Chapter 1511 - 322, Where Did the Marriage Gifts Go (Part 3 Update)_2
Tian Hui has a gentle temperament and a generous heart, and she has a good relationship with Lin Yuan, naturally, she wouldn’t mind these things. But still, she jokingly teased Xia Zheng: "Mother’s right, initially your elder brother even gifted me a residence! You can’t be less generous than your elder brother!"
Xia Zheng grimaced, pretending to be very aggrieved: "The estate outside the city that elder brother got, was bestowed upon him by the Emperor. I haven’t gained military merits by fighting battles, how could I have such a grand estate?"
Xia Yuan, who had been sipping tea with his eyes downcast, suddenly spoke languidly: "In this recent crushing defeat of Xiliang, didn’t Your Majesty award you quite a lot of lands and estates? I think it would be good to give those to your wife, so you won’t end up filling the debt holes if you ever lose money in business!"
Hearing this, Princess Anle and Tian Hui looked at each other and smiled, nodding in agreement.
Xia Zheng blinked and said: "Those estates and lands are naturally all for my wife. However, when have I ever lost money in business? Impossible!"
The family was talking inside the room when Qiu Ju and Dong Mei came back from the storeroom with the gift list, entering with troubled expressions and reported: "Princess, a lot of items have inexplicably disappeared from the storeroom, we dared not delay and hurried back to report."
A lot has gone missing?
Princess Anle took the gift list and looked at it; when Xia Zhen and Tian Hui got married, Princess Anle had prepared two identical betrothal gifts. Not only for these two sons but even for Xia Hen, the younger uncle, she had prepared a betrothal gift, although his being an elder meant his gift was slightly better.
Both Xia Hen and Xia Zheng were yet to be engaged, so the betrothal gifts should have been untouched in the storeroom, but why now when looking again, half of it was missing? Particularly missing were the parts belonging to Xia Zheng’s gifts!