Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 138 Dowry (1)

"Of course the government doesn't care. They are afraid that others will care. This one comes second. The most important thing is that those who, like us, can't figure out how the government gave this marriage can figure it out. , lest we be defenseless." Shui Qiuniang then explained, Yue Niang frowned and then let go: "I don't think Wu Ye is like that kind of person, the Huang family has a lot of silver, but it's true, the money of the Huang family belongs to the Huang family after all. Well, Fifth Sister's money belongs to Fifth Sister. Just talking about this one, he is not as good as our Fifth Sister. Tell me, how happy is that Fifth Master when he sees our Fifth Sister has so much dowry? Really? It's cheaper for him." Yue Niang's thoughts happily jumped to something more interesting to her.

Shui Qiuniang shook her head with a smile, then turned to look at Li Tian and said, "When are you going to have someone go find Shopkeeper Huang and tell you about Sanli City?"

"Tomorrow. If it's too early, I'm afraid they'll think too much. If it's too late, I'm afraid they'll be embarrassed if they don't have time to prepare. It's best if we can get along with the Huang family. Even if we can't make friends, we mustn't make enemies." Li Tian bent over Looking carefully at the side of the ancient bronze tripod, he replied: "Put this tripod behind the screen of the hanging flower door for incense."

"Well, it fits well with that screen." Shui Qiuniang looked at the ancient bronze tripod carefully and agreed. Putting it here is also a valuable thing?"

"It's worth more than that pot of gemstone bonsai." Li Tian replied casually, Yue Niang stared around the old tripod, shook her head and sighed, she wouldn't even want this broken thing if it was given to her for nothing.

Early the next morning, Shopkeeper Wang arrived at Qingfeng Building. Shopkeeper Min rushed out to greet him, and said with a long smile, "It's been a while since you came. Are you looking for me, or our big shopkeeper?"

"I'm here to look for the big shopkeeper, is the big shopkeeper here?" Shopkeeper Wang smiled politely and courteously as before, and shopkeeper Min said with a smile: "Unfortunately, the big shopkeeper hasn't come for two days, you go to find him at home, Go forward, pass Dongdazhi Street, the first alley is, wait a minute, I will ask a servant to take you there." Shopkeeper Wang agreed with a smile, and his words will be heard today.

Huang Jingjie politely sent shopkeeper Wang to the entrance of the main hall. Seeing shopkeeper Wang go away, a smile gradually appeared in his eyes, and he breathed a sigh of relief. With his hands behind his back, he turned and walked through the moon gate to enter the main courtyard.

Huang Jingjie's wife, Grandma Le Fourth, and her daughter Huang Jin'an were in a dilemma facing the treasures and jades that were placed on the Kang. Although these are not brilliant, at least they will not make mistakes, can you see if they work?"

"No need to choose." Huang Jingjie sat on the armchair in front of the kang, motioned for his daughter to pour him a cup of tea, stretched his arms and said with a smile: "Send all these things to Wu Ge'er's house, and ask Wu Ge's daughter-in-law to help Five brothers can choose the return ceremony."

"Huh?" Grandma Le Si looked at Huang Jingjie in surprise, Huang Jingjie waved her hand to her daughter and said, "Jin'er, go back first." Huang Jinan knew that his father was going to talk to his mother, so he bowed his knees and retreated obediently.

"Just now, I was in charge of the fifth brother's daughter-in-law, and I have nothing else to do. I just came over and said that from the day before the dowry shop, the shops where the fifth brother's daughter-in-law dowry are the ones in the capital. One is to prepare half-sell and half-gift, and the other is to distribute auspicious things at the door of each shop. It is said that each young lady and daughter-in-law will have a fresh palace flower, and each young child will have a Futou. Children will be given tiger-headed hats. Each old man has a bottle of wine, a bag of snacks, and a bunch of green coins."

Huang Jingjie babbled very carefully, Fourth Grandma Le looked at him puzzled, Huang Jingjie drank the tea in the cup, and then explained with a smile: "This is about the fifth brother's daughter-in-law. The marriage of the fifth brother’s daughter-in-law is the marriage between the royal family and the Li family. What does it matter to us? What is our status? How can people pay attention to us? But the fifth brother’s daughter-in-law specially asked the shopkeeper Wang Da to come and say hello to us , This means we have us in my heart, alas!" Huang Jingjie sighed in satisfaction: "I just think that Mrs. Li is very sensible and rare, and the fifth brother can have such a daughter-in-law, we have nothing wrong with the family It's up to you."

Hearing what Huang Jingjie said, Fourth Grandma Le let out a sigh of relief and smiled: "Hearing what you said, my heart has finally calmed down a bit, the second master of the family will arrive the day after tomorrow, and my heart has been suspended for several days. "

"Don't worry, fifth brother is not as old as before, who dares to underestimate him? How much benefit has the family benefited from fifth brother over the past few years? Up and down, who dares to offend him? Fifth brother doesn't No one can do anything to me if you talk, it's fine." Seeing Huang Jingjie's determination, Grandma Le felt a lot more at ease, and she smiled with relief: "Actually, it's not that I don't want to go back. I've lived in the capital for so many years. When I think about going back , I’m really a little timid.”

"At home..." Huang Jingjie's face was slightly gloomy, and his voice was flat and worried: "I haven't been home for many years."

"Yeah, you haven't been back for a long time. The fifth brother got married, and the second master came here in person. Didn't it mean that the old man is not in good health? Well, the years go by so fast. When I went back the year before last, the old man returned It's very tough, speaking of it, if the old man leaves, it's really the second master who will pick him up? It would be great if the old man is still here." Grandma Le Si was full of worries. The helm of the Huang family, the head of the clan, Mrs. Huang, had just passed away. I heard that he fell ill in [-], and he hasn't recovered much. After all, he is in his seventies. His illness has caused people's hearts to fluctuate in the Huang clan.

The Huang family didn’t make a fortune for a long time. Mr. Huang’s grandfather sold sesame oil for half his life and saved some money to buy a few acres of land. His only son fell ill. The old man was helpless, so he had no choice but to go all out, and took the remaining ten taels of silver to go to the grassland to do business with others. Who knew that times would change, and the first time he picked up half a load of silver and came back. The fortune was out of control, and by the time Mrs. Huang was born, the family was already rich and well-known.

Mrs. Huang has three brothers, and Mrs. Huang's father made a rule before his death that from now on, the position of head of the Huang family will be occupied by a capable and virtuous direct descendant from among the three householders.There are five brothers in the generation of Huang Jingjie, the eldest son, the eldest son of Mrs. Huang, Mr. Huang is smart and capable, and treats people well. They all say that he is the heir to the patriarch recognized by everyone in the clan. Who knows that he was cured of illness seven or eight years ago Well, although Huang Jingming, the second son of the old man Huang, is not bad, he can't compare with the dead uncle.The second room is the only son, who studied since he was a child, but unfortunately he couldn't read it. If he started a business again, he would not be able to bear the hardships, and he would not be able to master it.Huang Jingjie is the eldest son of the third family, and has a younger brother.

Huang Jingjie was very intelligent since he was a child. The old man Huang’s father loved his eldest grandson the most, but he was most optimistic about his fourth little grandson. Huang Jingjie thought of his grandfather’s love and expectations for him back then, and was stunned. Xiaoyu was brought back by his grandfather. Huang Jingjie He will never forget the first time he saw Xiao Yu. Before seeing Xiao Yu, he never thought that a little girl could look like that. They all said that the fifth prince was born good-looking. There was a slight smile on the corner of Huang Jingjie's mouth, and the fifth brother looked like him. Mother, how could he be half as good-looking as his mother?
Grandfather said that Xiao Yu was a girl from the Huang family. Huang Jingjie sighed in pain and silently.

"Silang?" Fourth Grandma Le saw Huang Jingjie lost her mind again, and couldn't help but yelled. Huang Jingjie came to her senses and exhaled: "I'm thinking about the past. It would be great if the elder brother was here, Qingfenglou It is the property that the eldest brother presided over in the past, and the second brother is not generous enough, so he can't compare with the eldest brother." Huang Jingjie said a few words, then hurriedly smiled: "I'll just say it, don't take it to heart, the old man is a shrewd person, the family We don't need to worry about the fifth brother's daughter-in-law, so we have to disperse for a while, so as not to embarrass the fifth brother. This time, the door ceremony will be handed over to the fifth brother and daughter-in-law. Cheng, I have to go out quickly, there are still many things to do."

Huang Jingjie stood up while talking, and Fourth Grandma Le hurriedly got up to send him out.

The busy days passed by as quickly as possible, and in a blink of an eye it was the day when the fifth prince got married.

The day before the dowry shop, Li Tian's six shops in the capital city and Huang's seven or eight shops and restaurants were decorated with lights and colorful posters, and red posters were posted. From this day on, for three days, everything in the shops would be sold at half price , The stalls in Sanli City at the entrance were also laid out in a long way, which caused a sensation in the whole capital for a while. Such a handwriting was unprecedented.

The guys in the six shops were busy in the shops, and the shopkeepers all gathered in the Yongguo Mansion. The dowry shop that started early the next morning was not a trivial matter, and the Yongguo Mansion could not find so many. The young men carrying the dowry, the shopkeepers have been busy for a few days, and they have looked at all the young men in the hands of the veterans in the capital. All Zhou Zheng can use are hired to carry the dowry and do miscellaneous work. Fortunately, the day of the prince's wedding has been set long ago. After that, people in the capital usually don't set this day for men and women to marry, and whoever has nothing to do will compete with the royal family for the limelight.

The dowry shop is in charge of shopkeeper Wang bringing more than 20 shopkeepers from the capital and other places to Beijing to send dowry. The commander-in-chief, each performing his duties, commanded and dispatched the dowry-carrying team with a large number of people. Fortunately, all the shopkeepers were well-informed and experienced major events.

The patriarch of the Li clan, Li Zhongzhi looked carefully for a while, twirled his beard in satisfaction, turned around and went into the mansion to help his son with the wedding the next day. Li Tian's marriage is a major event in the Li clan, and he had already chosen it On the day of the wedding, no matter what, we must not lose the dignity of the Li family and hurt the face of the fifth sister.

The dowry-bearers were summoned the first day, talking about rules, rewards and punishments, queuing up to bathe and change clothes, the dowry-carrying clothes had rules, black clothes with red edges and red belts, all the dowry men had prepared, unexpectedly On this trip, the owner of the family was asked to distribute a new set of red-edged black brocade clothes first. After carrying the dowry, the clothes belonged to everyone. The servants were very excited. This set of brocade clothes is at least two taels of silver, even if they don’t pay wages. !
The Yongguo Mansion was brightly lit all night, and when the sky was bright, everything was ready, the two shopkeepers walked out of the gate of the Yongguo Mansion first, and behind them, the servants carried the dowry out of the gate.

The Fifth Prince yawned, standing in front of the window of the private room on the second floor of Qingfeng Building, looking at Duke Yong's Mansion not far away, and said, "Who chose this time? How could anyone start carrying the dowry so early? It's still a day." It's early."

"Qin Tianjian originally didn't choose so early, but the Li family said it was too late and I was afraid it would be too late." Huang Jingjie responded with a smile, and the fifth prince said "ha": "Is it too late? How much dowry does she have? Will it take a day? Where is the dowry list? ? I don’t think I’ve seen it before?”

"The dowry list is still the one in the detailed post. I asked it once before and said it was too late to sort it out, but it never came. I didn't ask anyone to ask again, for fear of causing gossip."

"En." The fifth prince yawned again: "Here we come, the formation is quite big." The fifth prince moved half a step forward, looking down at the furniture that came out first.

"It's not good if you don't see the second brother." Huang Jingjie stood next to the fifth prince, looked down at the dowry, and persuaded: "He is here to congratulate you on your marriage." The fifth prince was too lazy to see Huang Jingming, Huang Jingming said Inside and outside, they already suspected that Huang Jiejie had done something wrong.

(End of this chapter)