My Dowry Covered 16,850 Taels

Madam Cheng was momentarily stunned by the question, "Yes! What should I do now?"

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and asked, "Who pays for the expenses of this household?"

The old nanny beside her chimed in, "All the expenses in our household are covered by our mistress."

Zhou Wanwan looked at Madam Cheng and said:

"Then let's take the first step. Since she likes the housekeeper, just let her manage it!"

Make sure all your accounts are settled. From now on, your dowry is your dowry and has nothing to do with anyone else.

Madam Cheng, if you were to put it in modern terms, would be a hopeless romantic; to put it bluntly, she'd be like Wang Baochuan.

She's clearly a rich heiress, yet she insists on doing this thankless and arduous job.

Madam Cheng frowned and said, "You mean I won't be responsible for the household's expenses from now on? But there are so many people in this household..."

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and said, "It's not that I'm telling you to completely ignore the household's expenses. The people here are all born into the household, so naturally you have to take care of them. Why should you care about the others?"

Madam Cheng nodded and said, "I understand. I'll have someone calculate the accounts immediately."

By noon, the accounts were settled; the Cheng Family owed her 16,850 taels of silver.

She looked at Zhou Wanwan and asked, "What should we do with all this money?"

Zhou Wanwan smiled and said:

"Then naturally we should ask County Magistrate Cheng for money! Since he wants Feng Caigu to manage the Cheng Family."

Using the daughter-in-law's dowry money is definitely inappropriate.

Any man with a shred of self-respect would pay back the money.

Lord Cheng came over early in the morning and said:

"Hand over the pair of cards in your hand to Feng Caigu."

Even if you had this hand, you still wouldn't be able to manage this household.

Feng Jiao looked at him, expressionless, and said:

"Giving her the cards is fine, but I don't want to take care of this family."

But I included 16,850 taels of silver in my dowry, and you have to return that to me.

Feng Caigu chuckled and said:

"Cousin, your husband is also worried that you won't be able to manage the household well."

Besides, your health hasn't been good all these years, so why are you making such clear distinctions?

Madam Cheng stared coldly at her and said, "Do you have any right to interrupt? Cheng Xiao, you wouldn't be unwilling to return my dowry money, would you?"

Cheng Xiao scoffed coldly:

"Open my storeroom and return my wife's dowry money to her, lest outsiders say that I have embezzled my own wife's dowry."

Feng Jiao, you're being too willful! Haven't I been good enough to you?

You said you wanted to be with one person for life, and I still haven't dared to take a concubine. I've been quite lenient with you. What are you dissatisfied with?

"If it weren't for the fact that you're not in good health and can't manage the household, do you think I would want Feng Caigu to run this household?"

Feng Jiao sat in the chair, looking at the two people without saying a word.

If she hadn't witnessed them being all lovey-dovey yesterday, she would never have imagined that these two would be in cahoots.

Looking at the two people, Feng Jiao felt nauseous and almost threw up.

The steward coughed and said, "Sir, I've retrieved all the money from your treasury; there's only a little over 6,000 taels in total."

Cheng Xiao looked somewhat embarrassed. "How could there only be this much? Feng Jiao, where did you put my money?"

Feng Jiao sneered:

What do you mean, "Where did I put your money?"

Every single income and expenditure of yours has been meticulously recorded, and I have never touched a single penny of your money.

"Since I married you all these years ago, I've never used a single penny of your family's money; on the contrary, I've covered all the household expenses."

Cheng Xiao looked at her and said, "So you're blaming me? Don't talk to me with that condescending expression."

Are you in debt now? You still owe me over 10,000 taels of silver. How do you plan to pay me back?

Cheng Xiao shouted, "Uncle Zhong, take out my estate and shops to pay her off, isn't it just ten thousand taels?"

Uncle Zhong quickly came out carrying several land deeds and said, "Sir, you only have three shops and two farms left. Why don't you just forget about them?"

"Give her ten thousand taels, so she won't accuse me of using her dowry. My Cheng Family isn't that lowly."

The steward said helplessly, "Then our family only has one estate left."

"Give it to..." Cheng Xiao was a very proud person, and quickly took care of these matters.

Cheng Xiao looked at her and said:

"Feng Jiao, someone as selfish as you only deserves to live off these estates and shops."

Even though you can only have daughters, I've never looked down on you.

Feng Jiao chuckled softly, a hint of bitterness in her eyes:

"You've probably forgotten that I used to have children, but back then your mother wanted to establish rules, so she made me kneel for an hour."

They literally made that child kneel and lose it, and now they're blaming me for not being able to have children.

That year, it snowed heavily, and I injured my body, which is why I couldn't have children later. Now you're blaming all the blame on me, isn't that inappropriate?"

Zhou Wanwan looked at Cheng Xiao coldly, finding this scumbag utterly disgusting.

She also felt sorry for Feng Jiao. Cheng Xiao scoffed and said, "You remember it quite clearly. Alright, you can stay in the courtyard! From now on, Feng Caigu will be the one to call the shots in our Cheng Family."

Feng Caigu looked at her and said:

"Sister, I have no other choice but to do this reluctantly. Please don't blame me!"

I'll take Yueyao with me too. After all, I've raised her since she was little, and she's not used to being with you!

Feng Jiao sneered:

"I won't trouble you with my daughter. You should focus on taking good care of your own son."

"Who knows what your fat, big-eared son will become?"

Feng Caigu looked at Cheng Yueyao with a half-smile and said, "Yueyao, are you coming with me or staying with your mother? You'd better think it through."

Cheng Yueyao suddenly spoke up, "I want to stay with my mother. I want to stay with her."

"Alright, alright, since you like your mother so much, then stay here!" With that, Feng Caigu left.

Cheng Xiao looked at the mother and daughter and said, "Stay quietly in the backyard."

After saying that, she left. Feng Jiao hugged Cheng Yueyao and burst into tears.

The old woman sighed and said, "Miss, you've finally seen his true colors this time, haven't you? You never believed anything the Madam and Master said before."

Cheng Yueyao cried, "I poured my heart out to him, but why did he treat me like this? I never imagined it was all an illusion."

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and said, "Godmother, I think it's not too late to see him for who he really is. Let me take your pulse too!"

She took Feng Jiao's pulse directly and said:

"You have liver qi stagnation. You didn't take good care of yourself after giving birth, so your body was already weak. You also ate some unclean food, which caused toxins to accumulate in your body."

You need to be careful; someone might be secretly poisoning you.

This poison won't cause immediate harm, but if left untreated for too long, the body will gradually weaken, the damage will become more and more severe, and eventually, the body will collapse.

Feng Jiao's face turned deathly pale as she said, "You mean... someone also tampered with my food and drink, drugged me?"