All the rain in Jingyang Palace does not know the way. Although Ye Yichen is the prince, the etiquette of marriage is no different from that of the people, which is not the same as the ceremony of the marriage of the crown prince Zhao Wang.

Although Ye Yichen had an experience before, that is, he married the Bai family once, he himself was still ignorant, he was not very familiar with these etiquettes, and his profession was not here. is just thinking about the promise to Yulan in his heart, and he will never let her be wronged, and the details of this marriage are also 120,000 serious, and he has to ask about everything one by one, as if this is his first marriage.

Fortunately, the county lord of Qingjiang is "Men'er Qing" for these, as Ye Yichen's sister, she has a high rank in the royal family, and it is justified to do these things. Only she can do everything without leakage, and she can satisfy the fastidious Ye Yichen.

A few days later, Ye Yichen and Yulan's eight characters were completed. Needless to say, the result is, of course, auspicious, and it is advisable to get married. Both families were very happy when they heard this. Then Xiao Ding of the Jin Palace's Mansion came.

As a mother-in-law, the eldest lady is naturally too busy to keep her feet on the ground, but Yulan is really happy to be able to marry into the Jin Palace. Although the second wife and the eldest wife are very disagreeable, she has a good relationship with Yulan, and she naturally won't make trouble about Yulan's marriage, and the fifth wife is also trying her best to help.

The three concubines work together, which is really rare in the Yang Mansion. Yulan had a lot of questions in his mind to ask Ye Yichen. But before, she could enter and leave the palace in the name of the Qi family, but now that the relationship with the prince has been settled, she has to avoid suspicion, and she can't go to the Jin palace when she is idle.

Yulan is not idle, she doesn't have to worry about anything else about getting married, but she still needs to take care of the dowry. Dowry seems to be an eternal topic for bridal girls in this era. Yulan has sent Yujia, Yufei, and Yuxin, and knows a little about the dowry.

The dowry of the girl in the big family pays attention to ten miles of red makeup, and modern people also pay attention to a wedding car and wedding room when they get married, and at that time it is even more exquisite, from all kinds of furniture to jewelry and clothes, the mother's family is eager to buy all the things that the girl can use from life to death, and the more the family with deep accumulation, the more particular.

The set of things before Yuxin's marriage was prepared by Mrs. Da early, and Yulan's turn was not enough. Yulan had to complain: The eldest wife's treatment of her concubines is really different. After the fifth wife took the drawn up dowry list and showed it to Yulan, Yulan's face turned green.

"These ...... That's too much, isn't it? Is it necessary? At this time, Yulan deeply felt the difference between the thinking of modern people and ancient people. Because modern trade is relatively developed, there is only one thing that they believe in, and that is banknotes.

But the ancient people were different, at that time, the commodity economy was not developed, and bartering was still very popular, so the girl's dowry included furniture, tables and chairs, clothes, and even teapots, tea bowls, all kinds of things.

Why bother? Isn't it the end of the money with it? Wouldn't it be convenient to buy whatever you want! Let's just say that those clothes and jewelry, after a long time, won't it be out of fashion, how can silver come conveniently. However, these words lingered in Yulan's mouth for a long time, and he didn't dare to say it in front of Mrs. Fifth after all.

Yulan deeply felt that no matter how much she pretended to be a noble lady of this era on the surface, she was still a modern person in her bones, and she still accepted incompetence for some ideas of this era.

The fifth wife was assigned by the old lady to help Yulan with the dowry in person. The old lady probably felt that the eldest lady was not dedicated enough to her concubine, so she sent the fifth wife, who had the best relationship with Yulan, to come over and personally negotiate the dowry with her.

"If you have any ideas, you can mention them." After the fifth lady finished explaining, she closed the booklet and said with a smile.

Yulan was a little dizzy when she saw it, "These are enough, there is no need to add more!" ”

The fifth lady said with a smile: "A married girl can only raise her head in her in-law's house if the dowry is rich enough." According to the rules of our Yang family, when a concubine marries, the princess will pay 15,000 taels, and the concubine will have fewer daughters, only 10,000 taels. Yuxin is married to the prince, which is not easy to compare. You have also seen Yufei's dowry list, which is 10,000 taels. ”

Yulan nodded again and again when she heard this, 10,000 taels is 10,000 taels, it's enough. Who knew that the fifth wife continued: "But although you are a concubine, you can marry into the prince's mansion, and your future identity will be a princess." Naturally, you can't follow this old routine, otherwise it will be difficult for you to be able to hold up your waist and be a man in their circle in the future. This is also the face of the Yang family, you don't need to open your mouth about this matter, I will naturally go to the old lady to discuss. It's really not enough, I've already discussed it with your fifth uncle, so we'll make it up for you! ”

The public middle school is the public middle school, generally like Yulan, a girl from a big family gets married, and the elders always have to add some silver makeup, but that is generally what it means, giving a few hundred two thousand taels is a lot, like the fifth wife, who has a big package, and wants to help Yulan get a big head, that is really rare.

Yulan hurriedly refused: "Fifth aunt! I have received your wishes, but you must not do that. It's crazy now, who doesn't know that I am a concubine, I don't know how much luck Lu Dao has taken to marry the prince of Jin, how big our head is and how big a hat we wear, or according to the dowry of 10,000 taels, to be honest, this 10,000 taels is really a lot, enough for my expenses in the palace. But we still have the eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother to marry, and the ninth sister to marry, what about you and the fifth uncle, there are also sons who will marry in the future, not to mention that you will have more sons and daughters in the future, all the money is given to me, what should you do? What's more, whether this waist is straight or not depends not on how much property and silver I hold in my hand, but on whether the prince has any interest in the future, and whether he is willing to give me dignity. Do you say? Ye Yichen didn't care how much silver she brought to marry, Yulan had this self-confidence. Didn't you see that the guy gave a pocket money for a silver ticket of 10,000 taels? Until now, Yulan still put the silver ticket at the bottom of the box and didn't dare to move.

She couldn't explain to anyone where the money came from, she didn't dare to spend it, and now, this is all a "crime of unknown sources of huge wealth"!

The fifth lady sighed: "Good boy, you are reasonable, but a woman has married like this once in her life, and she has married to such a high family, no matter what, I can't see you suffer such a grievance." You don't have to say anything, there are five aunts who stand up for the old lady for you. ”

The fifth wife is determined to help Yulan fight for interests. When I turned around, I went to the old lady to discuss. The fifth lady said the same thing as Yulan said, and the old lady felt very reasonable when she heard it, and she should indeed treat her children with a bowl of water, but it should also be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, Yulan wants to marry the most prosperous prince today, if she is the same as Yufei, she will marry with a dowry of 10,000 taels...... The Yang family can't afford to lose this face.

Although the old lady was sick and didn't take care of things, she had to call the eldest lady and the second wife over to discuss this matter. When the eldest lady heard these words, her brow furrowed. She is the wife of the house, and the financial situation of the house and how much silver there is naturally knows.

The eldest lady wept poorly; "Mother, two brothers and sisters, I am also a mother, it's not that I don't want to do Sister Lan's family affairs in a beautiful way, but you also know the situation of our family, the old lady is honest and self-controlled, and never wants to take more than a penny of silver from the court, and the second brother and the fifth brother are not good at drilling camps. The family is already stretched thin now, if Sister Lan's marriage is really done ruthlessly, it will not be impossible, but if the first few brothers marry without money, the old lady and the second brother and sister don't blame me! ”

The old lady asked with some disbelief, "Is the family really struggling like this?" ”

The eldest lady said: "If the mother doesn't believe it, you can ask the account room to take the account book and read it!" "In fact, although the Yang Mansion is extremely powerful, and the old lady has been in the position of the first assistant for thirty years, the old lady is very strict with his children and grandchildren, and he never wants to do corruption and bribery, but he is not even allowed to get involved in his sons. The sons of the Yang family are all engaged in politics, and none of them are engaged in business and take care of general affairs, so naturally they do not have as much silver as some other families. What's more, just on the occasion of Yuxin's wedding, the Yang family spent seventy or eighty thousand silver, and it was indeed a little difficult to make ends meet.

The old lady is naturally not ignorant of these things. He said, "It's not that I can't believe you!" But the stakes are high, so let's think about whether there is any other way! ”

A few people discussed it, where are there any good ideas. The fifth wife expressed her willingness to take out some silver in private, and the fifth wife's dowry was very rich, and it was not possible to take out tens of thousands of taels. The old lady said, "What is this?" I don't have to make people laugh at it, the Yang family is stingy. The fifth wife didn't expect this, and said again and again: "It's the daughter-in-law who is reckless!" ”

The old lady said, "You are also dedicated to the good of that girl." "There was no good way to do this for a while, so I had to let it go first.

After a few more days, the prince of Jin sent the housekeeper Ma Fu to the Yang Mansion to hire him. Ma Fu brought dozens of carriages over, and he didn't know how many gifts he pulled, blocking the road in front of Yang's mansion. provoked all the neighbors from the four streets to come over to see the excitement. Everyone talked about it, and they all said that the face of the prince of Jin was even colder, but he was very kind to this daughter-in-law who had not passed the door.

These are nothing, and when the eldest master took the silver ticket that he respectfully handed over from Ma Fu's hand, he only glanced at it, and was dumbfounded. He is not a person who has never seen the world, but he was still shocked by this silver ticket.

100,000 taels!

He didn't expect Ye Yichen to be so willing to spend his blood. He couldn't be clearer about what the concept of 100,000 taels is, and the total tax revenue of a medium-sized county is about 100,000 taels a year. The eldest lord suddenly had a sense of guilt for selling his daughter. "The prince's courtesy is so thoughtful, it's really polite!"

Ma Fu bowed his hand and replied respectfully: "Be careful, not respectful, before I came, the prince repeatedly told me: Miss Yang Qi is gentle and intelligent, dignified and generous, and she is really a priceless treasure that is hard to find." Such a little dowry, the prince felt that he couldn't go, if the adults felt that it was not suitable, I would understand the prince, plus fifty percent. "It turns out that the prince is very spiritual, and he has heard of the dowry dispute in the Yang Mansion, and he is a person who can't see Yulan suffer, so he asked Ma Fu to stab the eldest lord and the eldest lady here.

The eldest lady didn't see the amount of the silver ticket, and when she heard this, she thought that the prince of Jin was stingy, and the dowry sent by him might only be a few thousand taels of silver, so she faintly felt a little contempt in her heart, and got the silver ticket from the eldest master, I wanted to see how much it was, but I was so shocked that I couldn't speak for a long time when I saw it: "Ten, one hundred thousand taels?" ”

The eldest lord was already unhappy and replied: "I am marrying a daughter, not selling my daughter, you go back to the prince, and say that this is enough!" Ma Fu was not angry at all, and apologized again and again. Yang Mansion left him for lunch, and then he turned back to the Jin Palace.

The eldest lady also felt a little hot with the 100,000 taels of silver, and with this money, Yulan's dowry would be no problem at all. The eldest lady originally had no intention of giving a dowry, but Ye Yichen was too generous, and 100,000 snowflakes of silver were placed in front of the eldest lady, which made this noble lady who was used to seeing the world feel warm.

The eldest lady thought about it and thought that she didn't dare to make the decision, so she went to the eldest lord to discuss: "What is the master going to do with the 100,000 taels of silver in the Jin Palace?" ”

The eldest man said: "What else can I do, of course, I brought it over to Sister Lan as a dowry!" "Isn't that conventional, and you don't need to ask?

The eldest lady said, "Master, this is not appropriate!" The prince is no bigger than the prince. Sister Lan is just a concubine, how can she not be compared with Xin'er. The dowry that our family bought for Xin'er was only 50,000 taels. She is the princess and concubine, and she can't be more than that. Although there is a strong element of reasoning in this statement, it can finally find a valid reason.

When the eldest lord heard this, his heart moved: "What do you mean?" ”

The eldest lady said: "Let's buy a dowry for Sister Lan according to the standard of 50,000 taels, and we don't want the remaining 50,000 taels, just confiscate it into the public middle school, and give it to the three brothers to marry daughters-in-law in the future, wouldn't it be good!" It stands to reason that this dowry is given to the Yang Mansion, not to Sister Lan, what do you say? ”

The eldest master also knew that the family was not very wealthy, so he hesitated: "Can this be done?" The marriage of the seven girls, now it is the old lady who takes charge of the child, I think you had better go back to the old lady! The meaning of this is to agree.

The eldest lady said: "The old lady is not ignorant of the way, the old lady now has a headache like an eyeball, if she knows about this matter, she can agree to have a ghost!" I found someone to make a new list, wrote the total number higher, and tried to ask the seven girls to bring less silver over, and buy more Zhuangzi and fields, and do the tricks here, and tens of thousands of taels of silver will come out. The old lady has not done anything for so many years, so naturally she will not know these things, and it will pass. Sister Lan has never been exposed to these chores, what can she know. When she enters the palace, the prince will naturally not check her dowry, who can know what to do. ”

The eldest lord thought about it, and it seemed to make some sense. He said: "This is all your business, you just have to do it." I don't care anymore. "It's clear that you agree to this approach, but you don't want to take responsibility.

The eldest lady was very angry, but she couldn't help it, so she snorted angrily.