Chapter 011 Returning the Dowry
Mrs. Chen said seriously: "You little girls of your age should drink this the most. You are not allowed to be polite to your health!"
The Yuchun sisters all looked at He.
He smiled and said, "Mrs. Chen asked you to drink it, just drink it, don't let Mrs. Chen down."
Sister Yuchun thanked Mrs. Chen all the time, and then she dared to take the red dates handed over by the maid, stewed donkey-hide gelatin, sit down and drink slowly.
Mrs. Chen asked Yu Ci: "Did the prescription that the doctor prescribed for your mother yesterday was in your hands? Give it to me, and I asked the servants to grab the medicine and fry it for your mother to drink."
He hurriedly said, "Mrs. Chen, this is not something to do! Living in Mrs. Shen's house is enough to disturb her. How can Mrs. Chen spend money to make medicine for the private women?"
Not only is it cost money, but it is not auspicious to boil medicine at other people's houses.
Mrs. Chen was not careful: "What's the cost of spending or not? I will definitely ask Mr. Lin for this medicine. He injured you. Shouldn't he pay the money?"
Although He strongly refused, when he met someone like Mrs. Chen who would never give up until she achieved her goal, he could only follow her arrangements in the end.
As expected, Mrs. Chen sent someone to ask Lin Youwen for a sum of money, and at noon He took medicine.
Yuqing wanted her to take medicine as soon as possible. Although it caused too much trouble to Mrs. Chen, He's health was important.
Yesterday, the doctor said clearly that if He's internal injuries are not treated in time, they may be worried about their lives.
As soon as he woke up this morning, Yuqing was wondering how to ask Mrs. Chen to decoct medicine for He at her house. Unexpectedly, Shen would take the initiative to propose it and did it.
Yuqing was very grateful to her, thinking that she would repay her great kindness if she had the chance in the future.
After disturbing the county magistrate's yamen for five days, it was finally time for Lin Youwen to return He's dowry.
He had a lot of expensive furniture that he had dowry back then, so the team carrying furniture was more than ten feet long. It was spectacular in a small local lieutenant like Nanping, which attracted many people to watch.
Everyone whispered and talked about the fact that although the He family was rich, it was a pity that there was no good ending.
It really reflects "The moon has phases and waxing, and people have joys and sorrows."
Seeing him getting up the red building, watching him entertain guests, and seeing his building collapse, things in the world are too impermanent!
After breakfast, He took his daughters to stand in the court of the county government. Seeing the mahogany piece of mahogany being carried in, his heart that had been hanging for a few days finally fell back into his stomach.
He has been living a very nervous these days, afraid that Lin Youwen will find hundreds of excuses not to return her dowry.
However, after all the furniture was shipped, Lin Youwen had not shown up for a long time and no one had seen any other dowry.
The hearts of He and his daughters rose to their throats again.
It’s not that Lin Youwen doesn’t want to return the gold and silver heads, but those are the big ones.
Mrs. Chen, who was with her mother and daughter, was uneasy and was about to send someone to Lin's house to see what was going on, she saw Lin You's face full of haggardness and limping in like a lost mother.
When everyone saw his expression, they felt an unknown feeling in their hearts.
Mrs. Chen looked at Lin Youwen coldly and asked in a deep voice: "Have you brought Mrs. He's head and gold and silver?"
Lin Youwen's eyes dodged and stuttered: "Take...I bring..."
Mrs. Chen said with a cold face: "Since you have brought it, then return it to Mrs. He quickly!"
Lin Youwen hesitated for a moment and said to the slave who held a red plaque covered with a red brocade in his hands, "Why don't you bring the things to Mrs. He!"
The two servants walked to He with their heads down.
He opened the red brocade on the tray held by a slave with a serious expression. Although it was full of silver ingots, it was only three hundred taels.
Her face suddenly became unfavorable, and she mustered up the courage to uncover the brocade on another tray.
Although there were more than a dozen pieces of heads and faces on the tray, they were just gold and silver jewelry such as small hairpins and hairpins.
At that time, He was dowrying, such as the five phoenixes hanging pearl hairpins in Chaoyang, and the golden phoenixes, but there were only four or five big phoenix hairpins, but at this moment, no one was seen.
Mrs. Chen immediately changed her face and asked Lin Youwen in a deep voice: "You can bring such a little gold and silver face. Who are you trying to fool?"
Lin Youwen said with a sad face: "Madam Chen, the young man is eager to return all the heads, faces, gold and silver, just... just..."
Mrs. Chen had a pink face and was filled with power: "It's just what? If you dare to say a word, I will ask the county master to beat you to death!"
Lin Youwen said with a dismay, "Yes...yes, it's like that. Since Master Qingtian ruled that the young man would return all of He's dowry, the young man went to usury the next day and asked to withdraw my principal.
Wang Dalong, who was loaned out at usury, agreed to return all the principal and interest to the small one in four days.
But yesterday, when I went to his place, I found that the building was empty.
Xiao knew something was wrong, so he quickly searched for Wang Dalong's whereabouts overnight, and found it all the time and still had no news."
Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly: "When someone deliberately escaped with money, how could he let the little one find him easily?"
Yu Qing looked at him inquiringly: "Since I found out that Wang Dalong ran away early yesterday morning, why didn't I report to the official at that time? Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope to arrest Wang Dalong and others."
Lin Youwen raised the blood-covered panda and looked at Yu Qingqing, and said with a broken face: "How do you know I didn't report to the official? It just so happened that Master Qingtian was out on inspection and no one accepted it. What should you do if you ask me to do?"
Seeing Yuqing's face full of suspicion, Mrs. Chen whispered: "Your father did not lie. A tenant farmer robbed landlords of food in a village more than 40 miles away from the county town, which was becoming more and more intense. The county master went to quell the rebellion and has not returned to his house yet."
Yuqing then left the suspicion in her heart, pointed to the tray with her head and asked Lin Youwen coldly, "Then how do you explain this?
When I left Lin's mansion yesterday, I saw that the eldest daughter Rao, born to your Aunt Rong, was wearing my mother's phoenix on her head, but I didn't see her here!"
Lin Youwen explained quietly: "I have already taken all your mother's heads and faces to lend to you by usury. I really hope to take them back this time to return them to your mother, but I didn't expect that they were all gone~
As for the golden phoenix you saw on your sister Rao’s head, it was just a fake for sale. It was made of silver and was just a layer of gold on it. The gems on it were also fake, and they were colorful glass from the West.”
Seeing Yuqing staring at him with suspicion and sharpness, he hurriedly said, "If you don't believe me, I can ask someone to order all your sisters and sisters to take them. You can send them to the pawnshop or the silver house to find out the truth or falsehood."
Yuqing said coldly, "No matter whether it is a fake or not, just use it to compensate my mother's dowry."
Chapter completed!