Fight the Giants

  Chapter 606 Mother's Dowry

  Huo Xi didn't care about the rumors in the capital, but Zhang Fu and Mu Yan did.

  Using thunderous means, he taught a group of people who tell the truth.

  The rumors in the market gradually decreased.

  But Huo Xi returned to the family for many days, and she didn't receive a single post, so she knew that she still had a long way to go to integrate into the circle of noble girls in the capital.

   But I didn't care too much.

  Only Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wang, cared very much, and ordered Huo Xi to be grounded.

  Huo Xi smiled. Walking to the courtyard of Mrs. Tai's wife, I heard that Zhang Fu was inside, so I didn't wait, and went straight in.

  In the small flower hall, the mother and son are arguing fiercely about something.

   "Mother, my daughter did nothing wrong. If you restrain her feet, she is right and wrong."

   "Is she right?"

   "What's wrong with her?"

   "It doesn't matter if you're wrong or right, you just go back to the mansion. Wouldn't it be good to stay in the mansion for a few more days? If you want to run outside, why bother to go back to the mansion? Just stay outside!"

   "Why should I stay outside? My surname is Huo, and I am also surnamed Zhang, and I have the blood of my surname on my body. If possible, I would rather be surnamed Huo, Li, or whatever."

  Huo Xi walked in and looked at Mrs. Tai.

  She thought that what she said two days ago was clear enough, but she didn't expect Mrs. Tai to stop her feet this time without reflecting on herself.

   Mrs. Tai was very angry when she came running again without summoning her.

   I feel more and more that she is not polite and doesn't like her.

   "Don't keep frowning. People who make mistakes in the British government should stay well. I, a person who is not wrong, should be grounded. There is no such reason."

  Huo Xi sat down while speaking.

  Looking at Mrs. Tai, "I heard that my mother's dowry was handed over to Mrs. Wu by you."

Huo Xi smiled, "I don't know, a concubine dares to covet the dowry of the mistress. Over the years, she has contributed a lot to the Wu family. And the letters, money and things sent by the British father to my grandfather, I Grandpa didn't receive any of them. I don't know whose fault it is."

   "What?" Zhang Fu was surprised.

   "Rou'er's dowry, Wu's in charge?" Zhang Fu looked at Huo Xi, and then at Mrs. Tai.

   Mrs. Tai might as well Huo Xi suddenly mentioned Li's dowry, feeling a little guilty.

   Seeing her son looking at her, he looked dissatisfied: "Otherwise, you want me, an old woman, to take care of her dowry? I want to return it to her Li family, but is there anyone else in her Li family?"

"Why is there no one in the Li family? My grandfather's family is fine. Although my grandfather's family does not care much about the money and goods of the British government, but what originally belonged to my mother, you gave it to a concubine. Last time The Wu family raises money, my mother's silk and satin shop, if the deed paper is not in Wu's hands, I'm afraid she would have sold it long ago."

   "She dare not. The deed is not on her."

   "The deed paper is not on her. Then these years, I don't know how much she has taken care of for my mother. How much has she earned? Do you have an account book? Now that my younger brother is back home, my siblings can't return the Huo family's money."

   Mrs. Tai was very angry. Is this what an unmarried daughter can say?

   Is she short of food and drink in the mansion? Now reach out to ask the elders for money?

   "You are a daughter's family, how decent is this!"

"Why isn't it decent? Isn't my mother's stuff left to our siblings? Mrs. Tai helped manage it. It's really hard work. Now that my siblings have returned to the house, I don't know if they can be returned and handed over to my siblings." The two take care of it?"

  Zhang Fu felt very ashamed, he usually didn't care much about family affairs, this was the first time he heard that Rou'er's dowry was handed over to Wu by his mother.

   Said to Huo Xi: "It should be, your mother's dowry is naturally given to your siblings. The dowry list that your mother brought in back then is still kept for my father. After my father sorts it out, it will be handed over to you."

   Mrs. Tai was very angry when she heard this: "If it wasn't for the help from the manor, how would your mother's dowry still be left?"

   "Why not at all? My mother's shop, Zhuangzi, was also managed by caring people. But these years, none of those people have disappeared. Does Mrs. Tai know why?"

The corner of his mouth sneered: "Many people know how Mrs. Wu entered the mansion back then, and I'm afraid he didn't have more than ten taels of silver on him. But a few days ago, he took a private house of one hundred thousand taels to marry Zhang Biyao. Got a lot."

  Both mother and son were shocked. Mrs. Wu married a private house of 100,000 taels to Baguio?

   Gongzhong accompanied 50,000 taels, Wen Bi gave 50,000 taels, and Wu gave 100,000 taels? How could she have so many private houses?

   Mrs. Tai was stunned for a moment.

  Zhang Fu came back to his senses: "Father asked the accountant to calculate the accounts for these years, and I will hand them over to you. Don't worry, my daughter. It is your mother's thing, and it should have been left to your siblings."

  Huo Xi nodded and left.

   Mrs. Tai is afraid that she will not be grounded.

   is grounding, who will listen to her.

  In the small hall, Mrs. Tai looked at Huo Xi's back and frowned.

"Look at her, I still want to keep her for a year or two, and then choose a good family for her, but look, she has such a temperament, she doesn't take any losses, and she doesn't pay attention to etiquette. Gao Men wants her?"

   Mrs. Tai caressed her forehead.

   "I'd better go to the Gongyuan to see if there are any poor students, who are better educated and have a simpler family background. They are afraid of our family's power and dare not show her face."

Zhang Fu just pretended not to hear: "Mother, I have my own ideas about my daughter's marriage. Now I'm still sorting out Rou'er's dowry. This is to let outsiders know that the Wu family is taking care of Rou'er's dowry, and I don't know what to say. "

   "What are you talking about, how do outsiders know? If you know, it's not your good daughter who leaked it!"

   "Mother! My daughter is not the only one who knows!"

  The mother actually handed over Rouer's dowry to Mrs. Wu, no wonder the daughter looked disappointed.

   I'm afraid he is also disappointed in his father. And my father-in-law...

   All these years, he didn't check or ask, and was deceived by his servants. He still doesn't know how his father-in-law blamed him, and he doesn't know if Zhang Liang saw his father-in-law.

  Zhang Fu acted quickly, took Li's dowry list, and asked several accountants in the mansion to sort out the accounts of several shops and Zhuangzi overnight.

   It's also Wu who didn't expect that Li Xinrou's flesh and blood were still alive and returned home. Although the accounts were tampered with, it was not too exaggerated. She had a lot of greed, but there was no shortage of what should be sent to the public.

   Mrs. Tai didn't guard against her.

  Zhang Fu personally delivered the things to her.

  Huo Xi pulled Huo Nian aside, Zhang Fu opened the box and explained to his siblings one by one.

"This is your mother's dowry list. Back then, your grandfather married two villages in the suburbs of Beijing, three shops in the city, and five thousand taels of silver. The dowry is gone, and it was converted into ten thousand taels of silver for your father. I will give it to you, as well as the monthly allowances of your siblings for the past ten years, and I will also replenish you."

  A few banknotes, the total is 20,000 taels, the deeds of two Zhuangzi and three shops.

  Zhang Fu took out another stack of banknotes from the box.

   "The 100,000 taels were given to you by my father and the public, as the income of the Zhuangzi shop over the years. For the father, I will give each of you a Zhuangzi as your private property."

  Huo Xi looked at these things spread out on the table, his eyes flashed.

  Huo Nian looked at her, then at Zhang Fu, but didn't dare to move.

  Huo Xi didn't expect that not only did he take these things back, but he also replenished them with more money, even their ten-year monthly payment and allowances.

  My mother is gone, even if the people who lived in the shop and Zhuangzi stayed, I am afraid that the hearts of the people will be scattered, and it is not a matter of whether they can make money. Now he supplies them with so much.

   "Father is sorry for you. He didn't keep what your mother left you. Your mother still has a few items that will be given to you as a father in the future."

   That is the only thing Rou'er has left in the world, Zhang Fu is reluctant to part with it.

  Huo Xi glanced at him, "You keep it. It would be good if you can think of my mother occasionally."

   Zhang Fu's throat suddenly choked up, unable to speak, he just nodded.

  Watching Huo Xi put all these things into the box, she glanced at Huo Nian, and calmed down: "Nian'er is still young, let your sister put these things away for you first, and in the future, you and your siblings will each have half."

   "I don't want it." Huo Xi replied, "Leave these things to Nianer."

   "Me neither."

  Huo Xi glared at him.

   "That sister and I are half of each other."

   "My sister is not short of these. I will take care of these Zhuangzi shops for you first. I will have people take the money to Peiping and help you buy some property there."

   "Peking Real Estate?" Zhang Fu was taken aback.

  Huo Xi looked at him, "The emperor intends to move the capital, you don't know about it?"

   "For the Father to know." But... can it really be done? When can I move? And go to the north to buy property?

  Suddenly remembered the Huo Xi I met at the gate of Beiping City a few years ago...

   "That year, I led troops for my father to fight against Mobei, and when I saw you at the gate of the city, you also went north to buy property?" Zhang Fu was stunned, did his daughter think so far away?

  Huo Xi didn't answer, just put the box away.

   Zhang Fu confessed a few words, said a few decent words with his two children, and left.

  After Zhang Fu left, Huo Nian insisted that Huo Xi keep these things.

  Unable to quarrel with him, Huo Xi said: "Okay, wait until my sister goes out, and then we'll figure it out. Now these sisters will take care of it for you first."

   "Okay, my sister will take care of it."

   In front of him, Huo Xi called Dou Huaien again.

  After her observation these days, Dou Huaien already has the ability to be a general manager for Nian'er.

  Huo Xi handed him 120,000 taels of silver and asked him to go north with Guangfengshui's boat to buy property for Nian'er in Beiping. Tell him some more things.

  Dou Huaien didn't expect that Miss and Master would entrust him with such an important task all of a sudden, and it would cost such a large sum of money.

   Being able to be valued by the master, Dou Huai'en patted his chest excitedly: "Miss, master, don't worry, the little one will handle this matter well!"

   When Zhang Fu returned to his courtyard, he also told Zhang Jin about this matter.

The master and the servant were very emotional: "I heard that the eldest lady established Guangfengshui when she was seven years old. I checked it out, and there are Guangfengshui shops along the canal. Now Guangfengshui goes to the East every year, and there are still many Traveling to the West and Southeast Asia with others... I never thought that our eldest lady is proficient in general affairs."

  Zhang Fu shook his head and laughed: "I don't know who this child is with. Her mother and I are not very concerned about common affairs."

   After finishing speaking, he felt a little sentimental, if his daughter grew up in the mansion well, why bother to engage in these business affairs.

   Sighed: "This matter should be covered up for my daughter."

   "Yes." Zhang Jin nodded in response, "Sir, should we also go north to buy some property?"

  Zhang Fu thought for a moment: "Alright. Take some money and send tight-lipped people to handle this matter. Set up more Zhuangzi shops for Nannan and Nian'er."

"yes."

  As for the Mu Mansion, Mrs. Geng also heard rumors about Huo Xi outside, and nothing else. It was rumored that the young master of their mansion had a relationship with her?

   Mrs. Geng Tai immediately summoned Mu Yan to ask about this matter.

  (end of this chapter)