581 Rejection of luxury
Shen didn't think that Yu would agree.
For the Yu family, whether it is Jiang Shupeng's son or Jiang Shuhu's son who died early is the same, they are all her children and grandchildren, if Jiang Chuantang is succeeded to Jiang Shuhu's name, it is also a good thing to support the four rooms, which means that the six sons have queens.
The more Yu thought about it, the better he felt, "When the time comes, I will discuss with the old lady, and if I can talk about it, I and the eldest daughter-in-law will go out to the hall to make a family appointment." After a pause, he said: "You still have to inquire more, what is the temperament of Sister Yang, whether the Yang family is blindly pampered, if this is the case, you can't be wronged by the hall." ”
She thought of Chuanliang's marriage again, "How do you see Xiaosi's family affairs?" ”
Shen sighed lightly and introduced himself to Yu.
According to the Jiang family's practice of choosing a wife, three families will be selected before each engagement.
The family is the eldest daughter of the Han family, who is the salt transport envoy of Yudi, and I heard that she is a capable person, so Lord Han went to Yudi with his wife and children, leaving Miss Han and her grandfather in the imperial city, and keeping the house and the house in order.
There is also a family that is the second daughter of the Guozi priest wine Shi family, this woman is quite famous, has a pair of skillful hands, female red, cooking skills are not bad.
The third is the young lady of the Shaoqing Fang family of Dali Temple, someone mentioned it earlier, Jiang Shuhong did not respond, and the Shen family was also hesitating.
Li Biling knocked the melon seeds, threw the melon shell on the plate with elegant movements, and said with a smile: "I thought that the eldest aunt could pick one of the talented women who are good with the little aunt." ”
Shen shook his head, "These talented girls said that Miss Zheng is a pair with Huai'an Hou." There is also Miss Tu Jia, who looks interesting to Zhou Gongzi. How can you beat a mandarin duck? ”
It's just that she didn't look at it, and the Shen family didn't want to find a talented girl to be a daughter-in-law, but just wanted to find a decent and virtuous one. The Jiang family has a talented woman, and how much turmoil has this provoked. It's not that So-yeon is bad, but she thinks that she has to live a down-to-earth life.
I can't tell the truth, I just say that these talented women have their favorite talents.
Yu also thinks. Among the few young ladies who are good with Su Yan, there is really no suitable one. Nodding his head, he said, "I found an opportunity." Invite Miss Han, Miss Shi, and Miss Fang to come to the house to play, and let Chuanliang take a look in one place, and always find the most suitable Fang, in addition to being virtuous, but also Chuanliang's intention. ”
Shen responded, "I was about to let the three young ladies come to the house to play on the eleventh day of the lunar month." ”
Li Biling thought for a while and said, "The little aunt is out of the pavilion on the twelfth day of the lunar month. Didn't you ask them to add makeup? Besides, our family's friendship with these three families is also ordinary, and it is not appropriate to ask someone to come at this time. ”
Shen said: "The fifteenth day of the lunar month is inappropriate, and the county lord has to return to the door on this day." The twenty-fifth of the lunar month is close in recent years. This ......"
In this way, there really are no good days for this year.
Some time ago, Su Yan quit her family, and the whole family was afraid of her feelings, except for a few men from the Jiang family who held a calligraphy and painting meeting. I didn't invite the ladies and wives to the house.
Yu said: "It's appropriate to get engaged on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and wait for the next spring to make an appointment after the exam." When the time comes, it will be more joyful and make the house lively. ”
Speaking of this, Shen sighed lightly. "The official document of the Ministry of Officials has come down, and after the New Year, Chuanye will take Yu'e to Qiantang to take office."
These were already expected by the Yu family, "It is good to be a local official for a few years, and even Luo Siyuan went to Huainan in May." ”
After the New Year, Murong took Li Biling and his wife to Jinyang, and Jiang Shukun was still the governor of Jinyang, so it would take six years.
Yu thought that there were several people in the family at once, and his heart was a little depressed, and when he was old, he hoped that he would be lively and lively, accompanied by his son and daughter-in-law, and his grandson and granddaughter-in-law.
Thinking of her grandson and daughter-in-law leaving, and thinking of Su Yan, who was about to leave the cabinet, her eyes wandered, Su Yan was not alert and was leaning lazily on the chaise longue, although she was lazy, she looked more and more charming and moving.
Yu Shi waved his hand, "You guys also disperse, I'll talk to Yan'er." He looked up and said, "The eldest daughter-in-law took the time to count the dowry again." ”
Su Yan sat up straight and said softly: "Mother, sister-in-law, there are fewer companions, I heard that you have the right to carry two and one to one, according to your escort method, the Jiang family's big treasury must not be emptied by me." ”
Yu's heart was a little heavy, and when she heard her, she was happy, "When someone else's young lady leaves the cabinet, she can't wait to empty her mother's house, but she is fine, so she hurts her brother and sister-in-law, for fear of emptying." ”
Su Yan said: "The sister-in-law's family still has Chuanliang who has not married, there are several children in the third room, and there are children in the fifth and sixth rooms......"
Yu Shi stretched out his hand and chisel, "Su Ri looks like he doesn't care about anything, listen, it's more worrying than me." ”
"That can't empty the big storeroom. It's enough to prepare seventy lifts for me, so I will prepare them according to the usual method of returning, and pick out some of them and put them in the library, and there will be more than thirty dowries here in Chuanliang next year, so I don't want people to chisel my backbone, and say, 'Look at the daughter of the Jiang family out of the cabinet, and empty her mother's house, and the nephew has to be carried three times to marry her relatives.' 'I can't afford to lose this man!' ”
Su Yan's exaggerated laughter and colorful learning made Yu laugh.
Li Biling covered her mouth and smiled.
Murong said: "Sister-in-law, just rest assured, just your seventy lifts, you don't even need half of what your mother-in-law prepared for you, so you can't prepare a good dowry." ”
Su Yan said: "Anyway, less is it." ”
Yu Shi looked at the sky outside.
Shen took the lead in retiring.
Murong and Li Biling also withdrew one after another.
Su Yan helped Yu Shi to lie down on her favorite warm couch, put a silver charcoal stove in front of the couch, put a copper kettle on it, the water "fluttered" and steamed, and the charcoal fire "beeped", which quickly warmed the house and the mother and daughter.
Su Yan said in a low voice: "Mother, I mean it really. She snuggled in Yu's arms, "Mother, when the coral county lord of the eldest princess's mansion came out of the pavilion, there were no rules, such a big battle, such a noisy scene out of the cabinet, I am afraid that a disaster has been buried." Although I am the lord of the county, first the daughter of the Jiang family, and then the county lord of the imperial court, I will go according to the ordinary escort of the daughter of the second-grade official's family out of the cabinet......"
Yu only thought that Su Yan wanted to leave more for her brother and sister-in-law, but she didn't think that she was worried about this.
"If my mother loves me, she will put some dowry that others can't see, and give me a few more places for granges, shops, etc., and don't need too many silks, ornaments, and head jewelry, but if it is reasonable, I will prepare it according to the way Cao Yu'e married to our family."
Cao Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites married a daughter, and the dowry was neither small nor luxurious, which was extremely reasonable.
Yu gently stroked Su Yan's back, "Your sister-in-law said that the Cao family's companions were decent, and they were prepared according to the appearance of their family. For my mother, I bought you twenty-eight shops and six granges, all of which were excellent. There are eight shops and three granges in the imperial city, all within five miles of the outskirts of the imperial city, one is a thousand acres of fertile land, one is 500 acres, and one is 800 acres. There are 20 shops and three granges in Weizhou, each of which is thousands of acres of fertile land. In this way, it is not eye-catching. ”
She also had selfish intentions, and when she talked to the Shen family, she only talked about the shops and granges in the imperial city, but did not say anything about the things placed in Weizhou.
Su Yan looked up at her mother, these things were similar to those in her previous life.
"The twenty shops in Weizhou are the most prosperous streets in Weizhou City, as early as twenty years ago, our family built those houses in Weizhou, there were originally thirty-eight, leaving eighteen for your brothers, and the other twenty all for your dowry."
Yu Shi muttered in a low voice, "You said that as long as there are a few companion rooms, so many industries, where can a few companion rooms take care of it, and there must be more than 30 square parties, the stewards of the shops and granges in the imperial city are personally selected by me and your sister-in-law, and the ones in Weizhou, you just need to use them, and this piece of business has never been exposed in front of people." ”
Yu put on embroidered shoes, entered the inner room, and after a while, he came out with a box and handed over the grange and shop in Weizhou to Su Yan, "You take it." ”
Su Yan was slightly stunned, this is her thing, it is indeed a good thing to have a large amount of money from her mother's family, but she has too many brothers, and she has to live. In the eyes of outsiders, the life of the Jiang family is frugal, similar to that of ordinary five- or six-grade officials. "Weizhou is enough to give me eight shops and two granges, and the rest is still left for my brother."
Yu shook his head helplessly, "I have my own plans for theirs, and I can't lose them, but this is for you, even if you make it clear to them, they won't fight." Let's talk about the second room, with such a good business as the auction house, this shop alone is not stronger than all your shops combined. ”
So-yeon still wants to dodge.
Yu pretended to be angry, "You are such a daughter as your mother, you are the youngest, the brothers support each other, you go to the left shoulder palace, and you don't even have a person to support." ”
So-yeon had to take everything away.
Yu Shi seemed to see her thoughts, "Don't go back and give you a few brothers in a different way, you can take it yourself." I have enough for them to do well. ”
Thinking that she was in the palace today, the princess on her left shoulder didn't say hello when she saw the Yu family, obviously the princess couldn't stand her daughter, and it was as if the Jiang family couldn't stand the princess. When Yu thought of this, he panicked in his heart, looking at the appearance of the princess on his left shoulder, even if Su Yan got married, the princess would not treat Su Yan very well.
If it weren't for the good of the child, it would have been for Yu Wenyan to treat Su Yan sincerely, and Su Yan herself would be willing, otherwise the Yu family would really not want to marry her daughter.
On the one hand, the Yu family was worried about the days after Su Yan's marriage, and on the other hand, they had to marry her out happily.
Su Yan collected the title deed and house deed, and was tired of being in Yu's arms, "Mother, why doesn't the princess like me?" ”
Once, Mrs. Cao didn't like her either, because she was notorious, she was a talented woman in this life, and she tried to do better, but she still didn't have the heart of the princess.
Yu sighed lightly, "Zhilu said, why don't you choose a talented girl to be your daughter-in-law?" ”
She really didn't understand.
If it is himself, he will choose a talented girl as his daughter-in-law.
Yu said: "A talented woman may not be virtuous, only a truly virtuous woman knows how to retreat and be humble." A talented woman, nine times out of ten, is proud, arrogant is unwilling, unwilling to back down, the tree is straight and easy to break, the sex is fierce and easy to hurt, either she hurts others, or she hurts herself. Your sister-in-law understands this, so she would rather choose talents than talents. ”