447 dowry silver incident
Jin Niang ceded the land and paid compensation, and suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, there will always be rewards for paying, Xu Erlang did not extinguish his conscience, and after he got into the beast, he brought the news she wanted to Jinniang.
can be a good match for the pearl, there are three people in the book.
One is the youngest son in the family, and not only his parents are complete, but also his grandparents and great-grandparents are still alive. There are three older brothers and one eldest sister above this young son, and the brothers and sisters have all become biological sons, because he is young, almost as old as his nephew, so he has just reached the age of kissing.
This son's surname is Ji, and his family is engaged in the silk business. Although the stalls are not particularly large, the trade handed down by the ancestors has been passed down to the present day, and there are still eight or nine shops. The Ji family is quite wealthy, and the population of several rooms in the family is also quite harmonious. Because he had enough to endure the hardships of having no backer, it was the turn of Junior Brother Ji, and the family worked together for him to study, so they wanted to confess to be an official.
Brother Ji has a very flexible brain in business, but he has a mediocre talent in reading. No, I haven't tossed flowers for more than ten years, so I came back from the private school this year, ready to do business with my father and brother.
is also because of the earlier imperial examination, the family had the intention to let him pass the examination and tell him a scholarly girl, and this family affair has been delayed. Now that he can't pass the imperial examination, and he is over 18 years old, this family matter is not on the agenda.
However, Ji Xiaodi is also a good candidate, after all, the Shen family is also in business, and the two families are a good match. And the Ji family is harmonious, the younger brother Ji is the youngest son, Baozhu is the youngest daughter-in-law when she married, the burden on her body is not so heavy, and she is also rich and leisurely.
Jin Niang thinks that it is not bad for Baozhu to marry Ji Xiaodi, Ji's advantages are very clear, that is, he is kind and gentle, thoughtful and caring, and has a high talent for business, and Baozhu will definitely not lack gold and silver in the future. But Brother Ji is the youngest son in the family, and he is very pampered by his parents and elders, and his temperament is a little small, if he doesn't make any mistakes, it's fine, if it's a conflict between husband and wife, I'm afraid that Baozhu will pull down his body to make him happy.
The second candidate given by Xu Erlang was a six-rank lieutenant in the camp on the outskirts of Beijing.
This person is still Xu Chong's old friend, he came to the house when Xu Chong got married earlier, and also helped Xu Chong welcome his wife, Jin Niang had a vague impression of him.
The man was about twenty-five or sixteen, and the little girl of fifteen or sixteen with Baozhu was obviously old. However, there is an official position, which is another matter. But at such an age, he hasn't gotten married, what's so greasy about this?
Jin Niang looked carefully at what was written on the paper, it turned out that the school captain's name was Zhang Mo, and he was from Shuozhou, and he was barely a fellow villager with them. Xu also had a good relationship with Xu Chong because of this.
Zhang Mo was twenty-six years old, when he was eight years old, his parents went to visit relatives, and on the way back, they were hacked to death by horse bandits. Leaving him and a younger sister, the two depend on each other.
They had fled to Shuozhou from other places, and they had no relatives when they arrived there. Fortunately, Zhang Mo's parents are popular, or the local people are simple, or the situation of the family is really miserable, and they have no money, all in all, with the help of the villagers and neighbors, the two little ones did not starve to death and froze to death, and barely grew up.
Zhang Mo started working as a coolie to carry a big bag, he didn't read, and he could only support his family with brute strength. In this way, he saved a few silver coins, and he married his sister.
It's a pity that my sister's life is thin, and she has a difficult birth during childbirth, and one corpse has two lives.
Zhang Mo became a loner, and he didn't want to stay in sadness for a long time, so he sold his family property and went elsewhere to make a living. He wanted to go to the capital, because when the Zhang family's parents were still alive, they said that one of the close relatives of the clan fled to the capital when they fled the famine. If you go to the capital in your lifetime, you may be able to find relatives.
Zhang Moyun is not good, the good thing is that he is a poor boy who has been driving for a few months, and in the end he has reached the feet of the Son of Heaven. The bad thing is that in the middle, he also met bandits, horse thieves, and was cheated of money, lived in a black shop, and was robbed of his life and silver without anyone to take care of him...... encountered all kinds of disasters, Zhang Mo came to work when he arrived in the capital, and he really found a clansman of his close relatives.
It was Zhang Mo's cousin, and after the two sides recognized each other, the cousin took him home happily and excitedly. It was also this cousin who went around to give Zhang Mo a big camp on the outskirts of Beijing.
Zhang Mo wanted to start a family first and then start a business, but his cousin wanted him to marry earlier. Because the clansmen were separated when they fled the famine earlier, Uncle Tang was also alone when he arrived in the capital. He settled down in the capital, married a wife and had children, but unfortunately his wife had a difficult birth when she gave birth to a son, leaving him with only a daughter.
Uncle Cousin's heir is difficult, a forty-year-old man has a second heir, and now that his wife and children are gone, he has no intention of marrying again. I wanted to recruit my daughter, but now that I have a nephew, I want to entrust the family business to my nephew, and by the way, let my nephew take care of my daughter's life.
Uncle Tang regarded Zhang Mo as his own son, and wanted him to start a family as soon as possible. However, because of a drinking uncle's stroke, he couldn't move in bed, and there was no income at home, and it was also difficult to rely on Zhang Mo to support him.
For the sake of this sister, in order to repay his cousin's kindness, Zhang Mo gritted his teeth and fought for a few years, gave a dowry that was not too thin, and married his cousin. This is also the matter of the first two years, and now the cousin's husband and wife are harmonious, and the in-laws love them, so that Zhang Mo doesn't need to worry anymore. He can think about himself, and he also thinks about his wife and children, but he is stretched thin and has no money.
After working hard like this for another two years, I finally got an official and a half-job, and my family's property was also a little richer, so I had the confidence to say goodbye.
Seeing this, Jin Niang couldn't help but sigh. Although Zhang Mo is older, he attaches great importance to love and righteousness, and he is still young and promising, which is really good. The most important thing is that there is only one cousin who has had a stroke in the family, which can be described as very clean, and if he marries into the Zhang family, his life will be comfortable.
There is a third candidate.
The third one was a scholar, named Zhu Wenqi, whose father died young, leaving only his widowed mother with two brothers and a younger sister to make a living. This Zhu Wenqi is promising, he is only sixteen years old this year, and he has already won the show.
However, the pressure on this family is really great, and the two younger brothers are not much younger than Zhu Wenqi, because they want Zhu Wenqi to study, and the two younger brothers did not go to school. One of them ran around the restaurant, and the other followed the carpenter to learn to work. As for Zhu Wenqi's younger sister, she learned embroidery from her elderly mother. Neither of them is clever in embroidery, but it is slightly better than the usual sewing and patching, so that they can also receive some work.
The Zhu family basically relies on the mother and daughter to support them, and of course, Zhu Wenqi is also a distressed mother and sister. He usually reads very hard, and in his spare time, he will go to the bookstore to take over the work of copying books. Because it was too hard and the food was not good, the whole person looked a little thin, but not as decent as the first two.
After going through all three of them, Jin Niang knew everything in her heart.
Xu Erlang picked up Mingzhu, and they were all matched by Mingzhu. And whether they are in business, in the military, or as officials in the future, these three people have merits.
And Xu Erlang actually sent people to her, showing that he was also optimistic about these three people. As for their character, there is no need to worry about that.
All three candidates can be selected, and now it depends on how the orb is chosen.
Jin Niang felt that she had something on her mind, so she immediately asked someone to hand the news to Aunt Shen.
If you make peace with Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen, leave it to your aunt. She is still a young daughter-in-law, so she should not embark on the road of matchmaker in advance.
Aunt Shen is said to have never stopped, and immediately took her things to the Shen Mansion.
The next day, Aunt Shen brought Xuanxuan and Ke Ke to Xu's Mansion again, and Jinniang guessed that eighty percent of her aunt had a letter on her side, and Aunt Shen came to communicate with her?
This is not the case.
Aunt Shen took Jinniang's hand with distress, and said angrily or angrily, "You child, your aunt withheld the dowry money your uncle gave you, why didn't you say a word from beginning to end?" ”
Jin Niang was confused, where to start.
Her aunt deducted her money, but now she doesn't care about the three melons and two dates, and she doesn't want her uncle to be so old that he can't swallow because of this matter, so she swallowed this breath.
She didn't spread the word to the outside world, could it be that Aunt Shen told her about it?
Is my aunt so unavoidable?
Aunt Shen went to talk to her brother and sister-in-law about Baozhu's family affairs yesterday, but as soon as she entered the door, she heard her brother and sister-in-law arguing.
She listened to it, and roughly understood that her sister-in-law's brother was not having a good life, and she had been in need of her sister-in-law's help all these years. At the beginning of borrowing money, the brothers also said that they had borrowed and repaid, but after so many years, they have not seen a copper plate returned. And because of the ease with which the silver came, the brothers became more and more unscrupulous. No, now they are idle at home, not making a living, and are completely waiting for Aunt Shen's "relief silver" to live.
Aunt Shen is really a demon who helps her brothers, and she is used to helping a pair of brothers. No, I also developed the habit of sending "monthly notes" to my younger brothers every month.
But earlier it was fine, at most one or two hundred taels a month, but now it is getting more and more excessive, and the silver has risen to more than five hundred taels.
The silver lent out earlier was not too much, and Uncle Shen turned a blind eye to it. He felt that Aunt Shen was quite measured, and he would not really use the Shen family to fill his mother's family, who knew that Aunt Shen was really so impertinent!
This time it was because the silver sent by Uncle Shen was gone, and the two brothers in the family waited for a long time for the pension to arrive, and they thought that the eldest sister and brother-in-law had not returned it for so long since they went to the capital, and they also wanted to come to the capital to eat and drink spicy food, so they called it "asking for debts", so they moved their family to the capital.
As a result, when the family was happy, the brother and daughter-in-law told the story of the silver. Uncle Shen immediately knew about Uncle Shen's "evil deeds" over the years, and Aunt Shen also knew about the disappearance of the silver.
Uncle Shen was furious, but it was not good to have a seizure in person. Aunt Shen didn't care about it, and shouted directly. She sent back two thousand taels of silver tickets to the brothers this time, two thousand taels, the family only bought a house and a shop in the capital, and there was not much money left in her hand, and the rest were kept for business turnaround, and she was stretched thin for a while.
The two thousand taels were drawn from her private money. Originally, I gave two months' worth of silver together, but who knew that there was an accident on the way, and I don't know who the money would fall to.
Uncle Shen's motherly seven orifices smoked, and immediately yelled. His brother and sister-in-law were united in their hatred, but they were not too angry.
Anyway, the eldest sister has to continue to give the silver when it is gone, the silver is not out of their hands, whether it is lost or flew, they don't feel much. As long as there is still an equal amount of silver for them in the end, they are really very Buddhist.
Aunt Shen's brothers and sisters-in-law are Buddhist, but Uncle Shen's mother can't be Buddhist.
She also realized that Uncle Shen's face was pale, and she responded angrily that the silver had been halved. Originally, Aunt Shen wanted to say that the "monthly rule" silver was canceled, but she was really worried that without her help, the two brothers would starve themselves to death. Second, it was also to appease the brothers, otherwise they would say even more excessive things, so that Uncle Shen would know that she had not only given her mother's brothers monthly silver over the years, but even bought them shops and fields, so Uncle Shen still had to divorce her?
Aunt Shen felt that she had good intentions, and she could barely appease both parties. But Uncle Shen didn't know if he was appeased, but Uncle Shen's brother and sister-in-law really weren't appeased. Not only were they not appeased, but they were also poked in the lungs, and for a while, they couldn't hide their anger, and some things that should be said and shouldn't be said came out baldly.
The fact that Jin Niang was deducted from the dowry silver was told by the younger brother and daughter-in-law. The little daughter-in-law is really brainless and short-sighted, and she doesn't think the eldest sister has done anything wrong after saying it. When she saw her brother-in-law smashing the cup angrily, she didn't think it was a big problem, so she just said, "The eldest sister will live, and she knows how to save money for her brother-in-law." The niece is a veritable outsider, not to mention that she is going to get married, so she has been a little farther away from her brother-in-law since then. These girls are all spilled water, and no matter how much makeup they make, it's a waste of things. The eldest sister only got back four hundred taels of silver, and in my opinion, the eldest sister still had loose hands. If it were me, I wouldn't give me a single cent of five hundred taels of silver, and I would have been mentioned to the shop, wouldn't it be good to leave it to future generations, and give it to a married girl who doesn't know how to be grateful, it's a waste of things! ”
Uncle Shen angrily smashed a set of tea sets, and no matter how big or small the brother-in-law was, he walked out of the flower hall in a rage.
Aunt Shen "eavesdropped" and was touched by her brother, and she was at a loss for a while, not knowing what to say.
As a result, when Uncle Shen saw her, he instantly burst into tears at his little sister, "Hui Niang, I'm sorry Jin Niang!" That child, the last time we discussed Qing'er's family affairs, I knew that I gave Qing'er a foil of silver, and that time I also said that I would give her 500 taels less, but I really did my best. The kid ...... She also knew that her aunt had intervened and withheld her money. But that child, that child, she didn't say a word from beginning to end. ”
If she said the last two sentences, but Jinniang's child stubbornly thought that this incident did not happen for the sake of my old face, and endured this breath. That kid, I can't live with her! I wronged her! ”