Doting on concubines and destroying wives?I am no longer the mistress of Houmen!

Chapter 182

"Girl, Miss Cuiqin is back."

Xiruo lifts the curtain to spread the word.

Lin Yunwan put down her book, sat up from the couch, and said, "Let her in."

As soon as Cuiqin came in, she was full of travel and dust. It seemed that she rushed back and went straight to Bixitang without having time to wash up.

Her eyes were bright, and her voice was low but excited: "Girl!"

Lin Yunwan said softly: "If you have anything to say, don't rush to say it, you go and wash up first."

Cuiqin was also calm, nodded and said: "Young servant will come back later."

Xi Ruo took her to wash for half an hour, when she came back, her hair was still wet, draped over her shoulders, very black.

Lin Yunwan had someone prepare snacks and tea for her.

Cuiqin sat on the embroidered pier, raised her face and said: "My servant asked my brother to go out for a few days and found someone from the Su family."

"Where are the members of the Su family now?"

Lin Yunwan was very curious, why the wealthy businessman in Yangyang Jiangqian controlled most of Jiangqian's shops back then, but there was no trace of him at all.

Cuiqin said: "Since the original business failed, Mr. Su wanted to start the medicinal material business again in Chengzhou. After that, he went to many places. I heard that he lived in Chengzhou again the year before last."

"It's also a coincidence that the girl inquired. Master Su came back last month to pay homage to the ancestors of the Su family. Someone from the Su family's hometown has seen Master Su."

"Master Su should have returned to Chengzhou now."

Cuiqin sat forward a little, and continued: "Chengzhou is actually not far from our Jiangqian, but the accents of the two places are not clear, the roads are not easy to travel, and there are very few people coming and going on both sides. If Master Su doesn't come back, who will come?" I didn't even know he went to Chengzhou!"

"After my brother went out, the servant waited at my sister-in-law's house for a day and a night. When I saw my brother before dawn, I came back to answer your words."

Lin Yunwan looked at Cuiqin's bright eyes, and asked with a light smile, "So, your brother saw Master Su?"

Cuiqin nodded heavily: "It's not just that I saw it. My brother said that Master Su is willing to see the girl!"

Very good!

Lin Yunwan was very happy, she smiled and said to Xiruo: "Cuiqin's affairs are done well, she will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Her brother will be rewarded with fifteen taels of silver."

Xi Ruo turned around to weigh the silver.

Cuiqin didn't dare to ask for it, so she stood up and waved her hands: "Miss, this, this is too much!"

She has her own agenda for helping the eldest lady.

"Miss, according to the play, this is a certificate of honor handed in by a servant. How can I ask for your reward?"

Xiruo weighed two purses of silver, put them in Cuiqin's hands, asked her to weigh them, and said confidently: "Helping the girl with errands will be a lot of good. If it is done well, it will be a lot of good!" "

Cuiqin held a purse in each hand, and felt that her wrist was being pressed down... so heavy!

Their family works as slaves in the Lin Mansion, and there is not so much in one year!

"Thank you girl, thank you girl!"

Cuiqin hugged Yinzi, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Seeing that your eyes are red, you haven't closed your eyes after waiting for a day and a night?"

Lin Yunwan helped Cuiqin up and said, "Go back and rest."

Cuiqin asked Lin Yunwan: "Miss, can I take a day off?" She weighed the money in her bosom and said, "I want to take this back to my brother and sister-in-law."

Lin Yunwan joked with her: "Give it all to your brother-in-law?"

As if protecting a calf, Cuiqin put away her share of money, shook her head and said, "No! This is saved by the slaves for myself and my parents."

Xi Ruo took her out with a smile, and said to Lin Yunwan when she came back, "Girl, Cuiqin is so fun."

Lin Yunwan smiled.

Cuiqin was very mature at the beginning, but today she is very lively, she is really cute.

"Girl, do you want to see Master Su?"

Lin Yunwan nodded: "I want to see you."

She stroked a jade bracelet on her wrist, and said: "The dowry given to Miss Lin's mother by the Su family back then, not many people in the Lin family now know about it."

"But the Su family must have kept the dowry list of the great aunt."

"The Su family was a very rich family back then. Otherwise, during the famine, Mrs. Lin would not have decided to let the second master marry the daughter of the merchant Su's family and help the people of the whole family together."

"Miss Lin's biological mother married into the Lin Mansion with a generous dowry, and died in only three or four years. How much dowry can the two of them spend?"

Xiruo also felt sorry for Miss Lin's mother and daughter.

"What do you want, girl?"

What Lin Yunwan had in hand was a law book of the imperial court and Jiang Qian's local chronicles.

She ordered a few books on the table, and said: "I've searched for several days, and Jiang Qian's side is similar to the capital. If a married woman dies, the dowry will be inherited by the legitimate son. If there is no legitimate son and a legitimate daughter, be the legitimate daughter." The dowry is also acceptable, but the mother’s family can also recover part of the dowry.”

"If there is no son or daughter, the dowry given by the Su family, except for the part used by the married woman, must be returned to the Su family."

Lin Yunwan paused for a moment, then said flatly: "It's not what I want now, but these things should be returned to their original owners."

Xiruo figured something out, and said angrily, "No wonder the master agreed to accept you as his daughter so easily. I'm afraid that without you, the master would not have made Miss Lin's death public!"

"Maybe I really have to find a fake daughter to replace Miss Lin."

Otherwise, the Su family would still have to find a way to get back the dowry. How could the master and wife be willing to cut their flesh?

Lin Yunwan went through the whole thing in her mind, and smiled sarcastically: "The master really miscalculated. If he had adopted his first son under the name of the first wife earlier, the Su family would not have returned the dowry."

"It's a pity that the master was competing with Mrs. Lin at that time, and he didn't want to accept a concubine. He only had his wife in his heart. He didn't even have a concubine."

"Otherwise, with the means of the Lin family, a concubine must be adopted as Miss Lin's younger brother."

Xiruo didn't expect it to be so deep, but when Lin Yunwan said it, she knew it made sense.

She was a little worried: "It's been more than ten years, girl, do you think the master and wife will use up Miss Lin's mother's dowry?"

"That's not so."

Lin Yunwan thought about it seriously, and then said: "Neither the first room nor the third room took anything from the second room. Only the master, wife, and second lady live in the second room, and they still dare not show off their wealth."

"It doesn't cost much money."

She smiled lightly and said, "Didn't you hear Miss Lin's wet nurse describe it? Su's mansion is so rich, it's even comparable to the prince's mansion."

Xiruo recalled Zheng's usual attire, and said: "The flowers can't be finished, it's a lot of money. The master and wife are not afraid to offend their conscience. It's too cheap for them!"

Lin Yunwan is not worried about this.

"As long as there is a booklet, the master and wife will spit out as much as they spent."

"Although no one has mentioned the dowry of the girl from the Su family these years, which family in Jiangqian doesn't understand it? I really want to go to court. If the Lin family doesn't pay it out, then don't be ashamed!"

"Our master is just bullying Master Su too much to save face, and dare not go to the door of his in-laws these years."

"Otherwise, the money should have been returned to the original owner."

Lin Yunwan asked Xiruo to put away Jiang Qian's local chronicles, and she went to pay Zheng's respect.

"Go and see my wife, my wife is always dressed so gorgeously, maybe I won't be able to see her like that one day."