First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 399 This is what I deserve

"Oh." Uncle Jiu twisted his beard, which was only a few hairs left, nodded, and then said in a calm voice: "Ordinarily, you should be welcomed back, but as you can see, this mansion has been vacant for a long time. Even if it is being repaired, it is done slowly and the progress is not that fast, so there are not many places for people to live. Do you think you should live here or somewhere else?"

Su Jixiang was slightly startled, then looked at Lushui and Osmanthus.

Lushui and Guihua also looked puzzled.

"This is my husband's old house. Where else can we live if not here?" Su Jixiang straightened his expression and said.

"This is the old house of the Wei family, it doesn't belong to him alone." Uncle Jiu said lightly, and then glanced at Su Jixiang. "Since you are back, you can stay here. Come on, take my nephew's wife to Pingletang to rest!" After saying that, he stood up, and then walked away tremblingly, without saying anything else to Su Jixiang.

Su Jixiang was led to Pingle Hall in the Duke's Mansion.

As soon as the door of Pingletang was opened, the dust on the door flew all over everyone's head and face.

"What's wrong with this uncle?" Lu Shui immediately started to yell unhappily, "This Duke's Mansion was bestowed back to our master by His Majesty! How come we seem to be staying here for the night? Our master gives a large sum of money to our uncle every year. Over the years, regardless of how much money has been spent on repairing this house, at least he should have hired someone to clean it up! Moreover, before we came, our master had already written a letter to inform us of the situation, so why is he still so indifferent!"

"That's right!" Guihua complained, "Uncle didn't even say a word of greeting just now. What is he doing? After all, relatives who have never met before have come. They should at least say a few words! What's the logic of this?"

"Forget it, stop complaining." Su Jixiang didn't care much about these things. What she cared more about was how sad Wei Ling would feel if he came back and saw that the Duke's Mansion he had always loved was still in such a dilapidated state.

"Let's clean up the place first, at least we can sit down and rest." Su Jixiang said to the two.

"Do we need to take that thing off?" Lu Shui asked.

"Goodbye for now." Su Jixiang looked at Pingletang, "This should be a side courtyard! When the Marquis comes back, we may not live here. Let's wait for him here for now. We'll make all the decisions after he comes back."

"Yes." Lushui and Guihua responded.

Everyone chatted while cleaning up Pingletang.

Su Jixiang now had a rough idea of some of the structures of the Duke's Mansion. As she expected, Pingletang was the residence used by the Duke's Mansion to receive guests and was specially used for outsiders to stay overnight.

The Duke's wife and the Duke used to live in Guanlan Pavilion, while Wei Ling grew up in Qianhua Garden. Those courtyards are in the center of the Duke's Mansion.

Especially the Qianhua Garden where Wei Ling lived, which had four-season gardens, pavilions and waterside terraces, and was known for its beauty that encompassed the scenery of the north and the south, so it was called Qianhua Garden. There was also a Wanhua Realm for his sister to live in.

Around the time when the lights were turned on, Wei Ling arrived.

He became angry when he learned that Su Jixiang was placed in Pingletang.

"Uncle Nine, this is my home! Why did you arrange for my wife to live in Pingletang after I came back?" He just exchanged a few words with Uncle Nine Wei Chengwu and then questioned directly.

Wei Chengwu snorted coldly, "Who told you that this is your home? This is my home! What did you say when you sent me back to Beijing? Have you forgotten it? Now you are being aggressive!" He slammed his cane on the ground twice and said sternly. "Now all the land deeds and house deeds of this house are in my hands. This has nothing to do with you anymore!"

"The land and house deeds were returned to me by His Majesty!" Wei Ling's eyes turned cold, and he said, "Uncle, have you forgotten?"

"Okay, okay, you said that the house deeds and land deeds are all yours, then I'll show them to you." After saying that, Wei Chengwu took out a stack of land deeds and house deeds from his arms and placed them in front of Wei Ling, "Take a closer look, they are all signed by the government! Now they are all mine!"

Wei Ling picked up the land deeds and unfolded them one by one suspiciously. Sure enough, all the land deeds were written with Wei Chengwu's name!

That year, he was going to leave the capital with the army, so he entrusted Wei Chengwu with the real estate and land deeds to resettle him. However, he did not expect that Wei Chengwu would actually give all the land deeds to him!

Seeing Wei Ling's face turning pale, Wei Chengwu stepped forward and snatched back all the land deeds and land deeds. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the things back in his hands. "Okay. You are my nephew, I will not treat you unfairly. You can live in Pingletang for the time being. As long as you are in the capital for one day, I will allow you to stay for one day!" He said as he put all those things in his arms.

Wei Lingqi's hands were shaking slightly.

He had used his military merits and blood to get back everything in the Duke's Mansion. Now, while he was not paying attention, the entire Duke's Mansion and the hundred acres of fertile land outside the capital city actually fell into the name of Wei Chengwu! Fortunately, he did not leave everything to Wei Chengwu.

At the beginning, Your Majesty returned the assets of the Duke's Mansion to him in three batches. He handled the first two batches himself because he was in the capital. The land and deeds in those two batches were all in his name. Only this house and the hundred acres of fertile land locked with the house were returned in the last batch. At that time, his army was about to return to Mangcheng, and he had no time to handle these matters, so he handed all the things to Wei Chengwu!

He said that every year he received the account books from the capital, and the income from the hundred acres of fertile land was always less than that.

Originally, he thought that the income from the hundred acres of fertile land was used for the daily expenses of the Duke's Mansion, so Wei Chengwu did not tell him.

This was his great uncle, and he was the one who invited him to live in the Duke's Mansion, so he didn't care about these little things. Four years! He had been kept in the dark for four years.

"Uncle, I trust you so much that I gave you such an important thing to do!" Wei Ling looked at Wei Chengwu's old face and said coldly, "Is this how you cheated me of my land and title deed?"

"You're saying it's a lie?" Wei Chengwu sneered, "How can you say that? At the beginning, His Majesty said that these things would be returned to our Wei family. Among the people left in the Wei family, I am the only one with the oldest generation! Is it wrong for them to be in my name? What? Do you still think you are the young master of the Duke's Mansion? Wake up! The Duke's Mansion has been confiscated! If it weren't for you, how could I have been exiled to such a bitter and cold place for so many years and got sick! Wei Ling! This is what I deserve!"