There is a tradition of dowry in the Great Calendar Dynasty, and the maiden family will carry the dowry to the husband's family before the woman gets married, and the more she has, the more she will have face, and the woman will have more status in the husband's family in the future.

Large families will give the full lift, sixty-four dowry, and those who can't afford it will be halved, and the value of this dowry depends on what the mother's family gives.

Many years ago, when the holy sister got married, the royal family prepared a dowry of one hundred and twenty-eight dowries, and the things in it were extremely valuable.

When the eldest girl of the Qi family, Qi Minhui, got married, the Qi family prepared sixty-four lifts, although Qi Minhua did not marry seriously, the eldest lord and the Fang family also prepared this for their daughter, and it was even better than the eldest daughter.

And this dowry has always been less than the dowry, but this less will not be too bad, the daughter of a large family is married to sixty-four lifts, and the man marries a wife, and the number will not be less than half.

Yueyang Wangfu asked someone to come to say that he was full of sincerity, and the date after the birth date was taken away was also very fast, counting today's hiring, it was only a month before and after, and it was considered to be a good day for this month.

But the gift list in Mrs. Qi's hand is indeed twenty-four lifts, one lift is not much, and one lift is a lot.

There are also people who have small numbers but expensive things, but this Yueyang Mansion is not.

If the Qi family prepares thirty-two dowries for Qi Minlan, then this dowry is not less.

Could it be that in the eyes of Yueyang Wangfu, Qi Mansion can only be regarded as a small family?

Huo Cheng had already drunk a few glasses of wine in the front hall, Qi Yan won the instruction of Mrs. Qi, and knocked on the dowry, Huo Cheng knocked the wine glass with him refreshingly: "You said this, since the death of my sister-in-law, my aunt is worried about all the big and small affairs in the house, and the eldest brother is just a rough man, where do you know this, the big and small things that are done this time are also handled by my aunt." ”

Qi Yanbo poured him full of wine with a smile: "It's not easy for Mrs. Ming. ”

"That's not it, but the old lady is kind-hearted and easy to get along with." Huo Cheng also knew what he meant, and patted him on the shoulder to comfort, "Don't worry, aunt she won't be embarrassed." ”

Outside the house, after Gu Shi instructed his subordinates, he walked to the side of Old Madam Qi and asked, "Are these carried down first?" ”

There are dowries, and they don't show the dowry to anyone, they have been placed for half an hour, Mrs. Qi nodded, and handed her the gift list: "Let people copy two copies." ”

Mother Lin helped Mrs. Qi back to Biqiu Courtyard, Qi Herui walked out of the house, the couple looked at each other, and Gu Shi opened his mouth first: "I'll go to the warehouse to have a look." ”

Before Qi Herui could speak, the Gu family had already walked to the corner of the corridor

Yi Rongxuan's Qi Minlan quickly learned about Yueyang Wangfu's appointment, she sent Mingcui to the front yard, and Mingcui came back not long after.

"How?"

"It was brought here by Young Master Huo, and the old lady has gone to the front." Mingcui said what she saw in the front yard, "The second young master is taking Young Master Huo to eat wine in the hall." ”

Qi Minlan waved her hand: "What about the dowry." ”

Mingcui hesitated for a moment: "Look at the estimate, there are twenty or thirty lifts, and Mrs. will send one to the girl at that time." ”

"Twenty or thirty?" The smile on Qi Minlan's face paused, how could it be only twenty or thirty.

"For someone like Yueyang Wangfu, the next appointment must be grand." Mingcui didn't count the number, and she didn't know what was inside, so she couldn't be arbitrary just by looking at it.

"Yes." Qi Minlan regained her expression, and the promise he had made to her would not wronged her.

Qi Minlan thought in her heart, half an hour later, the Gu family ordered someone to send a hand-copied gift slip to Yi Rongxuan.

After reading it, Qi Minlan's expression flickered, and she couldn't accept what was written on this gift list.

Before the eldest sister got married, the brother-in-law's family hired forty-eight people, and the third sister was named the imperial concubine, not to mention the royal family, she will be the second girl to get married, and she is still married to Yueyang Palace, there are only so many.

The two maids beside him didn't dare to come out, Qi Minlan sat there for a long time and didn't move, and the room was quiet.

After a while, there was movement outside, and Mingcui walked in to report: "Girl, the master has come to see you." ”

Qi Minlan got up and went out with a restrained expression, Qi Herui stood in the outhouse, and when she saw her come out, the expression on her face was full of relief, her daughter has grown up, and she is about to get married.

"Daddy."

"You must also know about Yueyang Wangfu's coming." The next thing is to prepare a dowry for her, "The date has been set, you can stay at home with peace of mind for a while, the palace is everyone, King Yueyang has two children, you have to be a mother when you marry, some things have to be thought about first." ”

"My daughter has already thought about it, although I don't know each other well, but I must be able to get along well after a long time." Qi Minlan smiled, her expression was gentle, like Aunt Lu when she first entered the mansion.

Qi Herui lost his mind slightly: "It's good that you think about it." ”

"Dad, my daughter has one more thing to ask for."

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In the evening, after a day's snow, the courtyard of the Splendid Garden was covered with snow, and the sky was a little dark, and the lights were lit early under the eaves.

Gu Shi was busy all afternoon before resting, and Chen's mother brought her a cup of tea: "You rest first, this will let people set up the table." ”

"There's no hurry." Gu Shi took a sip of tea, "Master." ”

As soon as Gu Shi finished asking, Qi Herui appeared outside the house, with snow particles on his body, and patted him when he entered the door, and the maid at the door hurriedly greeted him and took off his cloak.

"I haven't eaten yet." After Gu asked him, he asked Chen's mother to go to the cloth table, and the couple didn't have much to say, Qi Herui wanted to speak, but after Gu Shi's faint expression, he couldn't say anything until the two of them sat down.

Qi Herui took a sip of soup: "What's going on with the Li family." ”

"Mrs. Wang went and said that they would come to the door to propose marriage."

Next year, he is going to marry two daughters, and Qi Herui can't help but feel a little worried: "It's better not to bump too close." ”

"It won't be so fast after picking a date." Gu Shi put a chopstick dish in the bowl and put it in the bowl, and shook his hand, "Minying hasn't come back for a while, and the master knows about her being admitted to the internal teaching practice." ”

"I heard from my second brother."

"It's all in the front door, the lord will go over to see her when he has time, she didn't come back to Laba a few days ago, if it's cold today, this child doesn't say anything, and I don't know what she lacks."

In the past, I didn't have any feelings for this daughter, and the number of times I met after I recognized it was only a few times, to be honest, Qi Herui didn't care too much about this child.

But when he heard Gu Shi say this, he felt a little worried in his heart, after all, it was a girl's family, so he nodded: "I'll go and see it in two days." ”

After finishing speaking, Gu Shi was silent, the room was quiet, the soup in front of Qi Herui was bottomed out, and when the maid on the side added it to him, Qi Herui spoke again: "How to buy Minlan's dowry." ”

Gu Shi expected him to mention this, and endured it for a long time, he wanted to mention it in the front yard before, so she put down her chopsticks: "It depends on what the master means." ”

"I don't understand these house things, you just discuss it with your mother, ask your sister-in-law, and see how Minhui and them handle it."

Hearing him say this, Gu Shi made his words clear: "The Ming family has only made so many appointments, and it is not an exaggeration for us to prepare thirty-two promotions, but the people who married before were all lifted, and now they are married to Yueyang Wangfu, which does not wronged her, I think it is still the same, all of them are married." ”

There are fewer dowries and more dowries, which is simply a big loss.

Of course, Qi Herui will not only think about this, the loss is only for a while, and in the future, he will become the father-in-law of King Yueyang, and the benefits will be many: "It must be all lifted." ”

"That's what I mean, too." Gu nodded, and changed his words, "However, that's all we can do in this room, the old lady will add some, and I'm afraid there will be more in the public middle school." ”

When a daughter gets married, it is understandable for the mother to prepare a dowry for her, but Qi Minlan is not from the Gu family, and the dowry she brought from the Gu family back then will be left to her children in the future, that is, some shops here in the third room, most of them are reserved for the sons of the concubines, and there are so many children left.

The dowry is less, the dowry is more, the third room can not afford to lose here, if the Qi family wants to have enough face, the public middle school will have more, this matter is not her decision, now she is in charge of the second room, and it depends on what the second room means.

Qi Herui understood what she meant, and wanted to refute but couldn't make sense, let alone have the face to say that he wanted Gu to take out his dowry.

"I heard that when the Ming family got married, it was twenty-four." Gu added lightly, now that the Ming family is marrying and filling the house, it is the same as when it came out, Mrs. Ming wants to use this method to express her dissatisfaction with this marriage, and the Qi family can't find a mistake.

"You discuss this matter with your mother." Qi Herui frowned, feeling a headache, "I'll mention it to my second brother then." ”

Gu Shi pursed his lips and didn't speak, let alone the second sister-in-law, if there are more pieces of silver from the princess, I don't know if there will be anything in the big house.

The room was quiet again, Qi Herui drank two bowls of soup in a row, he was already half-full, he put down the spoon, and then cut to the main topic of today's visit: "There is one more thing." ”

Gu's action of picking up the vegetables paused, slowly retracted, and looked up at him quietly.

"It's not good for Aunt Lu to be locked up in the outer village all the time, and now that Minlan is getting married, if she lets Yueyang Wangfu know about this, it will not affect her well." Qi Herui cleared his throat, "It's better to bring Aunt Lu back first, and when Minlan gets married, pick a nunnery to send her over, so it's easy to say." ”

"I haven't seen Aunt Lu for two years." Gu Shi's expression was calm, and he didn't look too bad.

"I know that she made a big mistake, and it is light to be locked up for ten or eight years, but now I always think about the child, and I will send her away after Minlan gets married, and then it will be easy to say that Minlan will not be talked about in the Ming family in the future."

"What the master said is, so be it, tomorrow morning, the master and I will go to the outer village together and bring Aunt Lu back."

Qi Herui was stunned, obviously he didn't react that his wife would agree so simply, and he also prepared a stomach full of words to persuade her.

"Mother Chen, you go to Yirongxuan, tell Miss Sù Six, let her prepare and follow us to Waizhuang early tomorrow morning." Gu ignored him, and then ordered Chen's mother to go to Yirongxuan, didn't she want to pick up people, how could it be grand.

"Just go"

"It's been two years, after all." Gu interrupted him with a smile, "It's okay for the master to go and take a look." ”

Early the next morning, when the snow was still falling, Qi Minlan got up early, asked Mingcui to prepare her clothes, took a set of her aunt's favorite face ornaments, and followed Gu and Qi Herui to Waizhuang.

The snow mountain road is not easy to walk, it took half a day to reach the village, and when she arrived at the gate of the outer village, Qi Minlan couldn't wait to come down, and she didn't cross the Gu family with her feelings, and only followed them into the village.

The two mothers-in-law who were in charge saw that the old man and the lady were coming, and hurried to greet them, Gu looked at the reaction of the father and daughter, snorted coldly in his heart, and then asked them to open the door: "Aunt Lu." ”

"I'm afraid I'm still asleep." The mother-in-law unlocked the lock and shouted inside, "Aunt Lu, the old lady and the sixth girl have come to see you." ”

As soon as the words fell, Qi Minlan finally couldn't help it, and entered the house from her mother-in-law and looked inside, and at this glance, the smile was all condensed on her face.

Then Qi Herui stepped in, and when he smelled the smell coming from the house, he frowned slightly, and then saw the look on his daughter's face, and raised his eyes to look inside the house without knowing it, and his face changed greatly.

Aunt Lu, who was sitting on the bed, saw her daughter first and then saw the master, the joy on her face was self-evident, looking at them with her gentlest smile, tears rolling in her eyes, just like she was as weak as she was in the arms of the master, her eyes were full of thoughts and expectations.

But what Qi Herui saw in his eyes was not these.

The fat body, how funny and funny the clothes are on her, tightening the straps as if they are going to burst, the flesh on her face is about to shake off with her smile, the eye sockets are almost fat embedded in, the beauty of the past is not half a point, I don't know what has grown on the original fair skin, it is a bunch of pockmarks in the east and west, the original dense black hair, and now it is still white, but she still looks at herself with such eyes, she is simply afraid to look at it!

"Sir." Aunt Lu opened her mouth and shouted emotionally, but she didn't expect the corners of her mouth to be uncontrollable, and there was saliva dripping down, she didn't know it at first, until Qi Minlan called out to Aunt Lu sadly, seeing her daughter's unbelievable look, Aunt Lu hurriedly raised her hand and wiped the corner of her mouth, a pair of fleshy hands were revealed in front of them, and only disgust was left in Qi Herui's eyes.

When Gu Shi came over, he was actually startled when he saw her like this.

She only ordered some medicine to make her unable to restrain her appetite to eat, so fat that the old man would never look at her again, and now she looks not only fat, but also a little disgusting.

"Sir." Aunt Lu, who had never seen what she had become in the past two years, didn't know this, she got up and walked towards Qi Herui, drooling as soon as she opened her mouth, and she looked at him earnestly, "Master, are you here to pick me up, aren't you, I miss your master so much." ”

"Auntie, how did you become like this?" Qi Minlan couldn't believe that this was her aunt, she had been here several times, but every time she only spoke outside the window, who would have thought that it would be like this.

"Minlan, are you here to pick up your aunt back?" Qi Herui took a few steps back, and Aunt Lu turned to hold Qi Minlan's hand, which had wiped her saliva just now, and when she held it, Qi Minlan's whole expression was not good.

Qi Herui retreated directly outside the house, took a few deep breaths and couldn't slow down, and then looked at Gu Shi, his eyes were still shocked: "How did she become like this!" ”

"There's nothing to do to stay here, just eat too much." Gu looked at Aunt Lu with a faint expression, "She still refuses to let her eat less." ”

Qi Herui was skeptical of her words, he also knew what kind of person Aunt Lu was, how could he toss himself like this when he paid more attention to his appearance on weekdays, but seeing Aunt Lu walking towards the door, all Qi Herui's thoughts were scattered, and he just wanted to stay away, and out of sight was pure.

"Master, you're here to pick me up." Aunt Lu's face was full of joy, what the cheap girl said was right, Min Lan really found a good relative, she could go back to Qi Mansion, and she didn't have to stay in this ghost place again.

Qi Minlan's hand was still grabbed by Aunt Lu, her eyes were a little dilated, and she couldn't get out of this blow.

Gu Shi looked at Qi Herui: "Master, do you want Aunt Lu to clean up and take her back, when the people of Yueyang Wangfu see it, there will be no gossip." ”

How to bring this back, not to mention the people of Yueyang Palace, even if the Qi family sees it, it is a shameful thing, if she is allowed to appear on the day of the wedding banquet, the Qi family's face will be lost.

"No way!" Qi Herui almost blurted out, and under Aunt Lu's gaze, his face suddenly turned cold, "Kaichun sent her to the nunnery." ”

"Daddy!" Qi Minlan lost her voice, even if her aunt changed no matter how she changed, she would still be her aunt, she would be able to accept it if she got used to it, not to mention that she would definitely be able to recover slowly after returning to the Qi family.

"Needless to say." Qi Herui didn't even want to take a second look, turned around and walked directly down the steps towards the door of Zhuangzi.

Aunt Lu staggered out of the door, but her body was too fat, her clothes were tight, and she threw herself directly into the snow, looked at Qi Herui, and shouted bitterly: "Master, you just don't care about our affection, master!" ”

But Qi Herui was stunned and didn't look back, and walked out of Zhuangzi all the way.

Qi Minlan cried, she wanted to help Aunt Lu up, but she couldn't do it at all, she was almost taken to the ground, she couldn't figure out how her aunt could become like this.

Gu Shi stood under the eaves and watched her husband's back disappear outside the carriage, and then she instructed her mother-in-law to help Aunt Lu up and take her back to the house, as if these things had nothing to do with her: "The master doesn't agree with you going back, so you continue to live here." ”

It took a lot of effort for the two mothers-in-law to bring Aunt Lu into the house, and Qi Minlan stood there in a daze, and didn't hurry to stop it until the door was about to close, but it was too late, so she could only watch the door be locked.

At this moment, Qi Minlan hated the Gu family so much.

The mother-in-law was sent by her, and she was not allowed to see her aunt for two years, and she made people like this, and now she is saying that she wants to take people back, but she lets her father see her aunt like this.

was a good person in front of his father, and stopped his aunt from going back.

Gu glanced at her: "Don't go back?" ”

Qi Minlan gritted her teeth: "Mother, can I stay here with my aunt for a while." ”

Gu Shi didn't stop her: "It's not early, don't stay too long." ”

Qi Minlan nodded, watched her out, and turned to look at the closed doors and windows, her expression flickering, full of hatred.

How did it come to be

At this time, it was almost evening, the sky was slightly dark, and Gu and Qi Herui had just returned to Qi Mansion, and Jade Shi hurriedly ran to them, saying that the fifth girl had suddenly disappeared.