bayedsolid Chapter 129 This is the biggest concession she can think of
Chapter 129 This is the biggest concession she can think of
When they came back, Pei had just woken up and was sitting in front of the window, having her hair done by the servants.
As soon as the sisters Lu Xinling and Lu Xintong entered the house, they told the story of their encounter with Qian and Xu in the mountains.
Seeing that Lu Xinran had not come into the yard yet, he hurriedly repeated what he had heard in his heart.
"Sun is the second wife of the Guanglu Temple Minister, right? I haven't heard of any problems in their house, so how could it be..."
The Guanglu Temple was obviously a place with a lot of money. Liu Guang had been in the position of Guanglu Temple Minister for nearly ten years. I don't know how much money and good things he had embezzled. There was no way he was short of materials and furs to make new clothes.
That Sun and the Liu family were just greedy for advantage, and they felt particularly satisfied bullying Xu.
Pei thought of the old woman Pang from the Liu family and couldn't help but curl her lips in disgust.
"Grandma, do you think the six families will come to cause trouble for my second sister?"
When Lu Xintong thought of this, she felt a little regretful. She shouldn't have been so reckless in order to eat melons.
Pei moved her gaze to the window, looked at Lu Xinran who was not sure what he was thinking, and chuckled.
"Who knows, but... don't worry, she'll be fine."
During the Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet, Lu Xinran exposed the corruption of Wang Jianmin, the Minister of Honglu Temple.
A few days after the birthday banquet, the Wang family ended up having their property confiscated and exiled.
If the Liu family is not afraid of suffering the same fate, then they will come and cause trouble for Lu Xinran.
However, she is now secretly protected by someone around her, so it is not only difficult to cause trouble for her, but it is also very likely that you will end up in a miserable situation.
"Okay, it's getting late, let's go back early."
It will be safe on the way back to Beijing with the princes.
Lu Xinran was looking through Sun's booklet in the yard, and she found that Sun's yard was right next door.
Being close, it is easier to eat melons.
The Liu family was not as wealthy as Pei thought. On the contrary, Liu Guangcun was very timid and did not dare to embezzle money. He only accepted benefits presented by his subordinates during festivals.
He was considered a rare honest official in the capital, so life in his mansion was very difficult.
Although this mansion should be extremely magnificent in the eyes of outsiders, only the Liu family themselves know how poor the mansion is.
Sun would cling to Xu and even though she looked down on her, she would try every possible way to get benefits from her in order to supplement the family income.
Everyone in the Liu family was really waiting for Xu's cloth and furs to be delivered before they started buying winter clothes.
After reading this, Lu Xinran felt very complicated.
This is another form of Xu's taking advantage of others' situation!
He could have just robbed it, but he still used the trick of a handkerchief to hide it.
"Sister, do you think Sun can collect enough money to pay back Madam Xu?"
The Liu family shouldn't be so poor, but everyone in the family likes to show off.
Even if you don't have money, you have to have the best food and clothing.
The Liu family is good at giving birth. There are nine branches in total, including those of legitimate and illegitimate children, and each branch has at least four or five young children.
The Liu family is definitely a large and prosperous family, but their financial resources are so limited that they cannot support so many masters.
Lu Xinlan listened to her mumbling and glanced at the yard next door.
"Maybe. People always have to pay an equal price for their actions."
Even without Lu Xinran's system and voice, Xu would sooner or later discover Sun's thoughts, and then they would break up and trigger all the things that happened afterwards.
Lu Xinran just revealed this matter a step ahead of time.
"Sister is right. It's really disgusting to look down on others and take advantage of them."
Sun, who lived in the next courtyard, had her fingernails dug into her palms.
How is Xu better than her? Why is she more fortunate than her?
She had a beautiful wedding, and the couple lived in harmony. Even her mother-in-law treated her like her own mother.
That would have been fine, but she was not satisfied after giving birth to three sons in one go, and always told them that she wanted a daughter.
Isn't this just blatant showing off?
Despise her for going through so much trouble to give birth to a son.
The rumors she spread in the city were just a response to her showing off and contempt. She didn't think she had done anything wrong!
"Madam, Madam Xu and the others are going back to the city, let's..."
Snapped!
"Shut up. It's not up to you to decide what I want to do."
The anger was vented on the maid, who retreated with swollen cheeks and red eyes.
Lu Xinran heard the noise next door and saw Sun's impotent rage from the system.
In just three days, they had taken advantage of the Xu family for several years, giving them so many cloths, furs, and New Year and festival gifts, which would cost more than ten thousand taels of silver.
She was looking forward to how the Sun and Liu families would raise so much money.
On the way back to the city, the carriages from various mansions formed a convoy, entered the city tacitly and then returned to their homes.
It was not until she returned to the Lu Mansion that Lu Xinran remembered that she had not found a chance to say a few words to Song Junyan today.
How can I thank you for saving my life?
Bald head
When Sun returned home, she cried and told everyone what happened in the White Horse Temple that day. She also deliberately let everyone see the slap mark on her face.
Pang Shi frowned. She never expected that just a trip to the White Horse Temple would lead to a falling out between her daughter-in-law and the victim from the Xu family.
"Then what should we do with our winter clothes this year? If Xu doesn't give us the fabric, won't we only be able to wear last year's old clothes?"
Sun paused while wiping her tears. She had never expected that her mother-in-law's attention would be focused on this.
"Mother, Xu asked me for the things she gave to our mansion over the years. These...will cost a lot of money."
"Asking for it? It's just a New Year's gift. What's there to ask for? Will they ask for the New Year's gifts they send to other houses?"
Pang Shi didn't care and was unaware of the coming storm. Her attention was still on the winter clothes of everyone in the mansion.
"Second son's wife, go to the Xu family and apologize, and ask them to send us the fabrics and furs again. Doesn't she want to marry into our family? We can marry the third son's legitimate daughter to them."
The third child mentioned by Pang Shi was a illegitimate child born to her aunt.
Marrying her illegitimate daughter to the Xu family was the biggest concession she could think of.
Sun returned to her yard worriedly, and the more she thought about it, the more uneasy she became.
Three days, tens of thousands of taels of silver... Could it be that she really had to go to the Xu family to apologize to that idiot Xu?
She was unwilling in her heart, but she had to bow her head for the money.
He gritted his teeth and wrote a visiting card, and asked the servant to deliver it to Xu's house early the next morning.
At night, Lu Xinran fell on the bed and happily asked the system about today's performance. The system looked at the health points that had not been calculated, and the program was about to crash again.
The melon we ate today was perfectly normal, so why couldn’t the settlement be made?
"Not being able to calculate is not good, it means there will be more fun to watch later, maybe I can calculate a little more life points."
If the system is generous enough to give it a month or two, then the five years can be made up very quickly.
Tongzi was pleased with what she said, "After five years, maybe we can come and eat the melons from fifty steps away."
Lu Xinran enjoyed the pancake so much that she closed her eyes and fell asleep happily.
The next morning, I received an invitation from the anxious Qian.
The sisters Lu Xintong and Lu Xinling pestered each other and finally got on the carriage to Qi's mansion.