Chapter 1747: No way to be decent

Prince Ning has been overwhelmed recently.

After Song Wu died, Emperor Yuanding issued an imperial decree, pardoning the crimes of Song Wu's family, ending their confinement, and returning a small amount of family assets for the whole family to start a new life.

Song Wu's wife's surname is Min, and Lady Min was originally a weak woman. After her husband died, she became tough. She took the whole family and ran to Prince Ning's mansion to seek help.

Then, the whole family moved into Prince Ning's mansion and refused to leave.

This made the Princess of Ning jump with anger.

If she had any objections, Lady Min would cry and complain, saying implicitly that the Princess of Ning was bullying orphans and widows.

The Princess of Ning was so angry that she pointed at Lady Min's nose and cursed, "I originally thought you were a good one; sure enough, you can't sleep in the same bed and have different dreams. You are just like Old Five, both are rogues, stinking and shameless."

Lady Min cried and said, "Sister-in-law, please see clearly. Who doesn't want to live decently? If I weren't at the end of my rope, how could I be a rogue? I hope sister-in-law can understand."

"I understand you, but who will understand me? I kindly helped you, but you can't take an inch and ask for a foot. I already said, I will pay to buy a house for you outside and settle your whole family. You are crying and acting aggrieved; outsiders who don't know the situation will think I bullied you. Lady Min, is this how you repay me?"

"I know sister-in-law feels annoyed seeing our family, and I don't want to be an eyesore either. However, my man just died, and moving out is easy, but I'm afraid life won't be peaceful. I hope sister-in-law can be tolerant for a while, let us live for three or five months before moving. At least let outsiders know that we have the Prince's mansion backing us, and we are not people who can be bullied."

When Lady Min reached the emotional part, she cried again, crying about her bitter fate.

The Princess of Ning felt that her own fate was the truly bitter one. Being saddled with such a sister-in-law would at least shorten her life by ten years.

"Don't tell me this; go tell the Prince, go tell the Empress Dowager. If they agree to let your whole family continue to live in the Prince's mansion, I can't stop you. If they don't agree, even if you cry your eyes blind, it will be useless."

The Princess of Ning was furious and flicked her sleeves and left.

Lady Min, who used to be so good, became so difficult to deal with after her husband died, even losing her face. Once a woman becomes shameless, there is really... nothing that can be done about her. At least as a peer, the Princess of Ning could do nothing about the other party.

She reported the matter to Prince Ning and let Prince Ning make his own decision.

The people were summoned by Prince Ning, so Prince Ning should naturally solve it.

Prince Ning didn't quite believe it, "Sister-in-law is reasonable; how could she be as unreasonable as you say?"

"If the Prince doesn't believe it, go talk to her yourself. Then you will know if I lied."

Prince Ning was half-believing and half-doubting. Another day, he found a time to communicate with Lady Min, saying that the house had already been purchased, not far from the Prince's mansion, just three or five streets away. In addition, he would give another sum of silver to support the whole family's life. He would also arrange a few servants...

Bit by bit, it could be considered fulfilling the responsibilities and obligations of an elder brother.

Lady Min lowered her head and cried, not saying a word.

Prince Ning suddenly felt a headache. After repeated questioning, Lady Min finally expressed that she didn't want to leave the Prince's mansion. She simply cried and complained about the bitter journey of her whole family.

Prince Ning heard his head buzzing; headache!

The Princess was indeed not lying to him; Lady Min was truly difficult to deal with.

"Sister-in-law, originally I didn't want to say it, but now I can only be honest. The Empress Dowager has ordered that your family must move out of the Prince's mansion within three days. It's not that I don't want to keep you, but that I cannot keep you. I hope sister-in-law can understand."

"How could the Empress Dowager be so heartless! Is the Prince trying to deceive me?"

Prince Ning was immediately unhappy, "If you don't believe it, I will take you to see the Empress Dowager now and let the Empress Dowager tell you herself."

Lady Min's toughness was limited. She dared to be unreasonable with Prince Ning and his wife, but she didn't dare to be unreasonable with her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Xiao. Empress Dowager Xiao had dominated the harem for ten or twenty years, once suppressing the Empress so that she couldn't breathe, and now she could still fight with Empress Dowager Sun.

As a daughter-in-law, how could she dare to dance in front of Empress Dowager Xiao?

Empress Dowager Xiao would definitely tear her apart, make her unable to step down, and make her lose face.

"Forget it, forget it! Since it is the Empress Dowager's order, how dare I not obey. It's just that there are many people in the family, and everything is complicated, and even drinking water requires calculating the silver..."

After a round of pulling, the purpose was to get more money.

Prince Ning had previously promised to give their family three thousand taels a year, including all expenses.

Lady Min thought three thousand taels were too little; with dozens of people in the family, they couldn't save a few taels of silver. If they saved up, how many years would it take to build a family business, and how could they prepare dowries and betrothal gifts for their sons and daughters? Not to mention the expenses for schooling.

She started complaining again, complaining about Song Wu's righteousness back then, complaining about Song Wu's respect for his elder brother, complaining about Song Wu's hot blood... complaining about the bitterness of Song Wu being framed and cleaned up by the Emperor...

The unspoken words were that Song Wu had always been suffering for Prince Ning, acting as a pawn for Prince Ning. The pawn died, but the pawn's family was still there. How could Prince Ning, as the elder brother, not care!

Playing the emotional card!

Prince Ning was entangled and had no choice but to finally loosen his mouth, promising to give an extra one thousand taels a year, totaling four thousand taels. Once the promise was made, he regretted it; he shouldn't have been soft-hearted.

Lady Min was greedy and thought four thousand taels were too little. But she also knew that everything should be done in moderation. Keeping the incense and affection, if there were difficulties in the future, she could come to the Prince's mansion to beg for money; she didn't believe Prince Ning and his wife wouldn't give it.

As long as she was alive, she could rely on the brotherhood left by Song Wu to beg for silver. When she died, to the generation of the children, the affection would be shallow, and they would definitely not be able to beg for silver from the cousins in the Prince's mansion.

Therefore, while she was alive, while her face and Song Wu's face were still useful, she had to beg for more silver and accumulate more family business. She hoped that after she died, her children and grandchildren wouldn't have to worry about silver anymore.

If they could live decently, who would be willing to be a shameless person?

Lady Min was also forced!

Living one day, she had to think about the children for one day.

The day before leaving the Prince's mansion, Lady Min went to see her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Xiao, specifically wearing old clothes, plain all over, without even a silver hairpin on her head. She only used a wooden hairpin to simply coil her hair.

She was so plain that it looked like they couldn't even afford to open the pot at home.

Empress Dowager Xiao saw her dressed like this, and suddenly her anger rose.

"What are you doing? Accusing this palace of mistreating your family?"

"Daughter-in-law doesn't dare! My man is gone, and I am guarding for him. How dare I wear gold and silver!" Lady Min had a wooden face, like a wooden person without emotion.

Empress Dowager Xiao sneered repeatedly, "This palace knows you have resentment in your heart, but you can't blame this palace, and Prince Ning's mansion doesn't owe you anything. Your family ended up in this situation, blame only that fool Old Five, who was too ostentatious in the past, and treated the servants harshly on weekdays, so that the people around him were bought off, which is why he fell for such a simple scheme.

As for you, what's the use of you being tough now? What were you doing earlier? Back then, this palace reminded you repeatedly, telling you to manage Old Five well, and what did you say? Daughter-in-law is incompetent and can't manage him. Why don't you say you are incompetent now?"

Lady Min was extremely embarrassed, "It's already this time, does the Empress Dowager have to force me to death before she is willing to stop?"

"You want to die after I say two words to you; you have grown some brains, but unfortunately, they have grown crooked." Empress Dowager Xiao was very displeased, mocking and scolding, leaving no room at all. ===== CHAPTER 1748 =====