When Concubine Jin saw Mrs. Luo lying on the ground, the two wives of Uncle Anyuan were busy helping her mother-in-law back to the backyard and ordered someone to ask for a doctor. Where are you going to carry this old lady? ”

"What's the matter, you think you can escape by pretending to faint? Even if this old lady faints and is unconscious, there is always someone else in charge of your house, call him out for me! If everyone in your mansion wants to be a shrunken turtle, and no one dares to come out and talk to me about this dowry, let your old lady continue to lie here! ”

The second wife frowned when she saw that this Linchuan concubine was so domineering and rude, although this matter had nothing to do with her, and she didn't want to fall into this muddy water, but she couldn't watch her mother-in-law being detained here, and she couldn't go back to the room to ask the imperial doctor to see her.

She was about to step forward to reason with Concubine Linchuan, when suddenly a person walked in quickly and said, "Mother, what's the matter, come here, don't send your mother back to the room quickly!" Then he gave a salute to the concubine and said: "The minister has seen the concubine Niangniang, as soon as the minister heard that the mother had fainted, in a hurry, he did not wait for the mother to summon him, so he trespassed in, and asked the mother to forgive the sin, if the mother has any teachings, you might as well say the same to the minister first." ”

As soon as the ladies heard the man's voice, many of the young daughters-in-law hid behind the screen, but the old ladies still sat still unconcerned.

Concubine Jin didn't care much about the defense of men and women, she looked at him from top to bottom and asked him, "Who are you, but you are in charge of this mansion?" Could what you say have done to the Lord? ”

The eldest lord bowed and said: "The minister is the eldest son of his mother, the current right attendant of the military department, and the courtier is the son of An Yuanbo, although my fourth brother is now a knight, but he has been sick in bed for a long time and cannot be a director, so I have to come forward as the eldest son to take care of these things for my mother." ”

The second wife saw that her uncle, who had a bad stomach, suddenly appeared, and she didn't know what kind of bad idea he was playing, and she was about to speak to stop him, but the concubine Linchuan had already spoken: "Since you are now the only man who can call the shots in this mansion, then the concubine will have a theory with you, okay, you can send this old lady back to the room first!" ”

The eldest master hurriedly said: "Please also ask the two younger siblings to send their mother back to the room and take care of them carefully, I will cook here!" ”

The second wife was robbed of the opportunity by her uncle, and it was not good not to listen to the words of the eldest uncle in front of people, so she had to send the old lady back to Xuhui Courtyard with the fifth wife, and she was not at ease when she walked halfway, and told the fifth wife a few words, and quietly returned to the main hall, entered through the side door, and hid behind a screen to listen to how the eldest lady reasoned with the Linchuan concubine.

I heard Concubine Jin say: "...... My daughter-in-law's dowry has been kept in your house for four years, but when she married into our house, the original dowry worth 60,000 taels of silver was less than 10,000 taels, and when did you send the 50,000 taels of silver that you had secretly withheld? ”

The eldest lord looked surprised and said, "Why, my niece's dowry is so much less, how is this possible?" Her dowry was kept by my mother herself, and not a single thing or silver was stored in the treasury of our house, but was placed in the wing room of my mother's courtyard, and no one dared to be greedy, and these days, my mother also prepared the dowry for her niece herself, my mother has always been upright and the most virtuous, and she loves my niece the most, and she will never steal the niece's dowry. I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding here, right? ”

When Concubine Jin saw that the eldest man in this mansion also opened his mouth and mentioned the word "misunderstanding" to her, she immediately said angrily: "Misunderstanding, the evidence in black and white on my side is now in front of you, and you can all say the word misunderstanding with a shy face, it is really a family with no skin and no face!" ”

The eldest lord also sank his face, he has been prosperous these days, and he has achieved the rank of the third grade of the military department, I don't know how many people are welcome, but at this time, he was scolded by the woman with the most unbearable reputation in the capital, and he suddenly lost face.

"Please also ask the concubine to be cautious, don't spew blood, the so-called evidence you called was taken out after my nephew's daughter's dowry went around the house, whether this has really been manipulated by anyone, it's hard to say!"

Concubine Jin was stunned, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"The minister dared to ask the concubine, I have a law in the court, this woman's dowry is her private property, and her mother-in-law can't occupy it, why is it that my niece's daughter has only been married for less than three days, and your mother-in-law has made her dowry clear, don't you have any thoughts about this rich dowry of my nephew's daughter, right?"

"You, you're just a little waiter, how dare you speak to Concubine Ben like this? As a mother-in-law, I ask what happened to my daughter-in-law's dowry? Since this daughter-in-law has entered the door, even her people belong to our family, let alone her dowry? ”

The eldest lord's eyelids jumped, and his heart was that the official was a dignified and upright soldier of the military department, and he was in power, how could he not compare to you, the unethical biological mother of the unpromising county king? On his face, he still pretended to be respectful and said: "What the concubine taught me is that it was really you who insulted the minister's mother, and the minister's words became more intense, and I asked the mother to forgive me." Just listening to the meaning of Niangniang's words, it seems that I really want to take the dowry of my nephew's daughter as my own, and I want you to be the princess of the county, the house is a super county palace, the real royal relatives, rich and rich, why do you still covet the dowry of the daughter-in-law? ”

Concubine Jin raised her eyebrows, "I just covet my daughter-in-law's dowry, so what?" To tell you the truth, just by virtue of your status as your niece's daughter, an orphan girl who has no father and no mother and ranks fifth and does not marry is not worthy of being my son's concubine at all, if it weren't for her rich dowry, I wouldn't have agreed to let her enter the door at all! As soon as she entered the door, she opened the dowry box and said that she wanted to pay homage to my mother-in-law, and seeing that our house was difficult, she took the initiative to take out the deed of the shop and said that she wanted to use the store's dividends to supplement the family's finances. As a result, I took out the things and looked at them, heh, everything valuable has been swallowed by you, and the rest are all broken copper and iron, we are fighting for her and upholding justice! ”

The eldest lord smiled: "Concubine Niangniang, this is just a joke, how can the dignified county palace be so difficult that it has to rely on the daughter-in-law's dowry to make up for it?" The county king's fortune alone has 10,000 taels of silver a year, which is the highest and only one in the capital, not to mention the properties allocated by the court when the two county kings left the palace to open the palace, 10,000 hectares of fertile land, and the real family is big, where would I put such a little dowry for my nephew's daughter in my eyes? ”

Concubine Jin immediately cried and became poor, "The family is big and the business is big? When we moved out of the palace, what else did we have to do but give us a palace and 10,000 taels of silver? King Lu and King Rui, who were sealed by the first emperor, were given 40,000 hectares of granges by the court, but when they came to us, they said that Fei'er was just a county king, and only gave us 10,000 hectares of land, and they were all empty granges, and the actual rent was only 200 hectares of land, and they were all in remote areas. ”

Jin Cuiqiao also hurriedly interjected: "Last night, when the prince came to my room, he told me that the 10,000 taels of silver every year were all cloth and rice grains, and they were also deducted seven or eight times. ”

When the second wife heard this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for Zhou Caiwei, it was not even three days after the wedding, and the king of Linchuan ran to the second concubine's room, could it be because Caiwei lost so much dowry, so she was not happy with her husband?

Concubine Jin deliberately said angrily: "What? I can't even get all the money, why didn't Fei'er tell me about this, but told you first? She didn't mind showing off her son's affection for her niece in front of everyone in the Bofu.

"The big guys have heard it, don't look at us as a palace, in fact, the silver that can be obtained in a year is only more than 10,000 taels, in the capital where everything is expensive, to maintain the cost of a palace, can more than 10,000 taels of silver be used? Not to mention anything else, the annual expenses of your third-class Anyuan Bofu also cost twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver, am I not wrong? Besides, my son is a big man who likes to have fun, what cockfighting, lackeys, drinking and gambling, which one doesn't cost money? Over the years, our house has already owed a lot of foreign debts, so I rely on my daughter-in-law's dowry to pay off the debt, and my daughter-in-law is willing to take out her dowry for her husband's family. ”

"Therefore, Concubine Ben doesn't want to talk to you shameless people who steal people's dowries, hurry up and return the dowry that you swallowed to me, and you will be limited to three days, and one of the three shops that you have stolen and sold cannot be missing, and then send 40,000 taels of silver to our palace, I will let you go first, if after three days, I have neither seen the deed nor the silver, but don't blame me for being unkind to you!"