Chapter 86 The Cen family suffered another loss
When it comes to the people from Gao’s family, absolutely no one in the Cen family has a good impression of them!
They are just a bunch of useless gigolos!
Especially Gao's useless brother, who is incompetent at anything and is lazy and gluttonous. But Gao is determined to support her younger brother and often takes things from the old Cen family back to honor her brother!
This is a hopeless case.
If he had some potential, the Cen family would still look up to him.
But time and again, nothing could be done. If the people of the old Cen family heard that Gao gave their money and property to this loser, who could tolerate it? !
What’s more, that was thirty taels of silver!
"Ms. Gao, you must explain everything to me today, or get out of the Cen family! I don't want a daughter-in-law like you!" Old Mrs. Cen exploded with anger and threatened her with harsh words.
"Mom, why do you always want to drive Yin'e away? She gave birth to my children. Even if she has no credit, she has worked hard. Isn't it just thirty taels of silver? Even if she gives it to my brother-in-law, so what? We are all family. Why do you have to say such hurtful words?" Cen Dajiang was dissatisfied when he heard this, and immediately stood up to speak well of Gao.
But his words not only failed to calm down Old Lady Cen, but instead seemed to add fuel to the fire.
Old Mrs. Cen became even angrier!
"You traitor! I raised you with great difficulty, and now that you have a wife, you dare to go against me, right? We're still a family? Bah! Who is a family with her useless brother? Why don't you go with her and live with her family! I have never given birth to an unfilial son like you! I thought I drowned you when you were born!" She pointed at Cen Dajiang and cursed him loudly.
"Mom, I, I didn't mean that... Mom, calm down, calm down..." Cen Dajiang immediately became timid after being scolded, and didn't dare to say another word for Gao.
"Gao Yin'e, explain it to me clearly!" Old Mrs. Cen stared at her eldest son, and when she saw that he had shut up, she turned her attention to Gao again.
"Mother, I did lend the thirty taels of silver to Beiyang, but this time, Beiyang really wanted to do something useful, and he was short of money, so he begged me again and again. So, I gave him the silver..." Gao tried to explain.
Beiyang is her younger brother.
"Oh, you finally admitted that you got thirty taels of silver from Wei Zan? Sister-in-law, what a good trick. I don't know what Wei Zan was thinking. Even if he wanted to marry Cen Yan, he gave fifty-five taels of silver generously. Would Dad not agree to marry Cen Yan? Why did he have to give you thirty taels of silver first? Sister-in-law, is there any misunderstanding here? Did you say something that made Wei Zan misunderstand and think that it was difficult to marry Cen Yan, so you coaxed him and got such a big benefit from him?" Cen Ying seized this point and asked questions one after another.
After she said this, both Old Lady Cen and Old Man Cen's faces turned even darker.
If it is true as Cen Ying speculated, then the Gao family is clearly stealing money from the old Cen family!
A total of fifty-five taels of silver.
It is only natural to ask for a dowry when marrying a woman named Cen Yan.
Who doesn’t charge this money when marrying off their daughter?
But unfortunately, this huge amount of money cannot fall into their hands. If they say that Gao family is not involved, no one will believe it!
"It seems that my sister-in-law is good at doing this kind of thing. I don't know how much money she has taken away from the family by coaxing and deceiving people. By the way, mother, don't you often ask my sister-in-law to find that immortal to tell fortunes? It must cost a lot of money to ask an immortal to tell fortunes, right? I don't know if my sister-in-law took the money you gave her to find that immortal? Could it be that she came back and said something to mother that you made up?" Yu questioned.
Even though she had no basis for this, she would be stupid if she didn't take advantage of such a good opportunity to suppress Gao's family!
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Cen's eyes immediately became sharper.
Gao was so angry that her hands and mouth were shaking.
Even if she had indeed acted cunningly in the matter of Yu Banxian, the old woman had refused to pay a penny when she had asked Yu Banxian to tell fortunes several times, and that was all the money she had paid!
But she absolutely didn't dare to say this at this moment.
If she really told it out, the old woman would never forgive her!
"Mother, I was wrong to let Wei Zan give me thirty taels of silver. I shouldn't have given the silver to my brother without telling my family. But I promise that I never did anything cunning in inviting Yu Banxian. You should know that Yu Banxian is an immortal. How dare I play tricks on him? If I really had the courage to do that, the immortal's punishment would have fallen on me long ago..." Gao glared at Yu, then hurriedly faced Old Lady Cen respectfully to defend herself.
"Even though I am called a half-immortal, I am still just a mortal. If you hide this from him, how will he know what you have done?"
Yu was unwilling to let her go easily. "Mother, according to what my wife said, for the sake of caution, you should go meet Yu Banxian and ask him carefully to see if my sister-in-law has concealed anything from you."
"Yes, mother, you might have been cheated by Yu Banxian as well. Maybe he is just a swindler, and if he teamed up with your sister-in-law to defraud the family's money, then you really can't guard against it!" Cen Ying also spoke up.
When Old Lady Cen heard this, a hint of annoyance appeared on her face.
But she was clearly still hesitant.
After all, even if he is a mortal, as long as he is called a "half-immortal", he is still different from ordinary people.
She was worried that she would offend this "half-immortal", and then she would be the one who would be in trouble because of her disrespect.
"Mom, please believe me. I would never dare to deceive you about such a thing!" Gao hurriedly defended herself again.
She didn't want to pay any attention to Yu at all, but Yu just kept pestering her.
And this sister-in-law.
In the past, he wouldn't stab me in the back so often, but recently he has been doing this for some reason.
Obviously, there should be no conflicts between them.
Now she had to find a way to save herself.
You can't let yourself be attacked by them, otherwise your position in the family will be lost.
Gao frowned and scanned the room, her eyes finally falling on the second wife.
Her eyes lit up.
"I'm just curious, Cen Yan, what's your meaning in bringing this topic up to me today? What do you want to do?" As long as she pushed the blame onto the second wife and described tonight's dispute as a conspiracy by the second wife, the anger on her would be transferred to the second wife.
"Aunt, I should be the one asking you this, right? Wasn't it Aunt that you took the initiative to scold me at the beginning, and I just said a few words in return? I didn't say anything afterwards, I just talked about the matter at hand."
Cen Yan saw her plan and immediately pushed the problem back to her, "You can't drag me into this just because you were scolded by grandma, so as to distance yourself from it.
"No matter what, you got those thirty taels of silver from Wei Zan without telling your family.
"Besides, you gave all the thirty taels of silver to your good brother. I heard that he lost all his money in business... It seems that the money you spent on behalf of the old Cen family was a huge loss again."
With just a few words, she aggravated the anger of everyone in the Cen family.
The anger was once again directed at the Gao family!
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