Chapter 17: .dowry

Lin Weixi didn't have any good expressions all the way, and when he returned to the house, Wan Xing couldn't restrain the excitement all the way. He hurriedly pulled Lin Weixi's sleeve and said, "Girl, you are so amazing! This is my first time playing chess. You will be able to kill the concubine of the elders with no return."
Speaking of this, Lin Weixi's face improved, and he said indifferently: "It is not difficult at first. The first contact may suffer from the rules. As long as you are familiar with it, it is actually very easy to play. It's much simpler. If you two like it, I can teach you."
"Really? Thank you girl!"
Wan Xing almost jumped up happily, Wan Yue was a little more stable, but she smiled when she heard this. Lin Weixi looked at these two lively maids who had not been wiped out by the high gate compound, and smiled unconsciously.
She is too far away from this simple happiness.
Lin Weixi remembered that in his previous life, he recited a thousand-character essay at the age of three, enlightened at the age of five, and began to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting when he was six. A six-year-old child can't sit still, let her learn this, the effect can be imagined. After only one year later, Gao Ran suddenly changed his temperament like a shadow. Not only did he speak and talk, but he also recognized words and learned piano much faster than Lin Weixi. With such a strong contrast, Lin Weixi became more and more unpleasant. She was scared, so she started studying seriously.
It's a pity that Lin Weixi, a real child, can compare to the adult in Gao Ran's shell. In class, the master still prefers Gao Ran and frequently praises him by name. The grandmother, father, and brothers in the family are slowly but not negligibly changing their positions. That feeling was really terrifying, watching what was originally her own was taken away, and her loved ones who loved her became more like another person, and she didn't even know what she had to do to stop it.
It seemed that overnight, the family and friendship belonging to Gao Xi were taken away by Gao Ran, leaving only the detached identity of his mother Wei and her eldest granddaughter.
Of course she is afraid. Sometimes people who are tougher are actually more vulnerable. Unfortunately, Lin Weixi is of this kind. In order to regain the attention of her relatives, and to preserve the decency of her only elder sister, she began to work hard in private. In the boudoir school, Gao Ran can master new things with a stick of incense. Lin Weixi can't do it. She doesn't care on the surface, but after returning to her yard, she desperately tutors and spends double time to catch up with the backwardness in class. However, even if she worked so hard, she didn't dare to be known, Gao Ran could do it easily, but she had to spend a lot of work in private. How could such a thing be known?
She is too strong, she would rather smash the silver teeth to invigorate the blood, and never show the slightest effort in front of outsiders.
After her 10-year-old mother died of an accidental abortion, Princess Shoukang was furious and took her to the princess mansion. After that, she lived in the princess mansion for most of a year, and finally she escaped from Gao Ran's shadow.
The ten-year-old Gao Xi really regarded Gao Ran as an insurmountable opponent. It was not until later that she saw the heavenly book that Gao Ran was not naturally intelligent. Gao Ran just wore a juvenile shell, with a twenty-six-year-old mind, playing with a six-year-old child like a fish. When their peers were six years old, Gao Ran had obvious advantages, but when they reached sixteen or seventeen, the gap was very small.
Lin Weixi was growing, but Gao Ran stagnated. Gao Ran is immersed in the false prosperity brought by age welfare, while ignoring the truth from ancient times. He sails against the current and retreats if he does not advance. But Gao Xi has worked harder than his peers because of the spur of a powerful concubine since he was a child.
In his previous life, Lin Weixi had learned gomoku and checkers in private, and he could also remember Gao Ran's new rhythm after listening to it, but Gao Ran did not lay a solid foundation for piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
For Lin Weixi, who has a solid foundation in Go, Gobang is not difficult. She will understand it by practicing two games in private. But for Gao Ran, once deprived of the advanced stuff that Hyundai brings to her, she has nothing else.
Surprise is the kingly way to win, but a general who can only rely on surprisingly will sooner or later die of his slack and arrogance. Gao Ran is too superstitious of skills, and neglects true strength. With today's scene, even if Gao Ran tried his best, he couldn't beat Lin Weixi, who had already learned backgammon.
Before Lin Weixi took the shot, he didn't expect that he could win three rounds, completely crushing. It was also when she was holding a white jade chess piece, Lin Weixi suddenly realized that the peak that had brought her endless pressure at the age of ten, which almost made her thought insurmountable, had collapsed. Gao Ran could no longer be Lin Weixi's opponent, except in matters of men and women.
Gu Chengyao is simply the fatal wound in Lin Weixi's heart. She has loved, hated, resented and abandoned herself when she was reborn, but Gu Chengyao just didn't love her, what can she do? Following the journey to Beijing, Lin Weixi had been with a foreigner for so long for the first time in his life. With Zhou Maocheng and other reticent sergeants taking care of him silently, Lin Weixi felt that perhaps he might not be so bad, maybe Gu Chengyao was blind.
Lin Weixi now sees that Gu Chengyao has lost the love and hatred that he had when he was reborn. She just wants to see him having a bad life. If possible, Lin Weixi wanted to run up and step on a few feet himself.
Today, Lin Weixi looked at the unfamiliar and familiar Palace of King Yan and Jingtan Garden, which was almost exactly the same as the former marriage house, and finally realized that she had reconciled with her past. Lin Weixi and Gao Xi have truly merged into one person since then.
Wan Xing and Wan Yue had been chatting for a long time, and found that Lin Weixi hadn't spoken for a long time. The two of them asked strangely: "Girl, what's the matter with you?"
"Nothing." Lin Weixi stood up and walked to the window and pushed open the delicately carved vermilion lacquered wood window. She looked at the vibrant spring outside the house, with a slight smile on her mouth, "I was just thinking, maybe it's time to find The eldest princess, proposed to move to her place."
Even if there is still unwillingness in the heart, people will look forward after all. King Yan's Mansion has passed, ex-husband Gu Chengyao and concubine Gao Ran, their love stories let them toss themselves, Lin Weixi should start his new life.
Wan Xing was shocked when he heard this: "Miss Lin, do you want to move? Is there someone wronged for you? Girl, if you are wronged, let's go to King Yan, how can we let you move out?"
"No." Lin Weixi said, "I have no relatives with King Yan's mansion, and they always live here in a bad name. King Yan was polite and took care of us from his own palace, but we couldn't really take care of them. As it should be."
What else Wan Xing wanted to say was held by Wan Yue. Wanyue said: "Girl, you understand your scruples. It's just that... the girl only met with the princess, so she proposed to live in the princess mansion. Isn't it too rash?"
Lin Weixi was so startled that she almost forgot, her surname is Lin now. She still regarded Princess Shoukang as her grandmother in her heart, but for Princess Shoukang, Lin Weixi was nothing more than a somewhat close-knit junior. It was rude to want to hurriedly move to the princess mansion when I first met.
Lin Weixi rubbed his forehead with a headache: "Forget it, this matter has to be discussed for a long time. Today's words are all swallowed in your stomach, and you are not allowed to take it outside to say, you know?"
Wan Xing and Wan Yue hurriedly bowed their heads: "Yes."
Lin Weixi's plan to move to her grandmother's side was stranded, and she could only continue to live in the Yanwang Mansion. Lin Weixi even moved on to the idea of ​​buying a house in the capital. It doesn't need to be too old, but a small three is enough. Lin Weixi is still thinking about it here, but after a few days on the other side, Gao Ran's inexplicable headache can be considered good. What happened that day was also lightly revealed, Gao Ran is still a kind and generous concubine.
Lin Weixi had already determined to let Gao Ran pass, but Gao Ran refused. Gao Ran's hostility towards Lin Weixi grew deeper, because Lin Weixi made Gao Ran embarrassed, and Gao Ran had to make up for it from other sources.
One morning, Gao Ran invited Lin Weixi to her yard again. Lin Weixi was very tired and crooked, but she gave Gu Huiyan face and didn't want to be too ugly with his daughter-in-law at Yan Wang's mansion, so she resisted the nausea.
Not long after Lin Weixi sat down, he saw Ning Fu brought a gilded rabbit incense burner from outside. The carving was exquisite and the base was still inlaid with fine rubies.
Whether it is from materials or craftsmanship, they are unparalleled treasures.
Lin Weixi’s eyes hurt when he saw this rabbit-shaped incense burner, so he put the incense burner on the high table, deliberately slowly lifted the lid, lit the fragrant cake, and said to Lin Weixi: "I am used to being light at home. I’m not accustomed to smelling Qi Nan in the palace. This is a thousand-step incense from a store under my name. It is the newest fragrance used this year. Are you used to smelling it, Miss Lin?"
Lin Weixi didn't even look at it, and said coldly: "You can do whatever you want, you can burn it if you want."
At this time, Mother Tao came out of the house with an exquisite and complicated carved lacquer box in her hand, and her expression seemed anxious: "Where did the set of filigree gold sapphires go? A complete set of sapphire heads, why is this missing? support?"
A maid’s response sounded inside and outside the house. After a while, this gorgeous stepping was finally found. Lin Weixi watched them put the stepping into the lacquer box. The scorching gems and the snails on the lacquer box complemented each other. The stinger's eyes hurt.
Lin Weixi didn't know what to say. If Gao Ran wanted to scare her away from her family, then she should calmly change to a fine porcelain tea set. Show off gold and silver jewelry, what is this?
But Tao's mother was still talking in her ears, saying that this pair of top faces was specially given to Gao Ran by the British father-in-law, how much the son and old lady value Gao Ran. Lin Weixi couldn't bear it, and asked indifferently, "Since the Guogong Mansion values ​​the concubine, why haven't you seen your wife come and talk to the concubine in the past few days?"
Mother Tao stopped talking endlessly, even Gao Ran's expression stagnated.
Wife and grandma are common names in large families. Grandchildren are called grandma by daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law are called wives. Only a decent family with a fate can be called a wife by rank.
But obviously, no matter the wife or the wife, these titles have nothing to do with the concubine room.
Lin Weixi didn't plan to wait for an answer either. She looked at the rabbit-shaped incense burner that was spitting incense, and issued a series of second blows: "This incense burner is made into a rabbit shape, but it's a novelty. Is it a rabbit?"
Gao Ran's expression was obviously embarrassed. Gao Ran is a dragon, she is one year younger than Gao Xi. The rabbit belongs to Gao Xi. Obviously, it was aimed at Gao Xi when it was created.
The people in the room became quiet all of a sudden. Lin Weixi was very satisfied. With a smile on her lips, she made a third blow: "I really envy the concubine Shizi who has ready-made gold and silver wares. In the future, I can melt and forge new jewelry directly. . Although my father left me all the land deeds, gold books and iron coupons, and royal rewards, these gold and silver wares were made under the supervision of the Ministry of Rites and had a special stamp on them. If I want to use gold, I can only go outside. Buy now."
Gao Ran inherited part of Gao Xi's dowry, followed by subsidies from his father and grandmother. It is true that he is rich, but taking a part of the dowry from the Guogong Mansion is the same as inheriting the entire Hou Mansion's property?
Lin Weixi was satisfied to see these people shut up. What is worse than her, better than money?
Lin Weixi didn't want to care about them at first, but in the end he insisted on forcing her to stun them. Isn't it uncomfortable for these people to be scolded?
Of course Gao Ran couldn't sit down anymore, Lin Weixi sarcastically returned to his room. But as soon as she sat down, the expression on her face changed.
"girl?"
Lin Weixi called Wan Xing over, and Fu Er whispered quietly: "You go out to inquire about Gao Ran's dowry. You don't have to ask specifically, just mention it when you chat."
Wan Xing quickly took his order and left. Lin Weixi looked at the delicate white porcelain vase on the pear wooden table, still itchy teeth.
No, Lin Weixi was still a layman. She was definitely determined to turn everything over and start her life again, but seeing Gao Ran's righteous occupation of Lin Weixi's private property, she was still so angry that she wanted to poison Gao Ran.
Is it tolerable or unbearable, what is the dowry?