The daughter of the first wife is a black lotus, reborn and remarried to kill

Liu was speechless, and Li Shuyue asked again: "What did you do behind my back? Why did you change your stance when Li Qingqian gave you that piece of paper?"

Liu waved her hands in panic, hesitating, "No, it's not what you think, I, I..."

"Didn't I tell you that you should tell me before you want to harm or kill someone?" Li Shuyue stepped forward, forcing Liu to retreat again and again. "Did you have someone take Yu Luo away? Where did you take her? Before you harm anyone, could you think of a way to deal with the aftermath? You actually let Li Qingqian catch you, you are really useless!"

Liu quickly denied: "I didn't do anything to her. I didn't take her away. Didn't you punish her at the time? Why would I go to the trouble of taking her away?"

"Could it be that Li Qingqian took the person away?"

That's not right. Cui'er has been keeping an eye on the news from Jingyingju. If Li Qingqian took the person away, there's no way she wouldn't know about it.

But this is not the point now. "Since you came to apologize to me, then quickly tell your uncle to prepare a new dowry for you."

Liu closed her eyes helplessly, "It's not that I don't want to ask for your dowry, it's just... it's just that the Liu family is really out of money now."

"What?" Li Shuyue was shocked. "What do you mean by no money? The Liu family is one of the richest families in Dawei! How can you say you have no money?"

"Do you think I am lying to you?" Liu opened her eyes tiredly. "The Liu family lost a lot of money in a business two years ago. All the income in recent years was used to fill the hole. Who knew it was a bottomless pit. All the money was swallowed up and not much money flowed back into the account. Shu Yue, the Liu family's assets are now less than one percent of the Li family's!"

After hearing these words, Li Shuyue felt as if her mind exploded in an instant and her body shook a little.

No, no money?

She always felt that the Liu family was her backer, and the reason why she could feel at ease and boldly get engaged to Jiang Lin was because of the treasure trove of wealthy businessmen in the Liu family.

Tell her now that this treasure house is empty? Li Shuyue widened her eyes in horror, grabbed Liu's arm, and asked in a trembling voice: "Can you guarantee that everything you said today is true? You are not lying to me?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Liu's tears flowed down her cheeks. "That's why I told you, why don't you just call it quits with Jiang Lin's marriage. Anyway, your father is the prime minister of the dynasty. Even if you marry a merchant family, it's still much better than the poor Jiang Lin."

Li Shuyue found it ridiculous. Among the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, merchants had the lowest status. After all, she was the daughter of a prime minister. How could she marry a merchant?

"Jiang Lin is a scholar and will soon take the imperial examination. He has a bright future ahead of him. Mother, you actually want me to marry a mere merchant at this time? Isn't this clearly humiliating me?"

With such a noble status, I should marry a poor prince like Jiang Lin. As long as I am willing to marry him now, I will become the queen in the future!

Liu was really panicking now. "Mother is making plans for you. Shu Yue, mother is really worried about you. Now that we no longer have the support of the Liu family, we naturally have to pave the way for you to live a good life. I don't ask you to be rich and powerful, I just ask you to be safe and sound. It would be good enough if you can live your life smoothly."

"You're rich? You're rich only if you marry Jiang Lin!" Li Shuyue was so angry that she pushed the plate of candied cakes in Liu's hand to the ground. "Forget it, I still have to find a way myself. Li Qingqian swallowed so much of my food, I must find a way to get it back from her."

Liu was still worried and said, "But now that we have suffered so much at her hands, it is not good to go against her again. What if we lose again? We really can't afford to lose now!"

Li Shuyue glared at her. "You are so useless and short-sighted. You only care about helping others to gain more respect and destroy your own prestige. If you don't believe me, then go and get your dowry back from Li Qingqian!"

Liu stopped talking. She knew her daughter's temper very well. Once she made up her mind about something, she would not easily turn back.

At this moment, Li Shuyue was standing in front of the windowsill, her eyes filled with poisonous gaze.

Yes, she seemed to remember that in her previous life, there was someone who had always had a crush on Li Qingqian.

Before she was sent to Guqing Temple, she had attended a palace banquet and saw with her own eyes that man had been secretly keeping an eye on Li Qingqian.

I just watched her voice, appearance and smile from afar, but never approached her.

I can also follow my father into the palace for this banquet. If I can get some scandal between that man and Li Qingqian to spread, how lively will the capital be in the next month?

If she took the opportunity to cheat on Shen Changyun, she could then take revenge on the person she wanted to take revenge on.

Li Shuyue felt happy just thinking about it.

*

The cold winds these past two days seem to be getting more biting, like knives that are going to cut through people's skin.

Yunyi Yunshang pulled Li Qingqian, who was trying to stay in bed, out of the couch early in the morning and dressed her up.

After having breakfast, Li Qingqian's mind gradually became clear.

"Tell me, why did Liu Shi prefer to let Li Shuyue give me the other half of her dowry to pay off the debt, rather than write to the Liu family to ask for money?"

Yun Yi combed her hair and said, "Hey girl, it's New Year's Day, don't think too much. Okay, don't move, I'll put the hairpin on you."

Yun Shang was waiting on the side, thinking about what she said, and then expressed her guess, "Miss, could it be that the Liu family has run out of money?"

Yun Yi stopped what he was doing and turned to look at her. "The Liu family is so wealthy that a million taels of silver wouldn't be a problem. How could they suddenly become so poor that they can't even come up with 100,000 taels of silver?"

"That can't be that the Liu family has had a conflict and they have no further contact with each other, right?"

This is obviously not right. I heard that Liu was very much favored in the Liu family before she got married, otherwise the Liu family would not have gone to such great lengths to send her to the Li family as a concubine, just to fulfill Liu's love for Li Zhengkang.

Besides, Li Qingqian now has evidence that Liu Shi and the Liu Family attacked his eldest brother. They are now birds of a feather. If he turns against them at this time, isn't he afraid that the Liu Shi will go all out and put the blame on the Liu Family?

After all, Liu is now the mistress of the Li family. According to Li Zhengkang's personality, he will definitely not allow his family's reputation to be tarnished. At that time, the Liu family will be in trouble.

Therefore, the Liu family would never cut off ties with the Liu family unless it was necessary. There was only one possibility: the Liu family really had no money.

Thinking of this, she reminded Yun Shang: "We must protect our purses."

"Miss, are you saying that the fourth lady's next move is to take the money from us?"

"Well, it's not that I'm afraid of thieves stealing, but I'm afraid of thieves thinking about it." If Li Shuyue took away the dowry that was given to her as compensation, Li Qingqian would not bother to care, but she still had to be on guard against Diancui'er. Since she could be turned against by herself, there was no guarantee that she would be turned against by Li Shuyue one day.

If the news of her new dowry given by her uncle got out, there was no guarantee that Li Shuyue would not covet the money. She would then have to divide her attention to deal with her, and the plan to manage Changminglou that she had previously discussed with Song Ningyan would be disrupted.

Very annoying.

Today is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. Dawei’s New Year’s Eve palace banquet invites officials of the fifth rank and above to come to the palace with their families to attend.

Li Xi cannot appear in public now, Li Zhen has to prepare for the exam, and the old lady is too old to enter the palace, so the two brothers stay at home with her.

As for Liu, Li Zhengkang had no plans to bring her into the palace. He only told the public that Liu had caught a cold while praying for the Li family in the temple and was now recuperating at home.

As soon as Li Qingqian walked out of Jingyingju, he saw Li Shuyue walking towards him angrily.

It was New Year's Day, and she rarely smiled at him. "Fourth sister is here?"

Li Shuyue waited for her, "Sister is really precious. How long does it take to wash and dress up? Father asked me to come and urge you personally."

But in fact, Li Zhengkang didn’t care about this, because there was still some time before entering the palace, and no matter how Li Qingqian dressed up, she would not be late.

He would rather she dress herself up well. After all, she was the eldest daughter in the family and would be married to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion next month. Naturally, she had to dress up well to save his face.

Seeing Li Shuyue like this, Li Qingqian's smile also fell.

"Sister didn't want to do this either, but father told me to take this palace banquet seriously, so it took me a while." The corners of her mouth curved up, "Why, didn't he tell you that?"

Li Shuyue was so angry that she couldn't speak. She came here specifically to rush Li Qingqian, which made her anxious and make mistakes in a hurry.

She had already performed well enough at the last Plum Blossom Feast. If she were to be allowed to steal the spotlight at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, it would be better for her to kill herself with a knife!

She walked forward angrily, put her hands on her hips and glared at Li Qingqian, "Don't be so complacent, I will never let you off easily!"

Li Qingqian smiled faintly, "Catch me first."