Although the lock on the door was hung intact, it had been damaged.
Chu Nanzhi took off the door lock, rushed into the cabin first, and looked for the box where she kept her jewelry. As she expected, several pieces of silver jewelry were taken away by Chen.
She remembered that the three pieces of jewelry were part of the original owner's dowry. Although they were not as valuable as gold or jade jewelry, they were extremely exquisite in workmanship. They were the most beloved things of the original owner. In the past two years, the original owner had emptied all the items except for those few pieces.
Always treasured.
However, Chu Nanzhi didn't like it, so she just kept it in the box after the four treasures were returned to her.
Just as he was about to go back to the room inside to check the situation, he just took a step forward when he heard Liu Yun's shouting and cursing voice hysterically ringing throughout the room:
"Damn old Mrs. Chen is so heartless, she takes everything. She hasn't eaten in her entire life."
Chu Nanzhi heard the sound and rushed over. When she got to the kitchen, she saw a mess everywhere.
She took a closer look and found that the dozens of kilograms of uneaten rice, noodles, and most of the barrel of sesame oil stored on the chopping board were missing. Then she looked at the vegetable rack she built, and the two pieces of marinated bacon were nowhere to be seen.
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This is really annoying.
Liu Yun put her hands on her hips, no longer caring about her dignity, and began to vent viciously in front of the neighbors outside the yard: "This damn old woman, my daughter is not dead yet, she came to the house to kill everyone, even salt.
The jars have all been moved away."
She didn't know that Chu Nanzhi had also saved rice noodles and cured bacon, but the salt shaker was a very valuable item. It was a blue and white ceramic that was fashionable in this era.
Just because it was the first time to marry a daughter, the couple were very generous. They were also worried that their daughter would marry into her husband's family and not know how to survive. Sooner or later, they would spend all the dowry, so they deliberately spent time on this inconspicuous dowry without telling their daughters.
It took some thought.
Chu Nanzhi didn't know why, but she was a little curious when she saw Liu Yun so distressed by a salt shaker.
When she was cooking every day, she only thought that the jar looked good-looking, but she didn't notice anything that was different. Any object from these days would be called an antique in her own time, but if she had to tell it apart
Naturally, they are very similar.
The jewelry worth twenty or thirty taels of silver was gone. How could she care about a salt shaker? She stared at Liu Yun in confusion and asked carelessly: "Why does mother care about a salt shaker? It's not a precious thing?"
"Where is my silly daughter?"
Liu Yun glanced at her angrily and whispered, "That's the dowry I'm giving you at the bottom of the box."
"The dowry at the bottom of the box?"
Chu Nanzhi was stunned when she heard this. This mother was so incomprehensible that she actually used a salt shaker as the dowry at the bottom of the box.
Liu Yun replied with a bitter face: "When you got married, it happened that Mr. Jiang Wenli, the master of pottery in the county, was promoted to the royal pottery manufacturing officer. I specially asked your uncle to beg for help and spent a hundred taels of silver to let him make it.
I bought this piece of porcelain because I was afraid that you would fail, so I kept it for you to use in the future."
"One hundred taels of silver?"
Chu Nanzhi looked shocked, she couldn't believe that such an inconspicuous thing could be worth a hundred taels of silver.
Liu Yun's frown deepened: "Mr. Jiang is famous all over the world now, but the jar is still a matter of one hundred taels of silver. No matter what, I have to go and recover the jar."
After saying that, she ran out angrily, and Chu Nanzhi also chased after her.
When they arrived at the courtyard, they saw three carriages parked in front of the courtyard gate. The one who came down at the head was none other than Liu Shuyang, the son-in-law of the younger brother-in-law. Following him was a middle-aged man who was surrounded by three elders.
An old man and a few younger men.
Chu Nanzhi didn't have a deep impression of these people, but when she saw Liu Shuyang's figure, she immediately guessed that they were the patriarch and elders of the Lin family.
In my impression, most of the Lin family members live in the county town, and they are all people who follow the influence of others. They have rarely interacted with this family since the death of Lin's father.
However, it is related to the honor and disgrace of the Lin family. No matter how snobbish these old people are, they will never stand by and watch what the Chen family does.
At this point, Chu Nanzhi still believed in Lin Jinxiao's judgment from the bottom of his heart.
When several old men saw Liu Yun walking in a hurry as if she was about to go out, they immediately stopped the mother and daughter. The middle-aged man at the head saluted and asked with a smile: "Sister, what are you going to do?
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Several major events that have caused a stir in the county recently were all caused by her daughter. Several old people had heard about it, and when they saw this humble woman with little knowledge, they felt a little more rare respect than before.
"do what?"
Liu Yun had a sullen face: "Clan Chief Lin, fellow clan elders, you should ask your good daughter-in-law of the Lin family."
Several old men looked at each other in disbelief and glanced at Liu Shuyang, who was standing aside, and roughly had some idea in their minds.
Patriarch Lin still greeted him with a smile and asked in a personal voice: "What items have been lost at home, are they still valuable?"
Liu Yun stroked her chest angrily and signaled to Chu Nan Zhi: "Da Zhi, please tell your uncles what things have been lost."
"Others are fine. They are just grains, oils, rice and noodles in the kitchen, and jars of salt. They are not worth much money. There are three pieces of jewelry that came from the family as dowries. They are also beloved things of the slave family and must not be lost.
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Chu Nan Zhiyun replied lightly, and Liu Yun became even more angry after hearing this. She felt that her daughter could not understand the point at all, and she puffed her cheeks and was about to refute, but Chu Nan Zhi quickly blocked her.
He went back and said: "Mom, the house is very messy. Please accompany me to clean it up so that my uncles and uncles can rest in the hall."
Now all the valuable items in the house are in Chen's hands. Anyone with eyes can understand the value of silver jewelry, but the salt shaker is different.
The original owner didn't even know that it was a valuable object. I think Chen just walked away with it because it looked good. If she knew that the salt shaker was worth so much money, she would have used some tricks to hide it, and she would have died.
If she admits the crime, not only will she not be able to be held accountable, but she will also have to pay for the dowry that is at the bottom of the box.
So for the time being, nothing can be done to let everyone know the true value of the salt shaker.
Liu Yun couldn't understand what her daughter was thinking, but looking at her meaningful eyes she didn't dare to say anything more, and fell into a depressed silence.
After hearing what Chu Nanzhi said, the Lin family members became furious on the spot. Chief Lin clenched his fists and gritted his teeth with hatred. He couldn't help but cursed: "It's so embarrassing. It's just discrediting the dead Ting Shu and embarrassing me, the Lin family.
"
As he spoke, he looked at Liu Yun and his daughter with gentle eyes, and patiently comforted him: "Old sister, Nan Zhi, don't be angry. You can rest assured. This is why I and several elders from the clan came here today.
, I will definitely give your family a satisfactory explanation."
Then, his eyes turned sharply and deeply, he glanced at the young men behind him, and shouted solemnly: "Go and kidnap the Chen family to me."
Seeing the young men running out of the yard in a hurry, Chu Nanzhi also quickly called the young son-in-law over and whispered to him: "Shu Yang, you should go with me, nothing else is important, definitely."
Give me back the three pieces of jewelry that Chen took away, but don't let her hide them."
After saying this, she pretended not to care and added: "Oh, and the salt shaker. If Mrs. Chen didn't break it, try to bring it back to my sister safely. I've been using it for many years and I'm used to it."
I would be really reluctant to lose it all of a sudden."