"Fourth sister, have you found anything?" Qu Xuexin leaned close to Qu Moying's ear and whispered.
Qu Moying raised his eyebrows, looked at Qu Xuexin on the side, shook his head lightly, pointed outside, and signaled the two to continue listening.
Things outside had basically been dealt with, and Hai Lan reluctantly followed the officials from the Ministry of Justice away.
After the people outside left, Qu Xuerui and Qu Moying came out from behind the screen.
The two men sat down on both sides of the lady again.
"Grandma, what's the matter with the shop? Is it Madam's own shop?" Qu Moying asked, looking up.
Yu's own shop? How could Yu have her own shop? When she entered the mansion, she was a concubine, so how could she have a shop
This reminded the Madam, "Madam, go check which shop this Yu is in charge of and where did she get the deed to the shop?"
There are a number of shops in the mansion, and there is a general list of them, but there are no shops that belong to Yu personally, and none of them are Yu's personal property.
For so many years, the Yu family has controlled the property in the mansion, but in fact, at the very beginning, the lady dowager had intended to keep some of the Yue family's property. Although it was controlled by the Yu family, it was actually still in the hands of the lady dowager, because these all belonged to the Yue family. At the beginning, the Yu family wanted to use Qu Zhizhen to kill Madam Zhou because she wanted the property in the hands of the Yue family.
When Nanny Zhou went to Ling'an to meet Ji's mansion, she specifically told the lady about Yue's private property, and asked her to help Yue collect this part of the private property, saying that it was left for the young master when he was young.
The old lady agreed at that time, and later she locked up the properties, but most of them were taken away by Yu, as the old lady was old after all, and Yu later took control of the internal affairs of the entire mansion. However, the old lady had collected some shop deeds and the like early on, and Yu did not find them from Yue.
Afterwards, the lady-in-waiting combined these shops with those in the mansion and handed them over to Yu for control, but in fact, the final outcome was still in the lady-in-waiting's hands.
Outsiders didn’t know and thought that Yu had the land deed.
Shopkeepers like Yu Qian thought so, and even Qu Moying thought so. After hearing what the old lady said, her watery eyes slightly raised with a hint of surprise and emotion, and her heart felt a little sour. Could it be that her grandmother had left her mother's things long ago
If that's the case, it will be really beneficial to me!
Sure enough, my nanny found out the answer in a short while.
"Madam, it's the shop of our late madam, a clothing store." My nanny quickly found out.
The lady was silent for a moment, "Go to the Third Miss and get all the accounts of the Fourth Miss's shop. From now on, these will belong to the Fourth Miss."
"But if Miss Third asks... what should I say?" Wu Ma hesitated for a moment and looked at the account in her hand.
There are quite a few shops left by the Yue family, and none of them are missing now, but they are combined with the shops in the mansion. Now they are all in the hands of the third young lady who was in charge of accounts before. Although the third young lady was locked up and punished to copy Buddhist scriptures, she still handles some affairs. Her inability to come out does not mean that the manager cannot go in to report the accounts.
Moreover, this kind of account book is basically not reported on a regular basis. Some are reported once a month, some once every three months, and some are even reported once every six months.
These
Everything is in the hands of the Third Miss. If you want her to hand over the account books of so many shops, she may not be willing. Although my nanny is someone close to the lady, Qu Qiuyan may not listen to her at this time.
"Ying girl, please accompany my maternal grandmother. Your mother's shop should indeed be given to you, but I didn't think of it before. This incident has reminded me. You will manage it yourself in the future and promote some people to the shop. If you think the previous ones are still good, you don't have to change them."
The lady said.
"Grandma, the accident happened in my mother's shop?" Qu Moying raised her head and asked while biting her cherry lips.
"Yes, it's your mother's shop. It was neglected by your grandmother. It should have been given to you a long time ago." The lady sighed with a gentle expression.
It was indeed her negligence. After Yu's accident, Yan girl was temporarily in charge. But later, when Ying girl was also in charge, she should have taken care of the matter, and perhaps the current dispute would have been avoided.
Later, many things happened one after another, and she forgot about this matter. If Qu Moying's words had not reminded her just now, she would probably have thought that the shop in Yu's hands was the shop in the mansion.
"Thank you, grandma." Qu Moying lowered his head and bowed respectfully to the lady, with a bitter look in his eyes.
It is really not easy for the lady to do this for my mother and myself.
"Go!" The lady nodded with a smile.
Qu Moying turned around and was about to leave.
"Grandma, I'm going to accompany my fourth sister." Qu Xuexin suddenly said.
Qu Moying raised his head and looked at Qu Xuexin in surprise. He didn't expect that Qu Xuexin, who had been crying these past few days, would have the leisure to mind her own business at this time.
"Okay, then you can accompany your fourth sister." The lady thought about it and nodded. Xin girl was a gentle person. If the third girl and the fourth girl quarreled, she could still persuade them.
The two of them, together with my nanny, said goodbye to the lady-in-waiting and led their people to Qu Qiuyan's Furong Pavilion.
Qu Xuexin was still frowning, and her brows were furrowed when she spoke to Qu Moying. Qu Moying knew that Qu Xuexin was in a bad mood, so he did not mention the things that made her sad and irritated, and only talked about some ordinary trivial matters in the mansion. Qu Xuexin had been helping Luo manage the affairs of the East Mansion for a long time, so she knew some things.
As they were talking, they had already arrived at Furong Pavilion. The old woman guarding the gate had already gone to report to Qu Qiuyan. When they came in, the curtain at the door was lifted high and a maid was already waiting there.
The two sisters went in and saw Qu Qiuyan already sitting in the middle. When she saw them coming, her attitude was quite gentle.
Everyone sat down as host and guest.
"Miss Third, the Madam asked me to come and get some account books." Wu Ma said with a smile.
"What account book?" Qu Qiuyan's face changed slightly and she glanced at Qu Moying.
"These are the account books of several shops outside the mansion. There are six in total." My nanny handed Qu Qiuyan the paper with the names of the shops she needed.
Qu Qiuyan took a look at it, her face turned cold, and the paper in her hand trembled twice: "Madam, what does this mean?"
It already occupied a small half of all the shops in the entire West Mansion, and what was even more coincidental was that the shops were the dowry that her mother had promised to give her.
Qu Qiuyan had long regarded it as her own.
"Miss Third, Madam Tai said these are Miss Fourth's
These account books should naturally belong to Miss Four, so please ask Miss Three to sort out the account books and give them all to Miss Four." Wu Ma said with a smile.
Qu Qiuyan was stunned, and suddenly looked at Qu Moying, gritted her teeth, "Fourth sister, what did you say to grandma again, asking grandma to give you a small half of the mansion? Could it be that fourth sister has already prepared a dowry for herself?"
"Third sister, please speak nicely." Qu Xuexin raised her head and scolded softly.
Unfortunately, these words had no effect at all. Instead, Qu Qiuyan became even more out of control with anger. She pressed her hands on the corner of the table and clenched them into fists.
Her voice became sharper, "Why am I not speaking properly? When did everything in this mansion become Fourth Sister's turn? Father only has my brother as his heir. Even if there was a division, it was given to my brother. When did it all go to Fourth Sister? Did Fourth Sister say something to Grandmother again, causing Grandmother to do something so immoral?"
Qu Qiuyan was also anxious at this time, and her words were urgent and harsh.
These originally belonged to her, how could she be willing to let Qu Moying take them away? After she entered Prince Jing's Mansion, these would be the foundation of her life, and she could even have a brighter future with these foundations. After all, these shops were given to her, and she would have other properties as a dowry. She was sure that at least half of the young ladies from aristocratic families in the capital could not match her dowry.
Even some big aristocratic families are the same. Although they have great wealth and power, they still have many young ladies and many children. If the property is divided like this, what will the children eat in the future
Being mentioned by Qu Qiuyan again and again, Qu Moying couldn't help it no matter how good her temper was. What's more, her temper was not good. She raised her eyes to look at Qu Qiuyan, and in her angry eyes, she leisurely picked up the teacup at hand, took a sip elegantly, and then slowly put it down.
Then he looked at Qu Qiuyan with some contempt: "Third sister, what you said is unreasonable. They were originally mine, why couldn't grandma give them to me? Could it be that these should be left to you?"
"These things originally belonged to the mansion. Even if they were not left to me, they were left to my brother. Why should I let you take them away? I am my brother's biological sister. So what if I take care of them for him?" Qu Qiuyan glared at him without giving in.
"Third sister, these really belong to fourth sister." Qu Xuexin advised again, "How can you say that about fourth sister? Grandmother has agreed."
Qu Moying glanced at Qu Xuexin, his eyes were somewhat deep.
"Whatever belongs to her obviously belongs to my brother. Everything in this house belongs to my brother. How can it be her turn?" Qu Qiuyan could no longer hold back and stared at Qu Moying.
"Third sister..."
"Big sister, please stop talking." Qu Moying interrupted Qu Xuexin, looked up at Qu Qiuyan, and said coldly, "Third sister, these were originally my mother's dowry, how come they belong to my second brother? Could it be that my mother's things should be left to my second brother instead of mine?"
The dowry of a lady from a noble family is left to her children. If she dies young and leaves no offspring, her parents can ask for the dowry, just like Ji Hanyue's dowry.
Yue's dowry was just an introduction, and Ji Hanyue's dowry was the real purpose. However, this matter had to be brought out from the Qu Mansion. After all, with her current status, it was neither right nor reasonable for her to do so.
Those with status in the Ling Anbo Mansion won’t talk about it, and those without status will find it useless to talk about it…