Qin Min saw that Cai Wei seemed to be frightened by his younger brother's light work, so he had to explain a thing or two for him.

"My younger brother has liked to dance swords and swords since he was a child, and he thinks he is an invincible opponent in the capital, but when he was fifteen years old, he was beaten up and suffered a big loss. He said that he was going to the folk to find a famous martial arts teacher to learn the arts, not even a retinue, a person did not know where to run around for two or three years, and then came back not only fists more powerful than before, but also the ability to fly the eaves and walk the wall, every time he did not go to the main gate, he always climbed over the wall to my palace to hang out, and I had nothing to do with him. ”

It turned out that it was for such a reason, and I don't know who could beat this little overlord and make him suffer a big loss, which is really amazing. Although Cai Wei was curious, it was inconvenient to ask each other, and when she thought that her two important things were in the hands of the little overlord, she was even more worried.

Then he said: "Your Highness, I have been out for a long time, and I should go back to accompany the concubine, so as not to worry about the concubine!" ”

Qin Min nodded, "I happened to be going to see my mother too, so let's go with my cousin!" ”

Cai Wei followed him, and the two of them walked together to the concubine's room.

When they arrived at the upper room, the two of them asked the concubine to say goodbye, Cai Wei wanted King Yingchuan to come to see the concubine this time, and there must be something to talk to the concubine, so she excused herself to go shopping around and wash her face, so she withdrew first and went into the west to wipe her face at will.

Mama Du already knew who she was seeing, but at this time, she saw that her expression was different, and there was no joy on her face, so after thinking about it, she still asked, "Didn't the girl go to see that Zeng Gongzi?" Why did you come back and be sad, but you can't make trouble with him? It's not uncommon for these children to quarrel with each other. ”

Cai Wei shook her head, "If it's just an ordinary quarrel, I thought it would be ......, but I never thought that he would say that he wanted to see me for—"

"For what?" I heard someone outside the curtain ask, and then I saw the curtain open, and Concubine Shen walked in alone.

"Just now, I felt that there was something wrong with your face, but Min'er was also there, it's not good to ask you, I'll come over when I'm free, what did the Zeng kid tell you? But what are some bad words? ”

She originally thought that Zeng Yi couldn't wait to come to the door to see him in order to discuss his marriage with Cai Wei, but who knew that when he came to visit, he was talking about it left and right, just saying that he wanted to see Cai Wei first. At that time, she was a little worried, and when she saw Cai Wei's face, she knew that something was wrong, and when she saw that her son was not in a hurry to find her, she sent him away and hurried over to Cai Wei's side.

Cai Wei was in turmoil at this time, and the two people in the house at this time, one was a nurturing grandmother who had been with her for seven or eight years, and she was trustworthy and experienced a lot; One is a cousin who has just recently recognized, who can not only be trusted, but also can make decisions for her. She was full of thoughts at this time, except for these two people, and she didn't know who else to tell her, so she briefly said that Zeng Yi wanted to get justice from his second uncle as soon as possible in order to keep his future and career, and wanted to withdraw from her family affair and marry Zuo Xiang's niece as his wife.

Mama Du heard it with anger in her eyes, but Concubine Shen looked at the light smoke coming out of the incense burner on the case with an unchanged expression, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so she asked Cai Wei for a while, "Although you only made a verbal agreement about marriage that day, how can this gentleman's promise be ruined lightly, this divorce is not something he said himself, it depends on whether we agree or not." ”

"Wei'er, this family affair was set by your father for you in Japan, although your father entrusted you to me, but this is a major event related to your life, it must always be important to your will, do you want to fulfill him, or do you want your cousin to make decisions for you?"

"I ,......"

After Cai Wei said this, she didn't know what to say, and on the way back, she was thinking about how she should decide, but her mind was so chaotic that she didn't come up with an answer until this time.

Concubine Shen saw her at a loss, so she said: "I know that you can't make up your mind for a while, after all, he is the lover that your father personally selected for you that day, and you have also spent some days together, and there is some affection between each other, and suddenly he told you that he wanted to withdraw from the marriage, and it was natural that you were unwilling to agree to him." ”

Cai Wei shook her head, "Actually, the moment he told me to withdraw from the marriage, I was so angry that I wanted to simply agree to him, 'I will leave if you have no intention', and he is not the only man in this world!" ”

"But ......"

"But I'm so unwilling! This family business was set for me by my father himself, just so that I would not be left alone in the future, my father has spent so much effort for me, how can I be a woman, how can I just let it be let down? ”

At that time, his father knew that he had an incurable disease, and his days were numbered, and the only thing he could not worry about was her daughter, so he ignored the illness, not only did it not work well to recuperate, but took her around to visit friends, just to be able to set a good family business for her that she could entrust for life. It was easy to choose the Zeng family, she and Zeng Yi were also in love, who knew that the world was unpredictable, not only gave birth to so many twists and turns, but even Zeng Yi's old heart also changed!

Zeng Yi could not change his face, and even told her confidently that he wanted to withdraw from the marriage, but her father's earnest entrustment and her affection, was it just to fulfill his last resort?

The concubine asked her, "I only want to ask you, why are you so unwilling?" Do you not want your father's family affair for you to be ruined, or are you unwilling to let your love for him be let down, and see your lover marry her? ”

"This—" Cai Wei was unable to answer for a while, and asked herself, as if it was both, which made people feel more and more sad and heartbroken the more she thought about it.

Concubine Shen originally let her think about it, but when she saw that the expression on her face was becoming more and more painful, she asked, "Just now you said that the boy of the Zeng family has returned the token that your father gave him, where is the token?" In fact, the concubine asked knowingly, but she just wanted to share Caiwei's mind for the time being, lest she blindly think hard, but fell deeper and deeper.

"He put the dowry list on the stone table at that time, and it might have been blown up by a gust of wind, but it was picked up by His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan, and I asked him, but he refused to give it to me. I don't know if I'm still with him. "This highness has a temperamental temper, and he is so angry that he should not scatter fire on her dowry list, or tear it to pieces, or burn it to the ground. As for her Yufeng, Cai Wei thought about it, even though she promised her grandmother, she still didn't mention it to the concubine.

In fact, Concubine Shen had already heard Qin Min talk about this, and she had been having a headache with her son, so she had to say: "Although I am his mother-in-law, but this child, he has been close to me since he was a child, and I can't control him, so I will order Min'er and Mama Wen to go to him to ask for it, but can you get it back......" Thinking of her son's strange temper, even Concubine Shen can't pack the ticket and will definitely get it back.

Although Yingchuan Mansion and Linchuan Mansion are very close, it was not until dinner time that Qin Min and Mama Wen came back from next door.

"Niangniang, when we arrived at the mansion over there, the concubine Jin was not in the mansion, and His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan didn't know how to run there, and the attendant also said that he was not there, and His Royal Highness and I waited for an hour before we saw him show up. Seeing that we asked about Miss Zhou's token, he didn't pay attention to it, but just asked the attendant to bring a brazier, saying that His Royal Highness was not in good health, and he was most afraid of freezing, but don't freeze him. ”

His Royal Highness saw that it was Miss Zhou's thing, and he wanted to save it, so he poured another glass of wine on it, and the fire burned half a foot high, and burned the paper sheet into ashes in the blink of an eye. This is all the old slave's disadvantage, and please punish the concubine! ”

Xu is Caiwei has been hit too hard this day, and when she heard that her dowry list was burned to ashes, she didn't feel much, and just sat on the side.

Concubine Shen sighed: "That demon star is this strange temperament, how can it be blamed on you." Then he looked at Cai Wei and said: "If he really ruined the list, it will be considered clean from now on, which is much better than him taking it out and talking about it." Although I don't have this list, fortunately your father still has another copy with me. ”

Cai Wei had already guessed that most of the fourth dowry list was stored with the Zeng family's tokens in Concubine Shen, so she thanked the concubine.

The concubine took advantage of the situation and said: "Actually, I don't have more than this dowry list there!" On that day, in order to prepare a dowry list for you, your father did not know how many drafts he had changed, and he drafted three or four copies and asked me to help him refer to them, and I kept all those drafts, would you like to come to my room to read them? ”

Cai Wei never knew that her father had put so much thought into preparing a dowry for her, so she nodded and followed the concubine to her bedroom. I saw that the concubine ordered Mama Wen to open a rosewood box, and took out a boxy sandalwood box from it, and the box was not locked, so I saw that the concubine pressed a few times on the eight corners of the box, and the box opened by itself, and the concubine took out a bag from it and handed it to Cai Wei: "The dowry list that your father once drew up for you is all in it, you can see for yourself!" ”

Cai Wei took out a stack of writing paper inside, opened the top one first, and saw that the total number of dowries listed on the first list prepared by her father was about the same as the one given to her in the end, only 5,000 taels of silver was missing, but most of them were fields, a total of 3,000 acres of good paddy fields, worth 24,000 taels, except for the house where her mother married and the old house in Meizhou, the rest of the shops worth 10,000 taels were also in Meizhou and Chang'an, a total of more than 10. Another 10,000 taels of jewelry, furniture, and antique furnishings, 10,000 taels of silver, of which 5,000 taels were used for her to make a pressure box of silver, and the other 5,000 taels were bought with new fabrics and clothing when she got married.

Looking at the second dowry list, but her dowry increased to more than 100,000 taels, in addition to the first list of fields, houses, and shops, and added two excellent shops in the capital, worth 15,000 taels of silver, and added 10,000 taels to buy jewelry, furniture, and antique furnishings, and now the silver has also increased to 30,000 taels, 20,000 for the pressure box silver, and 10,000 for new fabrics and clothing when buying when getting married.

In the third list, it changed back to 60,000 taels of dowry, the field property was reduced to a total of more than 1,000 acres of land, the house shop in Meizhou was reduced to six, the Beijing shop was two, the jewelry furniture and antique furnishings worth 15,000 taels of silver, the new cloth clothes and jewelry were added when the marriage was made, and the silver was pressed into the box by 10,000 taels.

The fourth copy is the one that was finally decided to be handed over to the government for archiving, compared to the third part, in addition to increasing the amount of cash, and bought her a house in Chang'an, a field property, I think it is because the Zeng family's hometown with her is in Chang'an, so she also bought an estate there, who knows......

Her father thought everything for her, but no matter how thoughtful her father was, he couldn't predict the prophet, and he didn't expect that the son-in-law he personally selected would break the promise he had made.

When the concubine saw that she was a little distracted, she asked her, "But what is the difference?" ”

Cai Wei told her all about the places she had seen, and the concubine asked, "Then do you know why your father made these changes?" What is the meaning of each of these changes? ”

Cai Wei thought for a while and said, "The second one was increased to 100,000 taels at once, thinking that I was afraid that the dowry given to me before would be less, and I would suffer hardship, so I added more." Later, it was reduced to 60,000 taels, thinking that if I was given too much, I was an orphan girl, if there was no one to protect me, it would only attract the covetousness of others, but it would invite disasters and disasters, and I could not keep safe. But if it is reduced a little more, my father has been tired for many years, and I only have one daughter, if I give too little, I am afraid that it will arouse suspicion, don't quietly give me private silver, it will still attract people to covet, so it is finally set to about 60,000 taels, but I have made some changes in the cash of the industry, which I don't understand. ”

"There is also your father's deep meaning here, let's not talk about it now, and then talk about it later, I just ask you, what is your father's painstaking and lonely planning for?"

"It's so that I can live a stable life without worrying about food and clothing."

"Yes, whether your father has set this family business for you, or the list of dowries, he has taken such pains to make your life as good as possible behind him."

"You may think that your father thinks of everything, but you don't think he will pick the wrong person. In fact, although he didn't know that Zeng Yi would change his mind today, he was not without consideration of the various changes that might occur. Therefore, he only made a verbal agreement with the Zeng family at the beginning, and did not write a formal marriage letter. If you are officially married on the same day, although it is a little troublesome to want to withdraw from the marriage, as long as the man has made up his mind to withdraw from the marriage, he can arrange some excuses for the woman at will, but it will ruin the woman's reputation. ”

"It's better that just a verbal covenant will hurt the girl's reputation less, so your father has left room for this step to maneuver, instead of dwelling on this family affair is set by your father, it is better to think carefully about where to go in order for you to really live well, live comfortably and happily, this is what your father really wants his daughter to get."

"As for the unwillingness in your heart to the other half of Zeng Yi's divorce, it depends on whether you are a wise sword and a love thread, or you would rather be in it than let go."

Concubine Shen handed her another bag, "What is contained here is the token of the Zeng family's relatives for you, and it is a pair of jade and jade pendants from his family." If you decide to fulfill him, I will order someone to send this jade pendant to him, and if you want me to administer justice for you, my cousin will preside over this justice for you! ”

"But you must think clearly, what kind of life does your father want you to live in the future? What kind of person do you want to marry and what kind of life do you want to live? ”