Chapter 60 Shrouded in Mist
The old lady didn't know how to start. She couldn't open her mouth.
Chu Renqing looked at his mother who was stammering and unable to explain the reason, and gave her a disappointed look.
Then he looked at his third brother's wife who had been standing obediently beside him.
His brows furrowed even tighter.
When he came in just now, Shanjun, Shanan and Chu Miao were all sitting on the chairs.
Instead, the third brother's wife, who was the elder, stood.
What is the logic and what are the rules?
Looking at my third brother's wife's clothes, she was wearing an old men's robe.
It hung loosely on her body, and the exposed wrists were terribly thin.
Is the General's Mansion so poor now that it doesn't even have money to buy clothes for the female members of the family?
But looking at the way my mother, Shanjun and Shanan were dressed, they were dressed in gorgeous clothes and had rosy complexions, and they didn't look like they were in financial difficulty at all.
He still remembers the scene when his third sister-in-law married his third brother. The sister-in-law at that time looked like two different people.
His mother did not fulfill her promise to him and treat his third brother and his wife well.
He sighed and said:
"Third sister-in-law, can you tell me what happened? Mother tortured my second sister-in-law into this state."
Chu Mu glanced at the old lady, whose eyes were full of warning.
Chu Mu ignored his mother's warning. His current mother seemed like a stranger to him.
Even if it would make his mother angry, he had to tell the truth, "It was my second sister-in-law who embezzled the property of the General's Mansion and used the embezzled money, shops, farms, and land to fill the Liu Mansion, her mother's family."
The old lady breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, that little bitch Shen didn't talk nonsense. She hadn't finished venting her anger yet.
Then Chu Mu continued, "Actually, we can't blame Second Sister-in-law entirely. It was Mother who allowed Second Sister-in-law to embezzle the family property and leave it to Shanjun and Shan'an."
The old lady almost fainted when she heard this. Did that little bitch Shen want to kill her?
The old lady looked towards Chu Renqing in a panic, but saw that the eldest brother's eyes were wide open and he looked at her in disbelief.
Chu Mu was still unaware of the situation and continued to talk to herself, "My husband and I both understand the feelings of my second sister-in-law and mother. My second brother has been failing the exams for a long time, and the second house has no income. It is only natural for my second sister-in-law and mother to make plans for the future of the second house.
After all, my mother always taught my husband to be friendly and respectful to his brothers. Even when my mother asked my husband to give all the things bestowed by the emperor to my second brother, my husband and I never complained.
Even when my mother asked me to use my dowry to supplement the family income, I never had any complaints."
The old lady wanted to tear Chu Mu's mouth apart, but she saw that her eldest son's face was becoming more and more ugly.
As Chu Renqing listened to his third brother's wife's calm narration, the anger on his face grew, and his complexion turned from blue to red.
Mother, she has gone too far!
"Mother! Have you forgotten what you promised me?"
How could the mother allow the second son's family to embezzle the general's mansion's property?
That was earned by the third brother with his life, why should the second brother and mother embezzle it?
What qualifications do they have to use the third son’s wife’s dowry?
My mother really thinks she is the old lady of the general's mansion.
The old lady was shocked and looked at Chu Mu angrily. It was all this little bitch's fault. She said everything she should and shouldn't have said.
"Qing'er, listen to your mother's explanation. Things are not as you think. It is... your mother who allowed Liu to embezzle the property of the General's Mansion.
But mother didn't know how much Liu had embezzled. Mother thought... thought Liu had only embezzled part of the family's property. She didn't expect her to be so bold.
Don't listen to Shen's nonsense. Mu'er was willing to give the emperor's reward to the second brother. It was not what Shen said. I never asked Mu'er to give the things to Renjie.
Besides, as Mu'er's wife and the mistress of the General's Mansion, what's wrong with her filling some of the vacancies in the mansion?"
Chu Renqing took a deep breath. Was his mother going to quibble any further?
Mother, do you really not know how much Liu has embezzled?
How my mother blamed my third brother and his wife with such a clear conscience.
"Mother, human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant! Mother cannot take advantage of my third brother and his wife's filial piety to you and bully them like this. Mother and my second brother will return to our ancestral home in Jinzhou with me this time."
The old lady choked. She would not follow the eldest son back to Jinzhou, nor would she let the eldest son take the second son's family away.
How can Jinzhou be compared with the capital? What future can the second son and his family have if they return to Jinzhou?
Shanjun and Shanan worked hard to learn to read and write at the Chinese Academy, making friends with young men from aristocratic families and looking forward to a bright future.
If I go back to Jinzhou now, all my previous efforts will be wasted.
"Big brother, you've been exhausted from the journey. Go back to the courtyard and rest. Don't interfere in the affairs of mother and the second wife."
The old lady urged Chu Renqing to go down quickly.
"Mother! As the eldest son of the Chu family, how can I not interfere in the affairs of you and the second wife?
Mother, please don't let me down again. Please pack your belongings in the next few days and go back to Jinzhou with me."
After saying that, he looked at his third brother's wife apologetically.
Chu Mu's body stiffened, and his elder brother looked at him with eyes full of guilt.
Something flashed through his mind so quickly that he couldn't catch it.
His eldest brother's attitude towards his mother has always puzzled him.
As far as he could remember, his eldest brother had been distant from his mother.
No matter how my mother tried to please my eldest brother, my eldest brother's attitude towards her was always indifferent.
Even when my father was appointed as an official in Beijing, my eldest brother chose to stay in the ancestral home in Jinzhou to accompany my grandparents.
My mother tried many times to ask my eldest brother to go to Beijing, but he was determined to stay in Jinzhou.
Not only does the eldest brother have a strange attitude towards his mother, but his attitude towards him and his second brother is even weirder.
As brothers of the eldest brother, the eldest brother always favors him more.
Not only that, every time the eldest brother saw him, he would unconsciously reveal his guilt.
As far as he could remember, his elder brother had never done anything to offend him, and he didn't know where his elder brother's guilt towards him came from.
Chu Mu's inquiring eyes made Chu Renqing look away.
He and his mother felt guilty towards the third child.
How can he face the third brother and his wife now?
Chu Renqing looked at Chu Miao, who had not dared to look up at him, and said coldly, "Chu Miao, follow your father back to the courtyard."
Chu Miao immediately raised her head, stood up from the chair and threw herself into the old lady's arms.
"I won't go back. Father, is Miaomiao still your most beloved daughter? I know that father came to Beijing this time to capture me and take me back to marry that poor man.
Miaomiao doesn't want to marry that poor scholar; he's not worthy of her."
After saying this, she looked at the old lady with tears in her eyes, "Grandma, Dad wants to marry Miaomiao to a loser. Grandma, you have to make the decision for Miaomiao."
Chu Miao did not tell the old lady about her escape from marriage.
Her mother had told her to win the old lady's favor as soon as possible and ask the old lady to find a respectable marriage for her in Kyoto.
Don't tell anyone that she is engaged, otherwise the old lady will not go beyond her father's permission to find another marriage for her.
But now she had no other choice, her father was here to take her back.
My mother’s red and swollen eyes are the best proof.
She couldn't understand why her father was so pedantic and insisted on marrying her to that poor man to repay his kindness.
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