Chapter 31 Dowry, the Thoughts of the Ancestors
After Gu got the key, she took out a detailed dowry booklet from her room, opened the warehouse in front of the prime minister, and compared the items one by one.
The Prime Minister was called by Gu, meaning that you, Prime Minister, please watch carefully. You saw the door opened with your own eyes. I have no way of forging the amount of dowry inside. You have also seen the dowry details booklet. I compared them one by one in front of you.
I didn't say anything missing to take advantage of the situation, nor did I falsely accuse your concubine. Don't wait until your anger subsides and then come and cause trouble for me and my daughter, the Gu family.
Just like that, with the Prime Minister's face so dark that ink could drip out, the servants spent an entire afternoon and finally found out what was missing.
Gu's dowry was indeed a bit too much. At the wedding, only a dozen boxes were seen. However, as a husband, he had no right to ask what was in the boxes, not even though he was now the prime minister.
Now, seeing it with my own eyes and hearing it with my own ears, the Prime Minister's eyes were obscure and unclear. With such a large dowry, it was hard to say whether my father-in-law had accepted bribes or not.
"My Lord and Madam, what is missing is: a famous painting 'Welcome to Spring', a top-quality coral, two pairs of top-quality jadeite, a pair of red gold hairpins, a deep-sea pearl necklace, two sides of a rare book, and..."
"That's enough. Let Concubine Liu make up for whatever is missing. She has been managing the rear quarters during the mistress's absence and has saved quite a bit of private money." The prime minister's face grew darker as he listened, and he interrupted the servant directly, not wanting to listen any more.
"Master, Master, this is all a conspiracy among Gu and his family. There is no way so much food is missing!" When Aunt Liu heard the servant reporting one thing after another, she felt distressed that she had to vomit out all the food she had eaten over the years. She still did not give up and wanted to make a last-ditch struggle.
She originally thought that Gu's dowry was so much, how would she know what was missing? Who would have thought that there was actually a booklet. It's no wonder. She was just a concubine. When she followed the prime minister into the palace, she had nothing in her hands. How could she know about the dowry book?
"Collusion? The door of the warehouse was opened in front of me, and the dowry was compared in front of me. What? Do you think that Benxiang also colluded with Gu's in order to swallow up your private property?"
Su Yan was so angry that he slapped Aunt Liu in the face. Seeing Aunt Liu about to cry, he held her chin tightly with his hand and said word by word: "Put away your pitiful look. You'd better pay for everything you have today. If there is one thing missing, I will chop off one of your fingers."
After saying that, he waved his hand and walked out.
Aunt Liu had never seen the Prime Minister like this before. She was so frightened that she even forgot to cry. Thinking of the Prime Minister's eyes just now, she felt cold all over.
She walked out of the warehouse with a dejected look on her face, not looking like the winner she was the day before. Xiaoxue received the list of missing items and hurriedly chased after Aunt Liu with an umbrella.
"Okay, all of you go out and help me call the second lady." Seeing how Aunt Liu looked just now, Gu didn't feel any sense of victory, but only a sense of sadness of serving such a man at the same time.
"Mother, you called me?" Soon, Su Yue arrived at the storehouse. Seeing that her mother's dowry was so large, she was a little surprised. After all, in her previous life, when she saw these dowries, they had already been almost destroyed by Aunt Liu.
"Yuer, now that you are here, there is no time to lose. See if you can bring anything with you. Let's go outside the city to see your grandfather."
"Mother has so much dowry, but the most useful thing for my grandfather and his family is the silver. However, because my grandfather has been accused of taking bribes, we can't give him too much silver, otherwise it will harm him and his family." Su Yue glanced at the dowry, which contained quite a bit of silver.
"It was Aunt Liu who touched the most of my dowry money. She used up half of the 20,000 taels of silver." Gu was really a little angry when she said this.
"Mom, there are some things I don't know whether I should ask or not." Su Yue looked at the dazzling array of things in front of her and couldn't help but ask the questions in her mind.
"Yuer, do you want to ask why my dowry is so large? Is it related to your grandfather's bribery? After all, this dowry is a bit beyond the affordability of your grandfather's family, right?" The mother and daughter are connected in heart. The daughter has been looking at the dowry since she came in. How could she not know what she is thinking.
Su Yue looked at her mother and nodded gently.
“In fact, I still don’t believe that your grandfather accepted bribes. My father has always been fair and honest. He hates the dirty things like taking bribes. How could he be involved in this?
Your grandfather only paid a small part of the dowry. The majority of it came from your grandmother, your grandmother's mother, and your grandmother's mother's mother.
This was passed down from several generations of women from our ancestors. "When Gu said this, there was a hint of warmth in his eyes.
"I'll tell you when the time comes. Our ancestors have a rule for women getting married. Unless there is something catastrophic, their dowries cannot be touched. They must be passed down from generation to generation.
Although women are supposed to obey their husbands after marriage, our ancestors have always loved women and would use their dowry to help if they were bullied by their husband's family, or if something happened to their husband's family, or even if something happened to their own family. "After saying this, Gu touched Su Yue's head, with a little regret in his eyes.
"Yuer, now that your grandfather's family is in trouble, mother has to use the dowry. It's mother's fault that she was not able to pass on the dowry to you in its entirety when you got married."
"Mother, don't say that. These are external things. Isn't this rule passed down by our ancestors to solve the difficulties of the younger generation?" Su Yue looked at the dowries and felt the long-lost warmth in her heart.
These are all preparations made by our ancestors, and their care for the younger generation of girls. In the country of Dongyou where men are respected, such precious thoughts are there.
"Mother, father was so angry today, you'd better not go to grandpa's house. I can go alone." Su Yue held Gu's hand and said in a deep voice.
Seeing that his mother was still hesitant, he said, "Mother, you stay in the house and help me take care of my father so that he has no time to take care of me. I will go early and come back early, and there will be no mistakes."
Gu thought about it and felt that what her daughter said made a lot of sense, so she took out four or five silver ingots, estimated to be more than two hundred taels, and handed them to Su Yue.
"Take this money, go quickly and come back quickly." Because her daughter had said before that she couldn't give too much, otherwise it would be counterproductive, Gu didn't dare to give too much.
At night, Butler Su found a carriage and took Su Yue out of the city.
Behind them, beside the gate of the Su Mansion, a pair of resentful eyes were staring at them.
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