Chapter 211: The Question of Dowry
Xue Qianxun said slowly: "The situation in the capital is unstable, so the second uncle will arrange for all the women in the family to come back,"
Li didn't understand the thoughts of these officials, and asked, "What does this have to do with you marrying Qing'er?" ”
"When the second aunt comes back, there will be more women in the backyard," what Xue Qianxun hasn't said yet is that there are more women, and there will be more right and wrong.
Li thought that the second master of the Xue family was an official in Beijing, married a young lady from a high-ranking official family, and accepted a virtuous and docile woman, and his own daughters would be much inferior to their wives or young ladies, maybe when they returned to Xue's mansion, they saw their daughters picking their noses and eyes to find her fault, it was better to let their daughters marry Xue Qianxun earlier, after all, the raw rice had been cooked and cooked, and it could be regarded as blocking their mouths, tunnel: "I agree that you will get married this year, but although this marriage is a bit hasty, it should be less courteous, What should be given is even less, my daughter in the province was looked down upon by your family when she got married! ”
Tang Tiezhu didn't expect that he asked his mother-in-law to open his mouth in order to say something to refute, but who expected her to agree, and said with a worried face: "Why did you agree!" "I didn't discuss it with him, and made a conclusion directly.
Li ignored the family and continued: "Since you have advocated marriage, you can figure out how to say it to your family." ”
I thought I would have to spend a while, but I didn't expect my future mother-in-law to agree so easily, Xue Qianxun responded with joy on his face, quietly raised his eyes and glanced at his father-in-law, seeing that he was still going to fight with his mother-in-law, he quickly stood up and said to Tang Qing'er: "Let's go to my house earlier!" Grandmother is still waiting at home? ”
Tang Qing'er could only nod passively and say yes, Xue Qianxun said goodbye to Tang Tiezhu and his wife after a few weeks, and took Tang Qing'er to hide out.
Tang Tiezhu saw that his daughter was taken away, and said to his mother-in-law with a calm face: "Say yes no matter what,"
"Who in the town doesn't know that your daughter is going to marry the young master of the Xue family, if there is really an accident halfway, how to fix it, have you thought about it?"
"What's there to think about, it's really an accident, it's a big deal as I just said,"
"You stupid head, how can your thoughts be so simple, if the Xue family repents or withdraws from their relatives, it will be our Qing'er who will be hurt,"
The last thing Tang Tiezhu wanted to see was that Qing'er was wronged, and when he heard his mother-in-law say this, he could only sit on the stool silently and ponder, Li stood up and said to the babies in the house: "Everyone disperse!" What you said this morning gave me a headache. After speaking, he rubbed his temples with his hands and said: "Giving birth to children and daughters are debts, and I am afraid that I will not be able to support you when I am young, so I finally raised you, and everyone is jumping around, who wants this idea to be bigger than the other, alas! He sighed and went straight back to his room.
Seeing his mother-in-law hunched back to the house, Tang Tiezhu stood up and said, "Jiao'er and Man'er clean up the table!" "Go out and lead the ox cart to collect old things.
Xue Qianxun took Qing'er out of Tang's house, and did not go to Xue's mansion, but slowly walked down the street and said to her: "I didn't expect you to really tell your father and mother about this?" ”
"I've said it all, admit the gamble and admit defeat!" Tang Qing'er said in a straightforward tone.
"Since I proposed to marry in advance, then I will prepare your dowry, and I will definitely let you marry into our family in style,"
Tang Qing'er didn't expect Xue Qianxun to be so considerate, and said with some concern: "My family is there, if you prepare too many things, will it be too ostentatious." ”
"Don't worry, I have my own plans!" Xue Qianxun said lightly.
"You've always asked me to talk to my father about getting married, have you ever said hello to your family?"
"Not yet, grandmother and my mother wish you would marry sooner?"
"Yes." Tang Qing'er didn't say anything, but she couldn't suppress the bubbling in her heart.
"By the way, I just heard Tang Liang talking to your father and mother about following the caravan to do business."
"Yes, because of this, my mother was almost carried by him angrily."
"After all, my arms still can't twist my thighs?" The arms refer to the mother-in-law, and the thighs refer to Tang Liang.
"Yes! That's why I dared to take advantage of this juncture to bring up our matter. ”
Xue Qianxun stopped, patted Tang Qing'er's head with a smile and said, "Thank you for your hard work!" ”
Tang Qing'er glanced at him and said in her heart: "It's not for you!" It's like on modern TV when the leaders inspect the situation and shout: "Comrades have worked hard!" Someone replied, "Serve the people."
The two walked on the road talking and laughing, but they didn't know that this scene happened to be seen by Zhou Xuan, he looked at Qing'er's sister's smile, his heart was astringent, and he could only hold the book in his hand tightly and press his determination.
Zhou Xuan returned to the academy in despair, walked into his room, Cao heard the sound of his son closing the door next door, knew that he was back, and immediately went to the kitchen to bring out a bowl of pumpkin mung bean soup for him, and found that there was no figure of him on the desk, so he put the pumpkin mung bean soup on the table, quietly walked to the bed, saw him squinting motionless on the bed, and whispered: "Xuan'er...... Xuan'er ......"
Zhou Xuan didn't answer her, and he couldn't get rid of the scene where Qing'er's sister laughed and scolded Xue Qianxun in his heart.
Cao thought that his son was a little tired from studying, so he didn't dare to disturb him to rest, anyway, the pumpkin mung bean soup was not afraid of cold, so he put it on the table and drank it when his son woke up.
After her mother left, Zhou Xuan opened her eyes and looked at the carvings on the top of the bed blankly, feeling that the strength in her body seemed to disappear all at once, and she didn't even want to open the book in her hand to take a look.
Tang Qing'er didn't go to Xue's mansion, she walked around the town with Xue Qianxun and went home, and when she entered the main hall, she didn't see anyone, and quietly walked to her mother's house to see what she was doing? found that her mother was thinking about the family's money, and her nose was sour, her mother must be worried about how much to prepare for herself for a big family like the Xue family.
Tang Qing'er pushed open the door and said, "Mother, what are you doing?" ”
"Nothing? is to calculate how much money is left in the family," without mentioning her sorrows.
Tang Qing'er took the initiative to speak: "Mother, you don't have to hide it from me, I know that you are calculating how much silver you have in the family, so that you can use it all for me as a dowry." ”
Li touched his daughter's hand and said, "In a blink of an eye, you are so old, and after a while, you will be the daughter-in-law of the family." ”
"Mother, even if I get married, isn't it still you and my father's daughter, you can still disown me, you are saying that you don't need to prepare a dowry for me, Xue Qianxun told me on the way back that he will help me prepare for my dowry."
After hearing this, Li's face immediately changed, and he said with a straight face: "How can you agree to him about this?" I know that he really likes you, so he will plan for you in the dowry, but if this is known to his family, have you thought about the consequences? You've always been smart, how can you be confused about this! ”
"Mother, what's this? You have forgotten that I have a share in his restaurant, and that the dowry he has prepared for me is known to others, so I will say that he has given me my share of the restaurant."
"This ...... This ......" Li Shi hesitated a little, she calculated just now, there is only about 1,500 taels of silver left in the house, Yang'er still has to go to business with the caravan, and she must bring some silver in her hand when she leaves, so Tang Qing'er will definitely give less, if her dowry is less, won't it be ridiculed by the rest of the Xue family? Left is neither right nor right, which really makes her feel embarrassed.
"Mother, this reason is not very good, why should you think?" Tang Qing'er said again.
In fact, what the girl said may not be a good idea, but as Qing'er's mother, she didn't prepare any dowry for her daughter, and she couldn't get over this hurdle in her heart, so she could only say to her frankly: "You also know that Yang'er wants to go to business with the caravan, and the family has a total of more than 1,500 taels of silver, and you want to get married again, and the back of my hand is full of meat, and I don't know how to divide it!" ”
Tang Qing'er covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Mother, you are a mediocre person who disturbs yourself,"
"This baby actually said that! And I'm not afraid to beat you. Li curled the corners of his mouth and scolded with a smile.
"Mother, you just do what I say, aren't you saying that the dowry you gave me and the dowry he prepared for me still fell to the Xue family later?"
"That's what I said, but it's not that," Li said with a wry smile, if her daughter marries an ordinary family, it will be enough for her to prepare more than five hundred taels of silver for her daughter, but she just marries a big family like the Xue family, and she is afraid that the rest of the Xue family will look down on her daughter if she marries her.
"Mother, just listen to me! After I married Xue Qianxun, his is not mine, mine is still mine, what else are you afraid of? ”
Li was amused by the girl's logic, nodded her little nose and said, "Just your monkey spirit." ”
"Whoever made me my mother's daughter, she must be smart and calculating," seeing her mother smile, guessing that her mother agreed to use the dowry prepared by Xue Qianxun for her as a dowry.
After Xue Qianxun went home, he went to the kitchen to secretly put the things that had been prepared in his arms, turned around and went to Tang's house again, and began to calculate Qing'er's marriage to him two years earlier, and since then he has secretly prepared a dowry for her, and now his wish is about to come true, he went to Tang's house, and spread the deed, title deed, silver ticket and other things on the kang in front of Tang Qing'er and the Li family, and said to Qing'er: "These things are the dowry I prepared for you!" ”
Li was a little surprised to see the title deed of the house he liked, Xun'er is giving all his things to his daughter as a dowry, if this matter is not told to anyone, outsiders will say that these things are the dowry given to her by Qing'er's mother's family!
Although it is a bit cheesy to use money to express one's heart, it is undeniable that a person can take out his belongings to his future daughter-in-law, and he really regards her as the person on the tip of his heart, so Tang Qinger did not hesitate to reach out and take it.
Li smiled with satisfaction, no longer worried about this marriage in such a hurry, Xun'er prepared such a rich dowry for her daughter, although she couldn't give Qing'er so much dowry, but she would still prepare what should be given, and she would not let others pick it out.
Tang Qing'er took the things and said to Xue Qianxun: "I'm afraid that you expected me to marry you, so you have already started to prepare these things, no!" In the early years, he could vaguely see some feelings in his eyes, but he was not sure in his heart, and when the two were married, his restrained feelings slowly broke out to her.
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