"Dowry?"

Mama Zhao bowed down and met Wang Qifang's scorching gaze, both relieved and embarrassed.

Fortunately, her girl is really going to cheer up this time, you know, Qi Niang was brought up by her since she was a child, for more than 20 years, except for when she was a child, the little girl would argue with the housekeeper for a share of silver, but after being suppressed by Mrs. Zheng, who filled the house, she never paid attention to these yellow and white things.

Even when Qi Niang got married, Mrs. Zheng wantonly concealed and secretly exchanged a large amount of dowry left by Mrs. Zheng, and she did not say a word of protest or resentment. Not to mention that after marrying into the Zhao family, the companions and girls selected by Mrs. Zheng almost cleaned up the few shops, gold and silver that Qi Niang had, and Qi Niang did not say a word, let alone think about maintaining and fighting.

Every time she, who is a wet nurse, can't look at it, she reminds the girl to guard her money bag, but Qi Niang also persuades her in turn, "Why bother hurting your body for this bit of vulgarity", "Anyway, there are the Wang family and the Zhao family, and we can't eat and drink for a short time"?!

Alas, for Qi Niang's idea, Mama Zhao didn't know where to start. In a big family that abides by rules and etiquette, all food and clothing are shared, and the housewife or housekeeper does not dare to deduct it at will. Qi Niang said this, logically speaking, it is not wrong, but where is there no fight in the back house? If there is a fight, then there needs to be a weight for the fight, and in addition to the support of the mother's family, silver is the most advantageous tool. If you don't have any money left, what do you want to reward and buy people? What do you expect your monthly allowance to be enough?

Besides, if you can't even look at your own dowry, and you can't even subdue the matching room and personal maids you brought, the mothers-in-law and maids of the husband's family will not take the weak housewife in their eyes. Therefore, when things developed later, Qi Niang wanted to go to see Xiaoya, wanted to use a good rouge gouache, and wanted to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, and she had to give benefits to those housekeepers. Qifang only has twelve taels a month, and she has no other income, where is it enough?!

Now, five or six years have passed, and the shops and granges that the Wang family married at the beginning have all changed their masters, if it weren't for Mama Zhao to stop and protect them, I'm afraid that even Qi Niang's head jewelry was taken away by that Qi Niang.

Rao is like this, in order to keep Xiaoya from being angry and from being wronged, Qi Niang pawned a lot of jewelry and antiques by herself, and there are fewer and fewer valuable things on her body. The red makeup of the past is probably only some empty boxes and the clothes worn by his wife.

These are also the reasons why Mama Zhao is embarrassed, dowry? Alas, where does Qi Niang have any dowry.

"Isn't it? Not at all? ”

Wang Qifang's eyes widened, she couldn't believe it, the residual memory in her mind told her that even if she was deducted by her stepmother and replaced a lot of dowry, when she got married, it was a full one hundred and twenty-eight lifts, besides, those land deeds, house deeds, silver tickets and the deed of sale of the next person do not occupy the box at all, it has only been a few years, and there is no one at all? !

Thinking of the few big burdens in the kang cabinet that didn't have half a penny, Wang Qifang seemed to understand something, but, but this is too outrageous.

“…… Well, it's all gone," Mama Zhao was very distressed when she saw Wang Qifang's devastated appearance, and hurriedly comforted, "By the way, it's not that there is nothing, we still have the house deed and the title deed." According to the rules of the Wang family, the shops and granges for dowry cannot be sold. Three shops and two Zhuangzi were rented out and not sold! ”

Hire? This is about the same, Wang Qifang calculated the account in her heart, three shops, just rent two taels of silver a month, and can collect seventy-two taels of silver a year; There is also Zhuangzi, En'en, according to the practice of the Great Zhou, the one who can be called a farm has at least 100 acres of land, and she has two farms, which is more than 200 acres of land......

"However, the lease period is longer," Wang Qifang was crackling and settling the accounts, and Mama Zhao endured it and told her the real situation, "What, the shop and Zhuangzi have been rented for fifty years!" ”

"What? Fifty years? Wang Qifang's gold ingots that had just popped up in her mind were suddenly knocked out by Mama Zhao's words, she looked straight at the nurse, and after seeing her nodding with difficulty, she tried to control her emotions, swallowed a mouthful of foam, and comforted herself, "Fifty years is fifty years, and now three or four years have passed, that is to say, forty-six or seven years later, Zhuangzi and the shop are still mine." Moreover, a long lease term also means that the rent is stable, and we can also collect a lot of rent! ”

"Er, no rent!" Mama Zhao didn't want to pour cold water on Wang Qifang, but the actual situation was like this, she turned her face away, didn't dare to look at Wang Qifang, and continued: "It's not that there is no money, but when I rented it out, all the rent was collected at one time, and if I want to collect it again, it will be forty-six years later!" ”

"Poof!"

I couldn't help it, the villain in Wang Qifang's heart spurted out a mouthful of blood, she grabbed Mama Zhao's sturdy arm, and asked without any hope: "What about the rent, what about the rent of fifty years, won't it all be spent?" ”

“……”

This time, Mama Zhao was really embarrassed to speak, nodded slowly, and told Wang Qifang the answer.

"The dowry is gone, what about the deed of sale?"

If Mama Zhao told her again that her predecessor not only couldn't even look at the dowry, but even the deed of sale of her subordinates was also issued back to her, then she and she would have to accept her fate.

"In, in, the deeds of sale of the subordinates are all there, but now they are all in the house!"

To be more precise, it was in Xiaoya's hands, alas, if it weren't for Xiaoya's early wisdom and preparation in advance, it is estimated that the subordinate in the house would have already asked Qi Niang to return the deed of sale to himself.

"Yes, that's good!" Wang Qifang's battered heart finally got some comfort, she nodded with satisfaction, remembering the predecessor of the failure, she sighed faintly, "Alas, nurse, I was really a failure before, and it was just despised by my subordinates, why can't I even keep the last thought left to me by my mother?!" ”

"Qi Niang, don't be sad, fortunately, you finally figured it out now, in the future, let's live a good life." Listening to Wang Qifang's words full of guilt, Mama Zhao's heart was also sour, she patted Qi Niang's shoulder, "The last thought? No, that's not the last, my wife still has something for me. ”

The old lady ran back to her room, rummaged through the cabinets and found a tightly wrapped satin wrapper, untied the wrapper, and inside was a half-foot square box of quaint jewelry. Mama Zhao wiped the lid of the box with her sleeve and held it in front of Wang Qifang with great love:

"When my wife was leaving, she said that this is what she left you to save your life, and you must not move it unless you have to!"

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