Chapter 18: The Dowry Is Lost
Pei Lanzhi's face was cloudy, but Shen Lingyu's heart blossomed.
Especially after she became a duchess, her life in the General's Mansion became more and more comfortable.
Xu is old lady warned Wanlanxuan's side, in the past two days, Pei Lanzhi and Ye Wanran have not come to her trouble.
As a result, I never thought that they had stopped, and Xie Yunzhou was a demon again.
The reason was that she asked Zelan to go to the street early in the morning to help Mona buy clothes for the spring, but when Zeelan came back, he presented her with a letter with a serious face.
"Madam, this is sent by Xie Shilang."
Shen Lingyu frowned when he heard this, "Didn't you let others see it?" ”
Zelan pursed his lips and shook his head, "The messenger secretly came over while the slave maid was on the street. ”
"That's good."
Shen Lingyu nodded, and after opening the envelope, she saw that Xie Yunzhou had come to ask her for a reward.
According to the previous agreement, Ye Wanran lost her body in his mansion, and she had to give him 10,000 taels of silver.
Shen Lingyu threw the letter into the incense burner and lit it, and then asked Zelan to go to the front yard to call Chen Shu.
"You go to the treasury to count my dowry, and by the way, take out 10,000 taels of silver tickets, I have an urgent need."
After Chen Shu received the order, he immediately set out to do this.
However, in half a day, he finished the things that Shen Lingyu had explained, but when he came to deliver the silver ticket, his expression was extremely serious.
"When I counted my wife's dowry today, I found that the ten acres of fertile land you married were quietly transferred out of the house."
"What did you say?" Shen Lingyu was taken aback.
Chen Shu presented her with the account books and deeds he had put together.
"According to the account book, the good land that my wife married with her has a total of ten acres, just outside the city of Balipo, where is a fertile land, and the annual grain harvest is not less than 10,000 quintals, but these few land deeds are recorded in Qingshangang outside the city."
"Shengjing people know that Qingshangang is a well-known barren field, the soil is loose, and it is located on the shady side, and there is no sunlight all year round, so there is no way to grow food, so ......"
So what, Chen Shu didn't say anything further, but Shen Lingyu had already guessed it.
Someone secretly touched her dowry behind her back.
Don't think about it, this matter must have been done by Ye Wanran again, after all, she had taken away the power of the family before, and the idea of using the dowry during that period was not impossible.
Shen Lingyu took the deeds and looked through them carefully, and the more he looked at them, the more angry he became, Huo got up and went to Wanlan Xuan.
At that time, Ye Wanran was lying on the bed to have a baby, and when she turned her head and saw Shen Lingyu coming in, her face changed.
"Shen Lingyu, you slut, you still dare to appear in front of me, get out of me!"
"Save some effort, after all, I don't really want to see you, so the tone of my voice is more polite, unless you want me to shake these deeds in front of the old lady."
Shen Lingyu said as he threw the deed onto her bed.
Ye Wanran picked it up and looked at it, knowing that she already knew about the dowry, she couldn't help but feel a little flustered, but she still looked righteous on her face.
"That's right, I changed your land deed, when I was in charge of the house before, my mother said that I can handle everything in the house by myself, so even if you shake to your mother, it's useless, don't forget that your dowry has already been filled into the public treasury, and you can't use it yourself."
Shen Lingyu asked with a cold face: "Who is in the hands of those deeds now?" ”
Ye Wanran raised her eyebrows and snorted coldly, "Even if you tell you, you can't get it back, Shen Lingyu, I know you have scheming and means, but if you encounter scoundrels, even if you have great ability, you can't do anything about them." ”
Shen Lingyu immediately guessed, "It was your uncle who took the deed, right?" ”
"So what? Anyway, when it gets into their hands, it's theirs. Ye Wanran said proudly.
Shen Lingyu had to admit that when it came to playing a scoundrel, Ye Wanran and her maternal uncle were really in the same vein.
It's useless to waste effort here, even if she tells the old lady about it, the old lady will only scold Ye Wanran for a few words at most, after all, Ye Wanran is still pregnant with the eldest grandson of the General's Mansion in her belly.
It's useless to go to Ye Wanran's maiden uncle, just like Ye Wanran said, they are scoundrels, and they can't get any benefits from them if they have a hard time with them.
So if she wanted to get her deeds back, she had to outwit them, and she had to get them to return those deeds willingly.
Shen Lingyu squinted and pondered, glanced at Ye Wanran, snorted coldly and turned to leave.
Ye Wanran stared at her back and got carried away.
"I thought this slut was really going to the old lady to complain, but now it's not a dumb person eating coptis."
Mama Xu handed her the fetal pill and said worriedly: "The old slave looked at the third lady's expression, but I was afraid that she would not give up." ”
"That's because she hasn't seen my uncle's methods yet, and even I can't do anything about them, let alone her Shen Lingyu!" Ye Wanran said disdainfully.
Mama Xu always felt that she had thought about this matter too simply, she had suffered a few times in the hands of the third lady before, and she was still so negligent, and the lady had a too smooth life over the years.
It's just that these words, it's not good for her to say them directly in front of Ye Wanran, after all, a pregnant woman has the most ups and downs in her emotions.
Although she is Madame's nurse, in Madame's eyes, she is just a subordinate after all.
So what to say and what not to say, Mama Xu has always known in her heart.
Besides, Shen Lingyu's side, after leaving Wanlan Xuan, Shen Lingyu took Zelan and Chen Shu out of the General's Mansion together.
Thinking of Ye Wanran's rogue behavior, Zelan couldn't help but feel sorry for Shen Lingyu.
"Although it is natural that the dowry should be confiscated, when the lady just passed the door, the general also said that if you need it, you can dispose of those dowries at will, and I don't want the second lady to take advantage of the idea of taking advantage of her housekeeper to fight the ten acres of fertile land, which is really too much!"
Shen Lingyu sat in the carriage and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Ye Wanran's temperament, it's not the first time she has seen that in her previous life, Ye Wanran has done more than this, not to mention that now she has only lost ten acres of fertile land?
But she didn't really think that after the deed was in her mother's hands, it would really be theirs.
At this time, Chen Shu's voice came from outside the car.
"Ma'am, it's here."
As his words fell, the carriage slowly stopped.
Zelan helped Shen Lingyu down, and when he looked up, he saw that they had come to Qingshan Gang outside the city, and the barren field that was exchanged by the second lady with good land was here.
Zelan frowned, "Madam, what are we doing here?" ”
Shen Lingyu pretended to be mysterious and said: "You will know right away." ”
As she spoke, she took out a few golden melon seeds from the car and threw them into the barren field.
Chen Shu was afraid that it would be too obvious, so he grabbed a few more handfuls of soil and covered it.
After doing all this, Shen Lingyu took the two of them to get in the car and go to Balipo again.
Balipo has a total of 100 acres of fertile land, of which 10 acres are her dowry, and the other dozens of acres are others.
The land is fertile because of the moat, which is easy to irrigate.
At that time, it was spring and April, and the banks of the river were full of flowers, attracting many people to play here, but there was still some distance from the 100 acres of fertile land.
After getting off the bus, Shen Lingyu took Zelan to the river to enjoy the scenery.
Chen Shu put on a hat and ran to an old man who was farming in the field.
"Uncle, you are well-informed, can you help me see if this is gold?"