"Shixuan, Shiming, don't you want to stay a little longer?" Her eyes were slightly red.
“Mother, how could your son not want to spend more time with you? It’s just that you live alone in the mansion, and I am her biological son in name only, so I have to take care of you.” Lin Shiming said.
"Alright, let's eat. Why bring her up on such a good day? Shiming, she's your birth mother. You should always side with Shuang'er." The old lady hated Ye Lanyin for the death of her sister.
Naturally, she didn't want her grandson to be close to Ye Lanyin.
"Madam, the food has been served. Waiter 2 says it's time to settle the bill."
A maidservant brought in the dishes and handed the bill to Zou Shuang'er.
Zou Shuang'er wiped away her tears and took the bill.
At first glance, I was startled by the numbers on it.
"What's wrong?" asked the Marquis of Zhenbei, puzzled.
“Husband,” she hesitated for a moment, “this… will cost fifty taels of silver.”
Marquis Zhenbei smiled and waved his hand, "Fifty taels it is. With so many people, that's the amount we need."
Zou Shuang'er was heartbroken.
Yesterday, she bought cloth and gave all the money to the shopkeeper. Where would she get so much money now?
Seeing that Zou Shuang'er remained silent, the old lady's eyes burned with concern: "What's wrong?"
"Father, grandmother, Mother bought cloth for me to make clothes yesterday, and she gave all the money to the shopkeeper. Mother doesn't have any money left," Zou Wanqing hurriedly defended her mother.
Marquis Zhenbei held Zou Wanqing in his arms, laughing and teasing her.
"How could there not be? It's just a piece of cloth. Doesn't your father give all his salary to your mother?"
Zou Wanqing shook her head:
"No, Father, Lin Wanwan's mother made my mother spend a thousand taels of silver to buy a bolt of cloth."
"Father, they are bad people."
"What? One thousand taels?" Marquis Zhenbei was shocked.
"What's going on!"
He felt a vague unease.
"Master!" Zou Shuang'er cried out in distress.
“Yesterday, I took my daughter to buy fabric, but I ran into Ye Lanyin. She tricked me into making a bet with her, and that's how I fell into her trap.”
"She ruined me." Zou Shuang'er wiped away her tears.
"What about the silver?" the old lady asked urgently.
"The silver... the silver has been given to the manager of Luoshangfang."
Zou Shuang'er dared not hide it.
"You scoundrel!" Marquis Zhenbei cursed angrily. "Madam, that's my hard-earned monthly salary. I entrusted it to you because I trusted you."
How could you take it and use it for whatever you want?
Zou Shuang'er was so frightened that she knelt down and cried as she pulled on the Zhenbei Marquis's trouser leg: "My lord, it was Ye Lanyin. Ye Lanyin did it on purpose. If it weren't for her, how could I have fallen for her trick?"
Seeing his mother being scolded, Lin Shixuan quickly knelt down: "Father, the matter has not been clarified yet. Perhaps there is some misunderstanding."
At this moment, the Marquis of Zhenbei was filled with rage, and he pointed at the maid standing to the side with bloodshot eyes.
"You tell me, what exactly did Madam do!"
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