Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 43

"Call the Shen family over here too!"

Shen Lingjun arrived a moment later.

As soon as she entered, Old Madam Qin sternly ordered her, "Return those three estates and two shops that you sold! Those are the Marquis's estate! What right do you have to sell them!"

Shen Lingjun remained calm and simply replied, "The Marquis has already given them to me, and I have the right to dispose of them as I see fit."

Qin Shaoze frowned and said, "That was an asset I gave you to rely on because I saw you had no dowry! How could you sell it! And at such a low price to your family!"

Shen Lingjun glanced at Qin Shaoze: "Since it's meant to be my support, shouldn't I sell it to make money when I can't make ends meet? The monthly allowance for Yufei Courtyard is only forty taels of silver, and the meals they send are all second- or third-class servants' food. If I don't make money, how will Yao'er, Xi'er, and I survive?"

Qin Shaoze knew that Liu Manman was withholding Yufei Academy's monthly allowance and food, but he turned a blind eye to it.

The majority of what the Marquis's mansion uses now is still Liu Manman's dowry. Liu Manman can pay whomever she wants, however much she wants; that's her freedom, and he shouldn't interfere.

As for using his own salary to subsidize Yufei Academy, that's absolutely impossible. His salary isn't even enough for his own expenses; how could a grown man like him not have any money on him?

Qin Shaoze still forced a smile and scolded, "Forty taels of silver is already a lot. Many families in the capital don't even spend forty taels of silver a year. If you're more frugal, how could you not make ends meet..."

Shen Lingjun sneered: "Your illegitimate child with Liu Manman enjoys all the riches and honors in the Marquis's mansion, and I have spent three years raising him, while my own children have suffered for three years in the countryside. Why should they suffer again after returning to the Marquis's mansion? This is what your family owes us. I will repay my children with every penny of the treatment Qin Xuanrui has enjoyed over the past three years, and even double it!"

Qin Xuanrui was furious: "You!..."

He was furious, but couldn't speak.

They were indeed in the wrong for switching the children, so he didn't know how to teach Shen Lingjun a lesson for the time being.

Old Mrs. Qin grew impatient: "Shaoze, don't argue with her. She thinks she can do whatever she wants? Dream on! Since when did she become the head of this manor? We must take back those properties!"

Qin Shaoze said with a troubled expression, "But she's already given it away..."

Grandma Qin scoffed, "So what if it's been given away? We can always get it back!"

He then shouted at Shen Lingjun, "Go to your mother's house and get those estates and shops back! Otherwise, don't blame me for using family discipline!"

Shen Lingjun: "Alright, Grandmother, return the 70,000 taels of silver I gave you for the medicine prescription, and I'll go to the Shen family and buy back those properties. According to your logic, the estates and shops belong to your Marquis's family, so you have the right to take them back; and the dowry is mine, so I also have the right to take it back, right?"

Old Mrs. Qin said angrily, "You offered your dowry to me to buy the medicine prescription, how can you take it back now!"

Shen Lingjun raised an eyebrow: "When the Marquis gave me these estates and shops, he did so voluntarily. So what if he gave them away? He can always take them back!"

"..."

Grandma Qin was so shocked by her own words that she nearly fell over.

"You vile woman!" she roared, pointing at Shen Lingjun, trembling with rage. "How could the Marquis's mansion have married such a rebellious and vile woman like you!"

Shen Lingjun loved watching Old Madam Qin's powerless rage.

She said leisurely, "Madam, if you have nothing else, I'll take my leave now. I suggest you put more effort into getting money from Madam Liu; it's easier to ask her for money than to ask me."

After saying that, he walked straight out.