Chapter 3339 Ancient Orphan 3

Naturally, An Ran didn't want to not know how much property he had. After all, if he didn't know clearly about others, he didn't even know his own situation, and his life would be too confusing.

So An Ran still wants to know her family background. If it's too much, she can rest easy. If it's too little, she has to earn a little more. After all, it's too little. If she wants to live a good life in the future, she won't be able to live without money.

With the help of the Lu family, she got back a little of her original dowry. However, because the little girl was young at the time, Mrs. Lu was afraid that she would manage the dowry and not be wiped out by unscrupulous slaves, so the fields and houses, etc. She asked her confidant to help manage it - originally she wanted Mrs. Lu to take charge of it, but Mrs. Lu was afraid of the thankless task of managing her original dowry, so she refused on the grounds that she was busy with housework. Mrs. Lu is in charge of these things.

Mrs. Lu will definitely not cheat the original person. Her confidants may not be very good at managing things. The original person may not get much from the income from those fields and houses, but she should not lose money, so if she puts it with Mrs. Lu, she Still don’t need to worry too much.

In addition to these fields and houses, Yuan Shen's mother's dowry also contained a lot of jewelery and silver in boxes. Mrs. Lu gave these items to Yuan Shen for her own use.

So An Ran practiced for a while, and Mei Lan came in with lunch. After lunch, An Ran began to count the jewelry and silver boxes in the dowry list compiled two days ago.

The silver jewelery in Mother Shen's dowry was managed by Mother Shen's confidant, Grandma Ma, who was now in charge of it.

Although Mei Lan is the original body's personal maid, managing hairpins, there are also jewelry, but those are the original body's own jewelry, most of which were given to her by her family since she was a child, and the quantity is limited. The original body remembered that An Ran had checked them one by one, and there was nothing missing. This was normal. They were used in front of them every day. Whoever dared to reach out could see it at a glance.

Mother Ma saw An Ran opening Mother Shen's dowry box and preparing to count the jewelry and silver. A trace of panic flashed across her face, but she immediately calmed down.

An Ran saw it, but pretended not to see it and did not ask questions immediately.

Soon An Ran took stock of the jewelry and silver in the boxes.

Then I discovered that there was a lot less jewelry, and even the silver in the box was missing by two thousand taels.

At that moment, An Ran asked Mama Ma what was going on.

Mother Ma calmed down and said, "Your aunt and uncle took it away."

An Ran said: "I remember that they did take away my parents' property at that time, and they also took away a lot of dowry, but basically it was from the farm shop, like jewelry, they didn't take it because they thought my mother was short-lived." Damn, it’s unlucky to get these personal items. I heard that half of the silver in the box was taken away, so there should be four thousand taels left here, why is it only two thousand taels?”

When Mrs. Lu got her daughter married, she was given 8,000 taels of silver as a dowry. At that time, the Marquis of Jing'an's Mansion was at its peak, and she could afford the 8,000 taels of silver without having to use the official's money. Mrs. Lu's private house could afford it. .

Then I also gave a lot of jewelry, and Shen’s mother bought some more when she married into the Shen family. These, because Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Shen were taboo about wearing them close to the body, so they didn’t take them. Of the properties taken away, the only ones that increased.

——If Mother Shen knew that her sister-in-law treated her daughter like this, she would probably spend all her money on jewelry and wear them in different styles every day. By then, Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Shen would be taboo and would not dare to ask for those jewelry. It would all be left to her daughter, and her family's property would not be eaten up by two families like now.

Although property did belong to the clan in ancient times, it would be fine if Shen's father's property was taken away. Ordinary respectable families would not take the dowry of a foreign daughter-in-law and leave it to an orphan.

The Shen family is not a down-and-out family, but they were so greedy that they even took possession of an orphan girl's deceased mother's dowry. The original person took over the life. After all, they were so shameless and left their granddaughter in the Shen family. They were afraid that her granddaughter would die of illness one day and then completely monopolize her last bit of money.

This kind of thing, in the lower class families, some people are really like this. Not to mention that an orphan girl will be treated like this. In some families, even if they have sons, others will kill the orphans in order to take advantage of their money. , even if the mother of the orphan is still alive, the remaining orphans and widowed mothers will be killed, just to kill them.

Sometimes, people's greed is terrible.

Of course, most people would not be so vicious, but judging from the behavior of the third room of the Shen family, they may be one of the few vicious people, so Mrs. Lu had to be on guard and sent the original I took over the life of my mother-in-law.

After listening to An Ran's words, Mother Ma did not expect that the young master, who was so sad before, could still remember these things. She was a little panicked at that time, but she still said stubbornly: "It is indeed your eldest aunt and third aunt who took it. Let’s go, but you don’t have to confront them, they will definitely not admit it.”

Mother Ma was afraid that Anran would confront them. Although she felt that Shen Anran was not that bold, but just in case, so Mother Ma still applied this patch so that Shen Anran would not ask.

If it were the original person, after hearing what Mother Ma said, she might not dare to say anything more, because the original person is simple and also afraid of her two aunts and uncles who are not easy to mess with.

It's a pity that An Ran is not the original person, so he will not be fooled by her. He immediately went to Mrs. Lu's place and told the matter to Mrs. Lu, saying that she was young and inexperienced and didn't know what to do about it. How to deal with it, let Mrs. Lu help me come up with an idea.

Mrs. Lu didn't know the mystery of this. She couldn't help but slap the table and said angrily: "What a naughty slave, how dare you make such nonsense! When I came out of Shen's house, I took away so many things. I had others do it." Statistical! If there is less, this naughty slave must have taken it away! Someone, tie up that naughty slave. If he doesn’t spit out the stuff, he will be tied directly to the Yamen!"

Soon someone tied up Mother Ma.

As soon as Mother Ma saw Mrs. Lu, she was so frightened that she knelt down and begged for mercy.

She dared to lie to An Ran because she felt that An Ran was easy to deceive, so she dared to say that.

But Mrs. Lu is an old woman with many years of life. How much experience do she have in her life? How can she be fooled?

So An Ran ignored her before and went straight out to find Mrs. Lu, which frightened Mother Ma at that time. Now that Mrs. Lu had caught her, she immediately didn't dare to make any nonsense. In order to save her life, she didn't dare to quibble. , I only dare to beg for mercy.