He nodded towards Lu Qingrong, wanting to say that she had a chance to repay him.

But he couldn't say it.

At least not yet.

"Rong'er, what should I do now? You don't really want to let Uncle play it, do you! ”

Lu Qingrong rubbed the only remaining dowry in his hand and smiled, "Naturally, I won't let my uncle do such a dangerous thing, what is the attitude of my aunt now?" ”

Lu Wenlin's face was pale, "Your eldest aunt also went to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion to ask for it, but she didn't come." ”

Seeing that Lu Wenlin's eyes were a little evasive, Lu Qingrong guessed that this was probably not the same as what Lu Wenlin said.

"Didn't the eldest aunt go to the Marquis Zhongyong's Mansion to ask for it?"

Lu Wenlin was stunned for a moment, and nodded in embarrassment under Lu Qingrong's cold gaze.

"It's all that slut, I've said everything I should have said, and I've done everything I should do, but she just won't go to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion to ask for your dowry, and now she is going to die or live in the mansion."

Thinking of Du's consistent style, Lu Qingrong can also understand that he is doing such a thing of death or life now.

From Du's point of view, the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion is her maiden home, and those dowries are what she took back to her mother's house to honor her mother, if she wants to come back, this one slapped Du's own face, and the other also slapped the face of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion.

In the end, not only could she not get back the dowry, but broke with the Marquis of Zhongyong's Mansion, if anything happened in the future, the Marquis of Zhongyong's Mansion didn't care about her, then she would lose her backer, and she was afraid that it would be difficult to tolerate her in the Lu family.

So not asking for a dowry is the best option.

And presumably her eldest aunt has also firmly believed that she will definitely suffer this dumb loss, and she will not dare to confront the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion.

The Marquis of Zhongyong's Mansion must have thought the same way, they must have expected that they would not dare to ask for a dowry.

But they all thought wrong, this dumb person would never eat it herself.

"Uncle, now you are about to be forty years old, but you only have one daughter, the eldest sister, who will inherit your family business in the future?"

Lu Wenlin couldn't guess what Lu Qingrong wanted to say for a while.

"How can this kind of thing be forced, Du's mother-in-law has not seen any improvement in her stomach over the years, and the doctor said that it was because when she gave birth to your eldest sister, she damaged the fundamentals, and it will be difficult to get pregnant in the future."

"There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great, shouldn't the uncle think about the future?"

This?

A man's heart is always alive, to say that Lu Wenlin hasn't thought about taking a concubine all these years, Lu Qingrong doesn't believe it.

"The uncle is almost forty years old, and the body of the eldest aunt can no longer give birth to children, don't you really want to think about it, besides, this concubine is just for the sake of inheritance, and it doesn't matter with the family style and reputation, have you heard of any official concubine who has something to do with the official position?"

Lu Qingrong guessed that Lu Wenlin didn't want to take a concubine before, on the one hand, because of the identity of the Marquis of Zhongyong and the Du family, and on the other hand, it was also related to the official position, after all, he had always been very honest.

Lu Wenlin's old face turned red, this kind of thing was always embarrassed when Lu Qingrong said it.

"Rong'er, why did you bring up this matter in a dignified manner, you won't be taking revenge on your eldest aunt!"

Lu Wenlin regretted it as soon as he said it, "Rong'er, Uncle is wrong, how can you think so much if you are so kind, it is Uncle who thinks wrong." ”

Lu Qingrong raised her eyebrows, she did have this plan.

But she's not going to say it now.

"Uncle, I don't really want you to take a concubine, I just want to give you an idea, my aunt sent most of my dowry back to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, if these dowries are exchanged for a higher official position for you, I don't care about anything, but as a result, you were beaten out, has the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion respected you all these years?"

"Uncle, the reason why you were able to sit in the position of the fourth rank official, maybe there is the credit of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, but your credit is the greatest, if you don't have that ability, you want to sit in this position It's only afraid that it will be difficult, you should also know how difficult it is to be an official in Beijing."

This point is said to Lu Wenlin's heart, it is indeed difficult to be an official in this capital.

The Beijing officials are far less leisurely than the local officials.

And just like Qingrong said, in the final analysis, it depends on her true ability.

If you don't have the real ability to sit in this position, I'm afraid it's difficult.

The more Lu Wenlin thought about it, the more he felt that what Lu Qingrong said was reasonable, "Qingrong, you said a lot, that Zhongyong Marquis Mansion took so much of our dowry, but it was indeed too much to bully me like this." ”

Lu Wenlin naturally assigned the dowry belonging to Lu Qingrong to the Lu family, and he and Lu Qingrong became a family.

Lu Qingrong just smiled, she could be regarded as a teacher of this uncle's affection.

In his heart, there is only official position and fame, and everything else is not important.

"Since the uncle also knows that the Marquis of Zhongyong Mansion has done too much, why don't you resist, now that I have your backing, what are you afraid of, the reason why the eldest aunt does not dare to go to the Marquis of Zhongyong Mansion to ask for a dowry is because she wants the Marquis of Zhongyong Mansion to back her up, but what if this backing has never been her backing?"

Lu Wenlin thought about it, and looked at Lu Qingrong with some puzzlement, "Rong'er, what do you mean?" ”

"Uncle wants to take a concubine, will the aunt agree?"

"Of course she wouldn't agree."

Lu Wenlin said with disgust, it's not that he hasn't thought about this matter of taking a concubine, it's just that the mother-in-law of the Du family doesn't agree to anything, plus with the support of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, he has no choice.

Slowly, he let go of this idea, but now that his niece mentioned it like this, his heart also moved.

"Qingrong, do you mean to let me threaten the Du clan with the matter of taking a concubine, if she doesn't go to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, then I will take a concubine?"

"Uncle is wrong, if the eldest aunt doesn't go to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, then what awaits her will not be a concubine, but a divorce."

"Divorce your wife?" Lu Wenlin was shocked, "Rong'er, this divorced wife is actually casually said, this Du Shi didn't do anything wrong in the end, what about your sister, she didn't get married, if there is a divorced mother, I'm afraid that your Qingya sister's marriage will also be ruined."

Rong'er, no matter what Qingya has done before, after all, it is your sister, and if your sister marries well in the future, it will also be a help for you, so it is impossible to say that Du Shi will never stop. ”

Lu Qingya's marriage is a boost for her?

Maybe it's a drag, but she was able to marry into the Xuanguo Mansion because of her marriage.

Lu Qingya is just the daughter of a fourth-grade petty official, and it is difficult to marry someone like Xuanguo Mansion.

Unless it's marrying an elderly widower, or a young master with a physical illness.

However, Lu Qingya's heart is very high, and she will never marry these two people.