Their postures were so intimate and natural, as if they had known each other for many years. Su Xuqing had never been so cuddly towards him...

Shen Chejin felt a little sad at the tip of his heart. He didn't know what he was unhappy about. He couldn't say it out loud. It just got stuck in his throat, making him uncomfortable.

Zhao finally reacted at this moment, "No! The Ninth Master misunderstood. Min'er naturally gave this dress to Qing'er with good intentions, but I don't know why it was not sewn well. I think she was too anxious. Min'er gave it to Qing'er before she had time to take a closer look. This was also her good intention. Besides..."

She twirled her handkerchief for a long time before she whispered, "Besides, when Min'er got married, we couldn't give her much dowry. Maybe she was short of money and couldn't afford to pay that much?"

Su Xuqing couldn't help laughing when she heard this. "Auntie, what you mean is that my sister can spend three hundred taels to buy clothes for herself, but she can't spend a few more taels of silver to let the tailor sew the clothes she wants to give me, right?"

Zhao had never expected that her words defending her daughter would be misinterpreted by Su Xuqing like this. She quickly denied it, "Of course it's not like that!"

"Oh!" Su Xuqing pretended to understand something. "That means my uncle took my mother's dowry. This means I was blamed for not leaving something for Su Min'er so that her dowry would look more generous. That's correct, right?"

Following Su Xuqing's line of sight, Shen Xuanheng looked at Zhao with a sharp gaze.

The aura of a superior is powerful. Although Shen Xuanheng always appears to the world as a dandy, he is born in a royal palace after all, so he naturally has the aura of an old prince. Just one glance at him made Zhao dare not say a word.

Su Xuqing said as she pulled Shen Xuanheng's hand again, slightly lifted her sleeves to show him the jade bracelet on her wrist, "My husband, you don't know, but before my husband came, my aunt said that my sister's dowry was too little, and asked me, as her elder sister, to buy some for my sister. She also said that she didn't want anything else from me, but only wanted this jade bracelet on my hand. My husband, this was given to me by my mother, so I will protect it with my life, don't you think?"

Isn't it just pretending to be innocent and pitiful? Who can't do that?

Su Xuqing glanced at Su Miner and saw that her eyes were wide open with tears in them.

Shen Chejin, who was standing aside, had a pale face. He looked at Shen Xuanheng in front of Su Xuqing and closed his eyes as if he heard the sound of death.

As expected, Shen Xuanheng was furious the next second, "How can this be! How can you be so presumptuous with my mother's things? Who allowed you, a concubine, to decide where to take this jade bracelet?"

Duke Su hurriedly stepped forward and personally picked up the teacup on the table and offered it to Shen Xuanheng, "My dear son-in-law, calm down. Women are not sensible. You don't need to be angry."

Shen Xuanheng didn't even look at it, but waved his hand and knocked over the teacup in Duke Su's hand.

The white porcelain fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

After the crisp voice, Shen Xuanheng shouted angrily, "My mother is the daughter of the former prime minister, and my grandfather was a founding hero. Are you, as a concubine, qualified to touch his things?"

After scolding Zhao and Su Min'er, Shen Xuanheng seemed to feel unsatisfied and turned to look at Shen Chejin, "Shen Chejin!"

"Uncle Jiu!" Shen Chejin, whose legs had already gone limp with fear, knelt down immediately after being frightened by such a shout. "Uncle Jiu, please calm down. How dare we covet grandma's things! It's all because of these women who don't know the rules. Please calm down, Uncle Jiu!"

Even Duke Su was insulted. Shen Chejin also knelt down tremblingly. How could Zhao dare to be arrogant? She immediately pulled Su Min'er to kneel down and kowtow, "Ninth Master, calm down. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have coveted the jade bracelet. Please calm down, Ninth Master!"

Su Xuqing also raised her hand to rub Shen Xuanheng's back, and then stood on tiptoe to whisper in his ear, "I told you not to get angry..."

Before she finished her words, Shen Xuanheng had already quietly held her hand.

The instantaneous clenching and quick release made Su Xuqing instantly realize what Shen Xuanheng meant.

He was not really angry, and he knew that Su Xuqing was able to keep the jade bracelet. He was just venting his anger for her and teaching the people in the Duke's Mansion a lesson.

The heart that had been lifted up was slightly relieved. Su Xuqing helped him sit down on the chair, and then she slowly walked to Zhao's front. "Auntie, you just blamed my uncle for taking away my mother's dowry, right?"

Zhao no longer dared to speak.

Su Xuqing lifted the hem of her skirt, slowly squatted down and looked at the kneeling Zhao at eye level, "Since you entered the Duke's Mansion, all your expenses have been spent on my mother's dowry. Your dowry was secretly transported back to your mother's home eight years ago. Am I right, Aunt Zhao?"

She spoke slowly and softly. Her voice should have been pleasant to the ear, but it sounded like a faint sound to Zhao. "Your brother from your mother's family is a hooligan who often causes trouble. You are in charge of the key to the treasury of the Duke's Mansion, and you have to give him money from time to time to supplement his income. That's fine."

"You even prepared Su Min'er's dowry long ago and wanted to use my mother's dowry. If my uncle had not had the foresight to take back what belonged to my mother, I'm sure there would be no time for my aunt to complain to me today about how shabby Su Min'er's dowry was, right?"

Su Xuqing stretched out her hand and let Chunhua help her stand up. She did not leave, but looked down at Zhao in front of her, "I can ignore the expenses of the Duke's Mansion, but you should return the money that Auntie gave to her family to me."

"When my mother got married, the General's Mansion gave her 88 dowries. When she returned them, only 40 were left. The remaining 48 dowries, even if 20 of them were the expenses of the Duke's Mansion and me over the years, then the 28 dowries..."

Before she could finish her words, she heard Su Min'er screaming, "Su Xuqing, what do you mean! Your mother has been dead for many years. A married woman must obey her husband. Her things are Dad's things. Do you need to worry about who Dad is going to be with? What qualifications do you have to go back!"

Twenty-eight loads. Even if the entire Zhao family was emptied, I'm afraid they still can't collect enough of these twenty-eight loads of dowry.

The moment Su Xuqing opened her mouth, she actually wanted to crush her grandparents' family!

Su Min'er naturally didn't want to do that.

But she also knew that if she hadn't made such a fuss today, Su Xuqing wouldn't have asked Zhao for these things. She just thought that she had made a wrong move, so she had to grit her teeth and stand up to look Su Xuqing in the face. "If you still hate me for stealing your jade bracelet just now, I'll just apologize to you. Why bother making things difficult for my mother!"

"Oh?" Su Xuqing raised her eyebrows and raised her hand to smooth down Su Min'er's scattered hair. "So my sister can also admit her mistakes and apologize?"

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