Chapter 65: Thirty-six Dowry
Tian Gang was puzzled, and didn't understand why Miss bought a shop in such an expensive area, and it turned out to be used to sell baskets, this kind of baskets of more than a dozen yuan are generally sold in Luo Xiang and Xinfeng Street in the back, and the passers-by on this street are either rich or expensive, who will buy a few baskets to go back?
Tang Yanning looked at Tian Gang and Tian Hu with surprise on his face and didn't explain, but just told them to decorate the shop as soon as possible so that it would be convenient for business as soon as possible.
The two nodded in agreement.
Tang Yanning went out once two days earlier, and quietly went to Chen Laohan's house, Chen Laohan and his daughter were weaving baskets in the courtyard, talking and laughing, and Peaches looked a lot more cheerful, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were full of bright smiles.
When she entered in women's clothes, the old couple didn't react, and it wasn't until Tang Yanning reported her family name that the old couple suddenly realized, and pulled her to say thank you.
After chatting warmly for a while, she put forward the idea that she wanted to buy this basket weaving method, and the old couple happily agreed, saying that they didn't need money and taught her for free.
Tang Yanning smiled and excused himself, and finally bought this method for one hundred taels and set up a note, which is equivalent to buying a patent.
She hired Chen Laohan's family to help her weave baskets, and in the future, the store will earn another dividend.
The old couple didn't understand why the benefactor paid a sky-high price to buy this kind of basket weaving method, at first he refused to accept the money, and only said that he would give it away for nothing, but Tang Yanning insisted, and the old couple agreed to excuse themselves, and finally Tang Yanning discussed with them about selling those styles of baskets in the future, and got up to say goodbye.
A family of three enthusiastically sent her to the door, thanking her again and again.
With this one hundred taels, the life of a family of three is finally much better, and they can buy a few decent clothes and dowries for their daughter, and the baskets they will weave in the future do not need to be sold by stalls everywhere, and they can also have a sales source.
The family of three finally kept the feeling of seeing the moon in the clouds, and they couldn't close their mouths happily.
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"Mother, is there really no way for us to participate in this ancestor worship? If you can't participate, how can you bring down that little slut again, we have been planning for so long, can we just give up? Tang Yanyu pulled Aunt Du's sleeve and asked unwillingly.
"There is no way to participate, your father has already given a death order, and before you get married, we can't leave Meiyuan for half a step."
Aunt Du seems to have aged a lot overnight, without the delicate makeup of the past, her face is pale, with fine lines, sitting at the table with a weak cheek, looking at the moon flowers that are beginning to wither outside the window, the whole person seems to have lost her fighting spirit.
She planned a conspiracy a long time ago, that is, on the day of worshipping her ancestors, she asked her brother to buy the mountain bandits, kidnapped Tang Yanning and ruined it, and then let everyone break it in the temple under the banner of looking for people, so that she would be ruined and unable to turn over.
But I don't know why the old things my brother did before were suddenly turned over and sued to King Rui, and he lost his life in just a few days, and the matter of buying off the mountain bandits ended without stopping.
She was sad, she still didn't plan to give up this plan, she wanted to grit her teeth and take out her private money to buy the bandits, but she didn't expect that she couldn't even get out now, and she didn't want to talk about the rest of the plan.
Tang Yanyu sat back on the bench, unwilling but had to accept his fate, and fell on the table and whimpered.
Aunt Du looked at her daughter, and for the first time, she did not immediately step forward to comfort her as before, but said earnestly, "Yu'er, you should grow up, Tang Yanning can still survive the embarrassing days before, you can too, after getting married, because your mother is not by your side, you have to plan for yourself." ”
His daughter was planted in Tang Yanning's hands twice in a row, I have to say that Tang Yanning is smart, but it is also possible that his daughter is too immature and relies on herself.
Now that Xiangye still has the heart to protect her face, she can't let her daughter be so impulsive and ruin this only remaining marriage.
The top priority is not to think about how to murder Tang Yanning, but to train her daughter to be a wife.
Tang Yanning has been quiet and comfortable these days, no one in Qingyi Xuan has come to disturb, and no one has come to disturb Meiyuan, Wen not only exempted her from morning and dusk, but also allowed her to come and go freely, this is simply the most comfortable day Tang Yanning has lived in more than ten years, and the whole person who is comfortable looks refreshed!!
The wedding dress has been completely embroidered, so there is nothing to do, she sat leisurely on the recliner under the old locust tree, holding a book and flipping through it at will, the whole person looked quiet and thin, and her temperament was Shulan.
"Miss, Miss, the Gu family has come to hire." Shuang'er hurried in, gasping slightly.
Tang Yanning raised his eyelids, flipped a page of the book casually, and said lightly: "Come and hire you, why are you so flustered?" ”
Shuang'er opened a pair of big round eyes, and said in surprise: "Miss, it's not that I'm panicking, do you know how many dowry gifts the Gu family has made?" ”
"How much?"
"Thirty-six lifts, a full thirty-six lifts!" Shuang'er stretched out his finger as he spoke.
"What?" The book in her hand slipped to the ground, and she asked in shock, "Are you sure it's thirty-six?" Could it be that you miscounted? ”
"No, miss, I quietly counted it three times, three times, now the maids and servants in the front hall have gone to the front hall to join in the fun, I don't believe you can go and see it too."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the young lady lift the hem of her skirt and walk quickly to the front hall.
The front hall was boiling at this time, and Tang Heng's hearty laughter and the soft voice of another unknown woman could be vaguely heard.
"One, two, three, four, five...... Thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six...... It's really thirty-six, miss! ”
Shuang'er silently counted again, and whispered to the young lady behind her.
The two of them hid in a small corner of the garden in the antechamber, and from a distance, they could see the mighty dowry in the courtyard lined up in several columns.
Thirty of them are made of red sandalwood, and you can't see the inside clearly, but just by looking at the box, you can know that the things inside will definitely not be bad, and the box is all made of red sandalwood, and a single box is worth a batch of silver.
There are six lifts that can't be packed in the box, all of them are some antique tools with larger shapes, no need to get close, from a distance, you can see that the antiques that leaked out are all of the highest quality, and the bottle of Qing kiln Fushou pattern vase that Tang Yanning knows alone is worth thousands of taels.
Tang Yanning waved his hand to signal Shuang'er, and the two quietly returned to Qiuyuan.
The shock in her heart was actually no less than Shuang'er, but she was a little calmer on her face.
Thirty-six lifts are the courtesy of the daughters of famous families in the capital.
She is just a concubine, why does the Gu family treat her according to the courtesy of her concubine?
And isn't the Gu family poor? Why did you come up with so many dowry gifts all at once?
Could it be that the Gu family has not actually declined, and has always been in obscurity, so today it can spend so much money, is it to satirize the Tang family for disliking the poor and loving the rich?
Tang Yanning twisted her eyebrows and pondered slightly, why was she no less than Shuang'er at this time.
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The unknown woman in the front hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion was Jin Niang, and after she had finished her things, she personally came to the Prime Minister's Mansion to hire her.
After all, Gu Huaisheng's brother rarely experienced such a scene, and he was afraid that there would be a mistake, so Gu Huaisheng asked Jin Niang to come forward.
Jin Niang was originally in the restaurant business, socializing, and greeting, not at all, and in a few words, Tang Heng was held high, making him smile.
The two exchanged pleasantries in the front hall, and Tang Heng finally asked the question in his heart: "Didn't Ling Xian's nephew's family fall in the middle of the road in the early years?" How to come up with so many dowry gifts at once, I really can't figure it out, and I ask Shopkeeper Su to solve my doubts. ”
Tang Heng was actually worried that the Gu family would have a swollen face and become fat, and go to an underground bank to borrow a loan, and he was worried that the source of this dowry would be unknown, and there would be disputes in the future, which would be even more ugly.
As soon as Jin Niang heard it, she knew what Tang Heng was worried about, and took the opportunity to say the words arranged by Brother Gu.
When Jin Niang said that when she was fourteen years old, the business of her family's restaurant became more and more prosperous, and her uncles became more and more popular, so they designed to frame their parents, causing them to both die, and their own restaurant was also occupied by them.
Thanks to Brother Gu's fearlessness of the government at that time, he helped and found evidence of the uncles' persecution of his parents, so he was able to keep the restaurant and the stable life of the two sisters, so when he learned that Brother Gu and the Prime Minister's Mansion were worried about the dowry, he made the decision to purchase these dowries, all to repay the kindness of saving each other at that time.
After listening to this, Tang Heng was in his heart, and praised a few words of the virtue of the Su shopkeeper's gratitude and retribution, and the two exchanged pleasantries in a vain manner, and Jin Niang proposed to leave in a timely manner.
Shopkeeper Su is the owner of the largest restaurant in Beijing, and if he repays his kindness, it is indeed okay to take out thirty-six dowry gifts.
Tang Heng took the dowry with peace of mind and ordered his subordinates to carry them to the warehouse.
In fact, Jin Niang did receive Gu Huaisheng's kindness back then, but under the pretext of repaying the favor, she was so generous, just to cover up Gu Huaisheng's identity.
On the bright side, Jin Niang is the shopkeeper of Mochizuki Restaurant, but in fact, the real boss behind the scenes is Gu Huaisheng.
Mochizuki Restaurant is indeed Jin Niang's family, at that time, Jin Niang's parents were framed to death, and the family and uncles were staring at her restaurant.
Fourteen-year-old Jin Niang is also courageous, and it is reasonable to strive that she is the successor of the restaurant, however, the uncle has always asked Jin Niang to return the restaurant to the clan on the grounds that Jin Niang is just a woman who will marry in the future and is unbearable.
Jin Niang was angry and took the title deed of the restaurant to Qian Zhuang to sell, but the people in the clan had already communicated with the people of Qian Zhuang, and only gave Jin Niang a hundred taels of silver, such a big restaurant, how could she sell it for only one hundred taels, and it was also the hard work of her father for half his life.
Just when Jin Niang was desperate and couldn't think of opening the lake, Gu Huaisheng rescued her, bought the restaurant for three thousand taels of silver, and hired her to continue to be in charge of the restaurant.
Later, she found evidence that her uncles framed her parents, and the truth was revealed, and the uncles who were eyeing her were thrown into the cage, and she no longer had relatives to interfere with and threaten her.
In the end, Jin Niang took care of the Moon Restaurant more and more excellently, and the turnover increased by a hundred times compared with when his father was alive, and it became the largest restaurant in Beijing in just five years.