Dong Ping finally broke free from the entanglement of a group of classmates, and said with a smile, "Brothers, the younger brother is wrong, so let Xizi go to the restaurant to set the best table and send it." When the little brother is busy here, he will rush to make amends with his brothers, okay? ”

The students all smiled when they heard this, and some of them wanted to blackmail some good things, but they were pulled and pointed to the Yang family's house not far away, so they immediately shrank their necks and quickly ran away like a swarm. It's no big deal for them to joke with Dong Ping, but if they really delay Mr. marrying his daughter, it's purely impatient.

Dong Ping watched the group of classmates running behind the smoke, laughed helplessly, and hurriedly led the team to continue walking.

The servants of the Yang family had already set off firecrackers, and the courtyard of the Yang family, which was filled with the smell of heavy gunsmoke, soon put a dowry of eight loads. Dong Ping's father and son were welcomed into the living room to talk, and Mrs. Yang brought a group of ladies who came to see the excitement around the dowry and laughed.

Wen Niang respectfully handed over the gift list, and at the end of the day, she waited on the side to explain the origin of various dowry gifts.

Dong Rong treats her younger brother like a child, and she has prepared a very generous dowry, but now she is even more guilty that she can't come back in person to hire her brother. So, thousands of people told Wen Niang and Steward Zhang to give the Yang family face, and don't let the family pick the number of etiquette and make it difficult for the younger brother.

Steward Zhang and Wen Niang naturally did not dare to slack off, a total of eight dowry gifts, although the number can only be regarded as ordinary, but the lifts are carefully selected, affordable and eye-catching.

The first is a load of wedding cakes, rich and noble families use walnut cakes from dim sum shops, and poor families use flour cakes. But the Dong family sent it was ingenious, a box was divided into six compartments, respectively containing mille-feuille cakes, small shortbreads, fruity biscuits, mung bean cakes, plum blossom cakes and bean paste buns, each with red dots on it, looking exquisite and festive.

The second dried seafood is dried scallops, dried abalone, bird's nest, white fungus, mushrooms, dried shrimps, sea cucumbers, and shark fins that Dong Rong specially purchased in Kyoto.

A lady was notoriously picky, and went out of her way to ask the maid to find a long chopstick, thinking that if she pierced it, she would find that the bottom part of the box was empty. After all, there are often people who are so fooled, just to look good on the face. But her chopsticks were only a few inches pierced and couldn't get in, because the dry goods in the box were too compact.

The lady put down her chopsticks a little sneeringly, and praised in the eyes of the ladies, "This Dong family is really an honest family, I'm afraid it can be evenly divided into three or four boxes in other homes." ”

Wen Niang heard this and said, "This is the best dry goods shop in Kyoto specially selected by our princess Niangniang, and almost every Niangniang has personally inspected it." Madame can rest assured, our mother loves the second young master very much, how can she neglect her in-laws. ”

The lady's face became redder and redder when she heard this, and she was so ashamed that she found a crack in the ground to get into. Mrs. Yang was relieved to hear this, but it was not good to embarrass the guests, so she quickly smiled and pointed to the big carp on the third box and smiled, "Yo, this carp is really big." ”

Wen Niang spoke again, "This is the newly caught red carp last night, weighing eight catties, eight taels and eight dollars." ”

Everyone smiled and nodded, "This fish is really auspicious!" ”

The fourth load is a box full of raw fruits, the Four Seasons Garden has just had a bumper harvest, and the most important thing is the fruit, a hundred large and round apples are selected, and the red ones are piled up like small towers.

The fifth is a variety of wines, originally last year's fruit wine, the orchard left ten jars of each for the gift or for their own family to eat. Now it just came in handy, four kinds of fruit wine, two jars each, and made up an auspicious number.

The sixth lift is the four Beijing fruits, dried longan, dried lychees, walnuts, and peanuts are put together in one place, which is a good omen.

The seventh is tea, when Dong Rong buys it, it is a good time for all the new teas to come down, and the three kinds of good tea leaves that are famous in Daqi are selected and sent in two cans, and they have made up a good number of six shuns.

The last burden is also the highlight of the entire dowry, whether the man is rich or not, whether he values the woman, it all depends on whether the items in this box are expensive.

Wen Niang opened the box with her own hands and slowly took out the carved wooden box inside, a total of ten, and the rest of the boxes were all brightly colored fine satin.

The ladies reached out and touched them, and after a few words of praise, they all stared at the small wooden boxes and laughed. Mrs. Yang was reluctant to expose the dowry thoroughly, but when she saw this, she simply let it go.

Wen Niang saw Mrs. Yang nodding and opened the small boxes one by one, one set of red gold heads, one set of silver heads, one set of pearl heads, one set of ruby heads, and one set of jade heads...

The noon sun shone on all kinds of jewelry, and the jewels reflected made all the ladies red-eyed, of course, it was not ruled out that there was some jealousy. The two ladies who were a step late almost pulled the handkerchief in their hands, they originally thought that the Dong family was a poor ghost, where did they think that they would be so rich, only these jewelry were sold enough for a small family to marry five or six daughters-in-law.

But they didn't expect that what made them even more red was still behind, and in the two boxes that Wen Niang finally opened, one put twelve small silver bills of five taels, and the other box also contained twelve, but it was gold bills.

Although the gentlemen of the academy are extremely prestigious, in fact, their families are not wealthy, and some of them may not be enough for a thousand taels even if they count all the family resources. And the Yang family married a daughter, and only received a dowry of 660 taels, which was really a bright meeting.

Mrs. Yang didn't care about any etiquette, so she endured the excitement and stepped forward to close the lid of the box, and then instructed the maids and ladies to quickly carry the dowry down, especially the last box was sent directly to her bedroom, and at the end she smiled and invited the ladies to return to the flower hall for a banquet.

Mr. Yang accompanied Dong Ping's father and son and his colleagues to drink and laugh, and occasionally saw Dong Ping looking at the gate of the courtyard, so he asked, "Is there something wrong with Juncheng?" ”

Dong Ping blushed and got up and responded, "Mr. Hui, before entering the hospital, the disciple was surrounded by his classmates and complained that he hadn't told him about today's events, so..."

Mr. Yang remembered how lively the disciples were together, so he laughed and said, "That's it, the dowry has been completed, and the marriage book has been written, so you can go and entertain those boys to eat and drink, so that they don't even complain to me." ”

All the gentlemen also laughed, although they did not get much money to teach in the college, it was also a rare comfort and joy to see young scholars who were either diligent and motivated, or naughty and mischievous.

Dong Ping saluted Mr. Tong and his father again, and then retired and rushed to the school. Sure enough, Xizi had already bought a banquet and came back, and a group of scholars sat around the table, and when they saw Dong Ping appearing, they immediately arrested him and began to pour wine. Dong Ping told him again and again, and then said that he was in a hurry to visit his sister in Beijing, so he hurriedly hired his relatives, not intentionally concealing it.

Everyone reluctantly accepted this reason, but when they remembered that Dong Ping had just kidnapped the little junior sister and was going to go to Beijing again, they became jealous again. This shouts about the good scenery of Kyoto, but it is rare to go to it. That emotion has read thousands of books but has not traveled thousands of miles, and his tone is full of sourness.

Dong Ping listened to it funny, thought about it and said, "I have already told my husband that I will not come back until after the big exam in the spring of next year." If you also want to see what the big exam looks like, why don't you also ask Mr. If the gentleman agrees, I can take you to live in my sister's mansion. ”

When the scholars heard this, they were overjoyed, and their eyes widened, and they discussed how to persuade Mr. Yang, who was strict, to relax. For a while, the school building was as lively as a boiling oil pot poured with cold water, and the roof was almost lifted.

Dong Ping was a little overwhelmed by his classmates, and intuitively felt as if there were a hundred ducks arguing in his ears, and finally fell asleep on the bed in a daze. By the time he woke up, it was already dark outside. Xizi smiled and stepped forward to serve the master to wash his face and rinse his mouth, and at the end he reported that Master Dong was also drunk and was sent home by Steward Zhang.

Dong Ping was relieved at this time, hastily ate a bowl of porridge and fell asleep, perhaps he was too worried about his sister suffering in Kyoto, and his dream was full of scenes where his sister was hungry when he was a child but desperately protected him.

So, when he got up early the next morning, he hurried to say goodbye to his husband, intending to rush back to the orchard and go on the road. didn't want Mr. Yang to smile when he saw him and said that he wanted to set off together, Dong Ping was naturally overjoyed. After all, he is also the first time to take the big exam, and he is very bottomless in his heart, so it would be great if he had a gentleman by his side to guide him.

Of course, the most important thing is that maybe he can marry his sister into the door as soon as possible. Thinking of his beautiful and gentle future wife, his face couldn't help but slowly turn red...

In Yimian Po Village, because more than a dozen descendants were called away by Steward Zhang, naturally every household also knew the news of Dong Pingding's relatives. After Cao Pozi pulled the steward Zhang to inquire carefully about Kyoto, she muttered in her heart all day.

There is no other reason, Dong Rong is afraid that she will have to celebrate the New Year in Kyoto because of the funeral of the old prince and the princess, and she calculated that the time of birth will be in the first month, so doesn't it mean that her eldest grandson will be born in Kyoto.

If it was under her nose, she would have nothing to worry about, after all, she knew her daughter-in-law's temper well, and her words counted. But now that you're in Kyoto, it's hard to say. In case when the royal family hears the good news, they touch the upper and lower mouths and leave the child behind, and their family will not be looking forward to the duck shelf.

Thinking like this, she didn't eat and sleep well, and later pulled the old man to discuss. Old man Cao listened to the old woman, and praised her for being smart for the first time, although he didn't say much, but he was also worried about it these days.

The old couple racked their brains for a long time, and finally came up with an idea that was not an idea. That is to send the second sister to the capital with Dong Ping, and remind the daughter-in-law not to forget that their family is still looking forward to their grandson.

Second Sister Cao has been bored with everything since her sister-in-law went to Beijing, and she has to count her fingers every day when her sister-in-law will come back. At this time, I suddenly heard my father and mother say that she would let her go to Beijing to visit her sister-in-law, and even to celebrate the New Year in Kyoto, she was so happy that she almost jumped back to the house to pack her luggage. R638