Chapter 167: The bubble under your feet is on your own!
Although the people outside are not well fed and clothed, but the Xue Mansion still does what to do step by step, Master Xue is in a hurry to marry Xue Ning, afraid that there will be rumors, and when he learns that her wedding dress has been embroidered, he hurriedly sent someone to inform the Guo family.
The Guo family took Xue Ning and Guo Xiangrong's birthdays to calculate the date of marriage, set ten days later, since Xue Ning was tired of life and wanted to marry Guo Xiangrong regardless of his face, the Xue family did not have this daughter, and after agreeing to her marriage, the Guo family began to prepare for marriage.
"Why don't you discuss such a big matter with me? Just do it! Master Xue sat on the kang with a loud voice.
Aunt Guo stood at the bottom, her face seemed to be unconvinced, and she defended: "My nephew's family background is mediocre, Ning'er is so wronged, I can't bear it, so I want to make up for it." ”
Old Master Xue looked at Guo's face, became angry, and shouted, "You forgot what the old lady said!" Relying on me to spoil you all these years, I gave you a lot of money, and I actually wanted to put it on the bright side to the rebel, you have been in the door for many years, can't you see this bit of eyesight! ”
Aunt Guo saw that the old man was really angry, held her stomach and quickly knelt down, and said continuously: "Master Mo is angry, it's all mine, I know that Ning'er made a big mistake this time, but she is about to get married, I really can't bear to wronged her......" Saying, Aunt Guo couldn't help moistening her eyes, took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, "My sister-in-law is a vulgar village woman, and she is very dissatisfied with Ning'er, I'm afraid that Ning'er will ......"
Master Xue looked at Guo's motherly heart, and couldn't help but sigh slightly: "This is the path she chooses by herself, and she can't help others, if you want to give her self-care, give it in private, don't put it on the surface, I have said in front of my mother: I will not give her a dowry if I never add a dowry to her!" ”
Guo Shi held back his tears and said: "Master......" A trace of luck in her heart was also stunned by the master's words, she planned in her heart that if the master knew that she had hidden her own money for many years to Ning'er as a dowry, the old man would see her motherly heart, and he would remember how to pamper Ning'er before, and he would make up for Ning'er's dowry behind his back, but he didn't expect the old man to be iron-hearted and do what the old lady said.
Master Xue doesn't rest in Guo's house these days, seeing her kneeling on the ground with her stomach upright, she lowered her head and stroked the stone blue gray squirrel hair trim on her sleeve, smoothed her breath, and said calmly: "You get up, I also inquired a little about the Guo family's affairs, Cai's person is indeed a little bit of a pearl, since the decline of your family, your eldest brother is a weak and incompetent person, Xiang Rong still has to study, even if you subsidize them in the past, but she still calculates the flowers on the money, besides, Ning'er has been spoiled by us since she was a child, and she can't do any work, It's easy to offend people when you speak straightforwardly, and you also see these points, so you worry about Ning'er! ”
Aunt Guo stood up with the help of Xiao Ju behind her, nodded lightly and said: "What the master said is that the daughters in our house were originally married to sixty taels, but Ning'er married thirty taels, and my sister-in-law is a snob, and she will definitely pick and choose Ning'er after entering the door, so I want to put my own money on the bright side and marry Ning'er......"
Guo Shi closed his mouth in the eyes of Master Xue, Master Xue turned his head and sighed, and said slowly: "It's all the path she chooses by herself, don't blame us for being ruthless, now you have one in your belly, and I am gradually losing my mind, you should think about the one in your belly whenever you do things, don't rely on me to feel sorry for you, so I will be unscrupulous,"
Hearing this, Aunt Guo's lips gradually trembled, her face turned pale, and she was supported by Xiao Ju who was trembling.
Master Xue didn't bother to say anything to her again, so he threw up his sleeves and left.
Seeing that the old man was angry and left, Aunt Guo had no choice, so she held her arm and said, "Go to the main house." "The main house is where the old lady of Xue Mansion lives, and now Ning'er's dowry can only beg her to change her mind.
Xiao Ju watched from the sidelines, hating the eldest lady's lack of self-respect, and the lady was now in this body, and she went to intercede with the old lady and the old lady for her.
Aunt Guo knelt on the ground, shed tears, intermittently begged for mercy and admitted her mistake, Mrs. Xue stretched out her hand and waved, and with a 'snap', a tea bowl smashed on the ground, pointed at Aunt Guo, and shouted coldly: "Shut your mouth!" ”
Aunt Guo paused on the ground, looking pitiful, but she didn't dare to speak again, and Shen, who was sitting in the back room, smiled sarcastically, too lazy to look at her.
After the old lady was a little more angry, Aunt Guo continued: "The old lady spared Ning'er, she knew that she was wrong, she really knew that she was wrong!" It's because I didn't teach her well! As he spoke, he began to cry, and while looking at the wife sitting on the top, there was no longer the condescending of the past, and bowed his head and said, "The wife is the fault of the slave and maid, please help the slave and maid to intercede in front of the old lady." ”
Shen glanced at Aunt Guo mockingly, and said lightly: "Back then, the old man wanted to take Ning'er to me to raise, but you didn't agree, and finally raised it by your own side, and now she has a bad reputation, who can she complain about?" ”
Aunt Guo didn't have a trace of blood on her face, and she knew that her wife had inquired about everything clearly, so she fell to the ground, trembling like chaff.
Aunt Guo's chest rose and fell heavily, gasping for breath, kneeling over and pulling the corner of the old lady's clothes, and prayed loudly: "I beg the old lady to have pity on poor Ning'er, she is your own granddaughter, I know that she has embarrassed the house, so that the old man has no shame, and even disgusted her, but she is the meat that fell from my body, all the mistakes are my fault, I didn't teach her well, ask the old lady to let her marry beautifully!" ”
As she spoke, a string of tears rolled down Aunt Guo's cheeks, her eyes were red, and she cried to herself: "The old lady begs you to see Ning'er is face of your granddaughter, and give her a decent dress," After speaking, she fell on the ground and cried non-stop, choking her voice.
"You say, how much dowry should I give her?" The old lady said slowly.
Aunt Guo hurriedly raised her head and seemed to see a glimmer of life: "Ask the old lady to give her fifty loads!" Although Shi'er said that she prepared sixty loads, the master bought her another forty loads, and Ning'er only needed fifty loads. ”
Shen sneered silently on the side, the old lady's angry fists were clenched, her face had turned purple, and she sneered: "Prepare so much for her, does it mean that she doesn't care about changing marriages, and we will give as much dowry as she should give when she gets married." ”
Aunt Guo was startled, bowed her head and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, it's just that Ning'er and Shi'er are married before and after, if everyone sees Shi'er with so much dowry, what should they think of Ning'er!" ”
There was silence in the house, silent for a long time, only the sound of the branches and leaves of the osmanthus tree outside the courtyard was swaying, and Mrs. Xue's face turned pale and looked at Aunt Guo coldly.
After a while, the old lady spoke: "Xue Ning is so big, how much the boss loves her, there is nothing in the whole house that does not know, a concubine, the degree of food and clothing is comparable to that of a sister-in-law, and she arranged a good family, who would have expected her to have a private meeting in the middle of the night, go to the man's house without authorization, and finally let her sister marry her, that is, what if she gives Shi'er a hundred dowries, that is what the Xue family owes her, but the Xue family does not owe Xue Ning, this road, this marriage, is her own choice." ”
Aunt Guo's heart jumped, Old Lady Xue stared at her eyes, and said unusually slowly: "This matter is as I originally said, no one can change it, and you ......" Aunt Guo's fingers trembled, and Old Lady Xue continued, "Last time, I said that when this child in your belly lands, I will deal with you." ”
Aunt Guo was frightened and covered with cold sweat, and she didn't dare to say more.
Since the change of parents, the Xu family really took the son and the second Miss Xue family's birthday to criticize the hexagram, as the Xue family said, it is to get married, in order to avoid embarrassment, Xu Fu re-sent the dowry, expressing the importance of the second Miss Xue family, this time the bride price sent was full of a room, first the silver ticket was 1,000 taels, the fabric has 18 pieces of silk yarn in the south of the Yangtze River, 18 pieces of feather yarn in the north of the Yangtze River, 18 horses of cloud brocade and Shu satin embroidered in various colors, 18 pairs of dragon and phoenix red gold bracelets with three or four weights, 18 pairs of red gold hairpins with pearls, and oysters, scallops, and mushrooms, dried shrimp, squid, sea cucumber and shark fin plus high-quality seafood such as hair cabbage, after Shen and Mrs. Xue saw it, the corners of their smiling mouths couldn't close, and Aunt Zhao was even more floating walking for several days.
With so many preparations, it can be seen that the Xu family attaches great importance to Xue Shi, but it deeply pierced Xue Ning's eyes, the Guo family just prepared enough flower tea, reunion fruit, sheep and geese, wine jars, wood geese and a few good fabrics according to the etiquette of ordinary people, and it was over, looking at the comparison between the front and back, the long-suppressed uneasiness in her heart finally broke out, she knew that this kind of wealth and nobility would slowly be revealed, but seeing it with her own eyes undoubtedly made her heart crack.
Since then, Xue Ning saw that Xue Shi's face was not good, and he stared at her viciously, but Xue Shi didn't care, in this life, she was more glorious than her in pretending to be married, the more angry Xue Ning was, the happier she became, and deliberately walked up to her and said: "Eldest sister, you also have such a day, our sisters get married in front of their feet, and the battle is really ......."
How could Xue Ning swallow this breath and said sarcastically: "You haven't picked up what I don't want, what's so proud." ”
Even if Xue Ning has a deep affection for Guo Xiangrong, after all, she is an ordinary woman, she has a good face and vanity, who is not greedy for this rich and noble, and now up and down in Xue's mansion, from the housekeeper to the maid and mother-in-law, are extremely courteous and flattering to Xue Shiji, which makes Xue Ning, who has been held in the palm of her hand since she was a child, not angry.
Xue Shi is just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, when she was not married, her father didn't care much about her, and now seeing the future husband's family send so many colorful gifts, she was careful that her liver fluttered for a while, just the gold beads and jewelry in it flashed her eyes, and she replied with a smile: "Yes, his arsenic, my honey, who laughed and said in the end, let's look back," Xue Shi didn't care about Xue Ning's provocation at all, for the first time in his life, he felt that it was really good to marry like this, which could not only make his father give more things for the dowry, but also get so many dowries from his in-laws.
Xue Ning stomped his feet angrily in the back, and then quickly ran to Aunt Guo's house and said, "Auntie, is it because I married my cousin, my father treated me like this, has he forgotten how he doted on me in the past?" ”
For Xue Ning, Aunt Xue asked for everything she could ask for in this mansion, and now there is no way, she sighed and said: "I can't complain about others, I can only blame yourself,"
Xue Ning slowly leaned over, put his arm on Aunt Guo's shoulder, and whispered in her ear, "Auntie, did I really do something wrong?" ”
Aunt Guo sighed slightly in her heart: "Since you like Xiang Rong, why should you be annoyed about the dowry?" ”
Xue Ning lowered his head, the corners of his eyes shone with water, and unconsciously grabbed his aunt's hand, held it tightly, and choked up: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid that my cousin will bear me in the future, I'm afraid that my aunt won't like me, and I'm even more afraid that I won't be able to raise my head among my sisters in the future!" ”
June 18, auspicious, suitable for marriage.
Guo Xiangrong was proud of the spring breeze, riding a high-headed horse, wearing red clothes, wearing red and hanging colors along the way, blowing and blowing, it was very lively, for his family, marrying the famous Miss Xue family in the town, although the marriage was not as much as expected, but it was also out of reach of ordinary people.
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