The reason why Concubine Jin gave Cai Wei such a big dismount and didn't drink her daughter-in-law's tea was mostly because she wanted to scare the daughter-in-law first, so that she could use this as a trick and let her obediently listen to her words and hand over the dowry.

At this time, seeing that Zhou Caiwei was really docile like a rabbit, she obediently promised to send the deed of the three shops on Zhengyang Street to herself immediately, and she was immediately overjoyed, so she wanted to strike while the iron was hot, and she started the idea of Caiwei's 10,000 taels of silver.

"Don't you still have 10,000 taels of silver in the box, what are you doing at the bottom of the box, and you can't make money, why don't you give it to me, I'll take it and open a few more shops for you, and you can still have some dividends every year?"

Cai Wei remembered that before getting married, Mrs. Luo repeatedly told her not to give her dowry to her mother-in-law, as well as the IOU given to her, she couldn't help blinking, and forced a smile in her heart and said: "Since the concubine has a life, the daughter-in-law will naturally comply." ”

She turned to Mama Du and said, "Go back and find a few servants to carry my boxes of dowry silver, and then bring the green sandalwood box with the deed here." ”

When Concubine Jin saw that her daughter-in-law was so obedient and sent the money to herself so happily, she immediately smiled like a flower, and then saw that her son didn't say a word to protect Zhou Caiwei, and her heart was even more happy. It can be seen that the son does not take this daughter-in-law to heart at all, and does not care at all that his daughter-in-law's dowry is held by her.

She was happy in her heart, and she saw that Zhou Caiwei was much more pleasing to the eye, so she waved her hand and let her get up first.

After a while, Mama Du led a few small servants to carry four large boxes in, Cai Wei opened the green sandalwood box, took out three deeds from it and sent them to Concubine Jin and said, "This is the deed of the three shops on Zhengyang Street." ”

Then he sent another list, "Since the concubine doesn't like those two needles and threads, please also take a look at the list of all the dowry in the daughter-in-law's one hundred and twenty-eight dowry, if there is anything you like, just carry it, and it will be a gift for your daughter-in-law to honor you." ”

It's not that Cai Wei intends to please her mother-in-law, she just doesn't bother to check the dowry that Mrs. Luo prepared for her to see if the dowry is as good as it is, so she simply bothered Concubine Jin to check the matter for her.

Concubine Jin took the deed and list with joy, and saw that there was a long list on the list, so she planned to smile and accept the 10,000 taels of silver first, and then go to open the box to inspect the remaining 100 or so dowries of Cai Wei, as long as she liked it, she would ask someone to carry it to her courtyard.

For the sake of Cai Wei's filial piety to her, Concubine Jin nodded arrogantly, "Finally, you still have a little bit of eyes, I'll pick it carefully, if you really like it, I will drink your daughter-in-law tea." ”

After she said this, she saw that she had only carried these four boxes and there were no more, and she couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Didn't you say that there are a total of 10,000 taels of silver, why are these boxes?" "The 10,000 taels of silver must be packed into all the boxes, and at least ten large chests will be enough!

Cai Wei smiled and said, "Naturally not, there are only 1,000 taels of silver in this box, and there are 9,000 taels here." As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from the box and handed it to Concubine Jin.

Concubine Jin took a look and saw a line of words written on it, she didn't know a single big character, she couldn't understand what it was written at all, she only knew that it was definitely not the word that should be written on the silver ticket, and she couldn't pull her face to ask her daughter-in-law, so she beckoned to her son, "Fei'er, come and see, what does this mean?" ”

Qin Fei walked over lazily, took the page and glanced at it, then said with a smile: "Yo, the dowry and silver can be made in white this year!" This said that Uncle An Yuanfu borrowed 9,000 taels of silver from your daughter-in-law, and when you have the money, you will return it to us in a year! ”

Cai Wei felt that Qin Fei's words were really wonderful, were she sure she was not building a bridge to stir up fire?

Sure enough, Concubine Jin immediately quit, "What do you mean to wait until you have money to pay it back, and it will take a year later?" So if they don't have any money within the year, won't they have to pay their debts? This is still a third-class earl's palace, so poor that even the niece's dowry and silver have to be embezzled? ”

Her son also added fuel and vinegar on the side, "That's it, knowing that his niece's daughter is going to marry into our Linchuan Palace, he dares to be so bold to give my daughter-in-law's dowry silver, this is simply not in our eyes!" ”

This time, Concubine Jin was really angry, she first heard that her son was going to marry Zhou Caiwei as a concubine, she was unhappy in her heart, and she also listened to her aunt's words, and called Qin Fei to the courtyard of the Chengen Mansion, wanting him to change his mind, but her son directly slapped Zhou Caiwei's dowry list on the table, and replied to her mother, "If your niece can also bring a dowry of 60,000 taels of silver, I will let her be the concubine." Immediately, Concubine Jin was speechless.

She is short of silver in hand, in order to keep herself young forever, she doesn't know how much silver she spent in those fat powder shops, today's jade cream, Ming'er's skin lotion, as well as making clothes, jewelry, and rewarding people in the Cheng'en Mansion, what don't you spend silver? Where can she rely on her uncle to make up for her?

No matter how close this niece is to her, she can't get so much dowry, even if their Jin family is stained with some of the light of the Empress Dowager Sun, it is limited, and it is not as good as the Sun family, so the family background is not very thick, and it is easy to get some silver, which is to be left to the nephew, so that she will not give a girl to marry into someone else's house.

It is precisely because of Cai Wei's dowry worth a total of 60,000 taels of silver that she didn't make a stalk from it, thinking that it was rare to meet a girl who married so much, and she was still an orphan girl, and when she was married, she would get the dowry first, as for her, if she wanted to stay, she would be rewarded with food, if it was in the way, it would not be easy to kill a woman in the back house?

Now that people are married, the dowry is also obediently given with both hands, but the 10,000 taels of silver that were originally expected to be in hand have already been plucked by someone, and it suddenly became 1,000 taels, only 1,000 taels of silver, enough for anything, and it is not enough to set two sets of jewelry, compared to the debts she owes, it is simply a drop in the bucket.

Concubine Jin stared at the four boxes hatefully, and suddenly found an inappropriate place, this is generally used to hold silver, or five hundred taels of boxes or one thousand taels of silver, at most two boxes are finished, how can this Anyuan Bofu actually use four big boxes to hold this one thousand taels of silver, is there anything strange here?

"Someone, open these four boxes for me, this mouth says that they are sending silver, who knows what broken copper and iron are inside!" Concubine Jin shouted.

As a result, when I opened it, I was really told by Concubine Jin that it was almost the same, it turned out that these four boxes were full of hanging copper coins, which could barely be regarded as the word "broken copper".

Everyone was stunned when they looked at the four boxes, and this was the first time they had seen that they had exchanged a thousand taels of silver for so many copper coins and put them in four large boxes to be sent over as a dowry. This Anyuan Bofu is really not too troublesome!

Concubine Jin looked at the copper coins that were only half full of copper coins in each box, and became suspicious again, so she ordered someone to count the copper coins in the box to see if it was enough for a thousand taels of silver.

Listening to the sound of counting copper coins all over the courtyard, Concubine Jin turned her face and said angrily to Cai Wei: "I heard that your dowry was kept and prepared by your grandmother for you. ”

"Uh-" Cai Wei also didn't expect her grandmother to be so genius, in order to make up two more dowries, she actually exchanged all the silver for copper coins, which is really hard enough!

It's just that she couldn't tell her grandmother's idea of making a dowry, and she was speechless for a long time before she held back an explanation, "Xu Yes, Xu is grandmother thinks that she will help me exchange silver for copper coins, so that it is convenient for me to reward people!" ”