"What happened again? Do you need to make such a fuss?"

Madam Sun immediately spoke out to scold the little maid. Old Mrs. Chu is so old that she is the least scared. Yesterday, she was scared by the fact that her third aunt had a bad stomach. Although the doctor finally said that it was nothing and that she would get better after two days of rest, she was still worried that her feet would become weak and the lunch was not delicious.

Fortunately, the news came that the fifth girl won the championship one after another, and the emperor personally gave the fifth girl to the Marquis of Peking. The old lady Chu's depressed and worried mood was wiped out. Because of her good mood, she slept very peacefully last night.

When Yang Lianxin heard the word "R" and thought something happened to her mother again, she asked, "What's the matter? Is my mother?"

The little maid took a breath and said, "No, it's Mrs. Mo who is here."

Mrs. Mo?

Chu Xinyu had no impression in his mind, but Chu Jiapeng, Old Lady Chu and others were familiar with her. She was the future mother-in-law of the second girl Chu Jiayi. Since she was the future in-laws, why did she say something wrong?

Madam Sun said, "So what if she comes? What can happen?"

Mrs. Mo came to the Marquis’ Mansion first. Could it be that Mrs. Mo rushed to see her first because the second girl was injured?

The little maid said, "When Mrs. Mo entered the door, she met the third wife, and the third wife invited her to Langyuexuan. Later, she didn't know what happened, so she insisted on breaking the engagement."

"Back the engagement?" Everyone was extremely surprised.

The Mo family was the cousin of the third wife's family. At that time, Mr. Mo was a poor scholar. He went to Beijing to take the exam when he was approaching middle age, but he did not have the silver medal. The third wife was young at that time, but she admired his talent very much, so she went home and took all her savings to him.

The old man of the Mo family passed the Jinshi and became an official. When the third wife grew up, he originally wanted his second son to marry the third wife, and the two families would marry each other, but the third wife had already been engaged to the third son of the Zhongyi Marquis' Mansion at that time, and finally decided to let the eldest grandson marry the third wife's eldest daughter.

At that time, Mr. Mo was already the right supervisor of Shanglinyuan. He was very good at getting married to the Zhongyi Hou Mansion. Fortunately, Mr. Mo was upright and had a good reputation as an official. His two sons were also very good. The eldest son was already a right-hand man in engineering at that time. At that time, the old lady thought it was good to marry them.

So when the second girl was two years old, the two families settled the marriage. Because Mr. Mo passed away three years ago, his grandson naturally wanted to keep him filial piety for three years. He just gave him filial piety in March this year, so the wedding date was set in August. Just as the two families were preparing for the wedding, they did not expect that Mrs. Mo would come to break the engagement at this time.

"What's the reason? Is it because of the injury on Erya's face?" Old Mrs. Chu asked first calm down.

"It seems that it's this, Mrs. Mo said, let's return the betrothal gift."

Old Mrs. Chu said, "You ask the third lady to come over. It is absolutely impossible to break the engagement. If it weren't for the sake of Mr. Mo's face, why would our family agree to marry them? Now they have to break the engagement after a while. This is called how Erya got married in the future?"

The maid nodded and left.

Chu Xinyu frowned. After the second sister used her ointment for less than ten days, her wound would be scabbed and fall off. If she applied it for about ten days, she would be intact as before and would not affect her appearance. If Mrs. Mo cares about this, there is no need to worry at all.

The second sister is gentle and understanding, and never likes to cause trouble. It can be said that she is the most peaceful girl in the Chu family. Why did Mrs. Mo break off the engagement?

At this moment, the third lady brought in a lady in her thirties, wearing a purple peony pattern brocade skirt. It was not convenient for the girls to stay here, so Old Lady Chu asked them to withdraw.

Chu Jiating and Yang Lianxin were curious about what was going on, so they walked to the next door to eavesdrop. Chu Xinyu originally wanted to leave, but they also wanted to know why Mrs. Mo wanted to break off the engagement, so they took Chu Jiapeng to hear what was going on, and asked Zhu Bo to go to Shaonianwan to find the second wife and ask her to come to Anshantang.

The Marquis' Mansion is now the second wife's family. How could the mistress not be present if she retires from marriage? Besides, with the second aunt's personality, she will definitely not let outsiders bully her family.

Seeing Chu Xinyu coming in, Chu Jiating glanced at her and said nothing. Instead, Chu Jiayun jumped in front of her and said, "Fifth Sister, will you lend me a look?"

She just took a look, and at that time she was in her grandmother's hand. When she wanted to ask, her grandmother had handed it back to her fifth sister. When she wanted to speak, the maid ran in.

Chu Xinyu glanced at her and said lightly: "I have sent it back to Zhubo."

Chu Jiayun pouted and said, "Fifth Sister is stingy."

So what if you are stingy, I just don’t want to show it to you. Chu Xinyu felt sorry for her, but she said, “Didn’t you see it just now? Be good, sit there.”

There were two maids on the wall over there who were eavesdropping on the wall. I don’t know what he heard. One of them was wearing a pink dress waved to Chu Jiating. It was her personal maid Bingyan, and the other was Yang Lianxin’s maid.

Chu Jiating walked over.

Chu Xinyu also followed him.

In the main hall, Mrs. Chu ordered Yuqin to bring incense tea to Mrs. Mo Da, and said with nothing to know, "The in-laws are here to see Erya. I am really interested. Erya has a close mother-in-law like you, which is a blessing she has cultivated in her three lives! But don't worry, this girl's injury will soon recover from her original state, and she will never marry the Mo family with her injury."

After hearing these words, Mrs. Mo smiled indifferently. She knew what she had said in the third room just now. A maid and the old lady had already reported it. She didn't go around in circles and said straight to the point: "Miss Second Girl's injury is not a problem. I also believe she will heal soon, but this is not an important thing I came here today."

"Oh, it turns out that there are other important things, what are the important things?" Seeing her so direct, Old Mrs. Chu was not cold or hot, she lowered her eyes and pulled the tea cover.

Mrs. Mo Da felt the change of Mrs. Chu, and she said, "I have mentioned to the third lady just now. Because our old man in the past had received the favor of the third lady, we had the two families engaged. In fact, we all know that our Mo family cannot reach the Marquis' Mansion. Now my son fell off a horse a few days ago and injured his leg. The doctor said that he has been like this in his life. He is afraid that he will delay the second girl's life, so he asked me to leave the marriage before he held the wedding."

They have never heard of Mr. Mo's leg injury, but if it is reported to me in the future, wouldn't it be said that the girl in the Marquis's house is sharp and abandoned because of her illness? Who would marry such a loveless girl?

Old Mrs. Chu decided not to agree to break off the engagement. She said, "Since you have not despised Erya for having injuries on her face, how could we despise your young master for having leg problems? Erya is gentle and knowledgeable about books and etiquette. She will definitely not despise him. She will take care of him with all her heart. In the future, she may have hope of getting better."

Mrs. Mo said helplessly: "I persuaded you like this, but he insisted on breaking the engagement. He didn't want to delay the second girl. If he didn't marry her, we couldn't force her to marry her. It is fate that they should be forced to marry her. As a couple, it is a bad fate."

What she said was that if they continue to get married, even if they get married successfully in the end, the marriage will be unfortunate because it is forced.

When Mrs. Chu and the third wife heard this, they were full of evil spirits. They were not silly and wanted to get engaged to their family. If they hadn't seen Mr. Mo's face, how could they have agreed to this marriage? They thought that Mr. Mo's character would teach an upright grandson. Unexpectedly, when Mr. Mo went, his grandsons turned against each other.

It seems that the person who said that the fall and the leg cannot be cured, it seems to be an excuse. If he agrees, the girl in the Marquis's mansion will become rich and lose her reputation. If he does not agree, he will continue to deal with her and cannot swallow his breath.

When did their Marquis' Mansion need to be so humble and beg for the Mo family, which is inferior to the Marquis' Mansion everywhere, as if the girl from the Marquis' Mansion had no desire?

Seeing that his words had already worked, Mrs. Mo said nothing, so she asked the maid who followed her to take out a square box and put it on the table.

Old Mrs. Chu frowned slightly between her eyebrows, looked at Fang Jinhe, and asked, "What is this?"

"Our Mo family did bear the kindness of the third wife back then. Since the two families will not be in-laws in the future, they don't know how to repay this kindness. They thought that the Marquis' Mansion should use these, so they brought it here, hoping that although the two families cannot become in-laws, their friendship is still there."

As she said that, Mrs. Mo opened Fang Jin's box, which was filled with three neat rows of gold bars. She pushed the box towards Old Lady Chu and smiled and said, "I believe that the second girl will definitely find a good marriage. Half of these are considered to be compensated by us."

These three rows of gold bars can contain 300 taels of gold. The third wife borrowed 30 taels of silver to Mr. Mo. One hundred and fifty taels of gold was enough to repay this kindness, and the other fifty taels were the expenses of delaying the second girl’s youth in the past three years.

After all, when Mr. Mo passed away, the Mo family's grandson had to mourn for three years, and the second girl also waited for three years. If she had not gotten into a marriage with the Mo family, the second girl might have been married, so she got 150 taels of gold in three years and made a profit.

Mrs. Mo secretly planned that Old Mrs. Chu had no reason to disagree with such a profitable thing. Just as she was thinking, the "bang" in the house scared her.

The third lady was not an old lady, and she couldn't stand this anger. She slammed the teacup in her hand heavily on the table with anger. She wanted to smash the teacup into Mrs. Mo's head, but she knew that it was not the time to tear her face apart. She held back her anger: "I lent money to Mr. Mo, I didn't think you would repay me, and this engagement was proposed by your old lady, not us."

Mrs. Mo had long known that the third wife would not break the engagement with gold, but the old lady was different. The Marquis's mansion now seems to be very glorious on the surface, but it is not the case in the dark. Otherwise, how could Yuan ask people to borrow money everywhere?

Yesterday, someone sent someone to say that the two families would get married in advance. When the second girl married into the Mo family, the two families would support each other and hinted that the second girl's face had been disfigured and even if it was done, some scars would be left.

In fact, she was not satisfied with the marriage between the eldest son and the Hou Mansion, but all of this was decided by the old man during his birth. She was not easy to refuse when the old man was there, but now he is no longer here, so this marriage cannot be carried out no matter what.

The third master of the third wife took a free job in court, and he was not outstanding at all. His son was young and could not tell anything. Marrying his eldest daughter did not help his son at all. It would be better to let his son find a family with a strong lady.

Mrs. Mo said, "Of course we know that the third lady's help was not for the amount of gold today, but for the boy of our family, we were not lucky enough to marry Ling Qianjin. The silver was compensated by the second girl, and there was no other meaning. Don't think wrong. While the second girl was not over 18, hurry up and find a good family for her. If we delayed, we would not have that much silver to pay."

Mrs. Mo said silently and emphasized that it would not delay the second girl, but had she ever thought about how much impact it would be for a girl to break off the engagement. If her reputation is bad, she would not be able to buy it back no matter how much gold it is.

Both Mrs. Chu and the third wife knew that the eldest master of the Mo family was an official in the court and was now a doctor of the Ministry of Rites. He was in the fifth rank. However, the second master of the second wife was good at doing business and was doing business in the Jiangnan area. He was doing a prosperous career. As the Mo family gradually became rich and prosperous. I heard that the eldest master might be expected to be promoted to the Minister of the Secretariat.

It’s good for Mrs. Chu to marry Erya to such a family. Some people in the family are officials and some people do business. If they are down-to-earth, the family will eventually prosper.

But now, when people are rich and famous, they become more and more arrogant.

Their Marquis' Mansion needs silver, but they will definitely not give up the marriage because of silver.

The third lady couldn't hold back her breath, and the old lady Chu could not swallow it either. At this moment, a maid raised the curtain and the second lady walked in and said, "We will consider the proposal of Mrs. Mo to break the engagement. Please give us two days."

"Second wife, this..."

Old Mrs. Chu was about to say something, but was interrupted by her second wife, "Mom, don't worry, this family is my master's family one day, and you will never let outsiders bully you."

The third lady also looked at the second lady with complicated eyes, not understanding why she made this decision. If she really broke off the engagement, what should her second girl do?

When Mrs. Mo saw the second wife coming in, she was stunned for a moment, and then she heard her say that this family is her master's family. Is the Marquis' Mansion going to let the second wife inherit it?

Yes, she has not seen the eldest wife Yuan for so long. Could it be that the Hou Mansion is now the second housekeeper?

The second master of Chu is the second-rank governor. If the second wife inherited the Hou Mansion, how could the Hou Mansion be so poor that he had to borrow money from others?

Besides, the second wife married the lord of Yuzhen County and the eldest son was the top scholar. How did she join the Hanlin Academy as an editor? The second wife is outstanding and the young man is excellent, and she will definitely have a bright future in the future. Unfortunately, the second girl was not born in the second wife. Otherwise, even if she was disfigured, she would agree to this marriage.

The second lady came over, picked up the box with gold bars on the table, opened it and glanced, and smiled, "The third lady just lent your master thirty taels of silver. After so many years of interest, 300 taels of gold was really profitable. Of course, half of it belonged to Eryatou's compensation, but we still took advantage of it."

Seeing the second wife come in, Mrs. Mo was unsure. Now, when she heard her say this, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time she thought to herself that the second wife was born in a family of military generals, and she really couldn't compare with those nobles and Qingliu. She was all jealous of money.

However, this is very good, and it is easy for people who love money to master it. Even if the Hou Mansion is now the second housekeeper, if the Mo family needs the help of the Hou Mansion in the future, it will be done by giving it money. It would be a pity whether this marriage will be settled or not.

Mrs. Mo then smiled and said, "Yes, it's not that you are good to me. Even if you can't be a relative, your friendship cannot be broken. It was because we delayed the second girl, and we should pay for it no matter how much money we have."

Hearing this, the second lady lowered her head, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of her lips. When she looked up at Mrs. Mo Da, the smile on her face was kind and easy-going: "Mrs. Mo Da is such a cheerful person. Since the son is ill, we will not keep Mrs. Mo Da anymore. As for the matter of resigning from the marriage, I hope Mrs. Mo Da will not speak out for the time being."

"Of course." Seeing that the second wife was so happy, Mrs. Mo was very happy. When she knew that the Hou Mansion was the second wife's family, she was still a little reluctant to break the engagement, for fear of really having a bad relationship with the Hou Mansion.

I glanced at the table and found that the gold was half of the big house. If it weren't for helping the eldest son find a better marriage in the future, I wouldn't have been willing to take it out to break the engagement.

When Mrs. Mo was about to leave, the third lady called her: "Slowly, please take this back to Mrs. Mo. Our Chu family is not short of money. Even if you want to break off the engagement, it will follow the rules. You can't give less of what you should give, and you can't give more if you shouldn't give!"

After saying that, he pushed the square box and Yuqin immediately took it and put it in Mrs. Mo's hand.

Mrs. Mo looked at the second wife, and saw that she smiled but didn't say anything to stop her, she had to take away the square box.

After Mrs. Mo's figure disappeared behind the bamboo curtain, the third lady asked the second lady, "How did you promise her? Second girl was dismissed from the engagement, how could she get married?"

The second wife said, "Today, Mrs. Mo Da came to break the engagement and gave us such a large amount of money. It was obviously determined to win. As for the excuse she found, she said that her son broke his leg and could not cure it. We don't know whether it is true or not. So we have to find someone to check it. If it is true, her son also agrees, and we cannot force it. But if it is false, this is a fraud to break the engagement. Of course, they cannot get what they want. If they want to break the engagement, they must also get out of the way. Such a second girl will not lose her reputation."

After hearing this, Old Lady Chu and the Third Lady had some reason, so they happily agreed and asked someone to investigate.

The second wife said again: "Don't worry. When I came in just now, I had already ordered someone to inquire about this. I believe there will be a result soon."

Sure enough, less than half an hour later, General Manager Chen came to the inner courtyard. He was the general manager of the outer courtyard and the confidant of Old Mrs. Chu. He said, "Second Madam, I found out that Mr. Mo did fall and injured his foot when he fell on a horse, but it was not so serious that he died. He just had a fracture and healed in two or three months."

When the old lady Chu heard this, her face turned dark.

The third lady said to the second lady: "Thank you. If you hadn't been in time and thoughtful, we would have been so angry that we had returned the marriage by the Mo family's actions of taking the money."

The second wife smiled and said, "It's also thanking Wu Yatou. She sent someone to call me over and reminded me to send someone to check the authenticity of Mrs. Mo Da's words."

The third lady was surprised. She didn't expect it would be Wu Yatou's idea, so she asked, "Where is Wu Yatou?"

The second wife said, "She has gone out and said she wants to buy something, I agree."

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