Chapter 29
"With such a big problem, why don't you take the initiative to ask the second house for help?" Wei wanted to curse Mu for being an idiot in her heart. This big thing was going to be ruined in her hands.
Mu was extremely frightened at this moment, and she also vaguely guessed that she might be in trouble. When she thought of the consequences, her legs became weak, and she knelt down with a plop, and said in a trembling voice: "I went to find the second wife, but she was vague, saying that she didn't know anything about the house and asked me to ask the housekeeper."
"What a good Second Wife! She didn't do anything but took away the good reputation." Wei was so furious in her heart. In order to make the Second Wife help willingly, she spoke well of the Second Wife's righteousness in front of all the ladies who came to visit her.
Mu knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word, for fear of offending her.
"You should transfer Yu'er's money to him first, and keep the rest secret. Just manage it as usual. If you dare to tell anyone, I will not forgive you." Wei warned.
Mrs. Mu bit her lip and said, "Madam, the money that the eldest son spends on socializing is too much. I'm afraid it won't be what you want."
Wei glared at her fiercely.
"I am willing to do so, but the manager has been very strict on every expenditure recently..." Mu said timidly.
Wei was furious and said, "I think he has rebelled! Have you forgotten who promoted him step by step?"
After talking to the housekeeper, they found out that the mansion's income and expenditure were about to be overwhelmed, and they had to strictly control the whereabouts of every penny of the mansion. Once they knew that the problem with this account was so serious, Mrs. Ning would not tolerate it, and they would all be held responsible.
Wei had no choice but to grit her teeth and pay for Ning Yu's entertainment. However, her family was not well-off, and her daughter had given away a lot of money when she got married. It was not a long-term solution for her to support her husband and son's expenses.
Wei didn't care that she was still recuperating, and hurried to Old Lady Ning to complain about the Second House, saying that the Second House was insincere, saying that they agreed to help but never did any real work, and that Mu was the only one in charge, and now that there were some problems with the accounts, they didn't care and only knew how to enjoy themselves.
After hearing this, Old Madam Ning was also very angry. She could turn a blind eye to other things, but she would never tolerate anyone not caring about the Duke's Mansion.
So when Madam Ning appeared in Qin Garden, she heard Old Madam Ning say in a cold voice: "Since you don't take the Duke's Mansion as your home, are good at pretending to obey but secretly disobeying, and are unwilling to work for the Duke's Mansion, you might as well go back to your Princess Mansion!"
Madam Ning was stunned, and Ning Fu's face changed. For a married woman, these words were serious.
Although Ningfu had anticipated that her grandmother would listen to Wei's instigation, she did not expect these words.
She couldn't help but look cold, and was about to contradict her elder, but Madam Ning stopped her behind her.
"What does this mean, old ancestor?" Madam Ning was still able to remain friendly.
"Tell me what you want! Why did you promise to help with household chores, but now you let Mu take care of it all by herself?" Old Madam Ning pushed hard on her cane, showing her anger.
Madam Ning smiled and said, "Mrs. Mu is smart and capable. She has managed all the affairs of the mansion in an orderly manner. My daughter-in-law may not be able to do better than her."
"You are so sharp-tongued." Seeing that she was so insincere and was still trying to find excuses to evade her, Old Lady Ning sneered and said, "Since you don't admit your mistake, then kneel down."
"Grandma, I don't want my mother to take care of me." Ning Fu came out from behind Madam Ning and knelt down with a cold face. "If anyone wants to punish me, I should be the one."
"Stop messing around here! Ruyi, take the fourth girl away." Old Lady Ning said unhappily.
"I know that you chose my aunt as your daughter-in-law, and you like her. My mother, you didn't agree at the beginning, so my grandmother has always been partial to my aunt. Even when my eldest aunt wanted to manage the household affairs alone, my grandmother never said anything to her. When it came to my mother, she just didn't want to get involved in these matters anymore, so she let my mother go back to the princess's mansion. I feel sorry for my mother."
Nymph added, "Grandma is not a role model worthy of emulation by the younger generation."
This is really tearing off the fig leaf. It is extremely disrespectful to criticize elders.
However, Ningfu couldn't help but say this, so she accepted the punishment.
Old Madam Ning was embarrassed. She had never expected her granddaughter, who had always been obedient, to dare to disobey her like this. She was furious and said, "Go to the door and kneel down. Don't get up without my order!"
Ning Fu knelt down and kowtowed to Madam Ning, saying, "Mother, I still say the same thing, don't get involved in the household affairs. Not long ago, I heard from the two maids in the storeroom that there are problems with the accounts of the Duke's Mansion. You have no right to manage it, but you must not bring the responsibility upon yourself."
She removed Madam Ning from the list. She was the granddaughter of Old Lady Ning, and her grandmother would not really hate her. She was also a little girl who was still sensible and could barely be considered as a "child with no scruples". Being labeled as willful was better for her than having her mother suffer injustice.
Furthermore, she made Wei's plan clear. Although she could not mention how serious the problem was with the account of the Duke's Mansion, Wei would certainly understand. If Wei did not want her grandmother to know that the account was not just a problem, but a deficit of 50,000 taels, she would have to talk to her mother in private.
Mrs. Ning looked at her daughter with red eyes.
"Go! Go and check for me. I want to see who are the people who like to gossip." Old Mrs. Ning said angrily.
Ning Fu felt a little ironic. She knew that her grandmother was angry not because the two maids were talking nonsense, but because she didn't want others to know what she was thinking. Although her grandmother never mentioned it, she hoped that her mother's money could be used to help the Duke's Mansion.
Therefore, she had to make the first wife and grandmother know the limits. Her mother's own dowry had nothing to do with the Duke's Mansion. It was the power of her grandmother's family.
The key is the attitude of the father. Usually, the father does not know the difference between the big family and the small family after marriage, and still thinks that he is one family with his brother and grandmother, which makes the big family and grandmother lose their sense of boundaries.
Today, Ning Fu wanted to make her father see clearly how much her mother would suffer if she could not distinguish between the big family and the small family. She also wanted to make her grandmother and aunt learn the word "property". This was even more important than the account with the Duke's Mansion.
She lowered her eyes and said, "Dongzhu, please take my mother back first."
Mrs. Ning naturally refused, as she was reluctant to see her daughter suffer. But when she saw her daughter's determined look, she knew she couldn't miss this opportunity, so she endured the heartache and followed Dongzhu away.
Ningfu knelt down obediently, and she knelt for two hours without any protective gear under her feet, but she did not utter a word.
Old Mrs. Ning felt distressed and angry. At the same time, she blamed the child for being corrupted by Madam Ning. She thought the child should learn a lesson and simply stopped watching the child.
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When Ning Zhenyuan returned home, he felt something was wrong.
The Lotus Pavilion Garden was unusually quiet, and he couldn't help but frown. When he pushed the door open, he saw his wife in tears.
He had been married to Madam Ning for nearly twenty years, and he seldom saw her cry. The last time he saw her like that was when A-Fu fell into the water.
"What happened?" Ning Zhenyuan reached out to wipe away her tears, unable to help but ask worriedly.
Madam Ning waved his hand away, and she also had some resentment towards him in her heart. If he had not been so easy to talk to, she would not have been completely defeated by Wei in the matter of household expenses, and there would not have been such a dispute today.
Dongzhu choked up and said, "Second Master, today the Fourth Miss was punished by the old ancestor to kneel down. Please go and save the Fourth Miss."
Ning Zhenyuan's heart sank, and without asking any more questions, he walked towards Qinyuan.
As soon as I entered the garden, I saw a slender figure kneeling precariously, and the next moment, the whole person fell forward.
"Afu." Ning Zhenyuan's heart tightened and he almost ran over. He saw that his daughter's face was pale, her lips had lost color, and she had fainted.
He picked the man up and put him back on the bed with heartache, and anxiously ordered the servants to call a doctor.
"Why did mother punish Afu today?" Ning Zhenyuan asked.
"Of course she made a mistake." Old Lady Ning said coldly.
"What's wrong?" Ning Zhenyuan insisted on asking for a reason.
Old Mrs. Ning said nothing more.
"Afu has always been well-behaved and sensible. What did she do wrong that her mother treats her like this?"
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