Concubine Linchuan gave an order, and after a while, she saw more than a dozen small men in Tsing Yi carrying a few large boxes dressed in red and hanging colors directly to the middle of the hall, and after opening the lid of the box, except for two people standing on the side, the rest of the small houses retreated to the outside of the hall.

Everyone saw that the six boxes contained gold and jade jewelry, furnishings, satin fabrics, and porcelain antiques, but the last box contained half a box of copper coins.

Concubine Jin pointed to the boxes and said: "These boxes are the dowry of my daughter-in-law who was carried from your mansion to our palace three days ago, and I ask you to see what this box looks like. Not only were the eight boxes only half full, but none of the one hundred and twenty-eight dowries sent by Bofu were really full, almost all of them were half full, and at most they were only seven or eight percent. ”

"Don't you show everyone how this Anyuan Bofu used less to fill more, shoddy to good, and embezzled the dowry of an orphan girl with fake and real means." Concubine Jin said to the two little guys standing by the box.

The two of them bowed down and said yes, and one of them took out a detailed list from his arms and walked around the hall first, letting everyone know that this list was indeed the dowry list prepared by Uncle Anyuan's Mansion for Miss Zhou's family. Then he began to write the same name, and every time he read the name, the other person would take out the thing he had read from the box and walk around in front of everyone, so that everyone could see that the object was different from what was written on the list.

Everyone here grew up in a wealthy family, and they are accustomed to seeing gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and treasures, and other good things, and at a glance, they can see that the so-called gold, silver, jade, and antique furnishings contained in the box are indeed not of the best quality, and even some of them are Naxibei goods, and the silk and satin fabrics are also old goods. This Linchuan concubine said that they were shoddy, false and true, and it was really not nonsense, and everyone couldn't help but whisper.

Mrs. Luo listened to the buzzing sound in the hall, and saw that many people's eyes couldn't stop peeking over, and said hurriedly: "Concubine Niangniang, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding when I want to come here, if we have anything to say, we might as well close the door and sit down and talk slowly, why make a fuss like this, everyone doesn't look good!" ”

Concubine Jin snorted coldly, "Yo, now you know that you don't look good on your face?" Blame me for slapping your Uncle Anyuan Mansion in the face in front of so many relatives and friends in your family? Phew! If you know today, why bother in the first place! You An Yuan Bofu know that you want to save face, so what about our dignified county palace? Knowing that your granddaughter is going to marry into our house, you dare to withhold her dowry? Since you have done such a immoral thing, don't blame me for coming to your door to make you disgraced! ”

Mrs. Luo was sprayed by her spittle, and she didn't bother to wipe the handkerchief first, and said with some pleading in her voice: "Concubine Niangniang, there must be some misunderstanding here, let's go inside and say-"

"Misunderstanding? The evidence is clearly here, and you still have the face to tell me that it was a misunderstanding? Hehe! ”

Concubine Jin took out a few documents from her sleeve and slapped them on the table, picked up a list and said: "My daughter-in-law and her father left her a dowry worth 60,000 taels of silver, of which three houses and more than a dozen hectares of land were worth 15,000 taels of silver a few years ago, but now the land price has fallen sharply, and the house is in disrepair, not even worth 10,000 taels of silver, and they are all official deeds, so they have not been embezzled." ”

"It's one of the most profitable shops and two stores with excellent locations, with an annual income of three thousand taels of silver, and because it is a private contract, it was embezzled by your unconscionable uncle. Yesterday, we took the deed to the shop and asked about it, and it turned out that the three real estate shops had been stolen and sold to others two years ago, and the deed in our hands was all fake, and it was no longer my daughter-in-law's property. ”

"There are also porcelain antiques worth 5,000 taels, and the list says that it was a high-grade Ru kiln that was sent to this Bofu from Meizhou, but look at the big guys, is the box containing the Ru kiln? It's a worthless official kiln at all! ”

"My in-laws left a total of 30,000 taels of silver for my daughter-in-law, of which 20,000 taels let you help her buy some dowry, and 10,000 taels of silver for pressing the box. You only have to look at these chests to know whether the 128 dowries sent to the palace are worth 20,000 taels of silver, and after we have examined them, they are not even 2,000 taels of silver! ”

She deliberately said that the things sent by Bofu were worth 5,000 taels of silver, and she said that it was less than 2,000 taels, just to take the opportunity to make this Anyuan Bofu also have some blood, so it would be good to pay interest.

"There is also the 10,000 taels of silver, the old lady in this house directly gave my daughter-in-law an IOU, saying that she would borrow 9,000 taels of silver first, and then pay it back when she has money in the future, so what if this house keeps crying poor and saying that there is no money? Isn't it necessary to repay it, isn't it clear that if you want to borrow money and not repay it, you will have to repay the debt? ”

"Even the 1,000 taels of silver that were sent over were exchanged for 1,000 copper coins, and they were put into four large boxes and sent two more dowries!

"Back then, the person who sent the dowry from Meizhou to the capital hired dozens of carts and carried seventy or eighty boxes to this uncle's mansion, and many people saw this with their own eyes. As a result, those dozens of boxes of real money and silver have been stored in your house for so many years, and they suddenly became three thousand taels. ”

"Counting the three storefronts that you swallowed, my daughter-in-law's dowry of a total of 60,000 taels was kept by her grandmother and uncle for four years, and there was a loss of 50,000 taels of silver, five-sixths of which was gone, and the rest were some worthless and tattered properties with no income, not even 10,000 taels. Do you still have the face to say it's a misunderstanding? ”

Mrs. Luo saw that this Concubine Jin was counting this account more and more outrageous, and even regarded Caiwei's silver that had shrunk due to the depreciation of land prices as being greedy by them, so she was so anxious that she was sweating on her face, and was about to argue with her, when the second concubine Jin came to add another mouthful.

"Auntie, are you still counting twelve thousand taels of silver? The three storefronts that were stolen and sold can have an income of 3,000 taels of silver a year, and in the past four years, there are always tens of thousands of taels of silver, right? ”

Mrs. Luo saw that their aunt and nephew were like a snowball, and counted more and more of this account, and hurriedly grabbed the conversation and said: "This account is not calculated like this, when my aunt sent his daughter over, he said that the annual income of these three shops should be his daughter's fat powder money, and it can be regarded as thanking us for raising his daughter for him." ”

The eldest lord who was eavesdropping outside the door sneered in his heart, what did his mother-in-law say back then, saying that they would ask for an orphan girl's fat powder money, and also said that they would save the annual income of 3,000 taels of silver for Zhou Caiwei to buy a dowry when the time comes, what is the result? It's not that she is greedy for the money of other people's orphans, it can be seen that what this old lady says every day is a fart, and when it comes to this conflict of interests, she still can't fight against the * in her heart.

For the old lady's tricks and feet in Zhou Caiwei's dowry, the eldest man naturally knows a thing or two, Caiwei's three shops that were stolen and sold still have his share of credit, but he has already taken himself out, not only took the benefits, but also splashed the dirty water on others. This time, he sat here all day watching Concubine Linchuan come to his mother-in-law's troubles, and he was still thinking about how to make a profit from it again.

I heard that Concubine Jin said in a weird manner: "Yo, it costs three thousand taels of silver to raise a young lady in your mansion a year?" That is to say, my daughter-in-law did not live in your house for four years, and they have given money, so they don't owe you anything. And I also heard that when Master Zhou entrusted his daughter to the house, he gave the house a heavy gift worth a total of 20,000 taels of silver, and not only received the benefits of others, but also gave you money to raise your daughter, you are not enough to swallow the elephant, and you have to embezzle the dowry of other people's daughters, and the house is too inauthentic! ”

When everyone heard it, they all felt that if what the Linchuan concubine said was true, then what this Bofu did was indeed a bit excessive, bullying an orphan girl like this, if Miss Zhou was married to an ordinary family, she would be bullied like this, but the partial family married to the Linchuan Palace, the Linchuan Wang's mother and son are not easy to mess with, An Yuanbofu dared to snatch food from their mouths, this courage is too big, yes, it's okay, it's okay, it's been found by others!

Mrs. Tai really has a bitterness in her heart at this time and can't say, she is also helpless to make this decision, Cai Wei's silver industry has already been stolen by her most beloved grandson to spend a clean light, from elsewhere she can not make up the money, if it is all into an IOU, one is afraid that Cai Wei will not agree, and the other is that if there are only a dozen dowries carried to the palace, I am afraid that the Linchuan concubine will be able to make trouble on the spot.

I thought about making up the one hundred and twenty-eight dowry and sending it to the palace, and mixed it up first, the dowry was the woman's private property, and Cai Wei was newly married, and there was no bride in the nobles of the capital who went to take stock of her dowry as soon as she entered the husband's house. When Cai Wei returned to the door in the third dynasty, she explained to her granddaughter one by one the original situation, her hardships and unavoidable circumstances, and asked her not to shake this matter out first, help cover it up, and she will definitely make up for all the money owed to her in the future.

Who knew that on the day of the return of the three dynasties, her granddaughter did not come, but it was her mother-in-law who came, and she directly carried the dowry to the house to make trouble, and shook out all these things in front of so many relatives and friends.

Mrs. Luo only felt that everyone's eyes were all looking at her, her eyes were full of contempt and shame, she had the heart to defend herself, but she was out of breath, and forced to say a sentence "No, I didn't swallow those marriages-"

Before he could finish speaking, he was loaded on the ground.