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"Miss."

I was about to step over the threshold when a figure flashed out from inside.

Her glossy black hair was tied up tightly behind her head, and there was only a silvery-silver brocade orchid hairpin stuck in it. She wore earplugs with pearls in her ears, and wore a simple white cocoon-faced coat with a snow-blue poncho underneath.

In the end, his mother's funeral wasn't a good time to dress up. However, a pair of peach blossom eyes adorned a plain white face with a silky autumn wave inside, adding a bit of charm to this plain attire.

Other than Aunt Mo, who else could it be?

"The old lady was just talking about you when you came!"

It's impossible for someone with a sharp hearing like Aunt Mo to not know what I'm here for. Although she intentionally put on a respectful and strict smile, she was still unable to hide the joy in the corner of her eyes.

Aunt Mo is someone who can't afford to make money. Other than power and wealth, I can't think of anything else that could make her so happy.

As expected, when he entered the room, he saw that the round rosewood table was filled with jewelry boxes, each of them wide open. The jewelry boxes shone brightly under the light from the lamp and the purple velvet lining below.

An enameled bracelet, an ice jadeite with floating flowers, a peony the size of a cup made of gold foil, a string of lotus seed rice and Tian Yu … I roughly swept a glance at that table. Although they were all new items with nice appearance, they weren't the bottom of Grandmother's chest.

Last year, when I was staying in my grandmother's house, I saw Red Jade helping her copy and check the items in the warehouse. There were five whole books, the most precious of which were written in the A-size booklet.

The smiling faces of the yellow jade carvings of the Maitreya Buddha, the jadeite gold bracelet with three rings, and the scarlet gold phoenix tail Eight Treasures hairpin did not appear on the table.

As expected, her grandmother pretended to spread her private property while secretly keeping her hands behind her back, like she was wholeheartedly looking at Buddha.

"Just when I said I want you to call our young miss, our young miss came!"

Grandmother sat on the brick bed drinking a bowl of japonica rice porridge while talking and laughing with Aunt Mo, who was standing by her side serving the dishes. On the opposite side of the brick bed sat Jia Cheng, who was sitting up straight to eat breakfast.

Grandmother was intentionally showing me a look of family and fun.

A blue skirt flashed by the door, embroidered with pure white magnolia flowers.

Lan Ling and I arrived in the morning wearing a dress embroidered with magnolia flowers.

I know that Lan Li is anxious, a sister who has lived in a room for two or three years, spending all her time together, and now that she is in danger, no one can feel anything.

Hong Yu brought me a cup of tea. With an unfathomable smile on her face, she whispered, "Miss, please be careful."

Grandma didn't even raise her head as she smiled and gave a sesame seed roll to Jicheng who was sitting across from her, "Go and take a look at that table and see if there's anyone you like. We grandfathers can count it as a thought."

Grandmother is telling me that the life of my maidservant is nothing in her hands, more important than the choice of a reward.

After taking a sip, I gently placed the cup of tea on the table. Just as my gaze met with Aunt Mo's, she immediately shifted her gaze away.

The back of his hand was covered in meat. As a mother, why was he so ruthless? For the sake of his eldest son's future, he didn't even care about his youngest son's life?

Previously, at his mother's funeral, Aunt Mo had been busy trying to curry favor with him. What had his grandmother promised her that it was worth it for her to obediently follow by his side like a dog, without even caring about the safety of her own son?

"I heard that you called the maidservants in my room and two maidservants from the family to question me. You haven't left since the three maidservants came." I have a lot of things to do at that place. Second Brother is still young, and you can't leave someone by your side. "It seems like you have a lot to say. You should have finished your training last night. I will be bringing them back now."

The moment she said this, the entire room was silent. The maidservants who were originally gathered around the table looking at the jewelry trembled. Even the noisy Aunt Mo kept her head down, keeping her mouth shut.

Grandmother raised her eyes slightly and smiled at me.

She was no longer the kind and compassionate ancestor she used to be. Her grandmother's smile was filled with a sharp light, but it was also very real.

Ungrateful, flawed, vicious, this is grandmother's true face.

I wonder if Grandmother ever thought that she loathed her son, who had grown up out of revenge, except that he was no wiser and more decisive than she was, and he was as heartless as if he had been carved out of the same mold.

Grandmother cleared her throat and put down the bowl in her hand. She could hear the porcelain clatter on the kang table.

"Now that you're old and you're in charge of the family, I can't say for sure." She took out a handkerchief embroidered with green bamboo from her sleeve and wiped the corners of her eyes, "You are usually busy and busy, so you can't take care of me at the moment. I am worried about you two siblings, but calling a few maidservants over to inquire about your situation, it is hard to tolerate!"

Listening to my grandmother's words, I couldn't help but sneer in my heart.

It's fine if you say these words to sully my reputation, but you even have to take out the handkerchief that I gave you in the past. You want others to know how gentle and obedient my grandson's daughter was in the past, and how arrogant and despotic she is now?

Even if I were to leave, grandmother would not be able to live a peaceful life. I would take advantage of the last opportunity to scold her and use my seniority to force me to take out the twenty thousand taels of silver as soon as possible.

It was just that this world might not be as people expected.

You will talk about family matters, and I will talk about family matters. The money is still in my hands, and as long as I don't take it out, no matter how much my grandmother does, I won't be able to get out of this house.

I pretended to be embarrassed and rubbed my eyes with the handkerchief.

"What do you mean!?" It is all because of you that I have this family today. It is also all thanks to you that I am able to rule the family today. Seeing you unload the contents of the box like this, Sun Daughter felt really bad. "

Thinking of these days of busyness and grandmother's ruthlessness, I suddenly remembered the days when I snuggled close to my grandmother and acted like a spoiled child. My nose turned sour and I started crying.

"Now that you believe in Lord Buddha and are determined to go, in the future, who will be the one to rely on?"

As if something had blocked my nose, my voice was thick and heavy. I raised my eyes to look at my grandmother, and within my teary eyes, I saw the look of excitement on Aunt Mo's face as she stood by my grandmother's side.

So that's how it was!

I've already suspected that even though Aunt Mo has fallen, her family still has some background. All these years, she gave birth to three sons for her father, so there's no way he would treat her unfairly. Such a person wanted to use the items on the table to tempt her. No matter how she looked at it, something seemed off.

Since it wasn't wealth, then it must be power.

If Aunt Mo wanted to gain proper control, she had to do so. Marriage, the orders of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, the mother who wanted to leave the family, unable to be at ease with her son in the mortal world, specially took in the dutiful concubine as her first wife, inherited the ancestral shrine, supported the children, and became a pair of beautiful women. On the surface, there was no problem at all. Even if my father was unwilling, my grandmother secretly held on to so many of my father's secrets, not afraid of my father's disapproval. Moreover, Aunt Mo was naturally a smart person, and she might not have reached such a stage.

When Aunt Mo becomes the proper Mistress Yang, this daughter of mine in name will not have any qualifications to run the household. Naturally, I will obediently hand over the authority to her.

My grandmother, who was sitting on the brick bed, looked at me with a face full of compassion as she pinched a string of Bodhi seeds.

I could only grit my teeth in secret, but on the surface, I couldn't say a single word of no.

Grandmother did everything she could to tell me that it would be more trouble for me to keep her for one more day. I could have sent her away a day earlier, and I could have been more at ease.

As I rubbed my face with the handkerchief, I choked with sobs.

"You should know as well. Although our family has been rich all these years, we have also been through hardships and hardships, so other than father working outside, there is no need for you to be in charge of the inner chamber. Otherwise, our grandson and daughter would not have been able to grow up in peace, and our younger brothers would not have been able to recognize their ancestors. "My mother has toiled all her life, and now that she is dead, and my father and mother are famous lovers in our city, and my father is wandering around the city, and doesn't know that my mother is gone. If my father comes back one day and asks my mother how she died, and if my grandmother is exiled from the mortal world, how will my daughter respond?"

I raised my eyes and stole a glance at my grandmother. Although my face didn't change, the hand holding the bead suddenly stopped. In recent years, the Yang family has suddenly become rich, the reason is clear to Grandmother and me, the account of the Yellow River Embankment in my hands is already a sensational story, not to mention that seizing the throne is not something that can be done overnight, as long as I do it, there will definitely be no traces of it. If they were to make a mistake, it would be the fault of their subjects. Moreover, the nature of a merchant was to seek profits from the hands of his subjects, so it was naturally impossible for him to have any goals for his country and for his people. Since he had made a profit from the money made by the people at the roots of the country, the consequences could be imagined.

The laws of our dynasty have never been strict or lenient, and there is no precedent for dealing only with offenders and not including families. At that time, the Fifth Prince was only five years old, but he was extremely intelligent. However, because the father of the Guo family who was accepted as a fodder was greedy for fifty thousand taels of snow silver, not only had the Emperor dealt with his uncle Guo Guo, but all the grown men of the Guo family were executed. The female family members were all executed, and all the children under the age of eight were exiled for three thousand Li.

It was widely rumored that the Guo Family had encountered this disaster because they had blocked the path of succession to the throne. The Guo Family had been wrongly accused. If it were not for this incident, the Guo Family might not have died with hatred, the Fifth Prince would not have lost his youth, and the one overseeing the battle now might not have been this unknown Second Prince.

The king wanted his concubine to be punished, not to mention an old lady from a merchant family.

As for the bloodline of my daughter from the Qin family and the eldest son of the Lu family growing up to this extent, I have to thank Grandmother for her meticulous upbringing. Once my background is revealed, not only will it be a blow to the Qin family, who has already weakened, I will also, without a doubt, slap the Lu family, who is an illustrious member of the son of heaven, in their face!

The Lu family was such a cold and heartless family. It could be seen from the time they sent Aunt Wang back to the Yang family. It was unlikely that his grandmother would have no plans in mind.

As for Grandmother's threat to help Aunt Mo become a legal wife to suppress me, it wasn't that easy either. His father had always liked to dress up in peace, always acting like a humble gentleman for others to see. Despite being dissatisfied with his mother for many years, he still had to act like a husband and wife, with a happy family. Now, it was akin to lifting a stone to smash one's own foot. Since his wife was always on guard when she was still around, now that his wife had suddenly died, it wouldn't be too much to stay here for three to five years, not to mention hurriedly marrying a new wife.

Reputation was like a piece of paper that couldn't be traded for money. However, if the pain really did break this layer of paper, it would be like rolling tides of gossip pouring in. It would be so overwhelming that people would not even be able to lift their heads up. Even with money, grandmother didn't need to be provided by the Yang family. But no matter what, from an outsider's point of view, she was still a member of the Yang family, and the master of the Yang family was her own son. She was afraid that even an elder wouldn't be able to sit in front of Buddha in the temple.

"Furthermore, my grandson and daughter have heard that this family has a pure heart and few desires. If you really go to the temple, how can the maids, wives, and mothers come and go with you? My grandson and daughter must have arranged some errands for them. If this matter were to be spread out, those who know would say that their granddaughter was filial and filial. Those who don't know would just think that Grandmother is the one who has been wronged! "

What they wanted was hard work, but it was not because their grandmother wanted the green lamp or the ancient buddha, she just wanted to find a way out before the calamity that was about to befall her. Grandmother Hao Hao Tang had brought a group of maidservants to the temple to train, but they were only going to another place to raise the heavens. Even if they didn't say it out loud, they would have felt the same way about it. However, if they were to talk about it on the surface, it would be difficult to get past it.

There were even some newly-married wives among them who had been with their masters during the day to hold a cup of tea in their hands, and then at night to roll back to their beds and do all the things that a man and a woman in the mortal world should do to educate themselves. Even the Bodhisattva, who was sitting in the lotus position with a muddy body, could not be justified in the mouths of the world.

"Thinking of how you are going to die in such a miserable and lonely manner, Sun Daughter's heart felt like a knife had been twisted into it!" After dropping the first tear, it was as if he could not stop. Although he did not feel sad about it, his eyes were sour and astringent as he continued to cry.

The lively atmosphere around the room had vanished completely. The maidservants who were looking at the jewelry were all huddled together, their heads lowered and their hands hanging by their sides. It was obvious that the atmosphere in the room was even more oppressive.