Just as he was talking, Yuan Yixiao suddenly came closer and stared at Yan Mingzhu's face for a long time.
Yan Mingzhu poked her forehead in a funny way, "Why are you staring at me? I have a flower growing on my face?"
Yuan Yi shook her head with a smile and said curiously: "Cousin, why do I feel that the birthmark on your face seems to have faded? Is there something wrong with my eyes?"
Hearing what Yuan Yixiao said, Yan Mingzhu knew that her detoxification effect in the past few days was pretty good. Soon, all the toxins brought from the mother's womb would be excreted from the body, and the birthmarks on her face would naturally disappear.
Yan Mingzhu deliberately teased her: "So, I have become prettier?"
Yuan Yixiao nodded first, then thought of something, shook her head and said, "I think my cousin is a little different."
Of course it's different. After all, the soul in this body has been changed.
"Then Xiaoxiao, does she like her former cousin or her current cousin?"
The little girl's mouth was very sweet: "I like them all, but now my cousin is more lively, so I have to like her more!"
Yan Mingzhu was so amused by her that she laughed.
The next day was the day agreed with the Pei family to get the dowry back.
Early in the morning, the senator's wife came over specially, "Zhuzhu, although the Pei family has promised, the family has always been very insidious. No matter what they say, you must not follow them into the house.
, there are many people passing by outside, so they don’t dare to think wrongly.”
"My granddaughter has remembered it. Grandma can rest assured that even if all the servants of the Pei family are dispatched, they will not be able to bully her."
The senator's wife didn't know that her granddaughter was very skilled in martial arts, so she thought she was just saying words to comfort her.
Arriving at the door of Pei's house, Liu Xiang stepped forward and knocked on the door, "Open the door. The third day has come and my girl has come to collect her dowry as promised."
After a while, the concierge came to open the door. When he saw Yan Mingzhu, his nostrils were raised to the sky and he said in a very arrogant manner: "My second young master is not here."
"We are here to collect the dowry, what does it have to do with whether your second son is in the house or not?"
The porter replied: "After the dowry was accounted for, the master handed it over to the second young master for safekeeping. Naturally, he wanted to ask the second young master for it."
The dowry was in Pei Duqin's hands, but the concierge said that Pei Duqin was not at the house. Isn't this a joke?
Liu Xiang immediately became unhappy: "Three days ago, your second son-in-law personally agreed to deliver the dowry at Pei's house three days later. Now we are here as promised, but second son Pei is not at the house.
You Pei family are monopolizing my girl’s dowry. If you don’t want to give it to me, just say so. You are obviously acting like a villain, but you pretend to be noble and noble. It’s so shameless, ugh!”
When she said this, Liu Xiang deliberately raised her voice so that passers-by could hear it. How shameless the Pei family were when they didn't keep their word!
The concierge's face turned red with anger, "You..."
But before he finished speaking, the housekeeper of the Pei Mansion came out and said, "Miss Yan San, my second young master really has something important to do today, and he didn't intentionally break the appointment.
Today is the birthday of the eldest princess Anyang. All the young masters and girls in the mansion have been invited to the eldest princess’s mansion. Before the second young master went out, he specially told the old slave that if Miss Yan San came, he would ask the girl to take a few more steps.
The house is waiting for the girl, and the dowry will be returned in full."
Yan Mingzhu didn't say anything, turned around and walked in the other direction.
After Yan Mingzhu left, the concierge sneered at her back with disdain: "An abandoned woman who was kicked out of her home has a face to ask for a dowry. The second young master of our family is the only one with a kind heart. He really regards himself as the root of the family."
It’s onion!”
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished swearing, the concierge suddenly felt pain in his knees, and he fell forward uncontrollably. He fell to the ground and couldn't curse anymore!
Yan Mingzhu calmly withdrew his hand, hiding his merit and fame.
On the way to the eldest princess's residence in Anyang, Liu Xiang muttered unhappily: "Girl, the Pei family did this on purpose. Since they are going to attend the eldest princess's birthday today, why did they set the date to today?"
Yan Mingzhu was very calm and answered lightly: "Of course it's to give me a warning. Pei Duqin has determined that the Yuan family is in trouble now and it is impossible to receive an invitation from the eldest princess's palace.
So he deliberately set the date for today and asked me to go to the eldest princess's mansion to pick up my dowry. But I didn't have an invitation. If I couldn't get in, I had to wait outside. The people attending the banquet were all dignitaries from the imperial capital. They saw me being embarrassed and stopped at the mansion.
Everyone will laugh at my jokes. In this way, the Pei family will be able to regain the face they lost before."
Listening to Yan Mingzhu's analysis, Liu Xiang felt extremely frightened. She gritted her teeth and said, "This Pei Duqin is really a despicable villain!"
Just as Yan Mingzhu said, guests were arriving in droves outside the eldest princess's residence.
There are concierges on both sides to welcome guests. Guests entering the mansion will be welcomed into the mansion after issuing invitations and sending congratulatory gifts.
Liu Xiang rubbed her hands anxiously, "Girl, what are we going to do? Do we really have to wait outside?"
As he was talking, suddenly, a voice with a deliberately surprised tone sounded from behind: "Isn't this the third sister?"
Hearing the sound and looking over, he saw a woman with a pretty face wearing a light blue long embroidered jacket, walking towards Yan Mingzhu's direction.
This person is Yan Mingzhu’s nominal second sister, Yan Qinglian.
On the left side of Yan Qinglian, a man in a sapphire blue robe had a look of disdain on his face and an even more arrogant tone: "Second sister, why are you getting married to this abandoned woman? If you are entangled by her, our Pingchang Earl's Mansion will be like this."
It’s not clean anymore!”
This foul-mouthed man is none other than Yan Mingzhu’s nominal eldest brother, Yan Hongzhi.
The reason why it is said to be nominal is because Yan Hongzhi and Yan Qinglian are biological brothers and sisters, and they have the same father and half-mother as Yan Mingzhu.
And this half-mother...
As soon as Yan Hongzhi finished speaking, he stood on the right side of Yan Qinglian and looked at the older woman who was still wearing a light pink dress deliberately showing her tenderness and said: "Zhi'er, don't be rude, Mingzhu's body
, after all, the blood of our Earl’s Palace flows through it.”
This woman is Deng, the stepmother of the Earl of Pingchang Palace and the biological mother of Yan Hongzhi and Yan Qinglian.
Speaking of which, Mrs. Deng’s methods are really high. It turns out that before Yan Mingzhu’s biological mother Yuanshi married Mr. Pingchang, Mr. Deng was already raised outside by Mr. Pingchang and gave birth to a child.
To children.
Before the Yuan family died in childbirth, the Deng family had always been the outer family members, and Yan Hongzhi and Yan Qinglian were also the outer family members who could not get on the stage and see no light.
But as soon as Yuan died, Pingchang Bo couldn't wait to carry Deng in to continue the marriage. Yan Hongzhi and Yan Qinglian suddenly became the heirs of the Earl's Palace from the shady outside concubines.
With the legitimate daughter.
This stepmother, as well as her two children, used to work together to bully Yan Mingzhu.
Poor Yan Mingzhu, as the only legitimate daughter of the original wife of the Earl's Mansion, her life in the Earl's Mansion was not even as good as that of a servant.
In the past, Yan Mingzhu was introverted and cowardly, and did not even dare to say much. A large part of the reason was because of being tortured by these three beasts!