Wu's mother and daughter returned home, so naturally they had to go to the old lady to talk first.

"I can see your cousins and brothers this time, how are they doing?" It was rare for the old lady to ask Diancui with a pleasant face: "How is your second grandmother?" ”

"Back to my grandmother's words, this time I met Sister Ying of the eldest aunt's family, the two younger brothers of the second aunt's family, Yi Nan and Yi Xuan, and the two sisters of the fourth aunt's family, all of whom are good people, Sister Ying is very talented and gentle, the two younger brothers are lively and smart, and Sister Yu and Sister Chu Chu are also cool and generous people." Dian Cui said unhurriedly, all the words she said were praise, and she didn't mention that the sisters had excluded her in the days when she first arrived.

Grandmother listened to what she said, and couldn't help but nod her head in satisfaction, and she didn't know whether she was satisfied with her, or with those cousins and brothers.

"The second grandmother is also healthy, and she is an amiable old man like her grandmother." Diancui said again.

When Mrs. Gui heard her say this, her expression immediately seemed to be a little smiling, and Grandma Yue on the side picked up a sweat towel and covered her mouth and nose and pretended to cough, in fact, she wanted to laugh.

Affable...... Old lady Gui really can't be said to be amiable, you can say that she is majestic and noble, but by no means such an amiable old lady. As for the second old lady, the old lady actually looked down on it from her heart. The old lady is angry that she has no backbone, she has been fighting with an aunt for half her life, and she is still reconciled when she is old, and she has the posture of growing old hand in hand.

This is called the old lady quite shameless, the concubine room is the concubine room, as the main room, she will never look down on those concubines!

Seeing that the old lady didn't speak, she just listened, so she continued to tell some interesting stories about her hometown in Nanyang.

I talked for most of the day, during which the old lady occasionally asked a question or two.

In the end, the old lady didn't look at Diancui, but stared at Wu Shi and said, "I heard that you promised to marry Sister Yu'er with ten miles of red makeup when you married her......

Wu's voice is that this is owed by his daughter-in-law.

The old lady sneered, what you owe should be used as a favor with the money I returned home? But this sentence was not said in the end, and said: "You give a child who has only been raised for four years ten miles of red makeup, what about Sister Yu'er?" ”

Sister Yu? Wu Shi didn't react for a while, and his face changed slightly after a while, and the old lady said that it was Gui Chuyu.

"Twelve dowries, even the twelve dowry gifts sent by the An family, and a hair with a lot of hair will be carried back, a total of twenty-four lifts." Wu said loudly.

is just a flat wife, and she is not a lady, and the big mistakes she has made have not been counted with her, so that Wu Shi has made her feel wronged.

"Twenty-four lifts are too little, the An family is an official family, and there is still a grace to help our family, so let's do it, the other twelve lifts will come out again, and you will give the shop in Hangzhou as a dowry to Sister Yu'er!" As the old lady spoke, it seemed that she had already planned it.

"Mother-in-law, what are you talking about! Will the shop in Hangzhou be her dowry for Chu Yu? Wu Shi laughed angrily.

Hangzhou's Angelica Pavilion is second only to the capital's big shop in terms of profit over the years! It was left by her to Diancui, but she didn't expect to be targeted by others first.

"The shop in Hangzhou is too big, and when the year is good, the net income of silver taels a year can exceed 10,000 taels, and I am afraid that she will not have such great ability and appetite to take my shop." Wu is naturally not good at stubble, and immediately snorted coldly, she really dared to tear her face with the old lady for the sake of the shop in Hangzhou.

"You!" The old lady only mentioned it slightly, but she didn't expect this Wu family to be so tough.

Their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have always been hard stubble and hard stubble, and the old lady also understood this in her heart, so she had to take a sip of tea, and said: "The shop in Hangzhou can not be given, but you have to give a shop, you choose it yourself, if you can't choose, it can only be a shop in Hangzhou, this shop is the surname Gui and not the surname Wu after all!" ”

In this matter, the old lady is obviously going to persevere to the end.

"Grandmother, granddaughter doesn't know why you have to spend our money and property for an outsider, she has done all the things that are enough to be an official, and now she still lets her grandmother and mother quarrel for her here!" It was the first time that Diancui said such tough words in front of Mrs. Gui.

As soon as she finished speaking, the house was suddenly silent, and Grandma Yue's eyes widened, it was really lively today, and the little cat also had a time to fry its hair.

Even the old lady stopped to look at her more, but this look was full of contempt:

"Outsiders? She is an outsider, and women are all spilled water, and your sister Cui will marry out and follow her husband's surname in the future, and take care of her husband's family business, so she is not an outsider? Old lady Gui said lightly:

"She came out of the door under the name of Chu Yu, who we returned home, so we have to arrange the dowry for her beautifully, so that the An family can't find anything wrong. Besides, his An family has helped your father in his affairs, and he is a Siqing official family, if your two brothers have fame in the future, our family and the An family will be in the same boat at some point, maybe your father and your brother will have to help each other. As for you, if you really have backbone, you will go to the temple to burn incense, so that your mother and I can find a family background with you, and your ability is better than an family. At that time, regardless of whether it is a shop in Hangzhou or a shop in Guangzhou, except for the old shop in Beijing, I have nothing to say about how many shops your father and mother want to give you as a dowry! ”

The so-called ginger is still old and spicy, and Diancui was stunned by this old lady for a long time without saying a word.

"Okay, the daughter-in-law of the shop has agreed, so let's take the shop in Yunzhou and add her as a dowry." Wu finally relented.

Yunzhou has a large territory, but the business is not easy to do, and there are several shops that do the first face, if it is a good business, it can make a profit of about 1,000 taels a year, if it is not good to do, then it is difficult to say......

Wu used to have a headache Yunzhou side involved her too much energy, and it was not close to the capital, so she was a little too busy to take care of herself, but now since the old lady has to ask her to come out of a shop, it is here.

A shop in Yunzhou? Yunzhou is also prosperous, no matter whether the business is good or not, it sounds like it is on the table, and the old lady is satisfied. The Hangzhou shop she said earlier was just a smoke bomb she sent to deliberately scare Wu's, and she also took care of the shop's business, can you know how profitable the Hangzhou shop is? If she really gave it to her, she didn't want to, but she also expected that Wu would not be able to agree to give it.

The result that the old lady wanted was a dowry of thirty-two lifts, plus a dispensable shop for them to return home.

A fake young lady, if it weren't for the sake of the overall situation of returning home, would she need to spend so much time, this Wu would still be too composed. Looking at the back of this stupid mother and daughter leaving in a huff, the old lady drank tea leisurely, and on the side, Grandma Yue picked up a few walnuts with a pair of toothbrushes, and sandwiched a few pine nuts and Fu Ren'er, and ordered tea with her.

"After a while, let's pick a day for you to enter your cousin's yard." The old lady said slowly, in front of her, the Wu family refused to nod, and now that she has the weakness of Diancui as a constraint, she has a way to get her niece into the house.

Grandma Yue counted the pine nuts in the small dish with her toothbrush, and after a long time, she said:

"My aunt obviously looks down on the concubine the most, why did she let the clumsy child be a concubine for her cousin."

The old lady glanced up at her, and said puzzledly: "Didn't Humble Er want to marry her cousin when she was a child, but now that the Wu family is not a big mistake, and she gave birth to two boys back home, the status of this main room is untouchable, and you have to be aggrieved and want to be a concubine when you enter the door." ”

Let's say that the Wu family and the two of them came out of the old lady's yard and suddenly looked at each other and smiled.

"I thought that we had been away from home for a long time this time, and my grandmother had already made the decision to buy her more dowry, but I didn't expect that as long as we made twelve lifts, as well as a shop that was not easy to take care of, the other twelve lifts would be supplemented by my grandmother herself." Diancui said with a smile, she was extremely happy in her heart, the shop in Hangzhou in her previous life fell into the hands of An Peiqing, she had followed him to the shop in Hangzhou, but the business was very good!

The shop that was so good in this life finally had no chance to settle down with him!

Wu Shi looked at her and seemed to smile: "How do you know that the shop in Yunzhou is not easy to take care of?" I only let you take care of the accounts in the house, did you buy the pillow and let her show you the account books of each shop? You little clever ghost, whatever you are anxious about, it's all yours, and no one can grab it! ”

Diancui smiled, but didn't explain. only asked again: "Why does my mother pretend to be a tendon in front of my grandmother, so that she will look down on you and think that you are so good?" ”

Wu Shi smiled slightly: "Whether it is light or heavy, we know it in our own hearts, how can it be really light if others look down on it?" ”

Diancui nodded thoughtfully.

"But ......" Wu suddenly frowned and sighed: "Your grandmother is very thoughtful, and now that I have compromised for the first time, it is estimated that it will be ......"

"Whoa! I'm telling you all this, you're just a child, okay, let's not talk about it, let's take some things one step at a time! "It's a big deal to leave, Wu suddenly hated to think, if she really wanted to carry the Yue family into the door, she would never tolerate it, so she also let go of the old face to ask for Heli, and took her daughter back to her Wu house!

"Mother is talking about Grandma Yue?" Diancui guessed accurately, the old lady's current mind is nothing more than two, one is her father's official career, and the other is Grandma Yue's family affairs, if she uses herself to force her mother to compromise, according to her mother's unbending temperament, she will really do something, but fortunately, such a thing probably won't happen.

"Mother, no, Grandma Yue will not enter our house as a concubine." Diancui said firmly, this grandmother Yue hates to be annoying, but in her previous life, she ended up marrying the man who cheated on her back then. Naturally, I won't be a concubine for my father!

Sure enough, Grandma Yue here counted the pine nuts until she counted to fifty, then she raised her head and said with a red face:

"But now I don't want to marry my cousin anymore......"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Mrs. Gui was dissatisfied: "Is that person back?" ”

Grandma Yue nodded slightly, not daring to look at the old lady.

"Never! What is your identity, what is his identity, a merchant who walks the streets and alleys is also worthy! You are not afraid of spreading it and losing the face of our old Yue family! ”

"Auntie, you will fulfill me," Grandma Yue suddenly wiped away her tears and said: "If you say shame, our Yue family's face would have been lost by me a long time ago, if it weren't for my aunt's pity on me and willingness to take me in, I would have died of misery for so many years." Aunt, now that man is no longer a merchant, he has earned some money over the years, bought a large orange orchard in his hometown of Xiangzhou, and opened a tung oil mill, life is not bad, and has not married, a few days ago came to me, said...... Said that he wanted to carry eight sedan chairs to marry me! ”

Grandma Yue said in the end, her eyes were full of light, and the old lady felt a little ashamed, just go straight, he wants eight Dajue or six, our Yue family's dowry is with you early, this time at most twenty-four lifts. Naturally, these twenty-four lifts will not be from the Yue family, but the private money given to her niece by her old lady.

"No, no! How can I ask for my aunt's private money," Grandma Yue hurriedly waved her hand, and said with a smile: "I have also saved some silver money over the years, and there is still more than half a mile left in the previous dowry, which is enough!" ”