On this day, the eldest lady sat on the couch and watched Cai's mother picking up the things on the dresser, and her face ached.

Cai's mother opened the black lacquered makeup box and picked out several gold chains from it, as well as three or four gold hairpins. These gold chains and golden hairpins were given by the eldest lord before, and some were her dowry when she got married. Although the style is a little older, it is pure gold. If you recreate it according to the current fashionable style, it will definitely be much better than the ones sold now.

Mother Cai took out these things and put them on the square table propped up on the couch, then looked up at the eldest lady and asked, "Are these ladies going to be?"

The eldest lady nodded, and her face was tired like never before. She has never worried about clothes, no money to spend, but she doesn't want to plant a big heel in the matter of crystal rice, and the power to preside over the feed is gone.

Now she has a feeling of being at the end of her rope, and she is short of money in hand, and she doesn't know who to borrow it. Let's find my mother's house, my father is stingy, and it is a standard product that only knows how to enter, and does not understand it. If you want to go to the eldest brother, the eldest brother is easy to say, but don't you still have a sister-in-law? This sister-in-law is so powerful that if she wants to borrow one or two thousand taels of silver, she may say something sarcastic that everyone on the street can hear.

And for a person like her who marries, what she is most afraid of is being looked down upon by her mother. So, no matter what, she has to live well, at least let them think so. So every year she would pay some money out of the gongzhong. Take it back to her mother's house, so as to show off how well she is doing in her in-law's house. Anyway, no matter what. can't be looked down upon by the mother's family.

Therefore, the current eldest lady can only find her own way of thinking. So, she thought about it and felt that the shop could never be sold, it was a treasure land to make money, and it would be even more difficult to come back after selling. Since it is someone else's shop, he refuses to sell the land. The shop under her own name was reluctant to sell, and the eldest lady could only hope to sell some gold and silver jewelry to ease the urgent need for the two thousand taels of silver in front of her.

"It's all sold. The eldest lady looked at the jewels carefully. "Remember, don't die, live live. These pieces of my jewelry add up to just two thousand taels of silver! I really didn't expect that I would be a dignified lady of the Marquis of Yuanning's mansion. It's going to end up in a place where you pawn jewelry like those ruined people."

I saw the reluctant look on the eldest lady's face. Cai's mother hurriedly said: "Madame, don't be sad, this is just a temporary emergency." When the lady gets the power of presiding over the middle feed in this mansion again, is there still a mere two thousand taels of silver left for this house?"

The eldest lady nodded: "You are right. She gritted her teeth and suppressed the dissatisfaction and resentment in her heart, "It won't be long before I regain the power of the Yuanning Marquis Mansion, and no one can stop me!"

She turned her head to look at Cai's mother: "How is the situation in the second room now?"

Mother Cai is really a capable person, and she heard the eldest lady ask. replied neatly: "The slave and maid have already found out the situation in the second room. Isn't this the Empress Dowager's birthday approaching? The old lady called the one in the second room a few days ago and told her to make every effort to make a good deal of the Empress Dowager's congratulatory gift. You can't lose the face of the Marquis of Yuanning. As soon as the person in the second room went back, the activity was opened, and I heard that the congratulatory gift was lacquerware. For the sake of this second room, he also specially asked the old lady for instructions, whether he could use 10,000 taels of silver in the public middle school."

"Ten thousand taels of silver?!" the eldest lady's eyes widened, "Did the old lady agree?"

Cai's mother nodded: "The old lady agreed, and immediately allocated 10,000 taels of silver from the public middle school to the one in the second room." He immediately contacted one of the most famous local lacquer masters in Yangzhou to make a lacquer plate to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her immortality and longevity than Nanshan, which took a month. ”

The eldest lady couldn't sit still, got off the bed, and paced back and forth on the ground: "I really didn't expect that the old lady would be willing to make such a big deal for the birthday of the queen mother." According to the old lady's thoughts, it must be for the position of the future crown princess, as well as the future of several elder brothers in the house."

At this, a look of annoyance appeared on the eldest lady's face. It is said that the old lady is willing to spend money in order to fight for the position of the crown princess, but who is the position of the crown princess, is it her big room or the second room? As for the future of several elder brothers, the son born by herself has no ability, and there is no hope of studying, and there is only the one who can read in the second room left in the house. If the position of the crown princess is taken away by the second room again, then won't there be nothing left on her side of the big room?"

The more the eldest lady thought about it, the more wrong it became: "No! The second room must not be allowed to show off on the birthday of the queen mother, if this is really the case, then we will really have no place in the mansion in the future." ”

Cai's mother echoed: "Madame is right, this matter has to be prepared for a rainy day, and it can only be done by planning and dealing with it early, otherwise, it will be out of the limelight by the second room, and it will be difficult for Madame to regain the power of the Hou Mansion." ”

The eldest lady snorted and said, "Don't panic, the one in the second room is just the daughter of a fifth-grade official, I'm afraid I haven't even seen real lacquerware." She spent a lot of money to make a new lacquerware, didn't she know that the older the lacquerware was, the more valuable it became? ”

Cai's mother's eyes lit up: "What does Madame mean?"

The eldest lady said calmly: "Isn't there still a month to go? Later, I will write a letter to the general, and you will send him to the border with 600 miles in an expedited manner. The general has been fighting in the south and the north over the years, and there are many capable people under his command. A few years ago, I also heard that he had a man who was very good at antiques, and I wanted to borrow this person. As for the second room, when the 10,000 yuan lacquer plate is delivered to the capital, we will do a little more."

The eldest lady paused, didn't say any more, and a smug smile appeared on her face: "The small family in the second room, if you want to play with me, don't think about it!"

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Border.

At the end of July, the weeds that used to be green and green have turned yellow, and when the wind blows, the wind and sand are all over the sky, and when you go out and open your mouth to talk, you can eat several grains of yellow sand.

In this area, except for some small villages and towns, there are military camps that cannot be seen at a glance, and there are 100,000 troops of the Jokhang Kingdom. The General's Mansion is located in the innermost part of the barracks, a tall building, and the momentum is magnificent. There are also several buildings built against the General's Palace, where the families of the generals live.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and a royal blue canopy folding feather tassel carriage drove out of the nearest border town, Lehe Town, and headed for the direction of the General's Mansion.

In the border pass, it is rare to see such a luxurious carriage, and this kind of carriage cannot be taken by a prestigious government. As soon as passers-by saw this carriage, they knew that it was the carriage of the general's wife, and they avoided it one after another.

The general's wife sat in the car, although the road was a little uneven and swaying, but it did not affect her excited mood at this time. She weighed the heavy money bag in her hand with a smug look on her face.

At that moment, the carriage suddenly jolted. (To be continued......)