Chapter 235 Ten thousand taels of silver
"How can that be done? My father has been wronged. How can I, a daughter, just watch and ignore him?" Xia Zihan looked determined to see to the end.
Xu curled her lips and wanted to say, 'Since you want to take care of it, why don't you let your father live in your house. ’ Then he wanted to say, ‘You pity your father, why don’t you buy a house for your father? Aren’t you very rich? ’
But these words cannot come from her mouth, she is a stepmother.
Xia Ziqing smiled and said, "Second sister, those are all the affairs of the elders. It's our turn to be the juniors' stewards."
"The second sister is a rich person. The second sister is so filial to my father. How about the second sister buy a house for him to live in?" Xia Ziying suddenly ran over, grabbed Xia Zihan's clothes, and begged softly, "Just Buy a house as big as Chu’s house, and then the second sister will have a place to live.”
That beautiful little face is full of anticipation and hope, so touching that people can't bear to refuse her request.
Except for Xia Zihan.
Xia Zihan said, "I would like dad to move directly to the Chu residence, but dad said that there is no reason in the world for a son-in-law to live in his mother-in-law's house and not leave. He is not a door-to-door son-in-law."
And the house she bought with her money was naturally surnamed Chu rather than Xia. How could her father live in the house she bought?
She looked at Xia Ziying's disappointed face with a smile from the corner of her eyes.
Xu's face, which was full of excitement, suddenly returned to calm, and disappointment and annoyance flashed deep in his eyes.
Xia Zihan changed the topic and suddenly said, "I heard that my grandmother gave my mother ten thousand taels of silver when she came this time. I thought it was the money my grandmother gave my mother to buy a house in the capital. It turned out not to be the case. However, daily life It doesn’t cost so much money to chew it.”
Her words undoubtedly dropped a bomb into the sea, causing huge waves.
Xia Zilan was the first to exclaim, "Second aunt, my grandmother gave you ten thousand taels of silver. Yesterday you complained to me about poverty and asked me to come and ask for our chewing silver from the second sister. Are you lying to me?"
"Second aunt, is what second sister said true?" Xia Ziqing stared at Xu in surprise.
Only Xia Ziying's expression seemed annoyed or angry, and she glared at Xia Zihan resentfully, as if blaming her for bringing this matter out.
Mrs. Xu was insulted by several juniors, but in front of Mrs. Zeng. She was angry and angry, and glared at Xia Zilan angrily.
Xia Zilan looked aggrieved when she was stared at. She jumped a few steps away and muttered unconvincedly, "Why are you glaring at me? I'm not wrong. You asked me to come and talk to my second sister today about the money I need to chew at home." , and also said that the second sister must give us the Zhuangzi given by the emperor, so that the family has enough money, otherwise we will not be able to pay the monthly salary. "
This naughty boy, in a hurry, completely betrayed Mr. Xu.
Looking at Xia Ziying's eyes as he stared at her, as if he wanted to eat her alive, and Mrs. Xu's look of shame and anger, as if she wanted to hang herself, you knew that this naughty kid had not wronged her.
Zeng and Xia Zihan's expressions immediately darkened, and they looked unhappy.
Mrs. Zeng looked at Mrs. Xu with a straight face, "Although it is a child's talk, children can't lie. If this is what Mrs. Xia came to Chu's house for, then I advise Mrs. Xia to save her breath."
"Yu Niang has never eaten a grain of rice from the Xia family or drank a sip of water from the Xia family since she was three years old. It was the Chu family that raised her to this age, and the Xia family is just a strange home to her. Apart from her, Dad, this is also the first time for her and you to meet. We are all strangers. As for whether you eat or drink in the future, it has nothing to do with her. Mrs. br>
"I think Jiang Ningxia's family is not so poor that they can't even support their children, right?"
This last sentence is too strong.
The stepmother seeks to seize the property from her original daughter-in-law, and the grandmother seizes the dowry left by her deceased daughter-in-law. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the capital. It can be said that there are too many.
Many first wives died, and the dowry left behind was misappropriated by the step-in-law or husband's family, and then they found various excuses not to return it. This kind of thing happened too often.
But most of this kind of thing happens in small families. A large and respectable family like the Xia family and the Chu family disdain to occupy the dowry of their deceased daughter-in-law.
Once something like this happens, if word gets out, it will be the Xia family that will be lost. The Xia family is a farming and reading family with a scholarly family, and the most important thing is their face.
For them, they would rather lose their lives than lose their face.
In the end, the disgraced Mrs. Xu left Chu's house angrily with the three girls without even having lunch.
After returning home, Mrs. Xu called Xia Zilan and scolded her severely. She was also punished by kneeling for an hour, and she was punished by copying female training a hundred times.
Xia Zilan is only seven years old and has just learned to write for a year or two. She can't even hold a pen very well. She may not be able to finish it in a month if she copies the girl's instructions a hundred times. Besides, she is not a person who can sit still and write.
After kneeling for an hour, her knees hurt and she kept crying, and she kept fussing and not writing.
Xia Zilan is the legitimate daughter of the third wife of the Xia family. Mr. Xia is in charge of the general affairs of the Xia family, and all the Xia family's money is in his hands. On weekdays, Mr. Xia and his wife also love Xia Zilan very much, and they also create Xia Zilan's willful and arrogant temper.
When she came to Beijing this time, Mrs. Xu originally planned to come with her and Xia Ziying, mother and daughter, but her son, Mrs. Xia, refused to let her bring him, and had to bring her son herself.
Mrs. Xu's son is the youngest grandson of the Xia family, and he is very loved by Mrs. Xia. Mrs. Xu is very relieved to let Mrs. Xia take care of her son.
But after Xia Zilan heard a cousin of hers who had been to the capital describe how wonderful the capital was, she looked forward to it. When she saw that Xia Ziying was coming to Beijing, she started crying and wanted to come with her. Mr. Xia had no choice but to take care of his precious daughter.
Just because Xia Zilan wanted to come to Beijing with Mr. Xu, when Mrs. Xia asked Third Master Xia for 10,000 taels of silver for Xu to buy a house in the capital, Mr. Xia, who was in charge of money, happily agreed.
Xia Ziqing, the eldest daughter, saw that Xia Ziying and Xia Zilan had come to the capital. She also wanted to come to the capital to have a look. Mrs. Xia also wanted the fourteen-year-old Xia Ziqing to find a good husband's family in the capital, preferably a noble family.
She agreed to Xia Ziqing's plea and asked Mrs. Xu to help Xia Ziqing look at it. If there was anything suitable, she would order it for Xia Ziqing.
Mrs. Xia had told Xia Ziqing about this matter. She said that after Xia Ziqing came, she respected Mrs. Xu and never caused any trouble for her.
But Xia Ziqing was still a little angry about what happened today.
She suspected that Mrs. Xu planned to pocket the 10,000 taels of silver, and wanted to get the money from Xia Zihan. When the time came, people from the Xia family asked, and Mrs. Xu casually said that she had spent it on everyone, and there was nothing her family could do to her. , after all, Xia Ziqing and Xia Zilan are from the first and third bedrooms. With them here, it is normal for Xu to spend a lot.
As for Xia Shiming, another person who she didn't dare to bribe with money was given to her.
Without any external money, his salary of thirty or forty taels of silver a month was not enough for them to buy rouge and gouache.
Xia Ziqing felt that Mr. Xu was too evil-minded, and from that day on, she became more evil-minded towards Mr. Xu.
Don't be betrayed by others, she still counts the money with others, she has not forgotten when her mother asked Mrs. Xu to show her her husband's house.
That afternoon, after Xia Shiming returned home, he heard Xia Zilan crying, saw Xia Zilan's bruised knees, and listened to her twitching and crying complaints.
After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, Xia Shiming became angry, called Mrs. Xu and reprimanded her severely.
"Those are the things that the emperor gave to Yu Niang. You dare to take advantage of them. Let me tell you, that is Yu Niang's property, not my property, and not the Xia family's property. You'd better use your little bit of property. Be careful to extinguish your thoughts, otherwise, you will go back to Jiangning City and never come to the capital.”
Then he deprived Mrs. Xu of her housekeeping rights, "You should calm down for a while, and I will leave this house to Aunt Zhang to take care of."
"Also, bring me the ten thousand taels of silver, and I will instruct Guo An to handle the affairs of the house."
Since his mother had given him money to buy a house, he would buy one, which would save so many people from crowding into a two-story house, and the houses of several girls making a lot of noise all day long.
Ten thousand taels of silver can buy a house with an area of 400 square meters.
Xu's pear blossoms were covered with rain, and she looked pitifully at Xia Shiming's expressionless face, wanting to die.
She now extremely regrets what she said to Xia Zilan yesterday.
I wanted to take advantage of that little girl's rambunctious temperament to get Xia Zihan's Zhuangzi over first, but in the end, she was beaten down by that little girl and betrayed her.
Not only could he lose the ten thousand taels of silver in his hand, but he had also lost his face and lost the housekeeper's affairs, which was a waste of money for Aunt Zhang, that cheap maid.
The most important thing is that with the ten thousand taels of silver, she planned to buy some real estate shop jewelry and other things to use as a dowry for Ying'er.
This time it was all right, everything was in vain, and he gained a reputation as a man who calculated his stepdaughter's property.
And all this was caused by that bitch Xia Zihan.
If she hadn't mentioned the ten thousand taels of silver, that little lunatic Xia Zilan would have betrayed her.
It's all the fault of that bitch Xia Zihan.
Mrs. Xu gritted her teeth and hated Xia Zihan in her heart.
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At this time, Xia Zihan was very happy. As soon as Mrs. Xu left, she happily had lunch with Mrs. Zeng, and even forgot about the bad things about Cuiyuxuan.
Zeng asked her in confusion, "Yu Niang, how do you know that the Xia family gave Xu 10,000 taels of silver to buy a house?"
"Chu Fei told me." Xia Zihan said with a sweet smile. When she saw that there were no outsiders on either side, only her and her grandmother's confidants, she pursed her lips and giggled, "She sneaked in last night The Xia family overheard Mrs. Xu telling Mother Qin to buy a shop.”
Chu Fei would go to Xia's house to monitor Xu. Of course it was her order. She overheard the conversation between Xu and Qin's mother, and she realized that Xu had ten thousand taels of silver in his hand.
When Mrs. Xu married into the Xia family, her dowry was not much, just four thousand taels of silver, and it was all jewelry, utensils, fabrics, etc. There was no profit-making Zhuangzi shop.
(End of chapter)