"Don't you like chanting scriptures? It's cold lately, so you shouldn't go out."
"Old Madam!" Madam Wen suddenly looked up. Was she going to be confined to her quarters?
Madam Pei ignored her and instead punished her by confining her to her quarters for ten days, as a small punishment.
Madam Pei ultimately gave her some face.
Lady Wen is the wife of a marquis and is also a mother-in-law. She cannot severely punish Lady Wen and embarrass her when her granddaughter-in-law, Jiang Shuwan, has just entered the family.
"Go back now. I will make up for the betrothal gifts for Jiang."
"Thank you, Madam." Madam Wen breathed a sigh of relief; ten days wasn't a long time.
Then, just as she was about to stand up, she heard Old Madam Pei say, "Your etiquette nanny doesn't need to work in the manor anymore. Just send her to the estate."
Sending them to the village was tantamount to exile.
"Grandma, the etiquette matron was part of my dowry!" Madam Wen exclaimed in shock.
"So what?" Old Madam Pei glanced at her.
She was Wen's mother-in-law. Even though they weren't related by blood, she could still take away Wen's dowry without Wen's consent.
"Yes," Wen said through gritted teeth.
"Open the storeroom and send the latest Yun brocade, Shu brocade, and top-quality gold and jade jewelry to your daughter-in-law. Her betrothal gifts are not just her betrothal gifts, but also the face of our Marquis's mansion."
"yes!"
"Go quietly after nightfall, and don't let anyone see you. I can't bear the shame."
"Yes!" Wen gritted her teeth, feeling utterly humiliated.
What kind of mother-in-law is this miserable? The new daughter-in-law comes into the house and puts her under house arrest, and even gets rid of one of her useful nannies.
That evening, countless pieces of jewelry and fabrics flowed into Jiang Shuwan's courtyard like a river.
There were several boxes filled with auspicious hairpins, plum blossom hairpins, gilded and kingfisher feather hairpins, white jade earrings, gold-inlaid ruby earrings, and red gold pendants wrapped with pearls.
There were also silver double-clasp bracelets with intertwined wire and gold bracelets with double dragon patterns inlaid with gemstones, which were packed in two boxes.
Dozens of bolts of various brocades, cloths, and silks were delivered after nightfall, and no one knew that Jiang Shuwan's meager betrothal gifts had all been replaced with precious items.
Various gold and jade jewelry items were piled up on several trays.
Every item was made of top-quality materials, and she was given two shops, both large shops on Zhuque Street, managed by people from Old Madam Pei.
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