Chapter 188: A dowry
Although Mu Hibiscus is the county lord who has only been crowned for a short time, and Zhuangzi has just arrived, because the Zhuangzi was already cultivated by hand, but when it was changed to Mu Hibiscus, Mu Hibiscus rearranged someone to take over, so even if the things are new to the hand, this year's harvest will be there. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Uh...... The harvest came, and so did the harvest. β
As the head of the house, could she not know that her Zhuangzi harvest and her harvest had come?
But she asked herself what was this?
But when she heard Mrs. Zhou, she smiled and said: "That's the case, the money that everyone in the house is waiting for is spent together in the public middle school, and everyone does this, including your father, so I don't treat you differently, lest others say it, so you see, are your Zhuangzi harvest and money handed over to the public middle school?"
The things that opened her mouth to find Mu Hibiscus and asked Princess Changping to give her were not very good, and she wanted to force her to hand over with Mu Hibiscus's weaknesses, but she couldn't find a way, so at this time, Mrs. Zhou could only talk about Mu Hibiscus and Lu Lu, this is what everyone did, her request was reasonable, that is, if she said it, others would not say that she was unreasonable.
Mu Hibiscus is the county lord, and the Zhuangzi harvest and Yulu together, also have an income of one or two thousand taels, and like Zhou Tao, a guest of honor, with such a large income to join the public middle school, their life will be much better this year.
Naturally, this was not her idea alone, but the old lady hinted at it.
The old lady was obviously unhappy, and muttered to her henchmen in private more than once, saying that the hibiscus had a virtue with her dead ghost old lady, and Mrs. Zhou was ahead of the door than the county lord of Dezhao, so she naturally understood what the old lady meant.
What if you don't pull out a dime like this, it's not that you end up with a dowry that is all given to people. Mrs. Zhou thought with a sneer.
Although she didn't give birth to a son and had no status, she lost her life more than some people, and her private room was all divided into clean and strong.
In fact, the county lord of Dezhao is not a dime, occasionally when rewarding, he will take out some points, and he will also send some red envelopes on the third festival and two birthdays, but the Zhou family obviously does not think that this is enough, it just so happened that the old lady's daughter Concubine Zhou had just entered the palace, and it was when she needed money, the old lady was reluctant to spend her own money, so she put on the idea of the money of the county lord of Dezhao, but like Zhou Tao, he was a face-loving person, and it was not good to ask for it directly, so he only said in front of the county lord of Dezhao how much money Concubine Zhou would spend in the palace, and how difficult the family was, so he hoped that the county lord of Dezhao would understand what he meant and take the initiative to take it out, but the county lord of Dezhao did not know whether he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, just don't take out her money to help Concubine Zhou, which makes the old lady angry.
So at this time, the old lady commented that Mu Hibiscus had a virtue with the county lord of Dezhao, not a word of praise, but a dislike for her.
Since he was disgusted, he naturally couldn't see that Mu Hibiscus kept carrying things into his pocket, but he didn't take things out, so the old lady hinted a few days ago that since Mu Hibiscus has not yet married and is still at home, the income and income of this official village should also be placed in the public middle like everyone else.
And the "filial son" Zhou Tao naturally won't say anything about his mother's decision.
Since she doesn't even have an opinion on Hibiscus's biological father, she naturally won't have an opinion.
can make herself richer and get more oil and water, Mrs. Zhou naturally has nothing to be reluctant to.
Although she didn't give birth to a son, only a daughter, but what if she could still give birth? Doesn't she want to save money for her future son? Besides, even if she can't give birth, saving for her daughter is the same, so she won't refuse the old lady's hint, so she ran over today and told Hibiscus about it.
Mu Hibiscus and Mama Zhang glanced at each other, Mama Zhang nodded, so Mu Hibiscus said: "This is also how it should be, that Mama Zhang, you can take the income of the official village and the income to the eldest aunt, and also bring the accounts, let the eldest aunt check it." β
She knew that if she dared not to give it, it was estimated that they would say something unpleasant about herself outside, so she agreed, anyway, it was just this year, and she would marry into the Linjiang Mansion next year, and they would not be there.
As for checking the accounts, it is also necessary, after all, she doesn't want to give them all the money, but because she didn't check the accounts, let them spread rumors that they had withheld, or even said that they didn't give it, which would be bad.
For the people in this mansion, it is impossible to take precautions, after all, her mother is in this mansion, and she died inexplicably after just over a year after she came in, making it difficult for her to be cautious.
Mrs. Zhou really has this kind of thought, but seeing that Mu Hibiscus is very careful, she said so, and she couldn't help but feel a little regretful, thinking that it seems that the trouble of finding this girl in the house is not found, because this girl is too cautious, so that people have nowhere to start, if you really want to find her trouble, it is estimated that you can only pick the bones in the egg, but it is too obvious to do that, and the reputation will not be good, whether it is the old lady or Zhou Taoke, it is estimated that it will not be able to do it, so he smiled at the moment: " It's all a family, where do you need to be so serious, you don't need to bring the account book, not to say that you didn't keep it, even if you leave some points, you should keep it. β
Mu Hibiscus didn't want to leave sequelae, so he shook his head firmly and said: "Brother, settle the accounts, this account book, the eldest aunt should check it clearly, so as not to have any unclear points in the future." β
Mrs. Zhou saw that she was as careful as a hair, and she couldn't find any mistakes at all, so she could only say, "Okay, I'll check it out." β
Everyone said so, and she deliberately didn't take it, but in the future, she spread rumors that Hibiscus withheld the money or said that she didn't give it, that is, she ignored it, so she naturally had to say this.
In fact, she doesn't have much contradiction with Hibiscus, at least there is no big contradiction at the moment, on the contrary, seeing that she doesn't give Aunt Bai a good face, it also makes her feel very happy, so she doesn't seem to need to find trouble with Hibiscus, but isn't this the old lady's hint, she doesn't want to disobey the old lady's will, lest one day she will end up with the same fate as the county lord of Dezhao, so it will be bad to set up Hibiscus at this time.
After Mrs. Zhou checked and left, Mu Hibiscus said lightly to Mama Zhang: "Since they are so insatiable, they don't count so much dowry from my mother, and they don't even let go of this little money, then it seems that my mother's money can be discussed." β
Originally, she also felt that mentioning this would cause an extreme blow to their mental and psychological situation, after all, no one wanted to lose tens of thousands of taels of money, so she originally thought that she should wait until the New Year to mention it, at least let them have a good New Year first, but now people don't care about her feelings at all, obviously occupying her mother's tens of thousands of taels of private house, everyone is rich in their hands, but they are still so greedy, only in and out, their money doesn't want to be spent, they just want to gnaw on her, and even the money in her hands is one or two thousand taels and wants to be taken away from her, then she still has a bad conscienceγ
"That's what Miss is supposed to be, and it's reasonable to take it back. Mama Zhang said.
So Mrs. Zhou looked for Hibiscus the day before to leave, Mrs. Zhou and others knew that this kind of behavior would definitely make Hibiscus unhappy, and when they thought that Hibiscus would be unhappy when they slammed the door, Mrs. Zhou and the others felt satisfied.
It's a pity that this was satisfied, and the next day it was shot down by Hibiscus's request, and there was no scum left.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Mu Hibiscus went to find Zhou Tao.
"Why did Jin'er have time to come over?"
Zhou Tao saw Mu Hibiscus looking for him, thinking that it was because Mrs. Zhou asked her for money yesterday, and was about to say a few beautiful words to show his fatherly feelings and comfort her.
Who knew what Hibiscus would say next, it would make his original good mood come to naught.
But I heard Hibiscus smile and said: "Father, I also gave marriage, it is estimated that it will not be long before I get married, if I get married, I must prepare something, but the family is difficult to make a living, and it is estimated that I can't give me much dowry, so I don't want it, just take my mother's dowry with me, my grandmother said that my dowry should be in my father's place, so I came today, I just want to get back my mother's dowry, and I will be my dowry when I get married at sunrise." β
Mu Hibiscus had previously discussed with Mama Zhang whether Zhou Tao was good or not, and Mu Hibiscus felt that even if Zhou Tao had more dark thoughts in his heart, just if Zhou Tao wanted to maintain the appearance of a decent gentleman, he could prescribe the right medicine.
Sure enough, Hibiscus thought it right.
Zhou Tao and Hibiscus are both royals, but they can use their father's identity to press her, and they don't have to be like Mrs. Zhou and others, afraid of using the identity of elders to press Hibiscus, Hibiscus will use the words "She is a monarch and others are ministers" to counteract, but this also has a bad point, that is, his reputation is too good, and he acts in moderation, although he can play tricks and quietly pit Hibiscus, but the key is that Hibiscus is very smart, he can't pit at all, he uses Aunt Bai, Zhao Yao and others' hands have been tested several times, and each time they let the hibiscus dissolve, and they want to tear their faces, regardless of their reputation, use their father's identity, and let the hibiscus do what they think in their hearts, and then spread it out, so that outsiders say that he was originally pretending to be a good person at all, and that is not what Zhou Tao, who has always been used to hypocrisy, wants to see, so how to deal with the hibiscus at the moment is difficult, which is why the hibiscus has been back for so long, knowing that she has 20,000 taels of silver in her hand, but he can't get it, it is really that the hibiscus is too slippery and too difficult to deal withγ
For example, at this time, Mu Hibiscus is openly asking to get back her mother's dowry, which is a reasonable request, and Zhou Tao is not easy to refuse, for fear that others will say that he has embezzled his wife's property.
And in fact, he naturally didn't want the dowry of the county lord of Dezhao to return to Mu Hibiscus and take him out of the mansion, you must know that it was not easy to get such a large amount of property back then, and it will be left to his son, that is, Aunt Bai's son, to prosper the Zhou family, so how could Zhou Tao be willing to see Mu Hibiscus take away the money he had so hard to get?
If you want to call Mu Hibiscus to say, Zhou Tao's ambition to prosper the Zhou family is good, but the key is that if you want to prosper, you can prosper, just work hard, and occupy other people's money, which kind of prosperity method is it, as far as he doesn't work hard and just waits for the pie to fall from the sky, the Zhou family can imagine that it will definitely not be prosperous.
At this time, Zhou Tao saw that what Mu Hibiscus said was so fair and reasonable, and so many people heard it, if he refused, someone would always spread his words, and in the future, a name for occupying the dowry of his deceased wife is indispensable, if the deceased wife has no children and no daughters, it should naturally be his, but the problem is that the deceased wife has children, and these things should naturally be inherited by this child, and they are not given to themselves, and then they are left to the concubines and concubines.
Thinking of this, Zhou Tao couldn't help but hate the smiling and seemingly bright dead girl in front of him, thinking that you are dead, why did you suddenly appear more than ten years later, isn't this a heart against me?
Although Zhou Tao didn't dare to refuse, he didn't want to agree, so after thinking about it, he thought of a perfect statement and said: "This matter is not something that I can say alone, so you go and ask your grandmother and aunt their opinions." β
He knew why Mu Hibiscus only mentioned this to himself, it was nothing more than to let himself stand out and help her get back these dowries, so that if he wanted to play the role of a loving father, he would definitely not be able to refuse her request, and then run up and down for her, offending people, she could easily get back the dowry, but he didn't want to do this, so he said this, let Mu Hibiscus find a way to go alone, and offend people by herself.
Mu Hibiscus knew that Zhou Tao didn't want to agree, and he was forced to agree for the sake of face, but he was forced to agree, and he was afraid that he would find an excuse to refuse. β
In fact, this is also the doubt she has been in her heart since she heard that the dowry was scattered in the hands of several hostesses of the Zhou family, and she felt that Zhou Tao was not like such a generous person, and it was normal to say that it was normal to give the dowry to a part of Mrs. Zhou, after all, Mrs. Zhou was his mother, but it was too abnormal to give the big house, she always felt that there was something in it that made Zhou Tao have to give the name of the big house, but she didn't find the reason for being in the house for so long.
Zhou Tao listened to the words that Mu Hibiscus didn't know if he really didn't know or deliberately pretended not to know, he couldn't help but move his cheeks, and said for a while: "My parents are here, and I have no selfish wealth, so after inheriting your mother's dowry back then, I handed it over to your grandmother for distribution, and then your grandmother took the lion's share, and the rest was also given to your aunt, of course, our family also got some, since it has been handed over to your grandmother, then this matter is naturally not for the father to be the master, if you want to return the dowry, you can only discuss it with your grandmother." β
Zhou Tao naturally didn't want to hand over the dowry, obviously it was handed over for a reason, otherwise even if the old lady liked him the most, he wouldn't hand it over, after all, things are only in their own hands, held in the hands of the old lady, even if the old lady promised that she would pass away in the future, the thing would be his, he wouldn't dare to believe it, after all, if he liked this kind of thing, it would change, maybe in the future, the old lady wouldn't like him, like the boss, and then give the things to the boss? So he won't pay it for no special reason.
Of course, Zhou Tao wouldn't tell Mu Hibiscus about this reason, so he only brought out a parent's selfless wealth as a reason to fool Mu Hibiscus.