Quickly wear and change the fate of the little cannon fodder

Chapter 447: The Little Cannon Fodder in Ancient House Fighting Novels 3

Cui Xiaoxiao didn't take a nap at noon, and sent Chunyu to rest. This personal maid was not very useful, but she combed her hair quite well. The four maids and the wet nurse chosen by the original owner's mother were all sold by the marquis for various reasons when the original owner was young!

The main purpose was to interrogate them to see if they knew whether Hua Yunrong had left any property to the original owner. Also, he was afraid that these people would guess the truth and tell the original owner.

Alas, if she wants to select two useful people, she still needs to go through the mistress, the Marquis, or the old lady, which is a lot of trouble...

In fact, there are not many masters in the Marquis' Mansion. The old Marquis has passed away long ago! Now the oldest elder in the mansion is the old Marquis's wife. Back then, the old lady was very strict, which led to the Marquis's Mansion having few descendants, with only the Marquis as the only child!

Marquis Cui Mingen had one wife and three concubines, as well as two sons and three daughters.

The original owner was Cui Xiaoxiao, the second daughter of the Marquis’ Mansion!

Mrs. Hou, the Prime Minister's concubine's daughter, Jiang, gave birth to a son and a daughter after marriage. The second young master Cui Hongtao was eight years old, and the third young lady Cui Niannian was five years old!

Your noble concubine, Aunt Zhuang, has a sixteen-year-old engaged daughter, Cui Ningning, and a twelve-year-old illegitimate son, Cui Hongyuan!

There are also Aunt Li and Aunt Feng. One was given by the Marquis's boss, and the other was promoted to concubine from the Marquis's wife's maidservant who came with her dowry. Neither of them is very favored now, so they have never had children.

She used her mental power to see that there was no one around, so she took out the mirror in the space and looked at her face carefully, trying to find out what was wrong.

First, she lifted all her bangs up, and finally found something wrong. Her eyebrows were thicker, and mainly because her garlic nose didn't match her delicate and small face, which lowered her overall appearance.

Cui Xiaoxiao didn't say anything, she took the facial cleanser and washed her face carefully, thinking of using makeup to improve her nose. But after washing, she was shocked when she looked in the mirror. Her nose had shrunk, from a garlic nose to a delicate small upturned nose!

It’s harmonious, it’s really harmonious this time!

The whole little face immediately became much more pleasing to the eye, and the overall appearance improved several degrees.

She was struck by her own appearance. She was so beautiful, with fair skin, a small round face, and extremely delicate facial features. Crescent-shaped double eyelids, almond eyes, a small upturned nose, and a cherry mouth. This appearance is beautiful even without makeup.

She lightly outlined her face, then took out her camera and took a few beautiful photos of herself, boasting for a while. Then she washed off her makeup and repainted her nose to restore her original appearance.

Now is not like the later times, there are not so many cosmetics, and I don’t know how the original owner did it.

At this time Chunyu came in, made her a cup of tea and brought her two plates of snacks.

Cui Xiaoxiao first took out the books left by the original owner, intending to read them all while she had some free time these few days. She then took out the calligraphy written by the original owner, in the small regular script style with flower hairpins. This was not difficult, she already knew how to do it.

As for talents, luckily I learned to play many musical instruments in the last world, and I also learned calligraphy and painting before. I also know poetry and songs. Isn't it useful now? It just happens to be useful in the talent show!

Because Cui Xiaoxiao was not favored by the elders in the mansion, she was exempted from the night watch. She only had to go to pay her respects in the morning. After dinner, she lit a candle and read for a while, then washed up and went to bed early.

At midnight, Cui Xiaoxiao opened her eyes. She used her mental power to check and found that all the masters, maids, housekeepers, servants, etc. in the mansion were fast asleep.

Cui Xiaoxiao quietly got up. She first used her invisibility to teleport around the mansion. Where was the dowry her mother brought? Where was the mansion's storehouse and the private storehouses of the masters? Where was the study? Where was the granary? Was there a secret room in the study? She knew everything.

After walking around the mansion twice, she left the mansion. According to the address on the deed, she went directly to the house her mother left for her. She sneaked in quietly, found the location of the secret room, and opened the mechanism.

He first tested the oxygen content in the secret room with a candle. After making sure it was safe, he took out a large flashlight from the space and walked in!

At a glance, I saw five large boxes, covered with a layer of dust.

Cui Xiaoxiao simply wiped it, and put it directly into the space without opening it. Then she used her mental power to scan the house everywhere, and after understanding the situation of the whole house, she slipped back to the mansion!

After she returned to her room, she went straight into the space to check the five wooden boxes! When she opened them, Cui Xiaoxiao closed her eyes. These gold and silver jewelry were really dazzling.

After taking a closer look, Cui Xiaoxiao was a little dumbfounded. Even though she had seen a lot of things, she couldn't help but be stunned! There were a lot of gold, silver, and antique jewelry in her space, but there were not many that were so beautiful and exquisite.

The last time she saw so many exquisite and complete sets of jewelry was when she was Princess Jin!

There were more than a dozen sets of gorgeous and complicated head ornaments of various materials neatly arranged in the box, as well as two boxes of jade pendants, hairpins, hairpins, hairpins, bracelets, etc. Famous paintings and calligraphy, rare books, precious medicinal materials, and even night pearls and warm jade. These things occupied three boxes.

There was also a box of gold and silver ingots and 50,000 taels of silver notes. For some reason, there was also her mother's dowry list in it. Cui Xiaoxiao read it from beginning to end and couldn't help but click her tongue.

No wonder the Marquis's family could be so extravagant, it all came from her mother's dowry. It seems that the Marquis's various behaviors are really hateful.

But are all the wealthy businessmen so rich now? Her maternal family can give so much dowry, so does their family have more property? What should I do? She is a little itchy!

If all the wealthy families have so much property, then the property of the powerful families must be the wealth accumulated by several generations. She didn't dare to think about it.

For the sake of beautiful gold and silver jewelry, she would fight for herself. Men and other things, in front of these gold and silver jewelry and wealth, are not important. For these vulgar things, she doesn't mind saying nice things every day to disgust others, ah, pah, coaxing others!

She admitted that she was just a vulgar person, she was so useless and superficial. No matter how rich she was, she couldn't walk when she saw such gorgeous and magnificent jewelry!

The last box contained a white fox cloak, a black solitary cloak, and more than a dozen pieces of gorgeous cloth with exquisite embroidery! These large and exquisite embroidery works can be sold at sky-high prices in the future.

She couldn't even imagine how beautiful such exquisite embroidery would look on her. She wanted everything, beautiful clothes and jewelry. Cui Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes and smiled. Haha, she could see that this era was much richer than when she was Princess Jin. She probably came to this era to purchase goods!

Cui Xiaoxiao carefully put these things into the space warehouse! She also exercised in the space for a day, took a shower, washed her hair, and arranged all the body-building pills and strength pills.

Only then did I leave the space and sleep peacefully.

When she woke up again, it was already dawn. Thinking of how the original owner had always gone to pay respects to the two patriarchs without eating breakfast, she was always hungry. She would not let herself down like that, so she first went to the space secretly, washed up briefly, and ate breakfast before coming out.

Soon, Chun Yu came over to wake her up. "Miss, it's time to get up."

After washing, dressing, and putting her hair up, she looked at the original owner's clothes in the closet and frowned. Not only were the clothes old, but the colors and styles were also a bit old-fashioned. Compared with the luxurious fabrics she saw last night, they were simply rubbish.

She picked out a dress that was not too plain but had faded a little, and put it on, and set out to pay her respects. The master and servant walked for more than ten minutes before they arrived at her stepmother's yard.

"Sister Qiaozhu, is mother awake yet?"

"Madam is already up. Second Miss, please come in!"

"My daughter greets my mother. Did you have a good rest last night?" Cui Xiaoxiao squatted down and saluted. As for the words of greeting, she has never changed them in ten years, not even the punctuation marks!

"Get up!" Madam Hou Jiang Sui'an never concealed her dislike for her! How could she understand that she, the daughter of a prime minister who was favored by the emperor, was suppressed by a money-grubbing merchant wife?

Cui Xiaoxiao would not even glance at her when she greeted her, and even if she did, it would just be a disgusted roll of the eyes. If she was in a bad mood, she would even curse at her in a sarcastic tone, or take a longer time to greet her.

But she didn't need her to pay for her support, her daughter was still young, and Cui Xiaoxiao's existence would not harm her interests. Cui Xiaoxiao would naturally not try to curry favor with her, and it would be best for them to live in peace and maintain the status quo.

She stood up and sat on the stool next to her, looking at her stepmother who, although not very good-looking, was confident and outspoken and was looking through the account book carefully!

There were three concubines around her who were paying their respects to her. One was making tea, one was massaging her legs with a small cloth hammer, and another was massaging her temples.

Cui Xiaoxiao looked at Aunt Zhuang and found that Cui Ningning looked very much like her biological mother. Her figure was 100% similar to hers. The other two concubines also had their own characteristics!

Cui Xiaoxiao thought of the original owner's mother, Hua Yunrong. She still had some impression of her. She was very beautiful. The original owner was absolutely beautiful, but she was still not as charming as her mother. This was enough to show how good her mother's appearance was!

She was a little envious of the original owner's scumbag father, who had two wives and three concubines. Except for Jiang's poor appearance, the others were all excellent. The scumbag father ate really well, with beautiful wives and concubines in his arms, hugging him left and right, he was so happy!

Cui Xiaoxiao didn't hate her stepmother Jiang Sui'an, after all, there were many stepmothers who were harsh and abusive to their stepdaughters. But she didn't make things difficult for her, she just ignored her, and even did a superficial job in food, clothing and daily expenses. For Cui Xiaoxiao, she was already the best stepmother.

But every time she chose fabrics, jewelry, or skin care products, the things sent to her were what others had chosen and didn't want. Whether it was the pattern, the fabric, or the jewelry, they were all inferior, and even the quantity was the smallest. The monthly allowance was also severely deducted by the servants. These were not a big deal. At least she had everything she needed, and she wasn't cold or hungry. Everything else was not a big deal.

After a while, the heroine Cui Ningning came over to pay her respects, and Jiang Sui'an's attitude towards her was much better than Cui Xiaoxiao's. The two chatted for a while, talking about their respective makeup and good complexion.

At this time, Cui Hongtao came over holding Cui Niannian. Jiang Sui'an finally smiled happily when he saw his two children.

After the two of them paid their respects to their mother, she asked about her son's studies and her daughter's situation. Seeing that it was getting late, she asked the concubines to go back first. She led a large group of people to pay their respects to the old lady.

Normally, brothers and sisters should also greet each other politely, but this step was skipped by the stepmother. She didn't want her children to pay respects to the daughter of a merchant. Naturally, Cui Xiaoxiao, the eldest daughter, was ignored by everyone.

When they arrived at the old lady of the marquis's courtyard, the marquis first asked a few questions to the old woman who was guarding outside, and then led everyone in.

"The daughter-in-law pays respects to her mother!"

"Grandchildren pay their respects to their grandmother."

The old lady smiled and asked everyone to stand up, arranged for them to sit down, and made tea for them. She also called her grandson to her side and touched his little hand and face lovingly. Cui Ningning naturally sat on the other side of the old lady.

Madam Hou sat with her daughter next to her, while Cui Xiaoxiao sat opposite Madam Hou, watching her from the sidelines. This situation was nothing new to everyone!

Cui Xiaoxiao also used her mental power to observe everyone's expressions and movements, and even distracted herself to look at the layout of the old lady's entire courtyard. She also saw that the old lady's private storehouse had many good things, all of which were the dowry of the original owner's mother.

Then Cui Xiaoxiao felt the old lady's disgusted gaze towards her, the same look as the Marquis's. She narrowed her eyes. If she despised them so much, why did she marry them? And why did she use their money?

He got the benefits, but he turned his back on them. In order to climb up the social ladder, he even poisoned her mother to death. She didn't think his mother didn't know what the Marquis did. According to the original owner's memory, this Marquis still had some characteristics of a mama's boy.

Maybe the plan to poison Hua Yunrong was the old lady's idea. She was really ruthless. In their mansion, like mother, like son. Both mother and son were of the same character.

Since she looked down on them, she certainly looked down on their money. So don't blame her for packing up all of her mother's dowry and taking it away when she left. Those were all good things!

And she had to find something for them to do, otherwise they would always think of sending her to others as a favor. As long as they could get through the period after the draft, they would be fine when the imperial edict came down.

No matter how bold the Marquis is, he cannot disobey the order!

It's just a pity that in her previous life, the original owner stayed in the boudoir all year round. Even after she got married, she was still stuck in the inner house, never leaving the house, and was oblivious to what was happening outside.

So I know nothing about national affairs.

The old lady called out everyone's names and asked about their situations. Then she saw her granddaughter Cui Xiaoxiao. Her eyes were complicated and contained a hint of disgust.

She actually disliked this granddaughter, and she also disliked her mother very much! Now her mother is dead, and Cui Xiaoxiao's existence is always reminding her of the difficult times in the Hou Mansion.

Looking around the entire capital, which powerful family would marry a merchant girl as a daughter-in-law? If they married a merchant girl, the powerful people in the capital would look down on them, which would mean that the grade of the entire mansion would be lowered.

But the old marquis passed away early, and the young Cui Mingen inherited the title in a hurry. He was not good at business, resulting in losses every year. In the end, the marquis's mansion was unable to make ends meet, and the family property had to be sold frequently to maintain the glory of the mansion!

Under the circumstances back then, the marriage had to be arranged. Otherwise, how could she have the money to give gifts and use connections to get back on her feet, and how could she have climbed into the Prime Minister's Mansion to restore her former glory?