Xu Shichu pulled his hand out of Zhou's with a fake smile and said, "Aunt Lao is worried about me. My niece is doing well."
This aunt is also interesting. When the original owner was not married yet, Zhou didn't see her for half a year and didn't say she missed her. Sometimes she even felt that the original owner was an eyesore when she saw her. Now, after only three months, she feels like she hasn't seen her for eight or ten years. Even the little affection she had seems to have swelled up, and she is so affectionate to her as if Xu Shichu is not her unfamiliar, neglected niece, but her beloved daughter.
Xu Shichu let her act and said a lot of intimate words.
Not long after, Xu Shichu's stepmother Li, stepsister Xu Huishu, cousin-in-law Wen, niece Xu Xueruo and other women and children of the Bo's Mansion, who had heard the news, all rushed into the hall. As for the men, they were either on duty as officials or hanging out outside.
"Oh, you're worthy of being the prime minister's wife. Look, you're wearing gold and silver now, looking so splendid." Xu Huishu stared at Xu Shichu's clothes and said sarcastically.
In fact, Xu Shichu's clothes were not particularly gorgeous, but the original owner had worn gray clothes when she was in the uncle's mansion. The clothes had turned white from so many washes that they were extremely shabby. Therefore, when Xu Huishu put on these clothes, she thought she looked glamorous and immediately became jealous.
Mrs. Li quickly tugged at her daughter's sleeves and added, "Haha, Sister Shu is so straightforward. She is envious of her sister for having new clothes to wear."
After all, Li was older and more experienced. Even though she hated her stepdaughter and wished she were dead, now that her stepdaughter had become the prime minister's wife, she was no longer a poor little thing that she could bully. She could only swallow her resentment and knew the situation well enough not to let her daughter offend her stepdaughter again.
Xu Huishu was immediately furious and said indignantly: "Mother! Who said I envy her? Is she worthy of my envy? Look at how poor she is. She doesn't look like a prince even when she wears the dragon robe..."
"Shut up! What are you talking about? Don't you know what the mouth means? Second sister-in-law, Shujie's rules cannot be relaxed, otherwise one day the Earl's Mansion will be destroyed and we won't know what will happen!" Zhou stared at Xu Huishu with a sullen face and said to Li.
Li was also shocked. She couldn't talk about the prince's dragon robe casually, so she quickly asked someone to take Xu Huishu away from the hall. Xu Huishu didn't want to leave at first, but Zhou and Li were staring at her eagerly, so she didn't dare to stay any longer.
After Xu Shichu saw the man leave, he said slowly, "With my sister's personality, I wonder what kind of brother-in-law will be able to stand it in the future? She is really 'straightforward'... "
When Li heard Xu Shichu's suggestive words, she had to endure it, because she was in a weaker position than others.
"Okay, let's not waste any more time. I'm here today to send the servants back to the Bo's Mansion, so that if the Bo's Mansion is short of staff, it won't be my fault." Xu Shichu said lightly.
"What servants from the Bo's Mansion? Aren't they all Chu Jie'er's dowry?" Zhou's heart skipped a beat and she pretended to be ignorant, hoping that Xu Shichu was not talking about what she had in mind.
However, to her disappointment, Xu Shichu said directly: "How can it be my dowry? The indenture is still in the Bo's Mansion. The Prime Minister said that although the Prime Minister's Mansion is not extremely wealthy, it can still afford a few servants. The wife of the Prime Minister's Mansion does not need to order the servants of the Bo's Mansion around. So I sent the person back to my aunt."
Xu Shichu said this while holding Luo Changqing's banner without any guilt.
Zhou slapped her forehead and said as if she had suddenly realized something: "I am old and confused. My memory is not good at my age. I actually forgot to put the dowry deed into Chu Jie'er's dowry. Oh, Chu Jie'er, don't blame your aunt. I will have someone find your dowry deed and give it to you right away."
Xu Shichu looked at her acting with a half-smile: "Aunt, you don't have to act anymore. Since I brought the people back, it's naturally impossible for me to bring them back to the Prime Minister's Mansion."
Zhou's face suddenly turned cold, and she stared at Xu Shichu with a cold gaze, her words full of threats:
"Chu Jie'er, don't be so confident. If you don't have a servant of your own, how can you live in the prime minister's mansion? The twins in the prime minister's mansion are so big now, they are not easy to deal with. As a stepmother, even if you are bullied, there is no one you can trust to report to your parents' home. By then, it will be too late to cry out to the heavens and the earth...
I think you should accept the contract, otherwise you won’t have anyone to turn to for support even if you want to seek help from your parents.”
Xu Shichu listened, smiled slightly, and said: "I dare not use these sneaky and disrespectful servants. I don't know when they will betray their masters for fame and fortune. Aunt, please keep them for yourself."
Zhou held back her anger and said, "If you don't like this batch, then change to another batch. There will always be something suitable."
"No, no, I don't want any of them. Aunt, don't waste your time." Xu Shichu shook his head and said, "How dare I use the servants of the Bo's Mansion?"
"Chu Jie'er! Don't forget that you are from the Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion. No matter how much you argue, you can't get rid of your bloodline of the Xu family! Do you really have to go against your family? If you don't have your family to support you, you will be bullied to death in the Prime Minister's Mansion and no one will seek justice for you."
Zhou simply brought up the name of her mother's family in an attempt to suppress Xu Shichu.
Could Xu Shichu be someone who cares about this
She sneered, "I don't believe you will support me. If someone in the Xiangfu bullies me, you will just help them step on me and stand on the Xiangfu's side to applaud, okay? People like you who bully the weak and fear the strong dare to confront the powerful Xiangfu for me? Just don't add insult to injury!"
Zhou was choked by her words and her face turned pale, but she was unable to refute because what Xu Shichu said was right. If she was bullied by the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Bo Mansion would never support her and seek justice. They would only accuse her of being cowardly and useless, unable to please the Prime Minister's Mansion, and would only say timidly that the Prime Minister's Mansion bullied her.
"Good! As expected, you have grown stronger after marrying into the prime minister's mansion. You used to be like a quail in the mansion, not daring to speak loudly, but now you dare to talk back to your elders... You are an ungrateful bastard! You don't even care about your own family, you have no respect for elders, and you are greedy for fame and fortune... Once you are successful, you become arrogant. If the prime minister knew that you were such a person, what would he do to you?"
Zhou was so angry that she gnashed her teeth and turned to accusation.
She was suspicious of Xu Shichu's behavior at this time, and felt that she had changed a lot after marrying into the prime minister's mansion, but soon she felt that Xu Shichu's character in the mansion might have been fake, and she thought that she was even more deep-minded.
"He can treat me however he wants. What's it got to do with you? Well, I've brought the person back to you. I won't keep him any longer. From now on, just pretend that I don't exist in the Earl's Mansion!" Xu Shichu stood up, stroked his sleeves, said nonchalantly, then turned around and walked out.