Unlike when she was thin before, she didn’t dare to eat this or that. Sometimes, when she was really greedy and wanted to eat some sweet candied fruit, she could only take a small bite and slowly satisfy her craving.
Now that she had become fat, she couldn’t be more carefree.
But it was one thing to give up on herself, and it was another thing to be pointed out by a junior.
Especially when Yu Wu just said that she compared her with a county landlord’s wife, who was a fat woman who had never seen good things in her three lives and ate meat crazily when she saw it.
“You!”
Mrs. Xiao Wu angrily slammed her chopsticks on the table.
If Ling Yaodong hadn’t cast a threatening look at her, she would have wanted to use her status as an elder to teach this dumb wild girl a lesson.
“Second Madam.”
Seeing her niece so vulnerable, Old Mrs. Wu was very disappointed. But her natal’s family had become more and more declining in recent years. If she hadn’t wanted to help her family, she wouldn’t have married her son to such a stupid woman.
For so many years, she had been trying to train her, but she was still a useless person, only able to compete with the women in the backyard. All her brains were on fighting concubines and illegitimate sons and daughters.
Before her legitimate grandson Ling Zijian was born, every time the second branch gave birth to a concubine’s son, another one died. Old Mrs. Wu knew that her niece must have been behind this, but she couldn’t catch her.
If she could use this scheming method on the first branch, why would she worry that the title would not fall to the second branch?
Thinking of this, Old Mrs. Wu glared at her stupid niece again.
Mrs. Xiao Wu had already been wronged, and she was glared at by her mother-in-law, which made her even more wronged.
“The Seventh Girl is really filial.”
Seeing that Mrs. Xiao Wu stopped talking, Old Mrs. Wu turned her head and looked at Ah Wu. Her tone was quite emotional.
She was flexible and directly defined Ah Wu’s words just now as her filial piety to her Second Aunt, Mrs. Xiao Wu.
“When I saw the Seventh Girl, I couldn’t help but think of the time when the Old Marquis was still alive.” (T/N: The Old Marquis in this text is her husband, the late Marquis.)
Speaking of the late Marquis, Old Mrs. Wu’s eyes instantly turned red. She wiped her tears with a handkerchief. The light in her eyes was dim. Then, she finally revealed her real fangs.
“Thinking back then, the Old Marquis loved the Sixth Girl the most. Before his death, the Old Marquis especially left a batch of fine jewelry passed down by his mother to the Sixth Girl.”
This was one of the most painful things in Old Mrs. Wu’s heart, second only to the late Marquis leaving the title to Ling Yaodong.
You know, the Old Marquis of Changping accompanied the Great Ancestor to conquer the world. At that time, the heroes were divided, and every time they conquered a stronghold, any treasures they could grab were their own.
At that time, the Old Marquis of Changping made a fortune from the war, but he was a man, so all the jewelry was given to his wife, that was, Old Mrs. Wu’s mother-in-law.
The late Marquis was the only legitimate son of the Old Marquis of Changping, so those things were naturally passed on to his son by Old Madam of the Old Marquis of Changping.
Old Mrs. Wu married into the late Marquis of Changping Mansion as a second wife and had long coveted those jewels.
The highest-ranking official the Wu family had ever produced was a third-rank civil official, and that was Old Mrs. Wu’s grandfather.
When she married into the Marquis of Changping’s mansion as a second wife, the whole family had to gather 32 loads of dowry, which was far less than the ten miles of red dowry that the first wife of the Marquis of Changping had when she married into the Marquis’s Mansion.
The first time Old Mrs. Wu saw a ruby the size of a pigeon egg was in the late Marquis’s private vault.
It was the first time she knew that deep-sea black pearls could be stored in boxes one by one. Jade, agate, amber, and coral were piled up like small mountains in the late Marquis of Changping’s private treasury.
In Old Mrs. Wu’s opinion, those things should be left to her.
But the late Marquis of Changping was the one who didn’t understand the style.
Because Old Mrs. Wu’s dowry was mostly gold and silver jewelry, he really thought that Old Mrs. Wu liked these things. Every year on Old Mrs. Wu’s birthday, he directly asked the goldsmith to make a set of jewelry for her.
How could he know that Old Mrs. Wu really liked the rubies, green jades, and black pearls in his private treasury?
Later, when the late Marquis of Changping was about to die, Old Mrs. Wu thought that those things should also be in her hands, but the late Marquis of Changping did not act according to common sense.
His huge private property was distributed by the late Marquis of Changping according to the proportion of the family property.
For all land deeds and property shops, Ling Yaodong, as the eldest son of the first wife, received 70% of it, Ling Yaokang, as the second legitimate son, received 20%, and Ling Yaoping, the concubine’s son, received 10%.
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