When the dust settles on the work of earthquake and flood control, Jiang Tianqi's wedding date has also arrived, the princess's dowry specification is one hundred and twenty-eight, Xiao Nan's money in her hand is limited, and she can't be compared with those wealthy families, but together with the dowry, she still prepared one hundred and twenty-eight dowries for Jiang Tianqi, and the one hundred and twenty-eight dowry, of which eighty are the dowry sent by the Xinwang Mansion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Nan prepared a total of forty-eight lifts, don't look at the amount of forty-eight dowries is inconspicuous, but the amount of silver that can be consumed is enough to be 25,000 taels, although its specifications cannot be compared with the wealthy families in Beijing, but each dowry is carefully selected by her.

Clothing spring, summer, autumn and winter, each prepared four sets, bedding prepared a total of eight sets, these things are all customized in Song County's Yaxin Embroidery Workshop, Yaxin Embroidery Workshop has been settled in Song County for more than ten years, although it is only an embroidery workshop in the county, but the owner of this embroidery workshop has a unique Su embroidery skills, not to mention Song County, and the whole Luoyang can not find a few people who can be compared with it.

Yaxin Embroidery Workshop's reputation is now spread to countless states and counties around it, not only the gentry and nobles of Song County are eager to it, even Luoyang and even Bianjing, there are often nobles who make a special trip here to customize clothes, the clothes they produce here, each one is a boutique of the boutique, Xiao Nan customized clothes that meet the princess's grade, whether it is fabric or embroidery, can not be a little sloppy.

Even if Zheng Zhenniang only charged them a cost price because of her relationship with Xiao Nan and his wife, this spring, summer, autumn and winter sixteen winter clothes, plus eight sets of bedding, Xiao Nan also spent a total of almost four thousand taels of silver, in addition to clothing, the raw materials of the furniture are those friends that Jiang Jingxuan asked him to make outside, and the precious wood talents obtained from all over the country cost more than three thousand taels of silver for these materials alone.

After the raw materials were brought back, and then according to the style of Jingli Liushi, draw the sketch, let Jingxuan's lobby brother Jiang Huai help to build, Jiang Huai's craftsmanship is really good, although he has not seen the style of these furniture, according to the drawings, he still created it exactly right, in order to create Jiang Tianqi's set of furniture, he also invited two good helpers from Qingfu Town, and the three of them together took a year to complete.

Within this year, he didn't take any outside work, he didn't even take care of the things in the field, and the same was true for the two helpers, all the hearts of the three of them were on it, and when it was completed, Xiao Nan gave them a total of five hundred taels of silver for manual fees, which is a lot of five hundred taels of silver, but if all these furniture are bought from the outside, the price of things of the same material and craftsmanship will be at least doubled.

Only the clothing and furniture cost eight thousand taels, and the rest such as vases and ceramics, calligraphy and paintings, screens, jewelry and ornaments, these are the big heads, because the money in his hand is really not enough, when buying calligraphy and paintings, Xiao Nan tried to choose the kind without words, the relative price, after the painting was brought back, she asked for the words herself, even so, all the dowries added up, and it cost 25,000 taels of silver.

After spending so much silver and painstaking efforts to carefully prepare forty-eight dowries, plus the dowry sent by the Xinwang Mansion, the number of one hundred and twenty-eight lifts was finally gathered, and on the evening of September 20, after Xiao Nan and his wife counted the dowry, Xiao Nan said to Jiang Jingxuan: "Jingxuan, we don't have much money in our hands, and I can only give five thousand taels of Tianqi's silver at most." ”

"Auntie, we have neither a store nor a field in our dowry, is this five thousand taels too little?" Jiang Jingxuan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously said.

He has been walking all over the country for many years, and he is very clear about the specifications of today's wealthy families marrying daughters, when the dynasty has not fought for decades, not only ordinary people live well, but also the major wealthy families have accumulated countless money in their hands, not to mention the dowry of the princess of this grade, that is, the daughter of the big family who generally marries into the families of the princes, the total value of the dowry will not be less than 100,000 taels of silver, and his own family is not even one-third of the family, he is really a little unhappy. (It is precisely because a lot of money is gathered in the hands of the major wealthy families that the treasury has not accumulated much money over the years.) ）

"Jingxuan, we are the home of ordinary people, from the moment King Xin was hired, he should know that we have no way to prepare an eye-catching ten-mile red makeup for Tianqi like the wealthy families in Kyoto, and the value of being a man lies in doing what we can, we are ordinary people, if we have to force ourselves to keep up with those wealthy families, we will be suspected of painting tigers and not becoming anti-dogs." Xiao Nan shook his head and sighed lightly, looking at him a little helplessly.

"But we still have some money in our hands, and I don't want to be on par with the wealthy families in Kyoto, but it's okay for us to do our best to earn more face for Tianqi, as you said, we are a family of ordinary people, except for Mo San's family, there are no other servants at home, the expenses are not large, and in a year, only the 1,000 acres of land can be solved."

"And when the year is good, our husband and wife have an income of nearly 10,000 taels of silver every year, even if we give all the existing silver to Tianqi as a dowry, we will not be unable to open the pot." Jiang Jingxuan couldn't help but refute.

He loves Jiang Tianqi's sister from the bottom of his heart, he seems to be able to see his own shadow in this girl, for this reason, he has an indescribable pity for this girl, plus this girl is very smart and sensible, and her appearance is even more rare, Jiang Jingxuan subconsciously wanted to do his best to give this girl everything he could.

"What do you mean, just because our sister has become a princess, we have to exhaust all our savings over the years to earn face for her? You should know that in addition to the dowry for Tianqi and the money donated last year, we only have more than 20,000 taels of silver in our hands. Xiao Nan's brows furrowed slightly when he heard this.

"Auntie, you, don't you like Tianqi very much?" Seeing this, Jiang Jingxuan couldn't help blurting out a sentence, as soon as these words came out, Jiang Jingxuan's heart darkened, oh no, he said the wrong thing, if Xiao Nan really didn't like Jiang Tianqi, how could he spend so much effort and take out most of the family property to prepare such an exquisite dowry for her?

Sure enough, as soon as his voice fell, Xiao Nan's face sank, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she stared at Jiang Jingxuan quietly and said: "Jingxuan, what do you mean to say, I, as a sister-in-law, am reluctant to take out all my family property to earn face for her, the future princess, because I don't like Jiang Tianqi's sister-in-law in my heart?" ”