Chapter 232 Mother Yuan’s dowry
Yuan Chu didn't have a good impression of people who came to his door for no reason. Seeing her being so cold, Li Defu couldn't help but smile, "I want to make a deal with you!"
"What deal? Tell me!" Yuan Chuyi said distantly and indifferently.
Li Defu smiled flatteringly, "I have here a dowry list that my mother's mother brought to the Yuan family. I wonder if my mother is interested in buying it back?"
"Brother, what did you say? Mother clearly told us to bring the list to her, how could you sell it to her!" said another man, Li De?
Li Defu couldn't help but stare at Li De? and warned in a low voice: "Shut up! Now the order is in my hand, I will sell it! If you dare to say one more word, don't blame me for being rude to you!"
Li De had no choice but to shut up.
"Show me the dowry list!" Yuan Chuyi said slowly.
"Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand," Li Defu said.
Yuan Chu smiled and said, "Do you think I'm a person who doesn't keep his word? Then we don't need to talk about this deal any more!" As he spoke, his voice turned cold, "Xuan Yue, bring me the order!"
Li Defu glanced at Xuan Yue and stopped in a hurry, "My dear, no, if you have anything to say, just talk to me, I'll just hand it over!"
He had just experienced this big man's skills, and he had no power to fight back. He had no choice but to take the list out of his arms and present it to Xuan Yue. Xuan Yue took the list, patted him on the head again, and then presented the list to Yuan Chuyi.
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, I took a closer look at the dowry list. There were not many dowry items listed on it, only a shop, a village and some gold and silver jewelry. As for the gold and silver jewelry, except for the silver bracelet hidden by the original owner, the rest have been confiscated by the Jin family under various names. As for the shop and Zhuangzi, the original owners had never even seen the land deeds and deeds. When Mother Yuan passed away, the original owner was only eight years old and ignorant. In her impression, her mother did not seem to have handed over these two valuable items to the original owner for safekeeping.
"What do you mean by asking you to hand over this list to me?" Yuan Chuyi asked calmly, looking at the Li brothers.
"My mother said that with this list, I can get my wife's dowry back!" Li De? said.
"Where is Mammy? Are you okay?"
"My mother passed away at the beginning of the year." Li De? added, "Before she died, she asked us to find a way to hand over this list to you no matter what."
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he sighed, this nanny was a loyal person, and asked, "Do you know where the house deed of the shop and the land deed of Zhuangzi are?"
The Li brothers all shook their heads.
"Didn't grandma have any explanation before she died?"
"..." The Li brothers thought for a while and shook their heads.
"When my mother was dying, she seemed to have said something about 'Old Peach Tree'..." Li Defu thought for a long time and said.
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he remembered that there was indeed a peach tree planted in the dilapidated corner courtyard where the Yuan family lived before the original owner and Fifteen-Sixteen. It was the only scenery in the small courtyard. The original owner liked to sit under the tree and embroider.
She immediately asked Xuan Yue to go to Yuan's Pojiao Yard to see if the old peach tree was still there.
Xuan Yue understood the idea in her heart and immediately went out to do some business. Not long after, she arrived at the small corner courtyard in the southwest of Lao Yuan's house. But I saw that the small corner courtyard was covered with spider silk, the walls were in ruins, and it was dilapidated. The courtyard is overgrown with weeds, and an old peach tree with a crooked neck grows in the corner. It may have been neglected, and its branches and leaves are sparse.
It can be seen that this place has been deserted for a long time. Despite this, there are still faint traces of the people who lived here before.
Xuan Yue could not have imagined that their princess lived in such a dilapidated place. Without thinking too much, he took a shovel and started digging under the old peach tree. It didn't take long before he dug out a small, sealed clay pot. He dug under the peach tree again, and then returned with the small earthen jar after finding nothing more.
Yuan Chuyi looked at the small clay pot and did not dare to open it rashly. He shook it and made a little noise. She threw the pot to the ground and smashed it open. With a sound, three ingots and ten taels of silver came out, as well as two silver hairpins and two pieces of yellowed paper.
Xuan Yue picked up the things and opened them. Sure enough, it was the deed of a shop and the deed of a village only a hundred meters away on the outskirts of the city.
Looking at these things, Yuanchu thought that these should be all the relics left by Yuan's mother when she passed away.
Yuan's mother's family was not well off, and her father was a private school teacher and Yuan's father's teacher. Yuan's father and Yuan's mother were childhood sweethearts. They fell in love over time and eventually got married. After the death of Yuan's father and Yuan's mother, the old man also passed away due to excessive sadness, and now his maternal family no longer has any close relatives.
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, two ingots of silver were given to the Li brothers, one ingot for each of them. The Li brothers couldn't help but kowtow to her and thank her, and left happily. On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, Xuan Yue took the house deed and land deed to the Yamen to check whether they had been changed.
After Xuan Yue went out, she came to Shi Shi's yard on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty and gave the hairpin to Shi Shi, saying that it was her mother's relic and asked her to keep it for reminiscences.
When Xuan Yue arrived at the government office, she showed her Prince An's palace badge and explained her purpose. The people in the government office did not dare to neglect and immediately found the asset register for him. They found the registrations of the two properties and confirmed that they were still registered on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty. In my mother's name. Xuan Yue got the letter and immediately returned to the Yuan family.
When Xuan Yue returned to the Yuan Family Courtyard, she saw Yuan Chu Yi staring at Yun Xuan, thoughtfully.
"Madam, when you look at me like this, do you have something important to say?" Yunxuan took a step back subconsciously.
Yuan Chuyi looked at her and said meaningfully, "We all got married on the same day. Yun Duo has been pregnant for more than a month. Why hasn't your belly moved yet? Mr. Lou is often not at home, and you and Xuan Yue are tired of being together every day. Together, how come you’re not pregnant?”
Yun Xuan blushed, "Madam, why do you suddenly talk about this? The child... is not what we want!"
Yun Chuyi looked at her with a wicked smile on his face, "If it's not that you two don't work hard, then could it be that you two have some hidden disease?"
"There is no hidden disease! We are both fine!" Yun Xuan blushed and waved her hands.
Yuan Chuyi looked at her with a bad smile. When he saw Xuan Yue walking in, he looked at him, "How is it?"
"The property is still registered in the old lady's name!" Xuan Yue responded, looking at Yun Xuan who had a pretty blush on her face. Yunxuan couldn't help but blush and turned away shyly.
"Come on, let's pack up the shop and go to Zhuangzi!"
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, regardless of the interaction between the young couple, he took the house deed and land deed and led them out immediately with a smile.
The shop is located in a downtown area and operates a tavern, but now the store is a bit deserted and there are not many customers. As soon as they entered the store, a waiter came up to greet them.
"We want to talk to your shopkeeper about a business! Big business!" Xuanfeng said when he came to the counter. On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he and Yun Xuan Xuanyue sat down at a table.
As soon as the waiter heard that someone wanted to discuss a big deal, he immediately went to the back to find the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper is a man in his fifties, wearing a blue gown.
"I wonder if this young man wants to buy or sell wine?" the shopkeeper said with a cold look on his face.
Xuanfeng looked at the shopkeeper with a smile on his face and said, "Our lady will talk to you in person!" He invited the shopkeeper to Yuan Chuyi.
The shopkeeper looked at Yuan Chuyi slightly, and seeing her extraordinary bearing, he thought that this person must have a good background. His expression softened somewhat, and he waited carefully, "I wonder what the lady's orders are?"
Yuan Chuyi also looked at the shopkeeper and asked him how long he had been working in the shop. The shopkeeper said that he had been working in the shop for ten years.
"I wonder if this tavern belongs to the shopkeeper, or there is a boss behind the shopkeeper? Can he make the final decision on the affairs in this shop?"
"I am the shopkeeper in the store. Whether my wife wants to buy or sell wine, I can make the decision." The shopkeeper said calmly.
"Then I want to take back this shop and ask you to pay me the rent for more than ten years. Maybe you can make the decision?"
"Rent?" the shopkeeper was puzzled, "Our pub is our own property, why do we have to pay Madam rent?"
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he took out the house deed and said, "This restaurant is a property in my mother's name. The shopkeeper has been occupying my mother's dowry for ten years. Shouldn't he pay the rent? Or you can give me all the business income over the years." !”
"This..." The shopkeeper was dumbfounded for a moment, but he soon laughed, "Madam, you must have made a mistake. This is the property of the Yuan family, the patriarch. How did it become your property? It's really absurd!"
"My mother was originally the daughter-in-law of their Yuan family, but she has passed away many years ago. This shop should be inherited by me and my younger brothers and sisters, not the Yuan family!" Yuan Chuyi said coldly, "If you don't want to marry me, If you want to pay the rent, go and bring me the account books for the past ten years. I want all the business income for the past ten years! If you can't make the decision, find someone who can make the decision! Otherwise, we can go see the official! "
The shopkeeper had no choice but to ask the waiter to go to the Yuan family immediately to find the Jin family. This shop was given to him by the Jin family to take care of.
Jin came quickly, with an angry look on her face. When she saw Yuan Chuyi, she pointed at her nose and shouted: "Yuan Chuyi, what do you want to do in my store!"
"Your shop!" Yuan Chuyi snorted coldly and slapped the dowry list and the house deed on the table. "This is my mother's dowry property. When did it become yours?"
"You, where did you get the house deed? It must be fake!" Jin looked furious.
"Fake? Do you have another house deed? Take it out and take a look!" Yuan Chu Yiyun Danfeng chuckled, with a calm and calm look on his face.
"I……"
Mrs. Jin couldn't help but curse in her heart. Since the second wife's death, she had searched inside and outside their courtyard but could not find the deed. How long had this damn girl been back from the southwest? Where did she find the deed?
"Since you can't pay the rent, you have occupied my mother's property for more than ten years, so you should pay the rent!" Yuan Chuyi said coldly.
"So what if this shop belongs to your mother? When you lived at home, you didn't eat or drink anything! It's not a waste of money! Don't think that becoming Princess An means you don't recognize your relatives and feel arrogant!"
Jin's loud voice immediately attracted the attention of passers-by, and people who didn't know the reason immediately started pointing fingers at Yuan Chuyi.
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, he was not afraid of other people's advice, and remained calm, "I used to live in the Yuan family, in the most dilapidated corner courtyard in the southwest corner. I wore old clothes that the maids and maids had replaced. I don’t have any new clothes, I only eat your leftovers, and when there are no leftovers, I can’t even eat one meal a day. I don’t know how much money I can spend in a year on this kind of life!”
"You, you are talking nonsense!"
"I'm talking nonsense!" Yuan Chuyi sneered, "Ask your neighbors, do you know that your Yuan family has a second eldest daughter, Yuan Chuyi? Or do you only know that the Yuan family has an unpaid maid named Chuyi? !”
As soon as he finished speaking on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, a neighbor immediately shouted:
"Oh, I know, I know. The Yuan family used to have a maid named Chu Yi. She was thin and frail, and she was often bruised and bruised! But I haven't seen that girl in more than a year!"
"I also know that she often secretly brings some embroidery to my shop to sell. That child is really pitiful! Is she the second-bedroom child of the boss's family?"
"Could this madam be the little girl from the first grade of junior high school?"
Yuan Chuyi nodded sadly, with a sad look on his face, "Yes, I am Yuan Chuyi. I was originally the eldest daughter of the second wife of the Yuan family. Because my parents died early, there was no room for me and my younger siblings in the family. ...I was young at the time, and I didn’t know that my mother still left her dowry for us. Not only did this aunt not tell me about this, she even took possession of my mother’s dowry for more than ten years without giving us a single cent of money! Now I know Regarding the shop, and I have the deed of the house in hand, shouldn’t I ask her for the rent I deserve for the shop?”
"I didn't expect that the old Yuan family would be such a person!"
"The Jin family is not human! The rent should be paid!"
"..." Everyone criticized Xin.
Jin was speechless when faced with the accusations from everyone.
"Xuan Yue, seal the shop!" Yuan Chuyi stood up and said.
"Yes!" Xuan Yue immediately invited everyone out of the store.
"On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, if you dare to close this shop, believe it or not, I will go to the Yamen and sue you!" Jin said angrily, and stepped forward to pull Xuan Yue away, but Yun Xuan stepped in front of her and blocked her. Unprepared, she took a few steps back in fright, stumbled and fell to the ground. She sat on the ground, losing all face, and couldn't help wailing,
"Hey Yue, come and see, everyone is beating someone. Prince An's palace is bullying people and bullying a woman like me who has no strength to control..."
Yuan Chuyi looked at her, leaned down slightly, with a cold expression on his face, "Do you want me to help you report to the official position? This is not far from the government office!"
"You, you..." Jin couldn't say a word, just howled. She was the one who was wronged in this matter. If she really wanted to go to court, she would not only be wronged, but she might also lose the face of the patriarch.
Yuan Wenjing had been a high official and loved face most. If the Yuan family got into a lawsuit for taking away the dowry of his deceased daughter-in-law, he would probably skin her!
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, when he saw that the Jin family had lost their arrogance, he couldn't help but snorted, "The rent of this shop is calculated according to the going rate, which is at least fifteen taels of silver per year. The rent for ten years totals seven hundred and fifty taels. There is also the one in the suburbs. For a village of more than one hundred acres, the rent for one year is at least fifty taels, and for ten years it is five hundred taels, for a total of one thousand, two hundred and fifty taels. You must get the money to my Yuan family and hand it over to me within two days! If I don’t receive the money within two days, we’ll meet at the Yamen!”
After saying that, he led the people away, no longer paying attention to how Jin was acting up and crying.
Seeing that there was no excitement, everyone gradually dispersed.