Chapter 175 Still Not Giving Up
Chang Ning regretted that he had forgotten about this matter. He stood in front of the study door with the sealed letter, took a deep breath, and then knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Chang Ning walked in holding the letter tightly in his hand.
King Wei raised his eyes and glanced at Chang Ning: "Is everything done?"
"The Ministry of Works has already taken care of it." Chang Ning walked forward and presented the envelope in his hands to the King of Wei with both hands. "Master, this is the letter that Chang Yue asked someone to deliver to me before leaving Bian Jing. I was busy dealing with things at the Ministry of Works recently and forgot about it."
Chang Ning's voice became smaller and smaller. After the King of Wei took the letter, he didn't even dare to look at him directly: "Please punish me, my master."
King Wei glanced at Chang Ning and opened the letter.
Chang Ning lowered his eyes and dared not breathe. He was angry that even if he was busy all day long, he should not have forgotten about this matter.
Then Yu Guangzhong saw King Wei put the letter in his hand on the table.
The atmosphere in the study was a little subtle.
Chang Ning saw that the King of Wei hadn't spoken yet, so he raised his eyes slightly and looked at the King of Wei cautiously, and asked tentatively: "Master, what did Chang Yue say?"
King Wei looked at Chang Ning coldly.
"Master." Chang Ning immediately bowed and saluted: "Please punish me, Master."
The King of Wei said solemnly, "Send a note to Madam Qin, and then go and receive the punishment yourself."
Chang Ning thought to himself, "Yes!"
*
The Mansion of Marquis Yongyi, East Garden.
Early in the morning, Zheng and Bai came to the East Garden one after another to wait for Xie Rongying, both of them had solemn expressions on their faces.
About a cup of tea later, Xie Rongying finally arrived.
When the two saw Xie Rongying walk into the flower hall, they stood up one after another.
"Rongying, I'm so sorry to bother you again." Zheng said a little embarrassedly.
In fact, Zheng had been visiting Xie Rongying quite often recently, but she just chatted with Xie Rongying and tried to build a relationship with her. But today was different. Today she really had something to discuss with Xie Rongying, and Zheng felt a little uneasy inside.
"Second Aunt, why are you being so polite?" Xie Rongying said with a smile after sitting down at the main seat, "Third Aunt is here today too."
Mrs. Bai smiled awkwardly, thinking that this devilish girl Xie Rongying was very evil, and she didn't dare to be as arrogant as before.
"Please sit down, Second Aunt and Third Aunt." Xie Rongying then instructed Cuizhi, "Hurry up and serve tea to Second Aunt and Third Aunt."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Bai sneered in her heart. They had been there for almost a quarter of an hour and had not been served any tea, yet he was saying such hypocritical words now.
"I wonder why Second Aunt and Third Aunt came here together today." Xie Rongying asked directly.
Zheng looked at Bai. Bai didn't want to say anything, but then she thought about the group of people from the Ministry of Revenue coming after her husband.
"Rongying, we're all family, so let's not beat around the bush." Mrs. Bai said with a faint smile, "The Ministry of Revenue has been chasing your third uncle these past two days. You know your third uncle is just a minor official in the Ministry of Rites, and his annual salary is so little. The Ministry of Revenue must be asking for money at the behest of the government."
"We've come to you because we're at our wit's end." Bai's face was filled with embarrassment as she spoke. "If the Yongyi Marquisate doesn't pay back the court, I'm afraid this mansion will be raided."
Xie Rongying listened to the words that still refused to give up on her silver, and the smile on her face grew wider and wider. "So, the two aunts came to me early in the morning just to ask me to take out the silver to repay the court for the Marquis' Mansion?"
"Rongying, we know this is very unfair to you. After all, Junyi isn't sincere towards you, and your mother-in-law also schemed against you before." Zheng said sadly, "But now we really have no other choice but to come to you for help."
"If the money can't be paid, not only will this mansion be sealed, but we, the Qin family, will be homeless." Zheng's heart grew more bitter as she spoke. "The Marquis is far away at the border, and Junyi left Bianjing to escort medicinal herbs and grain. Now that the court is investigating, the responsibility falls on your second and third uncles. We have no other options."
"But where do I get so much silver?" Xie Rongying raised an eyebrow. "My father has taken all my dowry back to the Xie Mansion. If I tell my father about this, he will definitely not allow it."
"Have you carefully calculated how much your mother-in-law's dowry is?" Zheng asked.
"No." Xie Rongying shook her head.
Zheng's eyes darkened slightly. "How about this? You should first count your mother-in-law's dowry and pay back as much as you can. Don't let this affect the future of your second and third uncles."
"Since my mother-in-law's dowry needs to be counted, let's also count the dowries of my second and third aunts." Xie Rongying smiled: "We are all daughters-in-law of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion. We can't just think about my mother-in-law's dowry and use it to make up for the deficit."
Just as Mrs. Bai was about to retort, Mrs. Zheng spoke up, "Of course we have to take inventory. It's all for the Marquis' Mansion."
Xie Rongying's gaze lingered on Zheng's face for a moment, and she said, "Okay, I'll send someone to count mother-in-law's dowry later."
Zheng pulled Bai up and said, "Then we'll go take inventory. I'll take my leave now."
"I won't see you two aunts off." Xie Rongying said lazily with her eyes downcast.
After Zheng and Bai left, Cuizhi said, "Strangely, the Second and Third Madams didn't force you to come up with the money to make up for the debt this time."
"Then it may be that the court is really asking for repayment of this debt." Xie Rongying said.
"No wonder."
Xie Rongying stood up and laughed, "People are like this. They can be generous to others as long as it doesn't interfere with their own interests, but if their own interests are harmed, they will definitely protect their own interests first."
Cuizhi followed Xie Rongying out of the flower hall and saw Dongxue walking in from the hanging flower door.
"Girl." Dongxue shouted.
Xie Rongying stopped and watched the winter snow approaching from afar.
"Miss, this is a letter from King Wei." Xie Rongying took it from Dongxue's hand, opened it and glanced at it casually, then closed it and walked towards the side room without saying anything.
On a small path not far from the East Garden.
Bai followed Zheng closely and asked, "Why did you agree to count our dowry just now? Are you crazy?"
"Then do you have any other ideas?" Zheng slowed down her pace and stared at Bai coldly: "Can you force Xie Rongying to hand over the money like Jiang did?"
"Then she is no longer from the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion?" Bai said unconvinced.
Zheng sneered, "If she cared about this, she would have already paid for the Marquis's residence to fill this hole. But why doesn't she? Cut the crap. The two hundred thousand taels we paid before, plus Jiang's dowry and our respective contributions, are quite a bit. Let's return some to the court first, and we can deal with the rest after Qin Shiyuan and Qin Junyi return."
"As for Xie Rongying." Zheng mentioned this name, and a bad breath rose in her throat, which she couldn't spit out or swallow. "We'll deal with it slowly."
"How to solve it? She is very evil." Bai chuckled.
Zheng snorted coldly: "Do you think everyone is as stupid as Jiang?"
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