Chapter 68: The Banquet

"Okay, okay, it's all a family, and there are no outsiders around, so why don't you care about false courtesy."

Old Madam Shen, who was sitting upright, spoke.

Xiao Mu sneered in her heart, her younger siblings challenged her, and the old goddess sat motionless like a mud bodhisattva.

As soon as I went back, I immediately became my own family, and I didn't have to worry about false courtesy.

Is it still in your own family, do you have a son who began to calculate his daughter-in-law, grandson, and widowed sister-in-law and nephew before his bones were cold?

"Eldest daughter-in-law," the old lady said with a gloomy face, "I heard that you made a table in the kitchen today?" ”

"Well, that's the thing."

Xiao Mu's made such a big table, and a pair of eyes saw it, she had nothing to hide, and there was no need to hide it.

"Sister-in-law, the old lady only has six dishes in one meal, and February 2 is not a big day, is it appropriate for you to make that big table? After the eldest brother went, there was no income in the house, but he demolished the east wall to make up the west wall......"

Xiao Mushi interrupted her, and she didn't even raise her eyelids.

"Brother and sister take out the dowry silver, and I will give you the whole table."

The second lady choked, it turned out to be her own money, and this money woman shouted blindly without inquiring clearly, which made her lose face, and she went back to clean her up.

Back then, the old lady took back the stewardship of the Xiao Mu family, and later the emperor directly crossed them to Shen Yan to seal the prince.

In order to look good, the old lady symbolically gave the housekeeping of the kitchen to Xiao Mu's family, and with this little power, the second lady couldn't wait to stare at it all day long.

Mrs. Qian came to report that Xiao Mu had made a table of dishes, but she didn't inquire clearly, so she complained to Mrs. Shen in a hurry.

"Humph!" The second lady rolled her eyes, "Sister-in-law is in charge of the big kitchen, isn't it you who said it yourself." ”

This person has a thick face, even if Mrs. Qian is mistaken, she can reverse black and white.

The large kitchen is often purchased, and there is a lot more oil and water than the sewing room she manages.

The small needlework room, making three or four thousand taels a year, is unaware.

Xiao Mu's counts the big kitchen, isn't it more?

The second lady's heart throbbed, and she blamed this old woman for pretending to give her no oil and water, so she had to give her the big kitchen.

The table was said to be his own dowry and silver, and not all of them were scraped from the big kitchen.

Although Xiao Mu's dowry is abundant, her leprotic son takes a lot of medicine, and he uses all of them precious medicinal materials, and the silver spends like flowing water.

They are all examples of their share.

The sizzling oily roast venison, assorted shrimp balls, and sauce-flavored horse liver...... You have to have a share of her.

"Even if you use the dowry money, you should honor the old lady, right?"

Old Madam Shen unconsciously straightened her waist.

That's right!

Even if she is a step-family and a mother-in-law, Xiao Mu should honor her.

The daughter-in-law's dowry is her own thing, and it will be left to her children in the future.

When she came to Mrs. Shen's place, she didn't think so, the key was that she couldn't think so, it was all white silver.

Mu Hou Ye only has two sisters of the Mu family, the eldest is married to the prince, and the dowry is from the palace. Wait until Xiao Mu's marriage......

Anyway, there is no son, and if you don't give your daughter a hundred years later, it will be cheaper for the clansmen.

That's a real 100-mile red makeup.

After so many years, whenever a big family marries a daughter, the people in the capital will unconsciously compare it with Xiao Mu's back then.

Back then, the boxes were piled up everywhere, and the dowry that didn't even have a place to put their feet was almost emptied of the Mu Mansion.

Old Madam Shen's eyes were straight.

Wealth is moving, and Mrs. Shen has never stopped thinking about it over the years.

Especially after Shen Aotian died in battle, this thought became even more urgent.

Shen Fuyu, the second master of the Shen family, does not have the ability of his half-brother, and he has only been able to get a third-grade official in the camp for about these years.

Sanpin sounds very big, but you have to shout a lot on any street in the capital, and Zhun Bao shouts a lot.

And it cost a lot of money.

The gentlemen spend a little money outside, and everyone in the house has to maintain a luxurious life, where is the little income in their hands enough?

The mind can move but can't hold it, it's like seeing the fat in your mouth and not being able to eat it in your mouth.

That's so angry!

In addition to the big kitchen, she can usually open a small stove from time to time, but not long ago, the second master Shen just took five thousand taels from her, and the income from the shop will not be sent again, so poor that she is almost out of a bowl of bird's nest every day, how can she have spare money to open a small kitchen?

was in her mouth with no taste, and the second family came to tell her that Xiao Mu's whole table was complete.

But she didn't have her share......

Not for her!

That's the point!

Xiao Mushi really didn't expect that this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would be so shameless and have no lower limit.

In previous years, she would make it on this day, but the movement was not so big, and she cooked one or two dishes herself, which is not special this year.

Normal, Shen Yan should be crowned this year.

This is what she owes him.

The whole table is a little happy together.

I didn't think that this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would actually remember that table, so it's also the Hou Mansion, right?

It's not that small family, how can your eyelids be so shallow?

Spit and complain, Xiao Mu had to be forced to agree.

What can be done, the word filial piety crushes people to death.

No one will talk about Mrs. Shen's wrong, only that her daughter-in-law is not filial and virtuous.

And the wicked will speak even more unpleasantly.

What husband died, and her son's serious illness was her unfilial retribution.

Although in her heart, she never regarded this vicious old pious woman as her mother-in-law, but she had to succumb to the pressure of public opinion.

Nor can the dead be infamy.

I'm so unwilling!

knew that it was his enemy sitting opposite, but he had to be a snake tail, and he had to offer the enemy as an elder.

The second lady looked at Xiao Mu's family, unwilling and had to suppress her obedience, and the pores of her body were stretched out with pleasure.

What about the Shuangshu in Beijing back then? There are so many red dowries in ten miles, what about envy, jealousy and hatred?

Isn't it being suppressed now?

Hmph, when she becomes Mrs. Wudinghou, she will definitely call this slut to kneel at her feet and beg bitterly.

Beijing Shuangshu!

Phew!

"Big lady, someone is in the palace!"

Just when Xiao Mu was about to spit out, the mother-in-law in the main courtyard ran over and shouted loudly.

"The emperor and the fifth prince have given the eldest young master a lot of things, you can go back and receive the order!"

The decree came at a good time, it was like pinching the dots.

Xiao Mu's anger instantly hardened, his waist was straight, and his voice was a little louder.

"If the mother wants nothing to do, the daughter-in-law will retire."

And then the angry man does not pay for the death of the knife.

"Call the father-in-law from the palace, it's not good to wait for a long time."

Without waiting for Mrs. Shen to show off, she turned around and went out, her waist straight and her eyes not squinting.

"Old lady, look at her!"

Old Madam Shen didn't eat the noodles at the table, and she was fishy, and she glared at her with one look.

"What howl? If you have the ability, you can also go to the palace to ask for a reward. ”