Chapter 43: Wei's Grievances
With such a princess who even dared to give the face of the queen as her younger sister-in-law, He Linwan knew that the days of the Dayu clan in the Dingwu Marquis Mansion would definitely not be easy.
Wei also figured this out and couldn't help but sigh.
Da Yu smiled cheerfully: "Don't sigh for me, I've also figured out that person's temperament for so many years, as long as she touches it, she is not too difficult to serve." By the way, I heard that Mrs. Wei asked her to come to you, and she didn't embarrass you, did she?"
He Linwan glanced at Wei's and thought that Mrs. Wei in Dayu's mouth should be Wei's stepmother Yao. I didn't expect the Yao family to come today, and he also came to find the Wei family?
Wei smiled: "I am a married daughter, what can she embarrass me now? I endured it all these years, and now I ......" Speaking of this, Wei Shi realized that He Linwan was there, so he swallowed the words that followed.
He Linwan heard from these few short sentences that it was difficult for the Wei family to make a living in the hands of the Wei family Yao when he was not married.
Da Yu also sighed: "Yes, fortunately, they all survived." If you hadn't been on guard at the beginning, and the old lady wasn't old and confused, it would have been a question of whether you could take the dowry your mother had left you. ”
Wei sneered when he heard this: "In addition to beating me this time, she really has something to do with my dowry." ”
Da Yu couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "Oh?"
Wei said lightly: "You know, my mother is a very successful person, when she learned that her body was dying, she was afraid that I would lose my support in the future." She sold the antique calligraphy and paintings that were not easy to carry in her dowry, as well as some valuable fabrics and jewelry, and folded them into silver taels, which, together with her own savings, was a large amount, and these were handed over to your mother for safekeeping. ”
Da Yu nodded: "I heard my mother mention these, she also persuaded your mother at the beginning, saying that she was so wary of her husband's family, and would rather believe that she, an outsider, would not believe that the people of the Wei family slapped her husband's family in the face, for fear that she would lose the favor of the elders and be separated from Lord Wei." But what happened later proved that your mother was right. ”
Wei smiled sarcastically: "No, fortunately, my mother was behind the Wei family when she did these things, and they didn't know that my mother's treasury for the dowry was actually empty, and everything in it was changed by my mother." After Yao entered the door, he got the key to the treasury from my father under the pretext of holding a birthday banquet for my grandmother. He said he was borrowing some utensils and ornaments from my mother's dowry. As a result, on the day of the birthday banquet, it was pointed out that a pair of plum vases and several calligraphy and paintings in the flower hall were fakes, which made the Wei family lose face in front of the whole capital, so that the Wei family has not had a big banquet for so many years, for fear of being taken out of the original matter. ”
Da Yu smiled unkindly: "This incident really made the Wei family a big laughing stock in the capital. But what is even more ridiculous is that Mrs. Wei not only learned her lesson. After that, I secretly took your mother's jewelry to the outside gold shop, and wanted to melt it and re-make the jewelry as my own. I don't want your mother to have already changed all her expensive jewelry. ”
Wei's face was slightly cold: "Some of my mother's jewelry was given by the former queen. It was extremely rare, Yao must have thought that my mother would leave those for me as a dowry. Unfortunately, my mother had long anticipated how she and my good father could succeed. In addition to selling most of them, only a few sets of heads and jewelry were left with silver tickets and handed over to your mother for safekeeping!"
He Linwan couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, according to Wei's statement, Yao had a relationship with her father before Wei's mother died, so her mother would be so wary of Yao and her father?
Da Yu couldn't help but feel a little gloomy: "The first queen is a good person, but it's a pity that good people don't live long." ”
Wei said lightly: "They dare to bully our mother and daughter like this, just because they know that my mother's mother's family has no one to support us since she ascended the throne today, and the Wang family is even the current queen's mother's family is difficult to protect itself, what else do they have to worry about?" The Wei family doesn't look at the scenery from the outside, my father is now also an official to the third grade, barely a big member, but I know that the Wei family does not have much family background to support the profligacy of a large family, when my mother was there, because my mother was good at housekeeping and financial management, so the Wei family did not have to worry about spending, and later the Yao family became the family...... "Wei sneered when he said this.
Da Yu said: "You said that Mrs. Wei came to you today for your dowry, is it possible that after all these years, she still wants to ask for your dowry silver?"
It's a pipe dream!
Wei shook his head and thought for a while before saying, "When I was in my mother's house, I was troubled by the Yao family, and I lost it to my grandmother several times...... Do you know why my grandmother was willing to disobey my father's wishes several times and defend me in front of Yao?"
Da Yu was stunned: "Could it be that there are other reasons?"
Over the years, she has always thought that the Wei family is not a good thing even if it is someone else, at least the old lady is a good person. You must know that the black-hearted Yao family wanted to marry Wei to a widower in his forties to her mother's family as a house, but the old lady desperately stopped this family business, and found the He family business for Wei.
He Linwan couldn't help but listen to it. Wei rarely mentioned the Wei family in front of her, although she faintly understood in her heart that Wei was estranged from her mother's family, but she didn't expect that there would be so much inside information, this was the first time she heard the grievances between Wei and the Wei family.
Wei's expression was very calm: "The old lady is ...... to me Maybe there is a bit of ancestral friendship, but the most important thing in her heart is the Wei family and her son and grandson, the reason why she protected me back then was because my mother Ning made a deal with her before she died. ”
"What?" Da Yu's eyes widened in shock, this was the first time she had heard about it.
Wei smiled: "When my mother knelt down and begged the old lady, I heard their conversation from beginning to end in the outhouse. Sister Yu, you shouldn't know that in addition to the silver tickets and jewelry that my mother left me, there are also four shops on Zhengyang Street. ”
As soon as these words came out, even He Linwan was surprised.
Zhengyang Street is the most prosperous area in the capital, because of the huge flow of people, the best businesses in the whole Zhou Dynasty are concentrated on that street to open stores, so even the high rent of Zhengyang Street shops are in short supply.
When He Linwan asked Li Heng to ask for the plum garden, Li Heng proposed to use the three shops under his name to replace it but He Linwan refused, in fact, according to the value theory, the three shops are much more valuable than the plum garden.
Wei continued: "My mother wants my grandmother to protect me until I get married, and I also want my grandmother to choose a family business for me that is passable, and I can't leave my family affairs to my father and Yao. She handed over the four shops to the Wei family for ten years unconditionally. My grandmother agreed, and my mother wrote the deed and asked my grandmother to take an oath in the name of the Wei family's ancestors. ”
Da Yu was speechless, and finally just sighed with a wry smile: "Your mother, your mother is really ......"
Wei also smiled, but his eyes were red: "My mother thought about everything for me when she was alive, and she was completely rejected by my father because of this, and even my grandmother was extremely dissatisfied with my mother because she forced her to swear a poisonous oath before she died. ”
Seeing Wei like this, He Linwan couldn't help but step forward and hold one of her hands, Wei looked at He Linwan, the sadness in his eyes gradually dissipated, and turned into a heart full of pity for her daughter, She held He Linwan's hand instead, signaling that she was fine.
Seeing the interaction between the mother and daughter, Da Yu was also extremely comforted, and asked: "The ten-year period will come last year, right?"
Wei said: "When my mother took over the Wei family, the Wei family couldn't make ends meet, and later it was all supported by the income of my mother's dowry shop. In the past ten years, it is the existence of these four shops that has made the Wei family live a comfortable life, and they are naturally unwilling to return the shop. At the end of the decade last year, there was no movement on the Wei family's side, and there seemed to be no intention to return it to me, and then it was rumored that the old lady was sick, and I asked people to send some medicinal materials back to visit the old lady, and read the old lady's love for me back then, and I didn't mention it this year, until this year's Dragon Boat Festival, I sent someone to send some gifts to the Wei family, and mentioned the matter of the shop with the old lady, the old lady did not respond at the time, saying that it would be total. Today, Yao said that I should go back to my parents' house in a few days, and the old lady has something to explain to me, I think I should want to talk about the shop. ”
Hearing this, the Da Yu clan hurriedly asked, "The contracts of the four shops are in your hands?"
Wei's chin bowed: "My mother naturally won't give it to anyone in the Wei family, but it's useless for me to just have the deed, for so many years, my mother's people in those four shops must have been replaced, and I have never seen the account book." At that time, even if it is returned to me, it will probably be an empty shell. What's more, it's not so easy for the Wei family to return those shops, I can't take the deed to the government to sue them, right?"
Da Yu said angrily: "This Wei family is really shameless enough! Isn't it just to deceive you and have no support from a foreign family? Don't be afraid, this is because their Wei family ignored it, I will go back and talk to my mother, and when the time comes, I will go to the Wei family with my mother to support you." ”
Wei was very grateful: "Thank you Sister Yu, I'll go back in a few days to see what they mean, if I really need you and my aunt to come forward to support me, I won't be polite to you." ”
Sincerely ask for pink tickets for tomorrow...... T-T.
(To be continued......)