Chapter 374 You Take a Break
Ye Caiping sat in the theater, watching the show with Old Madam Shen and Princess Fushun.
But the joke about Duke Ping's Mansion still reached his ears.
Ye Caiping said to Madam Shen who was standing beside her, "I am really sorry that I made such a fool of myself at the old lady's birthday party."
Madam Shen smiled and said, "What's the big deal? I've lived for decades, and every year is the same. It's unique to make some noise this year. Just treat it as a joke. It's more exciting than the play upstairs."
The Marquis's wife and Princess Fushun beside them both laughed.
Who doesn’t like to see a scumbag get slapped in the face! I feel so relaxed all over, in one word: awesome!
Princess Fushun said, "By the way, Lady Ye, I will hold a plum blossom banquet in two days. You must bring the two maids with you then."
"Okay, thank you for the invitation, Princess."
The royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty would hold a festival banquet every season to strengthen the relationships among the female members of each family. Peach Blossom Banquets are held in spring, and Plum Blossom Banquets are held in winter. In the past, they were both hosted by the queen or concubines.
Now the Empress Dowager is busy with many affairs and the young Emperor has no harem, so this matter is handed over to the Grand Princess.
"How old is Miss Fifth? In which month was she born?" A burst of laughter came from not far behind.
Ye Caiping turned around.
Sister Ye Jin'er was sitting with Shen Manman watching a play, and a beautiful lady in her thirties was sitting next to them asking questions.
Ye Jin'er smiled politely and said, "She's fourteen, and was born in August. Madam, let's go to the show! This show is quite exciting, and I don't want to miss it."
The lady smiled gently, "August is great! It's a good month."
When Lady Dingguo Marquis saw Ye Caiping looking over, she said, "This woman is Lady Ningguo Marquis."
Ye Caiping was stunned: "Madam of the Marquis of Ningguo?"
Then it was as if I was struck by lightning.
Isn’t this Ningguo Marquis Mansion the Gu Han family?
Gu Han hasn't shown up for so long that Ye Caiping almost forgot about him.
Speaking of which, compared to Gu Han, she hates Gu Han’s biological father and stepmother more!
As the original scum in the book, the Ningguo Marquis and his gang are clearly scum.
The story of the Ningguo Marquisate must start with Gu Han’s biological mother.
Gu Han’s biological mother is Que Xinyan. The Que family is from a scholarly family. My father is the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and they are considered a well-known and wealthy family in the capital.
When Que Xinyan was fourteen years old, she went for an outing in the mountains with her maid and accidentally broke her leg.
The son of Ningguo Marquis happened to pass by, and he ordered his servants to take her to his own farm to live and recuperate.
Que Xinyan fell in love with the Ningguo Marquis's son at first sight.
After returning home, Que Xinyan often wrote letters to the Prince of Ningguo in the name of gratitude.
But all the letters fell into the sea and there was no response at all.
After persisting for half a month, Que Xinyan became discouraged and stopped writing letters.
The Ningguo Marquis's son originally ignored Que Xinyan, but when the letters stopped, he began to miss her again...well, he missed the pretty maid who delivered the letters!
So, the Ningguo Marquis's son wrote a letter back to Que Xinyan for the first time.
Que Xinyan's hope was rekindled and she continued to deliver letters.
The Prince of Ningguo has another chance to play a trick on the little maid who worked hard for her master's career, delivered the letter to him, and kept using her clever tricks!
The two of them continued to correspond as pen pals.
Que Xinyan loves the Prince of Ningguo more and more!
The Ningguo Marquis's son is becoming more and more obsessed with the pretty maid!
The pretty maid feels more and more guilty towards her mistress, but she can't help but fall in love with the man her mistress likes!
The three of them were pulling each other to the limit in a painful and sweet way!
After a period of painful struggle, the prince and the pretty maid finally revealed their true feelings to each other, and their love was so touching.
But at the same time, they are very rational.
He knew that he could not marry a maid, and the pretty maid knew that she could not marry the prince.
But they didn't give up.
In order to continue to be with his maid, the Prince of Ningguo proposed marriage to Que Xinyan.
The two got married.
On the wedding night, the prince did not enter the bridal chamber. Instead, he made love with a maid in another room.
After the marriage, the prince used all kinds of cold violence against Que Xinyan, and all the sufferings that the heroines of all the cool novels had to endure in the early stages came to her.
When Gu Han was three years old, Que Xinyan finally found out the truth about the prince marrying her, and was angered to death by that adulterous couple.
The Ningguo Marquis's son said that he was worried about leaving Gu Han to the care of another woman. The only person he trusted was his wife's personal maid, so he legitimately promoted the maid to be his second wife.
People did not laugh at him for marrying a maid, but praised him for his deep love for his first wife.
By then, Que Xinyan's father had already passed away, and her brother Que De was a man who only looked at the situation.
Que De knew that his sister was murdered.
But the person is dead already, and I am in a low position and have little ability. If I go against the Ningguo Marquis Mansion for the sake of the dead, wouldn't that just be causing trouble for myself? Not worth it!
Que De simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, and even acknowledged the maid as his sister. In this way, his family and the Ningguo Marquis' Mansion could continue to live in harmony.
From then on, the maid naturally took over the young lady's husband, the young lady's identity, and all of the young lady's dowry.
The following year, the maid's son Gu Yang was born.
In the days that followed, the maid and stepmother were hypocritical towards Gu Han, constantly framing and suppressing him.
In the end, Gu's father staged a plot himself, taking poisoned medicine himself, and falsely accused Gu Han of poisoning his father.
For such a serious crime, Gu Han was driven out of the house and expelled from the family tree.
Thinking of these scenes, Ye Caiping couldn't help but feel physically nauseous!
When the wife of the Marquis of Ningguo saw Ye Caiping looking at her, she came over with a smile and said, "Hello, Lady Ye."
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "Oh, nice to meet you. Madam is the wife of Ningguo Marquis Mei Liangxin, Madam Mei, right?"
"Yes, yes." Mei was delighted to see Ye Caiping answering her, so she simply sat next to Ye Caiping.
She looked down on Ye Caiping from the bottom of her heart.
But Ye Caiping is Mr. Shen's fiancée!
I look down on her, but I can't resist her flattery!
"Ye Yiren is very clever and has made so much glass. My family also wants to change some. I wonder how much this glass costs?"
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "Today is the old lady's birthday party, so we won't talk about business."
Mei smiled awkwardly. She had originally thought that if she became the first customer of Ye Caiping's glass workshop, Ye Caiping would always remember her.
Mei had no choice but to change the subject: "Mrs. Ye is really good at giving birth. Look at her two daughters, they are both very pretty."
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "Madam, the same is true. I heard that both of your sons are tall and handsome."
Mei's face was a little stiff, but she smiled again: "Mrs. Ye just came to the capital and didn't know that I only have one son."
Ye Caiping nodded and said nothing more.
Mei turned back happily and said to the maid beside her: "Call the prince over."
Then he looked at Ye Caiping and said, "Ye Yiren just mentioned my son. I will call him here to meet the princess, the old lady and Ye Yiren."
The eldest princess and the old lady had no interest at all. They smiled politely and said nothing.
After a while, Mei's son Gu Yang came over.
Gu Yang is eighteen years old and looks gentle, but he is not half as handsome as Gu Han.
Gu Yang bowed gracefully and said, "Gu Yang greets the Grand Princess, Old Lady Shen, and the wife of Marquis Dingguo."
Then he smiled at Ye Caiping and said, "Hello, Lady Ye."
He was the prince, and his rank was higher than Ye Caiping, so he only performed the etiquette as a junior.
Ye Caiping and others praised him a few words. Gu Yang then walked to the table of Ye Jiner and her sister, and looked at Shen Manman with a smile:
“Miss Shen Si, long time no see.”
Shen Manman just looked at the stage, not even looking at him: “Oh.”
Gu Yang looked embarrassed. He glanced at Ye Jiner and her sister, then turned and left.
Everyone watched the show for a while and then started the feast.
After the meal, the guests left one after another.
The return gifts from the Shen family this time included some small items prepared by the Marquis' Mansion, as well as a glass lantern or a set of glass tableware.
The guests were pleasantly surprised to receive such return gifts.
......
After the guests left, Ye Caiping, Shen Zhiyan, and the Marquis Dingguo and his wife were called to Chang'an Hall by Old Lady Shen to talk.
Old Madam Shen sat on the couch at the top: "After the Chinese New Year, Zhiyan and you will get married. Caiping, you will also open your glass workshop."
"Since ancient times, brothers have always settled accounts clearly. No matter how good the relationship is, it must be settled clearly in order for it to last long."
The Marquis Dingguo and his wife nodded.
Old Madam Shen said, "In fact, I have already told them about the family property before. Now Caiping is here, and she is also involved in half of the shares of the glass workshop. Some things need to be made clear so that there will be no conflicts in the future."
Shen Zhiyan hadn't divided the family property yet, so the half of the shares that Ye Caiping gave to Shen Zhiyan was counted as belonging to Dingguo Marquis Mansion.
Old Madam Shen said, "The family property, the merchant ships, and the shops, each of you brothers will have half. This mansion can only be given to the eldest son, not Zhiyan. Without the mansion, the half of the share in the glass workshop will belong to Zhiyan."
Marquis Dingguo nodded: "Of course. That half of the shares was originally given to Brother Yan by my sister-in-law. It was Brother Yan who took it back. It was originally his."
The Marquis's wife also agreed.
She knew that the glass workshop was very profitable, but she had many other ways to make money, so she was not jealous.
Shen Zhiyan’s eyes were filled with smiles: “It’s up to you, mother.”
He could take any other property, but he must get half of the shares in the workshop. This was something he and she built together, so it has commemorative significance.
Ye Caiping was also happy with this result.
However, when all is said and done, the Marquis Dingguo and his wife actually suffered a bit of a loss.
Because the family gave Shen Zhiyan another betrothal gift and a high betrothal fee.
This was equivalent to giving Shen Zhiyan an extra 100,000 taels, a five-story mansion, and several farms.
However, Marquis Dingguo has a title, but Shen Zhiyan does not.
When it comes down to it, the two brothers are pretty much the same.
Of course, whether it is the Marquis's Mansion or her, they can all make money, and no one will care about these things.
Old Madam Shen smiled and said, "It's not the time to divide the family property yet. I can't bear to do that. Anyway, the family property will be divided like this, half for each of you two brothers. You can make the glass workshop Caiping yourself."
Ye Caiping smiled: "Okay, thank you, Madam."
After talking for a while, Ye Caiping went home.
Ye Caiping was walking on the corridor when she suddenly thought of Gu Han and asked Chang Xi beside her, "How is Gu Han doing?"
Ever since she met Li Jiaojiao at the tea house last time, Ye Caiping had someone check where Gu Han was, and finally found him at the manor of the Duke Ping in the suburbs of Beijing.
It makes people pay attention from time to time.
Chang Xi said, "Every day someone comes to report, but there is nothing special, so I didn't tell Madam Ye."
"He's doing hard labor in the farm, shoveling horse manure!"
Ye Caiping was speechless for a moment. Her son was so stupid that he not only had a lame leg but also lacked brains!
......
The mansion of Duke Ping was in chaos at the moment.
"Wan, do you have a brain?"
Duke Ping slammed the coffee table hard and yelled at the Duke's wife who was standing in the middle of the hall.
The Liu Shangwei brothers stared at the Duke's wife angrily, while Qiao stood aside with a frown.
"When you wanted to adopt a maid as your adopted daughter, I was against it! But you insisted on taking her in! Well, now what kind of person have you adopted! A shameless person who was jailed for cheating!"
"And... that glass workshop! I'm so angry! Ye Yiren turned out to be your savior, why didn't you tell me?"
"It would be fine if you didn't say anything, but you actually made things difficult for her at the teahouse last time! My God, it would be fine if you didn't repay her for being so kind to her, but you actually made things difficult for her?"
"This overwhelming wealth just flew away! Fly away!"
Mr. Pingguo was a little annoyed. Whenever he thought of the glass workshop, his heart bleeds.
Although he is uneducated, he knows the importance of money better than anyone else!
How could he buy jewelry for his concubine without money? How to make your concubine happy?
Liu Xiawei on the side also stared at the Duke's wife with resentment. If he had half of the shares in the glass workshop, he could gamble however he wanted.
The wife of Duke Pingguo turned pale and blue, and wanted to retort, but she was in the wrong.
"Madam..." At this time, Xiaolu hurried in.
But when he saw that Duke Ping and others were there, he was so frightened that he stopped in his tracks.
Duke Ping glared at him: "What's wrong?"
"No, nothing."
"Speak! If you don't, I'll give you twenty lashes!"
Xiaolu had no choice but to grit her teeth and said, "Miss...the medicine requires high-quality ginseng, which can only be obtained with the Madam's seal."
"What are you talking about? You actually sent that little bitch Li Jiaojiao back to our house?" Duke Ping's eyes widened in disbelief: "Are you crazy, or am I crazy?"
"Are you blind or deaf? You didn't know she was a cheater who had been in jail! Instead of throwing it far away, she actually brought it home!"
"Come here, throw Li Jiaojiao out of the mansion for the Duke! And drag this ignorant girl away and give her twenty lashes of the cane!"
Xiaolu was so scared that his face turned pale and he fell to the ground.
At this time, two servants came in to drag the person away.
"Let's see who dares!" The Duke's wife could no longer bear it and stared at the Duke Ping. "No matter what, Jiaojiao has been in jail, which means she has been punished. No matter what she did in the past, since I have acknowledged her, she is my daughter. Whoever dares to abandon her is making things difficult for me!"
Duke Ping shouted angrily, "Okay, if you want to protect her, then get out with her! I, Liu Jiasheng, will divorce you today! Divorce you! You adopted a daughter with bad morals and brought trouble to the reputation of the Duke's Mansion. It makes sense to divorce you!"
The Duke's wife sneered, "Divorce me! Divorce me! But before you do, you must return all my dowry! You sold and squandered all the Duke's family property five or six years ago! You ate, drank, had fun, bought courtesans, and kept concubines. All you spent was my dowry money!"
"According to the laws of the Great Zhou, whether it is a divorce or a divorce, the woman's dowry must be returned in full!"
Duke Ping’s face froze.
The two sons also had distorted expressions.
Liu Shangwei: "Dad, why divorce my wife? She is my mother after all. Mom, you are just talking in anger!"
Liu Xiawei: "Dad, please apologize!"
Duke Ping's face turned red: "......"
The Duke's wife sneered and glanced at Duke Ping with disdain: "Divorce? Humph!"
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and turned away.
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