I saw the eldest lady Wang stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother Jun'er's family affairs were also decided yesterday, and before I had time to return to my mother to know, I asked Mrs. Xiangguo to take the lead." ”

Although Mrs. Tai was unhappy in her heart, she always didn't want to attack her daughter-in-law in front of outsiders, so she said: "This child's family affairs are always the orders of their parents and the words of the matchmaker, you are Brother Jun's biological parents, and his marriage is also for you to decide, but I don't know which girl is decided?" ”

Wang Shi heard the faint displeasure in Mrs. Tai's words, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise a little, and said in his heart: This is not happy, when I tell my daughter-in-law's family history, your old man is still troubled?

"Back to my mother, the young lady under our brother Jun is none other than Mrs. Xiangguo's niece and nephew, but the eldest brother of Mrs. Xiangguo!"

Mrs. Tai understood as soon as she heard it, as the saying goes, "one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven", this Mrs. Sun was not surnamed Sun, but surnamed Yang, because she followed the right master, got the blue eyes of the Empress Dowager Sun, not only married Cui Chenggang, the left prime minister, to do the second room, and later gave her the surname Sun in order to straighten her up. Her maternal brother also changed his surname to Sun, and began to make a fortune relying on his eldest uncle, who was already Xiangye, and now he has won the name of the imperial merchant, and most of the needs in the palace are purchased and sold by this grandson.

It's just that although the Sun family is now rich and noble, in the end the foundation is shallow, and the old man Sun was just a merchant who walked the streets and alleys with a burden, and he had the name of the imperial businessman, but in the end, this merchant is the most lowly. Mrs. Tai no longer likes the house of her eldest son, and she doesn't want to marry a merchant's daughter to the eldest young master of the uncle's mansion.

And she is still a concubine raised by her aunt, Mrs. Sun said it nicely, who in Beijing doesn't know that her niece is not a concubine at all, but the daughter of her brother who took advantage of the power of her sister to develop a concubine in the future, but it is just a fake that is recorded in the name of his wife, who doesn't know in this Beijing? Before, she was bent on climbing high branches and marrying a wealthy nobleman, but her character was born, but which one of the more noble people could look down on? Her family looked down on those who wanted to marry her, so she didn't marry until she was nineteen years old.

Mrs. Tai was in a dilemma here, but Mrs. Sun seemed to see her thoughts, and said: "In fact, if you talk about it in detail, although my niece is a little unworthy of your mansion, but my niece has always been the most liked by our family, although I also have a daughter under the knees of Xiangye, but I also love her very much, and often take her to live in the prime minister's house, treat her like her own daughter, and be full of satisfaction and want to choose a lovely niece and son-in-law for her." Don't hide it from Mrs. Tai, for the sake of my niece, I also looked around everywhere, and Brother Jun of your mansion is a good person, and he is smart and motivated, even Xiangye thinks it is excellent. There are also several other young masters in the Bofu, who are also good, and Xiangye also knows about them. ”

As soon as such a clear hint came out, there was no one in the court in the Anyuan Mansion now, and for the sake of the future of several grandchildren, he did not dare to offend the left minister of the government and the opposition. Although Mrs. Tai didn't want the long room to take advantage of the left phase, she had to deal with this family business first and then think about it. "Madame is too modest, my grandson's qualifications are only average, and now he has neither fame nor title, and he has not even passed the martial arts examination. Wait for the old body to choose an auspicious day for the zodiac, and ask someone to come to the door to propose! ”

Mrs. Sun smiled with satisfaction, this time she came to Anyuanbo's Mansion to pay respects, it was really worth the trip, and two marriages were finalized at once. So the two families began to perform the six ceremonies in order, such as Nacai, asking the name, and Najib, and Mrs. Tai did not like the family affair of the eldest young master Yijun, so she did not bother to ask, and the eldest lady went to discuss with the Sun Mansion, and only met Mrs. Zuo Xiang once again when discussing the dowry and the marriage date.

Mrs. Tai was bent on postponing the date of the two marriages, but Mrs. Sun hoped to marry her niece as soon as possible, and the last two families agreed to marry Miss Sun in September, and Yizhi in October.

Regarding the dowry of the eldest young master Zhao Yijun, Mrs. Tai originally planned to give him 10,000 taels of silver according to the example of the concubine in the mansion, and the mansion would organize a wedding banquet for him. I don't want Mrs. Sun to say anything with a smile, since her niece is going to marry the eldest son of the eldest son of the Bofu as the eldest granddaughter-in-law, she naturally needs to add more dowry. Hengzhu's imperial merchant Sun family has money, and Master Sun generously gave his daughter a dowry of 50,000 taels of silver.

The eldest lady also smiled on the side: "I don't want Master Sun to love my daughter like this, only our Brother Jun's dowry-" turned her head to look at Mrs. Tai, "and begged my mother to look at the face of her in-laws, so that I can add more to Brother Jun, and I can't wronged Miss Sun?" ”

When the husband first heard about the eldest granddaughter-in-law of the long house, he was a little unhappy in his heart, and then when he heard the dowry of 50,000 taels of silver, his heart was even more panicked. Although the man's dowry and the woman's dowry must always be comparable, but this time she can't take care of this kind of face, and she doesn't look at her eldest daughter-in-law at the moment, "My wife is not afraid that Mrs. will know that the young masters from our house have always been a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver." Unexpectedly, Master Sun gave his daughter so much dowry, that is, we want to add more, but we really can't, the silver in the house is still earned by my father-in-law in Japan, and after so many years of consumption, there is little left, only 30,000 taels of silver left. There are still four young masters and five young ladies under Brother Jun, and they are all approaching the year of marriage. In desperation, please forgive your wife, besides, our house is not the kind of coveted daughter-in-law's dowry, even if we can only give these dowries, Master Sun might as well reduce some of the dowry for his daughter? ”

Mrs. Sun's eyes rolled, she knew that Mrs. Tai was extremely disapproving of these two family affairs, and it was not easy to force people too much, in case she forced this old woman to be ruthless, she was afraid that she would turn around and spill her anger on her niece. smiled and said: "That's not necessary, my brother and sister-in-law married their daughters just to covet those dowries, but they just took a fancy to your brother's talent, even if we don't want this 10,000 dowry, we will put it back in my niece's dowry and send it back." ”

It was precisely because she knew that the Sun family would not ask for this dowry, and the eldest wife wanted to take this opportunity to earn more money for her son to do the housework. I didn't want Mrs. Tai to ignore the face of the Bofu and refuse to agree, and seeing that Mrs. Sun no longer said a few more words for her son, she had to step aside and listen to Mrs. Sun talk about her eldest son's dowry again.

"My eldest son, a single name and a protective word, Mrs. Tai also knows it, and I don't have to say anything about my character and appearance, but it's a pity that I had an accident when I was a child, and I broke my legs, and now I can't walk and I have to sit in a wheelchair, and I can't go out. It is precisely because of this that after a long time, I have never been able to say that the next family is a good family, and it is rare that the in-laws do not dislike him as a cripple, and I am willing to marry the eldest lady who is born out, so that my son's dowry can not be simple, and I and Xiangye prepared a total of 30,000 taels of silver for him. ”

When Mrs. Tai heard this, she smiled slightly, "Coincidentally, the dowry I prepared for our sister Zhi also happened to be a dowry of 30,000 taels of silver, because she was going to marry into the Prime Minister's Mansion, the princess gave her a dowry of 20,000 silver, and her mother's previous dowry was worth 7,000 taels of silver, and I added 3,000 taels of things to her." ”

The fourth wife was beside her, and suddenly said: "Sister Zhi, I have called me my mother for so many years, and she is my own sister's daughter, I should also add a dowry to her when she marries, I still have ten hectares of land, I only leave two hectares is enough, and the remaining eight hectares are also given to Sister Zhi as a dowry!" It turned out that the fourth wife thought that instead of being worried about her remaining dowry by Aunt Liu, it would be better to give it to Yizhi earlier, which would not only be in vain for her to protect her over the years, but also that she would be able to end up clean in the future.

Only the eldest lady was jealous and hateful on the side, and almost didn't bite a mouthful of silver teeth, her own son is the eldest grandson of Bofu, just because there is no concubine, there is only a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver, and it is not as good as a dowry of 30,000 taels for a girl in Yizhi? Isn't it because my lord is not Mrs. Tai's biological son? But Brother Jun also called her grandmother for so many years, but she didn't have the love of grandchildren at all!

The important point has been agreed, and the next few months will be busy for these two marriages, to clean up a three-entry courtyard for the eldest young master to make a new house, to buy and sell all kinds of rare treasures as a dowry, and to select and train a group of servants to put in the new courtyard for the eldest young master and his wife to call, and to draw up a list of guests to be invited, and so on.

Yizhi's family affairs don't need to prepare so much, just make a dowry before the wedding, Mrs. Tai sent a message early in the morning to let the fifth wife come to Yizhi to handle it, so the purchase and sale of jewelry, silk, antique furnishings, furniture These things, there are five wives to prepare for her, Yizhi's only personal labor is to embroider her dowry.

Because there was only half a year, Yizhi pulled Cai Wei to help her embroider. Cai Wei didn't shirk, just smiled: "As long as my sister doesn't dislike my female red craftsmanship, I am willing to help my sister embroider as much dowry as I want!" ”

Yizhi originally thought that this was just her humble words, although she was almost not seen holding a needle and pinching thread on weekdays, but because after learning the books for women, the ladies had no books to read, so they had to do some female celebrities to pass the time.

Therefore, Yizhi was very relieved to give Caiwei a silk handkerchief and asked her to embroider a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water on it, and the picture had been drawn on the handkerchief. When it was evening, I saw Cai Wei timidly holding a handkerchief to show her, "Sister, look, can you still make such a thing?" ”

Yizhi couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the embroidered thing on the handkerchief, and asked with shaking fingers: "This, this is what you embroidered, should it really be you?" ”

Where can you see that it is embroidered with a pair of mandarin ducks, and it is clear that it is not even a bald duck! Yizhi is so big, it's the first time I've seen such a terrible embroiderer.

Cai Wei rubbed her nose and said a little embarrassed: "Well, that, I don't like female celebrities since I was a child, I prefer to practice calligraphy, if you ask me to sew something, I can barely deal with it, but if I embroider these flowers and birds, I will be blind." ”

She didn't tell a lie, although she didn't have time to learn female celebrity because she followed her father to study every day after she was eight years old, but before that, she also didn't like female celebrities, and always felt that there were many more interesting things to do than female celebrities. Her mother's mind was on her two brothers, and she didn't pay much attention to her, so she only touched the needle and thread once in three or five days. Therefore, her female red feet can be described as miserable.

Seeing that Yizhi didn't speak, she just stared at her, hurriedly pounced again, hugged Yizhi's arms and shook her and said, "Good sister, I really can't do this embroidery work, you just spare me this time, right?" My nurse's needlework is excellent, so how about I ask her to embroider for you? ”

Where is Yizhi willing to follow, put on a sister's posture, and insist that she follow her to do needlework for the first half of the year, so that she can practice her female celebrity skills, Cai Wei is willing to agree, and she keeps messing around with her, just don't be a female celebrity. In the end, Yizhi annoyed her, and Yue Xing pressed her down on the beauty couch for a long time, forcing her to beg for mercy.