Chapter 16: The Pursuit of Victory
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lian Shi cried more and more lively.
"Enough! Isn't it possible that you are still ashamed to lose less? Chang Lehou, who had been silent, finally couldn't help it, and scolded angrily in a deep voice, with a very strong anger. Lian immediately looked like a rooster pinched by someone's throat, his face was flushed, but he couldn't make a sound.
"Hurry up and take all the title deeds, seals, etc., and return them to Yuehua!"
"Why?" Lian jumped up with a "whoosh": "Have you raised her for nothing all these years?" She said take it and take it? Even if you have a dog, you still know how to wag its tail at its owner! ”
"You!" Lian's unreasonableness made Chang Lehou suddenly angry and raised his slap high.
"Master Hou is so majestic! Beat me to death, I don't want to live anyway! Marrying such a scumbag man, it's just a matter of watching me feel aggrieved, and my elbows are turned outward, what's the point of my life?! ”
Lian's oily and slippery bun fell down, his eyebrows were raised, his waist was straightened, his chest was straight, and he looked hideous and spicy, where did he still care about his face in the past?
Chu Yuehua sighed helplessly: "Originally, I was forced to be helpless, and I just wanted to ask for the store and land to be returned, as the foundation of my future life, since my aunt is so calculating, let's liquidate." Xiang Shen, move out all the belongings I have bought in the past few years when I lived in the Hou Ye's Mansion! ”
"Yes!" Xiang Shen finally felt that he raised his eyebrows, answered neatly and simply, and the two of them entered the house, and after a while, he took out a camphor wood box, put it in the middle, and opened it in front of everyone: "My young lady can add three sets of clothes inside and outside every season every year, and five sets of clothes for festivals or banquets, and after five years in the house, all the needles and threads are here." ”
The masters of the Chang family didn't know what was going on, but the grandmothers all snorted softly, Lian's is too mean! Ordinary people can get by, and they will definitely buy a few more new clothes for their little girls, and dress up in a fancy way, and the girls in their own houses must also add three sets of winter clothes and summer clothes every season according to the custom, not to mention the decent girls who follow the master. All of Yuehua's belongings turned out to be only one box! It's not as good as a decent girl! These face kung fu that are worth a few taels of silver Lian is even reluctant to do?
Lian's face was blue and red, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, and he couldn't refute it.
Yuehua continued: "My lunch is the most sumptuous, four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables, and the kitchen has been ordered by Cousin Ling Yan, no more than two taels of meat and vegetables a day, and no rice bowls. The two girls around me, a mother-in-law are according to the same standard as me, a total of less than two thousand days in five years, these are all my expenses, on this basis, fivefold, as a reward for my aunt's kindness in raising Yuehua, the remaining amount, please return the amount to my aunt, right? ”
These words can be said to have really slapped Lian's face, and opened the harsh treatment he had suffered in the Hou Mansion over the years, and dried it in front of all the masters. It's not that Yuehua's small belly and chicken intestines must be compared, but that Lian's cruelty to her is not spread out, Lian's shouting like that, everyone will think that she Chu Yuehua is ungrateful.
The fifth lady Ding didn't wait for Lian's quibble, so she spoke out indignantly: "It is said that the eldest sister-in-law is the mother, and we concubines respect the sister-in-law in our hearts, but what the sister-in-law did was really chilling. Yuehua has no mother, but she still has our uncles and aunts, if the sister-in-law feels that she is unable to raise her, even if she informs her, we will take it away, how can she let the child suffer so much? How else can we help you speak today? ”
The third lady Li closed her mouth for a long time because her master was in front of her, and she didn't dare to tease more, but now as soon as Ding opened her mouth, she immediately couldn't hold it back, and said down: "Brother and sister said lightly, if we take Yuehua, how can she have an excuse to swallow the soft belongings of the fourth aunt and grandmother?" Now that Yuehua has been forced out of the Hou Ye's Mansion, she is still holding on tightly, a little unreasonable, right? ”
After that, he raised his eyes to look at the third master, and saw that he had no intention of blaming, so he immediately became bold and triumphant.
As soon as everyone expressed their attitude, the Lian family was completely isolated, no matter how clever the tongue was, the annual income of the field was fixed, and no matter how big the expenses of the master and servant of Yuehua were, it was no more than a few acres of grain and rice, not to mention that there were account books in hand?
The fifth master coughed lightly, and also expressed his attitude: "Sister-in-law, if this matter is an official, if you go to Jing Zhaoyin, it will not be a family matter of my Chang family." If the Queen Mother asks the old man again, do you think that the future of the children is ......?"
The fifth master believed that this was said very clearly, and he caught Lian's death in one sentence, if Lian still couldn't figure it out, it would be too stupid. The Lian family is a clever character in terms of weighing the pros and cons, especially Ling Yan is now being appreciated by the Empress Dowager, she is doing everything possible to send her to the palace, and at the worst she has to let the Empress Dowager point her to a good family. If the Queen Mother is annoyed by this matter, won't it all be in vain?
She gritted her teeth, reluctantly handed over the key to the most powerful mother-in-law beside her, gritted her teeth and told unwillingly: "Bring the makeup box with gold peonies in my room." ”
The mother-in-law took the order and trotted away, Lian leaned on Chang Lingyan's shoulder dejectedly, wanting to justify something, save his face, peek at the faces of everyone, after all, he felt that it was in vain to say anything, and today he was planted in the mud ditch dug by Chu Yuehua.
The mother-in-law held the makeup box over, Lian Shi looked in the direction of Yuehua, and the mother-in-law handed the box directly to Yuehua's hand. Yuehua opened it uncomfortably and checked them one by one, and inside was the Chu family's title deed and store seal. Over the years, Yuehua has kept in mind the property left to her by her mother, and after a glance, she knows that it is not much closer.
Xiangshen walked over, took the heavy box, hugged it tightly in his arms, and burst into tears with excitement, crying out almost in front of these many people.
"It's true that this is the land contract and store seal left by my mother, may I ask my aunt, what about the silver taels?"
Lian immediately shouted sharply: "Chu Yuehua, are you going to kill them all?" ”
Yuehua blinked innocently: "I just begged for what originally belonged to me, how did I get to my aunt and become heinous?" ”
Originally, it was indeed a natural thing, but in Lian's heart, Chu Yuehua was ungrateful and wanted to force her to death. She raised her head with her chest held high, and pointed at Yuehua's face with confidence, almost bursting her eyes.
"I've worked hard to raise you for many years, and it's only right to spend you a little silver! Where is the reason to ask for a return? Today, the Hou Yefu has not paid a penny, and returning your land and property to you is already a promotion, what do you want? ”
Lian knew that the income account books over the years were in the hands of the third master and the fifth master, and the lies would be easily exposed, and he could not repay the accounts and refute them reasonably, so he simply played tricks and wanted to be a scoundrel. Yuehua smiled bitterly, knowing that no matter how much she argued with her, it would be useless. Lian Shi decided that everyone in the world was sorry for her, and what she did was taken for granted.
Several uncles have also said good things for themselves, and at this time they stood by and watched, it is said that Yuehua should accept it when she sees it, but she is so arrogant that she can't help but recall the insults and harsh reprimands she has received in the past few years, and she remembers it vividly.
Her face gradually turned cold, Lian Shi could feel that the water on her face was gradually stagnating, slowly forming ice flowers, and the chill penetrated directly into her bones, stabbing painfully, and Chang Lingyan's hand trembling a little, and the cold air also came out.
"Since my aunt doesn't admit it, I don't mind confronting you in court, kneeling in front of the government for a few days, beating drums and singing grievances, so that the people in the capital will come to comment, point out Yuehua, what should I do! Xiang Shen, Xiang Che, Mama Wei, let's go! ”
Seeing that the matter was big, the Li family couldn't help but be overjoyed, and couldn't wait to beat the gong and drum in front of his head to make a noise, attracting idle people to come and watch the excitement, so that Lian's reputation spread like this.
Ding's figure shook, and he stepped forward to block Yuehua's way: "Girl, don't look at the monk's face but also look at the Buddha's face, you understand the momentary qi, we understand, but if you do this, won't you put your uncle in an unbearable situation?" Wait for me to persuade and persuade your eldest aunt. ”
Before she could persuade, Chang Lehou had already opened her mouth, and her voice was full of depression and discouragement, like a withered yellow weed on the wall in late autumn, full of desolation and sadness.
"Lian Xin, you choose the same property as the Hou Ye's Mansion, right?"