Chapter 105: Dowry (1)
Ji Wan's face was puzzled; "Mama, what is this?"
"Miss, open it and take a look." Mama Chen nodded at her.
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Ji Wan opened the wooden box according to his words, and inside was a beeswax yellow peace jade buckle, which was smooth and radiant, exuding a faint sense of luster.
"Ping An buckle? What does that mean? ”
"Miss, this is the dowry left to you by the lady, with this token, you can go to the Huitong Money Bank to exchange 100,000 taels of silver." Mama Chen was already a little choked up when she said it.
Ji Wan was also very surprised, in her previous life, Mama Chen fell into the lotus pond and drowned on one night two years before she got married, and the body was found by the people in the house at noon the next day.
Now that I think about it, it was also an accident for Mama to lose her foot and drown, but at that time she had been fascinated by Xu's mother and daughter, where would she think of so much, no wonder Mama Xu had never mentioned it to her for so many years, otherwise in that case, this would not only not become a support in her hand, but a life talisman.
"Mama, can you tell me about my mother's past?"
Mama Chen sighed slightly, and the old voice said: "Miss is the daughter of the grandfather of the country, she has been favored since she was a child, when she married the lord, the lord was not even a five-grade official, and the Ji family was also a big family, but after being affected by political affairs, she moved away to Linxian County and hurt her vitality, it is not as good as before, there is nothing but a house in Kyoto City, and the princess and the princess feel sorry for the young lady, and most of the family wealth of the princess mansion has been added to the lady as a dowry, gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, and precious objects. Not to mention the reward of the noble concubine, it can be said that it was ten miles of red makeup at that time, and the scene shocked the entire Kyoto City. ”
Ji Wan listened with her eyebrows, in the previous life, she didn't know that her mother still had so many dowries, and no one had ever told her that when she married Xu Yuze, except for some eye-catching goldware, there were no antique calligraphy and paintings, and there were no precious cloths.
"If it weren't for the support of the lady's dowry, how would the Prime Minister's Mansion be what it is today!" Mama Chen's tone was a little angry, "Later, Xu took the second young lady into the door, the young lady was pregnant with the fourth young master at that time, and she was heartbroken and hurt her vitality, and she could only lie in bed during the whole pregnancy, and the lord was also annoyed by the lady because the young lady did not agree to Xu's entry before, and even the door of the young lady's room was no longer stepped into after Xu entered the house, and Xu looked weak on his face, but he was actually a scheming person, and coaxed the old man to hand over the dowry of the lady to her to take care of, and those precious items should be moved to her courtyard. There was even a time when I wanted to put the second lady in the name of my wife. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Ji Guan thought that he knew enough about reliving his life, but it was just a few.
Mama Chen glanced at Ji Wan and continued: "It's just that no matter what the master says, Madame refuses to let go, and then this matter is done, when Madame is about to give birth, one day I will hand over this peace buckle to the old slave, let the old slave keep it for her, and then hand it over to you when the eldest lady grows up, and the young lady said that this is the only dowry she can leave for the eldest lady." ”
"Why didn't my mother let my grandfather make the decision for her?" Ji Wan couldn't help but secretly hate that when she was young, she only knew how to play, and didn't care about anything else, and even when her mother was desperate, she still got along with Xu's mother happily.
"Miss is kind and weak, Grandpa Guo has been guarding Jiananguan all the year round, how can she be willing to let Grandpa Guo worry, she has always reported good news and not bad news." Mama Chen shook her head, a good person like her young lady is so miserable, hateful and unfair!
"What about my grandmother, isn't she my grandmother's friend? Why did she ignore my mother's situation? In Ji Guan's impression, although his grandmother is partial to his father, she will try her best to be fair.
Mama Chen sneered, the corners of her mouth hooked up a sneer, and mocked: "What about a friend's daughter, in a mother's heart, her son's joy and future are the most important, besides, Madame's dowry is so huge, with the situation of the Ji family at that time, do you think the old lady will not be moved?" When the news of Xu's and Xiangye's secret knot came out, Miss would rather leave than let Xu enter the door, if it weren't for Mrs. Ji personally kneeling in front of Miss to plead, Miss wouldn't have ended up like this. ”
For Mrs. Ji, Mama Chen has always had a thorn in her heart, even if Mrs. Ji has been good to Ji Guan's sisters and brothers over the years, she still can't get over that hurdle in her heart.
"After the death of the young lady, the Xu family was quite powerful in the house, even the old lady turned a blind eye, if it wasn't for the original grandfather of the country who forced the prime minister to make an oath, the Xu family would have been corrected, the old slave has not dared to tell the young lady about this matter for the safety of the young lady and the young master, according to the law, the dowry of the young lady should be the eldest lady and the little young master, how can the lowly person be touched."
"So Grandmother always knew about it but never stopped it?" Ji Guan's heart completely collapsed for Mrs. Ji's string.
"In addition to this mansion is given by the emperor to live, what are the objects in the whole mansion that are not left by the lady, and now most of the items in the house also come from the shops and fields in the lady's marriage, those things are still her own marriage in the hands of the young lady, but in the hands of the Xu family, they will all be from the Ji family, eldest miss, so do you think the old lady will stop it?" Mama Chen's eyes were full of desolation.
"What a big face." Sucking her mother's blood, she was embarrassed to say that kind of thing in front of her today.
"Although the Suguo Mansion is powerful, but the old man is also the prime minister of the dynasty, the grandfather of the country just wants to take the young lady and the young master out, it is not good, the rat is afraid of hurting the jade bottle country, all the grandfather can do is to force the prime minister to make an oath, and he will not marry the bride within three years."
"The old slave is glad that the young lady is sensible now, and the lady's spirit in the sky can also be blinded."
"Does Grandma have my mother's dowry list back then?"
"Yes, the old slave has a hand-copied copy here, and there is still an original copy in the Guogong Mansion, miss, you don't want to ......"
"Mama thinks well, after all these years, I should get back what belongs to my mother."
"The old slave is glad that the young lady is sensible now, and the lady's spirit in the sky can also be blinded."
"Does Grandma have my mother's dowry list back then?"
"Yes, the old slave has a hand-copied copy here, and there is still an original copy in the Guogong Mansion, miss, you don't want to ......"
"Mama thinks well, after all these years, I should get back what belongs to my mother."
"Yes, the old slave has a hand-copied copy here, and there is still an original copy in the Guogong Mansion, miss, you don't want to ......"
"Mama thinks well, after all these years, I should get back what belongs to my mother."