Chapter 121 Dowry Silver
Chapter 121 Dowry Silver
The three of them entered Yanshuxuan, Li Xiaonuan went in to change his clothes and came out, the food and ginger soup had been sent in, Li Xiaonuan was eating slowly, while listening to the two talking and laughing, he only felt that the warmth was like a hot meal, and his body was warm.
"Xiao Nuan, which clothes are you going to wear tomorrow? You just wear that stone blue bottom hundred butterflies wear a flower silk jacket, with that pomegranate skirt, I must look good when I wear it like this"
Gu Yun said happily, Gu Xiao nodded hurriedly,
"Nuan Nuan, you look best in a pomegranate skirt"
Li Xiaonuan put down the bowl, Yukou and Cicada Wing hurriedly came over and waited for her to rinse her mouth, Li Xiaonuan moved back, and asked Yukou and the others to clean up the table, Entou looked at Gu Yunhuan and said with a smile:
"Tomorrow I won't go to the Zhenning Hou Mansion, I told my ancestors, this month, I ordered the stars to rush, and the abbot of Kongxiu asked me not to go out."
Gu Yunhuan frowned, Gu Xiao became cautious, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Gu Yunhuan and said:
"I heard my husband say, this way of yin and yang fate, you must not be disrespectful, this month, Nuan Nuan is still good to stay at home"
Gu Yunhuan also nodded hurriedly, looked at Li Xiaonuan with regretful eyes and said:
"The first year you spent the New Year in the capital, you encountered this fateful star offense, it's really ...... I can't see how much excitement I can't see, and there is a lantern festival on the fifteenth, what a pity I can't see."
"When we lived in the capital, we looked good, can we be less lively?"
Li Xiaonuan said with a smile, Gu Xiao nodded again and again,
"Nuan Nuan, you're right, I'll accompany you to watch the lights next year."
Li Xiaonuan turned his head to look at Gu Xiao and nodded with a smile.
Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhou did not return to the house until the weather was nearly late, and rested after a hurried wash, and the next day, Mrs. Li was a little lazy, Mrs. Zhou was worried, and she was going to ask a doctor to go, Mrs. Li stopped her and said with a smile:
"I'm fine, I'm old, I was tired yesterday, I couldn't rest for three or five days, it's not that I'm sick, you hurry up and go to Zhenning Hou's Mansion, don't let people wait for us, it's not good"
Mrs. Zhou thought about it, but she was still not at ease, and said with a smile:
"Just let Yun Huan and Xiao Er go, I won't go."
"No, just have Xiao Nuan waiting, you just relax, I'm just tired, older people, it's like this, go quickly."
Old Madam Li pushed Mrs. Zhou and motioned her to hurry over, Mrs. Zhou had no choice but to get up with a smile and take Gu Yunhuan and Gu Xiao to the Zhenning Hou Mansion.
Cheng Ke was disappointed, paid a New Year's greeting, only drank a cup of tea, excused himself, said goodbye, and went back to Runan Wangfu dejectedly.
On the thirteenth day of the first month, Cheng Ke was lying sullenly in the water pavilion of King Jing's mansion, slowly drinking stuffy wine, Zhou Jingran carried a pole, waving and fishing fish, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke and said:
"If you go back tonight, maybe you'll be able to see you, but there were a lot of things going on a few days ago, and you were too late to go."
"That girl didn't live in Yanshuxuan, she moved to Mingyuan Hall, and Mrs. Li was unwell."
Cheng Ke said sullenly, Zhou Jingran blinked, thought about it, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke and asked:
"I heard that your mother invited famous ladies in the capital to enjoy the lanterns on the lamp tower of your house, did you invite the Gu family?"
Cheng Ke shook his head slowly, Zhou Jingran put down the pole in his hand, sat on the rocking chair, looked at Cheng Ke and suggested:
"Or, I'll ask the princess to come forward and invite the Gu family to come over to enjoy the lanterns? Anyway, your lamp tower is not far from my house, and you can run on both sides. ”
Cheng Ke's eyes lit up, and he nodded again and again,
"No need, I'll just stay with you, a pile of wood wrapped in Ayara, and I'm annoyed when I look at it."
Zhou Jingran raised his eyebrows, pointed at Cheng Ke and said:
"Don't be willful, or go back to answer the problem, if you don't want to pick, just say that you don't like it, if you stay with me all the time, and don't show your face, how can I explain to your aunt when I turn around?"
Zhou Jingran made a strange appearance of distress,
"Where can your aunt spare my Xiao Ke, let me tell you, your family affair, it really can't be delayed any longer, hurry up and pick one to marry, I let people inquire, I heard that the second girl of the Qian family is also a good-tempered girl, and the fifth girl of the Wang family is not bad, and her temper is ......."
"Shut up"
Cheng Ke interrupted Zhou Jingran's words angrily, sat up straight, and looked at Zhou Jingran with distress and pain in his eyes,
"Didn't you say that if you can't see it for a while, you can forget it, I haven't seen her for three months, why haven't I forgotten it at all, and I dreamed of her when I closed my eyes?"
"Two months, but only two months"
Zhou Jingran hurriedly corrected it, Cheng Ke's complex was low, and he didn't argue with him, he hung his head and continued:
"This morning, I woke up, lay down for a while, and got dazed again, and dreamed that the little girl looked at me and smiled, and Lirui came over, and she woke up in this dream and I kicked Lirui, alas"
Cheng Ke sighed, looked at Zhou Jingran with distress in his eyes, and said in a low voice:
"A few nights ago, I dreamed that she was married, and I couldn't see who she was marrying clearly, and my heart was like a crack, and I was sweating all over my body, alas"
Zhou Jingran also looked at Cheng Ke, who was sighing for a long time, and followed him with a long sigh.
Cheng Ke sighed for a while, turned his head to look at Zhou Jingran, and said in a low voice:
"This matter, you must help me, Xiao Nuan didn't agree to enter the door, this kiss can't get married anyway, I'll marry her, anyway, she also said let me marry her."
Zhou Jingran looked at Cheng Ke with tears and laughter, and then pointed his finger at Cheng Ke and said:
"You're going to marry her? You can marry whoever you want? What about your dreams? ”
"It's really not good, I'll wait for you to give me a marriage, anyway, if I don't marry, that girl can't marry"
Cheng Ke said slowly, Zhou Jingran choked in his throat, and it took a long time to catch his breath, pointing at Cheng Ke and scolding:
"You bastard"
The next day, Princess Jing sent two mothers-in-law, invited the Gu family to the Wangfu Lantern Tower on the 15th to enjoy the lanterns, after the 15th Shenzheng, the sun had just set, Gu Xiao and Tang Muxian made an appointment to enjoy the lanterns together, and took the little maid over early, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhou took Gu Yunhuan, packed up early, went out and got into the car, and went to the Jingwangfu Lantern Tower.
Li Xiaonuan's constellation is unfavorable, so he naturally has to avoid it at home.
Princess Jing accepted the half-salute from Mrs. Li with a smile on her face, and asked Li Xiaonuan with concern, Mrs. Li politely explained, Princess Jing's eyes were full of smiles, and she didn't ask more, but only warmly greeted the ladies and ladies of the families to eat tea, snacks and watch the lights.
Zhou Jingran looked at Cheng Ke, who was full of disappointment, spread his hands and said:
"I can't do anything about it, don't stay with me anymore, let's go back quickly, find another opportunity to sneak out, just go over there and take a look, maybe you can see Xiao Nuan today."
Cheng Ke nodded with a gloomy face, took Luo Chuan out of the door, got into the car, and went straight to Gu's house.
The sky has not completely darkened, and the sky in the distance is unusually bright, Luo Chuan stopped the car, turned around, lifted the curtain, looked at Cheng Ke and said carefully:
"Master, at this time, it's still early, let's catch the car around again, it's still bright."
Cheng Ke lifted the curtain and looked out, nodded with a calm face.
Luo Chuan slowly drove the car and came back in a circle on a few streets, the light of the day was completely hidden in the horizon, and the fifteenth moon hung brightly in the sky, illuminating the capital everywhere.
Luo Chuan grinned in distress, carefully led Cheng Ke, crossed into the back garden, followed the shadows under the trees among the flowers, and walked towards the Yanshu Xuan.
About the people in the house went out to see the lights, the back garden was quiet, empty, the two quietly touched the corner door behind the smoke tree Xuan, Luo Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, took out the key from his waist, opened the corner door, and Cheng Ke flashed in, turned around and locked the door again.
The east and west compartments of the courtyard were also quiet, only the lights were on in the main house.
Luo Chuan was familiar with the movement in the courtyard, Cheng Ke stared at the warm and abnormal yellow halo of the main house, nervously and a little excited, and hurriedly walked lightly to the east window.
Luo Chuan looked everywhere, and breathed a long sigh of relief, today is fifteen, this day is really good, everyone went out to see the lights and went to all kinds of diseases, otherwise such a bright moonlight would really be difficult for the dead
Cheng Ke listened outside the window, with a smile on his face, stretched out his fingers, gently cut through the thick cotton paper pasted on the window, and looked inside.
In the house, Li Xiaonuan was wearing a red muslin half-worn jacket, a pair of old muslin pants of the same color, barefoot, sitting cross-legged on the couch, holding the account book in his hand, Lan Chu was sitting opposite, and was settling the account with Li Xiaonuan.
After the two finished the account, Li Xiaonuan closed the account book, threw it on the couch, stretched his arms and fell back to the pillow, and said with a smile:
"We have so much silver"
"Where is this silver too much in the past few years, the girl has used the money too much, let's just say a few days ago, as soon as I changed hands, a thousand taels of silver will be gone."
Lan Chu frowned, blaming Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan said with a smile:
"This is a lot, we still have two shops, the previous Chaoyun took the account of Fu Ji, this month, I earned forty taels of silver in the month of the business is better than usual, half of the reduction is good, there is also a year of three hundred taels of silver, plus the rice shop, do well, a year enough to have seven or eight hundred taels of silver, let's take half, this is four hundred taels of silver, plus the dividends of the embroidery workshop, a full of 1,500 taels of silver a year, and my monthly money."
Lan Chu laughed out loud,
"Girl, don't mention the monthly money, two taels of silver a month, the girl has not enough for any month"
Li Xiaonuan laughed,
"Not counting this, 1,500 taels of silver a year is a lot, and if you save for another two or three years, the dowry money will be about the same."
Lan Chu shook his head with a smile, Li Xiaonuan put his feet on the couch, and while slowly shaking, he continued to think with a smile:
"We also have a box of gold-headed noodles, in addition to the jewelry given by the ancestors on weekdays, there is also the mutton fat hosta given by Mrs. Zhu, and the pearl bracelet given by Princess Runan and Princess Jing, which are all valuable things."
Li Xiaonuan sighed in satisfaction, squinted his eyes and sighed:
"Lan Chu, I have never seen so many good things in my two lives combined, people, be content"
Contentment is easier said than done.
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