Chapter 101 The little whore seeking death!
The next morning, Cui Shuang went to Liaoyuanhou Mansion to deliver a letter, but Jiang Xu had gone out early in the morning.
The doorman of the Marquis's Mansion said that the young Marquis went to the Princess's Mansion to meet the Prince Consort. Cui Shuang came back empty-handed and had to come back to tell Fang Qianxue that Jiang Xu was not there.
Fang Qianxue was anxious, but she couldn't go to the Princess's Mansion to find someone, so she had to put the matter aside for the time being. She planned to wait for Jiang Xu to come back and discuss with him about testifying for the Fang family and overturning the verdict.
Lu Mansion.
Xu Miaoyan had lived in Meihuaao for half a month and had removed all traces of Fang Qianxue in the mansion. Only then did she feel relieved.
She had taken several elixirs from the Wanxian Palace in the past few days, and her spiritual energy had recovered well. She often went to the palace to chat with the queen, and even thought of a way to help the tenth prince get the position of crown prince. Queen Yang was so happy that she sent someone to reward her with five hundred taels of silver.
It was the first time that Xu Miaoyan had earned so much money. When she came back, she was so happy. But before she could warm up the money, Xiuqiu came in and knelt down and said, "Second Madam, the old lady asked you to go to Songshengju. She said she has something important to discuss."
In order to make Xu Miaoyan happy, Lu Changqing asked the servants in the mansion to call her the Second Madam. Although the two had not yet officially married, the servants in the mansion regarded Xu Miaoyan as Lu Changqing's second wife and called her that very easily.
"Ask me to go to Songshengju? But what happened?" Xu Miaoyan clenched the silver ingot in her hand.
Recently, whenever Chen met her, she talked about money all the time. When she mentioned getting married, Chen said she had no money and asked her to pay for the wedding banquet herself.
It was ridiculous. How could a bride pay for her own wedding banquet? She had money now, but she didn't want to spend it on this.
Xiuqiu shook her head: "I don't know either. Just now, Madam Zhao sent a maid to tell me that the old lady is in a hurry. You should go to Songshengju to take a look."
"Well." Xu Miaoyan had no choice but to take Hydrangea to Songshengju.
As soon as the two of them walked into the courtyard, they heard noisy sounds coming from the yard.
"What a great Lu Changqing! We thought he had become a high-ranking official, but we didn't expect that he would be so poor that he had to sell off his ancestral home!" An old man with a gray beard was sitting on the steps in front of the main hall, beating his chest and stamping his feet. "He left us uncles and aunts with nowhere to live. He is so filial!"
The wooden door of the main hall was closed tightly, and Madam Zhao and Liansheng were guarding the door to prevent anyone from entering.
"Isn't it?" A slightly plump, round-faced woman next to him said in a Linyao accent, "Hurry up and call Lu Changqing out! Return the money from the sale of our ancestral home to us, otherwise we won't leave! Sell our house and we will live in Shangjing City!"
"Mom! Huai'er is hungry. I want to eat egg-filled pancake!" A boy of five or six years old grabbed the round-faced woman's hand and clamored for food.
A middle-aged man with a black mole on his face pulled the child away and said, "Why are you arguing? I'll give you food when your second brother comes back!"
The boy burst into tears: "My second brother is a bad man. He sold our house and didn't even give Huai'er bread to eat!"
Xu Miaoyan was shocked. Who were these people? They were all wearing rustic clothes and speaking in a rustic manner. Their speech and behavior were even more vulgar than those of Jiang Ning.
Hearing the little kid calling Lu Changqing "Second Brother", it means that he and Lu Changqing are of the same generation. Then, wouldn't the middle-aged man and woman be a generation older than Lu Changqing?
Xu Miaoyan didn't expect that the Lu family had such a poor relative, and she felt it was extremely troublesome.
And what ancestral home did they talk about selling? When did Lu Changqing sell his ancestral home?
"Make way!" Xiuqiu led Xu Miaoyan forward, pushed aside the men and women who were blocking the door and said, "Make way! Our lady wants to go in and see the old lady."
"Who are you?" asked the round-faced woman.
Xu Miaoyan didn't want to talk at all, but Xiuqiu raised her head proudly: "Our lady's surname is Xu, and she is the second wife that Lord Lu just married."
"You little whore looking for death!" Unexpectedly, the old man sitting on the steps suddenly jumped up upon hearing this, pointed his finger at Xu Miaoyan and cursed, "So it was you who instigated Lu Changqing to sell the ancestral home!"
"So it's you! Did Lu Changqing spend all his family fortune just to marry you?" The round-faced woman put her hands on her hips and looked Xu Miaoyan up and down with contempt in her eyes, "Bah! You're just a brothel stock!"
Xu Miaoyan felt very aggrieved. These people were Lu Changqing's elders, so she couldn't argue with them directly. She could only say, "Uncles, uncles, aunts, it's really not me. I don't know anything about Changqing..."
"Little whore! I think you are born to be a spendthrift!" The old man and the middle-aged man said as they were about to slap Xu in the face.
Xiuqiu started to fight with them: "Don't hit our wife!"
"Second Madam! The old lady asks you to come in." Liansheng hurried to help Xu Miaoyan out of the predicament.
"Yes." Xu Miaoyan lowered her head, walked past a few country folk like a thief, and entered the main hall of Chen's house.
As soon as he entered the room, Liansheng slammed the wooden door shut again, then heaved a sigh of relief.
In the house.
The outer room was empty. Chen was lying on the couch in the inner room with her eyes closed. A wet handkerchief was stuck on her forehead. A little maidservant beside her was fanning her and complaining, "What's going on? Look how angry our old lady is!"
Liansheng said as he made tea: "Those people from the first house are so arrogant. This is Shangjing, and I thought they were in Linyao!"
"That's right!" The little maidservant who was fanning the house also helped to say, "In the beginning, our old man kindly let them live in the ancestral house for free. Now we are just selling it and taking it back, but they are not happy about it. We let them live there for so many years and never paid rent."
Xu Miaoyan couldn't help but feel a headache listening to these family gossips.
She knew that the Lu family was poor, but she didn't know that the Lu family was so poor that they were chased by poor relatives to collect debts!
Xu Miaoyan sighed inwardly, knelt down and saluted towards Chen, saying, "I wonder what instructions my mother has for me to come here?"
She didn't want to get involved in the Lu family's mess at all. Besides, she was not the housekeeper now, so why did she call her here?
Chen opened her eyes and glanced at her: "You also saw that those at the door are the relatives of the Lu family in Linyao. Some time ago, Changqing owed money to Jinxiuzhai in order to buy clothes for you. Now those uncles and uncles have come to the door. In the end, this matter is related to you."
Xu Miaoyan was shocked: "I know that the Second Master owes money to Jinxiuzhai, but what does this have to do with Linyao's relatives?"
Chen sneered, "How do you think the debt to Jinxiuzhai was paid off? That was because Changqing sold the ancestral home in Linyao. The title deed and house deed of the ancestral home are with our second branch. We let them live there for free for more than ten years. Now that it's sold, they have nowhere to live. Of course they are not happy."
To be honest, the second wife didn't owe the first wife anything, she just wanted to get her own house back, so Chen had a clear conscience to keep people out of the door today.
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