mtl008 Chapter 134 Let You Be Both a Leader and a Protagonist
Chapter 134 Let You Be Both a Leader and a Protagonist
Sun didn't expect to be slapped in the face and kicked out by Xu.
She stood at the door of Xu's house, and her heart trembled as she watched the gate being slammed shut.
She had been thinking about Xu's preferences almost every day in the past few years, so how could she not see that she was really angry this time and really wanted to break up with her.
It would be fine if they just cut off all ties, but she is just looking for another scapegoat.
But all the benefits she had gained from Xu over the years...how could she have the money to pay back Xu?
The Liu family was so poor that they couldn't even take out five hundred taels from the treasury to support servants, and they had only a few maids and old women in each of their rooms.
She returned home with a sad face and went to her mother-in-law Pang's room again.
When Pang Shi saw the slap mark on her face, he just rolled his eyes and laughed at her incompetence.
"Okay, I'll make a special trip to the Xu family tomorrow. I don't believe that the Xu family won't even give me face."
At worst, the candidate for marriage could be replaced from a girl born from a concubine's family to a girl born from a legitimate family.
If Xu is still unhappy, it is not impossible to let the eldest son's second daughter marry into the Xu family.
As long as you marry their eldest daughter, you must give her enough betrothal gifts!
After sending Sun away, Pang had already started calculating in her mind how much dowry she would ask for.
The legitimate daughters of their Liu family are extremely precious.
Pang Shi had been planning for the whole night, but when she arrived at Xu's house early the next morning, Xu Shi was so angry when she heard her shameless words that she almost resorted to violence again.
"The deadline I gave Sun Yingxia yesterday was this afternoon. Since your family is clearly going to cheat, I will file a complaint with the authorities now."
Xu asked the nanny beside her to chase away Pang, who came with the betrothal gift list. Then, ignoring Pang's finally ugly expression, she changed her clothes and went straight to Shuntian Mansion with the list.
With Cuizhu around, Lu Xinran learned almost immediately that Xu did not give the Liu family any face and immediately went to Shuntian Prefecture after driving Pang out of the house.
She quickly asked Tracy to help her change her clothes, and then went to the Pei courtyard. Together with Lu Xinlan and the two younger sisters from the second room, she hurried out and headed straight for Shuntian Mansion.
When they arrived, the court had already begun. Xu was standing in the middle of the room, taking the list from the nanny and then stepping forward to hand it to the officer.
"Your Excellency, please be advised that the second wife of the Guanglu Temple Minister, Madam Sun, has used various excuses to defraud me of tens of thousands of taels of silver in clothing, furs, and other items over the past four years.
"Here is the IOU written by Sun to me. I beg you to help me get these things back."
Xu never lacked money. When Sun complained, she sent some emergency clothing to Liu's house without thinking twice.
Originally, she had offered to give these things, but Sun had insisted on signing a written receipt, saying that the escorts and these were borrowed by her, and that she would repay them in silver or other items of equivalent value when the family had enough money in the future.
All year round, every time Sun received benefits from her, she would hypocritically write a written receipt.
This is also why Xu had the confidence to sue the officials.
Lu Xinran looked at the thick stack of documents and felt gloating.
Sun was now afraid that she might break her thigh.
If she had been shameless enough to take advantage before, she wouldn't be in the trouble now.
In the court, Song Junyan looked at the documents handed to him one by one, and suddenly a sentence Lu Xinran said flashed through his mind.
Does this person catch the rain with his head when it rains?
Otherwise, why is my brain full of water?
"Go and tell the second wife of the Guanglu Temple Minister, Mrs. Sun, to come to Shuntian Prefecture."
"Yes, my lord."
Sun came very quickly. Her right eyelid had been twitching since she woke up this morning. She had originally hoped that Xu would give her mother-in-law some face since she came to visit. However, she did not expect that Xu would be completely enraged and come directly to file a complaint with the authorities.
Before she left, Pang Shi scolded her a lot. She was worried and thought about the IOUs she had written over the years. She didn't want to pat her thigh, but wanted to slap herself twice more.
Quite a few people had gathered outside the court. They had all heard that it was another official suing another official, and had come to watch the fun.
Lu Xinran looked at Sun's pale face and sighed in his heart.
[You're always trying to take advantage of others and still think you're noble. Now you know you're doomed? ]
[You actually want to marry a concubine's daughter to Madam Xu's son? ]
[Where did the Liu family get the confidence to think that all the girls in their house were extremely valuable? ]
[Using a concubine's daughter to marry someone else, are the Liu family sure this won't humiliate the Xu family? ]
Sun's face turned pale and she wanted to turn around and shout "Shut up".
But when she met Xu's fiery gaze, she quickly turned her head and bowed to Song Junyan in panic.
This kind of case is not difficult to interrogate. The IOU is written clearly. Now that the debt is being collected, Sun and the Liu family behind her have no choice but to repay it.
"Mrs. Liu, did you write these IOUs?"
He pointed to the IOUs beside him: "Nineteen in total."
Sun's body shook slightly, and the thought of slapping herself popped up again.
She responded in a dry and low voice, "Yes, it was established by your wife."
"Well, just acknowledge these documents. Madam Xu, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, wants to take back these properties. I want to ask you when you will return them?"
Sun's body shook again. Her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law in the house had no idea that all the clothes and property she had asked for before were written as IOUs.
She was so flustered that she didn't know what to do. The noisy discussions behind her suddenly became infinitely amplified, as if everyone was arguing in her ears.
Her head was buzzing, her vision gradually went dark, and her body went limp and she passed out.
Xu snorted in disgust. He was so helpless and yet he had the nerve to look down on her!
"Sir, in the past few years, Sun has come to my house to ask for clothes and property, all at the behest of her mother-in-law Pang. Since she fainted and cannot give you an answer, I beg you to summon Guanglu Temple Madam Pang to Shuntian Prefecture."
Her words immediately excited the onlookers, and Lu Xinran felt even more excited.
[It comes, it comes, let's see what shameless words Pang Shi can say in court. ]
[She went to the Xu family today and actually brought a betrothal gift list with her, asking them to bring the betrothal gift list she had prepared to ask for the girl in their house to marry her.]
[Has the Liu family gone crazy because of poverty? They have even started selling their daughter. ]
The more Lu Xinran looked, the more surprised he was. [They are so poor, yet they have to keep so many concubines and make them die. This Liu Mansion should have the most masters among all the mansions in the capital, right? ]
[Does she think of herself as a pig, or does she think raising pigs is easy, that she can survive by feeding them pig food, and then when they grow up she can be traded for money? Tsk, giving the man a list of betrothal gifts, I've never seen anything like this before.]