Three families hire each other, the mistress of the marquisate accidentally offends the treacherous

It rained all night.

The next day.

The old house of the Marquis.

Rain fell from the eaves, forming small puddles in the mud under the eaves.

This old house has two courtyards, no garden or backyard, and only two side rooms on each side.

Just run-down.

It is not even as good as the most dilapidated side courtyard of the Marquis's mansion.

The old lady lived in the front room and was now wailing on the bed.

Next to her was Sun, sitting on a long bench covered with dust and cobwebs, crying heartbrokenly.

Yesterday, everyone from the Xue family came and asked to divide the family property, causing a huge commotion.

When the old marquis was alive, the mansion was prosperous and had a lot of property. According to the standards of that time, the current mansion would certainly not be able to keep up, so they could only use her things to fill it.

If it were any other time, she would have hidden those things, but yesterday they were all clearly loaded in the carriage, so there was no way they could be hidden.

Even if she stuffed everything she had into it, it still wouldn't be enough.

Those people took away all the things they brought out of the Marquis' Mansion.

The nanny who followed her, the people who followed Sun, and the servants who followed Xue Feimu, all left when they saw that they had nothing.

The old lady was filled with deep regret and asked them to redeem the indenture. She should have held on to it no matter what.

After coming out of the Marquis' Mansion yesterday, she knew that the Mansion could not possibly support so many servants, so she asked them to pay the silver themselves to redeem their indentures, so that she could still get some money.

She originally didn't want to give it to Nanny Li, but Nanny Li burst into tears and said that she had to go back to take care of a new baby at home, and there was really nothing she could do.

She could only let her redeem herself, but she asked for a little more money, so it wasn't a loss.

They only kept three servants as helpers, but they never expected that when those people saw that they had lost their power, they followed those people and left without saying a word.

"You didn't even let us settle down. You are so cruel."

Sun said nothing, just kept wiping her tears and crying.

The old lady cried so hard that her head was spinning: "Alright, alright, stop crying and go see how Mu'er is doing."

Sun cried, "Mu'er is still in a coma."

Yesterday, those people from the Xue family came up to steal things. Xue Feimu couldn't bear it any longer and wanted to go up to argue with them, but he was already injured and had to be carried by others to get in. Now he forced himself out of bed, and the pushing and shoving touched his wound, causing him to roll on the ground in pain.

Fortunately, a doctor was called immediately and he felt a little better after taking some medicine. The doctor told him to take good care of himself and not to touch the wound. After the wound healed, he would look like a normal person.

This sentence seemed no different from that of an ordinary person, but it made Sun burst into tears again.

"Where's Bai?"

"Bai went out to buy groceries."

The master of the Marquis' Mansion, besides the three of them, also includes the concubine Bai Wei.

Bai Wei was an orphan with nowhere to go. She was also Xue Feimu's concubine, so she had no choice but to follow him.

Sun wiped away her tears and said, "She...she won't leave too, will she? After all, her indenture is not in our hands. If she wants to leave, she can leave at any time."

The old lady frowned and then said, "She wants to leave, can you stop her?

"However, I don't think she will leave. Her appearance is ruined, where can she go? I heard that she was an orphan, without a father or a mother, and she had nowhere to go but here.

"Then will she... go find Jiang Qingyue? After all, she used to be Jiang Qingyue's maid and is also from the Jiang family."

The Sun family cares a lot about this matter.

Because if Bai Wei was here, she would have someone to help her with things.

If Bai Wei wasn't here, all the responsibilities would fall on her shoulders. She would have to do everything.

She really didn't want Bai Wei to leave.

The old lady snorted coldly: "If she becomes a bed-climbing girl, Jiang Qingyue will not accept her."

However, when it comes to Jiang Qingyue, the old lady's heart suddenly becomes lively.

Now the Marquis' Mansion is penniless and has nothing. She can make some money from Jiang Qingyue. After all, she has the leverage over Jiang Qingyue.

"When Bai comes back, ask her to come over. I have something to say to her and something I want her to do."

Sun didn't understand and could only respond with a "yes".

"Gurgle, gurgle..." The old lady's stomach growled.

They left the Marquis' Mansion yesterday afternoon. At noon in the morning, the imperial edict came down, ordering them to move, so they had no time to have lunch.

After I came out, I just entered the old house when the Xue family came. They spent half a day looking at the book of division. Later, they grabbed things and made a mess. It was not until midnight that they calmed down and made a bed to sleep. Now it was a day later, so I was hungry.

Sun's stomach also growled. She covered her stomach and looked at the old lady with some embarrassment.

The old lady said angrily, "What are you looking at me for? If you are hungry, go and cook."

Sun cried out again: "I...I...I can't do it."

The old lady was furious: "Just add water and rice to cook. These years, you have enjoyed yourself to no avail. You can't do anything well."

Sun was so aggrieved that she burst into tears. When she married into the Marquis's Mansion, she never imagined that the situation would be like this today.

Even when the news of Xue Feimu's death came out, she was only a little upset mentally, but her life was not much different from before. She had everything she wanted.

Looking back now, those were simply magical days.

Only then did she realize how capable Jiang Qingyue was in the past, but now, alas...

"I can't do it myself. I don't have rice or firewood."

She heard Bai Wei say this early this morning.

These things are all small items and are all in the Marquis' Mansion. They have not been taken out. If I had known earlier, I should have dragged them here together.

The mansion has been sealed now. If anyone dares to go in, he will be punished with death.

Thinking of this, Sun couldn't help but shudder.

"Useless things."

The old lady took a long breath, lifted up her clothes, and took out a silver note worth one hundred taels from the lining of her clothes.

"Go exchange some change for some food and come back to fill your stomach."

Sun looked at the old lady in shock. The old lady shouted, "What are you looking at? Go and buy ten buns."

"Give me the rest of the money, and keep a record of everything you bought. Don't spend a penny more."

Sun looked at the banknote but didn't dare to take it.

The last time she went out to buy these things was probably more than ten years ago. If she were asked to go now, she would be really scared.

"Can't you buy this little thing?"

Sun was startled by what she said. She didn't dare to say no. She took the banknote awkwardly and left the house.

It took me half an hour to buy the things.

The old lady was so hungry that she felt dizzy: "Why did you take so long?"

Sun: "I didn't know where to buy it, so I hired a car and drove around for several rounds before I saw it."

"What? You hired a car. You hired a car even in this situation. What are your two legs for? Don't you know how to walk?"

Sun started crying again, and the old lady said irritably, "Stop crying here, I'm really tired of you."

"bring here."

Sun handed the item over, and the old lady looked at it and said, "Why is it a steamed bun? I want a steamed dumpling."

"Ah... I thought it was a bun."

"Well, forget it, let's just have the steamed buns. It will save money. What about the rest of the money?"

Sun quickly took out all the money.

She knew the old lady's temper. After exchanging the silver, she kept her purse tightly closed throughout the journey.

"Here it is, not a single thing less." Before handing it over, Sun took another look at it and confirmed that it was correct before giving it to the old lady.

The old lady took it, counted it once, found it was wrong, and counted it again.

"Why is there so much missing? What else did you buy?"

The old lady questioned with a fierce look on her face, as if she could bite Sun to death if she said something wrong.

Sun was shocked: "I didn't buy it, I just bought this, and hired a car."

"How much did it cost to hire the car?"

Sun was trembling with fear and answered tremblingly: "Ten taels of silver."

"Ten taels of silver?" The old lady yelled, and she grabbed the thing in her hand and was about to throw it at Sun, but when she saw that it was a steamed bun, she put it down again.

"You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until you run a household. You actually spent ten taels of silver to hire a cart to buy steamed buns at this time. You are really out of your mind. My son shouldn't have married you in the first place. If he hadn't married you, he would have no relationship with the Sun family, and things like this wouldn't have happened today.

"You are a jinx. What happened today is all because of you. Mu'er is in this situation today because of you. You are a rotten bastard, why didn't you die..."

The old lady was furious and cursed Sun.

Sun was scolded and dared not say a word in rebuttal. Her face turned pale and tears flowed like rain.

"You used this look to seduce my son, didn't you? He didn't want any other girls from good families, but he chose you. What a sin..."

The old lady was so angry that she couldn't speak.

She didn't expect the Xue family to come and make trouble, so she only hid a silver note of one hundred taels.

Now, hiring a car cost her ten taels, and her heart was bleeding.

Sun lowered her head and just cried.

The old lady stopped scolding until she was tired of it.

I was already extremely hungry, and after cursing for so long, now that I took a break, I felt like my whole body was drained.

With trembling hands, she took the steamed bun from the paper bag and ate it.

I was so hungry that I wolfed down five of them in one go.

It didn't stop until I started to burp.

Seeing Sun looking at her, she snorted coldly and threw one over.

Sun quickly took it and started to eat it voraciously.

The old lady sorted out the silver and prepared to put away the remaining silver, as it was her life-saving money.

But after sorting it out and calculating it, it still doesn't seem right.

"Why is there still so much missing?"

It costs ten taels to hire a car, and ten steamed buns cost at most ten coins. But now there are only eighty taels in the purse.

I was so angry just now that I was only concerned with asking about hiring a car and didn't notice that the amount was still wrong even after adding the car hire money.

"I didn't buy anything else, nothing at all. I just spent money on hiring a car and buying steamed buns." Sun explained quickly.

The old lady said coldly: "How much did you spend on the steamed buns?"

"Ten taels, one tael each, ten together, I swear I bought this..."

"You're crazy..." Before Sun could finish her words, she was interrupted by the old lady.

The old lady shouted, "What kind of steamed buns cost one tael of silver each?"

"The stall owner is talking about one tael of silver per person."

"Which stall? Go and ask for it back. Did he say that himself?"

"He... I asked how much each one was, and he held up a finger."

The old lady's face turned pale: "One finger refers to one penny, not one tael of silver."

Sun was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she stammered:

"Before, I ate silver crab buns in the mansion once. I asked casually and they said it would cost two taels of silver. So when the stall owner pointed a finger, I thought it was one tael of silver."

Sun didn't dare to say anything, as she thought it was quite cheap at the time. She gave ten taels of silver and left quickly, fearing that the stall owner would stop her.

"Useless, useless, bastard, really useless, rotten stuff..." the old lady screamed angrily.

"The stall owner said it was one penny each. How could you make such a mistake with such a simple thing? What on earth can you do in the Marquis' Mansion all these years?"

Sun stumbled, her legs went limp, and she fell to the ground, crying:

"Then...what should we do then?"

The old lady didn't want to say another word to her. "Alright, alright, go away. Clean up the house and wash the clothes later. Even if you can't buy things, you should be able to do these things."

The old lady almost gritted her teeth and said this.

Sun didn't know how to do it, but she didn't dare to say no, so she could only agree to it first.

"Go, take the remaining four steamed buns to Mu'er."

"Yes, I'll go right away."

Sun stood up, holding the steamed bun, and stumbled to the next room.

The old lady was so angry that she gritted her teeth. If Sun wasn't still of some use, she didn't want to see Sun again now that they couldn't stand the trouble anymore.

Something that fails to succeed but fails to succeed.

The old lady ate the steamed bun and felt choked. "Someone come."

The room was very quiet, without any sound. She realized that there was no servant left.

She had no choice but to get out of bed and go find some water to drink.

I searched around but couldn't find it. There was no well in this old house. The only way to get water was to go to the well at the front of the alley.

She didn't want anyone to see her like this, so she found a bowl and scooped some water from the puddle on the ground to drink.

After drinking, he was afraid of being seen, so he quickly put the bowl away and went back to the room to lie down.

As soon as I lay down, I heard voices outside.

Then came Sun.

"Who's coming?"

"It's the doctor, change Mu'er's dressing."

"Then let's change it."

Sun stammered, "The doctor said to pay for the medicine first, and that the money for last night's treatment has not been paid yet."

The old lady said coldly: "He will owe it to you first, and then he can come to claim it after he is cured."

Sun stammered, "The doctor said I have to give it now. If I don't, I won't be allowed to change the medicine."

The old lady gnashed her teeth in anger: "How much do you want?"

"Twenty... twenty taels of silver."

"What, twenty taels of silver, why doesn't he just go and rob it?"

The old lady was so angry that she grabbed the water bowl next to her and was about to throw it over, but then she remembered that she had just searched for a long time and this was the only good bowl, so she took her hand back.

It’s not the same as it was in the Marquis’ Mansion now.

When she was in the Marquis' Mansion, if she broke something, someone would immediately replace it with a new one. Not only were there no new ones, there were also few old and broken ones.

The old lady pondered for a long time before she took out her purse and two silver ingots. "Take them."

Sun left, and the old lady frowned.

She only has so much, and she can't bear this way of spending:

No, I must get some money from Jiang Qingyue, otherwise I will have no way to survive.