Chapter 33 Selling the Family Property
Lu Changqing was stunned for a moment, as if he remembered something, but he couldn't remember it clearly.
When Yao'er and Yuan'er were born, he was overjoyed and did give some gifts to please Fang, but they were just some jewelry and ornaments. He didn't have much salary, so he couldn't give her anything too expensive.
"Why are you saying this in front of everyone?" Lu Changqing felt a little embarrassed and annoyed when he thought about the fact that their friendship was no longer there.
Could it be that this jealous woman wanted to bring up their old relationship in front of everyone and take the opportunity to put pressure on him to give up the co-optation?
It's just a trivial matter, there's no way he would agree to it.
Madam Zhao seemed to understand something and suddenly became happy: "Second Madam, you are so courageous! You actually agreed to use the jewelry of the young master and the young lady to pay off the debt. That's right, they are still so young, what do they need those gold bracelets, jade pendants, and ruyi? It would be better to sell them to solve the urgent problem first..."
The old lady calculated that the gifts the two children received during the New Year and other festivals over the years should be worth several thousand taels of silver, and all this money was in Fang's hands.
As Nanny Zhao was about to reach out to take the wooden box, she saw Fang Qianxue lift her hand and stumble.
"Pah!" A slap hit Madam Zhao's face. Shopkeeper Wen and other servants of the Lu Mansion were all stunned for a moment, and no one dared to help.
Nanny Zhao has been following the old lady for many years and used to serve the old master of the Lu family. She is the most respectable servant in the Lu family, and everyone who sees her usually gives her some face.
Today, the Second Lady beat her in public, and everyone felt that it was like killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, and they were the monkeys.
"Are the servants in the old lady's room so unruly?" Fang Qianxue asked coldly, "How dare you touch what the master has in his hands?"
"I wanted to help..." Nanny Zhao covered her face with one hand and shrank to the side.
"You are so anxious. It seems that mother has been thinking about the things in Yao'er and Yuan'er's hands for a long time." Fang Qianxue looked at Lu Changqing coldly, her eyes full of disappointment. "It's a pity that only this box was given by the second master. The things inside are gone long ago."
"Why are you taking it out when it's gone?" Lu Changqing said impatiently, "You're wasting time! What the hell are you doing?"
"I thought this wooden box was beautiful, so I asked someone to keep it to store things. It doesn't contain gold bracelets or jade pendants," Fang Qianxue slowly opened the wooden box and took out a stack of documents from it, "but the land deed and the house deed. The old man gave it to me when he was dying."
"What land deed and house deed did your father give you? How come I don't know about them?" Lu Changqing snatched the document and took a look.
"Dad is going too far," Lu Wanrou was also anxious, and she leaned over to take a look, "The Lu family has an industry but they kept it a secret from me and mother, and actually gave it to an outsider!"
The Lu family clearly has no assets! Could it be that the old man has hidden assets?
"Although the Lu family doesn't have much property in Shangjing, they still have ancestral homes, fields, and hills in Linyao. Some of the hills are the ancestral tombs of the Lu family, so I won't take them out." Fang Qianxue said, "My grandfather said that he was worried about leaving these properties to you, so he asked me to keep them for you. I didn't expect that you would squander them all now."
"Ah?!" Lu Changqing and Lu Wanrou were both struck by lightning. "How can the Lu family's ancestral home be used to pay off debts?"
"What else? Whoever borrows the money should pay it back," Fang Qianxue winked at Cui Shuang, "I have been married into the Lu family for five years, and my accounts with the Lu family have always been separate. Today, the elders are here, you can check the accounts if you don't believe me."
Cui Shuang immediately took out the account book and the handover book from her lapel and said loudly, "Please look! It is clearly recorded in this account book that our Madam, the young master, and the young lady have not eaten a bowl of rice from the Lu family in the past five years. They also used their own dowries to subsidize the Lu family. Now that the Lu family owes such a large debt, the Lu family should pay it back themselves."
"That's too much!" Fang Minhang looked at the account book and banged his cane on the ground in anger. "How much have you taken advantage of our Fang family over the years? Do you really think that our Fang family is extinct?"
"And this is the account book handover document. Both Madam Lu and Miss Wanrou put their fingerprints on it," Cuishuang said, holding up the rice paper in her hand. "It clearly states that both parties are clear of all losses and profits!"
"Also, all the money owed to Jinxiuzhai went to Xu and Miss Wanrou, and our Madam didn't get a penny!" Suiqiong pointed at Madam Zhao and yelled, "How dare you ask our Madam to pay off your debts?"
Nanny Zhao didn't dare to speak, for fear that she would be slapped again if she spoke.
Shopkeeper Wen shook his head and stroked his beard, "Tsk tsk" twice: "Master Lu, this is how your Lu family is dishonest. The other party didn't see anything, but you still want them to pay for the debt? How can this be justified in the world?"
Yan Fenghua patted Lu Changqing on the shoulder and said, "If that's the case, Brother Lu, then the account of Jinxiuzhai has nothing to do with Qianxue. You should handle it yourselves."
"But...but we have no money!" Lu Changqing tightly grasped the land deed and house deed in his hands.
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