As she spoke, she was puzzled: "What are you asking for?" ”

The Wei family was exiled, and they couldn't take over the Wei family's property. However, Wei's dowry may be inherited by several of her children.

"Since the family background is not good, I don't have much money when I want to come to the Wei family to marry in; The second master is not in charge of the house, and the expenses outside are also large, so there should be no money. So how much money did Wei give to Wen Po to make Wen Po take risks? Where does this money come from? ”

Originally, Xu Xi didn't want to say this, but when Zhao Yuanxun and the eldest lady went to check on Wenpo, they knew that the Wei family gave her two thousand taels of silver, and the matter of Grandpa Guo privately stuffing silver to the two concubines was naturally exposed.

But she has never heard the eldest lady mention this matter, and she will split up tomorrow. Xu Xi is a woman and cannot participate in the separation of the family. She was worried that if she didn't say it, Zhao Yuanxun and the eldest lady didn't know that the big house would suffer when they split up.

As soon as the eldest lady heard this, her expression immediately became solemn.

She is the eldest sister-in-law, the wife of the prince of the Guogong Mansion at that time, the wedding between the Wei family and Zhao Yuanxun was organized by her and the old lady, and no one knows the Wei family's marriage and the shabby of the Wei Mansion back then.

When Wei married in, there were no more cages and no less, and they didn't seem to be worse than others in terms of quantity. But the cage is full of worthless things. At that time, because only her nurse and a maid came in to marry, the eldest lady sent a grandmother and two maids to serve her. With them, the silver at the bottom of the Wei's box can't be hidden from the eldest lady at all.

The Wei family was worried that it was too shabby, and the silver was spent on the dowry, and they didn't give her any silver at the bottom of the box.

And the old lady was very protective of the two concubines and was very strict. Except for fifty taels of silver per month, not a single extra money will be given. They have no private property of their own. Zhao Yuankun is okay, the Su family he married is a merchant girl, and the dowry is rich, so she can give him money to spend. But Zhao Yuanliang in the second room is here, because the Wei family himself is poor, but he has no extra money at all.

Wei's vanity is strong, and he likes to dress up and compare. Not only is her food and clothing in the mansion no worse than the two concubines, but the sister-in-law and brother-in-law of the Wei Mansion cannot compare with her.

Therefore, the monthly silver of the second room is spent every month. If the old lady hadn't allowed them to pay on credit, they might have owed a large amount of money.

It wasn't until Wei Qiu's official became bigger and bigger, the Wei family's family situation completely improved, Wei's mother was willing to subsidize her daughter, and sent two more shops as a dowry, and the Wei family had living money in their hands, which made them much more comfortable.

Thinking about it like this, the eldest lady felt that there was something strange about this matter.

But Wei has already been imprisoned and will soon be beheaded, even if he asks how much money she gave to Wen Po? Could she still ask Wei for silver?

Thinking like this, the eldest lady asked Xu Xi, "What do you think?" ”

She knew that her daughter had always been scheming, otherwise they would not have found out that the child had been dropped, and even if they did, they would have to endure the humiliation of the Wei family's operation of marrying Xu Xi into the Wei Mansion. Things have developed to this point, and if you think about it carefully, it all depends on Xu Xi's guidance.

Xu Xi didn't expect Zhao Yuanxun to find out about this matter.

At this point, she had to do Zhuge Liang again.

"Wen Po is not a fool, she has a big family, and it is impossible to take risks for a little profit. Without enough benefits, it is impossible for her to dare to change the bloodline of the Guogong Mansion, this is a matter of cutting off her head. So I think Wei gave her at least one or two thousand taels of silver. ”

Xu Xi said, looking at the eldest lady: "Look, is it possible that my grandfather gave silver to the second and third uncles before he died?" Otherwise, where did Wei get so much money to Wen Po? ”

The eldest lady nodded again and again and said approvingly: "What you said is very reasonable. ”

When my father-in-law was still alive, I valued the two concubines very much. Especially Zhao Yuankun, Grandpa Guo thinks that this son is most like him. He is still a child, and Grandpa Guo loves him even more. It is very possible to secretly stuff them with private money before dying.

The eldest lady remembered the scene when her mother-in-law went to clean up his house after her father-in-law died, but there was nothing of value.

"No, I'll have to tell your dad about it." The eldest lady rolled over and got out of bed.

During the few days that Xu Xi lived in Xinlan Courtyard, everyone was busy, they didn't see each other, and they were worried about being heard, so she didn't let Xu Xi change her words. But in her heart, she regarded Xu Xi as her daughter when she suspected it. At this time, the change of words is particularly smooth.

"It's curfew outside, just tell ...... Dad, he couldn't investigate this matter, but it made him feel uneasy. Why don't you discuss it tomorrow morning? Anyway, there is no hurry to separate the family, and it will be okay to drag it out until the day after tomorrow. Xu Xi hurriedly comforted her.

Mama Zhou also persuaded: "Yes, what the girl said makes sense, let's go again tomorrow." ”

The eldest lady had no choice but to give up, looked at Xu Xi and said, "Then you should go back and rest quickly." I will tell you what is going on. ”

She was itchy and wanted Xu Xi to call her "mother", but she always felt that such a fluttering change of words was too contemptuous of this child.

When the clan relatives write her name on the family tree, and then let her change her words in front of the clan relatives, and she and her husband give her a new meeting gift, then she really loves this child.

"yes, okay." Xu Xi even called out his father, and there was no psychological barrier to calling his mother, "Then mother, you should rest earlier, I'll go back." She waved her hand, turned and walked away.

The eldest lady was sad and relieved because of her "mother".

She went to bed again, thinking about the money that Suiguo Gong might leave for her concubine, she tossed and turned for a while before she fell asleep in a daze.

Before dawn on the second day, the eldest lady sent someone to find Zhao Yuanxun and told him Xu Xi's guess.

"It's something I'm ignoring." Zhao Yuanxun said in a deep voice.

When he went to Gusu with Zhu Heyu, he only wanted to find out the identities of Xu Xi and Zhao Jingli, and didn't think much about anything else. Later, Wen Po went to turn herself in, but he didn't see her confession in the yamen, and he didn't know how Wei bought Wen Po in the first place.

Now that I think about it, this is indeed a problem.

For money, Zhao Yuanxun doesn't care too much. What he cared about was the meaning of his father's actions.

How distrustful of my mother is.

His mother had asked for a famous doctor everywhere for his illness. The house has spent a lot of money because of a few foolish things that his father did, and the family foundation is thin. But in the years that my father was sick, the precious medicinal materials never stopped, and it can be said that the family wealth was exhausted. But what about the father? There are only his two concubines in his heart.

Over the years, it's not that my mother doesn't want to be separated. Seeing how troublesome the two families in the house were. But because the Zhao family just ordered land and real estate, and divided the family, it really became a small family directly. So she would rather endure the Wei family's domineering, and would rather endure Zhao Yuankun's cold face than split up.

It's all because of the money.

Now that the family is about to be separated, he can't take the money his father gave to his two younger brothers seriously. Otherwise, he couldn't stop his mother.