Chapter 702: The hatred is hard to let go, and the second wife's fantasy begins to emerge
After seeing Li Wan off, Wang Xifeng had less and less interest in going out to manage affairs.
But after lying on the bed in the inner room for a while, I felt empty inside and couldn't calm down.
So she opened her sewing basket, hoping to find some sewing to while away the time.
But she was so busy every day that she might not do any sewing a few times a year. The sewing basket had been put away long ago, and she couldn't find it for a while.
He originally wanted to call Ping'er for help, but when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly remembered that he had sent Ping'er to the Sun Mansion to deliver a gift.
She had no choice but to rummage around the house - she had stored some private items in the past two years and didn't dare let anyone look through them.
Snap!
As she was rummaging through the cabinet, a small booklet fell out from the gap. Wang Xifeng looked down and found that it was the secret recipe for praying for a child that she had copied down.
Thinking of how she had once devoted herself to giving Jia Lian a son and how she had practiced the secret recipe for praying for a child, Wang Xifeng became furious. She grabbed the booklet, tore it into two pieces, threw it on the ground and stomped on it several times.
"Grandma, what are you looking for?"
Just when she was feeling unhappy, she heard Ping'er's voice coming from the door. Wang Xifeng turned around and saw Ping'er walking in a hurry with a small package in her hand.
"I didn't find anything."
Wang Xifeng answered casually, tilting her jade-like chin forward a little, and asked, "What's in that package? Could it be a return gift from my second sister?"
Ping'er shook her head, spread the small package on the coffee table and unwrapped it, revealing a thin booklet inside.
"What's this?"
Wang Xifeng picked it up and flipped through it casually, but her face immediately darkened.
It turned out that those pages were all records of the money that his brother Wang Ren had 'borrowed'. At first, it was only tens or hundreds of taels of money, but later it was thousands of taels at a time!
All these added together probably amounted to no less than 60,000 or 70,000 taels of silver, which fully accounted for 30% of the profits of the timber business in the south.
If we deduct the rest of the expenses, the income in the past two years may have been reduced by nearly half!
She had heard before that her brother had borrowed a lot of money from the general account kept by the Sun family in Jinling in the past six months, but she never thought that he had actually taken away so much money.
Sun Shaozong had kept it a secret before, but he sent this booklet just before the accounts were settled. What was his plan?
Could it be that...
The more Wang Xifeng thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She quickly pulled Ping'er over and asked, "What did Second Sister say? How are we going to settle the money that Uncle borrowed?"
"My aunt didn't say anything."
Ping'er shook her head and said, "Sun Tingwei has given instructions separately. What my uncle took was also counted as expenses. The remaining net profit is still divided equally between the two families. As for the debt owed by my uncle, if grandma can get it back, we will split it 70% and 30%."
Although it was not stated explicitly who would get third and who would get seventh, from what was said before, Wang Xifeng could guess that she would definitely get the largest share.
The clouds of the day dispersed the next morning, and I secretly thought that Sun Erlang was indeed an open-minded person - even if there was a high probability that I could not get the money back, but not everyone could have such a broad mind and tolerance.
It seems that I really chose the right partner!
While she was feeling complacent, she had long forgotten her initial suspicions towards Sun Shaozong.
But Wang Xifeng was happy for a moment, and suddenly she noticed that Ping'er's face looked different, and she didn't seem very happy.
He thought she was just impatient to go to Sun Erlang's house to have fun, so he teased her, "Why are you in such a hurry? When Lai Wang and the others come back from the south, there will be a time for you to escape from sea of suffering."
Ping Er shook her head and said, "Grandma, you misunderstood me. I got some news but I don't know whether to tell you or not, so I am in a dilemma."
Wang Xifeng saw that she was serious in her words and knew that she was always cautious and never exaggerated.
So he also restrained his smile, stretched out his hand to put on Ping'er's wrist, and said affectionately: "Although you are leaving, I still treat you as my sister. Is there anything we can't talk about in private?"
Although she knew that this statement would be discounted, thinking of the friendship between the master and servant over the years, Ping'er still sighed and told the whole story: "I heard from the second master of the Sun family that our master went to his house the day before yesterday to discuss the matter and wanted to borrow Xiaohong to have an heir."
Borrow an offspring from Lin Hongyu?
Wang Xifeng didn't react at first, but when she realized what this meant, she was so angry that she almost went crazy.
"What a heartless eunuch!"
Then she jumped up and down and cursed, "I don't mind that he is so vulgar and dirty, and I've been following him like a widow, but he still has to do so many tricks! Why doesn't God strike him to death with lightning when he is doing this? "
It was no wonder that Wang Xifeng was so angry. She had accepted that Jia Lian could not get pregnant in his current situation. But who would have thought that Jia Lian was still thinking of letting Lin Hongyu, a lowly creature, go to Sun Shaozong to borrow an heir!
If they really succeeded, wouldn't all the money I had worked so hard to save end up being given to the bastard? !
Especially Wang Xifeng, who was already worried that her position in the mansion would be replaced, was so angry that she threw everything aside, cursed a few words, and went to ask the old lady for an explanation.
Ping'er hurriedly stopped her and went to the outer courtyard to send several maids on duty back to the side rooms.
When they returned to the room, Wang Xifeng had calmed down a lot. She just sat there in a daze, not saying a word.
Ping'er couldn't help but sigh again, and at the same time secretly felt fortunate that she was about to leave Rongguo Mansion and no longer have to worry about these dirty things.
"Grandma, you..."
"go out!"
Ping Er was about to say a few more words of persuasion when Wang Xifeng suddenly raised her head and said viciously, "Do you still want to stay here and laugh at me?!"
This was not the first time Ping'er had been angered by her, and knowing that she had no place to vent her anger, she did not argue with her. She quietly left the hall and watched the movements around her from the corridor.
Wang Xifeng was left alone in the inner room, and she couldn't help but shed a string of tears.
But she was not a person who complained about herself. Soon she began to think with gritted teeth about how to destroy Jia Lian's plan and teach him a severe lesson!
But if they didn't completely break off relations and expose Jia Lian's private scandals in front of everyone in the house, how would it be easy to stop his absurd behavior?
But if these things were exposed, he would lose all his face and even offend Sun Shaozong...
What should we do?
When Wang Xifeng was frowning, she suddenly saw the broken secret recipe for praying for a child on the ground, and an absurd idea immediately popped up in her mind.
"Pah, pah, pah!"
Then she quickly spat a few times, blushing and putting the thought out of her mind.
But once this thought comes into being, how can it be completely forgotten?
