Chapter 238: The Dowry Dispute (Part 2)
The Marquis of Guangping Mansion has been very busy these days, and the purchase list is like flowing water from Qionghua Courtyard to the outside, Chen took the mother-in-law to count the treasury and purchase the dowry, and he didn't dare to slack off at all, just because the day of Princess Xue Wenhao Shang set by the Ministry of Rites was getting closer and closer, if he couldn't prepare these things as soon as possible, and he would lose face in the ceremony, it would be a big crime to despise the emperor's grace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Just when Chen was discussing the purchase with her mother-in-law with the dowry list sent by the eldest princess, the girl quickly came in and replied: "The old lady and the second lady are here." ”
Chen hurriedly stood up and greeted him, but his heart sank, Old Madam Xue came here, I was afraid that nothing good would happen.
Out of the wing, she saw Mrs. Xue, who was dressed in a pine green tuanhua gown, with her hair combed meticulously and straightened her body, holding Yao's hand and walking over, but she still staggered a little between her steps, after all, it was not very good, but she was already impatient to come to Qionghua Courtyard.
Chen hurriedly bowed: "The old lady is fine." ”
Old Madam Xue grinned with difficulty: "Mrs. Shizi is really hard-working, Princess Shang has handled such a big matter by herself, and even I haven't been able to get a little bit of it, it's really troublesome." ”
These words made Chen's face pale, but she had always been gentle and steady, lowered her head and said softly: "The old lady's body is just right, I don't dare to take these to disturb the old lady's purity, so I took the idea myself, but these lists were sent by the eldest princess, and I didn't dare to be lazy." ”
Old Madam Xue snorted coldly, didn't look at the Chen family who was worshipping on the ground, and walked straight towards the side room: "Let's go and see what happened." "I took Yao's stop and walked away.
Chen gritted his teeth and got up, hurriedly followed the girl's hand, and instructed the mother-in-law to bring the dowry list and the purchased items over to Mrs. Xue.
Rao was mentally prepared, but Old Madam Xue and the Yao family were still taken aback by the dowry list sent by Princess Shouning, and a stack of dowry lists was opened and there were as many as two circles from the hand to the ground. Yao, who was shocked, looked at it carefully, and his face turned even pale: "...... My Qingtian, this is too precious! She pointed to the list of items, her face was very ugly, "There are four or five hundred pieces of various kinds of clothing alone, as well as these good mink, fox and silver rats, there are more than three hundred pieces, where is this dowry list, I'm afraid I don't want to send the entire Hou Mansion." ”
Looking at the same objects on the list, how can she not be hot, many of them she has never heard of, not even the second room, and now they have made a dowry gift to the mansion of the eldest princess of Shouning, when she first got married, she only had three animals and six animals and tea and wine, where dare to think about these, now the Hou Mansion is full of money, just to make up the objects on this list and send it over.
Old Madam Xue glanced at the items on the list, and her heart was also painful, she couldn't think of such a good thing as Princess Shang, but she still had to spend so much silver, just looking at the clothes, I am afraid that it will not be less than 10,000 taels of silver, such a long dowry list, wouldn't it cost tens of thousands of taels of silver?
Her chest tightened again for a while, and it took a long time to recover, and she said weakly to the Chen family: "The reward in the palace and the dowry list of the princess's mansion are here?" ”
Chen asked his mother-in-law to send it up, and said softly: "The palace brought the word out, the eldest princess of Shouning is the eldest sister of the emperor and King Kang, and she has been widowed for many years. ”
Looking at the list of rewards and dowries, Mrs. Xue's face looked much better, and she even smiled, those two lists were not much less than the dowry list, not to mention that the rewards were all good tributes, which were much more valuable than those outside the palace.
She was very satisfied in her heart, and felt more and more that it was no better thing to let Xue Wenhao have the eldest princess of Shouning, if she hadn't tried her best, the scourge of the Shen family would still be in the Hou Mansion now! She was also confident for a while: "Let them take out all the head jewelry and clothing they have prepared and take a look." ”
The mothers-in-law came out with a plate of noodles and put them in front of Mrs. Xue one by one, and for a while, the golden light in the wing room was so dazzling that Yao's eyes were dazzled, and they looked at the plate of dowry in a daze.
Chen came up and said softly: "This plate is a little cuifengdian head noodles, that is the head noodles of pearl coral tired silk, and over there is Hetian white jade carved head noodles ......" A plate was brought over to the old lady to look at.
Old Madam Xue looked at the head and face clothes with bright eyes, and said coldly: "Which shop did you ask to make it?" ”
Chen said: "The head and face jewelry are all made by the master of Jibao Zhai, and the clothes are made by the embroidery girls of the Splendid Pavilion." "Jibao Zhai and Jinxiu Pavilion are both first-class good shops in Kyoto, and ordinary people can't ask the masters to do it even if they have silver.
Yao pouted on the side, knowing that Chen's work was not leaky, such an important errand naturally could not find anything wrong, but I was afraid that this time the old lady would have nothing to say, and Chen could only do it.
Old Madam Xue sneered twice: "I only think that Mrs. Shizi is really trying her best to make Princess Shang's dowry for the Hou Mansion, but I didn't expect that she had other thoughts, and she actually put the idea on the dowry, but I was not afraid that the eldest princess would blame her and punish the Hou Mansion." ”
Chen was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Old lady, daughter-in-law doesn't dare to have any other thoughts, these are all good, prepared according to the dowry list, where do you dare to have the slightest heart of deception." ”
Old Madam Xue leaned back in her chair lazily, her smile was as cold as ice: "So, or am I wrong?" She pointed to the plate of pearl coral tired silk noodles, "Although I am old and in poor health, I am not so dizzy that I can't recognize the beads. ”
Everyone looked towards the other side, and saw that there were several thumb-sized pearls embedded in the scorching phoenix, which looked round and white, and they couldn't see anything.
Old Madam Xue saw that Yao's face was also confused, and sneered: "Dongzhu and Nanzhu are very different, Dongzhu is just a big round, but Nanzhu is magnificent, and it can be colorful in the light." She looked at Chen coldly, "Our lady of the prince took this Dongzhu and filled the Nanzhu and sent it to the Eldest Princess's Mansion, could it be that she wanted to kill the people in this mansion?" Is it so selfish that you can still do something about marriage? ”
Chen's face was as white as paper for a while, she actually knew about the pearl head, just because such a big Hepu Nanzhu was really hard to find, and the dowry was sent to the eldest princess's mansion, she could only agree to use the East Pearl to use the South Pearl, which was not a big deal, after all, there were hundreds of pieces of jewelry on the dowry list, and the eldest princess would not wear them one by one, they were all placed in the warehouse, but she didn't expect to be seen by Mrs. Xue at a glance.
She could only grit her teeth and bow down: "It's the daughter-in-law's, it's just that this Dongzhu and Nanzhu, the daughter-in-law really can't see the difference, so she will be confused. ”
Old Madam Xue looked at her, her eyes full of contempt: "I can't complain about you, after all, it is from a small family, where have I seen this, even if I haven't learned a little bit from me in the Hou Mansion all these years, I still can't get on the big stage." She glanced at Yao, "That's it, the matter of this princess Shang can't be handed over to you alone, if you make a mistake, won't you hurt the Hou Mansion." You can take care of the banquet and the drama team, and give these dowries and dowries to the second daughter-in-law, I just look at her, and there will be no mistakes. ”
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