Spoiling my mistress and swallowing my dowry? After my rebirth, I changed my marriage to a powerful

The old lady saw Xie Zhaozhao coming in and said happily, "You're back? Is your grandmother okay?"

"My grandmother is very nice, and everyone in my family is very nice." She handed the snacks to the old lady, who smiled and said, "My in-laws are very polite."

Mrs. Tu smiled and said, "Madam San seems to be not used to staying in the Marquis's Mansion? Why do you always go to Xie's Mansion?"

Xie Xiangxiang was also waiting to see the joke.

Xie Zhaozhao smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, are you missing your parents' home? Ouyang is a bit far away, but the Xie Mansion is close, so it's convenient for you to go back."

"I went back to Xie's house to inform my mother. I didn't go back home on my own."

As for what she was going to do, she did not explain.

Mrs. Tu was speechless for a moment, but Xie Xiangxiang started talking about the public accounts.

She took out all the silver and gave it to Gu Chengyan. She didn't know why she felt uneasy.

"Eldest sister, I looked at the account books for mother for a few days. The mansion is now in serious deficit. If I hadn't used my own money to supplement it in those days, there would be no money left in the account."

Xie Zhaozhao didn't say anything. She glanced at the old lady and Mrs. Tu. They were both pretending to be confused.

So she understood, this was to watch Xie Xiangxiang slaughter pigs to subsidize the Marquis' Mansion?

"Everything else is fine, but I want to ask, my eldest sister's sedan chair must cost at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Shouldn't this money be paid by the public?"

Xie Zhaozhao looked at her and didn't say anything. What else?

"Also, Lord Gu said that your betrothal gifts came from his own private treasury. But since there is no division of the family, he shouldn't be hiding his private treasury like this. Apart from the salary that comes out in the open, all income, no matter where it comes from, should be handed over."

Xie Xiangxiang said this and also pointed out that the Marquis' Mansion was in trouble and everyone should show sincerity and work together to overcome the difficulties.

In the final analysis, it meant that she was asked to take out a portion of the betrothal gifts and return it to the household of the Marquis.

After talking for a while, seeing that Xie Zhaozhao was just laughing and not saying anything, she said angrily: "What are you laughing at?"

"I laughed at you for not checking the accounts carefully." Xie Zhaozhao asked Tu, "Does your sister-in-law have the same opinion?"

Mrs. Tu said unhappily, "Now that you are married to the Third Brother, you belong to the Marquis' Mansion. We share the same fate. If the Marquis' Mansion is in trouble, how can you only rely on the First Wife?"

Xie Zhaozhao looked at the old lady, who said in a low voice, "Tu, you are in charge of the household affairs, so naturally you should figure out a solution. Why are you telling this to the third lady?"

Tu said, "Isn't this too difficult? Autumn is coming, and clothes need to be made. Mid-Autumn Festival banquets and crab banquets in various prefectures will be held. We can't just attend other people's banquets every year and not hold one at our own home, right?"

The old lady said, "Can't we collect some money from the shop? And the autumn harvest on the farm has come, right? Why can't we hold a banquet?"

Tu said, "All the money from the shop has been spent on family expenses, so how can we collect the money later? As for the farm, the harvest is not good either, and the owner wants to quit."

"Asshole, is this how you manage your household?" the old lady was furious.

Xie Zhaozhao didn't say anything either, just watched the passionate performances of the new and old generations of mothers-in-law.

Do you want to swallow her dowry like you did in your previous life?

Don't even think about it.

Sure enough, after a while of fussing, Mrs. Tu said directly: "Let's just hand over the household affairs to the Third Madam. She manages the household and the shop in her natal family. She is capable and still young. It is most appropriate to let her take charge."

The old lady looked at Xie Zhaozhao and said with a smile, "This is also a good idea. Third Madam, you will have to bear the brunt of this."

Xie Zhaozhao asked in surprise: "Mother also wants me to be the housekeeper?"

"Yes, you see, your sister-in-law and I are both old and incompetent. Over the years, we have never made the Marquis's house prosperous. You are capable of managing the household. If the Marquis's house can turn around under your leadership, it will be a blessing for our house and a blessing from the Marquis' spirit in heaven."

Xie Zhaozhao smiled and said, "Mother, since you've mentioned this, I'll also tell you what I'm thinking."

"Go ahead." Tu saw her smiling face and thought of how Xie Xiangxiang had excitedly accepted the question a few days ago. She secretly laughed at how young people couldn't help but give compliments.

"First of all, the sedan chair that the Crown Prince's wife mentioned," Xie Zhaozhao said, "did not cost the Marquisate a penny. As the head of the household, my sister-in-law must know this. Sister-in-law, don't you think so?"

Tu was too embarrassed to answer, and hesitantly said, "Maybe."

“No, since the sister-in-law can’t explain clearly, shall we check the account book now?”

What is "maybe"? We must make it clear all at once.

She turned to Manman behind her and said, "Go and call the second wife."

Mrs. Tu and the old lady tried to stop them: "Why did you call her here?"

Xie Zhaozhao said: "My mother and sister-in-law both want to hand over the household affairs to me, so naturally all the masters must be present, otherwise some people will be dissatisfied and it will be difficult to do this in the future."

The old lady and Mrs. Tu thought that she wanted to take over the household affairs, and were worried that the second wife would not agree, so they agreed and sent someone to call Mrs. Lu over.

Not long after, Mrs. Lu came over, glanced at Mrs. Tu and Xie Xiangxiang, and said with a smile, "Mother, what are you calling your daughter-in-law for?"

Xie Xiangxiang took the lead and said, "The third room needs to take over the household expenses. Ask the second aunt to come over and inform us about this together."

Lu's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

The eldest wife doesn't want to take it anymore, so she skips the second wife and asks the third wife to take it. Is this bullying the second wife?

Mrs. Lu blurted out, "Mother, the Second Master is your biological son, right? Why do you treat us like this? Normally, everything is given priority to the First House, but now even the Third House is going to surpass our Second House?"

The old lady wanted to scold her, but Xie Zhaozhao smiled and said, "Second sister-in-law, the prince's wife is joking! With the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law here, how can the third room be in charge of the household?"

Mrs. Lu shut up, and Mrs. Tu, Xie Xiangxiang and the old lady were all dumbfounded.

If you don't take care of the household chores, why did you ask Lu to come?

Xie Zhaozhao said: "The first wife, the second wife, and the prince's wife are all here, so I will talk about something."

First, she talked about the sedan chair, and she didn’t use a single penny from the public purse. She asked everyone if it was true?

Under Lu's pressure, Tu had no choice but to admit that she had not used a single penny from the mansion.

Then she mentioned the betrothal gifts, and she said, "Your Majesty and the Minister have told me that the betrothal gifts were given by His Majesty out of pity for the Minister who delayed his marriage for the sake of the country and the people. These betrothal gifts were all paid by His Majesty, and none of the money from the Marquis's Mansion was used. Is this true?"

Mrs. Lu's eyes widened and she asked Mrs. Tu, "Wow, I didn't know that you didn't prepare a betrothal gift for my third brother! Even if he went to Jiangnan for work, you couldn't not prepare a betrothal gift for him, right?"

Tu said awkwardly: "He didn't even mention the betrothal proposal..."

Mrs. Lu felt indignant and said, "My third brother is 28 and still unmarried, and you have been doing nothing about it. Are you planning to let him remain single for the rest of his life and then swallow up all his salary?"

This person is not fair. She simply doesn't get along with the Tu family, so she simply uses the matter of the third room to directly slap the Tu family in the face.

"My third brother was not at home when he proposed, so you couldn't embezzle his betrothal gift. Now you must make up for it and send him to the courtyard.

Otherwise, if you don't even give her a betrothal gift, how can you expect her to be filial to her mother?"