C19

After Senior Servant Liu gave a warning, Jun Peiyun said, "This is nothing. My father did leave some family property for me, but since I was still young when my father passed away, I had no choice but to live together with my husband and aunt. That money was slowly being spent."

After the original owner's uncle found out that Jun Peiyun had so much money, he planned to cheat Jun Peiyun of all her money and use it to do business. The result was that she would never return, so Jun Peiyun naturally had no money left.

Jiang Xiang Xue was so embarrassed that she didn't say anything. Everyone with brains could understand the meaning behind Jun Peiyun's words.

From this, Jun Peiyun finally knew why the Jiang sisters had come. They were here to get a better understanding of her background.

At this moment, Jiang Yanxue said, "This is nothing. The Ning family has compensated eldest sister-in-law with ten thousand taels of silver. We won't have to worry about the future anymore."

Although they were the young ladies of the Jiang family, they didn't have 10,000 taels of silver. With this amount of silver, Jun Peiyun could be considered as a dowry, but they were only concubines. In the future, they would definitely not have a dowry worth 10,000 taels of silver.

"This is the Ning family's compensation. To be honest, I'm not exactly someone without a dowry." Jun Peiyun responded vaguely.

The two exchanged a few words, then left.

Jun Peiyun escorted them to the entrance of the courtyard. The sun was really high. It was only the entrance to the courtyard. Perhaps it was already noon.

When they got back to the house, Qingmei said, "Young Madam, they are taking care of too many things."

Jun Peiyun frowned and said, "Qingmei, they are the masters of the mansion, you can't say that."

Qing Mei lowered her head. "Qing Mei knows her mistake."

Senior Servant Liu added appropriately, "Young Madam is right. Qingmei, you should speak less cautiously from now on."

Qing Mei started to feel even more inferior when she heard Jun Peiyun praise Cai Die like this. She started to suspect that her young miss had already started to despise her, but she didn't dare to ask.

When Jiang Xiangxue returned to Aunt Xiang's courtyard, she hurriedly asked, "How was it, how was that Jun Peiyun?"

After drinking a few mouthfuls of green bean soup, the servant girl fanned her body for a long time before saying: "Aunt should have given up on this idea as soon as possible. That Jun Peiyun is not a simple person, how could she be able to rope her in? You don't know what I intentionally tricked her into saying, she didn't fall for it at all, what I should've said shouldn't have been said, she's an extremely intelligent person, but she really is the daughter of the Imperial Physician Jun, but she doesn't have any assets left in her family, only the Ning family's compensation for her ten thousand taels of silver taels is left."

Hearing this, Aunt Xiang still didn't want to give up. "Tell me, do you think the chances of us getting those ten thousand taels of silver are high?"

Yes, it was because Aunt Xiang saw that there was no one in Jun Peiyun's mother's house and had also entered the Jiang manor like this that she wanted to cheat Jun Peiyun of her ten thousand taels of silver.

Jiang Xiangxue didn't look optimistic, "Grandmother dotes on her like that. Although the First Wife doesn't look like much on the surface, that Bright Moon Pavilion has already given her such a good courtyard. There's also Senior Servant Liu, who was originally the First Wife's red woman. Now that she's by her side, how do we get her?"

This dispelled much of Aunt Xiang's motivation. "So according to your words, we have no chance at all?"

Jiang Xiangxue sighed, "I don't know why Grandmother dotes on her so much, but she's just a person of unknown origins. Normally, she wouldn't even be fit to carry my shoes, but today, I'll call her sister-in-law obediently, and even sell her a lot of smiles. It's still that Jiang Yanxue who's smart, plays dumb, and doesn't need to smile."

"Why are you comparing yourself to her? She and her concubine are the eldest madam's dogs. Do you dare to make a sound? I've already said not to take her, yet you don't believe me."

Wasn't it to make it less obvious?

He quickly changed his clothes, and as soon as he came out, he said to Aunt Xiang in a spoiled manner, "Aunt, did you manage to get that piece of cloth I told you about last time? It can't be that you were hiding it from your daughter, right?"

In the summer, wearing one was good. Ever since Jiang Xiangxue had looked at it, he had always thought of making two pieces of cloth for her to wear, and since then, he had never been afraid of the heat. Thus, he had always pestered Aunt Xiang to get them for him.

Aunt Xiang poked at Jiang Xiangxue's forehead in annoyance, "You have no conscience. If Aunt has any good stuff, I'll forget about you. I'll get that cloth for you, but it's only half a piece. It's enough for you to make a set of clothes."

Jiang Xiangxue was unwilling, "Why only half of them? I've already asked around. There are four in the mansion. Grandfather and Grandmother asked for two, and Jiang Mengxue asked for one. There should still be one more."

"Jiang Mengxue said that she wanted to make another set of clothes. Since you know about the eldest wife, you should hold onto her for now. Since your father has already ordered it, the eldest wife should first give half of it to Jiang Mengxue before sending it over." Aunt Xiang said.

Jiang Xiangxue said hatefully, "That Jiang Mengxue already took one, but he's still so greedy. He's really a b * stard."

The mother and daughter pair couldn't avoid having to talk for half a day about the eldest wife and daughter.

On the other side, Jiang Yanxue also told Aunt Liu about Jun Peiyun's situation. Aunt Liu reminded her, "Ye Xue, now that your grandfather and grandmother value Jun Peiyun, you absolutely cannot offend her. However, seeing how the First Wife is indifferent, you can take good care of yourself."

Jiang Yanxue responded, then asked: "Aunt, you said that Jiang Xiangxue dragged me to the Bright Moon Pavilion, and then said those words, just what is the meaning of it?"

Aunt Liu was making clothes for the master. "Who cares what her intentions are. It's fine as long as her mind isn't on us."

Jiang Yanxue sighed and stopped talking.

Aunt Liu saw that something wasn't right and put down the things in her hands. "What's wrong, what's the matter?"

Jiang Yanxue looked at Aunt Liu. "Aunt, they're both concubines, so why is it that Jiang Xiangxue's life is so good, that he's practically the same as a direct descendant, and yet I have to be so sullen?"

These words had probably been in Jiang Yanxue's mind for a long time, he had only asked this question today.

Aunt Liu's eyes widened as she sent all the servants in the room away. "What happened to you today? Why did you suddenly say such words?"

"Aunt, you don't know. Today, when eldest sister-in-law asked me, I didn't say anything, and I didn't know how to answer her question, so when Jiang Xiangxue entered the pavilion, he didn't hesitate to tell her a lot. As for me, because of this worry, I didn't dare to say anything, so I couldn't understand why I had to worry so much about Jiang Xiangxue not using her. "Why …"

She held Jiang Yanxue in her arms and said, "Auntie is useless, I didn't get the favor of your father. You must understand, Auntie Ye Xue is here to help me up, she can help me down at any time, Aunt Liu can't afford to take the risk, but Auntie Xiang is different. Your father took a liking to him, so he naturally has some confidence."

The first time when the first master saw Aunt Xiang and said he wanted her concubine, the first wife felt very uncomfortable, but had no choice but to accept it. However, after Aunt Xiang entered the mansion, the first master went to Aunt Xiang's courtyard every now and then.

After Jiang Yanxue cried for a while, she raised her head to look at Aunt Liu. She saw that Aunt Liu was even more upset than she was and felt very guilty. "Aunt, your daughter won't be like this in the future. Your daughter is being insensible and making you sad."

Aunt Liu dried her tears and shook her head. "Night Snow, Aunt promised you that in the future she will do her best to hold onto your father's heart and let you live a good life like that Jiang Xiangxue. Aunt has thought it through clearly, so it's not a big deal to just blindly hide.

Jiang Yanxue nodded. "Alright, your daughter believes in aunty."

Naturally, no one else in the palace knew of this love between mother and daughter.

For example, Jiang Lingyun. He put down his pen, passed a handkerchief over to wipe his sweat, and said: "Young master, the weather is so hot, why don't we move our practice time to the afternoon? Otherwise, you will always sweat a lot, and it's not a solution."

Jiang Lingyun wiped off his sweat and gave the handkerchief to Liu Xiaoyang, "No worries, I'm just practicing my mental state. Training in this hot afternoon is more effective."

As if recalling something, Jiang Lingyun asked, "Did Jun Peiyun come to find me today?"

"Young master, didn't you tell the young mistress yesterday that she can't come to the Flowing Cloud Pavilion without your permission?" Six-Point asked curiously.

Six heard this while waiting outside.

Jiang Lingyun finally remembered and nodded. "That's right, then did you find out what she was doing today?"

Six Horn told Jiang Lingyun everything he knew, "Young master, this Third Miss and Fourth Miss are so passionate about the young mistress, and they've even specially come to visit her. Could they have some other motive?"

Jiang Lingyun couldn't figure out why, so she said, "Keep watching."

"Yes." "Yes," Six-Pointed answered.

Jiang Lingyun thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid the day after tomorrow, even the two houses and three houses will have to see a joke from me."

Ning Jiatong wasn't willing to marry him, and now that the Ning Family had brought the dowry back with them, the people outside would laugh at the Jiang manor, and the people in the manor would laugh at him as well.

"Well, tell me what this has to do with the second and third rooms, but the second wife went to ask the wife if she would like a few people from the second room to help her. The wife is the head lady of the Jiang family, and she still can't find anyone, so it's clear that she's sincere in making the second wife uncomfortable."