At dawn the next day, those who were literate discovered that the reward had been increased from one thousand taels to three thousand taels. There were many more people gathered in front of the notice to read it than in the previous two days.
But it was really just that there were so many people watching, and no one dared to tear it up.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, three thousand taels of silver."
"What are you talking about? You can't even think of three hundred taels of silver. You butchering pigs and selling meat, you should be reborn to study medicine. Smallpox has disfigured your face. I heard the doctor at the medical center said that Hua Tuo would not be here even if he were alive. Will tear..."
"hiss……"
Someone tore the notice down.
"Someone tore it up."
"I'm not blind."
"Can he really be cured?"
"who knows!"
"Hurry and catch him, don't let him escape."
"Why are you arresting him? Does he know how to see a doctor?"
"You're stupid. It's better if you can see a doctor. If he doesn't know how to see a doctor, he tears up notices. Can the Chengyang Marquis Mansion spare him? If we catch him, the Chengyang Marquis Mansion might even give him a reward!"
"That makes sense!"
A group of people swarmed up and chased the young man who tore up the notice. But the young man was like a slippery loach, throwing away the chasing group of people in a few clicks.
When the information about this matter reached the Chengyang Marquis Mansion, Du Shi gritted his teeth and said, "Is it because the reward is too low?"
Xu Wanning raised her eyebrows, three thousand taels, hehe, "Mom, dad's salary for one year is only one thousand taels. Three thousand taels is dad's salary for three years. It's already not low."
Du Shi glanced at Xu Wanning and said dissatisfiedly: "When has this happened, and you still care about these two thousand or three thousand? Your son's face is not more important than money?"
"It's because An Ning is short-sighted." Xu Wanning agreed: "Mother is very affectionate, so An Ning thanked mother for brother Ping."
"Then repost it, first add one thousand taels, then four thousand taels. If it's not enough, add more." Du wanted to add it to five thousand taels in one go, but Xu Wanning said that the Marquis of Chengyang only needs one year. It's just a thousand taels of salary, so it's a bit restrained.
Xu Wanning agreed.
On the way back to Ningyuan, Xu Wanning was in a good mood, while Hongmei followed behind, worried.
Xu Wanning noticed it, "There is something on your mind?"
"My slave has something to say, I don't know whether to say it or not." Hongmei hesitated to speak.
Xu Wanning smiled and said softly: "You can say whatever you want. There is nothing you shouldn't say."
Hongmei finally plucked up the courage, "Madam, the reward of 4,000 taels of silver for treating the young master's illness is just the beginning. I am afraid that more than this 4,000 taels will be spent in the end."
Madam is so popular. One thousand taels plus two thousand taels. The Marquis' annual salary is only one thousand taels. If you really want to use the money from the Hou Mansion, can Madam be so generous?
Don’t you still want the lady to pay for it?
But that’s the young lady’s dowry. How dare someone from the Marquis’ mansion use it!
"Four thousand taels?" Xu Wanning sneered: "How can it be enough? You have to spend ten thousand taels anyway!"
Hongmei's frown deepened: "But Miss, there are only thirty thousand taels of silver left in the account."
The stewardship of the Hou Mansion is still in the hands of Mrs. Du, and she has inexhaustible money to spend. How can Mrs. Du be willing to let go of the stewardship?
Twenty years after her previous life, Mrs. Du was almost sixty and still clinging to the stewardship of the Hou Mansion. Therefore, the thirty thousand taels left in Hongmei's account were her dowry.
"Thirty thousand taels..." Xu Wanning looked at Ning Yuan, who was getting closer and closer, with a cold expression: "When I married into the Chengyang Marquis Mansion, the silver in my dowry was one hundred thousand taels, right?"
"Yes, one hundred thousand taels." Hongmei nodded.
But it took six years and only cost 70,000 taels.
"Seventy thousand taels were spent in six years. This much money, with Cui Lu's salary, can be used for seventy years." Xu Wanning sneered again and again, "Since Mrs. Du likes Brother Ping so much, she will pay for Brother Ping's treatment. Face, that's what it should be. As a daughter-in-law, I can't compete with my mother-in-law, don't you think?"
"Hongmei thinks so too."
The little maid was happy, but Xu Wanning was not happy at all.
The door of her warehouse was wide open, and anyone could come in and out. No one would ever say a word to her when taking things from inside.
The entire Hou family, whether the master or the servants, had long regarded Xu Wanning's dowry as the property of the Hou family.
Xu Wanning stepped into the warehouse.
Looking at the already slightly empty warehouse, Xu Wanning looked a little dazed.
She married into the Marquis of Chengyang Mansion, and it would be an exaggeration to say that she would have a bright future.
Because something happened before marriage, in order to make up for it and not want people in the Hou family to look down on their daughter, the Xu family gave her a lot of things, including gold, silver, jades, jewelry, calligraphy, paintings and antiques. Everything was priceless, just silver. Just one hundred thousand taels for dowry.
This warehouse was so packed that I couldn't even turn around.
The Marquis of Chengyang would be extremely rich if he had a daughter-in-law.
Xu Wanning still remembers that during the two years when she first married into the Chengyang Marquis Mansion, her parents-in-law smiled brightly every time they saw her, coaxing and supporting her, saying that from now on we were a family, and a family should share blessings and share hardships. .
She was so stupid at the time. Xu Wanning felt heartbroken when she saw that the Hou Mansion was so fussy about life, that her parents-in-law were reluctant to part with them even if they wanted to eat something good, and that the clothes they wore were all the same from a few years ago.
When she felt distressed, she opened the warehouse.
From that time on, Mrs. Cui Lu and Du no longer lived a shabby life. She ate well and generously. She made five sets of clothes every quarter, as well as all kinds of jewelry and hair. Her servants also added One after another, Cui Lu's annual salary of one thousand taels was not enough for all the expenses. Naturally, all of them came from Xu Wanning's treasury.
Xu Wanning has never thought that any good family would care about their daughter-in-law's dowry?
The Cui family not only used it, but also used it greedily. Not only did they use up her dowry, they were still thinking about the Xu family's property.
These are not humans at all. They are a group of white-eyed wolves that are worse than animals. Their appetites are getting bigger and bigger, and their hearts are getting more and more vicious.
In six years, he spent 70,000 taels of silver, and the gold, silver, jade, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings in the warehouse were also reduced by half. Not only can he turn around, but he can also wallow in it.
Xu Wanning looked at the somewhat empty warehouse, and then looked at the missing items on the family's dowry list, feeling heartbroken.
"Hongmei, lock the warehouse. From now on, no one is allowed to step foot here again without my instructions."
"Yes." Hongmei soon brought a lock as big as an adult man's fist and locked the warehouse tightly.
No one can take another copper plate from her warehouse in the future. Not only that, she also wants the Hou Mansion to spit it out as it was eaten.
The first person to know the news that the warehouse was locked was Aunt Chun.
Because she took Du's order to the warehouse to get a white jade Guanyin statue.
A lot of things have happened at home recently, and Mrs. Du wanted to open a small Buddhist temple to pray to God at home.
When Grandma Chun saw the lock, which was comparable to an adult man's fist, she weighed it and felt unhappy, "Who locked the warehouse door?"
No one answered her words, so Grandma Chun had no choice but to go to Xu Wanning.
"Young Madam, Madam wants the white jade Guanyin statue and ordered the slave to go to the warehouse to get it, but the warehouse is locked..." Aunt Chun said, "Isn't the warehouse usually never locked?"
Xu Wanning put down the book and looked at Aunt Chun in surprise: "Do you have any opinions on whether my warehouse is locked or not?"
