harleyscars Chapter 737: Settlement
Chapter 737: Settlement
Kong was shocked and closed the gift list. It was too expensive.
"this?"
"Mom, what's wrong?" Qian Ru asked curiously when she saw Kong was so surprised.
Kong gave Qian Ru the gift list and said, "Take a look at it yourself! I don't know whether I should accept it or not. It's too expensive."
Qian Ru took it and looked at it, and was immediately shocked. The long gift list made her dazed.
"This? You'd better ask Dad!" Qian Ru quickly returned it.
Although her father is a professor at the provincial school, his monthly salary is only two taels, three or four cents. With so many gifts, it should cost two or three thousand taels, right?
She recently met a concubine's daughter from a wealthy family. She heard that her family only prepared about 3,000 taels of silver for her dowry. After all, she was just a concubine's daughter, and 3,000 taels of silver was not a small amount.
When she got married, her parents said that they only kept some of it and gave it all to her as a dowry, which was worth over ten thousand taels, and most of it was given by Jiang Youzhen before.
"If it weren't for..." Kong sighed and didn't say anything else.
"Mom!" Qian Ru's eyes were slightly red, and thinking of Qin Shuang, she sighed.
Jiang Youzhen and Qian Chongen played another game of chess. Qian Chongen sighed, "Your chess skills have improved again. We played three games today. I lost two of them. You let me win the other one."
"That's because you are absent-minded. Teacher, are you worried about something?" Jiang Youzhen said with a smile.
Qian Chongen laughed, "What's there to worry about? It's your chess skills that have improved. You were a terrible chess player before."
The two were talking and laughing when suddenly the manager came in and whispered something to Qian Chongen.
Qian Chongen's face changed drastically, and then he took a deep breath and said, "Give me some money to get rid of him."
The steward hesitated and whispered a few more words, "Not only do they want money, they also want to live in the house of the eldest lady and her husband."
In fact, Jiang Youzhen has the "Clairaudience" skill awarded by the system, so she can hear them even if they speak in a low voice. But she just doesn't show it on her face, pretending not to know!
This was really embarrassing. The scholar was actually the cousin of Qian's son-in-law. He came to the house because he was kicked out.
Qin Shuang agreed to rent a house, but unexpectedly Qin Shun was unwilling to do so and insisted on living in Qin Shuang and Qian Ru's house. He said that if he didn't want to, he could live in Qian's house.
Fortunately, Jiang Youzhen reacted quickly, otherwise he would have spit out a mouthful of tea. He's just a cousin, why do you still need to keep him?
What shocked her even more was that Qin Shuang was actually living in Qian Ru's dowry house and had been living there for more than two months.
Qian Chongen endured it again and again, wanting to curse him as a bastard, but considering that Jiang Youzhen was present, he had to endure it.
"Find a way to get rid of him. Don't agree to his request."
At this time, Jiang Youzhen stood up and said, "If you have something to do, I will go back first. I am really tired after sitting in the carriage for a day and a night. Do you have time tomorrow? Why don't we go to the Fahua Temple on Jilong Mountain in the suburbs of the city to pay homage and go to Qianzhang Pavilion to enjoy the view."
"Okay! Tomorrow, the teacher will take a rest, and we will go together. I won't keep you here today, as I have some things to take care of."
After the two of them agreed, Jiang Youzhen said goodbye and left the study.
As soon as Jiang Youzhen left, Qian Chongen got angry.
"Who asked his people to come to the mansion to make trouble? He is still living in the house that was given to him as a dowry by his first wife, and he dared to bring his family to the mansion to beg for money?"
Qian Chongen was so angry that he patted his chest. He originally wanted to pay some money to settle the matter, but who would have thought that the boy would ask for such a huge amount and was so greedy.
"Come with me. I want to see how he handles it."
"Master, calm down. There's nothing you can do when your son-in-law faces such a scoundrel." The steward also sighed.
"If he didn't go to his family to show off, would anyone in his family come to him?"
Qian Chongen felt extremely regretful when he talked about this. It was his first wife's family who had arranged the marriage, saying that they should be from the Qin family of Taiyuan. When he heard that they were from an educated and well-mannered family, he became somewhat willing.
It just so happened that it was Kong's family who acted as matchmaker, and I thought it was a good match.
Who would have thought that Qin Shuang was actually from the Taiyuan branch, and not only was he a branch, he was also a poor man.
After the two families had agreed on their horoscopes, Qin Shuang's family only managed to gather ten loads of betrothal gifts. They even used inferior items as good ones, and only managed to gather ten loads by patching together, which was extremely shabby.
He thought that the Qin family in Taiyuan was indeed poor and had their own financial support, so as long as this kid had a promising future, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Moreover, this boy was raised in his uncle's house. Even though his parents had passed away, he was willing to live in the provincial capital. I didn't want my daughter to marry far away, so I agreed.
He had tested Qin Shuang's knowledge and felt that he was not bad. He could not say whether he would become a Jinshi in the future, but if he worked hard, he should be able to become a Juren. Who would have thought that after only two months in the prefecture, he would be in such a state.
Jiang Youzhen actually hadn't walked far when he heard voices from inside. It seemed that the teacher was not satisfied with his son-in-law.
She sighed. This was someone else's family affair, so she naturally couldn't interfere.
Just as she entered the front yard and was about to get on the carriage, she suddenly saw the scholar entangled with her in the front yard.
After saying bad luck, Jiang Youzhen was about to leave. But the scholar suddenly saw Jiang Youzhen and started yelling.
"It's him. He's the one who drove us away. Why is he here?"
Qin Shuang looked back and saw that it was Jiang Youzhen. He immediately thought to himself that something was wrong.
He was the one who rented the house. My uncle and his family came to the capital to look for him because he revealed the wealth of the Qian family in his letter.
Unexpectedly, this family came to Tongzhou Prefecture with large and small bags to seek refuge with him without his consent.
He was caught off guard and originally wanted to let the whole family live in Qian's house, but when he thought of the temperament of his uncle's family, he lied that the house was too small for them and rented a large yard outside for them.
At that time, he did ask to see the house deed, but the woman repeatedly guaranteed that he could live there for at least one year, and the price was eight taels of silver per year, which was much cheaper than usual.
He also went to see the house and found it was more spacious than Qian's house, so he rented it.
They were living well here, but just now my cousin Qin Shun said that the real owner of the house had returned and kicked them out.
Needless to say, the owner must be Jiang Youzhen.
To avoid making things too complicated, he said to the family, "Stop making a fuss. This is my father-in-law's house. Go out and stay at the inn first, and I will rent you a yard later."
As he spoke, he reached into his pocket and took out a tael of silver and stuffed it over.
"Sending away a beggar?" Uncle Qin was very dissatisfied. "Don't forget that you grew up eating rice from the family. If I hadn't raised you, you would have starved to death. It was me who arranged this good marriage for you. You can't be so heartless!"
He regretted it very much now. When he first heard that he was a professor at the Tongzhou Prefecture School, he was very disdainful. After all, he was just a professor, and their Qin family's ancestors were all high-ranking officials.
But who would have thought that the Qian family had some wealth, and Qian Chongen actually had a disciple who passed the imperial examination and became the top scorer.
Now, these disciples have become high-ranking officials and they respect their teacher very much.