Chapter 15:67 Rumors
There were three dowries issued, the dowry left by Shi Xiangyun's mother, Mrs. Baolinghou's, and the dowry brought by Mrs. Zhongjinghou when she entered the door. Shi Xiangyun's share is not bad, when his mother died, he specially invited a Chinese person to set up another booklet and seal it, including not only Shi Xiangyun's mother's dowry, but also a private house. Anyway, Shi Xiangyun's mother also worked as a Bowling Marquis, and even put away her husband's private room when her husband died.
In contrast, the dowries of Shi Ding's wife and Shi Nai's wife were specially cleaned up according to the dowry list when they entered the door, and even many valuable gadgets in them were gone, and they were replaced with things that were not worth three or two dollars.
In this way, in the end, Shi Xiangyun got more things than the two aunts combined.
In the days when Jia's family lived, Shi Xiangyun stayed in Jia's mother's yard and didn't go out easily, Shi Xiangyun's three cousins didn't talk to Shi Xiangyun, even if they came to visit Jia's mother, they all picked Jia Jiu to guard Jia's mother, and even sometimes, when Shi Xiangni saw Shi Xiangyun in the house, she either went to talk to Jia Jiu in the Bisha cupboard, or just turned around and left.
The Shi sisters behaved like this, that is, Jia Jiu wanted to pretend that he didn't see it.
Fortunately, a few days after the Shi family came out, the property was sent down, and the Baolinghou couple and the Zhongjinghou couple said goodbye to Jia Yu. Although the Shi family has now been defeated, although Mrs. Baolinghou and Mrs. Zhongjing Marquis did not marry much, and sent back even less property, Mrs. Zhongjinghou did not even marry Zhuangzi, only a set of three-entry courtyards in Beijing with only about 20 rooms.
Shi Ding and Shi Nai's cousins in the end. and Jia Zheng are not all the way, for the sake of Jia's mother's face, but also for the friendship between the two families. Jia pardoned 20,000 taels of silver, and the two cousins' families had 10,000 taels. The brothers took the silver and bought 1,200 acres of land in Gyeonggi, which can be regarded as a settlement in Gyeonggi.
After all, there are more opportunities in the capital for the imperial examination, being an official, filling vacancies, or whatever.
When the Shi family moved away, Shi Xiangyun didn't want to leave yet. Shi Xiangyun felt that if he followed his uncle and aunt away. I'm afraid it won't be good. Shi Xiangyun's behavior made Jia Yu very unhappy, so he insisted that someone stuff Shi Xiangyun into the carriage, and would rather give the decorations in Shi Xiangyun's house as a gift. I don't want Shi Xiangyun to continue to stay in his home.
Regarding his father's arrangement, Jia Jiu didn't say anything, let alone raise objections. Only Shi Xiangyun, even if he got into the carriage. And keep looking back. Reluctantly, several of his cousins rolled their eyes in unison.
Both Shi Xiangyun and Jia Jiu know very well that if they say goodbye this time, they may see each other indefinitely in the future.
Jia Jiu is a first-class county monarch of the imperial court, and what he will attend in the future is also a banquet of the top powerful family. And Shi Xiangyun is a family member of a sinner, even if he has a lot of dowry, he will not marry a good family. In the future, unless Shi Xiangyun gets the permission of her elders or husband to come to Jia's house as a guest. Otherwise, I'm afraid that he will never have the chance to face Jia Jiu face to face again.
In fact, Shi Xiangni's impression of Jia Jiu is quite good. Now that their Shi family has been defeated, and their sisters have suffered something like that again, their future marriage will definitely be more difficult than others. Shi Xiangni and the others were originally hopeless about the future. But who would have thought that Jia Jiu actually gave them a lot of jewelry, and they were all pure gold jewelry, with few patterns and simple workmanship, but they were full of weight. Not to mention anything else, each of the ten pairs of bracelets that their sisters have, any one of them has ten taels. Not to mention those golden hairpins, earrings, gold collars and the like.
With this gold, it was enough for each of them to buy a decent dowry. Not to mention, Jia Jiu prepared a hollow gorse hairpin for each of the three Shi Xiangni sisters, and each gorse hairpin carried a silver ticket of two thousand taels in it.
Relying on this dowry, which looked very thin in the eyes of the Jia family, but was very rich in the eyes of the outside, the four sisters of the Shi family soon married one after another.
Among them, Shi Xiangyun's marriage is the most difficult.
Shi Xiangyun has a lot of dowries, houses, Zhuangzi, and land. Shi Xiangyun lived in Daguanyuan for a few years, and also learned some of the style of Mrs. Wang's Xue Baochai, and grasped the money in his hand very tightly. At least in private, he keeps a close eye on the belongings in his hands.
Before Shi Ding Shi Nai's brothers were released, Shi Xiangyun had a bad relationship with the two aunts, and now, Shi Xiangyun is more and more jealous of the two aunts, and even always suspects that the two aunts are trying to harm him behind his back. With such thoughts, Shi Xiangyun was very dissatisfied with the candidates brought by his uncle.
Shi Xiangyun likes Jia Baoyu, a handsome, considerate person, and a willful person who can tolerate him. At the same time, after so many things, Shi Xiangyun also knows that it is absolutely impossible to have no money, and it is absolutely impossible to have only money but no power.
But to meet Shi Xiangyun's requirements, how many people are there in this world?
Marriage is a girl's lifelong thing, and Shi Xiangyun, who is pampered, does not allow his marriage to be flawed at all. Even if he knew that this was likely to anger his two uncles, Shi Xiangyun was unwilling to nod easily.
In fact, now is almost the most difficult time for historians.
The Shi family is already a flat-headed common people, and the female relatives of the Shi family have also been in the women's prison, so don't think about this innocent word. Shi Ding and Shi Nai's own wives and daughters are forgotten, and many people know that it is because of bad luck. The Shi family was first coerced by the Zhen family, and then implicated by the Zhen family, and the Shi family's female relatives went to the women's prison, which was also due to luck, not Shi Ding Shi Nai's wife and daughter were at fault.
On the contrary, Shi Xiangyun, obviously when he is old, first he covets the wealth and comfort of the Marquis of Rongguo's mansion, and then he covets the power of the virtuous concubine, and he can't stand the slightest grievance, so it can be seen that he is naughty.
Not to mention anything else, people who are familiar with the Shi family know that when Shi Xiangyun was about twelve or thirteen years old, the two Hou wives of the Shi family saw that Shi Xiangyun couldn't play all day long, so they asked Shi Xiangyun to learn to do some needlework, but Shi Xiangyun turned his head and complained at Jia's house that he was doing needlework at home. But in fact, Shi Xiangyun has done a lot of needlework for Jia Baoyu.
If the historian doesn't care about Shi Xiangyun's upbringing at all, where did Shi Xiangyun get those talents? Don't say anything about exploring the spring and cherishing the spring. Even Xue Baochai can't compare to him in terms of talent.
Back then, Mrs. Wang sold the well-trained girls in the Grand View Garden to the outside for money. Some girls are unlucky and fall into those places, and they are even more resentful. These girls didn't dare to arrange Jia Jiu, Jia Qian, Jia Qing and Lin Daiyu, but Jia Baoyu's affair, they didn't say much, naturally Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun were indispensable.
What's more, something has already happened. For example, Shi Xiangyun did needlework for the attackers more than once.
Even if there was no marriage contract on Shi Xiangyun at that time, this kind of thing was in the eyes of others. still fell into a name that doesn't know self-respect.
Of course, it is also a shame that Shi Xiangyun did not have a marriage at that time, if Shi Xiangyun had already had a marriage contract at that time, he would return it to a brother or cousin. It's not Jia Baoyu, who is close to his cousin, making belly pockets. I'm afraid that everyone will think that their heads are green.
In the end, the Shi Ding Shi Nai brothers used the last bit of affection of the Shi family to let the son of a scholar who had received the favor of the Shi family marry Shi Xiangyun. This is still for the sake of Shi Xiangyun's rich dowry.
On the contrary, Shi Xiangyun's cousins relied on the property given by Jia Jiu to buy dowries, and picked a few people on the list of Shi Xiangyun who shook his head and had good reviews, a little bit of change, and good military achievements to marry.
Shi Xiangyun's marriage had a big impact on Xue Baochai's marriage.
Xue Baochai is a very good and strong person, and his strength is a little different from others, others are so strong that they strive for the top, and Xue Baochai is so strong. Not only strive for the top, but also have to suppress others.
It's the same as in the original book. In the original book, the reform of the Grand View Garden, the idea proposed by Tanchun, Xue Baochai snatched the credit in a few words, but the people were grateful to him Xue Baochai, who had nothing to do with Tanchun, and how many things have happened in the Grand View Garden since then.
And here, the Grand View Garden was arranged by Xue Baochai, Xue Baochai insisted that the Grand View Garden was the money of his Xue family, and in those years, he held the Grand View Garden in his hands and did not let others touch it at all.
When Liu Xianglian heard about these things, when she was asked about these things by others, although she defended her wife, she may not have muttered in her heart.
In fact, Liu Xianglian has no knots about her married life. Because Xue Baochai is different from other girls, he is so strong. This is true even in dealing with his brother Xue Pan.
When Aunt Xue mentioned Xue Pan, she always said how unbearable Xue Pan was, how good Xue Baochai was, and stepped her son into the mud to pad her daughter's feet. If you change to another girl, you will be humble, saying something like "My father died early, no one restrained my brother, so that my brother was more willful, and it would be good if my brother was older and my sister-in-law entered the door".
But Xue Baochai not.
Every time Aunt Xue stepped on Xue Pan and held Xue Baochai, Xue Baochai seemed to be a matter of course. As if his brother should be inferior to him, or even as unbearable.
In fact, such behavior is very inconsistent with the moral requirements of this society for women.
Before getting married, Liu Xianglian still felt that his wife was very good, dignified and generous, and could afford to support the family, but after getting married, Liu Xianglian found that his wife's desire to control was not ordinarily strong.
As a man, if you want to support your family business, you must not only have the ability to do it, but also socialize or something. But Xue Baochai's desire to control is too strong, not only does he hold the family up and down in his hands, but even Liu Xianglian's little house was bought by Xue Baochai, Liu Xianglian went out to eat and drink with others, there were a few people in the seat, a few nobles, a few singers, what they said, how much they ate, and what they did afterwards, Xue Baochai knew everything about it.
This has just been married for a long time, once or twice, Liu Xianglian can still care about herself as a wife, but after many times, Liu Xianglian feels uncomfortable.
Of course, if it was just like this, Liu Xianglian might not say anything. But when Xue Baochai would knock on the side afterwards, Liu Xianglian couldn't stand it.
He is Xue Baochai's husband, not the mud in Xue Baochai's hands, let Xue Baochai handle it, let alone Xue Baochai's prisoner, he wants to be looked at by Xue Baochai like this.
Even if Liu Xianglian didn't want to look for a woman outside, she was physically and mentally exhausted by Xue Baochai's approach. In such a situation, if someone else jokes with Liu Xianglian about Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and Jia Baoyu, Liu Xianglian's heart will not be even more uncomfortable.
But Liu Xianglian still didn't forget to protect his wife's reputation: "Uchiko is not such a person. ”
The singer who accompanied the wine laughed all of a sudden, and said, "Liu Gongzi probably doesn't know, I turned out to be a girl in the Grand View Garden, and I am also a second-class girl in Yihong Courtyard." When Miss Bao was in the Grand View Garden, she and Miss Yun didn't please the girls in the Grand View Garden. I remember that in the early summer of that year, Bao Erye took a nap in the house, and we girls either went out to hide and were lazy, or slept in the house in a daze. As a result, the Bao girl went straight into the bedroom of the second master of Bao. Bao Er Ye was lying on the big bed in the house, and Miss Bao sat on the edge of the big bed, embroidering the belly pocket for Bao Er Ye, and the embroidery was still mandarin duck! ”
"How is that possible?!" Everyone at the feast cried out.
The singer laughed, "What can't be. The needle and thread turned out to be made by Zixuan, the big girl next to Bao Erye. There were originally eight big girls around Bao Erye, but later for various reasons, when he entered the Grand View Garden, there were only six big girls left around him, of which Tan Yun and Qi Fei were bent on going home. Although these two constrain us second-class and third-class girls, the matter of the second master of the treasure is easy not to start. But that Zixuan is bent on being an aunt to Bao Erye. Back then, Miss Bao and Miss Yun didn't please him a lot. This kind of close-fitting needlework, Miss Bao has a lot of help to do. When Miss Ribao embroidered her belly pocket, I was with the Linglong of the Peony Pavilion. In order not to get into trouble for ourselves, we pretended to sleep for most of the day. ”
When Liu Xianglian heard this, she exploded at that time: "How is it possible, how old was Baoyu at that time, why did she still wear a belly pocket?" ”
The singer said: "It's not that master, kick the quilt when you fall asleep, we second-class girls can't get close to the inner room, and we don't have the qualifications to serve this master, those qualified first-class girls, but they are lazy and lazy, and those who have no ability have no ability." Therefore, only tired of this young man's teenage years, he is still wearing a belly pocket, so he is not iced. ”
There was someone on the side: "The Yun girl you are talking about is the eldest girl of the Shi family?" Did he help that Jia Baoyu do needlework? ”
The singer said: "When Concubine Xiande didn't become the imperial concubine, Second Master Bao lived in the courtyard of the princess of the Rongguo Mansion, and later moved to the courtyard near the left when he was older. At that time, there was a girl named Raider by Bao Erye's side, but she didn't support Miss Yun to make needlework for Bao Erye. Later, Jia Junjun knew about it and told the second lady who had just left the Buddhist hall that she was the mother of Concubine Xiande. The girl was beaten to death in public. From that time on, the girl in Bao Erye's house no longer dared to bother Miss Yun. (To be continued......)