Chapter Seventy-One: The Dowry Returns
Old Madam Rong was rarely angry, but she was really angry today, pointing at Marquis Rong's face and scolding, but after still being angry, she smashed another cup.
Rong Houye panicked, and hurriedly knelt down to admit his mistake: "Mother don't be angry anymore, it's her son's confusion, it's her son's fault, my son knew Zhou before, and felt that she was lonely and pitiful, she didn't know my identity and was willing to follow me without a name or share, I really pity her." ”
said with a face of shame: "Later, she knew that I was the marquis of the Ronghou Mansion and wanted to marry Pei's, she almost wanted to break off with me, and she didn't want to be entangled anymore, but her son forced her to stay, and the livelihood of the house was not very good at that time, so her son secretly gave some of Pei's dowry to her......"
Old Madam Rong was so angry that she had a splitting headache, and immediately smashed a cup, and sure enough, she was a fox who could fool men.
"You simply raised her in the outer room, and sent her to Yingmei Nunnery to be the upbringing lady of the Lian girl, which is just convenient for you to secretly communicate with the song!"
Rong Houye was directly exposed by Mrs. Rong's thoughts, his face was red, but he couldn't help but defend: "But she does hurt Lian'er in her bones......"
Old Madam Rong snorted coldly and scolded: "The old woman was also deceived by you back then, otherwise how could a good noble girl of the Hou Mansion be raised by her as a fox!" Those dowries were originally Pei's things, you took them to her as your own body, and you have to ask her if she got this identity! ”
"I'm going to leave my words here today, all the things you take with Pei's dowry to subsidize Zhou's family, give me nothing left, otherwise, I will personally let Qin's mother check it."
Rong Houye didn't dare to say more, and retreated with a calm face.
As soon as he got out of Shou'an Hall, Rong Hou Ye walked towards Zhou's courtyard.
Zhou sat in the room with one hand on his forehead and closed his eyes to take a nap.
Gao's mother shouted from afar in the yard: "Grandma! Master Hou has come to see you! ”
Zhou was so shocked that he immediately stood up, ran to the bed, grabbed a small soft pillow and stuffed it into his clothes, and hurriedly stuffed it a few times before there was no flaw, and she looked down and saw that it was just about three months old.
Gao's mother followed closely behind Rong Houye, and when she entered the room and saw Zhou's slightly protruding lower abdomen, she slowly breathed a sigh of relief, which was really scary.
Zhou saw Hou Ye Rong step forward in four or five steps, and wanted to pounce into his arms, but she stopped moving, and her eyes were full of tears: "The concubine has seen Hou Ye." ”
Rong Hou Ye couldn't bear it: "Are you and the child okay?" ”
Zhou lowered his head: "Everything is fine, why did Hou Ye suddenly come to see the concubine, the concubine is guilty, and the Hou Ye will inevitably be angry when he sees it." ”
Seeing that the Zhou family was bowing his head and being small, he couldn't open his mouth when he asked about the dowry.
can think of Mrs. Rong's resolute appearance, if she is indecisive, then the matter will be poked out, and his old face will really be thrown to Shengjing City.
Zhou earnestly and carefully poured water for Hou Ye Rong to speak, trying to arouse pity in his heart, although he didn't know why he came to see her, but Hou Ye was willing to come to see her, is it there for the old lady?!
She was overjoyed, but after hearing what Hou Ye Rong said, she was stunned for a moment, and asked stiffly, "What is Hou Ye talking about?" ”
Rong Houye put his hand into a fist and put it to his mouth, and coughed lightly uncomfortably: "Mother knows that I used my wife's dowry to subsidize you back then, and my mother wants you to return all the dowry." ”
Zhou only felt that the small teapot in his hand weighed a thousand catties, and he couldn't hold it on the round table: "Go back?!" ”
She finally asked Marquis Rong to take out the gold and silver mountains from Pei's dowry, and now she wants her to return it, how can she be willing!
Zhou Shi had a smile on his face, and he hated it in his heart: "But back then, these things were the dowry you said to me, you said that you couldn't marry me in a sedan chair, you could only make up the dowry, but now you ......"
Marquis Rong was extremely embarrassed, and said angrily: "I said that I would give you a dowry, but those shops also made a lot of money in your hands, and I don't want to, but it's not what I want to make trouble to this point today, return the things, don't make my mother angry again......"
As he spoke, Hou Ye Rong became more and more confident in his heart: "You have already caused a big disaster, if you are holding something that you shouldn't take, it won't make your mother even more intolerant of you!" ”
Zhou was almost angry, what did she call her to take something she shouldn't take, she gritted her teeth and asked word by word: "It's me who followed you shamelessly, and I didn't dare to recognize my own daughter Sister Lian for more than ten years, and now I am pregnant and enter the Hou Mansion, and I have enjoyed a few days of happiness, the old lady looks down on me, and even the concubine with the same identity as me is bullying me...... I did it myself......"
A dissection makes people sad.
But at this moment, Rong Houye was rarely sober, and said slowly: "Lian'er's matter, you said that you didn't want her to become the daughter of the outer room, so I calculated Feng'er and their mother and daughter for your mother and daughter." ”
Rong Hou Ye looked at Zhou intently: "Do you regret it?" I have not treated you badly over the years, and in private I have also taken my own shop and real estate for you as a self-esteem, and now I just want you to return my wife's dowry. ”
Zhou was choked by Hou Ye Rong's words, looked at Hou Ye Rong in disbelief, and didn't say anything for a long time.
Rong Hou Ye continued: "Since you are so unwilling, and you feel that I have failed you, it is better for you and the child to go first, and after a hundred years of me, we will continue the relationship in the next life." ”
Zhou's face turned blue, and he couldn't hold it in his heart, what is it called to continue the front edge in the next life, Rong Hou Ye is ruthless and wants to go back to the dowry.
"Okay, I'll go back, but some of the shops I got back then didn't know how to operate, and some of the shops were already in deficit and had already pawned out...... I can only pay half of the dowry from Madame......"
Rong Houye pondered for a moment: "Then use the money you earn from other shops to make up for it, in short, it can't be bad." ”
After that, he didn't seem to see Zhou's hideous expression that almost wanted to bite a mouthful of silver teeth, and added: "Blame me for being confused back then." ”
Zhou wiped his eyes, knowing that if he didn't make a decision about today's matter, he would really lose weight in the heart of Marquis Rong, and he secretly hated it.
"The guilty concubine listened to what the Hou Ye said, and made up for it all."
She knelt on the ground with her stomach in her hands, and said sadly: "The concubine originally wanted to save these things for Sister Lian'er, but now they have all been returned to Mrs. Hou, only the Hou Ye took pity on me back then, and the concubine begged the Hou Ye to give the rest of the things to Sister Lian'er, I am not the mother." ”
Zhou cried earnestly and shouted, "My sister Lian! ”
Rong Houye's heart, which had been soft, hardened again, Zhou's crying like this is for fear that others will not know that Lian'er has an unusual relationship with her!
He raised his face: "Enough, I will bring what you want me to bring to Lian'er, but I need you to remember, if you continue to cry, the people in the Manhou Mansion will know that Lian'er is not from the Pei family, and the General's Mansion will not marry a concubine!" ”
Zhou looked at the back of Marquis Rong leaving, and felt that he was extremely ruthless, and recalled what he said when he was leaving, and was immediately furious.
The gate outside the courtyard was locked again, and she smashed a lot of things in the house with a calm face, and she was still angry.
However, Zhou's movements are also fast, and within two days, Rong Houye took things to make up for them one by one, Rong Feng was surprised, what did his father say to Zhou's to make her so happy, and she couldn't help but think a little more.
As soon as I checked the accounts, something went wrong.
Rong Feng put the abacus in front of his left hand, looked at the accounts at a glance and ten lines, and crackled the abacus in his hand.
I said to her, how could she be so willing to spit out the meat she had swallowed again.
Bihua, who came to pour tea for Rong Feng, listened to it and frowned: "What is the girl talking about?" What kind of meat is swallowed in and spit out, it's weird and disgusting. ”
Rong Feng closed the account and sneered: "It's quite disgusting, but people are even more disgusting." ”
She raised her eyes and saw Yun Xiao walking in, and said: "Tell Mother Sun that the shop is so empty, most of it is because the shopkeeper at the bottom deceived the master and swallowed it himself, inform my father, and ask what to do, whether to report to the official to arrest people, or send them away." ”
Yun Xiao lifted the curtain and nodded, in the past two days, the girl shook her head and sighed without checking an account, and sneered a few times from time to time, she couldn't understand it, and she couldn't figure it out, but she understood in her heart that it was no wonder that the five girls were so painful to learn to settle accounts.
"Just now the maid went to the lady, and Mother Sun privately told the maid that the shopkeeper of the shop has been replaced, and the shopkeeper Liu has been doing it."
Rong Feng raised her eyebrows and let out a meaningful "oh", she squinted her eyes and took out the thickest one from a pair of account books, and it was also the one with the most serious deficit.
"Then I have to invite this shopkeeper Liu to come to the house for tea and ask him what means he has to maintain a shop that is almost upside down for more than ten years."
On the second day, Shopkeeper Liu was invited by Rong Feng to stand in the sun, he bowed down, dressed very plainly, but none of the simple pendants on his body were cheap.
Rong Feng carried a brush to write and draw on a folding fan that she had remade, and after a while, she blew the ink on the fan surface that had not dried, and smiled at Shopkeeper Liu: "Shopkeeper Liu has taken care of the shop for my mother for many years, and is in the fan business, how about you take a look at the words I mentioned on the fan?" ”
Shopkeeper Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the little contempt he originally had for Rong Feng became faintly stunned after seeing that word.
Disloyal!
“…… Good, good word......"
Rong Feng said: "Loyalty, as big as the courtiers are loyal to the emperor of the court, and as small as the subordinates and slaves are loyal to the master, if someone has two hearts." ”
His face suddenly became fierce, and the folding fan in his hand was thrown in front of Shopkeeper Liu.
"I definitely won't stay!"
After that, an account book on the table was also thrown on the ground, and she closed her eyes: "If this account book Liu is happy to explain and teach me, I will definitely not pursue it again, if it is not good, the official prison will not be worse than your prison food." ”