Chapter 262: Save more for the dowry
Huiya lay in bed in a daze for half a month, and suddenly woke up one day, feeling a lot lighter, and then recalled the dream that she had day and night, as if she had gone through the previous life again. lWxS520.coM
It's just that when she woke up from the mountain, Huiya felt that her whole body was full of unwillingness and resentment, and this time she woke up from the dream, as if she had new cognitions and feelings, and she only felt that the scene of her previous life was becoming clearer and clearer, but the resentment in her heart was much less.
"What? It's engaged! Huiya listened to her mother's words while eating kidney bean rolls, and when she heard that she had already settled down on her family, she was so frightened that she almost swallowed the half-bitten kidney bean rolls, and coughed for a long time before she stopped, only staring at her mother with wide eyes, not understanding what was going on.
"You kid, you'd better eat slowly." Zheng helped Huiya wipe off the pastry crumbs on her lips, and said with a gentle smile, Huiya is much better now, but it has made her heart relax a lot, so she also has the heart to tell Huiya about her marriage in the future.
"Mother, what kind of engagement, what's going on? Didn't there be any rumors about it before? Huiya looked at her mother-in-law who was still talking about anything else, so she was so anxious that she threw the kidney bean rolls in her hand on the plate, and she didn't care about the others, she reached out and grabbed her mother-in-law, shaking it to ask for a clear understanding.
"Silly boy, you saved the young master of the Nalu Prince's family, and the people knew that they wanted to repay it, and they came to propose marriage to our family, and now they have exchanged tokens, and they specially invited the big media of the prince of the Dingguo Mansion!" Zheng looked at Huiya's little face, although it was still a little pale, but her face was much better, and she let go of the worry about her body in her heart, and told Huiya about the things that had happened for a while with a smile.
"Huh?" Huiya still couldn't react. But he had already seen Zheng with a happy face and began to take the same things in front of him.
"Ah what, look, this is the old lady of the Lu Guogong Mansion, a gift to you, knowing that you are weak, she also specially sent someone to send ginseng and bird's nest to nourish your body!" Zheng said with a happy face, holding a rosewood box in his hand. A faint aroma emanated from the precious box. It is the scent of rosewood itself.
Inside the box, padded with red flannel, was a set of eighteen pieces of jewelry, which were of red gold and ruby. But it was much more valuable than any of the red gold and ruby jewels in Huiya's dressing box. If nothing else, let's just say that on the head and face jewelry of this goldfish pattern, there are more than a dozen long-tailed goldfish of different shapes, and the bright red gems that are used as the nails of the goldfish's eyes. It's enough to make people dazzle.
"Look at the color of this ruby. It's not easy to get. "Zheng opened a jewelry shop in the early years, and she has experienced a lot, and the quality of this gemstone naturally can't escape her eyes. I saw the red treasures with the size of my fingernails. Although they are not the largest ones, the color is so bright and uniform, and there are dozens of them at the first shot. The value is self-evident.
Just looking at the materials on this set of head jewelry, Zheng already knew that this jewelry might not be able to get a thousand taels of silver. As soon as the Duchess of Lu Guo made a move, it was like this. The generosity really made Zheng happy, but also a little surprised.
"Oh, when I didn't get married, the meeting gift given by my grandmother and mother-in-law was so heavy, wouldn't there be more dowry gifts in the future?" Zheng was happy, and suddenly thought of a very serious problem, and slapped his thigh suddenly, showing a look of urgency on his face.
Although the Zheng family and Zhao Erye prepared a lot of things for Huiya as a dowry, they were all married to people of comparable status, if they were married to a noble family like the Lu Guogong Mansion, the original share of the thirty-two dowry would not be enough, and the grandson of the Guogong family who married to the Guogong family would be the Duchess of the Kingdom in the future, without a dowry of one hundred and twenty-eight lifts, how could it be ninety-eight lifts, right?
"No, I have to talk to your father about it!" Zheng thought of this problem, he couldn't sit still anymore, although the business of Jin Yuzhai was much more prosperous when it opened, but slowly after a few months, the business became quieter. Calculated in this way, Jin Yuzhai's annual income is only five times the original, and it adds up to 10,000 taels of silver.
Jin Yuzhai's 10,000 taels of silver, plus the income of several thousand taels of silver from other shops and granges, even if he doesn't eat or drink in the next three years, plus all the silver money in Zheng's hands now, he can make up 350,000 yuan of silver.
Zheng's heart was anxious, although he hadn't asked for an appointment yet, he also knew that Qian Jingchen was now sixteen, and if he waited, he would have to pass through the door when Huiya and Lu arrived. But looking at the money in his hand, Zheng was very anxious, and he couldn't wait to postpone the marriage for a few more years and save more money for Huiya.
If the 350,000 yuan of silver were given to Huiya as a dowry, it would sound like a lot, but Zheng's heart knew that he was not only Huiya's daughter, but also Huishan who did not marry a daughter-in-law. Sons and daughters are all the hearts of the Zheng family, even if Huiya is married, she can't leave Huishan behind, just give all the money to Huiya, right?
Even if there are 50,000 taels of silver, these two people have one point, and there are only more than 20,000 left, and these silver coins can't all be used for dowries, banquets, favors, and rewards, but they all cost money.
Before Huiya could react, Zheng rushed out in a hurry, and after finding Second Master Zhao, his face was completely different from the happy face just now, and he said to Second Master Zhao with a sad face, "Husband, what do you say about this, Ya'er is going to marry into the Duke of Lu, how rich does this dowry have to be?" ”
"What's wrong? Suddenly remembered about the dowry? Second Master Zhao was sipping a small wine cup at this time, happy that he was a seven-grade petty official, and he was able to marry his daughter to a high-ranking family in the Lu State Mansion, but he didn't expect his daughter-in-law to suddenly say such a sentence, and he was stunned for a moment.
"The meeting gift given to Huiya by Duchess Lu Guo seems to be worth at least a thousand taels of silver, and these silver can make a good dowry in a family like ours!" Zheng saw that Second Master Zhao didn't understand the meaning of his words, and stomped his feet anxiously, "Our Ya'er's dowry, saved over the years, plus the purchase in hand, is only five thousand taels of silver, compared with the scene of the Lu State Mansion, how can it be compared!" ”
Zheng was in a hurry, feeling that he was about to cry, his own family was already low to the Lu Guo Mansion and didn't know how many times to wait, and when he thought that Huiya might be ridiculed and criticized for her dowry being too shabby, Zheng's heart seemed to be punctured by something.
"Don't worry, isn't Ya'er only twelve, let's think of a way, there will definitely be a way." When Zhao Erye heard Zheng's words, the fluttering feeling created by drinking a little wine disappeared in an instant, thinking of the pomp and circumstance of the Lu Guogong Mansion, and then thinking of his own situation, a lot of cold sweat broke out on his head.
"It seems that we have to hurry up and make money and save some dowry for Ya'er." Second Master Zhao spun around in his mind, and after sighing for a long time, only such a sentence came out. (To be continued)
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