On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

Chapter 286 Marriage
A load of dowry was placed in the main room of Sangyu Courtyard.

A sister-in-law from the same clan next to me was shocked: "There are actually sixty-eight dowries? My sister-in-law, didn't you say that the grandma who hasn't entered the family yet is just an ordinary squire's daughter?"

Someone saw that Mrs. Li's face was about to turn black, and she quickly smoothed things over with a smile: "Oh, sister-in-law, it's possible that there is a red light hanging on a pole a hundred feet high, and you can see the red light from the outside."

Another woman immediately echoed: "No, we haven't seen such a thing before?"

Everyone gathered around Mrs. Li to see the dowry.

The dowry is an inflated dowry, just put some nice things on top, but the bottom part is worthless.

But when they looked over, they saw that the yellow pear wood had a very good luster. It had a complete set of couches, cabinets, tables, chairs, and stools. It was impossible to buy everything without spending more than a thousand taels of silver.

The four boxes containing fabrics are also tightly packed, with materials suitable for the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

A cursory look through them shows that they are all good stuff.

There are also two boxes of furs, all of which are fine mink fur cloaks, fox fur cloaks, mink fur and rabbit fur, etc. The fur is really shiny and smooth.

The jewelry in the makeup box at the back is also jewel-like.

The ones with good meanings include: pomegranate flower gold hairpins inlaid with red gems, red gold Ruyi bracelets, and other styles of bracelets and gold hairpins, a total of ten pairs, with perfect meanings.

The most eye-catching ones are the last four boxes. Each box contains twelve gold ingots, and twenty gold ingots are shining brightly.

Another box of silver ingots, with soft silver light.

There is also a box containing various round pearl jewelry, which is shiny and shiny.

In the last box is the small plaque of the seafood restaurant, with a ledger underneath. This is a dowry shop.

Mrs. Li couldn't laugh anymore.

She couldn't believe her eyes, picked up the account book and started to look through it.

Mrs. Wu, the two dowry women, and the two maids stood by and stared at them.

She had already told them to keep an eye on jewelry and gold and silver. She looked around and stared at them without blinking.

Now seeing Mrs. Li's unhappy look, she became happy. She stepped forward with a smile and said loudly: "Madam, this is the seafood restaurant on Qinghefang Street. It is a shop that my uncle bought specially for his niece and opened a restaurant. You guys If I have time in the future, I’ll try it too.”

Explain the location directly, lest she still doesn't believe it and thinks that the Xiao family randomly found a small shop to put up a front and fool them.

Mrs. Li pinched her palms to barely control herself from swearing, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your kindness, but we have red cases and white cases in our house, and we also have a chef who specializes in seafood, so we can make it The stuff is more to my taste.”

If it weren't for the sake of maintaining her own face, she would have wanted to retaliate mercilessly: I won't eat in a shabby place.

Wu didn't really want to treat her to a free meal, so she immediately climbed up the ladder: "That's right, you are all noble people, you must not go to a messy place."

What Mrs. Li wanted to say in her heart was even more unpleasant when it came out of Wu's mouth.

She smiled stiffly: "This dowry is really good, and your Xiao family is really generous in marrying their daughter."

Since Mr. Wu likes to talk, she wants Mr. Wu to talk more.

Too much talk leads to mistakes, and you might hear her say bad things about the Xiao family, or complain that the Xiao family is struggling to prepare for Xiao Xiao's dowry.

After all, the Xiao family cannot have too much money, and it is estimated that all of it will be used as Xiao Xiao's dowry.

After that, her sons would have fewer resources. Mrs. Wu immediately agreed: "My wife is not stingy either. She gave me a dowry gift of two thousand taels. So we must have to prepare the dowry several times before we can have the confidence to marry the girl at home?"

She's not stupid, how could she possibly cause trouble?
On the contrary, they felt pity for her. Her deceased mother-in-law and her husband were all on guard against her and secretly paid for the house and shop. Otherwise, how could Xiao Xiao's dowry be so thick?

And Yuhang is really a good place. As long as you have money, you can buy a lot of good things, which makes Xiao Xiao's dowry look particularly complete and elegant.

Of course, we have to thank the rebels for going to Xutian Village with the gold and silver jewelry they collected. Most of them ended up being Xiao Xiao's dowry.

This was because Xiao Xiao didn't want to be too conspicuous and didn't take out all the jewelry as a dowry.

Otherwise it would be even more spectacular.

Mrs. Li suspected that she was taking the opportunity to say that the betrothal gift she had prepared was too small.

She is also the matron of the house. Looking at the dowry, she can estimate the approximate value of the betrothal gift, which already exceeds ten thousand taels of silver.

The smile on her face couldn't be maintained either.

Fortunately, at this time, another mother-in-law came in and said happily: "Madam, the Zhou family has sent a betrothal gift."

Mrs. Li laughed instantly and warmly greeted everyone to go see her daughter-in-law show off her trousseau.

The Zhou family is the natal family of Princess Jin'an. It is a wealthy family in itself, and with the 10,000 taels of silver secretly sent by Mrs. Li, the dowry amounts to eighty-eight sets.

Generally speaking, the dowry amount of a sister-in-law cannot be more than that of a sister-in-law.

However, Li Ji was the eldest son of a concubine and Li Yuan was the legitimate son, so Miss Zhou's dowry amount was larger than that of Xiao Xiao.

But before, Xiao Xiao’s dowry was good, and now that Miss Zhou’s dowry was better, everyone took it for granted.

Mrs. Li felt proud when she saw that the Zhou family not only had a dowry shop, but also a dowry shop, and began to praise Miss Zhou as a well-educated lady.

No one will deny what Mrs. Li said. It's not that they are all afraid of Mrs. Li, but that Miss Zhou is the princess's natal niece. If they don't follow suit, wouldn't it mean that they look down on the Zhou family?
With the sound of gongs and drums and the sound of firecrackers, the two young masters of the Li family, riding tall horses, greeted the sedan chair and entered the gate of the General's Mansion.

After going through the tedious etiquette, Xiao Xiao finally sat on the wedding bed.

She was wearing a bright red hijab, listening to the laughter coming from a distance, and felt a little quiet in her wedding room.

Li Yan followed Po Xi's instructions and used the weighing pole to lift the bride's red hijab, and saw the bride who was particularly beautiful and lovely against the background of the wedding dress.

They drink Hehuan wine together, and after the wedding ceremony, there are also the ceremony of untying the knot and hair, the ceremony of holding hands, and the ceremony of spreading the tent...

Only at the end did the bride say with a bright smile: "The groom can go out to accompany the guests. The bride will talk to her relatives and friends and wait for the groom to come back to spend a good time together."

After saying that, regardless of whether the newlyweds would listen to him or not, he retreated.

There were not many women left in the new house originally. After seeing Po Xi retreat, some people took advantage of the situation and whispered: "We won't disturb the bride anymore."

After saying that, they retreated one after another.

Li Yan did not leave, but still sat there and looked at her, with a gentle and apologetic tone: "Are you tired?"

He was really apologetic. He didn't expect that his aunt would come up with this trick and leave most of the female family members who were planning to get married in the second brother's wedding room.

The few female relatives who were left behind were also very unfamiliar. Just like this, not leaving any one behind, this obviously made them feel troubled.