Chapter 708 Division of Property
"You are so hard-hearted. It's been forty years, forty years! I thought I wouldn't see you until I was buried in the ground and turned into mud." The queen mother's former dignity was completely gone. It was snot and tears.
She didn't even take the handkerchief, and lay directly on Mrs. Wang's shoulder, letting it flow on her body.
Old lady Wang moved, but couldn't break free, a look of helplessness flashed in her eyes, she pushed the person away in the end, took out a handkerchief, and wiped her face clean.
I lost the dirty handkerchief, and took a new handkerchief to wipe my clothes.
"Sister Qin, my clothes are custom-made. They won't soak in the water, and if they get dirty, they will disappear." Mrs. Wang sighed.
"Isn't it just a set of clothes, when did I see you cherish them before?" The queen mother also sat up straight, and said casually, "What's more, when will you go into the water and wear the clothes a second time?"
"Today is different from the past. I only know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive. Let alone washing them once. I used to wear the same clothes for more than ten years. I washed them again and again, and the black ones became white..."
Knowing that Xiao Yaoguang was with him, he always said that on purpose, but the queen mother still felt very uncomfortable when she heard it.
"You are doing it on your own. You had a good life in the past, but you have to live a hard life with someone. Isn't that man a master of jade carving? After all, he deals with jade. How can you be so downcast!" the queen mother said, wanting to The bracelet on his wrist fell off, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong, so he simply called the accompanying maid to come in.
The maid came in to salute: "The Empress Dowager."
"You find the key to the warehouse."
The maid quickly took out the key, and the queen mother took it without looking at it, and threw it directly into the arms of Mrs. Wang. When she was stable, she held her hand and looked at it: "Go, I have left you a lot of good things these years, that is, the dowry I prepared for you before, and it was left there untouched. I didn't let anyone touch it, you go and see if you still need it now."
Amidst the dumbfounded expression of the maid, Mrs. Wang was directly dragged to the warehouse by the Queen Mother.
The empress dowager's private warehouse is huge, with a large hall outside and a three-story basement inside, full of all kinds of things.
When Mrs. Wang was the owner of Yongchang County, she also went to the Queen Mother's warehouse. At that time, the Queen Mother was still a queen, and the warehouse was not much smaller than the current one.
She is the direct daughter of the Zhenger Bajing Jiangnan Qin family, and the late emperor she married was also from the Jiangnan Qin family. But speaking of it, although the two have the same surname, they have already married five times, so they can make a couple.
It's just the money of the first emperor, after all, it is not as good as the Queen Qin at that time, and the Queen Mother Qin today.
The dowry of the first daughter of the Qin family, regardless of the outside, just look at the dowry in this storeroom, it can be regarded as rich as an enemy!
"Don't look at the things on the second floor, but everything you can see is reserved for you. Most of the third floor is the dowry left for you. When you were a girl, you might use it Now, I'm afraid I don't look down on those now." The queen mother said casually.
She really has no desire for money. After Dachang recovers, her son and daughter-in-law will not need her to work hard.
Few of the female relatives of the princes and dignitaries have a high regard for her. The rewards on weekdays are all scraps of gold and silver, and none of them can enter her treasury.
The Qin family in the south of the Yangtze River has no big opinion on her. Although the parents above have passed away, the brothers, sister-in-law and brothers are still there. Every few months, they will send her a batch of good things, for fear that she will be treated harshly.
As time went by, her things grew more and more, so much that there was nowhere to put them.
Old Mrs. Wang said: "It's not that I don't need it. Don't I still have a granddaughter? She was also raised by me. If you leave it to me, you might as well leave it to her in the future."
"Are you talking about that little girl? I checked her, and speaking of it, she is not your direct granddaughter. You are not afraid of other children's opinions when you treat her like this?"
"When did you meet me for fear of other people's opinions?"
After Mrs. Wang finished speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled. The Queen Mother pointed to her forehead and said "you".
After a while, the Empress Dowager said again: "To be honest, there is still a generation gap between the two of us. If we want to talk about the little girl's dowry, of course other people have to come forward. Daughter, I have a close relationship with my natal family, and I have a lot of money, when the time comes, let her pay more for the dowry."
"Also, when you were going to get married, all the princes prepared a lot of things, but when you were inattentive, they disappeared, and those things haven't been received yet, so I'm afraid they are all dusty, so they have to prepare them again. "
"That girl's title is still too low. The things she did, especially the settlement of the border crisis before, if it was placed in the current dynasty, even the marquis who was reduced to a noble can be hereditary for three generations. Only give it to a township monarch, or Xiaojiazi is a little angry. When she gets her title, the rewards she can give cannot be lowered."
Mrs. Wang: "Unsurprisingly, her mother's family should belong to the royal family of the Xifeng Kingdom, and their status cannot be lowered. A few years ago, people from the Xifeng Kingdom came to the country. They must have wanted to take them away. The old man Wang and I stopped her." gone."
"That's not possible. I like this girl very much! No wonder she was so kind at the first sight when I saw her. You raised Xiao Yaoguang, and she has your breath on her body. I wondered that Xifeng Kingdom didn't have frequent visits in previous years. Calling on you, this year the missions have come twice, and they have mentioned something about the academy intentionally or unintentionally, they are afraid that they are not interested in drinking."
"Let the emperor find a way later. It doesn't matter if your grandson is abducted. Don't take the girl away. I'm getting old, and I'm afraid I won't be able to meet him if I go away. It's rare to have a girl I like so much." The Queen Mother thought for a while, and then said, "No, we still have to fix the money of each family first, and it must not be lowered."
"Our family, Ayu, has great ambitions. She wants to build a women's academy. All the affairs have been taken care of for her, but the cost is not small. Anyway, she is doing things for the people, and she is also doing things for the women of the world. She can't let her pay for it herself. Sister Qin ,Am I right?"
"It makes sense. In fact, the princes and nobles of each family do not necessarily have much money in their hands. Their money is held in the hands of the women behind them. I also know that there are a few families that are making a lot of noise in the south of the Yangtze River, causing the Qin family to come. Send a letter to remind them, it is also time to make them feel hurt, so that they can learn to shrink their tails and be human."
"I do have a list here, and it's not detailed, it's just the name of the steamed stuffed bun shop, some randomly collected..."
The two sat in the warehouse like this, and began to liquidate the property of each household one by one.
That night, many people had inexplicable insomnia, and they all began to shiver and sneeze constantly.
Someone shook his shoulders and said, "It's getting cold."
(end of this chapter)