After Rebirth, I Became the Treacherous Minister Black Moonlight

Chapter 15 Getting the dowry back

"That's right!" The second lady couldn't stand the old lady's behavior of subsidizing her mother's family.

The old lady frowned and said to Meng Qianqian: "It's more important to save people, take it out first."

Meng Qianqian sighed: "It's not that my granddaughter-in-law doesn't want to pay for this money, it's really that she only has ten thousand taels left in her hand."

Mrs. Zhao was surprised and said: "You...you have so much dowry money...only ten thousand taels left? How did you, the Lu family, spend it!"

Meng Qianqian sighed again: "I don't know. In the past few years, I just paid the bills. It was my grandmother who decided how to spend it."

Fortunately, the old lady didn't trust her, and all the stewards in the house were the old lady's confidants, otherwise she would have been unable to explain clearly.

The old lady's face suddenly looked a little embarrassed. She cleared her throat: "Let's not talk about it for now. Take out the ten thousand taels and let your great-aunt respond to the emergency."

Meng Qianqian smiled: "It's okay for emergencies, but we must agree first that I will lend this money to the Zhao family, with interest and capital, and the money will be written as proof."

The old lady was not happy when she heard this: "Why do you want to establish this? Can you rely on your money?"

Mrs. Zhao said: "Yes, Qianqian, you are out of sight like this!"

Meng Qianqian ignored the two of them singing and turned to look at the second lady: "What do you think, second aunt?"

The second lady knows very well the virtues of the Zhao family: "Write an IOU! Create a written receipt! Otherwise, don't borrow the money! Sister-in-law, do you think so?"

Mother Lu nodded: "My brother has settled the score, so let's write an IOU."

Meng Qianqian looked at the old lady: "Grandma, I put the IOU in your hand. When will you pay it back? Qianqian will not rush you."

Although the old lady supports her mother's family, she is still worried that if the money is not paid, the Lu family will not be able to live in the future.

In addition, I hold the IOU by myself, so if my parents' family really doesn't pay back the money...or it falls short, I have the final say.

Mrs. Zhao knew very well how biased this sister was towards her mother's family. If the IOU was in her hands, wouldn't it be the same as no fight?

Mrs. Zhao also readily agreed.

The old lady looked at Meng Qianqian suspiciously: "Do you really only have ten thousand taels left?"

Meng Qianqian took out a key from her purse: "Grandma, this is the key to the warehouse. If you don't believe it, go and order it yourself."

The old lady took the key: "Go to the warehouse!"

The second lady's eyes flashed, and she took Mother Lu's arm: "Sister-in-law, let's go too!"

She wanted to watch it in person, and she must not let the old lady and the Zhao family get too confused.

The group of people went to the warehouse in a mighty manner.

Although the key is in Meng Qianqian's hand, there is always a guard outside the warehouse who is skilled in martial arts. The guard was arranged by Lu Xingzhou. The guard knows all about whether Meng Qianqian has moved anything in the warehouse without permission.

Therefore, when they clicked and clicked to confirm that there were really only ten thousand taels of silver left in the box, they were all dumbfounded.

"Why did you spend so much..."

The second lady gritted her teeth secretly.

The old lady's heart was not less generous.

Meng Qianqian saw the shock of the two of them. The money was almost spent. Are you stupid?

In fact, even in the capital, ten thousand taels is still a lot of money, but compared to the huge dowry that Meng Qianqian brought back then, this amount is not much.

Meng Qianqian and Mother Lu were always frugal, as was the old lady. It was easy to imagine who squandered the money.

Unfortunately, the parties involved did not think so.

The old lady thought that the second wife must have stolen a lot from it, while the second lady thought that the old lady had subsidized her mother's family too much.

Meng Qianqian looked confused: "Grandma, Second Aunt, you look ugly. Is there something wrong? How about we call a few stewards to check the accounts together?"

"No need!"

"Need not!"

The old lady and the second lady said in unison.

Meng Qianqian saw through it without saying anything, and continued: "Actually, my daughter-in-law has also read some account books recently, and she feels that there are indeed big problems in the accounts."

The old lady hurriedly lowered her face: "What kind of account can you understand? Is the Lu family in the capital a small family like yours in Youzhou? Not to mention the expenses of the various houses in the house, your father-in-law is an official outside, and there is no need for favors. , you are born as a businesswoman, so naturally you don’t know the ways of officialdom!”

Mrs. Zhao looked at the old lady eagerly: "Sister, there are still ten thousand taels left...what should we do?"

The old lady glanced at him.

The second lady immediately took a step back and said, "I didn't!"

Mother Lu said, "I don't have a daughter-in-law either." Mother Lu really didn't have one, as her dowry had been paid off long ago.

The old lady said to her younger siblings: "I remember that the Zhao family has two shops on East Street, which together should be worth ten thousand taels."

Mrs. Zhao’s expression changed: “Sister—”

The old lady waved her hand: "That's it."

Mrs. Zhao originally wanted to get it all from the Lu family, but she never thought that Meng Qianqian's dowry would be squandered by the Lu family until only the last ten thousand taels were left.

In fact, she complained a little about her aunt. In the past few years, her aunt had taken advantage of the girls of the Meng family. She probably saved a lot of coffin books, but she had to let the Zhao family pay for the two most valuable shops.

But she couldn't tell, after all, the two shops were secretly purchased by her aunt for her parents' family with the money from the Meng family's girl's dowry.

Meng Qianqian wrote the IOU in front of everyone, asked Mrs. Zhao and her grandson to sign and pledge it, and then handed the IOU to the old Mrs. Zhao.

The second wife complained: "It's all given to the Zhao family, what are we going to eat? Do we drink the northwest wind?"

Meng Qianqian said helplessly: "There are still some gold and silver jewelry in the warehouse. If the family is really in trouble, just **** them to survive. Grandma doesn't have to return the keys to Qianqian."

This is completely inappropriate.

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But what can the old lady say?

Meng Qianqian was indeed "squeezed dry"!

Back at Haitang Courtyard, Grandma Li was in terrible pain.

"Miss, you just lent the last ten thousand taels to the Zhao family without holding the IOU. What will happen if the Zhao family defaults on the debt in the future?"

Meng Qianqian said: "Of course the Zhao family will not pay it back."

For a powerful person, no one will dare to rely on you for your money even if you don't have an IOU. However, for a powerless person, no matter how many IOUs you have and no matter how sufficient the evidence is, the other party will have the confidence to rely on you until the end.

Unfortunately, Meng Qianqian is the latter.

So from the beginning, she didn't expect the Zhao family to pay back the money.

midnight.

Meng Qianqian woke up from her sleep.

It wasn't that she was woken up by a nightmare, but it became a habit and she opened her eyes when the time came.

Lu Yuan sat on his exclusive red sandalwood official hat chair again, roasting smokeless red radish charcoal, and lazily flipping through her newsbook.

"This one is not as good as the previous one, it's so ugly!"

It’s ugly, but you still read it?

Meng Qianqian glanced at the bedside table. There was a thick stack of banknotes and two store deeds on it.

It was a good deal to make a deal with the governor. Not only did he successfully transfer the 10,000 taels of dowry, but he also allowed the Zhao family to cough up two of their most valuable shops.

Meng Qianqian checked the authenticity of the deed paper in front of him, and counted the banknotes on the table.

"Two thousand taels more."

The Zhao family took only ten thousand taels of silver from her.

Governor Lu flipped through a page in his storybook and said nonchalantly: "Baozhu gave it to you."

The little guy has already paid for his milk?

Meng Qianqian said "Oh", counted two thousand taels of silver notes and came out: "Can I trouble you, Commander-in-Chief, to transfer this money to the commander?"

It's not easy for people to put in a hard work, and she understands this about human nature.

She was initially worried that the lord would refuse, thinking that she was taking the opportunity to curry favor with him and his men.

She even thought of her words, but unexpectedly, Governor Lu just nodded lightly.

Meng Qianqian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This person is a little unruly, but not tiring to get along with.

Meng Qianqian asked: "Where is Zhaozhao?"

Lu Yuan: "In the basket."

Meng Qianqian: "No."

Lu Yuan was stunned and turned to look at the basket with only an empty swaddle.

“…”

Uh, where's the little pig?

Xiao Zhaozhao shook his fist angrily: Ahhh! You unreliable scumbag! You took the baby away and left me behind!

(End of chapter)