In June and a half, the people sent by Master Cheng to Bingzhou sent back the news, proving that what Banqin said was the truth.

"It was caught by a thunder fire, half of it was burned, and the Taoist temple over there was scattered, and I thought that people were abducted by abductors and ran away, for fear that we would pursue the Taoist priests and ran away." Master Cheng put the letter on the table and said to the people in the room.

At this time, Mrs. Cheng and Mr. and Mrs. Cheng were all there.

Everyone looked a little strange, as if they didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

"What about the Zhou family?" Mrs. Cheng asked.

"Haven't heard back yet." Master Cheng said, "I don't know if I didn't receive it or ignored it." ”

"Even if I asked, I'm afraid they won't know what to say." Mrs. Cheng said, looking at Mrs. Cheng, "When the old lady of the Zhou family offered the Taoist temple, the people in the family were not very happy. ”

Not to mention secretly burying a large sum of money in the Taoist temple, let alone letting the people of the Zhou family know about it, otherwise, as soon as Mrs. Zhou dies, the money will inevitably be taken back.

Second Mrs. Cheng nodded and thanked her sister-in-law for her explanation.

"Now that it's confirmed, let's take care of it." Master Cheng said.

Everyone answered yes and dispersed.

Second Mrs. Cheng returned to her room, took off her makeup and took a nap, while being served by the servant woman, while thinking about what she had just heard.

Since she got married, she first served her in-laws at home for three years, and only after giving birth to a daughter did she go to live with her husband in Bingzhou, at that time the fool had been raised in the Taoist temple, no one at home had ever mentioned the child, and her husband had never visited, although she had lived in Bingzhou for four or five years, but this fool had never appeared in life, as if it did not exist.

But not appearing does not mean that it does not exist, as long as it exists, it will always appear.

"Is the Zhou family very rich?" She asked.

I remember hearing from my parents at that time that the ancestors of the Zhou family were from Shaanxi Border Prefecture, and they were also military attaches when they entered Beijing, which was incomparable with such a scholarly family.

At that time, as the deceased wife's mother's family, the people they sent to meet were vulgar.

"Very rich." The woman who combed her hair hurriedly said.

Second Mrs. Cheng glanced at her.

"You know better than I do." She said nonchalantly.

These days, with the return of that fool, although the second lady of Zhilu Dao Cheng did not like it, the servant woman still couldn't bear to talk about Mrs. Zhou's old things in private.

This woman who combed her hair was brought by Mrs. Cheng from her mother's house.

The woman with her hair was a little staggering.

"How can you be rich?" Second Mrs. Cheng asked.

Seeing that the lady did not blame, the woman breathed a sigh of relief.

"Madam, don't say anything else, do you know that the Zhou family back then... Was Zhou's dowry when he got married? She said.

Second Mrs. Cheng glanced at the woman.

Nonsense, does she still check her predecessor's dowry with a stepmother?

The woman's face was embarrassed, and it was not good to hear, and what the servants said in private was even worse.

“… When Mrs. Zhou entered the door, it was called a scenery, gold, silver, jewelry, cloth, silk, two shops located in good areas of the city's east and west markets, and two Zhuangzi located in the suburbs with good harvests..."

"Those were all carefully selected by the Zhou family who sent people to our Jiangzhou City half a year in advance..."

"I still remember that Mrs. Zhou had just passed away, and the old lady took care of a period of dowry, and I heard those housekeepers say that the income of just one shop is enough for our family's expenses for half a year..."

That's a dowry that can make money with real money.

Think about the dowry of today's lady...

In the end, the noble families who are not in the capital can't be compared.

The woman with her hair picked up what she could say.

Second Mrs. Cheng gritted her teeth secretly, so what, what about the rich dowry, it is nothing when she closes her eyes.

But...

Is the income of a shop enough for half a year's expenses?

"Then are these shops and Zhuangzi all managed by the master?" She asked, suddenly thinking of something.

With so much income, why has the family never seen it?

Could it be that those green ladies and thirteen mothers are all raised by this income?

"No, no." The servant woman knew at a glance what her wife was thinking, and hurriedly said, "At the eldest lady's place." ”

Big lady?

Second Mrs. Cheng took off a hairpin and slowly put it on the table.

"Why did my sister-in-law never say it?" She laughed.

Although there is no separation of families, there are accounts for the food and clothing of all parties, and now the mother-in-law does not care about family affairs, and the sister-in-law presides over the feed.

"After all, it's the dowry of the first one, I'm afraid that when I talk about it, you can't be taboo, madam." The servant woman said.

Second Mrs. Cheng didn't feel very comfortable, and she couldn't say what was uncomfortable.

Sooner or later, those dowries belonged to the fool, and neither she nor her children could use them, but the proceeds...

The expenses of the family are all in charge of the sister-in-law, and the income naturally does not need to be divided into two large houses, but...

She still felt uncomfortable.

It's been nine years since she got married, and she just learned about it, and it's still a blessing for that fool!

If that fool doesn't come back for the rest of her life, will she never know the way for the rest of her life?

"Madam, the kitchen soup has arrived." A girl came in and asked.

Although the Cheng family is rich, they have always been thrifty, three meals a day, plus supper, and snacks are also fixed meals.

But the servants should have asked, and they would have asked.

Second Mrs. Cheng turned around.

"Take it, I just want to use it." She said.

"Yes." The girl answered, turned around and left, and walked a few steps before coming back to her senses.

What did Madame just say?

"Hey, Madame said no?" She hurriedly whispered to the girl next to her.

The girl yawned.

"Are you sleepy? Madame clearly said that she would use it. She said.

Yes? Only then did the girl realize that she had heard correctly.

"It's really strange, how did Madame use it?" She laughed.

"The things at home, Mrs. can use them if she wants, and if you don't use them, you won't use them in vain." The girl from before said lazily.

At this time, in the capital, in the vast alleys, in front of the gate of the Zhou Mansion, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old heroic boy was jumping off the horse.

The porter ran out early, and four or five small men rushed to lead the horses.

The boy raised his hand and untied the money bag at his waist and threw it over.

"Eat and drink your rewards." He shouted.

The little guys scrambled.

"Xie Liulang reward!" They shouted in unison.

Saturday Lang Ha Da Lu smiled and went straight in.

The Zhou family's house was renovated according to the ancestral house of Shaanxi Border Prefecture, especially the shadow wall, which was directly dismantled and transported from home, and the silver money spent was almost worth ten shadow walls, and became famous in one fell swoop.

Saturday Lang strode into his yard, under the eaves, sat a young man of the same age, with long eyebrows and thin eyes, wearing a long-sleeved robe, looking at the white porcelain Go board in front of him thoughtfully, and the two little girls kneeling next to him also followed the chessboard, chattering.

"Qin Langjun, this is so boring, it's better to play backgammon." They said.

Hearing Liulang's footsteps, everyone looked over, and the two girls knelt up straight, and then leaned over to salute.

The boy was still looking at the chessboard.

"Sangzi, why are you here today?" Liu Liulang sat down cross-legged with a flick of his sleeves, used the chessboard as a standing, put his arm up, and brushed and disrupted the chess pieces on it.

The boy didn't care.

"I'm bored, I'm here to hear interesting stories." He said.

"What's my interesting here?" Saturday Lang asked.

"I heard that your uncle's family sent someone from Jiangzhou Mansion?" The boy asked.

Liu Liulang looked at the two girls kneeling behind him, and the two girls bowed their heads weakly.

"That family is really an interesting thing." Liulang said, reaching out to fiddle with the chess pieces.

"It's about your cousin." The young man said, "Why didn't you ask carefully and drive the people of the Cheng family away?" ”

"Useless people, what do we have to do with the Zhou family." Liu Liulang said, with disdain, "At the beginning, my aunt didn't listen to the words, so she had to keep such a fool, hurt others and hurt herself, and wasted her grandmother's grandfather's upbringing, as for that fool, grandmother committed the woman's kindness again, and did not let her die early and give birth early, but took care of the feeding, pigs can still eat meat, what is the benefit of feeding stupid children?" ”

The boy laughed.

"Liulang, your cousin who is not as good as a pig is raised in Bingzhou." He said, "The people of the Cheng family are now here to ask if you sent her back to Jiangzhou." ”

"yes, how did they come and ask? Should we answer respectfully? Liulang asked as he glared at him.

The boy looked at him and smiled, reaching out and running his slender fingers across the board.

"From Merge to Jiangzhou." He said, "Your cousin is at the Cheng family, and when you don't know about it, you went back by yourself." ”

Liuliulang looked at him, his brows slightly condensed.

The boy reached out again and scratched from one point on the board to another.

"From Bingzhou to Jiangzhou, a young girl." He smiled and said, "You say, how did a useless person do it? ”