Cui Jin's question stumped Shen Ningyuan.
Looking at her mother's serious eyes, Shen Ningyuan even suspected in her heart that she was attracted to some handsome young man outside and was looking for an opportunity to divorce her father at any time.
Seeing that Shen Ningyuan didn't say anything, Cui Jin suddenly became anxious.
She urged again, "Yuan'er, please speak up. If your mother and your father separate, who will you live with?"
"Mom, you and Dad are not at the point of separation."
Shen Ningyuan replied faintly.
"Your father has done something with someone else, and I shouldn't separate from him?" Cui Jin snorted coldly.
Seeing that Cui Jin was becoming more and more agitated, Lao Guai's eyes looking at the two of them became more and more wrong.
Shen Ningyuan had no choice but to explain: "Mom, that fake guy was afraid of being exposed, so he has been hiding from Dad all this time. When Dad talked about this today, he told me puzzledly that he hadn't seen you for more than a month."
"What? That means your father still doesn't know I'm missing?"
Cui Jin's tone was even more unpleasant than before.
Shen Ningyuan didn't dare to lie, so she nodded, "Yes."
Cui Jin was silent for a moment and finally accepted his fate.
"Well, I knew this old man, who didn't understand romance, only cared about his soldiers and had no place for me."
Cui Jin became more and more depressed as he spoke, and simply waved his hand, "Forget it, forget it, I'll stay here. There's no place for me in that house anymore."
"Mom, stop making trouble." Shen Ningyuan quickly persuaded: "In two days, it will be the Queen Mother's vegetarian banquet. Then Mom can exchange it with that fake guy. Mom, don't let anything happen at this time."
"Alright, for your sake, I won't confront your father for now." Cui Jin gritted his teeth, "I'll deal with this old bastard when I get back!"
Seeing that Cui Jin had gotten used to life in Ningle Tower, Shen Ningyuan felt relieved.
When I returned to the Ji family and just returned to the yard, Chen came over after hearing the noise.
As soon as he entered the room, he asked anxiously, "Yuan'er, has your father entered the palace?"
Chen Ningyuan turned around and asked, "Madam Ji, the way you address my father has changed so quickly. Before, you called him 'father-in-law' all the time, and it was so affectionate. Now that things are done, you keep calling him 'your father'. What's going on? Are you going to burn bridges?"
Chen's face froze, and she quickly explained, "Of course not. Why would I cross the river and then burn the bridge?"
"You've burned bridges countless times, haven't you? Do you want me to list them all for you?"
Shen Ningyuan continued to ask.
The question left Chen speechless. She smiled awkwardly and immediately changed the subject.
"Yuan'er, I just came to ask how things are going. I don't mean anything else."
Shen Ningyuan raised her eyebrows and replied, "Don't worry, Madam Ji, I always keep my word. Since I have accepted the money, there is no reason not to do the job."
Chen heaved a sigh of relief. "In this case, I'm relieved."
As she spoke, Chen suddenly thought of something and continued, "By the way, Yuan'er, did you take the 500,000 taels that mother gave you back to her parents' home?"
The servant came and said that when Shen Ningyuan left, he took the box containing the money with him.
Most likely, he took the money back to the Shen family.
"Yes, I was afraid it would get lost in the house, so I took it back to my parents' home."
Chen frowned and scolded, "Yuan'er, I'm not saying this as your mother-in-law, but you're still the daughter-in-law of the Marquis's Mansion. How can you send everything to your parents' home?"
Chen Ningyuan raised her eyebrows and sneered, "If you really want to dig deeper, that money was the dowry given by my mother. Taking it back to my mother's home is at most returning the property to its original owner."
"Mrs. Ji, why are you always thinking about other people's dowries?"
Shen Ningyuan said, taking a step closer, his tone even colder than before, “Don’t you have one yourself?”
After saying this, Chen's face changed.
Shen Ningyuan's words clearly touched her sore spot.
When she got married, her dowry was pitifully small, and she became the laughing stock of the entire capital.
Unexpectedly, today, Shen Ningyuan would use this matter to mock her.
"No matter if I have anything or not, I won't send everything to my mother's family. Besides, your mother is so rich, does she need the 500,000 taels?"
"My mother is not bad, but my sister-in-law is!" Shen Ningyuan replied with a smile.
Chen immediately felt something was wrong, "What do you mean?"
"Mrs. Ji, you may not know that my sister-in-law is about to give birth. I gave the five hundred thousand taels to my sister-in-law as a gift for my future nephew."
"W-what?"
Chen's expression instantly turned ugly. "Five hundred thousand taels, that's not a small amount. How can you just give it to me like that?"
Shen Ningyuan's expression turned cold, "It's my money, I can give it to whoever I want, you have no right to interfere!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Chen pointed at Shen Ningyuan and screamed, "Do you know how much effort I put in to get those five hundred thousand taels? I emptied the entire Ji family, begged and pleaded, and finally got five hundred thousand taels. You just gave it to me without thinking about my feelings?"
"puff--"
As soon as Chen finished speaking, Shen Ningyuan couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing.
"You, you, you, what are you laughing at?"
Shen Ningyuan's smile was so dazzling that it made Chen unable to speak clearly.
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