed even tighter. "Fifth sister-in-law is like this? What does Fifth Brother say?"
Jin was not worried about her son at all. In this era, women could not win over men to a certain extent. Although Zhou Zhiquan looked carefree, he had a sense of justice in his heart.
Yu Xiyao had wasted her time and energy by doing this. Sooner or later, she would regret it. Perhaps hard times were still ahead for Yu Xiyao.
Jin didn't want her daughter to get involved in this mess, otherwise she wouldn't have come back so often and wouldn't have noticed this problem. This was a deliberate attempt by her, the Marquis, and her son to keep them apart. Jin said with a dull face:
"Don't worry about your fifth brother and his wife. Let them do whatever they want. If your fifth sister-in-law dares to act sarcastic in front of you, you don't have to give your fifth brother any consideration.
If you don't have any shame yourself, don't blame others for not giving you any shame."
Zhou Qiongyue saw her mother's unhappy expression, but she didn't argue with her. After all, her mother was doing it for her own good. "I'll listen to you. Don't worry, mother. Maybe if this fifth sister-in-law suffers a little, she'll learn what to say and what not to say."
Zhou Qiongyue even thought that the next time her fifth sister-in-law came to her and acted sarcastic, she would slap her a few times herself. She wanted to see what the Minister of Rites, Lord Yu, could do to her.
Is it possible that he will report her to the emperor? If her second cousin gets angry and doesn't want her to manage the business anymore, she will have to thank this Lord Yu.
But these are just Zhou Qiongyue's imagination. Even for the sake of her fifth brother, as long as she doesn't cross Zhou Qiongyue's bottom line, Zhou Qiongyue will not do anything to her fifth sister-in-law.
As for quarreling, Zhou Qiongyue felt that she was still capable of it, and she would not necessarily lose to this sarcastic fifth sister-in-law in terms of being unreasonable.
However, Yuan Chaokang, who was next to Zhou Qiongyue, remembered this fifth aunt.
Of all these people, no one could compare to Yuan Chaokang when it came to holding grudges. After all, few who had served as emperors did not hold grudges; it was a byproduct of power.
Seeing that her mother Jin's face looked bad, Zhou Qiongyue said a lot of words to comfort her until she laughed. Only then did Zhou Qiongyue take Yuan Chaokang away.
After that, Zhou Qiongyue forgot about Yu Xiyao. After all, she wasn't living with her. They only saw each other a few times a year.
In fact, this incident still had a follow-up. Yu Xiyao went to the front yard crying to Zhou Zhiquan to complain. After Zhou Zhiquan knew the whole story, he scolded Yu Xiyao and then confined her to her room.
Zhou Zhiquan didn't even go into the backyard for three whole months.
And when Yu Xiyao went to Zhou Zhiquan to cry, she did not avoid Zhou Wencan, the Marquis of Cheng'en.
Zhou Wencan didn't say anything at the time. He just gave his son Zhou Zhiquan a look and left.
But when it came to the morning court the next day, Zhou Wencan got up early on purpose and stopped the Minister of Rites, Lord Yu, outside the main hall of the Civil and Military Hall. He started to speak in a sarcastic tone, making his relative-in-law look like he was about to take out his anger.
Marquis Cheng'en then brushed his sleeves and entered the Wenwu Hall.
All the noble ministers in the court watched a big drama of in-laws falling out early in the morning.
Of course Lord Yu was furious, but he knew his own daughter well. He knew that marrying her into any family would only create an enemy.
It was all because Madam Yu was reluctant to part with Marquis Cheng'en, a smoking-loving relative, and she ignored his advice and insisted on accepting the marriage.
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