Splendid Abandoned Wife

Chapter 234 Fighting
The wedding at the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion was naturally a major topic of conversation in Luo City. Every detail of the wedding ceremony was compared with the previous wedding: especially the most important item that everyone was most concerned about - the dowry.

Qiu Yiran, dressed in a red robe, was riding on a horse, and what she kept hearing in her ears were these words:
"The Xu family has suffered a lot. At least it has become an official family, and it is still the Hou family."

"Tch, what's this? There's not much dowry. Compared with Miss Yin's ten-mile red dowry last year, it's totally worthless."

"That's not what I said. Do you think the Qingyuan Hou family doesn't know how to think about it? Since they will marry a merchant's daughter to be the Marquis's wife, they will naturally have their own difficulties, right? These wealthy families all pay attention to being well-matched."

"Isn't that right? The title of Qingyuan Marquis Mansion has only been passed down to this generation. You don't even look at it. Now that their family's reputation is high, even if they can still hold the title, they should lose it themselves. Hush, I heard that Ah, the emperor and his elders are very dissatisfied with them."

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Qiu Yiran seemed not to hear anything and kept a relaxed and festive smile on his face, but the veins in his hand holding the reins were exposed.

In the big red sedan, the chatter became louder and louder. Even the bride in the wedding sedan could hear a lot of it between the sounds of gongs, drums and suonas. A pair of green and tender catkins were tightly clenched into fists.

After a while, the pink fists slowly loosened and rested naturally on his knees, as if nothing had happened.Under the bright red kerchief, there is a handsome face covered by heavy makeup, with no emotions or changes in expression.

Xu Yuanniang secretly took a deep breath, her slightly red eyes filled with determination.She didn't really yearn for this marriage. How could she not know that a man who had just entered the house and demoted his newly married wife to a concubine after something happened to her natal family was unreliable?How could he not know the purpose of what Qingyuan Houfu did?

As soon as she knew that her father intended to marry the Hou Mansion, she secretly sent people to learn about many situations in detail. The more she learned, the colder her heart became and the less hopeful she was about her future life.

But she also figured out that this marriage was just a deal. Each family had its own agenda, so who would consider whether she would be happy in the future?

Besides, her mother was right, marriage is just that, it can only be for one side.After marrying into a marquis's house, she will become the marquis's wife with a royal title. Her future children will be members of the official family, superior to others, and will have more and better opportunities than the children of businessmen.

She began to help her father handle business matters at the age of ten. She knew all about the difficulties and difficulties involved, the importance of official connections, and the gap between businessmen and officials.She is very confident in herself. With her ability and background in the Hou Mansion, she can make good use of various resources and advantages to make herself and her future children live a good life even if it is just a hollowed out Hou Mansion.

As for the ungrateful, ruthless nature and greed of the Qiu family, she was well aware of it. Of course, she, Xu Yuanniang, and the Xu family were not easy to bully.

The wedding team entered the Qingyuan Hou Mansion in a lively manner, and went to the wedding hall step by step and sent them to the bridal chamber... As soon as Xu Yuanniang entered the new house, Mrs. Qin next to Ji directed the people from the Xu family to carry the dowry: " Come on, come on, the warehouse is over here, carry it here, be careful."

The people who came with the Xu family were all reliable people carefully selected by Xu Yuanniang, and they had all been wary of the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion for a long time, especially about the dowry. How could they follow Granny Qin casually.

Xu Yuanniang's wet nurse, Mama Yang, looked at the direction Mrs. Qin was pointing and asked with a smile on her face: "Mother Qin, isn't that Madam's yard?" It was different from the direction Xu Yuanniang walked in just now.

"What?" Mrs. Qin reacted after being stunned, "Oh, oh, this is the direction of the warehouse. It can't be wrong. Just follow me."

Seeing that some guests had already heard the sound and looked over, Mrs. Qin suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and her expression and tone became impatient.She had already told her master that Mrs. Xu should not be fooled, and advised him to be calm, but the master refused to listen and insisted on attacking first. She also said that she would give Mrs. Xu a showdown when serving tea tomorrow.It's good now. Before Mrs. Xu came forward, the mother-in-law was already difficult to deal with.

Mother Yang didn't care about Mrs. Qin's face, and her modest and polite smile remained the same: "Madam's dowry must be placed in Madam's courtyard, right? Did Mother Qin make a mistake? Or...oh, there is no warehouse in Madam's courtyard? This is not possible. Trouble! The dowry is the wife’s private property, and it is placed in the public account’s large warehouse, so that people will know that it will be misunderstood.”

Mother Yang's voice was not very loud, but the curious people stretched their ears to listen, and then they whispered to each other, passing the word one to two, and the other to three.Ji and Qiu Yanran, who were chatting with the guests, heard the noise and turned around with frowns.

Qiu Yanran, who had a bright smile on her face just now, secretly cursed Mrs. Qin for being stupid and unable to handle even the smallest things.No matter how shrewd Mr. Xu is, isn't he not here at the moment?Why can't even a foreign woman handle it and make such a big fuss?Does the Xu family know where it is?Isn't it just a matter of coaxing?
Now everyone is paying attention. Naturally, they can no longer insist on having the dowry carried to the large warehouse, otherwise they will really trample on the last bit of dignity of the Hou Mansion under their feet.

Ji Shi obviously thought so too, and she put on a serious look on her face: "Mother Qin, what's going on? Although Songtao Courtyard is a little far away, but they are all in the same mansion, how far away can it be?"

Mrs. Qin was also smart and said quickly: "Yes, yes, it's my fault. I thought that they all came from a long way and were very tired from the journey. Why not stack the dowry in the big warehouse first and move it away after a few days when it is looser?" Go to Songtao Courtyard, anyway, it’s in the Marquis’ Mansion, you can’t lose it, it’s the old slave who makes the decision.” When she said this, she felt aggrieved that her good intentions were being treated as a donkey’s heart and lungs, but it seemed that the Xu family was too nervous about the dowry and too petty.

I don’t think so, but Mother Yang is not a vegetarian either: “Ah, yes, that’s it. I thought you were wrong, Mother Qin. It turns out you are kind-hearted and considerate of us people. Why don’t you say no? After all, we are It's easy to come by boat, it's not hard at all, how can you be so lazy? You also have to trouble the people in charge of the big warehouse, and it takes an hour to log in and out, just doing it."

Ji secretly curled her lips, this was to show off Xu's large dowry, ah, it was nothing compared to Yin Zhiruo's dowry last year!A business woman is a business woman, she is short-sighted and short-sighted!If it weren't for the current situation in the Hou Mansion, why would a businesswoman enter the Hou Mansion and become his wife?
When she thought that a business girl from the Xu family would become the second-grade imperial concubine, the Ji family, who was no longer destined to be imperial concubines in this life, gritted her teeth with hatred, because Mrs. Qiu, that dead old woman, now the Qiu family would fall into the hands of someone with a different surname.

(End of this chapter)