Huo Xi didn't care about the rumors in the capital, but Zhang Fu and Mu Yan did.
With thunderous means, he taught a group of gossips a lesson.
The rumors in the market gradually disappeared.
However, Huo Xi returned to the family for many days and did not receive a single message. She knew that she still had a long way to go to integrate into the circle of noble ladies in the capital.
But I didn't pay much attention to it.
But Mrs. Wang was very concerned and ordered Huo Xi to be grounded.
Huo Xi smiled. She walked to the Taifu's wife's courtyard. She heard that Zhang Fu was inside, so she walked straight in without waiting.
In the small flower hall, mother and son were arguing fiercely about something.
"Mother, my daughter has done nothing wrong. If you stop her, she will be wrong even if she is right."
"Is she right?"
"What's wrong with her?"
"Whether it's wrong or right, I just returned home. Wouldn't it be better to stay in the house for a few more days? Why bother to go back home when all I want to do is run out? Just stay outside!"
"Why should I stay outside? My surname is Huo, and my surname is Zhang. I have the blood of Zhang on my body. If possible, I would rather have the surname Huo, Li, or whatever."
Huo Xi walked in and looked at Mrs. Tai.
She thought she had made it clear enough in the past two days, but she didn't expect that the Madam didn't reflect on it and would restrain her this time.
The madam was very angry that she came again without being summoned.
I feel more and more that she doesn't know etiquette and I don't like her.
"Don't frown all the time. People who make mistakes in the British government are left alone, but I, a blameless person, should be grounded. There is no such reason."
Huo Xi said and sat down.
Looking at Mrs. Tai, "I heard that you gave my mother's dowry back then to the Wu family."
Huo Xi smiled and said, "I didn't know that a concubine dared to covet the mistress's dowry. She must have made a lot of supplements to the Wu family over the years. And the letters, money and things that the British father-in-law sent to my grandfather, I
My grandpa didn’t receive anything. I don’t know whose fault it is.”
"What?" Zhang Fu was surprised.
"Wu is in charge of Rou'er's dowry?" Zhang Fu looked at Huo Xi and then at the Dowager Madam.
Mrs. Huo Xi suddenly mentioned Li's dowry and felt a little guilty.
She saw her son looking at her with a dissatisfied expression: "Otherwise, you want me, an old woman, to take care of her dowry? I would like to return it to her Li family, but is there anyone from her Li family?"
"Why is the Li family gone alone? My maternal grandfather's family is all well. Although my maternal grandfather's family does not care about money and goods from the British government, you gave things that originally belonged to my mother to a concubine. Last time
The Wu family raised money, and my mother's silk and satin shop would have been sold by her long ago if the deed paper hadn't been in Wu's hands."
"She doesn't dare. The deed is not on her either."
"She doesn't have the deed paper. I wonder how much she has earned over the years by taking care of my mother's business. Does she have an account book? Now that my brother is back, my two siblings can't use the Huo family's money."
The madam was very angry. Is this what an unmarried daughter can say?
The house is short of food and drink for her? Now she reaches out to her elders to ask for money?
"How unbecoming of a daughter of yours!"
"Why is it so inappropriate? Aren't my mother's things left to us siblings? The Madam helped manage them, and it was really hard. Now that my siblings have returned home, I wonder if they can return them and leave them to my siblings.
Two people to take care of it?”
Zhang Fu was very ashamed. He usually didn't care much about the household affairs. This was the first time he heard that Rou'er's dowry had been handed over to Wu by his mother.
She said to Huo Xi: "Yes, your mother's dowry will naturally be given to your siblings. The dowry list your mother brought in back then is still kept by your father. Once he sorts it out, it will be handed over to you."
The madam was very angry after hearing this: "If the government hadn't helped take care of it, how would your mother's dowry still be?"
"Why not? My mother's shop was managed by decent people in those days. But in recent years, none of those people have disappeared. What is the reason for this, Mrs. Madam, don't you know?"
The corners of his mouth were sarcastic: "Many people know how the Wu family entered the palace back then. I'm afraid she didn't have more than ten taels of silver. But a few days ago, she took a hundred thousand taels of private property to marry Zhang Biyao. I'm afraid it's...
I made a lot of money.”
Both mother and son were shocked. Mrs. Wu gave Baguio a private house worth 100,000 taels in dowry?
The father-in-law gave 50,000 taels to accompany him, Wen Bi gave 50,000 taels, and the Wu family gave 100,000 taels? How could she have so many private houses?
The lady was stunned for a moment.
Zhang Fu came to his senses: "Father asked the accountant to calculate the accounts over the years and hand them over to you. Don't worry, Nannan. Those are your mother's things and should have been left to your siblings."
Huo Xi nodded and left.
The madam is afraid that she won't be grounded.
Even if she is grounded, no one will listen to her.
In the small hall, the madam looked at Huo Xi's back and frowned.
"Look at her, I'm still thinking of keeping her for a year or two and choosing a high-class family for her, but look at her temperament, she doesn't take any losses, and she doesn't care about the rules and etiquette.
Will Gao Men want her?"
The lady stroked her forehead.
"It's better to go to Gongyuan and see if there are any students from poor families, who are better educated and whose family background is simpler. People are afraid of our family's power and don't dare to show her face."
Zhang Fu just pretended not to hear: "Mom, I have my own ideas about my daughter's marriage. Now I have to sort out Rou'er's dowry. This is to let outsiders know that Wu is taking care of Rou'er's dowry. I don't know what to say yet.
"
"What are you talking about? How do outsiders know? If they knew, it wasn't your good daughter who leaked it!"
"Mother! My daughter is not the only one who knows!"
The mother actually handed over Rou'er's dowry to Mrs. Wu. No wonder Nannan looked disappointed.
I'm afraid he is also disappointed with his father. And his father-in-law...
All these years, he did not check or ask questions, and was deceived by his servants. I still don’t know how his father-in-law complained about him, and I don’t know if Zhang Liang has seen his father-in-law.
Zhang Fu acted quickly. He took Li's dowry list and asked several accountants in the mansion to sort out the accounts of several shops and Zhuangzi overnight.
Mrs. Wu also didn't expect that Li Xinrou's flesh and blood was still alive and had returned to her home. Although the accounts had been tampered with, they were not exaggerated. She had been greedy a lot, but none of the money that should have been sent to the public school was missing.
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Zhang Fu personally delivered the things to her.
Huo Xi took Huo Nian aside, and Zhang Fu opened the box and explained it to the two siblings one by one.
"This is your mother's dowry list. Back then, your grandfather gave a dowry to two villages in the suburbs of Beijing, three shops in the city, and 5,000 taels of silver. The dowry items were all gone, so they were reduced to 10,000 taels of silver for your father.
Here it is to you, and the monthly silver quota of your sister and brother for the past ten years will also be given to you."
Several banknotes, totaling 20,000 taels, deeds to two Zhuangzi and three shops.
Zhang Fu took out another stack of silver notes from the box.
"These one hundred thousand taels were given to you by my father and my father-in-law as the profits of Zhuangzi's shop over the years. My father will give each of you a Zhuangzi as your private property."
Huo Xi looked at the things spread out on the table, his eyes flashing.
Huo Nian looked at her and then at Zhang Fu, but did not dare to move.
Huo Xi also didn't expect that not only did he take back these things, but he also provided them with more supplies, including ten years of monthly silver and quotas.
Now that my mother is gone, even if the people from the shop and Zhuangzi stay, I'm afraid the people's hearts will be dispersed, and it doesn't matter whether they can make money. Now he provides them with so much.
"My father is sorry for you and didn't keep the things your mother left for you. Your mother still has a few things that she will give to you as a father in the future."
That was the only thing Rou'er had left in the world, and Zhang Fu couldn't bear to part with it.
Huo Xi glanced at him and said, "You can keep it. It would be good if you could think of my mother occasionally."
Zhang Fu's throat suddenly choked, and he couldn't speak, so he could only nod his head.
Watching Huo Xi put all these things into the box, she glanced at Huo Nian and calmed down: "Nian'er is still young. Let your sister help you collect these things first. In the future, each of your siblings will take half of them."
"I don't want it," Huo Xi replied, "I'll leave these things to Nian'er."
"I don't want it either."
Huo Xi glared at him.
"Then my sister and I are half together."
"Sister, I don't need these. I will take care of these Zhuangzi shops for you first. I will have people take this money to Peiping to help you buy some properties there."
"Buying property in Peiping?" Zhang Fu was stunned.
Huo Xi looked at him and said, "The emperor intends to move the capital, don't you know that?"
"My father knows." But...can we really move? When can we move? And go to the north to buy property?
Suddenly I remembered Huo Xi whom I met at the gate of Peking City a few years ago...
"That year, when my father led troops to Mobei, I saw you at the city gate. Did you also go north to buy property?" Zhang Fu was shocked. Did his daughter want to go so far?
Huo Xi didn't answer and just put the box away.
Zhang Fu explained a few words, said a few personal words to his two children, and then left.
After Zhang Fu left, Huo Nian insisted that Huo Xi keep these things.
Unable to make trouble for him, Huo Xi said: "Okay, wait until my sister goes out, and then we will figure it out. Now these sisters will take care of it for you."
"Okay, sister will take care of it."
In front of him, Huo Xi called Dou Huaien over again.
After her observation these days, Dou Huai'en has the ability to serve as a general manager for Nian'er.
Huo Xi gave him 120,000 taels of silver and asked him to go north on Guangfengshui's boat to buy property for Nian'er in Peiping. He also told him some things.
Dou Huai'en also didn't expect that the young master and the young lady would all of a sudden entrust him with such an important matter and such a large sum of money.
To be valued by his master, Dou Huaien patted his chest excitedly: "Don't worry, young master, I will handle this matter well!"
When Zhang Fu returned to his courtyard, he also told Zhang Jin about the matter.
The two masters and servants were very moved: "I heard that the eldest lady founded Guangfeng Water at the age of seven. My subordinates checked and found that there are Guangfeng Water shops along the canal. Now Guangfeng Water runs to the East every year, and there are still
Traveling to the West and Southeast Asia in partnership with others... I didn't expect that the eldest daughter of our family is actually very proficient in general affairs."
Zhang Fu shook his head and laughed: "I don't know who this child is following. Her mother and I don't care much about household affairs."
After saying this, he felt a little sad. If his daughter had grown up well in the house, why would he bother to engage in such business affairs?
Sighing: "I'll cover this up for you."
"Yes." Zhang Jin nodded in agreement, "Master, should we also go north to buy some property?"
Zhang Fu thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. You can use some money to send tight-lipped people to handle this matter. Buy more Zhuangzi shops for Nannan and Nian'er."
"yes."
As for the Mu Mansion, Mrs. Geng also heard rumors about Huo Xi, and that's all. It was also said that the eldest young master of their house was related to her?
Mrs. Geng immediately summoned Mu Yan to ask about the matter.