Liu's sister-in-law, Liu Xier's mother, came out and started cursing at her when she saw her.
It was said that she treated Liu Xier harshly, which led to her disappearance now.
It was the Jiang family who had wronged her daughter. Now she didn't even know whether her daughter was alive or dead. Yet, Liu dared to come back. Did she really think the Liu family was easy to bully?
Hearing these words from her sister-in-law, Liu was dumbfounded.
In the past, her sister-in-law would always fawn on her whenever she saw her, and never dared to show her a cold face. But today, she actually spoke to her like this and even forbade her to go back to her parents' home.
She pointed at her sister-in-law angrily.
"This is outrageous! You raised a good daughter like me, and now she did something like that. I'm too embarrassed to say anything, and yet you're trying to turn the tables on me."
"Get out of here! You have no right to talk to me! I want to see my mother and brother."
Liu wanted to push her aside and go in, but her sister-in-law waved her hand and several burly men blocked the door.
Madam Liu sneered, "You can't just go back to this house whenever you want. Mother and husband don't want to see you at all."
"I'm telling you, if you don't send Xi'er back safely, you'll never be able to enter the Liu family again."
Mrs. Liu was going crazy. She hadn't even asked her for Liu Xier yet, but her sister-in-law asked for her instead.
"Liu Xier ran away with someone and committed adultery, bringing disgrace to the Jiang family. I can let it go because she's my niece, but you must return the money she ran away with."
Liu said this with gritted teeth. She knew that the Liu family was afraid of being in trouble with the Jiang family, so they were turning the tables.
She took a step back and just asked for the money. She believed that her mother and elder brother would understand how difficult it was for her.
But who would have thought that Mrs. Liu would actually say.
"Silver? We didn't see it. You said Xier ran away, so she ran away. What evidence do you have?"
"Li Guilan, this is obvious. Don't make such a fuss. Do you really want to be sued by the Jiang family?"
Liu lost all her patience and shouted her sister-in-law's name loudly.
But Li adjusted the pearl hairpin on her head and replied indifferently.
"No one is stopping you from suing. If you can't produce any evidence, you're just talking nonsense. We won't admit it."
She didn't believe that the Jiang family really dared to do this. Officials here care much more about face than merchants like them.
"You...I don't want to talk to you about this. I want to see my mother and my elder brother."
Seeing that she couldn't convince her, Liu wanted to seek support from her mother and elder brother.
Just then, Liu's eldest brother came out.
"Your sister-in-law's opinion is what my mother and I agree on."
"Brother? What do you mean? You won't let me into the house, and you don't plan to return the money?"
Brother Liu glanced at her and frowned slightly. "You're already married. You belong to the Jiang family. How can you go back to your parents' home all day? As for the silver you mentioned, we haven't seen it, so how can we repay it?"
"Moreover, as a daughter of the Liu family and Xier's aunt, you didn't treat her well and bullied her like this, yet you still have the nerve to come back and ask for money."
Hearing her elder brother say the same thing, Liu almost couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
Was she bad to Liu Xier? She only hated herself for being blind and letting her marry Jiang Yilang.
Ever since she entered the west courtyard, there has been no peace in their main house.
She took a deep breath and calmed herself down.
"Brother, let's not talk about anything else. I used to give a lot of money to support the Liu family. Now the Jiang family is short of money, and I must give money to make up for it. Otherwise, my stewardship will be taken away, and I may even be kicked out of the Jiang family. Just consider it a favor and return the money I gave you before. That should be okay, right?"
As long as we make up the difference by paying the public treasury's silver, my mother and the third wife won't say anything.
There is still room for improvement.
"What silver? How can you be such a daughter? You gave some things to your mother in the past, but it wasn't much. As the eldest lady of the Jiang family, you have to return the gifts you gave. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
"Not much, brother and sister-in-law, you can't lie with your eyes open. Over the years, I have been to the Liu family..."
"That's enough. If you want the silver, just tell me. Why are you beating around the bush and even lying about Xi'er running away with the Jiang family's silver? Don't you just want the silver? I'll give it to you, but if you give me the silver, you will no longer be the daughter of our Liu family."
Brother Liu said coldly.
These words undoubtedly hit Liu's heart. She was so sincere to the Liu family, but they treated her like this.
However, she didn't have the energy to care about these things now. She just wanted the money so that she could give an explanation to the Jiang family.
"Just follow what Big Brother wants."
After what happened with Liu Xier, there was no possibility for the two families to have any contact with each other, and the relationship was severed.
Seeing that she agreed, Brother Liu took out a few banknotes from his pocket and gave them to her.
"Here you go, get lost."
Liu was stunned for a moment when she looked at the three hundred taels of silver in her hand.
It took him a while to react, "What do you mean? Three hundred taels, I'm afraid I'll give the Liu family more than a hundred times that."
"Little sister, don't be too greedy. The Liu family's business has been bad in recent years, and we don't have much money. This amount of silver is all the property of the mansion. It's up to you whether you want it or not. This is all."
After saying that, Brother Liu winked at his wife, and the two of them went straight back to the house, closed the door, and refused entry to Liu.
She came all the way back to Liu's house, but was sent away with three hundred taels without even entering the house.
It was not until this moment that she saw the true colors of her elder brother and sister-in-law. They had tried to please her in the past just to cheat her out of the money.
I’m afraid that what Liu Xier did is also related to them.
During the past six months that Liu Xier has been in the mansion, she has also taken a lot of money from the Liu family. Because they are her mother's family, she not only did not stop her, but also covered up for her.
But now, they are actually trying to force her to death.
She yelled like crazy.
"I won't leave until you return the money."
Having said that, she sat down at the gate. She didn't believe that her elder brother would stay at home.
When she was sitting there until the next day, Jiang Weiren came to find her.
He stepped forward and slapped Liu again.
"Stupid woman, aren't you ashamed enough? Do you really have to make this known to everyone?"
The Jiang family had originally kept the fact that Liu Xier had committed adultery and escaped a secret.
Many people knew about Liu's disturbance. She was the eldest lady of the Jiang family, but she was sitting here in such a disgrace. What a shame it was.
"Hurry back to Beijing."
"No, I won't go back until I get the money back."
Liu cried and shouted, she really had no other choice now, no matter which path she took she would die.
"They are determined not to return it. Instead of wasting time here, you might as well go find Liu Xier."
Jiang Weiren said unhappily that since many people knew about this matter now, they might as well search openly. If they found the person, their Jiang family could save some face.
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