History of Empress Dowager Development

Chapter 225

After the Zhuang family was deprived of his position as Duke, his family property was also confiscated. Although he saved his life, he has changed from a rich and noble mansion in the past to an ordinary citizen today.After the separation of the Zhuang family, Zhuang Yuanjin joined the army, while Zhuang Yan followed her parents to find a small courtyard to live in.

After all, it used to be a mansion full of glory, with mixed in-laws. Although the world has changed hands, there are still one or two relatives who can help them. Therefore, although life has become poor, it is not difficult.Zhuang Yan used to rely on her status as the princess to pick and choose and failed to get married, but now no one cares about her, she has been staying at home for the past six months.

Originally, with the help of relatives, Mr. Zhuang found another way to make a living, and the family could live comfortably. Unfortunately, the family was used to being rich and noble, and suddenly fell into the dust. In less than half a year, they were already sitting on nothing, and their money was tight .The silks and satins that filled the house and boxes no longer exist. Now Zhuang Yan is wearing ordinary clothes and her hair is tied up with a simple wooden hairpin.

The porcelain was originally the silver she had saved for a long time and wanted to buy it as a gift for Mr. Zhuang. Who knows that she was picking it up, but Pei Minglan suddenly rushed over, Zhuang Yan's hand was unsteady, and the beautiful porcelain bottle fell to the ground and shattered .

The waiter in the store didn't recognize the former princess, and immediately came over, looked at Zhuang Yan with disgust, and said anxiously: "This...this...what to do."

Although Zhuang Yan is no longer honored in the past, after all she is used to being pampered, her vision is still very good, although she doesn't have much money at hand, she is out of habit, when looking at things, she always likes to look at the best things.She looked at the porcelain pieces with a pale face, and subconsciously touched her purse with her fingers, the broken silver was not enough for one-tenth of the price of the porcelain.

"Yes, she pushed me." Although she knew that she should pay, Zhuang Yan didn't have the ability to bear it. She took a look at Pei Minglan and said dully.

How could Pei Minglan not recognize the princess, and immediately glanced at the maid next to her, who didn't know what she meant, and immediately sneered: "This is a girl, my wife walks well, why did you ever push you?" : "You are all witnesses, when did my wife push her?"

The customers in the store were all focused on the porcelain, who would pay attention to this sudden change.Just now Pei Minglan backed up after bumping into Zhuang Yan, but now there are two or three steps away, it doesn't look like pushing someone, no one answered for a while, some even shook their heads, thinking that Zhuang Yan was lying.

The servant girl was unreasonable, and said contemptuously: "It's just a porcelain vase, if you can't afford it, it's fine if our wife shows kindness to help you settle this matter, but how can you rely on others!"

Zhuang Yan has never been ridiculed in public like this before. In the past, Pei Minglan was nothing but dust in her eyes, but now she is humiliated by her maid in turn, her face flushed immediately, and she was not thinking lightly under the embarrassment. She just said angrily : "You are talking nonsense! If she hadn't bumped into me, how could the good porcelain fall to the ground!"

"Miss Zhuang." Pei Minglan took a step forward, with a sigh on her face, "It's only a few taels of silver, is it worth denying like this? Well, it's my bad memory, the girl is not what she used to be." Her father Although Pei Yushi's family affairs are restless, he is quite good at handling affairs in the court. Now that he has been promoted to the fifth-rank Yushi Zhongcheng, Pei Minglan will naturally not take this down-and-out former princess in his eyes.

Zhuang Yan had too little impression of this Pei Minglan. Seeing her fall into trouble now, she felt resentful and ashamed, and immediately said angrily: "Since you refuse to admit it, I'll just pay!" Secondary price.

"This porcelain bottle sells for ten taels of silver." Xiao Er also pointed to the label on the shelf, "That's clearly written on it."

Ten taels of silver was really not worth mentioning to Zhuang Yan in the past, but now that she is so tight... face is important, but how can she easily give out ten taels of silver?For a moment, he clenched his fists and remained silent.

Naturally, there were a few knowledgeable people in the crowd, who didn't pay attention to the movement here at first, but now they were attracted, and they recognized Zhuang Yan at a glance, and they couldn't help pointing, "That's not the former Guang'an princess. ?"

"What kind of princess, the house has been ransacked a long time ago, and he can still come here..."

"Oh, maybe I still think of myself as the princess."

"How can there be such a princess who can't afford to pay for things that are broken, and dares to rely on others..."

Scattered voices fell into her ears, Zhuang Yan's face flushed red, and she felt wronged by the great changes in the family, but she couldn't help it now, tears overflowed from her eyes.She bit her lip tightly and stared at Pei Minglan bitterly.

Pei Minglan felt happy and smiled slightly.She and Zhuang Yan don't really have any enmity, it's just that in the past Zhuang Yan used her status as a dominance, Pei Minglan just felt annoyed, seeing Zhuang Yan like this now, with her temperament, there is no loss if she can step on it. Why not do it?Then he leaned closer and said in a low voice: "The princess has been wronged, shouldn't it be time to go to the palace and complain to the empress?"

(End of this chapter)