Chapter 42: The Daughter-in-law's Dowry Does Not Belong to the Public
After dinner, Xu and Shao Taotao cleaned the table and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Xiaoqi and Shao Sanlang went out to play somewhere unknown.
Fang looked at Shao Junyan and Shao Qing.
Uncle Shao asked Shao Dalang, Shao Yunduan, Qiao Xuan, and Fang to sit over. He sighed and looked at Fang and said, "Did you quarrel with your second and third brother's wives today?"
Whenever he thought of what his second and third brothers had said to him in the evening, he felt uncomfortable, sad and guilty.
How could he be the kind of person who would abandon his brothers and be heartless just to marry a rich daughter-in-law?
Listening to his second and third brothers criticizing Qiao, his old face turned red with shame.
This Qiao family is really too outrageous!
How can they be so disrespectful to their elders, so selfish, and so calculating? We are all family members! The first wife should take care of the second and third wives.
Fang had long expected the old man to ask, how could the second and third wives not file a complaint?
"Did my second and third brother's wife say this, or did my second and third brother say this? Why should I argue with them?"
Uncle Shao said, "Why not? Qiao brought back some things, why didn't she share them with the second and third wives? We are all family, we can't eat alone! Qiao, remember this in the future, even though we live separately, we are still a family, we are the closest relatives, we should help and take care of each other, we can't let our relatives down!"
"Pack up your things tomorrow morning and divide them among the second and third rooms. Speak politely and apologize. It's not okay to be unreasonable to your elders."
Fang was furious: "What are you talking about?"
"Dad," Qiao Xuan's eyes were slightly cold, she lowered her eyes and said indifferently, "I am happy to honor my parents with the things I bought with my dowry, and I am happy to share them with my eldest brother and third brother, but I have never heard that my niece-in-law has to support my uncle and aunt! Why do I feel that what Dad said is wrong?"
"Dad, what Qiao said is right," Shao Yunduan also spoke up, "It won't sound good if it gets out. My sixth brother is also studying in the academy. If people say that his parents used his niece's dowry, who knows what will happen. My sixth brother is well educated. If it weren't for the accident, he would have passed the exam last year. Many people in the academy are jealous of him. If someone spreads the rumor..."
"This-this can't be possible."
"Yes, Dad. Sixth brother can't afford to gamble."
Shao Yunduan knew exactly what to say to impress his father.
He never talks much, but he always gets to the point.
When Shao Yunduan and Qiao Xuan got married, Shao Liulang naturally asked for leave to go home to attend the wedding, and now he has gone to the academy again.
After Shao Yunduan passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, his status changed, so he no longer went to the academy as before. Instead, he would go to the academy two or three times a month with other scholars who were interested in taking the imperial examinations to communicate and listen to the teachers' instructions.
So he remained at home, doing his homework on his own.
Uncle Shao still believed in his youngest son, and after a while he said, "I, I don't mean anything else. It's not what you said. It's just that we can't eat the good things alone."
Fang: "When have we ever eaten alone? Is there anything in the public house that we didn't share with them? On the contrary, when have they ever given us anything?"
Uncle Shao choked.
The dowry of a daughter-in-law does not belong to the public.
Fang, as a mother-in-law, doesn't interfere with her daughter-in-law's handling of her dowry. How can he, as a father-in-law, have the face to interfere?
Uncle Shao couldn't help but secretly glance at Qiao Xuan, hoping that Qiao Xuan would take the initiative to express her opinion.
(End of this chapter)
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