Chapter 39 This Ugly Woman Who Loses Her Family
As soon as they left the house, the Marquise returned to the mansion in a carriage. At today's flower-viewing banquet, she was ridiculed by the noble ladies in a roundabout way, which made her very angry.
In addition, when she left the Duke's Mansion, she inexplicably swallowed a mouthful of dust, which made the Marquis's wife even more furious.
I'm just in need of someone to vent my anger on. Who is the most suitable person in the mansion?
"Go, call my good daughter-in-law. She has never served me since she entered the mansion. Today I really want to enjoy the blessing of having a daughter-in-law!" The marquis's wife took off her heavy hairpins and changed her clothes, then ordered someone to call her.
Asking Liu Mingyue to come to the dinner table to set the rules is the most appropriate thing to do, as it can both stimulate people and be polite.
When the ugly girl was married to the mansion, the marquis's wife had been holding a grudge. Today, she was so angry that it was like adding fuel to the fire. She had to suppress it by some means.
Mother Duan went to Liu Mingyue to ask for help, but she didn't expect that the lights in the main house were not on, and it was pitch black. Only the lanterns in the yard were on. Mother Duan came but no servants came forward to ask for help, which made her unhappy.
"Where are the servants in this yard? Where have they gone?" Upon hearing Duan Mama's voice, the servants who were having dinner in the house hurriedly put down their bowls and chopsticks and came out to greet her.
"Oh, Madam Duan, how come you have time to come here now? We just had dinner in the back room. I hope you won't blame me."
A middle-aged maid came out. Mama Duan glanced at her and then looked towards the main house.
"Madam sent me here to tell the Crown Princess to come and serve Madam dinner. Why aren't the lights on in the main room?"
Mother Duan wondered what the Crown Prince's Consort was up to again. This girl was a troublemaker and never went a day without her.
"This... the Crown Prince's Consort just left the mansion with two personal maids, but we don't know where the Crown Prince's Consort went. She always has to hire a carriage when she goes out. Mammy, why don't you go ask the housekeeper?"
As servants in this courtyard, they really have no right to ask about their master's affairs.
Mother Duan was shocked. Liu Mingyue just left like that without saying a word to anyone? How could there be such a rude bride since ancient times? Knowing that it was useless to embarrass the servants, Mother Duan turned around and went to find the housekeeper.
Mother Duan found the housekeeper and asked him, only to find out that Liu Mingyue not only left the house, but also took ten taels of silver from the warehouse.
"Ten taels? You mean ten taels? What is she going to do with so much silver?" Mother Duan doubted her ears. The food that the lady used for a day cost only half a tael of silver. What would the ugly girl do with ten taels of silver?
"I heard from the Crown Princess that we should go to Fanlou for dinner." The housekeeper felt a little embarrassed by Mrs. Duan's reaction.
The Crown Prince's wife asked for ten taels of silver, and he thought it was too much. However, he was just a servant in the mansion, so how could he refuse?
"I understand. Go do your own thing first." Mother Duan snorted coldly and immediately went to reply to her master.
"That bitch took ten taels of silver from the accounting office and went to Fanlou for dinner?" The Hou lady's shocked and angry voice came from the room.
After running back and forth a few times, Mother Duan's impression of Liu Mingyue was extremely bad: "The Crown Prince's Consort is really unruly. How can a new bride act so arrogantly when she first arrives at the mansion? She didn't even say a word to you, Madam, when she left the mansion. It's clear that she doesn't take you seriously!"
"How insolent!" Madam Hou looked at the food on the table without any appetite. She was already very angry at the flower viewing banquet, and now she couldn't take it out on Liu Mingyue, so she had no appetite to eat.
“Does she think the money in the mansion is hers? She has only been married to the mansion for a few days, but instead of serving her parents-in-law and her husband, she spends money lavishly, what an ugly woman who ruins the family.” The people in the mansion were so angry that their hearts were pounding and they couldn’t even breathe smoothly.
The Marquis and the Marquis only have one son, Tan Zhuoyan. As the heir to the title, he has a crippled leg and cannot walk. This means that he will have no offspring. The problem is that the Marquis's family and the laws of the dynasty do not allow the replacement of the heir.
The business of the mansion was respectable on the surface, but it was already unsustainable behind the scenes. Now the entire mansion was only supported by the dowry of the Marquis and his wife, and a few shops, so they could barely make ends meet.
The word "barely" is inevitably associated with financial hardship. The Marquis's Mansion may look grand on the surface, but every few taels of silver have to be carefully calculated behind the scenes.
"Madam, seeing how shameless she is, I'm afraid she will do something like this again. How can the money in the mansion be enough for her to squander?"
Mother Duan has followed the Marquis's wife to the Marquis's Mansion for many years. She has witnessed all the difficulties in the mansion. How long can the lady's dowry last?
Even with the salary of the Marquis, it is just a drop in the bucket for the expenses of the Marquisate, but the health of the prince...
Everyone in the mansion knew exactly where the difficulties of the Marquis' Mansion lay, but no one was tactless enough to bring it up, nor did they dare to.
No one would go to their master and make trouble for themselves, and the predicament of the Marquis' Mansion can only be solved if Tan Zhuoyan can stand up.
"She should be thankful that she has enough food and clothing in the mansion. How can she even want to squander it? She takes ten taels of silver to go to Fanlou for a meal. How can she do that?" The Marquis's face was full of disdain and disgust when she spoke of Liu Mingyue.
"What you said reminded me of something. The situation in the mansion is getting more and more difficult now, but, isn't it possible that there is still a sum of money that has not been touched?"
Madam Hou's expression relaxed and she looked at Mother Duan with a smile. Mother Duan, who was about to serve the food, was stunned.
"Madam, your dowry was used up in the mansion five years ago. The revenue from the shop is not enough. Where can you get the money?"
The Marquis's Mansion is managed by the Marquis's wife. As the wife's personal nanny, she knows the general expenses and financial sources of the mansion.
The salary of the Marquis's house was only so much, and it was used together with the dowry of the Marquis's wife to support the expenses of the house. Where else could the house... have any other source of income? The revenue of the shop was already the ceiling.
"Didn't we just marry the Crown Prince's Consort in our mansion? I didn't like her at the time and didn't see her dowry, but you were the one who checked out her things when they arrived at the mansion. What was on the dowry list? Tell me about it."
Thinking that the bitch clearly had a dowry but still had the nerve to use the money in the mansion, the marquis's wife was really furious.
Mother Duan thought that the Marquis' wife had some plans in mind. It turned out that she had set her eyes on the Crown Prince's Consort's dowry. The Zhou family was a family of second-rank officials. If you say that their family background was not low, they could give a decent dowry. However, the dowry of this adopted daughter was really...
"In my opinion, it's better to point to the dowry of the Crown Prince's wife. I did see the dowry list on the day her dowry arrived at the palace. It's ok that there were only ten loads of dowry, and they were all not very valuable items. Even if they were pawned, they wouldn't get five hundred taels in total."
It's no wonder that Mrs. Duan looked disgusted. For a big family, this dowry was indeed shabby, which showed that Liu Mingyue was not valued.
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