Chapter four hundred and thirty eight, two brocade boxes
"Really bought a shop?" General Jingyuan's wife asked doubtfully after hearing Qin Yueyi's words.
"Aunt, you really bought a shop. I asked someone to inquire about it. They said it was the shop that my cousin sold to Yu Zhuqing and bought it back."
Qin Yueyi stamped her foot and said anxiously: "Aunt, my cousin has spent all his money here. From now on... the shop from now on will be regarded as Yu Zhuqing's or the General's Mansion."
If it belongs to Yu Zhuqing, it is her dowry. Even if General Jingyuan's mansion is headed by the general's wife, the Qin family, it has nothing to do with the Qin family.
If it belongs to General Jingyuan's Mansion, those shops will be handed over to the Qin family and treated as the public property of the General's Mansion, not Yu Zhuqing's alone.
There's more to it than just what you hear on the surface.
Qin couldn't sit down anymore and stood up suddenly: "I'll go take a look."
"Aunt, I'll accompany you there." Qin Yueyi hurriedly raised her legs and followed behind Mrs. Qin.
The group of people went to the study together.
At the door of the study, Xu Cheng met his mother and cousin.
"Mother." Xu Cheng stepped forward and saluted.
"I've met my cousin." Qin Yueyi also hurriedly saluted softly, her eyes full of affection, but Xu Cheng didn't notice at all that her mother's arrival was strange, and there was something else in it when she came here at this time.
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Mrs. Qin stood still and looked at her son: "What kind of distinguished guest has come, asking you to send him off like this?"
"He's not a distinguished guest, he's just a businessman. Please sit inside, mother," Xu Cheng said with a smile.
Mrs. Qin said displeasedly: "Since you are just a businessman, why do you need to send me off? Remember, you are the eldest son of the general's house, so you are not something that a businessman like him can match."
"What mother said is, mother please." Xu Cheng nodded with a great attitude, led Mrs. Qin in, and sat down on the main seat in the middle.
Qin Yueyi sat tightly next to Mrs. Qin, lowering her head and flashing a hint of anger. She was obviously better than Yu Zhuqing, why could her cousin never see her?
"I heard that he is here to sell a shop? Did you buy it?" After sitting down, Qin asked straight to the point.
"It's true that he is selling the shop, but he didn't buy it for me, he bought it for Miss Yu." Xu Cheng explained.
"What's yours? Aren't her things yours? Since you bought them, they belong to our house. You won't use our things to supplement her, right?" Qin asked with a dark expression. Marquis Xuanping
She really didn't like this big girl in the house, and she could tell at a glance that she was a wealthy prime minister.
"Mom, this originally belonged to her, and she also gave me the banknote. She just asked me to help sell it," Xu Cheng said helplessly.
"Who is she? Your fiancée, even if the banknote is hers, it is not yours in the end. How can you tell the difference so clearly?" Mrs. Qin said, hating that iron cannot be transformed into steel.
She had sent people to inquire about the store before. She heard that Yu Zhuqing had been completely defeated. She was angry and resentful. Later, she said that she was back in Yu Zhuqing's hands. Mrs. Qin didn't find out what was specific. She seemed to say that there was some problem.
There seems to be no problem. I asked my son before, but he couldn't explain clearly.
Now when I look at my son's appearance, I don't know that it's his excuse.
If you don't know what to say, you obviously don't want to tell yourself.
Before this daughter-in-law got married, her son stood on her side and confronted herself as a mother. It was strange that Mrs. Qin was in a good mood. She then stretched out her hand and pointed at Xu Cheng, hating that iron could not turn into steel.
"Mom, Zhuqing hasn't married in yet, so her things naturally belong to her. Even if she marries in, she will handle the things in the dowry by herself. Only those who don't know etiquette and are greedy in their own family will covet their wives.
I just want to deduct some wealth from the dowry."
Xu Cheng said with a serious face.
Qin's face changed drastically, "You...you mean I'm the kind of greedy person?"
"Cousin, how can you say that about your aunt? How much your aunt has worried about you and done so many things for you. You hurt my aunt like this."
Qin Yueyi stood on Qin's side and said indignantly.
Xu Cheng's face darkened, he glanced at Qin Yueyi coldly, ignored her accusation, stood up and bowed deeply to Mrs. Qin: "Mother, my son didn't say what you meant, he just wanted to prevent others from saying anything about our family in the future.
, Zhuqing’s identity is unusual, if people misunderstand you with such rumors, you will get into trouble."
"Cause trouble? Why should I be afraid of getting into trouble?" Mrs. Qin angrily picked up the tea cup in front of her and smashed it on the ground, her face turned livid, "You have forgotten your mother after you have a daughter-in-law. This daughter-in-law has not yet married, and you pushed your mother away."
Go out, stand for her sake in everything, think about her, for your mother...for your mother..."
Mrs. Qin's eyes turned red when she was angry and angry.
General Jingyuan's wife sounds nice and has a valuable status, but in fact, how many times a year can the husband and wife be reunited, leaving all the sons to themselves, while the general is fighting outside, knowing how much worry she has, how many tears she has shed, and her single-minded focus
He raised his son, but now he is disgusted by his son.
Seeing Qin's behavior, Xu Cheng panicked and said hurriedly: "Mother, that's not what my son meant."
"No, what do you mean?" Qin asked loudly.
"Mom, can you step aside?" Xu Cheng said.
"We are all here for our mothers, so there is nothing we can't say." Mrs. Qin said angrily.
"Even if you are a mother, there are some things you shouldn't listen to." Xu Cheng insisted with a serious look on his face.
Seeing her son say this, Mrs. Qin calmed down a little, waved her hand and asked people to get out.
The maids and mothers filed away.
Qin Yueyi looked around and didn't move. She just lowered her head and kneaded the handkerchief in her hand.
"Cousin, please step aside first." Xu Cheng had no intention of coddling her. Qin Yueyi was most likely responsible for what happened today. He had to find an opportunity to send her away.
"Cousin..." Qin Yueyi was stunned for a moment, raised her head, her eyes were red.
"Okay, your cousin is not an outsider, so why not let her listen?" Mrs. Qin said disapprovingly.
"Cousin, please step back first." Xu Cheng insisted, his cold eyes falling on Qin Yueyi.
Qin Yueyi's eyes turned red, and she turned her head to Qin for help: "Aunt, look at my cousin..."
"Go down first!"
"Ah!" Qin Yueyi looked at Mrs. Qin in disbelief. Her aunt, who had always been on her side, actually followed her cousin's lead in speaking.
"Xinyi, you go down first. If anything happens, my aunt will go back and tell you." Ms. Qin comforted Qin Yueyi.
"Aunt... Aunt..." Qin Yueyi stood up suddenly, tears fell, turned around, covered her face with a handkerchief, and ran out crying.
Mrs. Qin's face was full of heartache. Compared with Yu Zhuqing, this was the daughter-in-law she chose for her son, but her son was so stubborn that he actually fell in love with Yu Zhuqing.
"Mother, do you know what happened in the house of the Minister of Rites?" Xu Chengcai asked after seeing Qin Yueyi leaving.
"I know, it's not that the wife of the Minister of Rites seems to be a good person on the surface, but in fact she is ruthless and cruel to her sister's daughter." Mrs. Qin snorted coldly and said, "I heard that the Minister of Rites still wants to divorce his wife, but
Let Mrs. Shangshu's natal family hold her down."
This incident caused a storm in the city, and it also reached the ears of the Qin family.
"Mother, if the prince of Zhongshan hadn't wanted to marry Miss Fang, would this matter have been so big?" Xu Cheng asked.
"That's impossible. There are many things like the step-family treating their ex-wife's legitimate daughter harshly. The reason why the house of the Minister of Rites is an exception and has become like this is because the most important thing is the Prince of Zhongshan. The two families are engaged, and the future Prince of Zhongshan
Madam was treated harshly and her hands were injured like this, which is the face of the Prince of Zhongshan."
Qin said that she had also talked about this matter with the ladies she knew well, and they all said that Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was stupid. No matter how she treated this young girl in the past, she would have to sacrifice her in the future. It is embarrassing to have such a mess now.
Lizi still has face, and may even interfere with the marriage of his children.
Even if it is more serious, it will affect the official career of the Minister of Rites.
The prince of Zhongshan is not easy to mess with.
"Mother, the prince of Zhongshan is not easy to mess with, and the prince of Qi should be even more difficult to mess with, right?" Xu Cheng asked in return.
"That's natural." Mrs. Qin said without any hesitation. She had never met Prince Qi, but rumors about Prince Qi were everywhere in the capital. It was said that even several princes could not lift their heads in front of him, and the Queen Mother alone
Not to mention pampering, even the emperor doted on him, and he doted on the prince of Qi to the point of being lawless.
He is the number one dandy in the capital, and it is said that he is also a bit crazy, and he is always out of his mind.
"Mother also knows that the Prince of Qi is not easy to mess with. Why are you letting your son keep these shops now? You are not afraid that Miss Yu will vent her anger on Miss Yu. Then she will push everything on our house and attract the Prince of Qi.
If you get angry, the incident with the wife of the Minister of Rites may happen in our house, and it may even get worse. After all, the prince of Qi is not the prince of Zhongshan."
Mrs. Qin shuddered when she said this, and her face changed slightly: "Impossible, I didn't treat anyone harshly, and you don't have any stepmother or stepmother."
"I am my mother's biological son, and my mother is also my father's only wife. Naturally, such a thing is impossible, but what if Miss Yu San thinks that we have treated Yu Zhuqing harshly? Miss Yu San is very protective of her sister, and Prince Qi is here.
, if this is a little bit... what should I do, what should father do?"
Xu Cheng said, seeing that Mrs. Qin was already hesitating, he added another word: "And Miss Yu is still marrying Prince Duan."
Prince Duan might be the future crown prince, and then Yu Yuxi might be the future concubine Ning, the kind of concubine who dotes on the harem alone.
"Okay, okay, I don't care anymore, you can handle this matter yourself." Mrs. Qin stood up suddenly, no longer caring about the affairs of several stores. The Minister of Rites had become a joke in the capital. Think about it again.
The Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion was inexplicably banned, and it is said that the explanation is still unclear to this day.
Mr. Qin felt that the property was small.
"Congratulations to my mother." Xu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, but fearing that his mother would admit death, he raised his legs and sent him to the door of the study.
"Okay, okay, I don't want you to give it away either." Mrs. Qin said angrily, waving her hands, feeling that she would be angry when she saw her son. This daughter-in-law really didn't marry well, and she had to think of a way, she couldn't just let her daughter-in-law do it.
Hold it.
Seeing Ms. Qin coming out, the maid and mother-in-law in the yard hurriedly stepped forward. Qin Xinyi followed Ms. Qin with tears in her eyes and left aggrievedly.
In the study, Xu Cheng picked up a pen and wrote a letter, put it into a brocade box, put a new set of jewelry into the box, closed it, and then took another brocade box, ready to be given away by the boy.
Arrive at Xuanpinghou Mansion.
After thinking about it, he asked the boy to go to the study room to get a banknote from his collection and put it in. It was not about the value of the banknote itself, but what it represented...
Two brocade boxes, one was given by him, the other was received by him...
What Xu Cheng didn't expect was that when the boy was putting it away, he put the wrong brocade box...