Chapter 19: Empty-Handed? The position of the old lady
Zhao Qingcheng couldn't listen to what he said, how could a mother belittle her child so much! Even if it is a stepmother, it is okay to think like this in her heart, but she always has to be maintained in front of people, no matter how she says it, she is also the daughter of their Hou Mansion out. Take a step back and say, in front of him, the prince, there must always be some leeway, after all, Li has not hesitated to marry into their Yan Wangfu.
Zhao Qingcheng looked at Li Weixi beside him and thought in his heart: No matter whether the purpose of Li Weixi's trip is achieved or not, he will definitely help her get back these grievances he suffered in the Hou Mansion today!
Mrs. Li's words not only stimulated Zhao Qingcheng, but even the old lady was also suppressed.
When Mrs. Li entered the door, Li was only two years old, how could she disobey the discipline. However, Mrs. Li never cared about Li Weixi, and only had her daughter Li Weipity in her eyes. For this reason, the late Hou Ye quarreled with Mrs. Li about this matter. On the contrary, Li Wei did not hesitate to be well-behaved and sensible, often comforting her father and making her father happy.
It seems that Mrs. Li has been in charge for too long, and she doesn't know whether black and white is right or wrong. It's time to get the power back, the old lady also thought to herself.
Li did not hesitate to glance at the old lady, turned to Mrs. Li, and said, "Mother, don't be angry." I've already told my grandmother about this, so why don't you ask your grandmother later?! She did this for the old lady to see, and Li did not hesitate to let the old lady know that she had repeatedly put up with it, and it was Mrs. Li who was entangled.
Mrs. Li peeked at the old lady who was seated, but when she saw the old lady half-squinting and holding the Buddha beads in her hand, she seemed to have no intention of coming out for Li, and she was even more fearless. "Humph! You have to have an explanation from the old lady, but you can't prevaricate like this here. If you don't make things clear today, don't think of getting out of the gate of the Hou Mansion! ”
As soon as Mrs. Li's words came out, she felt inappropriate, and she didn't seem to put Zhao Qingcheng in her eyes between her words, after all, she didn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, and she also looked at the owner when she beat the dog. No matter how much you say this, she is now the princess of Zhao Qingcheng.
Mrs. Li hurriedly apologized to Zhao Qing, "Lord Wang, forgive your sins!" I just lost my words, not intentionally refuting the prince's face and embarrassing the prince. Don't get me wrong, I'm just ······"
Zhao Qingcheng smiled slightly and interrupted Mrs. Li's words, "Mrs. Li doesn't need to explain, this king understands." Although the princess has married into the palace, you are the head of the Hou Mansion after all, so you naturally have the truth of your lesson. Having said that, Zhao Qingcheng had disgusted Mrs. Li to the extreme in his heart, and he even had the heart to kill her.
This back and forth, the old lady in the audience was a little puzzled. Mrs. Li's purpose is naturally Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it, and Li is bound to win it today, this Zhao Qingcheng's attitude is obscure, and it is really a little unreasonable. On the surface, it seems that he did not regret Li, and he was a little resigned to Mrs. Li. The old lady raised her eyes and looked at Li Weixi, she couldn't see any fluctuations on her face, and she had a calm posture. The old lady looked back and forth, Li did not hesitate to admit to Zhao Qing for a long time, and then woke up. After thinking about it for a while, the old lady had a new idea······
Seeing that Zhao Qingcheng didn't seem to have any intention of protecting Li Wei, Mrs. Li became more and more unscrupulous, "Lord, it's a big matter!" She added fuel and vinegar, and deliberately provoked: "Today, I have to let Xi'er make it clear, it seems to be for the Hou Mansion, but in fact it is for the prince!" You think, in the eyes of outsiders, this matter is that you will give Xi'er's dowry to the Hou Mansion as a homecoming gift. Of course, I will certainly warn my subordinates to control their tongues and not to criticize indiscriminately. But after all, the Hou Mansion has a lot of mouths, and maybe a slave who loves to chew the root of his tongue accidentally said that he leaked his mouth and spread it, not to mention that it damaged the face of the Hou Mansion, and the face of the prince was even more gone. He continued: "Lord Wang, if you become a joke after tea and dinner for the palace dignitaries because of this matter, what should you do?!" Mrs. Li thought proudly in her heart: Men love face, she doesn't believe it, Zhao Qingcheng will stand by. Now she really can't do it, but Zhao Qingcheng can. If a woman is disliked by her husband when she is newly married, then don't think about having a better life in the future, such examples abound, and this is the case with Second Mrs. Li.
Mrs. Li's previous play with her mother-in-law Li did not hesitate to watch silently, of course she knew that the cause of the so-called inadvertent fall of the little girl was just rhetoric. She knew Mrs. Li too well, and knew that Mrs. Li would be in a hurry to let people count the return gifts into the warehouse, so she came up with this plan. However, Mrs. Li spoke viciously to her several times because of her greed, but her last bit of affection for this stepmother was also burned out.
Li didn't regret thinking that if Mrs. Li suffered this dumb loss today, she would consider giving up. Even if the old lady returned the dowry left to her by her mother in a few days, Li did not hesitate to leave a few valuable items as a thought, and the rest remained in the Hou Mansion. After all, the Hou Mansion is different from the past, Li Wei really doesn't want to watch the Hou Mansion be lonely, if her father knows underground, he will blame her for being unfilial and ashamed of her ancestors.
In this way, this is just wishful thinking. Mrs. Li didn't even care about the slightest family affection for her, and pressed her step by step again and again. Then why should she be obsessed with this! Today, Mrs. Li is to blame for all this, even if her father has a spirit in heaven, he will not blame her.
The old lady examined the current situation of the Hou Mansion, and after thinking deeply about the future possibilities of the Hou Mansion, she said in her heart: Even if the Hou Mansion is swept away today, I will support the girl! It's just that if you can't even fight for such a thing, then how can I count on you, he will entrust the last hope of the Hou Mansion to you one day.
Seeing that Mrs. Li had intensified, Li did not hesitate to suppress the anger in her heart, and said calmly: "Mother, the return gift is good for me personally, but I didn't use my own dowry!" Even if no one teaches this truth, Xi'er still understands it. I think something must have gone wrong, so I'll ask my mother if she's at ease. "It's not time to tear her face yet, and when the time comes, she's not polite.
Mrs. Li glanced at Li and did not hesitate to speak.
Li did not hesitate to turn a blind eye, turned his head and asked Qi Chuntao, "Have you personally instructed them which boxes to move?" ”
Chun Tao looked aggrieved, "Princess, it's not that the slave didn't do what you ordered. It's just that before the slaves and maids could inform the subordinates of the Hou Mansion, they had already impatiently moved the things in the car into the Hou Mansion. Didn't you see the appearance of those little guys, if it weren't for the slaves and maids to stop them, they would have moved all the things on our royal carriage together! Chun Tao glared at the mother-in-law, "In this way, the slave maid can only helplessly hope that the little maids in the Hou Mansion are not wrong, and want to find an opportunity to inform the princess, but I don't want to say that this woman will splash a basin of dirty water on our palace." Chun Tao couldn't see that her master was angry, and her words were naturally much more ugly. What's more, this mother-in-law relied on herself to be the old man of the Hou Mansion, and she was a celebrity in front of Mrs. Li's eyes, and she bullied the maids of the Hou Mansion in the past, and she was even more difficult for Chun Tao.
This mother-in-law is the only one in the Hou Mansion, where can she hear the contempt of the same subordinate. Forgetting for a moment that there were many masters present, he couldn't help but choke, "What are you talking about?" Don't forget, you are also a maid from the Hou Mansion, and no one is better than anyone else. ”
Mrs. Li didn't say anything on the side, deliberately conniving.
Li Wei snorted coldly, "What are you!" The master didn't ask, how can you speak. Li didn't hesitate to look at Mrs. Li, "Besides, Chun Tao has now married into the palace with me, and her natural identity is different from the past, and she is much more noble than you." ”
The mother-in-law naturally didn't dare to resist Li's words, so she lowered her head and stepped aside and didn't dare to say anything more.
"You!" Mrs. Li's face at this time was naturally not good-looking, and Li Weixi's words clearly meant that Sang scolded Huai, and she was so angry that she trembled.
"Since I took it by mistake, I changed it back." The old lady interjected.
"That's what Grandmother said." Li did not hesitate to push the boat down the river, "Chun Tao, you go." Let the little maid accompanying the palace move the return ceremony into the courtyard of this front hall, and don't make any mistakes this time. ”
"Yes. Princess. Chun Tao took the order and retreated.
Mrs. Li also glanced at the mother-in-law in charge, and the mother-in-law was ordered to retreat.
After a short time, the subordinates of the palace and the Hou Mansion came to the courtyard of the front hall one after another under the leadership of Chun Tao and the mother-in-law in charge.
When she was about to arrive at the courtyard, Chun Tao deliberately slowed down her pace, deliberately letting the mother-in-law in charge walk in front. When the mother-in-law passed by Chun Tao's side, she glared at Chun Tao fiercely, and Chun Tao ignored it and walked forward in small steps.
The mother-in-law in charge instructed the subordinates of the Hou Mansion to move the boxes to the left side of the courtyard, and vacated the right side for the subordinates of the palace to put it. Unexpectedly, Chun Tao commanded the people of the palace to also mingle among the people of the Hou Mansion, and placed the boxes in the middle of the boxes brought by the people of the Hou Mansion at will. The people of the Hou Mansion put down a box, and the people of the Wang Mansion also put one on its side, so interspersed randomly.
When Mrs. Li saw Chun Tao instructing to place it like this, she knew that it must be Li's idea, and there must be fraud in it, so she was so anxious that she jumped to her feet.
Seeing this, before Mrs. Li could speak, the mother-in-law in charge was already anxious: "Hey, how did you put it?" Don't leave it on our side! We have set aside a place for you, and the men of your royal house will move to the right and place it. ”
Chun Tao didn't pay attention to the words of the mother-in-law in charge, and still took care of herself and instructed the people of the palace to insert the box between the boxes of the Hou Mansion. Of course, this is all explained to Chun Tao in advance. This is good, no one can tell which ones are the dowry that Li Weiwei regrets, and which ones are Zhao Qingcheng's return gifts!
In front of the masters were dozens of boxes of the same size and color.
"You did it on purpose!" Mrs. Li glared at Li Weixi, "How can you change it like this?!" ”
Li did not hesitate to say no to Mrs. Li's first half of the sentence, "What's so difficult about this, you can distinguish between the boxes by opening them one by one." ”
"No way!" Mrs. Li flatly refused. Mrs. Li thought to herself: This box can't be opened in front of everyone! Not to mention the consequences of the old lady seeing her and knowing that she did not hesitate to change the dowry; Even if he was seen by Zhao Qing, he was afraid that he would be asked to talk about the matchmaking for Li'er. As for Li Wei, she didn't care about that girl at all, and the stinky girl probably didn't know what treasure her dead mother left her.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Li said: "The bottom of the boxes of the palace and the palace of the Hou Mansion has their own seals, so that the subordinates can recognize them when they lift the boxes." ”
"Mother's method is good, but it is not as trouble-free as mine." The matter has come to this point, how can Li not hesitate to stop here, she is bound to win it now. Li did not hesitate not to give Mrs. Li a chance to obstruct it, "Chun Tao, open the box." ”
Chun Tao had already been prepared, and was waiting for Li to give orders on the side. Listening to Li did not hesitate to open the box, she quickly stepped forward to find the box, and opened several boxes in a row. The mother-in-law in charge didn't have time to stop it, so she watched Chun Tao open all the boxes.
The old lady glanced at the contents of the box, and was so angry that she couldn't say a word. She really didn't expect that the dowry that Li Wei didn't regret would be deducted, and she would be indiscriminately filled like this! It's full of shoddy items that can't be put on the countertop. This Mrs. Li has gone too far, and she doesn't care about the face of the Hou Mansion.
Zhao Qingcheng was also the first time to see Li Weixi's dowry, and when he thought of Li Weixi's attention and defense of these dowries on the wedding day, he felt funny, and he couldn't help but look at Li Weixi.