Lu Yan and the others all looked at Meng Qingyun, not knowing whether to say it or not.

Meng Qingyun thought about it slightly, and the reason why she had left Cui's mother before was because since she woke up, this Cui's mother seemed to be confused except for crying, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, she didn't want her to get involved. But now that the treasury has also been counted, according to her plan, she didn't plan to hide it, so she didn't hide it anymore, and said directly: "It's nothing, take stock of our belongings." ”

Cui's mother was stunned, no matter how confused she was, she had been with the Bai family for more than ten years, thinking of the piles of dowries in the warehouse, and asked, "What are you doing with that?" ”

Meng Qingyun laughed: "My mother left a lot of belongings, and I will take care of them in the future, so I have to know it in my heart." ”

Cui's mother didn't have a smile on her face, she was silent for a while, and said: "Since Yuan Niang woke up, her temperament is very different from before, and her mind is not easy to ponder, and her mother can't understand what she does." But I thought, the money left by the second lady is enough for you to be rich for several lifetimes, and now that you have seen it with your own eyes, I don't know what else to worry about? ”

Meng Qingyun was a little surprised, Cui's mother could also see the hidden worries in her heart, but she was not a completely confused person.

"It seems that my mother also knows how amazing the wealth left by my mother is." She paused, patted the stool next to her, and asked Cui's mother to sit down.

"Mom, you and Green Smoke and Asakusa are the closest people around me, to say something ugly, except for my mother, my father is not close to me. Now that my mother has died, my father has suffered an accident, and my life and death are unknown, if I don't do something to prepare for a rainy day, I don't know how to be abused in the future. ”

Cui's mother said strangely: "Where is this, who would dare to abuse you in a family like ours?" ”

"Our family's power and reputation, people outside naturally won't come to bully me, but what about the family?"

Cui's mother is still confused: "There are old ladies and eldest ladies in the family, and no one dares to bully you." ”

Meng Qingyun shook his head and said to Green Smoke: "Bring the account book." ”

Green Smoke knew which one she was talking about, so she got up and got it for her.

Meng Qingyun turned to the corresponding page and handed it to Cui's mother: "Look at it yourself." ”

Cui's mother held the ledger and stared at the words on it with wide eyes, motionless for a long time.

Asakusa leaned into Meng Qingyun's ear and said softly, "Mom is illiterate. ”

Meng Qingyun: "......"

"Green smoke, you tell your mother."

Green Smoke took back the ledger and explained them one by one.

It turns out that after taking stock of the warehouse today, don't look at the amazing on the books, but the real thing is very different. There are clear records on the books, but the real thing is empty, there are three boxes of fine silk, two boxes of fine wool, a golden Buddha statue, a white jade carving of Hetian, a large coral bonsai on the ground, a large interstitial screen inlaid with red sandalwood, a set of celadon ice pattern tea set of the official kiln, a sinister incense burner, a large pearl of the East China Sea, two sets of gold head noodles, two sets of Hetian jasper head noodles, and what are the dozens of fan folding fans, a few squares of Hui ink, a few ends of the inkstone, a few boxes of lake pens, a few palace lamps and other miscellaneous and miscellaneous small pieces. The sum of these bits and pieces amounted to seven or eight thousand taels of silver.

Cui's mother said, "Where are all these things?" ”

Meng Qingyun sneered: "Guess? ”

Cui's mother thought about it, and suddenly raised her eyebrows: "It must be the pickled bastard who stole it!" ”

Green Smoke said expressionlessly: "The key to the treasury has always been in my possession, does my mother mean that I am not supervising well or is it a self-theft?" ”

"Huh?!" Cui's mother panicked, "Naturally you won't, so ......"

Green Smoke flipped through the account books, pointed to a few records, and said, "See, these are all borrowed by the eldest lady." ”

Cui's mother suddenly said: "It turned out that the eldest lady borrowed it." ”

Bauhinia also took stock with him, so he naturally knew what was going on, and said slowly: "Isn't it, the eldest lady said casually, the birthday of the east family, the birth of the relatives of the west family, or which Hou Mansion is married, come and ask our second lady to borrow something and give gifts." My own family, I didn't even have to make an IOU, I took my things away, and I couldn't remember to pay it back for ten or eight years. The second lady is thin-skinned, and she is embarrassed to ask others, for a long time, I am afraid that even the eldest lady herself has forgotten about it. ”

No matter how stupid Cui's mother was, she could hear the meaning of this, and said in surprise: "Big lady, it won't be like this......"

Lu Yan finally turned out another page of the account book, pointed to the number on it and said: "Mom should always know that Mother Luo, who is next to the eldest lady, comes to ask me to get money every three or five times, and today it is two hundred and three hundred, and look, it has added up to more than three thousand silver in the past few years." I didn't see them yet, and they didn't even mention it. ”

Cui's mother has been destroyed: "The eldest lady is not a housekeeper, why does she ask us for money and things?" Even if you can't move it for a while, if you borrow it, you should pay it back, so many things and so much silver, haven't you returned a single one of them to us? ”

Green Smoke sighed: "Even if she has the heart to pay back, I'm afraid she won't have the strength." ”

She told Cui's mother again what she had said to Meng Qingyun in the garden before, Gongzhong had long been unable to make ends meet, and the eldest lady's dowry was thin, since she refused to fill the bottomless pit by herself, she naturally had to ask the second room for borrowing. The second lady has a lot of private property, loose hands, thin skin, and is not treated by the old lady, so the eldest lady will not catch this fat sheep and slaughter it.

In the past, the second lady was alive, the second official was an official, and the eldest lady dared to be so unscrupulous, not to mention that now the second lady has passed away, and the second official does not know whether he is alive or dead. This wealth in the sky, how can the eldest lady not be red-eyed and black-handed?

Cui's mother fully understood, sat stunned and collapsed for a long time, suddenly hugged Meng Qingyun's head and pressed it into her arms, and cried loudly: "My son, why are you so miserable!" The people of the family turned out to be jackals, tigers and leopards, you are a girl, weddings and funerals are pinched in the palm of her hands, what can you do in the future......" crying and thinking of Meng Jinlai, "My second official, you can come back quickly, if you don't come back, our family will be in trouble......"

Meng Qingyun has a headache.

I didn't want her to get involved before, because I was afraid of her crying tone.

"Okay, okay, my mother, don't cry and wipe your tears, aren't we trying to figure it out." Meng Qingyun finally struggled out of her arms and patted her on the back to comfort her.

Cui's mother sobbed and said, "You, you are a girl, what can you do......"

"I'm a girl. But as the saying goes, 'the eagle in the sky is big, and the uncle on the earth is big', isn't there still an uncle! ”

Even if her parents are really dead, in the matter of marriage, funeral and inheritance of her parents' inheritance, in addition to the uncle and aunt Meng Pei and the eldest lady Lu, the two uncles who have the most say are her two uncles, Bai Rongcheng and Bai Rongxin.