Chapter 15: The Mother's Dowry
Mrs. Shangshu didn't sleep well all night because she was angry, and at dawn, she finally came up with a way to toss Xi Chuyu once.
Early in the morning, he took Xi Chuyu to Hanlian Garden.
"The eldest lady, the lady and the second lady are here."
The maid who was waiting in the courtyard spoke lightly to the mat who was grooming.
Xi Qingyan's body did not move.
Mrs. Shangshu and Xi Chuyu were deflated yesterday, and they came over early this morning, so needless to say, there is no good thing.
"I know, let them in."
The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth.
She wants to see what else this mother and daughter can do!
"Qingyan, yesterday's incident was that my mother was not good, and our family is naturally harmonious when you just returned to the house."
As soon as Mrs. Shangshu came up, she held Xi Qingyan's hand and apologized.
"Today, my mother specially brought your sister to make amends for you, so don't worry about it for the sake of our family!"
After Mrs. Shangshu finished speaking, she pulled her daughter to the side, and Xi Chuyu reluctantly said sorry.
"I'm sorry."
If she had to rectify Xi Qingyan's ugly bastard, she wouldn't apologize!
Xi Qingyan admired Mrs. Shangshu's good acting skills, yesterday she scolded Mrs. Shangshu for a bloody head, and she could pretend to talk to her early this morning as if she cared about the juniors.
"Yesterday's incident will be over, Mrs. doesn't have to worry about it, and my sister has apologized, so I will graciously not pursue it."
Xi lightly wrote lightly.
Anyway, yesterday she was the winner.
Not to mention the blow to Mrs. Shangshu and Xi Chuyu's mother and son, they also won such a big mansion as Hanlian Yuan for nothing.
She doesn't suffer.
“……”
Lady Shangshu listened to Xi's generous words and almost gritted her teeth.
Obviously, Xi Qingyan is cheap and well-behaved, but now she is pretending to be an elephant with a pig's nose and onions!
"Why did Madame come to me today?"
Xi Qingyan looked at Mrs. Shangshu's deflated appearance, and her mood was much more relaxed.
"Qingyan, you see that it has turned cold today, you just have a few clothes, and my mother is worried that your clothes are thin and cold, so I specially sent you some new clothes to keep you warm."
Mrs. Shangshu squeezed out a smile and explained.
Then he waved behind him, and a group of waiting maids walked in with their clothes.
Actually, Xi Qingyan didn't have no clothes to wear, but the clothes that belonged to the original owner in the wardrobe were really not her dressing style.
What's more, although the clothes on her body are inconspicuous, they are all woven from the best materials, but Mrs. Shangshu and Xi Chuyu don't know the goods, so they can't tell whether they are good or bad.
"Sister, it's a palace banquet in a few days, you are a person from our Shangshu Mansion, you must dress appropriately when the time comes, and you can't lose your father's face."
Xi Chuyu saw that Xi Qingyan wanted to refuse, so she hurriedly stepped forward and took her other hand.
The mother and daughter brought Cheng Qingyao to the maid holding the clothes.
"These clothes are specially selected by my mother and I for my sister and you, you look at how luxurious they are, and your sister's identity as the eldest lady of Shangshufu is the most commensurate."
"Yes, Qingyan, these are the sincerity of your sister's apology, you can accept it."
Mrs. Shangshu and Xi Chuyu sang and harmonized, and the matching was called a match.
"Thank you Madame and sister for your kindness, I don't know what to wear."
Xi Qingyan deliberately pretended to like it, reached out and picked up the clothes to admire, these clothes are excellent in terms of embroidery and patterns on the clothes, and even the texture of the cloth is also counted.
It's just that the clothes are sprinkled with medicinal powder.
It is a colorless and odorless powder that can make people itch unbearably.
This powder is from the hand of the Divine Doctor Valley.
Xi Qingyan has been the owner of the valley for many years, and in order to maintain the livelihood of the Divine Doctor Valley, she once sold the drugs she developed to the outside world.
In the beginning, she was just joking.
What I didn't expect was that those people were eager for the name of the Divine Doctor Valley, so the medicine from her was worth thousands of gold and was in short supply.
The powder on this garment requires at least five hundred taels of silver.
Mrs. Shangshu used her medicine to deal with her, and she really paid a lot of money!
Xi Qingyan sneered in his heart, looked around his clothes, and then leaned over to smell it, deliberately surprised.
"Madame, why do I think there is a faint smell on this dress?"
These words made Xi Chuyu visibly panicked.
The maid who was sent to buy this powder came back, but she said that the powder had no taste!
"Light face, your child's nose is smart, in fact, the mother of this dress has been smoked in advance, if the clothes are not incensed, it really does not match the identity of your Shangshu daughter!"
Mrs. Shangshu didn't want Xi Chuyu to show her feet, so she was sloppy on the side, and then spoke earnestly.
"Where is the maid who serves the eldest lady? Why don't you give this dress to the eldest lady to change? ”
The little maid in Hanlian Garden hurriedly wanted to change her clothes for Xi Qingyan.
She reached out and stopped the others.
"No, I've been living outside all these years, and I've long been used to dressing and eating alone!"
Xi Qingyan made a calculation in her heart, reached out and put the clothes held by the maid on her body, and then deliberately walked to the dresser, pretending to admire.
"Madame's vision is good, and I also think this dress is good."
Xi Qingyan accepted the brocade clothes in the maid's hand, although Mrs. Shangshu didn't have a good heart this time, but these dresses were much more pleasing to the eye than the ones Xi Qingyan wore before.
"Sister, I accept your apology."
"Yes...... Yes......"
Xi Chuyu had been anxiously waiting for Xi Qingyan to itch after getting dressed, but she waited left and right, but she didn't wait for Xi Qingyan to itch all over her body!
Seeing Xi Qingyan wearing the clothes originally prepared for her, Xi Chuyu hated the root of her teeth.
What went wrong?
Could it be that the maid who went to buy medicine deceived her?
Xi Chuyu had thousands of doubts in her heart, and Xi Qingyan didn't care what Xi Chuyu thought at all, because she saw a golden hairpin on Mrs. Shangshu's head.
Xi Qingyan learned from the memory of the original owner that it was the most cherished object of the late Mrs. Shangshu, and this golden hairpin was the dowry prepared by Xi Qingyan's grandfather for his daughter who married into the Shangshu Mansion.
Xi Chuyu's mother took the position of the first lady's wife, and also occupied the first lady's dowry!
Nowadays, those who swagger in the market wear it on their heads!
Xi Qingyan suppressed the disgust in her heart, and still looked at herself in front of the dressing mirror, as if she was inadvertently speaking.
"The clothes given by Madame are indeed good, but the fly in the ointment is that the clothes are too luxurious, and I only have this hairpin made of dead wood on my head."
Xi Qingyan sighed with emotion, and did not forget to glance at Mrs. Shangshu's hair.
"Light face, it's really my mother's negligence, you see I happen to have a golden hairpin here, which is the most suitable for your clothes!"
Mrs. Shangshu was calmer than Xi Chuyu.
She had seen the methods of the Divine Doctor Valley, so she believed that the medicinal powder she bought at a great price must not be fake!
In her opinion, everything was just the time for the powder to attack.
Mrs. Shangshu held a smile and put the hairpin on Xi Qingyan's head.
"Mother, you are so partial to your sister! You are reluctant to wear such a good hairpin on weekdays, and you will give it to her sister today! ”
Xi Chuyu was already upset about the fact that the medicinal powder was ineffective.
Now seeing that Xi Qingyan has won a golden hairpin for nothing, he is very dissatisfied.
"Your sister is the eldest lady of Shangshu Mansion, and any kind of golden hairpin can afford her! These young faces have been suffering outside, how come you as a sister don't know that you feel sorry for your sister? ”
Mrs. Shangshu scolded Xi Chuyu.
If you don't know what happened to Xi Qingyan, you must think that Mrs. Shangshu in front of you is a kind-hearted mother.
Treat stepdaughters better than her own daughters.
"It's just a golden hairpin, if my sister likes it, there are many good things in my mother's dowry, and I will send you a golden hairpin another day."
Xi Qingyan pulled out the golden hairpin on his head and spoke generously.
Then he suddenly deliberately looked at the golden hairpin in his hand, and pretended to be puzzled to speak.
"How can I see that this golden hairpin is exactly the same as my mother's."
Mrs. Shangshu suddenly had an embarrassed face, and subconsciously clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and then supported her scalp to explain.
"Yes...... Is it? ”
"There are many similarities in the objects in this world, you are wrong, and now the golden hairpin in your hand was created by me in my early years."
"The skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths in Kyoto will make exactly the same style when they make styles that are sought after."
Mrs. Shangshu originally wanted to use this explanation to prevaricate Xi Qingyan.
But the other party likes to get to the bottom of it.
"Madam, what you said is not right, my mother's golden hairpin is not from the hands of Kyoto gold and silver craftsmen, it was made by my maternal grandfather's hand, and the words 'Fu Shou Anning' are engraved on it."
Xi chuckled and dismantled the stage.
Then he flipped over the golden hairpin in his hand, pointed to a place on the golden hairpin, and pretended to be innocent.
"Wow! It turns out that the golden hairpin you bought also has the words "happiness, longevity and tranquility"? Anyway, aren't these four words the handwriting of my grandfather? ”
“……”
Mrs. Shangshu was stunned by Xi for a while.
She just had to bite the bullet and divert the conversation.
"Qingyan, I didn't expect you to be so filial to your mother, you know exactly what words are engraved on her golden hairpin."
"However, whether it is this golden hairpin or the others, those are the dowry of the first lady, and when you marry Chu Yu in the future, you will each have a share!"
Xi Qingyan heard this, and there was a sneer between his eyebrows.
Mrs. Shangshu's abacus is really good!
Xi Qingyan's biological mother's dowry, she shamelessly counted Xi Chuyu's share?
Sure enough, people are invincible.
According to their previous calculations, after designing to kill Xi Qingyan, the rich dowry of the first lady was Xi Chuyu's alone!
However, now that she is alive, they don't want to get involved in Xi Chuyu's biological mother's dowry!
"Since Madame mentioned my mother's dowry, now that my own daughter has returned home, it's time for my mother's dowry lady to hand over to my daughter, right?"
Xi Qingyan approached Mrs. Shangshu and asked for a dowry.
For a while, Mrs. Shangshu didn't expect that the ugly monster who was afraid of her hands and feet in the past would have the courage to speak to her today.
"Yes...... It's ......"
Mrs. Shangshu squeezed out a word, and then said nothing.
"Madam, when my mother was dying, she called all the elders of the clan over, and my mother said that all her dowry would be left to me, if Madame doesn't believe it, she can confront the elders of the clan?"
Xi Qingyan was not ready to indulge the mother and daughter, and approached step by step.
"Qingyan, you just returned to Shangshu Mansion, and your body has not been raised, and when your body is raised, your mother will naturally hand over your first wife's dowry to you."
Mrs. Shangshu made an excuse and blocked Xi Qingyan's mouth as she continued to ask.
"Your sister and I won't disturb your rest anymore."
Mrs. Shangshu took Xi Chuyu and fled away from Hanlian Garden.
Late at night.
Xi Chuyu, who was pinched by Xi Qingyan again, was on fire, she looked at the medicinal powder she bought from the Divine Medicine Valley at the head of her bed, and thought that Xi Qingyan had nothing to do, so she tentatively fell on her hand.
"Ahhh......h