Chapter 119: Dowry at the bottom of the box
Chapter 119 The dowry at the bottom of the box
Although the lock on the door was hung up intact, it was already damaged.
Chu Nanzhi took off the door lock, rushed into the cabin first, and looked for the box where she kept her jewelry. As she expected, Chen shi took away all the silver jewelry.
She remembered that the three pieces of jewelry were from the original owner's dowry. Although they were not as valuable as gold and jade jewelry, they were extremely exquisite in workmanship. I have always treasured it.
However, Chu Nanzhi didn't like it, so she just kept the four treasures in the box after they were returned to her.
Just about to go to the inner room to check the situation, just as he took a step, he heard Liu Yun's hysterical voice resounding throughout the room:
"Damn Mrs. Chen is really devoid of conscience. She takes everything. How many times has she not eaten?"
Chu Nanzhi heard the sound and rushed over, and when he got to the kitchen, he saw a mess all around.
She took a closer look, and found that the tens of catties of rice, noodles and half a barrel of sesame oil stored on the chopping board were gone. Looking at the vegetable rack she built, the two pieces of cured bacon were gone. .
This is really annoying.
Liu Yun put her hands on her hips, she couldn't care less about decency, and began to vent viciously in front of the neighbors outside the yard: "This **** old woman, my daughter is not dead yet, so she came to the house and killed everything, even the salt The jars were all removed."
She didn't know that Chu Nanzhi still kept rice noodles and marinated bacon, but the salt shaker was a very valuable thing, and it was a fashionable blue and white ceramic in this era.
Just because it was the first time to marry a daughter, the couple was very generous, and worried that their daughter would marry into her husband’s family without knowing how to survive, and sooner or later she would spend all the dowry, so they deliberately paid for this inconspicuous dowry without telling the daughters. I took some thought.
Chu Nanzhi didn't know, so she was a little curious to see Liu Yun being so distressed by a salt shaker.
When she cooks every day, she only thinks that the pot looks good, but she doesn't notice anything different. Any item from this year can be called an antique in her own era, but if she is asked to distinguish it Naturally, they are much the same.
The twenty or thirty taels of silver jewelry were all gone. How could she care about a salt shaker? She stared at Liu Yun in bewilderment, and asked carelessly: "What does mother care about a salt shaker? It's not something expensive?"
"Where's my silly daughter."
Liu Yun glanced at her angrily, and said in a low voice, "That's the dowry that my mother gave you at the bottom of the box."
"The dowry at the bottom of the box?"
Chu Nanzhi was taken aback when she heard that, this mother was really incomprehensible, she actually used a salt jar as the dowry at the bottom of the box.
Liu Yun replied with a bitter face: "When you got married, Mr. Jiang Wenli, the master pottery master in the county, was promoted to the official pottery maker. I bought this piece of porcelain because I was afraid that you would not live up to it and I will keep it for you in the future."
"One hundred taels of silver?"
Chu Nanzhi looked shocked, and couldn't believe that such an insignificant thing could be worth a hundred taels of silver.
Liu Yun frowned even deeper: "Mr. Jiang is famous all over the world now, but the jar is still a matter of one hundred taels of silver. I have to chase the jar back no matter what."
After finishing speaking, she ran outside in a hurry, and Chu Nanzhi followed suit.
When he got to the courtyard, he saw three carriages had already parked in front of the courtyard gate. The one who came down was none other than the young son-in-law Liu Shuyang, followed by a middle-aged man, surrounded by three elders The old man and several younger young men.
Chu Nanzhi didn't have a deep impression of these people, but when she saw Liu Shuyang's figure, she immediately guessed that they were the head of the Lin family and the elders.
In my impression, most of the members of the Lin family live in the county town, and they are all followers of power. Since the death of Lin's father, they have rarely interacted with this family.
But it is about the honor and disgrace of the Lin family. No matter how snobbish these old people are, they will not stand idly by what the Chen family does.
On this point, Chu Nanzhi still believed in Lin Jinxiao's judgment from the bottom of her heart.
Seeing Liu Yun walking in a hurry as if she was about to go out, several old men stopped their mother and daughter immediately. The middle-aged man in the lead asked with a smile while saluting: "Old sister, what are you going to do?" ?”
Recently, several major events in the county were caused by her daughter. Several old people heard about it, but when they saw this lowly woman with little insight, they paid a little more respect than before.
"doing what?"
Liu Yun said with a sullen face: "Patriarch Lin, elders, you should ask your good daughter-in-law of the Lin family."
Several old men looked at each other and glanced at Liu Shuyang who was standing beside him, and they had some ideas in their minds.
Patriarch Lin still greeted him with a smile on his face, and asked in his own voice, "What items are lost at home, but are they still valuable?"
Liu Yun stroked her chest angrily, and motioned to Chu Nanzhi: "Dazhi, tell your uncles what you lost."
"Others are fine, but the grain, oil, rice and noodles in the kitchen, and the salt jar, are not worth much money, but there are three pieces of jewelry that are the dowry brought by the family, and they are also the beloved things of the slave family. They must not be lost. "
Chu Nanzhi replied calmly, and Liu Yun became even more angry when she heard it, feeling that her daughter couldn't understand the point at all, puffing her cheeks and trying to refute, Chu Nanzhi hurriedly blocked her He went back and said, "Mother, the house is very messy, you accompany me in to clean it up, so that uncles and uncles can rest in the hall."
Currently all the valuable items in the house are in Mrs. Chen's hands. Anyone with eyes can understand the value of silver jewelry, but the salt shaker is different.
The original owner didn't even know that it was a valuable object, and Mrs. Chen just walked along because she thought it looked good. If she knew that the salt jar was worth so much money, she would use some tricks to hide it. If you admit it, not only will you not be able to hold her accountable, but you will also have to pay the dowry at the bottom of the box.
So for the time being, nothing can let everyone know the true value of the salt shaker.
Liu Yun couldn't understand what her daughter was thinking, but seeing her meaningful eyes, she didn't dare to say any more, and fell silent in a depressed manner.
The members of the Lin family became angry on the spot when they heard Chu Nanzhi's words, and the patriarch Lin clenched his fists and gritted his teeth in hatred, and couldn't help scolding: "It's really embarrassing, it's just discrediting the dead Tingshu, and embarrassing my Lin clan. "
As he said that, he looked at Liu Yun's mother and daughter with gentle eyes, and calmly comforted him: "Old sister, Nan Zhi, don't be angry, you can rest assured, I came here today with several elders of the clan for this purpose , will definitely give your family a satisfactory explanation."
Afterwards, his eyes turned sharply and deeply, and he glanced at the young gentlemen behind him, and shouted in a solemn voice: "Quickly go and tie the Chen family here."
Seeing the young gentlemen running out of the yard in a hurry, Chu Nanzhi quickly called the little son-in-law over, and whispered to him: "Shu Yang, you follow, nothing else is important, you must Give me back the three pieces of jewelry that Mrs. Chen took, and don't let her hide them."
After exhorting this sentence, she pretended not to care and added: "Oh, there is also that salt shaker, if Mrs. Chen didn't break it, you can try to bring it back to sister safe and sound. I have used it for many years and I am used to it. Yes, if it is suddenly lost, I really feel a little bit reluctant.”
(end of this chapter)