Zhang Ning would say such a thing, not for no reason. As the eldest son in the family, Zhang Ning deserves the most valued treatment, but in fact, his grandfather and father obviously love his sister more, and his mother actually loves Zhang Zhi very much, who is a concubine.

He was taught from an early age to be humble and courteous, and to get along with his younger siblings. He is an older brother, he must be an example, he must take good care of his younger brothers and sisters, he must be impartial, not arrogant or impatient.

He did, but there were times when he was sad.

Fortunately, when he grew up slowly, he slowly learned what "brother" represented, and he let go of those grievances.

For the accusation that his son thought that he was not his own, his mother Cui Shi was stunned, and then said angrily:

"I conceived you in October and gave birth to you, don't I know the Tao myself? Even if you don't believe me, how similar are the eyebrows between the two of us, and you can't see it blindly? ”

Zhang Ning blurted out that this sentence was also a ghost, and he felt bad when he said it.

Regardless of whether it was raised or not, it is already a big unfilial piety for people to ask the old mother this kind of question when they are not confused.

Zhang Ning immediately knelt down and bowed his head to admit his mistake.

"It's my son who is confused and talks nonsense."

Cui's mother-in-law went early, she took care of the house when she started, and she was the wife of the Zhang family, and she was not angry and arrogant. As soon as she got angry, no one in the family was not frightened.

Zhang Ning knelt down and admitted his mistake, and the anger in Cui's heart finally disappeared a little, but his tone was still very cold.

"You don't even recognize your mother for the money in the public?"

"It's not for this reason, but the silver son of Gongzhong really needs it this time. Mother, my mother-in-law is the eldest daughter, and she is married to the sister-in-law of the Jiang family, if the dowry is not good, I am afraid it will make people laugh. She is married to the second son of the Jiang family, and if the dowry is too much worse than that of her sister-in-law, she will not be able to raise her head when she marries in the future. You say that there is no silver in the prince, but your son does not believe. Although my family is not a big family like the Jiang family and the Zhang family, it is also the first of several generations of illustrious people, how can there be no silver at all? ”

Zhang Ning never thought that he would reach out to his old mother to ask for money one day, and he was a little uncomfortable when he spoke. The money for the marriage of the sons and grandchildren in the family was originally from the public school, but it was so difficult for him to ask for it.

"The Jiang family will not think that my eldest granddaughter has a small dowry. Even if she didn't bring a dowry, they would treat her well. There is indeed no silver in the public middle school, you wait a few more months, and when Zhuangzi pays the income after the autumn, I will give the money to your daughter-in-law. Cui's mouth was stiff, and he blocked Zhang Ning back alive with no money.

"Can the son ask why there is no money? The son has been an official for more than ten years, and all the profits are returned to the public, so you must know where the money went, right? Did the mother lend money outside, or did she invest in some assets and are still in business now? "Two years ago, he also took a account of the public middle school, and at that time, tens of thousands of taels of silver could still be taken out casually, so how could he even buy a dowry from their room now? Marriage is a big deal!

Cui Shi also knew that her statement could not satisfy her son, but she definitely couldn't tell Zhang Ning.

Originally, the money in the public school was really sufficient, and there was no need for their family to give money to that person. But that one actually came to the door to ask for money, saying that there had been an accident this year and that they needed money turnover, otherwise their whole family would be implicated.

The amount he wanted was too great for her to do so, so she gave him all the cash and the things that were easy to realize, leaving only some antiques and imprinted valuables.

For some other money and the income from the shop Zhuangzi, she has already purchased all the sacrificial fields in her hometown in the past few years.

The sacrificial field is a family's communal property, which is used to worship ancestors and support the old and young orphans in the clan. Even if a certain family commits the great crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, the sacrificial field cannot be lost to the public. Once it is registered as a sacrificial field, it is exempt from taxation, but it cannot be bought or sold, and the property is retained and distributed among the clans.

Since Zhang Jing died, Cui's family didn't know how much he had worked hard about the sacrifice of the field.

Even Zhang Jing was forced to die, and that group of people had gone crazy.

"I lent an old man and he said he would return it as soon as possible. There is also a part of my land property, which will not make my family suffer. Cui's mouth was still biting tightly.

"The deceased? Who did my mother borrow? Is there an IOU? If the family has enough land, why do you need to buy it again? Zhang Ning's face was extremely ugly. He was a little worried that his mother had been deceived.

"You don't need to ask about it, it's for your own good if you don't tell you. You just have to remember that I won't hurt you. Cui Shi saw his son's ugly face, but he could only reply to him helplessly and with pale words.

There is no money in the family, whether it is to let the subordinates or the housekeeper know the way, this will give birth to chaos. Fortunately, when Zhang Ning came to ask the old lady, the Cui family was about to rest, and most of the people cleared up the out, only leaving a henchman at the door, and they were not afraid of spreading the rumors.

Zhang Ning saw that his mother was bitten to death and didn't say anything, so he knew that he couldn't ask about this matter anymore.

From childhood to adulthood, he didn't know how many words "I am for your good" that Lu Dao heard.

This phrase usually appears to indicate that some outcome is a foregone conclusion.

The filial Zhang Ning once again compromised in front of his mother. Only this time, he was determined to find out where the huge fortune of the prince had gone.

If anyone dares to calculate his family......

Hum.

He Zhang would rather not just put concubines in other people's houses.

Since his biological mother can't get money here, and his wife is in a hurry to buy a dowry for her daughter, he can only find another way to raise money. He still has a few thousand taels of silver in his private house, but this is also a drop in the bucket, and it will be gone after a few new sets of faces.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuan's wedding dress was prepared ten years ago, and now the most time-consuming and expensive things are available.

Cui Shi waited for a while, thinking that Zhang Ning would go out after asking, but who expected Zhang Ning to sit in the room all the time, I don't know what Lu Dao was thinking, and he didn't get up for a long time.

She pretended that she wanted to rest, and reminded her son that he should also go back to the room to rest.

Zhang Ning really couldn't let go of what Li Mao said during the day, he stroked his beard and hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth, and still opened his mouth.

"Mother, today Li Mao, the prince of Xinguo, asked me if Zhang Jing was my biological sister. He also asked me what my sister's purpose was in their house. ”

Cui Shi listened to Zhang Ning's words, and at the moment it was like five thunderbolts, and his heart was beating as if he was about to jump out. But she was a calm person after all, and her face changed in just a moment, revealing a sneering expression.

"Li Mao treated my grandson like that, naturally he wanted to find a legitimate reason to shirk himself. He thinks that framing my daughter is not a good person, and everything he did to his nephew is reasonable? ”

Cui's actually doesn't like Zhang Jing, but the situation is difficult to ride, even if there is a big bitter fruit, she can only swallow it in one bite.

"Your sister died strangely, and Li Mao is not a good person, you keep this in mind and don't listen to their nonsense."

"Why did that mother keep preventing me from going back to see my nephew when I was in the foreign office, and you yourself never entered the door of the Gonggong Mansion? When my eldest sister was alive, you didn't allow me to play in the same room with her. She fell into the water and died, my younger brother and I want to find out, but you also stopped and said that if there is a meeting, it will not be good for Li Rui. What's the secret of all this? Li Mao is not a man of his own words, what did he find wrong? ”

Zhang Ning said such a long list of words, and his breath was already a little unstable.

He already had countless questions in his heart, and the backlog was already on the verge of exploding. The thing he regrets the most in his heart is that after so many years, he has never dared to let go of Zhang Jing's death to investigate; The second is that he has been in Tongzhou for so many years, and her mother promised to let the family in Beijing take good care of her nephew, but she did not reveal that Li Rui was wrong to him.

He felt guilty about Li Rui, and he couldn't admit that it was his inaction that made Li Rui almost be raised.

He would take the Fang family as the object of revenge, but in fact, he also had a faint hatred in his heart but couldn't accept it, so he had to be angry with Li Mao and his wife.

One thing Li Mao said was right, he didn't dare to admit his mistakes.

Because once he admits it, he is the most ignorant, the most ignorant, the most incompetent person in the world.

"I'm really tired. Yasuyuki, let's go. Cui Shi shouted his son's words, urging him to leave quickly, and his face was full of overwhelmed expression.

Zhang Ning intended to consume his mother to tell the truth, but he was indeed a filial son, and he couldn't see his mother's sad appearance, so he had to lean over and retreat, leaving the main courtyard where her mother lived with a stomach full of questions and unwillingness.

Walking to the gate of the courtyard, Zhang Ning looked back at the courtyard where the lights were gradually extinguished, and thought in his heart:

There must be something strange about this, but for various reasons I can't know it. ’

'If my mother doesn't tell me, can't I check?' With such a large sum of money, it is impossible to go silently. ’

'Who is my mother's deceased?' What about my sister? Is what Li Mao said true, or is it just his malicious speculation? ’

Can I bear the truth of this? ’

Zhang Ning returned to their main house under the anticipation of the Zhao family, looking at the eager eyes of the Zhao family, Zhang Ning could only hold back the unwillingness in his heart, and slowly shook his head at his wife.

A certain expectation in Zhao's eyes was shattered in an instant, and she bit her silver teeth and almost didn't jump up and curse.

"If you want to go, master? Dare to love our family all picked up, right? The old lady still has her own son outside? "Zhao is the daughter of Jiangmen, and when her personality becomes irritable, even Zhang Ning can only retreat.

"My mother said that the money would come back after the autumn. I still have more than 8,000 taels, you can take it and buy it first. Zhang Ning, as a splint-stricken bag in the middle, could only touch down his wife's hair, "Let's buy the important ones first, and then buy the others after the autumn." ”

"Do you still have private money?" Zhao's attention was instantly attracted by other things, she looked left and right, and Zhang Ning was like a thorn in the sting, so she could only laugh.

"It's not private money, it's money that hasn't been returned to the public, you can use it first......"

He knew that his wife wouldn't believe it, but if he had an excuse to use, he could always hide the embarrassment, wouldn't he?

Zhao twisted Zhang Ning's ear, pulled it and pulled it into the house.

She was almost driven crazy by her mother-in-law, and she just vented on her husband.

"Come on, come on, since you have moved 8,000 taels, move me another 80,000 taels. If I carry 80,000 taels of silver on my body, I can also put the housekeeper's wife on it! ”

"Madame, tap, tap! I'm going to court tomorrow! Zhang Ning screamed.

"That's my beard, ma'am! You'd better screw my ears, I can't lack a beard! ”

"Ahh No! ”

Zhang's house, in Mrs. Cui's room.

Cui Shi paced back and forth in the room where the lights had been turned out, and his face became extremely gray.

She always thought that Zhang Jing was dead, and the old lady was also dead, and that matter was over. Even if Zhang Jing's death is strange, even if Li Rui may suffer, she can't care about it.

She also has two sons, Zhang Jing is not her daughter, she will pay if she loses, but her son is her own, and none of them can be missed. As for Li Rui?

Hmph, where does she have any grandchildren?

But the sudden appearance of that person caught her by surprise.

She thought that her life that had been peaceful would eventually come to an end. That one appeared in such an unexpected way, which made her feel that the Zhang family had no future at all.

It all happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, that the lies that the family had worked so hard to cover up were like a pitiful piece of paper that could be uncovered with a single gust of wind.

If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place?

Li Mao has already found out. Will the emperor also know the Tao?

Cui Shi only felt that his palms were full of cold sweat.

No, Zhang Jing is that identity, even if Li Mao is for the sake of the Xinguo Mansion, he will not dare to poke things out. In this matter, the two families are people in the same boat.

She had persuaded Zhang Jing at the beginning that that would not end well. Although she was not born to her, she was also raised under her knees for so many years, and she did not regret it in her heart when she chose the road that must be a moth to a fire without hesitation.

But people are always responsible for their own choices, and now that she has died in the lake, there is no need for her to lament it anymore.

In this situation, should I tell that person?

If he did, would he attack Li Mao, and would his eldest son be involved?

But if you don't say it, if Li Mao doesn't hold back from leaking it out one day......

Suddenly, Cui's whole body was tense like a stone, and her heart sank as if it was filled with cold lead.

She couldn't see any way out.

In Zhang's mansion, Zhao Qian was trying her best for her daughter Zhang Yuan's dowry, and in Zhiyun Courtyard, Gu Qing was happily taking stock of her assets, thinking about how much to leave for "kissing".

Kiss is the nickname of the newborn baby Li Mei.

Because Gu Qing really couldn't bear the "Ah! Your sister is peeing again! "Ahh Your sister is hungry again! "Ahh Your sister is crying again! "Thoughts. Gu Qing, who was tortured by Li Mei's name, finally gave the baby the nickname "kiss".

Although Mama Hua thought that this nickname was very undignified many times, she always wanted to stop Gu Qing from calling her like this. She thinks it's better to call Li Mei "Mei Niang" like an older girl.

But the "Mei Niang" in Gu Qing's mind is the Wu Zetian who finally ascended to the throne of God, not the soft white and tender baby now.

It is really not a good fate to become Wu Zetian in Gu Qing's opinion, so Gu Qing rarely disobeys Mama Hua's meaning, which is to stubbornly shout Li Mei to kiss.

The old lady insisted on shouting like this, and she could only helplessly obey from top to bottom.

Gu Qing originally wanted to divide all his jewelry into two, half for Fang's family, and keep it for Li Ming's daughter-in-law in the future, and half for Li Rui's future wife Zhang Suyi.

But now that the Fang family has given birth to a daughter, this daughter doesn't look like a beautiful embryo, Gu Qing has to think more about this "little granddaughter".

What if the Fang clan is patriarchal and all the jewelry is given to the daughter-in-law? After all, the things given to the daughter-in-law are still kept at home, and the dowry is sent to someone else's house.

There are too many good things for Mrs. Qiu. Most of the various rare objects, gold, silver and jewelry accumulated by Li Shuo in more than ten years of conquest were left to Mrs. Qiu. Mrs. Qiu also has countless granges and shops that Li Meng bought for her back then, and he knows that his mother can't run it, so most of them are rented out to others, which is not laborious, and the income is stable.

Over the years, the wealth accumulated is also very amazing.

Mrs. Qiu's private vault is in the North Garden, with iron plates sandwiched in the walls and molten iron poured, which is completely impossible to chisel through. There are as many as five rooms inside and outside, and the iron door alone is more than a foot thick, not to mention the various locks on it.

When Gu Qing entered the private vault for the first time, he was shocked by such a terrible "vault". Later, when I thought about it, there is no bank here, and the money and treasures are kept at home, so how can I do if the family's money vault and treasure house are not solid?

When Gu Qing was counting the jewelry, he turned out a small fluttering box from the drawer of the dresser, the lock of the box was not buckled, and as soon as he opened it, he could see a few pieces of paper inside.

What is it? Tian Deed? Title deed?

Gu Qing never combed her hair by herself, and the combing lady didn't dare to turn over the places she was not allowed to open, because Gu Qing didn't know that there was such a box in the drawer at the bottom of the dresser.

She opened the box and pulled out a few pieces of paper inside.

The color of the paper is not yellowish, and it seems to be something from the past few years.

How many years?

That's what happened before she wore it after Li Lao Guogong left.

As soon as Gu Qing opened the papers, he almost didn't burst out laughing.

There are some lines drawn on the paper that I can't understand something, and the words "Mao", "Da" and "Gong" are written crookedly next to it. At first glance, it looks like a child's graffiti.

When Gu Qing was in the hospital, he didn't know how many children's paintings he had seen, so he took the letter paper and pondered it carefully, and he understood what this painting meant.

It was precisely because she understood what it was that her heart was beating so hard, and there was a burning in her eyes.

The copper coins and ingots are silver coins, and the word "big" is written next to them, which is to be left to Li Rui.

The beads and squares are jewels, and the word "Mao" is written next to them, which is to be left to his son.

The vase and bowl are antiques, and the word "Shigeru" is written next to them, which was also reserved for his son.

There are seedlings planted in the square field, and a line is drawn in the middle of the half, half is written Mao, and generally written Gong; This means that half of her grange is given to Gongzhong, who is responsible for supporting future generations, and half is given to Li Mao, as his own private property.

The small house with the banner is a shop, and it is also half painted, and it is generally written "large" and generally written "gong". The old lady did not give Li Mao a shop, but gave it to Gongzhong and her eldest grandson.

The box is a dowry, which means a dowry. A box with a big "big" character written on it, representing Li Rui's mother's dowry, must be given to Li Rui. Another small box reads "Small", meaning that she herself gives the contents of the box to other smaller grandchildren.

There are even cloth and sundries painted next to it, which are circled with a large square box, marked with "big", and the things in the box are all large, which means that all valuable cloths, calligraphy and paintings are left for Li Rui to be around, which can be used as a bride price or kept for himself.

Gu Qing miraculously found that he understood everything, and this time he did not rummage through the old lady's memory.

She didn't know what kind of mentality Mrs. Qiu had in order to draw this "family property map" there. Was it when Li Rui came to ask for his mother's dowry to give him? Or was it earlier before that?

It is said that Mrs. Qiu is lonely and eccentric, but Gu Qing can see the wisdom and love of the old man from this picture.

It turned out that the old lady had never forgotten her eldest grandson, but she didn't know how to face him.

Did she already realize that her son and daughter-in-law had bad intentions towards her eldest grandson, so she would give him cash and shops, which were the easiest things for people to stand up?

In the future, Li Rui got married, as the eldest grandson, all the expenses must have been taken from the gongzhong, and the old lady left the shop and grange in the gongzhong, what it was for, you can know at a glance.

Gu Qing shook the few pieces of paper, it was just a few thin pieces of paper, but Gu Qing felt that it weighed a thousand pounds.

It is Mrs. Qiu's last words, and it is the only word left by Mrs. Qiu.

Gu Qing didn't know Mrs. Qiu and herself, and even her children, grandchildren and the people around her couldn't be regarded as understanding her, otherwise they wouldn't have lived for her for more than two years, and the people around her couldn't notice that she had changed someone.

She can continue Mrs. Qiu's life, but she will never be able to continue the love she left behind with this stroke.

Gu Qing pinched the paper in his hand and asked Mama Hua beside her:

"Is Rui'er back?"

Today is the day when Li Rui goes out of the palace to go home, and every time he comes back before the palace gate is locked in the afternoon, and before the palace door is locked the next day. Gu Qing looked at the sky, afraid that he was about to come back.

"Mrs. Tai, it will be darker in the summer, and Young Master Rui will probably come back later."

The lock of the palace gate also changes the time according to the time of day.

Gu Qing glanced at the box in his hand and decided to show these pieces of paper to Li Rui.

She didn't know how sorry Mrs. Qiu had disappeared in that confrontation, but she had the responsibility to let Li Rui see what Mrs. Qiu left behind.

In other words, all the relatives that Mrs. Qiu is worried about should take a look at these pieces of paper.

It was something she had to do.

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Gu Qing didn't know Mrs. Qiu and herself, and even her children, grandchildren and the people around her couldn't be regarded as understanding her, otherwise they wouldn't have lived for her for more than two years, and the people around her couldn't notice that she had changed someone.

Fang: I noticed it, but no one believed it.

Chen Yi: I noticed it, but others told me not to believe it.