Chen Dabin was stupid when he heard it: the prince actually redeemed the antiques, and brought 10,000 taels of silver and 20,000 taels of antiques that he pawned. This has just been written in eight characters, and the prince spent 30,000 taels, who will be able to get 10,000 taels next time? Even other palaces can't, it's outrageous!

"Outside the horse, the prince has given too much silver, you hurry up and send him back." Chen Dabin said.

"Master! Ten years in the sea, you should also learn some advances and retreats, right? Dare to refute the prince's face! No matter how amiable he is, he is also a prince, a thousand years old under one person! 30,000 taels is a lot for you, but it's a piece of cake for the prince. You also know that Prince Rui rescued the car twice, and sacrificed his life to protect Emperor Taizong and the current saint, although he has no power, but the two emperors have grace to him. Do you know how much silver was given to him behind his back? His house has the least number of people in all the palaces, and the masters are the two of them, and they are very frugal in their lives. In addition to the silver and rice, there are two Zhuangzi, which are rich and inexhaustible. Will he care about tens of thousands of taels of silver? ”

"That's what I said, but Xia Guan thinks it's still too much, and no matter how much money the prince has, it's the prince's. We already have 20,000 taels of pawn antiques, the dowry is already very rich, and the prince also gave 10,000 taels of silver for the next small order, which is too much! If it is an ordinary family marrying a daughter, three or four hundred taels is not bad, and you will take as much as the prince gives you? The antique was redeemed by the prince's silver, and it should belong to the prince, and I can't accept this antique under any circumstances, or I can't take the silver. ”

"I said, master, why don't you understand? Wang Ye and Fu Jin are too satisfied with their junior sister, find an excuse to give you a little more silver, and you still want to go back and slap someone's face? You are a serious person who works hard and is serious about errands, why are you pedantic when things come into trouble? Other people's families hire daughters, for fear that the son-in-law's family will give less dowry, so they try their best to put silver in their pockets. Well, you're scared. You just want to give your daughter away for nothing, right? ”

"Outside the horsemen! What are you talking about? There is always a measure for everything. We have already sold antiques and got silver, and the dowry silver is enough, and the prince can't help but accept the small order, but it has already exceeded the qualifications, should the antique silver still be collected? My daughter is a treasure in my eyes, not to mention 30,000 taels, even 303,000 can't be sold. But there is a conscience and morality here! ”

Ma Ping was angry and laughed, and said in his heart that this person was reading and reading demons. Patiently said: "You really read too many books and don't even understand human contacts?" is still the same sentence, he is a prince, a high-level person, and face is much more important than silver. Did you know? When the disciple and Nalan guards arrived at the palace, they were directly taken to the residence of the prince and Fujin. There were only two people in the room, Wang Ye and Fu Jin, and the personal maidservants were all sent out. The silver ticket was handed to me by Fu Jin, and the Rui Wangfu was Fu Jin's financial power. Fujin is the most virtuous, don't think nonsense. There is absolutely no prince who can treat a side room and her family like this. The prince said: 'Actually, it doesn't matter if the woman has a dowry or not, they will live together in the future, but this king has such a title. Marrying a side room is also very grand, and people from the royal family have to come to see the dowry, and the amount of the dowry also has an approximate share. Not to mention that Lord Chen's sleeves are clean, even corrupt officials can't get so much dowry silver for a while, I don't know why Lord Chen is embarrassed at the moment. Besides, Yun'er does not have a decent dowry, and in the future, it will inevitably be talked about in front of the people in the house. So please tell Master Chen, don't think too much. Even if you use it, buy something you like for your child and marry happily. Fu Jin also said: "What kind of blessing did the prince get such a good girl as Yun'er?" It's not a lot of money that can solve it. If you have this ability to help Lord Chen, don't think about it, the prince and I will never underestimate Yun'er because of this, don't worry. 'Look, how open are people's work?' Besides, what's wrong with Wang Ye accepting his junior sister as a side blessing? Others can't dig the door and walk through the window. With your official rank, is the junior sister qualified to marry the prince? can only be an ordinary concubine, and it is difficult to be promoted to a side blessing after giving birth to a son. said that the junior sister helped solve the treasure theft case and protected the treasure at the critical moment, and was directly canonized as a side Fujin, but it was just an excuse, in fact, he liked Yun'er Senior Sister is serious. There is nothing that the emperor should not admit, but the person who saved the emperor's life has more credit than the person who has been on the battlefield for many years. In addition, the disciple also told the prince about your sale of antiques, and he naturally understood that you could not afford the dowry, but he said that antiques must not be sold, once they were bought by people who knew the goods, they could not even redeem them, and the loss was too great. The disciple also reminds you that these antiques were redeemed by the prince, and you have nothing to say if you say that they belong to the prince's disciples. However, it was also the prince who asked the disciple to return it to you, what did you tell the disciple to do? If you send it back, the prince will definitely not accept it, and if you don't send it, you won't follow it. Otherwise, don't be stubborn, and when the junior sister marries, bring those few antiques as a dowry, and when it stops, the junior sister will come forward to return it to the prince or Fujin, at that time they are a family, how to deal with it is someone's housework, what do you say? ”

Chen Dabin thought about it, and it could only be like this.

"The disciple still has to go to Shopkeeper Zhou to see what good antiques he has in his hands, and there must be antiques and treasures in the dowry of the junior sister! It can't just be these few pieces of the prince who took out the pawn. No matter how much it's worth, you have to pack a few boxes. This is the face of the prince and your own face! Leave! ”

Shopkeeper Zhou was really interesting, and he got five thousand taels of silver and eight boxes of antiques. There is everything in the bread: calligraphy and painting, bronze, jade, wood carving, crystal, porcelain, lacquerware...... There are antiques and treasures of all categories. It seems that he has dedicated all his family resources. Not to mention, it's a bit dry.

Chen Dabin also knew that what Ma Ping said was right, the silver that the prince brought was for a small order, it was an engagement, and there was no reason to return it, there is no such reason in the world, you can still return the silver after receiving Yi's will? I can only stay. The next step is to buy a dowry for her daughter, and the dowry of more than 30,000 taels of silver should be worthy of her daughter.

In fact, Ma Yuan also understood why the master was a little reluctant to marry his daughter to the prince. On the one hand, he is an upright person, unwilling to cling to the powerful, and even more unwilling to get involved with the Manchu royal family; The second is that he still remembers the crazy killing of Han people, especially scholars, before the Manchurians entered the customs, and he has a pimple in his heart. The master has no idea of entering the academy at all, and entering the Hanlin Academy is the recommendation of the prince and the needs of life. Now, the daughter has taken a fancy to this prince, and even the queen mother's decree has been handed over, and the consequence of resisting the decree is to destroy the nine clans. He couldn't ignore the lives of his brother's mansion, his brother-in-law's family, and hundreds of people in his hometown because he was reluctant to give up his daughter. Although he clearly knew that this Rui Wang Ye did not participate in the killing of the Han people, he was still very awkward emotionally. He couldn't tell anyone about this, but Ma Ping was like a mirror in his heart.

Chen Dabin's heart is miserable! Not only the above two reasons, but also the daughter is a concubine! Fang Fujin is also a concubine. When a Manchu family marries a wife, the main room can wear a red wedding dress, and the side room is silver red or rose-red. His daughter is the phoenix among the people, the treasure of the treasure, she can only marry once in her life, she can't even wear a big red wedding dress, and the person who marries is still married for nearly 20 years, and the man who is 20 years older than her daughter will bow her eyebrows to the lady of the main room when she arrives at the palace...... There is unwillingness.

Chen Dabin also has a difficulty, that is, the maid and companion room for Yun'er to marry are not located at all. Although there are no hard and fast rules, the side Fujin has to ask a few maids to dowry, but which prince's side Fujin is with four maids to dowry, and there are two or four other companions, that is, the husband and wife who have become relatives are married. It's not just someone who can be a companion and a marryman, it must be a trustworthy subordinate and a loyal servant. After following the young lady to get married, he is the young lady's cronies. Now I see that the most heartwarming wedding maid is the Yu'er girl who has served Yun'er for many years. The second is the Shui'er girl that Fujin gave to Yun'er. Chen Dabin has a few maids at home, but it's a pity that they are either doing rough work, or they are young, or they are newcomers, and they don't even know their temperament, but don't make trouble for Yun'er, it's a palace, not a place where anyone can go in casually. I can only use these two girls, and I can't buy it now, I don't know the details.

As for accompanying Chen Dabin, it is even more difficult. His background is not very high, his official position is also low, the servants in the family are very limited, and there is no kind of clothed slave who is called a "child of the family". Mrs. Chen saw that her husband sighed for a rare sigh, so she recommended two people to him. Recommendation is recommendation, and it has to be agreed by the person himself, who is not his own subordinate, and not everyone wants to climb the high branches. There is a lot of silver per month when you enter the palace, how can you have three taels of silver per month when you are a roommate, which is enough to feed a family. But entering the palace is equivalent to tying your life to the belt of your trousers, maybe when you do something wrong, you will be punished, and you will have to shed your skin if you don't die after twenty boards.

The first one recommended by Mrs. Chen was Jiang Zhutou of the county government. Jiang catcher has a very good character, he is very diligent on errands, he was seriously injured in the waist during the arrest of a prisoner, and he lay on the kang for more than a year. In the Qing Dynasty, even if it was a work injury, you couldn't support you for a lifetime, and the money given for recuperation was more, and it was paid in a lump sum, and it didn't matter in the future. Jiang Zhu's head is also unable to work hard after his head injury is healed, which is almost equivalent to losing his ability to work, isn't it sitting on a mountain and eating nothing? Jiang catches the head of the woman has good cooking skills, but she can still be a cook when she is old in the future? If you enter the palace as Yun'er's marrywife, there will be no difficulties in life, and you can still accumulate a little. If Yun'er is favored in front of the prince, the errand of the head-catching woman can be done for a long time.

Because Jiang Zhutou's family is still in Zunhua, they don't know about the four girls. The other companion room on Master Chen's side decided who it would be before they could be notified.

Yun'er is Chen Dabin's only daughter, how can she be called the fourth girl? It's very simple, Yun'er's uncle, General Chen Fang, has three daughters who are older than Yun'er, so Yun'er is the fourth girl in the big ranking.

The candidate for the second companion room is Lin Qing, the widow of the late master Hu Ziyu.

Chen Dabin once promised Master Hu's deathbed entrustment to try his best to take care of Lin Qing's mother and daughter, and he couldn't leave Jiang Zhutou and Lin Qing alone just because he was promoted.

It makes sense for Mrs. Chen to recommend Lin Qing. Lin Qing was just twenty years old, and he was born with a beautiful appearance, if their mother and daughter lived by themselves, they didn't know what would happen. If it is the family of an official eunuch, it is okay, and if she does not go out in the courtyard of the deep house, there will be no danger, but she is a small citizen with no man, and even the scoundrels on the street can't afford to provoke her. As a relative by her husband's side, others have to look up to her and dare not bully casually. It can only be to take them wherever they go.

For the sake of her daughter's companionship, Mrs. Chen specially returned to Zunhua and told them about the companionship, and they decided for themselves whether it would be okay or not.

The attitudes of these two families were very open, and the Jiang head catcher woman said: "Madam, I discussed the matter you said in the morning with the family family, and he agreed that our family and the four girls would enter the palace as companions. You and Master Chen have entered the capital, can we continue to live in the county office? The child's father can no longer be a head catcher in the future, and it will be difficult for our family to eat. Anyway, I learned the craft of such a cook, so it's okay to go into the palace to cook for the four girls, right? There are a lot of things in big families, and they often have problems with their diet. I went and could take care of the four girls. There's an errand to do, and there's a bit of silver to take. ”

"But you entered the house to call yourself a slave."

"Hey, what's that, it's not a slave or a high-ranking person."

"The rules of the palace are big, if there is a little omission, you have to play the board......"

"You're too worried. If the rules are big, let's act according to the rules and be cautious. You and Mr. Chen have found such a job for our family, and we don't know how to thank us? ”

Jiang Zhutou and his family were very grateful to Master Chen for taking care of their family. Lord Chen is an honest and benevolent official, and he is very helpful to his subordinate low-level officials and officials. Aunt Jiang was worried that her future life would fall into poverty because of her husband's resignation, so Mrs. Chen gave her such a good errand. She is also afraid of the high threshold of the palace, and the rules are big, but survival is the first, eating is the first, and when the accompanying mother takes the first class month, she has to add two taels, even if Jiang Zhutou doesn't do anything, it is already a rich day, it is a big pie falling from the sky. Besides, being a cook for the four girls is much more reliable than the one sent by the house, my mother's family. The fight in the back house of the big family is fierce, and there are often problems with the diet, and the fourth girl is also a credible henchman. This companion room is settled.