Aunt Liu stood outside the old lady's yard, begging constantly.

"Aunt Qi, please help me and let me go in to see the old lady!"

"Master and his wife are going to separate tomorrow, but our Second Master hasn't gotten married yet, so how can this family be divided?"

"Although the old lady is not the second master's biological mother, she is also his legal mother. The old lady has to make the decision for our second master!"

"Isn't it said that the old lady is kind and compassionate now, and even provides medical treatment and medicine to servants with minor injuries and illnesses? Are we mother and daughter even worse than servants?"

Mrs. Qi, the gatekeeper, was picking her ears inside the door, looking embarrassed.

"Madam Liu, it's not that I don't want to help. I've just informed the old lady, but she said she doesn't want to see him. There's nothing we can do!"

"If I let you in, then it will be our whole family that will be chased out!"

"That Bi He, she served the old lady. Her mother was Sister Yang, who came with the old lady as a dowry. Before she had anything to do with the Second Master, she was so respectable. But because she was too careless and sided with you, the old lady got angry and chased her away. She also chased away Bi He's entire family. Now she is no longer the old lady's companion!"

"The old lady is kind now, but she is also majestic. Now everyone in the courtyard listens to her orders. If anyone dares to be sneaky or sell things privately, then he will be expelled or not!"

Aunt Liu gritted her teeth, pulled out a gold-covered and silver-covered hairpin from her head, and stuffed it through the crack in the door.

"Aunt Qi, please do me a favor and go and tell the old lady. Just tell her that I, your servant, knelt down at the door. I won't get up until the old lady sees me!"

She really had no choice but to come and beg the principal wife, whom she had never liked before, in such a humbly manner.

If the old lady doesn't say a few words for the Second Master, the Master and the Madam will divide all of them out tomorrow. Given how stingy the Madam is, she would definitely give the Second Master only a hundred or two hundred taels of silver and then kick them out of the house!

By then, even the Second Master’s marriage might be ruined!

The second master is neither good at literature nor martial arts, and he doesn't know how to do business. He has never suffered any hardship since he was a child. The one or two hundred taels of silver will be gone in two years. Will he all be left to starve?

Mrs. Qi's eyes flashed, but she didn't dare to take the hairpin.

He just stamped his feet and said, "Forget it, Aunt Liu, wait a minute, I'll go and inform the old lady."

He came back after a while. Hearing the sound of the door being unlocked, Aunt Liu hurriedly thanked him.

"Forget it, aunt, please go in quickly, but don't make the old lady angry, or you will get me into trouble."

She had just gone to inform the old lady, and naturally she also mentioned the matter of the hairpin.

The old lady said that since the aunt had given it to her, she should take it.

If the master lets you take the benefits, it is not called betrayal!

Hehehe, it’s not a waste to give you a good hairpin, right?

Aunt Su met Aunt Liu in the small hall.

After not seeing each other for only half a month, the previously graceful Aunt Liu seemed to have aged ten years.

And this time he knelt with more sincerity.

"Madam, you are the old lady of the mansion, you must uphold justice and say something to the Second Master!"

This Aunt Liu was so arrogant when she was young!

If the old man has any good things, she has to pick them out first, and only after she has picked out the rest will she send them to the Su family.

Later, when she grew old and fell out of favor, she began to covet the things in the old lady's hands and wanted to give her own son a legitimate son.

The last time Ji cut expenses everywhere, she instigated everyone to make trouble, hoping that Su would step forward to confront her daughter-in-law.

Why didn't Aunt Liu instigate everyone this time?

Don’t you know that the old lady won’t buy it at all?

Moreover, even if the sky fell in the mansion, the old lady had her own dowry and a concubine. She would close the door and ignore everything. No one could say anything!

Aunt Liu knew that if she didn't let the old lady see her sincerity and the old lady ignored her, the mother and daughter would suffer a great loss tomorrow!

Therefore, she would be happy to kneel all night.

Aunt Su sat on the armchair, looking at Aunt Liu with interest, and raised her hand, "Help Aunt Liu up quickly!"

"If you have something to say, speak slowly. Don't kneel down all the time. I'm old now and I don't like people to bow to me."

After hearing this, Aunt Liu didn't know what the old lady meant, but she had to stand up with Su Mei's help and sit on the brocade stool that had been brought in.

"Wow, old lady, the eldest master and the mistress are going to divide the family property. With the mistress's personality, the second master might not get anything. The second master is still young and hasn't even started a family yet. I'm afraid he will have a hard time in the future..."

Aunt Su nodded and interrupted her.

"Now that the old master has passed away, you and your mother have no one to lean on. The first master and the second master are not born of the same mother. When the second master you gave birth to was young, he relied on his favor to get angry with the first master a few times. Now that the mansion is not making enough money, if Ji Shi counts the accounts and gives you a small shabby house and a hundred taels of silver as an excuse for too much deficit, it is indeed very likely that you and your mother will be sent away."

"When you were with the old master, you got a lot of good things from him, but you were used to extravagance and loved to show off. You bought a lot of the best rouge, powder, jewelry and fabrics. Although the jewelry is out of date, it is still worth some money. Rouge, powder and fabrics are used up, and they are worthless even if they are kept until now. You taught the second son to only know how to enjoy himself and not to have the ability to survive. Once he is separated from the Earl's Mansion, I am afraid that in a few years, he will become a complete pauper!"

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