Chapter 192 Vying for Money (1/2)
Inside the main room, the three maids were about to burst into laughter.
“Master is so clever. On the surface, she relinquished the power to manage the household.”
“However, she still has the most important treasure under her control.”
“The private coffer belongs to Master.”
“Even the Prince has no right to ask for it, let alone Jiang Ruqin.”
“Jiang Ruqin is just an ass in a lion’s skin.”
“Sister-in-law, don’t feign ignorance. I mean the key to your private coffer. Please give it to me and save me the time.”
Jiang Ruqin spoke coldly. Meanwhile, the servants’ laughter became louder.
Inside the room, Lin Mengya lazily lay on the bed. She yawned and responded.
“Private coffer? It is my dowry out there. I didn’t know that you could manage my dowry. Cousin, stop dreaming.”
Jiang Ruqin had no way to go on. It couldn’t be helped. She would become a laughing stock among those people if she insisted on asking for the key.
However, she couldn’t reconcile herself with this.
“Now that you married Prince Yu, your dowry belongs to Prince Yu. Thus, I have the right to manage it.”
“Is that so? Well then, tell the Prince to ask for it himself. If he refuses, no one has the right to take it away.”
Lin Mengya replied calmly. “Want my dowry?”
“No way!”
“You—you’d better not leave!”
This drove Jiang Ruqin mad. She didn’t care about the key to her private coffer at all now. Jiang Ruqin turned to ask Long Tianhao for help in a huff.
“They are all gone. No one is outside now.”
Baizhi leaned against the door and peeked outside, speaking excitedly.
“They should have gone earlier. She really thinks she is the master. How over-confident she is!”
Baishao sneered.
“Baishao, you’d better open the coffer and give them their salary as usual.”
Lin Mengya didn’t want to be behind on payment. Jiang Ruqin was wrong, but this had nothing to do with the servants.
They had done this just due to the master’s orders. Besides, even though Lin Mengya was not the governor now, those servants still respected her. Why?
It was all because of the money.
“Okay, I’ll do it now.”
Baisu had actually gotten the money already. Without Jiang Ruqin’s disturbance, she might have given it by now.
Lin Mengya leaned on the couch. She rarely could enjoy a few cozy days.
The Princess should read a book or vent her anger on others in her daily life.
“Cousin, I was targeted by Cousin-In-Law. She refused to give me the key to her private coffer. Aunt told me to manage the household. It was not my idea!”
Inside the study, Jiang Ruqin cried softly.
One could hear her crying,
but her tears were not visible at all after a while.
“It’s none of my business.”
Long Tianhao frowned without looking at his cousin.
After what had happened last time, he detested the woman before him.
If it had not been for his remaining affection for her, he would have shouted at her.
He had never imagined that Concubine De would dare let her govern the family.
If Lin Mengya hadn’t told him about it, he would have taken back the power to manage the household.
However, Jiang Ruqin, who had taken over this power that did not belong to her, had come to complain to him now.
“Cousin, I’m doing it for your own good. Think about it. The first day Cousin-In-Law was the Master, so many accidents happened in our house. Aunt issued this order for your own good.”
Long Tianhao was clear about that. So many accidents had taken place because someone always wanted to murder him.
In fact, Lin Mengya was the one that he had gotten into trouble.
He knitted his eyebrows more tightly. He hated hearing someone speak ill of Lin Mengya.
“She claims that what’s in her private coffer is her dowry. How ridiculous she is! Isn’t her dowry your property?”
Jiang Ruqin thought her words would make her cousin frown.
Thus, she immediately started exaggerating.
Long Tianhao eventually lifted his head up and threw a cold look at her.
“Her dowry belongs to her, not to me.”
Jiang Ruqin’s face turned pale with anger. “Why? How could cousin stand by her side as well!”
“How am I worse than Lin Mengya? Why? Why does everyone prefer Lin Mengya?”
“Cousin, are you obsessed with that woman? I am your cousin. You and I are family!”
Jiang Ruqin didn’t care about anything else as she yelled in a questioning tone.
Long Tianhao glared at her in disgust.
He was bold and frank.
“She is my wife and the Princess. You shall respect her.”
Jiang Ruqin stood still in astonishment. “What is going on now?”
“Cousin has never harbored special affection for any woman ever since he was young.”
Aunt always took Jiang Ruqin with her, so he and she had naturally become close.
“I didn’t expect that he would really stick up for Lin Mengya in my presence!”
Jealousy was close to burning her sensible mind out.
Why? Why did Long Tianhao, whom she had always adored, have a crush on someone else?
“Don’t you know that Lin Mengya will bring disaster to everyone close to her, including her husband and her father? Sooner or later, you will die for her!”
Jiang Ruqin lost her head completely and shouted at Long Tianhao.