While talking, the curtain was opened, and the handsome and handsome Gu Erye came in with a sullen face and sat down on the couch.
Huayang didn't bother to look at his face, so he took the ginseng tea and took a few sips.
Seeing her ignoring her, Mr. Gu couldn't help but said angrily: "I didn't know that Qian's dowry was all taken away by her eldest brother, sister-in-law... and her Zhuangzi..."
Hua Yang sneered again and again.
Don't you know that you are just pretending to be confused and abandoning me as a fool
Huayang really framed Mr. Gu in this matter. If he hadn't brought the matter out today, he really wouldn't have known that such a thing was going on secretly.
She deliberately said in a sinister tone: "My good second master, you only know this. It's been a few years. It's so good to hide it. Are they treating your second master like a monkey?"
"Hu… "
Second Master Gu couldn't continue, so he slapped his forehead and looked surprised: "Maybe you already knew this, why didn't you tell me?"
Hua Yang sighed softly: "If I told you, would you believe it? It's like I'm here to calculate Qian's dowry. I'm a stepmother, I don't have good intentions, and I'm stained with fish even before I do anything. , but how dare you?”
Those words with a stick and a stick made Mr. Gu feel ashamed. When I gave the dowry and Zhuangzi to my mother, I was afraid that I would leave a way out for Liu Yatou, but who would have thought...
"Brother, they may be short of money." Gu Erye finally wanted to say something good for his family.
"Short of money?"
Hua Yang sneered, his eyes filled with coldness. "My good second master, please save it. Your eldest brother's sweetheart outside lives in a big house, wearing gold, jade, silk and satin, calling for slaves and maids, and spends his days Life is more comfortable than being a housewife. Your eldest brother is short of money, but he can still afford a good wife, so he just lied to you.
A fool. "
Gu Erye's handsome face turned red. He wanted to retort but couldn't say a word. He held it in for a long time and said in a low voice: "Sleep!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the maid's voice sounded outside the door.
"Second Master, my wife asked your servant to deliver the message."
Second Master Gu said angrily: "Say!"
"My wife said that Aunt Liu often goes to Miss Sixth's room behind the back of the second master to look for money, and asks the second master to discipline her well."
"What?" Mr. Gu lifted the quilt and became furious.
Hua Yang smiled instead of being angry and said bitterly: "Oh, a little aunt dares to go to the young lady's room to look for money. She is really brave. If such an unruly aunt is in In the palace, I had already been kicked out and left."
The second master Gu was holding a fire in his heart. Hua Yang stirred it up, and the fire instantly became three points stronger.
Aunt Liu has just unloaded the Zhucui. When the princess comes back today, the second master will definitely not come.
Just as he was thinking about it, a slender figure walked in angrily.
"Second Master!" Aunt Liu was so happy that she rushed forward.
"Get away!"
Second Master Gu stretched out his hand and pushed her hard: "I didn't expect you to be this kind of person."
Aunt Liu stumbled and fell to the ground, looking at the man in front of her in disbelief, "Second Master, what's wrong with you?"
"Let me ask you, have you ever gone to Liu Yatou's room to look for money?"
When Aunt Liu heard about this, she was already prepared. She rushed over and hugged Mr. Gu's feet and cried.
"Second Master, I did look for it. But I also did it for Miss Sixth's benefit. Who knows if those cheap maids are evil-hearted? If they hide the money secretly, wouldn't Miss Sixth be pitiful? Second Master, You have wronged me."
On another day, these words and a few tears would have moved Mr. Gu.
It was a pity that Mr. Gu had just been ridiculed in Huayang, and the madam personally sent someone to tell him. How could he believe her words so easily.
He raised his foot and Aunt Liu was kicked aside.
"You treat other people as fools together. You know what you are secretly thinking. If you take away the hundred thousand taels of silver, you won't even leave the little girl behind. You are a wolf-hearted thing."
"Second Master, Second Master, I wronged you, Second Master." Aunt Liu could only refuse to admit it at this time.
"Save your injustice and tell it to the deceased Qian."
Mr. Gu Er scolded angrily: "Come here, Aunt Liu doesn't follow the rules of a woman. She will be banned for three months."
Like a basin of ice water rushing towards her face, Aunt Liu fell to the ground and cried mournfully.
"Aunt, aunt, the second master just had a fit in Aunt Liu's room and grounded her for three months."
"Ah, what do you mean?" Aunt Xu struggled to get up from the bed.
The maid stepped forward to support her and whispered a few words in her ear.
Aunt Xu raised her eyebrows and sighed after a while: "My mother, she actually had this idea. If she really finds out... she deserves it. I think three months is too light."
When Aunt Xu thought that one hundred thousand taels were almost monopolized by the Liu family, how could she care about the sisterly affection that had just developed in the past few days
She and Mrs. Liu were carried into the Gu Mansion one after the other. Although they were both aunts, their identities were quite different.
The Liu family came from a small family, and in order to pursue a better future, she took the initiative to seduce the second master.
But she is a good daughter of an official family, and she is in love with the second master. This comparison shows the difference. Therefore, Aunt Xu has always looked down upon Mrs. Liu.
Aunt Xu spat on the ground angrily, and ordered someone to extinguish the candlelight, with a pair of faint eyes flashing. Fools are blessed. The fourth lady should have one hundred thousand taels as a dowry.
The main house in Dongyuan.
Zhou covered her chest and complained to the man: "Uncle, this second brother's family is really bullying me. Just a few days after arriving in Beijing, I counted it. One hundred thousand taels of silver, this is not a small amount of money." , Looking around in Beijing, is there any young lady who can go out and accompany you for a hundred thousand taels?"
Zhou's heart aches. Not only did I spend a lot of unjust money renovating the house, but I was also tripped up by the second house. Each and every one of them, their hearts are darker than the ink.
Gu Shilang's heart ached, but he lowered his head and said nothing.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Mrs. Zhou said angrily: "If you ask me, she must have done it on purpose. There were no outsiders at the royal family banquet, and a few girls put some money into their families to seal their doors, but nothing happened. But she... uncle Ah, she is really angry that we took away the things from the second bedroom..."
It was a good thing that Mr. Zhou didn't say this. As soon as he said this, Gu Shilang got so angry that he smashed a tea bowl on the ground because he was embarrassed in front of the second room today.
"Good thing you did yourself."
Mrs. Zhou was so angry that she burst into tears. She jumped down from the kang and shouted, "Can you blame me for this? You also had this idea. If you don't have Qian's dowry, you can just use what the house has prepared." Dowry, your son and daughter will be laughed at by others, and it will be my fault."
The son and daughter were married off one after another. It happened to be that after the prince's accident, the government gave away a lot of unjust money in order to save the two masters. There was nothing she could do about touching Qian's dowry.
"You... you... are spitting foam at your mouth. When did I promise?" Waiter Gu denied it.
Zhou wiped her tears and said with a sneer: "I'm so forgetful. How could I remember that I took two of Qian's phoenix hairpins away from me?"
Gu Shilang's face suddenly changed and he couldn't answer for a while.
"I bother!"
Mr. Zhou spat: "Just because an actor wears such a fine phoenix hairpin, he is a slut and doesn't even urinate and look in the mirror."
Gu Shilang stood up suddenly, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
The more Ms. Zhou thought about it, the angrier she became, and she said rudely: "I have to pay for it, and I don't have any money. If you have the ability, you can make up for the shortfall. If you have money, you can spend it on the actor, but if you don't have money, you can take care of life-long affairs for your children. Where in the world can you make up for it?" That’s what I do.”
"You... you..." "I want to go to the master and my wife to comment on who I am taking Qian's dowry for, and not for the face of your Gu family. Not to mention the phoenix hairpin, I don't even have a thread." In my pocket. What I do as the head of the family is not as good as the actors outside. How can I be so lucky
So bitter! "
Mrs. Zhou screamed at the heavens and the earth, crying every moment, she was even more sad than if her parents were dead.
Gu Shilang's eyes were so angry that his heart skipped a beat, but he was afraid of making things worse, so he said sternly: "I'll pay for the money."
After that, he snorted twice and walked away with his sleeves rolled up.
Seeing the person leaving, Mrs. Zhou shed no more tears. After being silent for a while, there was a slight hint of hatred on the corner of her mouth.
The man who had killed a thousand people, when he talked about the actor, it was like stepping on his tail. Sooner or later, he would make the actor see her methods.
A little maid wearing royal blue moire-patterned silk armor came in carrying a tray.
"The bird's nest is here. Miss, drink it while it's hot."
On the large pit near the window, Wu Yanling held a small embroidery stand and was doing needlework. When she heard the words, she didn't even raise her eyes, only looking at the embroidery in her hands.
Dong'er, the personal maid, put the bird's nest on the Kang table, waved her hand to signal the little maid to go out, and looked at the young lady's expression with her eyes.
She has been serving the lady for seven or eight years and knows her temperament very well. Only when she is troubled and worried will she pick up needle and thread, not for the sake of beauty, but for meditation.
"The bird's nest loses its flavor when it gets cold." Dong'er said cautiously.
Wu Yanling's eyes flashed slightly, and the corners of her lips curved in a half-smile, "Dong'er, tell me what happened today, did the lunatic do it unintentionally, or did he do it intentionally?"
Dong'er smiled and said: "Who am I, Miss, worried about? It's the Sixth Miss. From what I've seen, it's just a blind cat meeting a dead mouse."
"oh?"
Wu Yanling raised her eyebrows, "Why do I think there's something unusual about her?"
"The lady admired her."
Dong'er took the embroidery frame and put it aside, then picked up the bird's nest and brought it to Wu Yanling, "I've been ill for only a few days, but I'm not ordinary at all. I just look more upright. Why should I worry about this kind of person?" "
Wu Yanling smiled softly.
It has been six years since she followed her mother into the Gu Mansion. She has always been aloof, but she has never been forced into a desperate situation like today.
She had to think twice.
Hearing what Dong'er said, Wu Yanling secretly felt relieved and stopped thinking about it. Seeing that the young lady was silent, Dong'er said disdainfully: "It is said that fools are blessed by fools. This is absolutely true. She actually got a hundred thousand taels of silver as a dowry. But, look at Yinu, even if she gets another hundred thousand taels, she won't be able to do it." You can’t marry into a high family.”