Chapter 118
Besides, when Cui Xingzhou made a big fuss in the Duke Qing’s mansion, Miantang was cooking soup for his sister-in-law.
The young confinement period is more harmful than the older confinement period. You have to be careful of everything. If you get the root of the disease, it will be a lifelong thing. Li’s mother shook the fan and sighed slightly: “I don’t know if the prince can straighten things out.”
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Mian Tang was not worried: "Your princes have nothing to do. Besides, what Duke Qing did is not a human service at all. Even if you go to the government office to sue, we will take the right path... By the way, my sister can't worry about it now. You can ask her close maid to come and sort out her dowry list. You can also ask the prince to send someone to carry it. You can't even take advantage of the Duke Qing's mansion!"
Li's mother is an old man, so naturally she thought differently from Miantang, and said, "I haven't told the concubine about this yet. If she knows about it, she will definitely hurt the eldest lady..."
Mian Tang smiled slightly: "Sister is still young and cannot afford to delay youth. There are so many young people in the capital. This time, I have to choose a reliable house for her. When my sister's second marriage is about to get a glimpse of her, I will tell her mother again, so that this will save her from worrying."
Mother Li felt that the sky was about to fall. In the eyes of the prince and his wife, she was like a scumbag, as if it was no big deal. She couldn't help but sigh that she was old and could not keep up with the current customs.
Miantang looked at the stewed eels in the casserole and was cooked a little short of heat. She asked her mother Li to take care of the pot herself. She untied her apron and left the kitchen with several maids of Bicao. @南光全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全全
When I walked to the moon gate connecting the inner courtyard to the outer courtyard, Miantang saw Lu Yi leading the two brothers waiting there.
So she asked the other maids besides Bicao to stand farther, then walked over and asked, "You did things yesterday, but no one was seen?"
Lu Yi clasped his fists and whispered: "There is no one in the back mountain. Several of us used the wine we carried with us to burn it. We drew a Guanyin-shaped enclosure to burn it, and then hid in the dark. Soon, a monk came to put out the fire. After seeing that the fire was in the shape of a Bodhisattva, the monks were so scared that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed and recited the scriptures. We had already left."
Mian Tang nodded and said, "Go to the street market to find some children, make up the story of Duke Qing's wife forcing her daughter-in-law to anger the Bodhisattva's appearance into a rumor, and then make a name for Duke Qing's mansion... In addition, many people were implicated this time. In fact, if we look closely, it was our fire... You go and give them some money so that they will not lose their food and clothing investment due to injury."
Lu Yi disagreed: "We just set fire, but we didn't rush to the people with a carriage. Why should we pay for the money? Only the girls named Sun should accept this account!"
Although Lu Yi is smart among the four brothers, he is hard to change his stubbornness and cannot even pull back his stubbornness from the top.
Mian Tang said with a straight face: "That woman is now a concubine in the palace. Letting her take the money is to let the emperor admit his mistake. I don't have the ability to do this. Why don't you go to the palace to set a fire and see if she can pay the money?"
When Lu Yi saw it, he knew that his back talk made the boss unhappy. He quickly responded one by one and turned around to do things.
When Cui Xingzhou came back, he sent He Li's document to his sister first, saying that the Guo family agreed.
Cui Fu didn't care about the dowry, but was afraid that the Guo family would not let Jin'er beside her. Now seeing the document that Jin'er was raising her by her side before she was thirteen years old. Jin'er was the legitimate son of Duke Qing's mansion, and he would inherit the title in the future. Naturally, he could not change the surname Cui. When she was thirteen years old, even if she didn't have Guo Yi and Li, Jin'er should go to school and go to the academy to leave her parents.
Thinking that he didn't have to go back to face Mrs. Guo's face, Cui Fu felt much more relaxed.
However, when asking for a dowry, there were some twists and turns. Miantang was pregnant and was inconvenient to go to the Duke's mansion, so he asked his mother Li to take three managers to check and load the car.
When the eldest girl got married, it was a good situation for the Huaiyang Palace. In order to match the identity of the Duke's Mansion, the old Huaiyang King bought dowry for his daughter a lot.
However, after Cui Fu got married, she realized that the Duke's Mansion was not as rich as her parents' home. After all, the old prince made great achievements and awarded countless rewards. In addition, the fiefdom was rich, so he naturally had a lot of money and was much better than the Duke's Mansion, which was full of sacrificial mountains.
However, the Duke of Qing took the path of scholarly family and did not recommend their children to go out and enjoy themselves. Therefore, after Guo Yi got married, the monthly routine was limited every month. Guo Yi was born with a good social life and was often too short of being out with classmates and was not very decent.
Cui Fu couldn't stand her husband like this, so she naturally had to pay for it. After a long time, the wife of Duke Qing Guo was taken for granted. She just pretended not to know that her son didn't have enough money to spend, so she asked Cui Fu to pay for it.
Later, Guo Yi became an official, so it was better, but what he spent before became a hole.
Mother Li asked about the money one by one with a tense face. Mrs. Guo couldn't stand it anymore, so she said angrily: "She is concerned about food and clothing. She can buy everything from all over the face and gold hairpins. Of course, she spent it herself. Why do you still need my Duke Qing Mansion to add it now?"
Mother Li's face seemed to have been knocked over with ink, and her face was stretched out: "Our lady said, I was too lazy to take the fine money, just because Zhou Ji was settled down. But when you held the 50th birthday party, you disliked the ingenuity of the furniture in your house, so you fell in love with the flower petal gills that were dowed in our house, and you also had to buy it as usual. But your son's half a year's salary is not enough to buy a carved bed, so we must care that our lady borrowed a sum of money to make a filial piety scene. A complete set of flower petal gill furniture is still in your house. Do you think this payment should be settled?"
The money was originally paid from Cui Fu's dowry shop. There are traces to be found. Going to the government to sue is reasonable and well-founded. Mrs. Guo was so angry that her head was shaking, and she said angrily: "Since she is not my daughter-in-law, I naturally don't care about her hypocritical filial piety. You go to my house to make some orders and let their Cui family carry the ragged furniture away!"
Mother Li turned another page without any haste and said: "Mr. Guo needed to make some connections when he came to Beijing, and he also took care of our eldest lady's borrowing. Now that he is promoted, it is not our young lady who is enjoying his income. This money must be made up."
When Mrs. Guo heard this, she stopped doing it and said with a tense face: "This transaction was discussed by the couple themselves, so what does it have to do with the Duke's Mansion?"
Mother Li got Mian Tang's order earlier and smiled: "This silver expense is spent in exchange for Lord Guo's step-by-step promotion, otherwise how could he gain a foothold in the capital? The old and young people in your Duke's Mansion are all involved, so why has nothing to do with Duke Qing's Mansion?"
Mrs. Guo glared and said, "Don't mention these things to me! Whoever spends her money will ask for?" Anyway, Guo Yi has already used the excuse to patrol the countryside and temporarily left Beijing to avoid the limelight. She refused to admit it. What can the Cui family do?
They are all big houses in the royal palace, so how can they act so despicable? I am so embarrassed to ask for these money!
Mother Li was not anxious at all, and said word by word of Miantang: "If there is any difficulty in the mansion, our eldest lady will not make things difficult for you. She has lost her husband's family and has no place to rely on her. She simply gave up her face and asked her door to ask for it according to the threshold that Lord Guo had worshipped. I think those princes and men are also shameless and will not take advantage of the dowry of the woman and Li. Then we will leave. While it is still early, we should be able to get three or five mansions..."
When Mrs. Guo heard this, she was anxious. If Cui Fu was really so arrogant, wouldn’t her son offend countless nobles in the capital circle? How could she gain a foothold in the court?
"Stop it!" Mrs. Guo hurriedly called Li's mother, and her eyes turned over and over again with anger. Finally, she held back her anger and said, "I'll pay this money!"
After checking the bill, Li's mother checked the dowry on her face and did not have anyone changed her slander, so she asked someone to carry the box and leave.
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The long convoy was filled with ten large cars and turned back to the Huaiyang Palace in a mighty manner.
Because of the many decorations, Guo Yi borrowed them away and filled the scene of Xinxin House in the capital. At this time, it was cleaned up, and the entire hall of Duke Qing's Mansion seemed empty.
Although Mrs. Guo was not nostalgic for Cui Fu, she couldn't bear to give up so many things. Seeing that she was taken away one by one, she felt sad.
The precious concubine Yu Rao, who was taken by Guo Yixin, saw that her mother-in-law was not upset, so she came over obediently and explained: "Mother, it's good that they took it away, so that you won't be even more upset when you look at it and think of that woman."
The wife of Duke Qing Guo was venting her breath when she saw Yu Rao, she was angry and said, "At least, she brought a box when she got married. What about you? Although she is a concubine, she has to take some things to fill the scene, right? She came in almost empty-handedly, with only her mouth for eating, which may have helped your husband?"
Now that Cui Fu is gone, Duke Qingguo’s wife saw that she had chosen her precious concubine was not allowed to go to the table, and her sarcastic and harsh manners had already greeted her concubine’s daughter in her parents’ family. She just wanted to find a more decent family in the future, and she always wanted to let the Cui family see her. Her son would not have to worry about getting married!
Yu Rao's eyes were red when scolded for a moment, and she could only hold back her anger and kneel down and get scolded.
Seeing the servants of Duke Qing’s mansion shook their heads in their hearts - no wonder that even the wife is so good that she can’t keep people, so she insists on making trouble for the divorce! Such a mother-in-law is really unlucky for whoever meets who is unlucky!
After getting the dowry back, Cui Fu also has the confidence to be able to take care of her confinement.
Miantang couldn't rest with peace of mind. When Cui Xingzhou came back, he saw Miantang flipping through several thick books.
Cui Xingzhou walked over and kneaded her slender shoulders and said, "I haven't been tired yesterday? What's the tired eyes?"
Miantang pointed to the booklet and said, "This is the booklet of servants in the mansion. I want to sort it out again... This yard is probably not very clean!"
Chapter completed!