In her previous life, she was really blinded by beauty and treated her mother-in-law as her own mother. After experiencing so much, she realized that one cannot necessarily change one's heart, and her mother-in-law will never be her own mother.

Naturally, a daughter-in-law is not a daughter either. There is a blood relationship between them, and no one can cross the blood boundary.

Don't force some things.

But at that time, she was blinded by her own thoughts and didn't understand anything. She just accepted her fate.

Now I finally understand something in life. I know that being submissive will only lead to others taking advantage of you. This is the evil of human nature, bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Song Qingcheng replied in a low voice, "What are you talking about, mother-in-law? If I dress too plainly, outsiders will think that our Duke's Mansion has fallen on hard times and can't even afford a shirt. It's better to think this way. What if others think that I am mourning for someone in our mansion? Wouldn't that make me laugh?"

Xie suffered a heart attack due to choking.

The daughter-in-law now has so many people supporting her and is not afraid of her mother-in-law at all. Xie feels depressed, but she has no other good solution.

Besides, her third son doesn't agree with her.

That's why she couldn't control Song Qingcheng.

"Mom, please get down to business!"

Pei Huaiming felt very frustrated when he saw that they were talking about this and that but not the real business.

Hearing this, Song Qingcheng seemed not to understand.

I only heard my mother-in-law Xie say, "Something happened in the mansion recently. The whole family will prosper together and suffer together. If we want to overcome the difficulties, we need to work together.

Now the mansion needs 30,000 taels of silver. According to the situation of each branch, the third branch is well-off and has no grandchildren, so the third branch can have more. Moreover, when Huai went south, he took 5,000 taels from the public treasury. So, the third branch should take out 20,000 taels."

Song Qingcheng smiled softly, "Qingcheng didn't know what happened in this mansion, and she suddenly asked for so much money."

"You are a woman and a young person, so naturally you don't need to know." Xie said.

Song Qingcheng was completely speechless. It turned out that when people have no shame, they will say anything.

Song Qingcheng was silent for a moment, adjusted her mood, and asked again calmly, "How much?"

Mother-in-law thanked him and raised her chin. "Twenty thousand taels."

"Ah!"

Song Qingcheng finally couldn't help laughing.

"why are you laughing?"

Xie frowned.

"These two thousand taels are for paying off Second Uncle's debts, right?"

"How do you know?"

Once these words were spoken, it was clear that it was true, and mother-in-law Xie quickly changed her tone.

"It doesn't matter where you spend it, just take out the money."

In the end, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Xie, was no longer discussing with her, but ordering her.

Song Qingcheng pinched her delicate hand bones and said, "The salary of the Third Master is only 55 taels, but Mother-in-law asked us to take out tens of thousands of taels. Isn't that a bit unreasonable?"

"Third brother's wife, stop crying poor here. Everyone knows that when you married my third brother, you had a grand wedding with a bridal décor and a reward from His Majesty."

"Second uncle, what you said is so shameless. Since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, I have never heard of any decent family that would even touch a woman's dowry."

Song Qingcheng sneered.

Seeing that Song Qingcheng refused to give in, Shen Tanxiang said anxiously, "Even if the Duke's Mansion fails to lend the money, even if you don't consider your mother-in-law's face, you should at least consider your third uncle's future."

It's really something that can be thought of to threaten her with Pei Huaizhi's future.

But there is one thing that my mother-in-law, Mrs. Xie, said was right. This aristocratic family really believes in the principle of rising together and falling together.

She now has money in her hands. Some time ago, Pei Huaizhi threw her 100,000 taels of silver out of his madness, and she has not yet succeeded in returning it. Now the shop has made a lot of money, but she doesn't want to be the scapegoat.

"We don't have that much silver. Considering that Second Uncle is now a disabled man, we should return the five thousand taels that the public office should have given us, as a way to help Second Uncle deal with his aftermath."

Song Qingcheng returned.

The second young lady, Shen Tanxiang, strongly disagreed with the idea of ​​only five thousand taels.

Song Qingcheng looked calm, "If you agree to separate the mansion, I can take out 3,000 taels from my dowry to fill it in, so it will be 8,000 taels in total, how do you think?"

The eldest lady Wang Zhirou, who had been silent the whole time, immediately became upset when she heard about the division of the mansion. If the mansion was divided, wouldn't it mean that her family would be the only one left to bear this mess?

"Father-in-law, mother-in-law are in good health, and the brothers want to split up the family. It will be bad for your reputation if it gets out."

Wang Zhirou said.

"Sister-in-law, you got it wrong. It's not the brothers who want to split up the family, but our three branches are going to split up. If you agree to split up the family, then we will voluntarily give up the title of successor. How about that? Don't worry, everyone can think about it carefully."

I don’t know what the mother-in-law, Mrs. Xie, was thinking, but contrary to her usual behavior, she did not refute but agreed readily.

"I agreed!"

Xie said.

As soon as the words fell, everyone was shocked.

They all knew that Pei Huaizhi was in the emperor's favor at the moment, and they could gain a lot of benefits from it.

If the government is really divided, it will do them a lot of harm and no benefit.

Although Song Qingcheng didn't know why her mother-in-law Xie agreed so quickly, she just wanted the result. She would tell the reason later.

"Mother-in-law, have you thought it through?" Song Qingcheng asked.

Grandma Wang Zhirou was still struggling, "Mother-in-law, no!"

Mother-in-law Xie ignored Wang Zhirou's objection and said, "I've thought it over carefully."

"it is good!"

Song Qingcheng replied, and then ordered someone to write a notarized document.

"Does Huaizhi agree to this?"

Mother-in-law Xie looked at her suspiciously.

Song Qingcheng thought that he would thank her later.

But on the surface, she said, "Mother-in-law may be the master of father-in-law."

"Of course," Xie said with a confident look.

"The same goes for my daughter-in-law."

The two of them quickly signed and sealed the agreement in black and white.

No one could stop it.

Song Qingcheng didn't expect it to be so smooth, and tried her best to suppress the corners of her lips.

The die is cast, and there is nothing we can do about it.

Mother-in-law Xie asked, "Where's the silver?"

Song Qingcheng thought to herself how could she just take out the silver so easily? If she did so, wouldn't her true identity be exposed!

So she said helplessly, "Mother-in-law, eight thousand taels is not eighty taels. You should give us some time to raise the money."

Xie thought so too.

"Then hand it over to the government in three days."

Song Qingcheng shook her head and said, "Three days won't work, maybe seven days would be better."

She just wanted them to stay in suspense until the last moment during these seven days.

Xie had no choice but to agree.

Wait for mother-in-law Xie and everyone else to leave Chunhe Hall.

"close the door!"

Song Qingcheng ordered.

"Yes!" Dongmei walked forward angrily and slammed the door shut, as if there was something dirty outside.

"What bad luck!"

Dongmei said with an indignant look on her face.

But Song Qingcheng was open-minded. She believed that there was a way out in this world. Everything would turn around when it reached its extreme. It would be better to lose money to avoid disaster.

What's more, once the family is divided, there is no reason to stay together anymore.

The Duke's Mansion was just a rotten tree eaten by termites. She remembered that Second Master Pei Huaiming had done this more than once.

And apart from the fact that 5,000 taels of it were from the public, her loss amounted to 3,000 taels, which was still within an acceptable range.

"Dongmei!"

"girl?"

"Now, find some skilled bricklayers to build a wall in the place where we opened up before!"

Now that the government has been separated, we have to set up our own business.

The news of the branch government first reached the General’s Mansion.

General Song and his men were worried, so they called the man over to ask him what was going on.

After knowing the real reason, it is said that dividing the palace is also a good idea.

When Song Qingcheng's second brother learned that the Duke's Mansion had even set its sights on Song Qingcheng's dowry, he thought that this group of people were simply shameless!

Basically, all noble families have some shameful things to do.

Pei Huaizhi is the only outlier in the Duke's Mansion, and now he doesn't seem to be an ordinary person from the Duke's Mansion.

They all had to wonder whether Pei Huaizhi was adopted.

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