After crossing, I was dragged by the bamboo horse and became a queen

Chapter 16 The Dowry is an Ornament

"Although it is," Shangguanjing replied, "but my mother is not that bad!"

"Sister Jing, don't worry," Xiao Jingheng said as if promising, "I won't let her steal your dowry. Aunt Yan gave me the key to the west room, and I hid it well."

"The fact that you can say this proves that she stole from you more than once." Shangguan Jing rolled her eyes almost to the sky: "Last time I heard the maid say she was gambling."

"I don't have much to steal for her anyway." Xiao Jingheng shrugged, looking indifferent: "She doesn't dare to steal anything important. Concubine Xu is quite strict in her family, although she doesn't care about things in my yard. , but if the things in the palace are sold outside, she will definitely pursue it. If Mammy Zhang is caught stealing, Concubine Xu will never tolerate her."

"You don't have anything important." Shangguanjing pouted: "She still stole the only thing, why is it so unlucky."

"Here it is." Xiao Jingheng took out the big red envelope from the gap beside the bed, and stuffed it directly into Shangguan Jing's hand.

"Why is it still sealed?" Shangguanjing shook the envelope in surprise: "Have you not seen it?"

"No." Xiao Jingheng shook his head very honestly: "This is the dowry list, it's the stuff of Sister Jing, how can I move it casually."

"Pfft..." Shangguanjing couldn't help but burst into laughter: "You are so dogmatic at such a young age. This dowry is mine, but the dowry list is not for me, and the general dowry list is not for the husband's family. , no one in your family is interested, you open it up and see what's great."

"No." Xiao Jingheng looked very stubborn: "It's better for Sister Jing to see it first."

"I don't think there will be anything good." Shangguan Jing nodded, and opened the envelope in front of Xiao Jingheng with no expectations at all: "Our marriage was ordered in a hurry, and their wedding dresses were improvised. Yes, how could it be possible to think of preparing a dowry for me? This must be made up for the sake of not being too ugly. Let me see... huh..."

Shangguanjing threw the dowry list written on the red paper directly in front of Xiao Jingheng: "You can see for yourself."

"There are a lot of jewelry too!" Xiao Jingheng calculated very seriously: "Pearl flowers...hairbands...hand bracelets...earrings...and then..."

"No need to count, it's all jewelry worn by little girls." Shangguanjing's mouth almost tucked behind his ears: "This is the original jewelry box in my house that I moved here, my mother didn't even think about it. Add two pieces of my own jewelry, it is impossible for my parents to dig around in such a thing, the only explanation is that they don't care, so they didn't ask."

"Ah?" Xiao Jingheng, who has always been poor and has no personal property, has no idea of ​​the amount of dowry. In his opinion, Shangguan Jing, who has a full dowry list, is very rich.

But in Shangguanjing's eyes, this improvised dowry list is not the case.

"Let me tell you this." She poked the list: "Although I used to be stupid, my parents are not as harsh as yours. They have always been generous to me in terms of material conditions, so I used to live in The house is quite luxurious, the sisters have it, I have it, and I don’t lack everything.”

"Oh!" Xiao Jingheng, the poor guy, nodded. He had no idea about Shangguan Jing's description. In short, it was right that Sister Jing was richer than him.

"So!" Shangguanjing directly pulled up the dowry list and shook it: "This is actually just packing all the things in my original house into boxes. Is this a dowry? At most, it's a move?! I saw it that day. Now, the box may have been made by a small carpenter shop they went to. I don't know how many things I have in my house? "

"At least I didn't forget to prepare a silver box for you." Xiao Jingheng pointed to the last line of the dowry: "It says, 8000 taels."

"Yes." Shangguanjing, who had no idea about the purchasing power of ancient silver, sneered: "I have never spent money before going out, so I don't know how much is [-] silver, but I know it must be not much for them. I have [-] Qian, when my eldest sister gets married, I'm afraid that I will have [-] yuan of silver in the box? And the money is so easy! You don't need to worry about it, and you don't need to prepare in advance. The temporary account is charged with a silver note, and the box is sealed and sent here. Just fine."

"Eight thousand is a lot, isn't it?" Xiao Jingheng, who has never owned pocket money, is even more clueless than Shangguan Jing: "How much is the monthly bill when Sister Jing is at home?"

"I really don't know." Shangguan Jing scratched his head: "But it's definitely enough. But I'm saving money. I'm an underage fool who doesn't need to go out to visit guests, and I don't need hair oil, powder, rouge or something. Anyway, I want to eat some extra snacks from outside, and mammy can always take out the money and send someone to buy it for me, and the reward for the maid is also generous..."

"Eh? That's right!" Shangguanjing suddenly grabbed Xiao Jingheng: "You said, we can't use those rough servant girls, is it because we didn't give a reward? So they did their part and were lazy. No need to respond again? After sweeping the yard, he was idle, and he didn't even bother to bring us a bucket of water."

"I've never seen Mama Zhang give them money before." Xiao Jingheng replied honestly, "I don't have any money to reward myself. But I've seen my eldest brother rewarding the little servant."

"Of course!" Shangguanjing replied disdainfully, "Mother Zhang thinks your monthly money is hers, so why would you want to use it as a reward for a maid? She doesn't care if you have someone to serve you. In other words, your monthly money is how much?"

"About two taels?" Xiao Jingheng shrugged: "I guess. Actually, I don't know, no one told me about it."

"Sooner or later let her spit it out!" Shangguanjing replied viciously: "Forget it, don't mention this, the more you mention it, the more you get angry! Let me see... There are thick quilts, let's go back and find out."

"Okay!" Xiao Jingheng nodded immediately: "The key is with me, we will turn it out tomorrow when it is dawn."

The two children planned very well, but the next day, when they opened the door of the western room, they were immediately dumbfounded.

In order to save space, Aunt Yan asked the servants to stack the boxes, wishing they could be piled from the floor to the ceiling, and the two small rooms were filled to the brim.

"There has to be a ladder, right?" Xiao Jingheng opened his mouth, raised his head, and stared dully at the tightly stacked wooden box mountains.

"Let's go!" Shangguan Jing pulled Xiao Jingheng and decided not to waste any more time: "You can't turn over a ladder even if you have a ladder. With you and my two children, can you move the boxes one by one and put them back together?"

(End of this chapter)