The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 636 Wool comes from sheep

Chapter 636 Wool comes from sheep

Lu Jinkang was a little embarrassed by Madam Hu's thoughts.

Su Yunduo's understanding made Lu Jinkang's heart very warm.

After Zisu took Baikui to check the inventory, the couple returned to the couch outside the bedroom and sat down.

Playing with Su Yunduo's little hand, Lu Jinkang always felt that he should say something to express his attitude to Su Yunduo, but he also felt that if someone as transparent as Su Yunduo said more, he would appear to be too deliberate. The atmosphere in the room seemed a little dull.

"Nurse, she..." Lu Jinkang opened his mouth after a while, but it was a pity that he was interrupted by Ziyue outside just after he said these three words.

It turned out that it was the news from the outer court that Lord Zhen Lu Mingyang and his son Lu Da asked Lu Jinkang to go to the study of the outer court to discuss something with him.

Lu Jinkang stood up as if he was relieved, but he still finished the sentence just now: "Mama is old, she will inevitably have some ideas, Duo Duo will take care of you. I still say that, the internal affairs of Xiaofengyuan, you have the final say !"

Glancing at the western clock in the room, he said again: "Grandfather is calling me to come over now. There must be some important matters to discuss. I'm afraid it won't be over in a while. You can go to grandma's room to talk to grandma first after you have a rest. It's cold at night. Ask the servant girl to bring you a thicker cloak."

The town government has a large population, and meals are generally settled in their own yards.

An felt that it would be too calm for Su Yunduo to let them start a business on their own just after they got married, so she made an agreement with Lu Jinkang early on that they would go to Zhenghe Hall for dinner every day in the first month of their marriage, and also wanted to take advantage of this month's time. Let Su Yunduo have more opportunities to get in touch with the common affairs of the Zhen Guo Mansion, so as to facilitate the handover of the Zhen Guo Mansion.

It's just that Su Yunduo doesn't know about An's arrangement at present, but he also feels An's kindness.

"Understood." Su Yunduo followed Lu Jinkang to stand up, pulled his clothes and straightened his neckline for him, and watched him go out.

Not long after Lu Jinkang left, Zisu and Baikui, who had gone to the warehouse to reconcile accounts, came back.

"According to Grandma's wishes, the servant invited Hongdou and the servant to go to the warehouse to reconcile the accounts. Madam Hu asked Hongdou to accompany her to support the warehouse without saying anything. The inventory matches the account book." Zisu put the account book on the table Report the warehouse situation to Su Yunduo: "It's just that after a few years, the things in the eldest son's warehouse have not increased but have decreased a lot. Even the dowry left by the eldest wife has been used a lot."

Su Yunduo, who was flipping through the account books, couldn't help looking up at Zisu, and then said with a smile, "Those missing ones must be in your grandma's dowry list!"

Lu Jinkang once told Su Yunduo that all of Hu's men and children died because of a time war, and Hu was alone, so who would she leave her private house to?
Although it is true that Mother Hu is not very willing to let go of Xiaofengyuan's internal affairs, it does not mean that Mother Hu will be greedy for nothing.

Now Zisu couldn't help laughing: "That's right, I said that some of the ancient paintings in the betrothal gifts sent to Dongmingfang back then were so familiar! Now I know that at least [-]% of those betrothal gifts came from the eldest son's warehouse. "

Speaking of this, Zisu paused and said: "Grandma, don't you think that the wool comes from the sheep?"

Su Yunduo understood Zisu's meaning, she was complaining about taking something from Lu Jinkang's private treasury as a bride price at the Duke's Mansion.

What Su Yunduo thought was different from Zisu’s. The dowry gift from the Duke of Zhenguo’s mansion that day was far more generous than she believed. Normally, the betrothal gift was divided into three parts. , and even understood that the part of the betrothal gift offered by the Duke of Zhenguo for Lu Jinkang was a little thicker.

As for the wool coming out of the sheep, this is true and false.

In this era, although women do not stay out of the house after getting married, most of the time they only care for their husbands and children in the inner courtyard, and have no other sources of income except dowry.

In other words, women in this era are like dodders who depend on men to live.

In this case, the dowry became the capital for a woman to marry and live in her husband's family, and the richness of the dowry could even directly determine a woman's status in her husband's family.

Then the wool (betrothal gift) from the sheep (men) becomes the capital of the woman, and it is no longer possible to say that "the wool comes from the sheep."

After all, a woman's dowry is private property, and it is not voluntary by the woman, and no one can use it privately. This is clearly stipulated in the laws of Dongling Kingdom.

But for Su Yunduo, the dowry is just icing on the cake.

She has her own business and can survive even without a dowry, but she can barely accept Zisu's complaint that "the wool comes from the sheep".

Of course, it is impossible for Su Yunduo to really think that "the wool comes from the sheep", but on the contrary, he understands Lu Jinkang's affection for her better.

Su Yunduo gave Zisu an angry look: "You can't say such things in the future, come on, let's tell your grandma about Hu Nanny."

Although Zisu had mentioned this Nanny Hu before, Su Yunduo didn't take it to heart. Through today's short contact, Su Yunduo felt that he should know more. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. I don't think I have a hostile relationship with Madam Hu, but it will be easier to get along with each other after getting to know more.

Zisu used to be An's second-class maid, and An's arranged for Lu Jinkang to be a maid in Xiaofengyuan after Qi Sisi resigned. In fact, she didn't work with Lu Jinkang for a long time.

However, it was too tortuous to feel the same way with this Hu Nanny next to Lu Jinkang, and Zisu still understood it very well.

As Lu Jinkang said, Nanny Hu was originally the dowry maid of Lu Jinkang's biological mother, Daxu.

It's just that it's not a child of the Xu family, but an orphan girl that Da Xu rescued when she went out with her grandmother and mother to offer incense when she was young, and then sold herself to become Da Xu's maid.

At that time, Eldest Xu was six years old, and Mother Hu was ten.

Mrs. Daxu was fifteen years old when she married into the Duke of Zhen's mansion. At that time, Nanny Hu was already the first-class maid by Mrs. Xu's side. Huan, in fact, is the room the Xu family prepared for Lu Da.

Mother Hu is a very thoughtful and ambitious person. She was 19 years old at the time and lived with Mr. Da Xu in Zhen Guogong's mansion for more than half a year. Only then did he beg Da Xu to betroth himself to the son of the shopkeeper in Da Xu's dowry shop.

Life was going well, and a fat son was born a year later, but when the son was just three months old, she returned to the big Xu who had just given birth, and became Lu Jinkang's nanny.

When Lu Jinkang was five years old, the nanny gave birth to another daughter. It was a blessing to have both sons and daughters. Unexpectedly, ten years ago, a time war took the lives of a boy and a child. Lu Jinkang's body.

In this way, Su Yunduo can understand Hu Nanny's thoughts. In her heart, Lu Jinkang is both master and "son". In her eyes, Su Yunduo is probably the one who robbed her of Lu Jinkang.

(End of this chapter)

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