Chapter 196: Dowry
Buying a house is very simple, after signing the contract, the money is sent over, and the handover is done in the workshop, even if it is officially decided.
Later, when Yang Yun took Yang Yuhuan out to play, he informed him of the news.
On the carriage, Yang Yuhuan asked in surprise, "You spent nine hundred yuan at once?" Brother, are you too good at tossing? β
Yang Yuhuan is poor and afraid, since he was a child, there is no saying that there is no monthly silver at all, and the money in his hand is still given by Yang Yun, the total amount is less than fifty yuan, and some gold leaves and jewelry are not counted, but in her opinion, her brother's belongings are almost so much, and when she knew that her brother bought the house with a huge sum of nine hundred yuan, she felt distressed for a while.
In other words, brother, you have so much money, why don't I know?
"Sister, the house we moved to before was not very spacious, and there will be more and more people in the family in the future, and it is a little inconvenient to live, and I also plan to buy hundreds of acres of land around Luoyang, and our sister and brother will have a settlement in the future." Yang Yun said innocently.
Yang Yuhuan pouted: "It's my brother, you have a fall, right?" My sister always wants to get married, no matter how big the house you buy, my sister can't live in it. β
Yang Yun had long expected that Yang Yuhuan would have an opinion.
Even if Yang Yuhuan is usually good to him, it is still difficult to avoid wanting to use his financial resources...... If he spends all the money on himself, Yang Yuhuan will get less, and it is a matter of whether he is still as enthusiastic as he is now.
"I also prepared a good dowry for my sister." Yang Yun said with a smile.
"Dowry? For my sister? Where? Yang Yuhuan asked.
Yang Yun replied with a smile: "When I get to the house later, my sister will see it." β
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Yang Yuhuan had a lot of opinions about Yang Yun's "indiscriminate spending" at first, but when she heard that Yang Yun had prepared a dowry for her, her face looked a little better.
No matter how good Yang Xuanjian is to her, he is ready to use her as a bargaining chip, marry others, and seek benefits for the family, and the dowry will definitely not be too much at that time...... After all, people have their own daughters, how can they spend money on her?
In this era, women marry in harmony, and the dowry corresponds to the door, and without too much dowry, they can only marry into a small family, and they don't even speak hard after marriage.
If you want to enter a wealthy family, you must have enough dowry to support the faΓ§ade.
Dowry is Yang Yuhuan's biggest worry at present, even if she is confident and charming, she can make some wealthy sons and brothers favor her, but when it comes to marriage, it is the docking of the two parents, and her previous reliance on Yang Yun largely hopes that Yang Yun can help her raise a dowry.
Yang Yuhuan didn't ask any more questions on the road, and when the carriage stopped at the door of the new house, he couldn't wait to jump down from the carriage and asked, "Is this here?" β
"Yes, sister, what do you think?"
Yang Yun asked expectantly.
"It can't be compared with the official mansion after all, the door face is too small...... Why not buy an official residence? Yang Yuhuan glanced at Yang Yun, his face full of disappointment.
Yang Yun scratched his head and said with a smile, "I don't have the same ability as the third uncle, and I have an official position." If you can pass the Jinshi exam this year, you can consider buying an official residence. β
Yang Yuhuan ignored him and walked straight forward.
Yang Yun took two steps to open the door for her, and as soon as she opened it, she saw Wu Yuan standing behind the door...... But it was Wu Yuan who heard a voice and took the initiative to greet him.
"Master, aunt."
Wu Yuan saluted respectfully.
"Why is she here?" Yang Yuhuan raised his chin and asked.
Yang Yun motioned for Wu Yuan to step aside and explained, "I'll ask her to come over and help me supervise the work...... After buying a new house, there are many places that need to be repaired, and I am usually too busy to come here, so I always have to find someone to watch. β
"Isn't that going to cost you more?"
Yang Yuhuan became more and more unhappy.
It cost 900 yuan to buy a house, and you still have to decorate it according to the meaning of Yang Yun's words?
Doesn't that cost money?
Your money is trapped in the house, how can you buy me too much dowry?
"Don't block at the door, let's go in first, and I'll take my sister around later." Yang Yun deliberately pretended to be ignorant of Yang Yuhuan's psychological changes, and took him to the courtyard to hang out with a conspicuous face.
Yang Yuhuan reluctantly followed behind Yang Yun, walking listlessly.
However, after turning four courtyards in a row, her face was slightly relieved, because this house was much more magnificent than she imagined, with carved beams and paintings everywhere, beads, tassels, flying sky, lotus petals and other exquisite patterns, which made people breathtaking.
"Is this house really only nine hundred? It seems to be more extensive than the third uncle's house. Yang Yuhuan asked in surprise.
The lintel looks ordinary, but inside it is spacious and magnificent, and the house is neat, the wall tiles and stone slabs laid on the ground are new, not like a decades-old house.
Yang Yun said with a smile, "This is the ancestral residence of a big businessman in Luoyang, and the door naturally can't be built too ostentatious, this is the rule, but the interior of the house is well arranged...... It is said that in order to live comfortably, he invests heavily in the renovation of his home every few years...... If I become an official in the future, I can rebuild the doorway, and I may not need to buy a mansion again. β
"That'...... Where's my room? β
A smile appeared on Yang Yuhuan's face, and he looked at Yang Yun expectantly and asked.
Yang Yun pointed to the backyard, "My sister's room is inside, I have asked the craftsman to pick it up for my sister first, and we will see it when we go in later." β
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Yang Yuhuan cheered up and followed Yang Yun to the backyard.
The backyard is still spacious, with a dozen or so houses on the left and right of the houses, divided in half by a porch.
There are craftsmen working inside, all in the courtyard to the east, and the west side is vacant, and Yang Yun took Yang Yuhuan into the west courtyard.
"My sister's boudoir is inside." Yang Yun pointed to the courtyard.
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The yard is larger than the backyard of the third uncle's house, and the house looks very neat. Yang Yuhuan said in surprise.
Entering the courtyard, there are rockeries and fountains, and although it is early spring, the pines, cypresses and bamboo forests are still verdant, and the scenery is even more beautiful in spring and summer.
Yang Yuhuan followed Yang Yun into the big room opposite, after entering the house, she turned her head to look, the room was square, very gorgeously arranged, the surrounding walls were hung with colorful Shu brocade, and there was a row of chairs facing the door. A one-person-high celadon vase is placed in the four corners of the room, and a white jade screen of rosewood is placed on the left and right, which is painted with flower and bird patterns, which is very valuable at first glance.
In the middle of the two screens, there is an eight-foot bed, the bed cover and sheets are brocade, and it looks magnificent.
There is a dresser by the window, and the bronze mirror in front of it is relatively small.
Behind one of the white jade screens, there are two rows of wardrobes, and on the wall in the middle of the wardrobe hangs a half-human-high bronze mirror, which is convenient for the owner to change clothes here; Behind the other screen, there are bathtubs and other items for people to bathe.
"It's ......"
When Yang Yuhuan saw all this, he thought he was dazzled.
She had never seen a house so beautifully decorated and furnished.
"This is my sister's boudoir, it has just been arranged." Yang Yun said with a smile.
Yang Yuhuan's face was full of surprise, looking east and west, even touching the carved bed edge several times, and finally sat in front of the dresser by the window, first looked at the bronze mirror, and then opened a wooden box in front of him, which was actually full of gold jewelry.
"It's ......"
When Yang Yuhuan saw the gold, his eyes lit up, and when he looked back at Yang Yun, he no longer looked depressed before.
Yang Yun grinned, "This is part of the dowry for my sister, a total of eighteen pieces of gold, adding up to thirty taels." β
"Thirty taels of gold?"
Yang Yuhuan was speechless.
The gold of this era was very valuable, and the price of 30 taels of high-purity gold to make gold objects was about 300 taels alone.
Gold is a dowry that Yang Yuhuan can't even think of, and I thought it would be very good to decorate the faΓ§ade with some gold-plated jewelry.
"There are new clothes for my sister in the cabinet, and they are still sewn according to the previous size, and I don't know if my sister likes the color and fabric."
Yang Yun pointed to the two large wardrobes and said, "There are shoes and ordinary daily necessities made for my sister, and then I have prepared some cloth and silk for my sister, and my sister can take them back to the people in the third uncle's house." β
Yang Yuhuan scolded with a smile: "Have you made a lot of money? What is such luxury? Don't you still have to repair the yard? β
Having said that, she hurried over to check her new clothes and cloth, silk, and other things.
"If my sister likes it, it's fine."
Yang Yun laughed like an innocent child.
Yang Yuhuan was so happy that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he said, "The cloth and silk are all bought by you with money, why should you give them to the third uncle's family?" They are not of the same mind as us, these materials can be used to make a few more clothes for my sister, which can be used when I get married, or for those little apprentices around you, they are obedient and sensible, so they should be rewarded by my aunt. β
At this time, Yang Yuhuan was also rare to be generous.
"Everything here belongs to my sister, and my sister can distribute it as she pleases."
After Yang Yun finished speaking, he sat down on the chair.
"Brother, you tell the truth, you ...... now How much net worth do you have? Yang Yuhuan looked at Yang Yun eagerly and asked.
She thought that it would be good for Yang Yun to have a net worth of a few hundred, but after seeing that Yang Yun was buying a house and preparing to buy land, and buying her gold utensils and so many clothes, she wanted to find out about Yang Yun's family background.
Yang Yun smiled and said, "It's hard to say the total number, there should be two or three thousand...... Now the business of Zuixianlou is very good, there is an income every day, if my sister marries a few years later, maybe I can buy a few mansions for my sister, and then buy a thousand acres of fertile land as a dowry. β
"Bragging."
Yang Yuhuan scolded, but his face was overjoyed, and he happily sat down on the chair on Yang Yun's left.
Yang Yun Zhengse said, "I think King Shou is very good to his sister, and he probably wants to marry his sister...... If my sister really wants to marry King Shou, the dowry can't be too shabby...... In a few days, I am going to buy a few maids and come back, smart and clever will take care of people, and keep them for my sister to marry. β
Yang Yuhuan shook his head and said, "If you really marry King Shou, you don't have to be so troublesome...... Who is King Shou? Heavenly nobles, will people send us this thing? As for the dowry maids...... It's even more needless, I didn't grow up together since childhood, where will I put my heart on me? β
Yang Yun felt that Yang Yuhuan was heavily defensive, which was due to the fact that he had drifted away since he was a child, sent people under the fence, and had strong self-esteem, but he did not have much self-confidence.
It is not easy for Yang Yun to rely on Yang Yuhuan so much.
"What does my sister need, I'll try to prepare...... These are for my sister first, saying that it is a dowry, but there is no need to be too anxious, and I will definitely add it later. Yang Yun said calmly.
"No need, no need, too many sisters can't stand it...... Brother, don't tell the third uncle about your situation, otherwise they will ......."
Yang Yuhuan's face showed evasion, obviously to prevent Yang Xuanzhen and his family.
Yang Yun smiled and said, "I am a relative of my sister in Luoyang, so I should support each other...... If I don't give my money to my sister, who can I give it to? β
Yang Yuhuan was very moved when he heard this, nodded heavily, and looked at Yang Yun with his eyes flashing with tears.
"I'm going to talk to King Shou in the afternoon, so my sister might as well go with me."
Yang Yun said with a smile, "If King Shou is my brother-in-law, I raise my hands in favor, he is dignified and very stable, and he is also a person who can achieve a career...... My sister married him, which can be described as a good match. β
Yang Yuhuan took a sip and said, "You are a little unserious, and it is your turn to worry about your sister's marriage?" That's not the right door, it's my wishful thinking...... Alas, even if King Shou is willing, will Concubine Hui agree? Besides, there is a saint behind it. β
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