Mrs. Cao and Cao Luo have not been to the Jiannan Marquis Mansion for several days since they returned that day. This is also normal, no matter how close the relationship between the two families is, there is no reason to be in one place every day. What's more, Cao Luo is also a girl to be married.

Cao Fang's family and Mrs. Qu Shuibo bargained for two days, and finally took a step back and set the wedding date of Xie Xiangfei and Cao Luo for next spring, March, which is the time of spring. Originally, Cao Fang's family didn't want to agree, but Mrs. Qu Shuibo entered the palace and begged the queen mother - not the queen - and the queen mother sent a grandmother out of the palace, nominally giving Cao Luo a pair of white jade serial pendants, wishing her a peaceful marriage in the future, in fact, it was hinting to Cao Fang's family, the royal family was very much looking forward to the early conclusion of this marriage, so that she would not delay it for too long.

If the queen spoke, Cao Fang's might still have some confidence, but the queen mother had spoken, and she could only grit her teeth and respond. The queen mother and the emperor both want to add some weight to the emperor's eldest son, so what does their Cao family have to worry about? The Cao family will only act according to the emperor's orders and follow in the emperor's footsteps. If the emperor wants to promote the eldest son of the emperor, then they will follow suit. Anyway, no matter whether the eldest son of the emperor is a prince or not, no matter how glorious and powerful he will be in the future, the Cao family is still the Cao family, and he will not forget his identity and responsibilities proudly.

But if one day, the emperor doesn't wait to see the emperor's eldest son and the Qushui Bofu behind him, then the Cao family can only give up Cao Luo's daughter, and will never sacrifice the entire Cao family for her.

Now that the wedding date is set, there is more than half a year left. Cao Fang's family also saved a lot of jewelry, clothing, fur, wood and other things for his daughter on weekdays, but it still takes a lot of effort to make these things into fashionable and decent dowries. Besides, Qushui Bofu is also the queen's maiden family, Xie Xiangfei is also the uncle of the emperor's eldest son, Cao Luo wants to marry in the past, it is already a little high (Cao Fang's family still thinks so), if the dowry is not rich enough, it will definitely be looked down upon, and Cao Luo will not want to be respected in the Xie family in the future. Therefore, Cao Fang's daughter increased his daughter's dowry by 30%, and he chose the best and most expensive one. It is necessary to let the scenery of the daughter when she gets married, so that all those who look down on their daughter can see clearly that their daughter of the Cao family is worthy of Qu Shuibo's son!

However, in the near future, there are several families in the capital who want to marry women. Not to mention the Jiannan Hou Mansion, which is good friends with the Cao family, wants to marry the eldest girl Zhao Xiu to the Guangping Mansion to be the wife of the prince; In addition, there is the Zhending Marquis Mansion who is stranded in Beijing, and wants to marry the eldest lady of his family to the prince of Fenyang; Just the girl of the Li family, who has been designated as the eldest concubine of the emperor, has to prepare a dowry that is not an ordinary standard. No matter how prosperous the capital is, some of the top valuables are still limited. The best are in the hands of the royal family, and these families want to marry their daughters into the royal family, and they can only desperately search for things that are not in the hands of the royal family. The Cao family wants to marry Qushui Bofu, which is already slightly inferior to the three families, and it is really difficult to compete with others for things.

Cao Fang's family could only ask the shopkeeper on the boat side to get more Western treasures to fill the scene, and at the same time go to his mother's relatives and friends, or buy or exchange, and get some precious antique calligraphy and painting to play back. She thinks that her daughter is a famous scholar. If you can't compare your financial resources with those noble royal relatives, you can only work Qinggui. Antique calligraphy and painting are very good, not only precious, but also look not tacky and tasteful. And Xie Xiangfei has always had a good reputation for both civil and military affairs in Beijing, and his daughter will definitely be looked down upon by him if she marries him with such a dowry.

Mrs. Cao didn't say a word about her daughter-in-law's actions, no matter what she thought, as long as she didn't embarrass her son and grandchildren. But when her son Cao Ran says daughter-in-law, she will definitely see the candidates in person. Never let your daughter-in-law call the shots!

Cao Fang's relatives, friends and daughters came to the door from time to time, some to congratulate her, some to help with ideas, and some to bring antique calligraphy and paintings collected at home to her for purposes. There are even people who come to pick up Cao Fang's collection of calligraphy and paintings. She has been married for many years, and she has a little silver in her hand, and she also has some private collections, which are not enough for her to be a daughter's dowry, or two for one, or two for one. I can always get something better from my sisters.

These ladies occasionally bring the girls of the family over to accompany Cao Luo to talk to relieve boredom, saying that Cao Luo will get married next spring, and after marriage, she will be a member of her husband's family, and it will be difficult to meet her former sisters and cousins again, so she will see her more while she is still independent. Cao Fangshi was busy greeting guests, busy preparing dowries for his daughter, busy paying attention to whether his son was in trouble again, whether he listened to his husband's lectures honestly and seriously, and where could he pay attention to what these little girls said to his daughter?

Fortunately, Cao Luo received encouragement from Zhao Xiu and has seen a lot. When the little sister sighed openly and secretly how miserable she would be if she was not respected by her husband in the future, although she was still a little uncomfortable in her heart, she would not be inferior and depressed.

When those little girls saw this, they only felt that she was much thicker-skinned, and she really deserved to be from a military general's family, but she was not as shameful as the girls from the scholarly family.

Who knew that Mrs. Cao would suddenly appear in her granddaughter's courtyard at this time, with a sneering face, and she was also accompanied by Cao Fang's guests today, including the mother of the two little girls who spoke inappropriately. However, the latter felt that his face was burning panic at this time, and even if he really thought so in his heart, he couldn't let the elders of the person concerned hear it! Mrs. Cao is not a tender little girl like Cao Luo, she is shrewd, and she can hear it when she hears it.

Mrs. Cao said to the two ladies with a smile: "The house is really a good tutor, the cousin is about to get married, and the girl in the house will say in front of the cousin all day long that she will not get along with her husband in the future, and how good the husband is—what?" Is the girl in the house in spring? is really so infatuated, in fact, our sister Luo doesn't care about adding two aunts to her husband, I'm afraid that the house can't afford to lose this face! ”

The two wives were a great shame, especially when there were other cousins, aunts, sisters-in-law, or in-laws' wives and grandmothers around. Everyone is common on weekdays, each other's daughters are of the same age, and even the range of objects to be married in the future is very consistent, and the competition is obvious. Even if people have the same thoughts as their own daughters in their hearts, they will never mind falling into the trap for their daughters at this time. They scolded their daughter angrily, and then ran away with the people, not even taking the antiques or calligraphy and paintings that had been replaced, and Cao Fang's sent someone to send them over afterwards.

Mrs. Cao only held two rafters today, but she knew in her heart that the remaining female dependents were not innocent, so she insinuated and said to everyone: "Mrs. Qu Shuibo came to the door twice in three days to beg, and she had to advance the marriage date, saying that our sister Luo is a rare virtuous person, and she looks forward to marrying Sister Luo home as soon as possible." The in-laws are so gracious. Our family was a little embarrassed, so we relented and agreed to the marriage. As for whether our sister Luo and her husband can be harmonious after getting married, I don't have to worry about your wives, grandmothers, and girls. That's the little couple of them. How can outsiders intervene? You say...... Isn't it? ”

Everyone could only smile dryly and nod their heads and say, "yes, yes." I didn't stay in Cao's house for long, so I took my daughter and left with antique calligraphy and paintings. Since then, the time spent on door-to-door visits has also been reduced.

Cao Fang's clan rushed to hear the news at this time, and he was really at a loss. She smiled and sent the guests away, and when she came back to see her mother-in-law, she couldn't help but whisper: "What are you talking about?" Those were all specially invited guests by my daughter-in-law. ”

Mrs. Cao said with a cold face: "You only think about whether Sister Luo'er's dowry can be afforded, but you didn't find out that you have thrown the face of our Cao family to the ground, and asked your sisters, sisters, sisters, sisters-in-law and aunts to step on them casually?!" A few antiques, a few calligraphy and paintings, what's the big deal? Where can't I find it? Do you have to turn your home into a street street? I still call your daughter every day, and I hear that she is not a good match for her son-in-law, and you also call her mother?! ”

Cao Fang's face changed, and he lowered his head with a pale face to listen to his mother-in-law's admonition. As a daughter-in-law, this is the proper rule.

Mrs. Cao didn't bother to discipline her. only said: "Our family is a martial artist of the second grade, and it is also one of the best families in Beijing." Ordinary relatives come and go, if they are really close relatives, it doesn't matter if they are born in an official position. But it's not a loved one, a cat and a dog on the other three roads, but only six or seven people, and even those who don't enter the stream, so they don't come to our house to fight the autumn breeze. It's too late for you to prepare for Sister Luo's marriage, where do you have time to deal with those poor relatives? Don't say that I look down on readers, they have to really have the character of readers! It's sour all day long. Looking down on this, looking down on that, obviously holding the thighs of our Cao family, hoping that my son would help them say a few good words in the palace. What garlic cloves are you still filling in front of our family?! There is still a face to say that our Sister Luo is not good, the face is so big! ”

Cao Fang's face was flushed after being trained, she vaguely understood the reason for her mother-in-law's seizure, although she was also cold about the actions of those sisters and nieces, she still felt very wronged.

However, these grievances soon disappeared, because Mrs. Cao added: "I really thought I had a scholarly brand." Can you just walk sideways? It really annoyed me, and Ming'er didn't have to let Taihe say anything in the palace, I walked around the Liubu Shangshu Mansion, and asked a few old ladies to help, and masturbated those guys who had bad mouths and bad conduct and couldn't teach their daughters, and saw if they were honest or not! ”

Cao Fang's eyes widened and he looked at his mother-in-law, and his mind couldn't turn around.

Mrs. Cao only felt that her daughter-in-law was extremely stupid, and she didn't bother to say more to her, so she said directly to her granddaughter: "Good Sister Luo, you listen to your grandmother, in the future, you will marry into Qushui Bofu, although his family is not very good now, it is very likely that it will be the most powerful family in this dynasty in the future." When the time comes, you, as the young grandmother in charge, will have to show your due style. Being a daughter-in-law in that kind of family, it's not that you are gentle and obedient, so that people can afford it. You have to be respected, just show the momentum of a noble lady, don't call your mother stupid, what kind of affinity and consideration do you say to the people below, it will only make people easily bully you! You don't have to pay attention to any sour things that the girls from the small family say about you. They can only be sour in secret, and when they come to you, aren't they just kneeling and licking? ”

She glanced back at her daughter-in-law meaningfully: "Only people who are high in their own status, rich and leisurely, will think about what they have and don't." If you call a person who has been a second-grade edict for half his life, he chooses his own son, the general's husband is a high-ranking official, his daughter is married to a noble, his son can't read, and he can live again, but he can only marry a petty official of six or seven grades, and be a poor daughter-in-law of a scholarly family, and she will have a noble and virtuous name for the rest of her life, will she be happy? ”

Cao Luo was thoughtful, and Cao Fang's face had changed from red to white, from white to blue, and now it was going to develop to black again. (To be continued.) )