Chapter 189: Counting
As soon as Mrs. Wang heard that Cai Wei had the Li family's dowry list, she immediately became anxious: This is worth it, if you take the list to the treasury for a pair, the Mu family will not be able to compensate even if the family is bankrupt?
Over the years, most of the Li family's dowry has been sold, and the rest are worthless.
If Cai Wei is really more serious, the Mu family will not talk about any glory and wealth, it is estimated that it will be over.
She has buried her neck, and she hasn't seen the Mu family thrive, how can she let Cai Wei be ruined?
The eyeballs rolled around, and Mrs. Wang slowly stabilized.
When a woman marries, there are two copies of the dowry list, one is held in her own hands, and the other is left in her mother's house.
After Li died that year, the dowry list was collected by her.
The Li family was raided before, and the dead were exiled, and no one cared about the dowry list for a long time, and now, where did she get the dowry list for a hairy girl?
Don't bluff, right?
The more Wang Lao Taijun thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, after all, Cai Wei was kicked out of the house when she was two or three years old and brought to the countryside by Widow Mu to raise her. Widow Mu doesn't have a dowry list in her hand, where did she get it?
Yes, this hairy girl must have deliberately deceived them.
The Jiang family and the Zhang family are also secretly nervous, and they also know the Li family's dowry that they have made enough oil and water in the big house and the second room over the years, and now they have to liquidate it, that is, let them spit it out.
It's just that what has already been eaten, how can it be spit out?
If Cai Wei hadn't been Lu Ying's wife right away, it was estimated that both the Zhang family and the Jiang family would have been able to strangle her to death.
This cheap girl, with her back hand, didn't she want to put them to death?
This is a matter of principle, and the two of them will never let Cai Wei succeed.
The two of them glanced at each other, and each saw the ruthlessness in each other's eyes.
On this point, they are always on the same page.
After Mrs. Wang figured it out, her heart quieted down, and she slowly stretched out a hand and smiled gloomily at Cai Wei, "Since you have your mother's dowry list, take it out and show it to your grandmother." ”
Cai Wei sneered, what does this old lady want to do? In case the old lady had tore it up or crumpled it up and stuffed it into her stomach, she would have to copy another copy.
This is still handed over to her by Li Ruzhou before she came, saying that before she gets married, she will take these dowries away and keep a memory.
After all, it's her mother's thing.
Therefore, she will not take it out unless she has to, so as not to let someone with a heart destroy it.
But Caiwei's uncooperative attitude made Mrs. Wang let out a long breath.
Is this gone?
Hmph, this girl is not small, she thinks she is wild in the countryside, and she dares to cheat her?
"Your mother's dowry is really nothing good, and it still occupies the treasury for so many years. If you want, I'll have someone clean it up and make room. Mrs. Wang was full of confidence and opened her eyes to talk nonsense, she wanted to see what other tricks Cai Wei had.
"Okay, let's go and count." Cai Wei smiled and agreed, shouting Xiao Liu Xiao Wu, "You two keep your eyes open for me to see, and if you don't have one, you have to make up for it." ”
"Yes." The little five and six agreed in unison.
Xiao Wu came to the sentence again, "The "Da Ming Law" stipulates that all women's dowries are prepared in the yamen. If the girl doesn't know, let the slave take the post of the commander to the Shuntian Mansion and ask. ”
She glanced at the wide-eyed Mrs. Wang, and said lightly, "The face of the adult, the matter of one sentence!" ”
Cai Wei wanted to laugh when she heard it, what a girl, she was really a thief, how could she know what she was thinking.
"Okay, you will inform you adults in a while, don't leave in a hurry yet, and wait until I finish counting the dowry." After Cai Wei finished ordering with a smile, she turned around and said to Wang Lao Taijun, Jiang and Zhang, "Let's go to the warehouse." ”
Mrs. Wang was faintly panicked, although she was a little apprehensive, she still gritted her teeth and held on, anyway, Cai Wei couldn't get the dowry list, so she didn't admit it, see what she could do to her?
Lu Ying, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, may not be able to pull down his face, but he asked about his mother-in-law's dowry in the Heavenly Mansion. After all, the Li family is a case set by the emperor, and ordinary people don't want to provoke it.
Even if Cai Wei had a life-saving grace for him, he may have been forced to marry Cai Wei out of kindness. If others knew that he married a bereaved eldest daughter, it wouldn't be famous, right?
If he was a shrewd person, he would not have been rendered by the heavens.
Mrs. Wang became proud when she thought of this, but she had eaten more salt than Caiwei had eaten, and in terms of means, she was still tender.
She glanced at her two daughters-in-law, who were a little uneasy, and said calmly, "Let's go, let's help Cai Wei." ”
The crowd walked towards the treasury in a majestic manner, and they didn't have the heart to look at the dowry sent by Lu Ying anymore.
Cai Wei squeezed Xiao Liu's hand, glanced at her, and quietly pointed to the dowry of more than a dozen lifts.
Xiao Liu comprehended, deliberately fell a step, and fell silently behind everyone.
When Lu Ying came out, Xiao Liu hid behind a moon flower bush and quietly beckoned to him.
Lu Ying glanced at her clearly, and smiled at Mu Dongsheng and Mu Dongru, "I want to go around, I wonder if my father-in-law and uncle can make it convenient?" ”
"Convenient, of course convenient!" Mu Dongsheng and Mu Dongru hurriedly flattered him, but they couldn't wait to obey him.
Lu Ying is the big tree that can cover the Mu family, and she is a great nobleman that they have never dreamed of. Like a pie falling from the sky, they could never imagine that they would be able to catch up with such a big man in this life.
The two brothers thought that the young man couldn't hold it back and wanted to meet Cai Wei before marriage, so even if Lu Ying's request was unreasonable, the two brothers didn't dare to fart more!
Lu Ying looked at these two flattering faces, smiled noncommittally, and walked away.
The two brothers returned to the flower hall excitedly and began to look forward to how the Mu family had developed.
Lu Ying walked towards Xiao Liu, because Xiao Liu was Cai Wei's maid, and the people in the house did not suspect it.
"What does the girl have to explain?" Lu Ying asked Xiao Liu quietly.
Although Cai Wei didn't tell Xiao Liuming, she has been following Cai Wei and accompanying Wang Lao Taijun and those people to see the dowry, and she knows that the people in this mansion are eyeing these dowry.
She told the ugly state of Mrs. Wang, "The girl will go to count the dowry of the lady now, and specially ordered the slave maid to stay here, thinking that the slave maid will tell the adult that the people in this house are estimated to fight the idea of these dowries, and the adult should pay attention!" ”
Lu Ying nodded, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and a sneer loomed.
"You girls are thoughtful, and this seat has its own arrangements." After he finished speaking, he instructed Xiao Liu, "Lead the way in front of the head, and let's take a look at the excitement." ”
Xiao Liu was extremely clever, and immediately understood that Lu Ying was going to the Mu family's treasury to help Cai Wei, so he hurriedly saluted and took Lu Ying to the Mu family's treasury.
It's just a small courtyard to arrive.
The Mu family was originally not very big, but it was just a courtyard for the second entrance.
The warehouse was full of people, in addition to Mrs. Wang, Jiang's mother and daughter, Zhang's mother and daughter, and the maiden mother-in-law who followed, surrounded this small house.
Lu Ying stood on the periphery, holding her hands, and she was not in a hurry to go in.
He believes that Cai Wei can handle these small things, and if not, he will take action again.
He just wanted to see how ruthless the Mu family was and how thick-skinned they were!
"Open." Mrs. Wang swallowed her saliva, stared at the iron general on the door of the warehouse, and finally spoke.
"Yes." The mother-in-law with her took a bunch of keys from her waist, picked one out, and stabbed it in the keyhole.
There was a crisp "click", as if it was knocking on everyone's heart.
The door was pushed open, and a damp smell rushed in front of everyone, and the musty smell filled everyone's noses. I don't know how long no one has been cleaning, no one has ventilated and aired.
"Ahem......" Cai Wei was so choked that she almost didn't catch her breath, and her heart gradually filled with a layer of sadness: people go to tea and cool, and her biological mother Li is the best example.
So many people say that they are not relatives, but they are still a family, but after she died, the dowry was taken away and the children of other families were raised. But his daughter was driven to the countryside and left to fend for herself.
What a miserable and pathetic way this is!
The snobbery and coldness of the Mu family are really outrageous.
I don't know why she, the daughter of a physician, fell in love with Mu Dongsheng?
Although he is the son of the country's priest wine, he has no merit and fame, and second, he is cold by nature.
What's so good about such a man?
But the Si people are gone, and it is useless to regret it now.
If the Li family hadn't been robbed and killed, maybe the Li family wouldn't have ended up in such a field, right?
The deep sorrow made Cai Wei speechless.
The people waited for a while, until the smell in the storeroom was a little lighter, and then they stepped in.
Cai Wei stood at the door, and when she looked around, she saw a few mahogany boxes randomly falling in the corner of the storeroom, all of which were locked.
The mahogany box is mottled with red paint, and I think it's been some years. But the lock on it was shiny. There was neither rust nor dust, and it was clear that someone wiped it frequently, or someone often opened the lock.
She glanced at Mrs. Wang, who was still pretending there, and the corners of her mouth slowly hooked up a sneer.
This old lady, how dark her heart is. She spends the dead man's things steadily.
Weren't the ancients superstitious? How could they not be afraid that the soul of the Li clan would come back to them?
Or have they become so greedy and so bold that they are not even afraid of ghosts and gods?
Sure enough, the word is the first and I don't care about anything.
"Open." Mrs. Wang still said the same thing, and the personal woman beside her skillfully picked out one of the keys and opened the top mahogany box.
After that, under the gaze of Cai Wei, I opened the lower ones one by one.
There are a total of five boxes, each of which is three feet square, square, and must be able to hold a lot of things.
But the weight of the dowry list is far from what these boxes can hold.
Cai Wei recalled that there were also a few generally large boxes in the inner room of Mrs. Wang's house, and at first she thought it was the old lady's old belongings, but now that she thinks about it, it should also be something that the Li family married back then.
It seems that the old lady has taken the Li dowry for herself.
She walked over slowly, looking down at the contents of the box.
Several yellowed ancient books, the covers of which have been lost. If you look closely, you can see that they are several medical books, which are more precious.
Cai Wei bent down and picked it out of the box, patted the dust on it, opened it and looked at it, and there was a small record of the pharmacy in it, which seemed to be written down by Li when she was a young girl, and it may be that she made notes on treating people.
This is the most precious thing left to her by her biological mother, and she cherishes it in her hands.
The big box above has these ancient books and Li's handwriting, and there is nothing else.
Seeing her flipping through the ancient books, Mrs. Wang smiled sarcastically, "Look, this is what your mother left for you back then, and the things that are remembered on it are extremely precious, so you have to put them away carefully." ”
"Of course, those who can't harvest well are not as good as animals." Cai Wei replied unceremoniously to Mrs. Wang, and her voice seemed to be as cold as quenched ice.
Mrs. Wang was so angry that her face turned blue, but she couldn't attack.
Cai Wei did not name names.
It's just that she pointed out that Sang scolded Huai, but she couldn't answer.
Cai Wei didn't pay attention to her face, and only ordered Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu to move the following out.
Xiao Wu Xiao Liu, two people who practice martial arts, have great strength, and they move the box above lightly, and line up the few mouthfuls below for easy looking.
"See it all, right? If you want the dowry, I will have it collected. Mrs. Wang snorted coldly angrily.
Cai Wei ignored her, and handed the scroll in her hand to Xiao Wu unhurriedly, but she took out a bag from her sleeve, opened the drawstring, took out a paper ball from it, opened it, and ordered Xiao Liu, "Read, let's take a good look at my mother's dowry!" ”
Xiaoliu happily agreed, and carefully unfolded the paper ball: she just likes the girl's cat-and-mouse energy, and to deal with these unethical things, she has to play a little trick before it is interesting!
Mrs. Wang was dumbfounded, didn't she lose it? Why is this biased?
Jiang and Zhang were also stunned.
The old lady also reassured them, why did this cheap girl take out the dowry list again?
What's going on?
A few women just opened their mouths and stared at each other, listening to Xiao Liu's recitation.
The things on the dowry list were basically taken by them, and most of them were spent.
As soon as they heard the same thing pop out of Xiao Liu's mouth, they were terrified.
Xiao Liu read very slowly, and every time she read the same thing, she had to pause so that she could see the faces of Mrs. Wang, Jiang, and Zhang.
Every time Mrs. Wang heard this, the muscles in her cheeks trembled, and her hands trembled without warning.
Jiang and Zhang's faces were also quite bad, the iron was blue and the iron was blue, and there was fine sweat on their foreheads.
Sky!
In these four large boxes, except for a few weathered silk horses, the things on the list are not there.
Obviously, everything was removed.
Who moved out?
It's a personal estimate that knows it.
But Mrs. Wang still regarded Cai Wei as a fool, and after listening to Xiao Liu's recitation, she wiped the sweat on her forehead with her sleeve, barely calmed herself, and slowly opened her eyes and said nonsense, "Cai Wei, your mother's dowry was a lot back then, but after your grandfather's family had an accident, your mother took some out and sold it, trying to rescue your grandfather and uncle." It's not good for us to watch your grandfather and uncle suffer, right? ”
These words are as if their Mu family is so kind and benevolent.
If it's so good, Lee will hang himself?
"Grandmother, do you still want to say that my mother's dowry is not enough, and you added some?" Cai Wei looked around coldly, "Did the eldest lady take out all the treasures at the bottom of the box to my mother?" ”
The Zhang family hadn't entered the door yet, so she had nothing to do.