Chapter 1457 - 1460: Questioning_1
"Alright then!" Yangyang felt it was a shame he couldn’t take it with him.
He thought for a bit and then looked at the fish in the pond, asking, "Can I take a few fish with me?"
"Hey, you child, why do you always want to take things that are hard to carry?"
"Mom, I want to take some for my brother." Thinking he might not be allowed to, Yangyang pouted.
As soon as she heard it was for her eldest son, Yang Chuxia relented, "Alright, you find something to hold them in, but make sure the water doesn’t run out. And since you want to take them, you must take care of them yourself."
"Mm-hmm, don’t worry mom, I’ll definitely take good care of them."
Having gotten permission, Yangyang cheerfully went to pick out fish while Yang Chuxia continued to check the list, deciding what to bring along.
By the next day, Ms. Wang came over with Yang Xiayun, Ms. Zhang, and others to help out.
Soon everything was packed and ready for departure. Mu Shaoling had also sent a letter, agreeing to meet outside the county town.
As for the Zhang Family, ever since Ms. Zhang found out that her dowry was supplemented by Yang Chuxia, she felt displeased inside. She wanted to return the items to Yang Chuxia, but she was afraid that if she did during the moving process, Ms. Wang would blame her. If she didn’t return them, she still felt aggrieved inside. Of course, her anger wasn’t directed at Yang Chuxia but at her own family.
Therefore, on the day she returned to her parents’ home, she placed two empty chests on the carriage, intending to bring them back. The whole journey, she was so grim-faced that it gave Yang Qingrui quite a shock.
When they arrived at the Zhang Family’s, Ms. Zhang’s mother also saw her daughter coming in with a somber face and thought she had been mistreated in her marital home.
She was thinking of reprimanding Yang Qingrui when her daughter left, but then she heard Ms. Zhang hurry to ask, "Mom, where’s Dad?"
"Your father? He’s in the study, going over the account books."
Upon hearing this, Ms. Zhang said, "Mom, bring me the list of my dowry items!"
"Why do you need the dowry list!" Before Ms. Zhang’s mother could respond, Ms. Zhang’s father came out of the study and said, "Your mother has taken care of those things just fine."
"Never mind, you don’t have to give it to me. In any case, I know what was in those two chests." Saying this, she didn’t wait for anyone else’s help, but directly took the two empty chests down from the carriage and put them in front of her father, "Please tell me, dear father, where did the clothes and shoes that were supposed to be in these two chests go? And what’s the deal with this cornmeal?"
"What nonsense is this, how would I know where your clothes and shoes have gone? Weren’t those things provided by your mother?" Yang Qingrui noted that Ms. Zhang’s father seemed particularly evasive when he spoke these words.
"What’s going on, daughter?" At this point, Ms. Zhang’s mother still hadn’t grasped the situation.
"What’s going on? Mom, let me ask you, Dad says you’re the one who prepared my clothes and shoes, so where did the stuff in these two chests go? Did you really just let the movers carry two empty chests to the Yang Family? Do you think I’m not embarrassed enough? Look at this town, which girl doesn’t have at least twenty loads of dowry when getting married? I only had twelve, which was already few enough to be humiliating. But then you withheld two even from those. How could you? Are you trying to make sure I can never lift my head in pride again?"
Ms. Zhang’s mother was flabbergasted, this couldn’t be possible—those chests were surely full, weren’t they? How could they be empty?
Then, turning her head and seeing the clearly uncomfortable expression on Ms. Zhang’s father’s face, she immediately understood what had happened.
She couldn’t care less that Yang Qingrui was present and charged forward, "You old fool, I’m going to have it out with you today. Tell me what happened exactly? Our daughter has worked like an ox and a horse for so many years at home, and you can’t even give her some dignity when she’s getting married? I curse your stinginess, I curse your stinginess! Do you plan to clutch your silver even in death?"