In the future... maybe I can treat her better as compensation.
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"Madam, this old lady is going too far. She knows that it's hard to talk to the various courtyards, but she still wants you to send people to each courtyard to ask for the money you lent out. Isn't this making your life difficult? I'm afraid that when the time comes, people will accuse you of being unfilial again!"
On the path back to Qinyuan, Xia Ying's face was full of indignation.
Even the usually steady Dong Shuang frowned at this moment: "Yes, Madam, the old lady also asked you to reduce the allocation of each courtyard by half. Before, it was only reduced slightly, and it caused dissatisfaction among the courtyards. If it is reduced by half again, I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."
"I'm afraid he'll have to tear our wife apart."
Xia Ying angrily replied, "This is clearly bullying! Madam has spent all her dowry on the Shen family over the years, but in the end, she is still being blamed. Now they want Madam to be the villain. This is really too much..."
"alright."
Yang Zhao interrupted the two maids' dissatisfied voices and said with a good-tempered helpless tone, "Keep your voices down. This is not the old lady's fault. After all, no one is more important than the future of her own children and grandchildren. If the money on hand is not enough, we have to find a way. Besides..."
She lowered her voice a little: "Besides, this opportunity is rare. As long as there is enough money, I can definitely let my father-in-law or husband return to the officialdom. Otherwise, given the current situation of the Shen family, the emperor may not reuse them. It will be difficult for me to enter the officialdom again in the future..."
East Courtyard.
"Are you sure you heard it right? Did Yang Zhao really say that?" Second Uncle's grandmother asked her trusted maid in disbelief.
The old woman nodded and said, "I heard it with my own ears while hiding in the dark. The lady and her maid said exactly that..."
Second Uncle's grandmother was so angry that her face turned black. "What a selfish old thing! Since you're doing it on the first day, don't blame me for doing it on the fifteenth... Go, have someone guard Qin Garden. They must guard it tightly. If they see anyone leaving, keep a close watch on them."
The same is true for the West Courtyard.
Third Uncle's grandmother smashed a teacup and then, with a dark face, ordered her eldest daughter-in-law: "Go and take out all the money that can be used in our courtyard, and also all the money that you can use on hand. Bring it all together. I don't believe that if they can get a seventh-rank official position in the main courtyard, we in the West Courtyard can't!"
"Also, if the main courtyard sends someone to ask for money, you should cry and cry poor. If the courtyard's share is not enough, then help the men in your house to go to that old man's courtyard. I want to see how thick-skinned that old man is..."
The whole clan eats the bride's dowry, so why should the main clan get to eat all the spoils? And she wants to threaten her with a division of the clan? Dream on!
Similar situations were happening in the other courtyards.
Overnight, the morale of the Shen family members completely fell apart.
And not long after.
There were a lot more people outside Qinyuan, all hiding in the dark and closely watching the movements of Qinyuan.
"Madam, I've checked. Almost everyone in each courtyard is here. We even have people watching secretly in the rooms of our main courtyard." Xia Ying hurried into the house to report, with an unconcealable smile on her face.
I admire my master very much. He is so good at predicting things.
Yang Zhao flipped the page of the book in his hand, then looked up at Xia Ying and asked with a smile, "Did you climb out through the dog hole to read this?"
Xia Ying froze: "How did Madam know?"
Dong Shuang smiled and pointed at her clothes: "It's so dirty, Madam, you can't help but be ignorant of it."
Xia Ying only then realized that her body was covered with a lot of snow and dirt, especially on her knees and shoulders. She smiled awkwardly and hurried outside to clean the dirt off her body. But when she was about to go back into the house, she saw Aunt Liu coming in holding a large wooden box.
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