In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

Yueyao embroidered a wedding dress in the house. Her hijab has been embroidered, and the hijab uses the stitch method of Suzhou embroidery double-sided. This hijab took Yueyao a lot of time, but fortunately, with Xijuan's help, and drizzle to work with Ruoxiao and Ruocui, Yueyao's wedding dress was more than half completed. There are still five months to go, enough for Yueyao to finish embroidering.

Xiao Tao came over happily and said, "Girl, the person who went to Jiangnan to buy is back." There are more than 20 cars! "Of course, not all of the more than twenty cars are Yueyao's.

The problem is that in less than an hour, the purchasers who went to Haikou also returned, and the people who went to Haikou also bought things with nearly twenty cars.

Divide into two batches, one to go to Haikou and the other to Jiangnan, this is Xiang Wei's suggestion. Xiang Wei felt that it would definitely be much more cost-effective to go to Haikou for Western items such as wall clocks and pocket watches, and it would be more cost-effective to go to Jiangnan to buy silk and satin. Yueyao finally adopted Xiang Wei's opinion and asked Ma Chengteng to send a steward to two places to buy, but she didn't expect the two teams to come back on the same day.

Yue Yao stood up with a smile and said, "These things will definitely all be moved to Begonia Garden, hurry up and put the warehouse out." "Fortunately, the Begonia Garden is big enough, otherwise it would not be enough.

The maids and daughters of Haitang Garden all went out, and even Qiaolan, who was married, came to help. Qiao Lan got married in June. After marrying Wang Sheng, he not only won Wang Sheng's love, but also got along well with Wang Sheng's two children.

Drizzle and Qiao Lan learned to read, so he took the list of the right things, and moved them to the warehouse until nightfall.

Yueyao took a look at the list, there are a lot of things, there are agarwood inlaid jade Ruyi, copper wax skewers, agate silk and other decorations, there are also Jiang silk silk satin, Hangzhou yarn spring silk satin and other satin materials, as well as gold thread, silver thread, velvet thread and other silk threads.

Yue Yao made a rough calculation, "Forty thousand taels of silver for these things is definitely not enough, and I will need seventy or eighty thousand taels anyway." ”

Xiang Wei smiled: "Why do you think I want to send someone to Haikou to buy from Jiangnan?" The same thing can be bought in the place of origin and can be bought in the capital several percent cheaper. Also, Ma Fu has relatives who are officials in Haikou and Jiangnan, the so-called official words, those businessmen are too late, where will they ask for high prices. Therefore, forty thousand taels of silver is not enough for these things.

Xiang Wei is a person who enjoys it and knows this very well. Yueyao was also very convinced of her, but this time Yueyao was worried again, "Just these things are forty or fifty thousand taels of silver, plus the ones in the warehouse, and then those furniture made of rosewood, My dowry does not include the field shop and the house, and the other things add up to more than 100,000 taels of silver, which is too much." "Xiang Wei said that the rosewood was said in the old month, and the rosewood was more than Yueyao expected.

Rosewood is such a good material, so it is natural to invite the best master to make it, and if you let someone else do it, it may spoil the good thing. After Xiang Wei said this, she looked around for a good carpenter, and finally Hou Fu came forward to invite a master.

The master was well-informed, and he was not surprised to see the rosewood materials, and he estimated what kind of furniture could be made from the existing materials. In simple words, what kind of furniture will not be wasted.

Moon Shake had a different idea about this at this time. Lianjia bought a set of rosewood to create a complete set of furniture for most of the year, so these rosewood Yueyao did not plan to make furniture, but wanted to create a few painting tools, and some carved ornaments in the study. Yue Yao communicated with the master, and finally the master agreed. The color of the furniture was also chosen by Yueyao herself. Yueyao's painting skills seemed to come in handy again at this time, and the master immediately agreed when he saw the colors she painted.

Xiang Wei said coldly: "Is it only more than 100,000 taels?" In the past few years, I will not count the various treasures and paintings that have been given to you by others, but the large boxes of things that Mr. Yushan gave you, as well as the paintings that you have saved, are also worth a lot of money. Do you have any of these? Xiang Wei later learned that there were a lot of lonely books in the box, that is, a free and easy person like Mr. Yushan would be so generous, and ordinary people would be willing to change it.

Yue Yao really didn't count these in, if she did, it would be more than 200,000 taels of silver.

Xiang Wei smiled: "That's why I said you lost a lot." "An Zhichen's dowry is not shabby compared to Yueyao's dowry in the future.

Yue Yao thought for a moment and said, "Isn't this inappropriate?" "The woman's dowry is so much higher than the man's dowry, so it's easy for people to misunderstand the use of dowry to oppress people.

Xiang Wei sneered: "Other people's women all hope that the more their dowry, the better, but you are wonderful, and you are worried that your dowry is too much." ”

Yueyao was indeed worried.

Xiang Wei knows Yueyao's temperament, if she doesn't explain one or two things to her, I'm afraid that the dowry will really be cut, "The set of rosewood furniture here is too conspicuous, you definitely can't carry it with other things when you get married, and the rosewood and your precious books will be transported to Yuhua Hutong in private." As for the rest, there is no need to scale it back. If An Zhichen doesn't even have this bit of open-mindedness, how can you still rely on him! "The rosewood stands out a little bit at once, but at most it will be criticized. And the thousands of books that Yue Yao treasured were even more precious, at least for the readers, it was better than a million taels of silver, so those books must not be revealed to people, and if they were spread out to let people know, they would definitely be remembered.

Yue Yao hesitated.

Xiang Wei said with a smile: "No matter how many things you have, can you still exceed one hundred and twenty-eight?" Maybe all of those things are stuffed into one hundred and twenty-eight lifts! The boxes ordered that day were all on the large side, and Xiang Wei felt that all the things were barely enough to carry one hundred and twenty-eight.

Every woman wants to marry beautifully, and Yueyao is no exception, so she didn't object to raising a dowry of one hundred and twenty-eight from the beginning, but her budget was seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver for these dowries, but she didn't expect it to exceed so much.

Ma Chengteng came back from a business trip and arrived at Begonia Garden. Ma Chengteng didn't mention how much these things cost, and Yueyao didn't ask. If the account is calculated too clearly, it will hurt the feelings between the uncle and nephew, "Yueyao, are all those things still agreeable?" ”

It takes time, effort and money to buy things for her, and she doesn't understand how much she will say that she doesn't agree! Yue Yao smiled: "I like those things very much, uncle, I'm a little worried that my second cousin and cousin will have opinions if they don't know the truth." Uncle, explain it to them when the time comes! She and Ma Chengteng both knew that the money was paid by herself, but Ma Linlin and Ma Yue didn't know. As for Ma Peng, Yue Yao is not worried.

Ma Chengteng thought about it for a while and felt that it made sense, after all, when Ma Linlin got married, the dowry was more than 30,000 taels, and if it was given to her niece more than her own daughter, her daughter would definitely feel uncomfortable. When the children must be filial, the daughter will definitely not look for him, but will find Yueyao. "Well, I'll make this matter clear to your second cousin and cousin."

Yueyao was not wrong, and Ma Linlin came to the door the next day. Ma Linlin first went to see the Tang family, and then went to Haitang Garden.

Yue Yao had one hundred and twenty-eight dowry boxes scheduled for land, and sixty boxes were sent over early this morning. Now the people of Haitang Garden are sorting and sorting in the east and west of the river, and then put them in these boxes. These boxes won't be opened again once packed, so be careful with them.

Ma Linlin saw the boxes in the yard and was very uncomfortable. Anyone who knows that his father has bought more things for his cousin than he does, and he can still be comfortable. Not to mention, the things purchased from Haikou and Jiangnan are only a part, and the big ones are still behind.

Yue Yao welcomed Ma Linlin in, and when Yahuan served tea and returned with fruit, Yue Yao smiled and asked Drizzle to take a pocket watch, and then said to Ma Linlin: "The people sent to Jiangnan and Haikou came back on the same day before yesterday, so now the yard is a little messy, cousin, don't be surprised." ”

Ma Linlin's face is not very good-looking, although her relationship with Yueyao has eased a lot, but this incident really annoyed her, and her father was too favoritistic, so that she had no face in her in-law's house and was squeezed by her sister-in-law.

Yue Yao didn't seem to see Ma Linlin's expression, and said with a smile: "I heard that there are a lot of good things in Haikou and Jiangnan that day, and I need to buy a lot of things when I get married, so I asked my uncle to send someone to these two places to buy, but I didn't expect that these things are very good." ”

Ma Linlin is not as rampage as before now, and now her brain is turning quickly, "You asked my father to go to Jiangnan and Haikou to buy things?" It was as if she had only asked her father for help.

Yueyao bowed, "yes, these things are good, and I like them too." It's just a pity that it exceeded my budget, but I asked my uncle to advance more than 2,000 taels of silver. "This time, all the expenses cost a total of more than 42,000 taels, which exceeded the budget.

This is still the news that Yue Yao asked people to hear from the two stewards.

According to Yueyao's words, many of the things purchased this time are flashy things, and some are wasteful, such as the agate silk she felt unnecessary. Fortunately, she has two pots of gemstone shed bonsai and green jade and bamboo bonsai in her hands, otherwise she will have to exceed her budget.

Ma Linlin asked suspiciously: "What do you mean, these things are your own money?" Where do you have so much money? ”

The smile on Yue Yao's face did not decrease, "The income from those granges and shops is a considerable amount, plus I have earned a little bit myself in the past few years, and I and Tingzheng's expenses are not large, and all this money has been saved." I wanted to return the two thousand taels to my uncle, but my uncle didn't ask for it. ”

Ma Linlin didn't expect Yueyao to be so rich.

Yueyao didn't seem to think it was enough to stimulate Ma Linlin, and continued: "Going to Jiangnan and Haikou to purchase is the biggest, and there are many small things to add, I estimate that I have to remove half of my savings." Fortunately, there are a lot of left, and it should be enough for Ting Zhengcheng to use personally. "Yueyao is deliberately showing off her wealth, and Ma Linlin will come to the door again when she can save it. I explained the first time, but I don't want to explain the second time.

Ma Linlin almost vomited blood, when she got married, the dowry was more than 30,000 taels, and she already felt that it was a lot. Yueyao's dowry turned out to be more than twice as much as hers.

Ma Linlin looked at Yue Shao and felt depressed. You have so much money, you don't know how much to add makeup back then!

At this time, Drizzle took a gold watch, and Yue Yao said with a smile: "The steward who went to Haikou this time felt that the pocket watches in Haikou were very beautiful, so I bought an extra one, if my cousin doesn't dislike it, just accept it!" ”

Ma Linlin went back to her parents' house with a stomach, and when she returned to her mother-in-law's house, she was depressed.

Xiang Wei asked, "What's so important about this?" "If Yueyao has no purpose, just tell Ma Linlin that she paid for the things herself. There is no need to show off your wealth with Ma Linlin.

Yue Yao smiled: "Ting Zheng is already fourteen years old, and in two or three years, it will be time to get married." "Discuss relatives, first of all, talk about family history, family history generally depends on financial resources. If you don't have a family background and no financial resources, then no one will care about it. She has to let people know now that she left a lot of money for Ting Zheng, and in two or three years, if Ting Zheng gains the fame of the martial arts people, he will definitely be able to say that he is a good friend at that time.

Xiang Wei paused for three seconds, "I think you are Tingzheng's mother, not my sister." "Yueyao, who is a sister, is definitely competent for her mother's duties, and she has thought about everything for Tingzheng.

Yue Yao's answer was very simple, "I'm just such a younger brother, if I don't think about him, no one will think about him." "Uncle Li has nothing to say to Ting, but Uncle Li himself has three sons, so it is impossible to consider everything. As for Mrs. Li, Yue Yao no longer had expectations for her, so she had to worry about Tingzheng's lifelong affairs.

Xiang Wei muttered, "It's so happy to be your brother." ”

Yue Yao asked rhetorically, "Aren't you happy?" ”

Xiang Wei rolled her eyes, "So-so." "Yueyao is really indulgent to her, and she is up to everything. It can be said that she is the actual boss in Begonia Garden. Of course, she would never admit it.

Yueyao never had a pointless argument with Xiang Wei.

The next day, Xiang Wei went out on a trip, and when she came back, she asked Yueyao, "Do you want the girl to have a pocket watch for herself?" ”

Yueyao didn't have much interest, "Didn't you buy two pocket watches?" "I bought a total of three watches, two of which were a pair, and the other gold watch Yueyao gave to Ma Linlin.

Xiang Wei smiled: "Those two pocket watches can barely catch the eye, but I saw a non-beautiful pocket watch at a friend's place today." ”

Yue Yao was surprised: "Since you like it, then buy it." ”

Xiang Wei glanced at Yueyao and muttered, "I can't afford it, it's too expensive." The pocket watch cost 10,000 taels of silver, and even if it was discounted, it would cost 9,600 taels. ”

Yue Yao opened her mouth, "What kind of pocket watch is that, it's so expensive?" "As far as Yueyao's own things are concerned, except for those antique calligraphy and paintings, it really doesn't exceed 10,000 taels of silver. 10,000 taels of silver for a pocket watch, that's a ruiner!

Xiang Wei said embarrassedly: "Girl, look at it, is it very beautiful, is it worth nine thousand six hundred taels of silver?" After saying that, he took out an enamel pearl pocket watch from his sleeve as if by magic.

Yueyao's eyes were immediately attracted by this pocket watch, which was very delicately designed, and the front of the watch, the back and the handle were inlaid with white pearls. The case alone is set with more than 100 pearls, which are round and transparent, and the back of this watch is painted with a beautiful enamel painting.

Xiang Wei knew that she was tempted when she saw Yueyao's gaze, so she hurriedly added more oil, "My friend said that this pocket watch looks like a mountain peak undulating from a distance, with white clouds, and a pair of white swans playing freely in the lake from a distance, leading the neck to sing. After speaking, he looked at this pocket watch and said: "Girl, you see that there will be a circle of bright and dazzling flowers around this watch, and under the background of the flowers, this picture is becoming more and more exquisite." ”

Yue Yao nodded and said, "It's beautiful, it's very beautiful." "It's the most beautiful pocket watch she's ever seen.

Xiang Wei said slowly: "Girl, this is really a good thing. Girl, although nine thousand six hundred taels is a little more, it is also worth the money, don't you say? Xiang Wei really likes this pocket watch, so she spares no effort to let Yueyao buy it.

Yue Yao hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "Cheng." It's rare to come across such a treasure, so buy it! "This is the first time she's been so extravagant.

This watch is colorful, gold-plated throughout, very gorgeous, and it doesn't really fit Yueyao's preferences, but this pocket watch is so beautifully designed that Yueyao also has the urge to stay.

Xiang Weile said hehehe: "Okay." ”

Seeing Xiang Wei's joyful expression, Yue Yao shook her head and said, "You will really give me a loser." After speaking, he went to get the silver ticket and gave it to Xiang Wei.