The current life of the Bao family is better than that of the Li Zhen family, and they can't let the Li Zhen break the bank, and without waiting for the two sons-in-law to speak, their father-in-law said first: "Lord Li Zhen!" Today, you and the village chief and the head of my family can't leave, my child has already killed the chicken and stewed it for a while, my father just killed a goose, and my family is going to the town to buy meat and will come back soon. It just so happened that the two sons-in-law came back with good wine, and since they caught up, you and the village chief and the patriarch are not allowed to have a drink?! ”

Li Zhen's Chen Maodong and Qi Zhengke both sent good wine, but their family must give it away, and it is unlikely that they will drink it themselves. Therefore, when they heard that there was good wine to drink, the three old men could not stand up. The old patriarch smiled happily: "Okay! Then I'm not leaving, the last time I drank your family's good wine was when Zhenghua and Zhengyin got married, I have been thinking about it for several years, and I finally have the opportunity to take another sip. Mu Lin (Uncle Bao Zhengrong): Ah! I can't be reluctant this time, so I'll take a small pot out and fool you and uncle! ”

Chen Maodong still remembered the last time, so he helped the old father-in-law explain: "Grandpa! The good wine you drank last time is not even easy for us, and it is a lot to be able to give your old man a pot to drink alone. The sake I brought this time was a little worse than the last time, but it was difficult to buy it at a regular restaurant. Some are not authentic even if they can be bought, and only in the wine shop opened by our Wang family in your provincial capital can we buy such authentic sorghum wine. We have brought a lot of bottles of this kind of wine, and today you and the grandfather of Lizhen and the uncle of the village can drink it with confidence, and ensure that it is enough. ”

I heard that the good wine that I drank before and will never forget for the rest of my life is gone, and the patriarch is not lost. I heard that he could drink enough today, but it was too beautiful. "If you say it yourself, then if I'm drunk. You can't laugh at the old man, I'm too greedy! ”

The patriarch relied on the large amount of alcohol, and nine times out of ten times he could get drunk, and once a person was drunk, he could make any jokes, and the patriarch wanted to greet him in advance, so as not to make a fool of himself and go hundreds of miles away. Who are Chen Maodong and Qi Zhengke?! Naturally, they don't laugh at an old man who is hungry for alcohol.

The third aunt, who was busy in the kitchen, was chopping the goose meat that had been cleaned up, and looked at the kitchen door from time to time. Her sister-in-law smiled and said to her: "Third brother and sister! What are you doing in such a hurry? The sisters had to spend some time at home. You can't leave for a while, and you have time to ask them. ”

"Huh! I" The third aunt of the Bao family lowered her head in embarrassment, and was busy chopping goose meat pieces intently.

Her sister-in-law looked at her like this. relieved: "You don't have to feel embarrassed, I was looking for my in-laws for a few daughters at that time, and I didn't scratch as anxious as you." The eldest girl's mother-in-law said that she wanted the two daughters to go over to show the man's family, so I sent them over in a daze. Now think about it and have a fever in the face. Why am I so cheap! If this is not taken seriously by others, it is not taken seriously. Can these two sisters have a good one in the future? If Zhengrong hadn't called them back as soon as he came back, then I would have killed their sisters. ”

"Sister-in-law! I'm in a hurry, you don't have to comfort me! She just wanted to ask her two nieces early if they were willing to bring their daughters over to help find a boy with a good personality, but it wasn't the sister-in-law's family affairs that she was anxious about. After all, Zhengni is not old enough to find her in-laws in a hurry, but the sister-in-law has to think so, and she doesn't bother to explain, after all, the ultimate goal is not wrong.

The Zhenghua sisters finished meeting the three elders of Lizhen. When he saw that the men wanted to talk about something, he took the child and went out of the hall. I saw my grandmother basking in the sun against the corner of the main house. He also sat next to him with a small bench and chatted with his grandmother while taking the children.

At this time, the Jiang family in the capital was busy with the dowry of the eldest daughter, and their daughter was spending the last year at home, and Jiang Lingzhu's mother was busy with the dowry of her daughter, both happy and sentimental. Zhang Luo's sister, who accompanied her, couldn't understand it, and thought that she didn't like the son-in-law, so she said: "No wonder you are not happy, your son-in-law is also too old, I heard that he is much older than Lingzhu, and he married our Lingzhu at such an old age, don't there be anything wrong with it?" ”

Jiang Lingzhu's mother saw that her sister seemed to have misunderstood herself, and shook her head with tears and laughter: "Sister! Where did you go?! The rules of my son-in-law's family are different from those of ordinary people, and the men in their family cannot have other women except their wives, nor can they divorce their wives or divorce at will. Therefore, the boys in their family are very cautious in family affairs, and the children in the family do not start to talk about family affairs and marriage until they are more mature. Lingzhu was able to marry into his family, it was her blessing, how could I not be happy? I just thought that my daughter would be sent over after the New Year, and it would be so difficult to come back in the future, so I felt uncomfortable. ”

"Does your eldest son-in-law's family still have such a rule? I heard that his family is very rich, is it true? ”

"I've only heard other people's gossip about this, and I don't know if it's really like what others say. I just became an in-law, if I can't wait to inquire about this, I can't make people laugh to death? However, the dowry they give is quite generous, and it is not something that ordinary families can get. There are some fresh and valuable ones in this capital, but I haven't seen antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and it is estimated that it is not a really rich family. ”

In fact, she knew some of the family backgrounds of her daughter-in-law's family, although she didn't specifically ask, the eldest and youngest grandmother of the Qin family who introduced the two families to marry would take the initiative to tell her. But she didn't want to tell her eldest sister this, her sister's sons were all high-eyed and low-minded, if they were targeted, her daughter and son-in-law would want to have a clean life in the future. But it can't be said too badly, if it is too much, it will make the eldest sister suspicious, after all, if you marry your daughter to such a small place so far away, the family situation of others will not be too bad.

Her sister saw that the dowry her sister prepared for her daughter was ordinary, but she believed her sister's words. When I got home, I buried my sister well, what lack of heart, confused mother, found a villager for my daughter, etc., and asked her children to listen, and suddenly lost interest in this relative. It wasn't until a long, long time later that I didn't know that when this cousin married into the famous Wang family of Hepu Town, their relationship had already been basically severed because of their mother's death.

Jiang Lingzhu is busy managing her money at home, this is what her eldest cousin said, even if she doesn't use it, she has to learn it. Seeing that her mother was tired and dragged back a lot of things, she hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Mother! You go and take a break for a cup of tea, I'll come here! ”

"It's good! Put all these things in your dowry, and I will go into the house and sit down. After running all afternoon, Lingzhu's mother patted Lingzhu's shoulder and entered the house with the help of her personal maid.

Jiang Lingzhu took the mother-in-law who carried the things to the house dedicated to the dowry, and put the things her mother bought back into the dowry box in the same category. Seeing that these things seemed to have spent a lot of money, Jiang Lingzhu didn't feel happy at all. Why does the male family have to give as much dowry as the female family dowry? After she learned how to manage the family from her grandmother, she realized that their family was not as rich as it seemed on the surface. Many of the shops left by the ancestors of the family are not profitable at all, and some are even reporting losses.

She asked her eldest cousin-in-law, and the eldest cousin-in-law said: It is very likely that the shopkeeper of such a shop has made false accounts, either to change people, or to check the accounts to death, but when she put forward this opinion to her father and mother, her mother and father told her not to meddle in things. Maybe there is something I don't know about here, but because there is no money in the public school, my mother has to take the money out of my dowry. I spent all the money in my mother's hand, and what should I do if my two younger brothers get married in the future? You can't just go home to get money from your in-laws, right? In this way, there is no need for her in-laws to look down on her, even she herself will look down on herself.

The more Jiang Lingzhu sorted out the dowry, the heavier her mood became, if only she could split the family, so that she could still let her husband help her mother do business, and she could always earn some family business in a few years. Didn't the eldest cousin earn such a big family business by relying on the Wang family! Now, no one in my aunt's family doesn't look at my eldest cousin, and even my aunt and grandfather treat my eldest cousin differently. If it weren't for the eldest cousin's busy and lack of time, the current power of their family would have been handed over to the eldest cousin long ago.

Ay! There are too many rules in her own family, unlike her aunt's and grandfather's family, the eldest cousin doesn't want her to give as much as she wants, and never forces her to give money to the public middle school. The people in each room, except for the woman who married in the dowry, which was originally written in the dowry, can be used as private property, and the other qiē belong to the property of the public school. In this case, she would not dare to let her mother do any business, lest she have a wasted head.

Lingzhu Niang, who was sitting in the house to rest, saw that her daughter who entered the house looked bad, and her heart was a little unsteady, so she asked her daughter carefully: "But the dowry purchased by the mother is not to your liking?" ”

Jiang Lingzhu shook his head: "Mother! You have spent all the money in your hands, what will you do with your two younger brothers in the future? I believe you know better than me about the situation in this public school, I am afraid that it will be more difficult in the future, you don't keep the money for your brother, and when they want to say goodbye, what will you do to buy a dowry? ”

Her mother didn't expect her daughter to worry about this, and couldn't help laughing: "You are really worried about your mother-in-law!" How can such a big family not even get a dowry? There's a lot of good stuff in the storeroom! The accounts you see are just small account books for the family, and you can't see the real big account books. The reason why I didn't take money from the public middle school is because the public middle school has already selected several valuable antiques, as well as very valuable calligraphy and paintings, to save your face! Those little things, can I still be cheeky to ask the public for money? Then your aunts and aunts don't have to laugh at your mother! ”

Jiang Lingzhu looked at her mother suspiciously, and asked in a low voice, "Really?" ”

Her mother also whispered: "Of course it's true! In the past, families like ours could not do business in the open, but only in secret. The shops you know are all well-known ancestral businesses, and it's useless to hide them, so it's better to put them outside to block the attention of others. Later, although the imperial court had relaxed the taboo of merchants, your grandfather said that Yiqiē was still the same as in the past, and his family was not allowed to expose those secret industries. You too! I forgot about it today, and I won't mention it in the future, but you know? ”

Jiang Lingzhu nodded thoughtfully, "Hmm! I know! (To be continued.) )