Because of Ji Yu's matter, Xu Jinyu was in a somewhat gloomy mood these two days.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Xu Jinyu's mood improved again.

Xu Zheng and Cao Ying have already combined the eight characters and exchanged Geng posts. Tomorrow you can officially come to the door and get hired.

The Cao family is a scholarly family, and Cao Ying is the only pearl in the palm of Lord Cao. The marriage between the Xu family and the Cao family can be regarded as Gao Pan. Therefore, Zou has been carefully preparing for the dowry in the past two months.

Xu Zheng is the only male in the Xu family, and his relatives must not be rude.

When the Zou family came to the capital, he had already made plans to live in the capital for a long time. Lin'an only left the old mansion untouched, and the rest of the fields and shops were sold and replaced with gold and silver, and brought to the capital.

Two months ago, Zou summoned a pair of children to the front and said his plan: "Zheng'er, Jinniang, Lin'an's old house can't be moved, and I exchanged the rest of the family property into silver tickets and brought it to the capital." About twenty-six thousand taels. I've already thought about what I'm going to do with it. ”

"If you want to marry a wife in the future, you can't live in the Zou family's old house all the time. Therefore, I plan to take out 10,000 taels of silver to buy a house in the capital. With the price of the capital at this time, it is more than enough to buy a three-entry house and clean it up, and this house is reserved for Zheng'er to marry. ”

"I will keep six thousand taels of silver with me. The remaining ten thousand taels shall be divided into two parts. One is left for Jinniang as a dowry, and the other is for Zheng'er to marry. And the money for the wedding feast was about four thousand taels for the bridal gift."

As soon as the words came out, Xu Zheng and Xu Jinyu frowned in unison: "It's not appropriate!" ”

Zou smiled dumbly: "Look at the two of you." It's inappropriate to say it in unison. What's wrong? ”

didn't wait for the two brothers and sisters to speak, and sighed again: "Speaking of which, this arrangement is a grievance for Jinniang." Marry the right person. There are 5,000 taels of silver to buy a dowry, and they can get by. If you marry into the Anguo Mansion in the future, such a dowry will inevitably be a little shabby. But my mother really can't do it. Your eldest brother wants to marry the daughter of the Cao family, and he can't even have a residence."

"Mother, I don't feel wronged." Xu Jinyu interrupted the Zou family's long sigh: "We used to live in the Weining Hou Mansion, and now we live in the Zou family's old mansion. It's okay to live for a year and a half, but you can't live forever. It is also a matter of course to buy a home. The new house is furnished, not only the home of the eldest brother and mother. It's also my home. ”

"My mother left 6,000 taels for self-defense, and the remaining 10,000 taels of silver, just leave 3,000 taels for me to buy a dowry in the future. The remaining 7,000 taels will be left for the eldest brother to buy a dowry and get married! ”

"How can this work?" Xu Zheng frowned and objected: "When a woman gets married." If the dowry is less, in the future, people will be ridiculed in the husband's family, and he will not be able to straighten his waist and raise his head. This is a no-no! For this 10,000 taels of silver, I only need 3,000 taels to become a relative. Set aside seven thousand taels for you to buy a dowry. ”

Xu Jinyu naturally refused to agree: "The dowry is less." It's a big deal, I'll have fewer private rooms in the future. You can't go to Cao's house to give a dowry. If you make the Cao family unhappy, how embarrassing it will be for you to ascend to the door of the Yue family in the future. ”

Xu Zheng pursed his lips, and his clear eyes were full of firmness: "The Cao family has long known that our Xu family is not a rich family, and if they agree to this family business, they are the ones who fall in love with me, and they don't care about the dowry." ”

Xu Jinyu quickly responded: "Chen Yuanzhao wants to marry me, it won't be for my dowry!" ”

"In any case, your future dowry must not be shabby. so as not to let the in-laws look down on them. In the future, I will be idle at my mother-in-law's house! ”

"Big brother, what matters now is your family business. I was only fourteen years old. To get married, to prepare the dowry is a matter of later. Now it's time to focus on your family affairs first. ”

The two brothers and sisters have always been close and friendly, and it is rare to quarrel in order to leave each other more silver.

Zou was still laughing at first, laughing and laughing but feeling sad.

If her husband is still alive, she will not be so wronged by a pair of children who support the Xu family

"You two don't fight." Zou's voice was a little choked: "It's all useless for me to be a mother, and you two brothers and sisters are worried about the silver."

If the family is rich, you can have enough silver to buy a dowry, and you can also leave enough silver to buy a dowry for Xu Jinyu. The brother and sister don't have to push like this.

Zou's heart was sour, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Xu Jinyu and Xu Zheng were shocked when they saw Zou in tears, and immediately stopped arguing. You comforted Zou with every word: "Mother, don't cry first, we won't quarrel, we will listen to you for everything." ”

"yes, it's all up to you. We're not going to give in. ”

Zou trembled and wiped his tears with his sleeve and said, "Don't push the two of you." and as I said before, he kept five thousand taels of silver for each of them. Zheng'er is not a grievance, and Jinniang is aggrieved and bears it for the time being. Wait for your eldest brother to become a marry, and when you get married, if you have enough money, I will prepare some more dowry for you. ”

Xu Jinyu responded softly.

Xu Zheng also nodded. But I secretly thought in my heart that my sister is fourteen this year, and there are at least two years before she gets married. Within these two years, he entered the career early and saved more dowry for his sister

Within these two months, Zou instructed Steward Zhao to inquire about a suitable place to live, and at the same time used four thousand taels of silver to purchase the dowry one after another. They were all neatly placed in the Zou family's warehouse.

Tomorrow is the day of the official employment, Zou led Xu Jinyu and Xu Zheng into the warehouse together, and carefully checked the dowry boy against the dowry list.

Steward Zhao is old, and his eyesight and ear power are not as good as before. Checking the congratulatory gifts didn't help much, and I could have not come. But he insisted on following him to the storeroom and stood aside happily.

It took half a day to check the dowry. Everything is in order!

Zou let out a long sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Okay, the dowry is ready." Tomorrow, you and the official media will go to Cao's house to hire you. ”

Xu Zheng responded, his eyes flashing with joy.

Xu Jinyu smiled and quipped: "It's a pity that it's inconvenient for me to go with me, and I can't watch my eldest brother go to the door of Cao's house as a son-in-law." ”

Xu Zheng couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, the porter hurriedly ran in: "Madam, the official media Zhang is here, saying that there is something important to report to you." ”

What's important?

It's time to go to Cao's house tomorrow to propose, what else can be important at this time?

Xu Zheng's heart jumped, and he suddenly had a not-so-wonderful premonition

(To be continued......)