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Seeing that Master Zheng Zheng Mingrui's face changed, Old Madam Zheng's expression also changed, "You haven't really seen this child before, have you?"

Master Zheng lowered his head helplessly. Not to mention in Weir Prefecture's house, on the way back to the capital, Master Zheng did not even think of paying attention to this child. Instead, it was Qingyu and Qingyan who would occasionally run over to entertain him.

"That's true, how can you treat her well when she isn't your biological son? If you marry the young miss of everyone, based on her upbringing, she would still care about her relationship with you. No matter what, a child can eat and drink without worrying."

The boxes in the room were arranged in a straight line. Zheng Qingjiao had three boxes, Zheng Qingyan had two, and Zheng Qingluo only had one.

"Open the box!" The Old Mistress did not pay any more attention to Master Zheng. She waved his hand to get out of the way and looked at the box.

"Yes." Bai Mei pointed to the box, "Sorry for the trouble, please open the box."

Although these words were directed towards the old wives, it was actually directed towards the few maidservants at the back of the chests. All of them had the keys to their masters in their hands.

"Right away."

Mo Li was the first to stand up. He placed the box on top of the box, turned around, and took the key from his waist. He then handed it to the old woman in front of him.

"It's been hard on you, Mom."

Master Zheng frowned again. Just by looking at this girl, it was obvious that she knew how to behave. With such a girl, how could her master be wrong about her?

Was he really wrong? He raised his head to look at Madame Zheng who was standing in front of a chair. His heart jumped, why was his face so pale?

"It has been opened, madame."

Hearing his wife's voice, Master Zheng turned his gaze back and saw that there was only half a box of clothes on him. The material was even worse than the clothes Zheng Qingluo was wearing, to the point that it was already white from age.

Master Zheng's face also turned pale. He also thought that even if this girl didn't want to wear clothes in order to ruin his mother's reputation, he shouldn't have seen these old white clothes in the chests.

Even if it was a girl from the mansion, he had never seen anyone's clothes to this extent. Moreover, if the mansion made clothes according to the season, even if she did not wear them, it should still be in the box, but there was no new clothes in the box.

Old Mistress Zheng could not sit still any longer. She stood up and walked to the side of the box. She bent down and picked up a small coat that was neither old nor new. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably.

"You are a father, a father by blood. I have nothing else to say."

Madam Zheng walked closer to the Master Zheng and stuffed the jacket into his hands, but the thin jacket seemed to have scalded his hands. What a strong body this must be to live through the winter wearing this kind of coat?

The Master Zheng held the jacket in his hands, the veins on the back of his hands were exposed, but he did not say anything. In front of the servants, he could not lose face for the Zheng Mansion Mistress.

He could also excuse his mistress by saying that she was doing it to save money for the household. However, even Master Zheng himself could not believe that he could see what the two ladies were wearing normally.

After all, they often ate and drank tea together at the same table. That's right, QingJiao and Qingyan often sat at the same table with him. Why hadn't he ever thought of letting Qingluo accompany him?

That's right, Madam always said that Qingluo didn't want to see him and always made him angry. I've only listened to her, but he didn't see that Qingluo didn't say anything and even banned her from taking action. What have I done?

"Take a look. Look, this is also your daughter's box, and also your daughter's clothes." Old Madam Zheng's whimpering voice was heard.

Master Zheng held onto Qingluo's small jacket tightly and looked inside Zheng Qingjiao's and Zheng Qingyan's clothes box. The two boxes that were filled to the brim were extremely luxurious and dazzling.

Zheng Qingjiao had an extra box, which was the dowry that she was preparing. When the girl was fourteen, even if she did not set a date for her fiance's home, she would still have to start preparing the dowry.

If it was an extravagant dowry, there would be anything that could not be finished within two to three years. At this moment, Zheng Qingjiao's dowry box was almost full, and the clothes inside were naturally extremely gorgeous.

"I'm not trying to make Qing Jiao and Qing Yan wear poorly. They are also my grandson's daughters. Even if you don't agree with me, you shouldn't be so inferior. How can you be so blind?"

"Although Qingluo's mother left early, but she was still a legitimate wife that was betrothed to you, the main wife who was carried back in a palanquin. You actually treated her daughter so harshly for the sake of something that belonged to a girl."

"I have always been proud of my son. In my heart, my son is an honest and sincere man even if he is not a high official. I never thought that he was just a hypocritical gentleman."

Old Madam Zheng really couldn't continue to talk. Even the servant girl beside her couldn't bear to see Zheng Qingluo's clothes anymore. Even if they were servants, they had never worn such shabby clothes.

He secretly raised his eyes to look at Madame Zheng. So the Queen was like this, but there were more than one who had a Queen by their side, but this was his first time seeing one.

"Madame, you have to avenge our young mistress!"

Mo Li had fallen to his knees, raising the box high in his hand. Inside the opened box was a single silver hairpin. He looked at the top of Zheng Qingluo's head, but the ring was gone.

"Can't you see? Zheng Mingrui, can you not see it when you turn around and look at your daughter's head? "

Master Zheng Zheng Mingrui looked at Zheng Qingluo's neatly combed hair that didn't even have a ring on it. Then, he looked at his other two daughters' hair that had gold hairpins and silver rings on it and a head full of jade. This time, he couldn't even deceive himself.

"This is their dowry box, you …" Madam Zheng felt that she was too lazy to speak. Other than tears, there was nothing else to express her current feelings.

Although Master Zheng knew that Qingluo would be treated severely, he would never have thought that it would be to such an extent. Master Zheng also stared closely at the two boxes, which were filled with jewelry, and a lot of scattered silver and banknotes.

That's right, it was one thing to have no jewelry, after all, he had confined Qingluo in his yard, so she didn't go out, so it was quite acceptable to have no ring or hairpin. However, silver, there were monthly examples in the house, even the maids and grandpas had their monthly allowance, and Qingluo's silver.

"Where's the silver?" The Master Zheng pointed to the dowry box in Mo Li's hand and asked Mo Li. He expressed his last hope in his heart.

"Master, we, the Third Miss, have never seen a monthly allowance of silver. We are the same as well. If we have money, we can't just leave the Third Miss without any decent clothes."

"Our Third Miss has always worn other people's old clothes. When they come into Third Miss's hands, they would be old. Except for the time when we went to Vice Envoy Wang's house, Third Miss has never worn a new set of clothes."

"But even if we wore new clothes, they would still be too thin to protect us from the cold." But even if we wore new clothes, they would still be too thin to protect us from the cold.

"Lime!" Zheng Qingluo sternly stopped Mo Li from speaking any further. She no longer had any trace of her usual cowardly stupidity. She was at a loss of what to do.

"They were trapped in the yard like this, unable to leave. Every day's meal consisted of three meat dishes and one vegetable dish, stir-fried cabbage and rape, a bowl of chicken soup, only oil and no chicken, a dish of mixed vegetables, and a cucumber mixed with soy sauce …"

He could not go on. The box in his hand was shaking, and the silver hairpin was clanging in the box.

It was because Madam Zheng's wife, the Pang family, was present. Even though Madame Zheng was anxious, he didn't dare to speak up in defense.