C40

In the morning of the second day, Old Liu came to Ji Qin with a prepared dowry list, as well as a greeting letter from Minister of Revenue. "Uncle, Auntie, look, this is a dowry list that has been prepared by your niece.

Before Ji Qin even had a chance to take a look, Old Liu had already hurriedly passed over her name scroll: "This is the direct descendant of Cui Family, her moral character and looks are all good, uncle can take a look, if it's alright, my niece will send someone to Cui Family to inform them that they should prepare."

The Old Liu's words were spoken clearly, but without even looking, she placed the things that she handed over to him, "Of course I have to explain this to you clearly, you are only in a concubine's room right now, and you shouldn't interfere much in this backyard, but the matter of the Ji Mansion marrying you is not something that a single concubine of yours can do, it can be said."

"I am Xue'er's mother!" Old Liu's face instantly stiffened as he stood in place, unsure of what to do.

"Have you ever seen a servant interfere with the master's affairs? Xue'er is a Miss and you are a concubine. You are just a servant. Furthermore, my niece is long gone from this world. Even when you were first taken as my wife, you could only call me Madame Feng. This aunt is not someone you can call! " With that, Ji Qin slammed the table, raising the dust that had covered the table. Peering through the gray haze, Old Liu's face was pale white.

"What about this kid from Cui Family? Do you think I'm blind or deaf?! The entire Hanzhou City was saying, in order for my Ji Mansion to climb the Minister of Revenue, I actually sold my daughter from the palace to the Cui Palace! My Pingbei Mansion's reputation for so many years will be in the hands of a lowly concubine like you! " At the age of Ji Qin, besides her grandchildren, reputation was the only thing she cared about the most. She didn't want to be stabbed in the spine and cursed at even in her old age.

But the looks of the young master of the Cui Family are all good! "I did it for Xue Er's good. She was born in my womb in October, how could I possibly harm her!" The Old Liu did not dare argue with him loudly, but she kept mumbling to herself.

"Of course the stepgrandmother has thought it through. Since this will allow me to find a backer for myself, and also allow me to take the opportunity to marry my mother's wife and leave the house together with my aunt's dowry, I just don't know, which one of these things is beneficial for the Auntie Snow?" Ji Zhen walked into the house, and said to the Old Liu as he walked.

Hearing Ji Zhen's words, Old Liu immediately did not dare to raise her head to look at Ji Zhen. It was because she knew that this young master of the Cui Family lingered around the flower shop all day, and her family had a group of concubines. If she were to marry her own daughter, she might not have a good life, but this did not stop her from finding a son-in-law with a strong family background.

Secondly, because of what Ji Zhen had said, she had initially wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ji Qin didn't know much about the marriage partner, so as to fool them, and then move all the dowry she had hidden from the Lin's disease out of the Ji Mansion.

She had even specially come to find Ji Qin when Ji Zhen was not around, but she did not expect him to know about it. Although Old Liu knew that she was in the wrong, she still pretended to be wronged: "Zhen Er, what are you saying? Didn't Grandmother return your mother's dowry long ago? How is there still anything in my hands, and I also haven't thought of borrowing Xue'er's dowry to transport your mother's dowry out of the palace. Zhen Er, you have truly wrongly accused Grandmother! "

"Oh?" Ji Zhen picked up the dowry list for Ji Xue who was on the table next to Ji Qin, and after scanning it, she realized why Old Liu was still clenching her teeth and not letting go.

"Look for yourself, most of these are from Grandmother's private storage! Where did you get your mother's dowry! " There was still some luck in Old Liu's eyes. Luckily she had changed the names of all these things.

"Then Zhen Er wanted to know, when stepgrandmother married into the Hou Mansion, this old master of the Liu Estate was only a sixth ranked official, where did the Jade Phoenix Pendant in the Grandmother's private treasury come from?" Ji Zhen said as she pointed to the top line of the dowry list. She remembered that this should have been called the Blue Jade Luan Phoenix Pendant, why did it suddenly become the Emerald Phoenix Pendant?

"This, this was given to me by your Grandfather back then!" Old Liu's eyes kept rolling around. She knew that Ji Zhen must have seen through her, but as long as she did not admit it, Ji Zhen would not be able to say anything.

"Oh? from Grandfather? " Ji Zhen knocked on the table, raised her head and looked at Old Liu, "Do you know that you have committed the crime of deceiving the monarch?! If these words were to spread out, you will cause the head of the entire Liu Estate to hit the ground. Who knows, maybe our Ji Family will even be implicated by you! "

"Don't scare me!" Hearing that, Old Liu immediately jumped up, "Hmph, it's just a small jade pendant, even if your mother personally gifted it to me, what can you do?!"

"My mother is filial? "You sure have a lot of face!" Ji Zhen scoffed, "This Blue Jade Luan Phoenix Pendant was bestowed to my mother by the late emperor. This is a gift, you can't easily add others into it.

"Why did the gift run over to your place? You were the one who took it away from my mother, who would believe these words! This is the crime of deceiving the monarch, you must think it through, and definitely do not get muddled for a moment, as this will affect your grandson who is not even eight years old! " Ji Zhen's reprimand scared the Old Liu so much that she immediately fell flat on the ground.

No matter what, the Liu Estate was still an official's family. What the Old Liu didn't know was that she had heard of the crime of cheating on the Emperor more than once. It was even said in the plays that the crime of cheating the monarch was to be committed by the nine families, the Old Liu did not want to risk it all on herself.

"True Sis!, I really don't know. When your mother gave it to me that year, she never said it was a gift!" Old Liu firmly believed that as long as she knew that it was from Lin's disease, it would be fine if she did not know that it was her.

"Oh? So it was from my mother, then the gilded Southern Jade Buddha statue on it and the Blood Coral Palm are all from my mother, right? " Ji Zhen pointed at each of their names on the dowry list and explained them in detail. This scared Old Liu more and more white, and he didn't dare to say anything anymore.

"Liushi! Hand over everything that you haven't taken out, or else I'll send someone to take you back to Liu Estate today, and we will never see you again! " Ji Qin stood up, and looked at him coldly.

"Someone come!" Take the list and head to West Garden, and search her again. If Liushi isn't willing to give it to me, then immediately send her back to Liu Estate! "