Chapter 58
Lin finally seized such a big handle as Yu Xiang, and even offered to send her to the countryside to place an order. The old lady and Yu Pinyan couldn't say anything. How could the daughter embezzle her mother's dowry? She couldn't wait? In other words, even her mother's dowry could be occupied, so what could stop her greed?
Such a bad character is enough to suppress Yu Xiang so hard that he can't raise his head! Even if the old lady and Yu Pinyan insist on protecting her, she will not be rampant in the future!
The more Lin thought about it, the more proud he became. He walked quickly. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the gate of the main courtyard, and Yu Miaoqi followed closely behind.
Ma Ma, who was standing in the corridor, saw the two of them and hurried into the room and whispered, "Old Madam, they are indeed here."
"Hmph~" the old lady gently twisted the Buddhist beads and spoke slowly, "I only waited for an hour and found them. I'm too anxious. I'm afraid I haven't even read the account book behind it."
Ma Ma lowered her head and dared not answer. She knew that there would be a noise in the room later. She winked at Wanqiu and suggested that she would wipe out all the idle people.
"It's a mess, it's a mess, it's a mess, how many troubles have happened in just two days after I came back? Let me count." The old lady put down the Buddhist beads and counted her fingers, and her smile became colder. "It's indeed a devastating star. I'll take it back and have no peace. I thought she could persuade Lin to calm down, but I didn't expect it to be a more unstoppable person. I was just competing for favor and family business. Lin didn't spoil her enough? She dared to focus on the family business and place my words? If I had known this, I wouldn't have brought her back."
The old lady shook her head and sighed.
Ma Ma comforted softly, "You are not so kind-hearted, so how could you watch your granddaughter wandering outside and not picking him up? She is also young and frivolous. You wake her up and then slowly adjust her in the future. You can cut a new look in less than a year or two."
"Training - Teaching? With her inferior character, I'll just teach for hundreds of years. This is a bad foundation, and I've obtained the true teachings of Lin. It's all my fault. I blamed me for not knowing people clearly back then. I came in so uncontrollable, and gave birth to a small star of the devastating family, which made my family feel uneasy." The old lady became more and more angry and waited for Lin to come in to take care of her.
Ma Ma was about to speak, and Wanqiu told outside the door, "Old lady, the lady and the second lady are here, saying that there is something urgent to come to you."
"Let them come in." The old lady waved her hand, her tone very impatient.
The two of them greeted each other slowly after entering the house.
"All right, if you have anything to do, just say it, don't salute me, I'm afraid of losing my life."
Before Lin could appeal, the old lady was furious and she was a little hesitant for a moment. Yu Miaoqi knew that she had no room for her to interrupt at this moment, so she picked up a stool and sat down, and then secretly pulled Lin's sleeve.
Lin quickly calmed down, sat down next to his daughter, and said, "Mother, let's wait until Yan'er and Yu Xiang arrive. This is a big deal, and I'm afraid that someone will say that I'm wronged her behind my back."
The old lady smiled angrily and asked, "Do you want to call Siyu together? This is a big deal, so I just told the whole family to listen."
"That's good." Lin's first felt a little guilty, but when he thought of the account books that had been hollowed out one big hole after another, he was a rare tough one.
The old lady waved her hand and asked Late Qiu to call people, then closed her eyes and twisted the Buddhist beads.
Ma Ma, who was standing by the door, looked at the mother and daughter with a pity and mocking look, then lowered her head and narrowed her presence. Even the marquis called him, and it was not like this to seek death. She lived in seclusion for fourteen years and wiped out all her shrewdness and ability, leaving only her head full of mud.
The quiet needles in the hall can be heard, and the air is surrounded by the light and elegant Buddha fragrance. It should have been refreshing, but it makes people feel a little depressed for no reason. Yu Miaoqi rubbed her chest, and a subtle but unneglected sense of uneasiness arose in her heart.
He clearly agreed to take his time and gain a foothold in the Hou Mansion, but he took away the power of the family the next day and then competed with Yu Xiang. Will the action be too big? This eating behavior is probably ugly in the eyes of others?
She felt a little furious, and then she realized that she was blinded by jealousy and made the wrong pawn. She should have been slower, at least after winning over the old lady and Yu Pinyan. However, when they came, they could only make the mistakes to the end. So Yu Xiang's mistake was even greater, and the old lady and Yu Pinyan knew that they would never be indulged.
Even if Lin's dowry can be taken, the middle gift must have embezzled a lot. If I thought of this, I should have read all the middle gift accounts and then brought them together.
The more Yu Miaoqi thought about it, the more mistakes he missed, and her rosy face gradually began to turn white. She couldn't help pinching the purse on her waist.
The sound of tearing and pulling caused the old lady to open her eyes and look at it, raised her eyebrows and said, "You finally put this peace talisman out?"
"I should naturally carry the things my grandmother gave me. I was so reluctant to let go of them before. How could I know that this was worn out? How could my grandmother not ask me for a new one? My grandmother's love for her is not afraid or forget."
These words were so sweet that they could drip honey. The old lady's face was not at all happy, and she looked at her with a gloomy, depressing, and creepy look.
Yu Miaoqi lowered her head like an electric shock, and her heartbeat suddenly became as fast as thunder. She vaguely realized that she had said the wrong thing, but after thinking about it, she couldn't find out what was going on. Did the old lady know that I had burned the peace talisman, so she tried it several times?
This idea suddenly emerged and caused her breathing to stop. In this way, it would be very difficult to win over the old lady in the future! In her mind, she might have been a two-faced and hypocritical character! Wrong and wrong, why is every step wrong? Is this step wrong again?
After thinking a few times in my heart, Yu Miaoqi seemed to be sitting on a nail board, wishing she could fly away.
Just then, Yu Xiang was pushed into the door by two maids and greeted the people at a glance.
Lin snorted coldly, his eyes tugging at her like a sharp blade. The old lady patted the soft couch beside her and called out, "Xiang'er comes here to sit with her ancestors."
The two girls carried her onto the soft couch and tidied up the hem of the skirt.
Yu Xiang leaned on the kang table, turned the small kang screen with one hand and held his cheek with the other, and asked lazily, "Oncestor, what big thing happened at home? I was about to take a nap, but my eyes couldn't open now."
She blinked the cat's eyes clearly distinguished in black and white, and a few strands of water vapor stuck to the thick eyelashes, looking both innocent and cute. The old lady rubbed her head and said, "Let's talk about it when your brother and sister come. Your mother has a big announcement."
The old lady's tone seemed calm, but in fact there was a gloomy chill, which made Lin and Yu Miaoqi move uneasy.
Yu Xiang nodded and moved a plate of peanuts on the kang table to him. He peeled the krakela. He didn't eat it after peeling it. He just poked up his red lips and blew off the red clothes on the inner layer, leaving the round peanuts behind.
In the quiet hall, only the crisp sound of peanut shells shattered, and even the vermilion-red coated coats fell to the ground, as if a little snow was falling. The cold and solemn atmosphere quietly dissipated in the crisp sounds.
The old lady looked at her granddaughter who was working heartlessly. Her strict face was slightly gentle. When she saw her put all the peanuts she had worked so hard to peel into her hands, she advised herself to eat them quickly. She immediately smiled and pinched her cheeks lovingly. Although Yu Miaoqi is the biological granddaughter, she is not as good as she raised her own hands, and she is finally separated from each other's feelings.
At this moment, Yu Miaoqi finally realized that it was impossible for her to cross Yu Xiang to please the old lady. She had a chance on the day she came back, but she burned the old lady's peace talisman and burned the gentle image she had worked hard to create beyond recognition.
The blame is that the situation in the Marquis' Mansion was not cleared. Lin's mistress was not the one in charge, but instead had an awkward position. Except for Madam Jin, the rest of her yard were afraid that they would become the eyeliner of the old lady and Yu Xiang.
But my husband died, and it turned out to be like the sky collapsed. It was so useless!
The more Yu Miaoqi thought about it, the more hated her, and she hated Lin as well.
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Madam Jin was ordered to invite the Marquis. She was standing trembling at the door of the study room. As soon as she opened her mouth, she was frozen by the Marquis's cold eyes. She quickly lowered her head and saw a glimpse of the portraits in the room from the corner of her eyes, and her heart trembled violently.
She is very familiar with the people in the painting. They are all Yu Xiang's extremely bright face, from ten to fourteen years old, crying, laughing, joyful and sad, sitting and lying down, and all kinds of expressions and postures. They are vivid and vivid, and there is a strong feeling of attachment flowing out from the strokes, even those who do not know how to appreciate them cannot ignore them.
Madam Jin thought that her master was trying to deal with Yu Xiang today, so she asked the Marquis to go to the verdict, but she was afraid that she would not be able to do it. Not only could she not do it, she would have to have a gap with the Marquis. The mother and son were not close, and they might develop to the point of confrontation in the future.
Thinking of this, she became more and more regretful, but the master had to follow him and had to grit his teeth and continue waiting.
Yu Pinyan stood behind the desk, spreading an unfinished portrait in front of him. His pair of wonderful eyes had already revealed a divine light as he repeatedly illuminated it, but the only little cherry lips remained uncolored.
He diluted the cinnabar and dipped it on the paper next to him to test the color. He felt that it was too bright and diluted it a little bit. He repeatedly tried the color, and then he dared to gently dye the cinnabar with the thickness and light on the small mouth of the cherry. In reality, he rubbed his little mouth with his fingertips countless times, and when he came to the painting, he couldn't take his eyes away.
He looked at it for a while, and waited until the paint on the tip of the pen was about to dry out before looking at Madam Jin and asked, "What's the matter?"
Madam Jin shook and whispered, "Go back to the Marquis, Madam asks you to go to the main courtyard, saying that there is something important to discuss."
"Don't go." Yu Pinyan refused very simply, and said as he immersed the pen in the brush and stirred it.
Madam Jin took a deep breath and continued, "Go back to the Marquis, it's about Miss Three, please be sure..."
Before she could finish her words, the handsome young man had already thrown his pen and walked with his hands behind his back. When he passed by her, he glanced faintly. The deep eyes, which seemed to have tempered countless light years, had no trace of popularity, and only the coldness that was about to come.
Madam Jin really regretted it, shrank her head and followed him in fear. Seeing that the main courtyard was about to arrive, she felt a lot of timidity.
Chapter completed!