Li Qingning took two days off, and was busy with the major event of the marriage of his third sister Li Qingrou, and early in the morning of the third day, he entered the three wings behind the Jinghua Palace.

Huo Wencan lifted the curtain and entered the house, and saw that Li Qingning was already sitting on the kang, and was writing something with a pen, so he sighed.

"Why so early? You've been busy for the past two days, what's ...... Your face is not very good, your third sister, not very good? ”

Huo Wencan sat next to Li Qingning and looked at him carefully.

"Hmm."

Li Qingning hummed paradoxically, wrote a few more words, and then put down the pen, and then looked at Huo Wencan with tears in his eyes.

"We all grew up together, the third sister, you know best, likes to be glamorous, likes to be lively, and likes everyone to envy her.

I know that this is her wrong, she has little reading, short knowledge, and not enough cultivation, and she is vulgar. ”

Seeing that Huo Wencan opened his mouth and wanted to say something, Li Qingning followed closely.

"I didn't mean that, it was all said and played when I was a child, and I was wrong."

Huo Wencan's sentence was followed closely by Li Qingning, and he said it a little embarrassingly.

"It's too lonely to get married in hot filial piety, alas."

Huo Wencan said a dry sentence, and wanted to persuade a few more words, but he opened his mouth dryly, not knowing what to say.

"A-Niang said that this is the life of the third sister.

The second brother also persuaded me to take a long-term view, saying that Arou will have a good life in the future, whether it is lively or not in this wedding, and that there are many people who have a bad time if they are lively and beautiful. ”

Li Qingning's words paused and he sighed.

Huo Wencan patted him on the shoulder and sighed.

"On the day of the wedding, Arou didn't cry, she told me that she hated her mother-in-law, hated A-Niang, and hated the Li family.

said that from my wife to me, everyone said that they loved her the most, and said this and that.

But the wife pushed her into the fire pit without blinking, A-Niang didn't speak, the second brother and sister-in-law didn't speak, and I didn't speak.

She said that she did not have a maiden family, and she would never set foot in the Chang'an Marquis Mansion again. ”

Li Qingning's voice was low.

"It's all angry talk, don't take it to heart.

You don't know the temper of your third sister?

Since childhood, he stomped his feet all day and said that he would never pay attention to this anymore, never pay attention to that again, and he couldn't hold it for even half a day, so he forgot all about his words, and he was as good as someone else.

It will be fine after a while. ”

Huo Wencan comforted Li Qingning vigorously.

"Hmm."

Li Qingning's expression was dark, and his voice fell very low.

"I can tell you that.

Arou's family matter, I'm also quite angry with my wife.

Mrs. Sun wants to marry Arou for Daqing, and Daqing also wants to marry Arou, no one knows about this, but Arou says that she refuses to marry Daqing, and no one knows about this.

Even if the wife wants to marry Arou, no matter what, she should ask Arou first.

Even if Arou refuses, she wants to die or live, and the whole family forces her to settle it, then she has to ask, don't you say?

A-Niang said that the grandmother was for Arou's good, I didn't think so, I think the mother-in-law was for Mrs. Sun, just like killing the old man in front of Mrs. Sun.

Arou is like a sacrifice from the grandmother to Mrs. Sun. ”

"Where do you think you're going? Even the sacrifices were spoken, bah blah! Can these two words be said nonsense? You snort twice, too. ”

Huo Wencan patted Li Qingning and asked him to take a sip to show that this didn't count.

Li Qingning was about to speak, when the door curtain was lifted, and a small chamberlain came in, and smiled at the two of them: "The prince summons the two masters." ”

Huo Wencan and Li Qingning hurriedly stood up and walked towards the Jinghua Hall in front.

The prince had just returned from his dissipation, and was waiting by a few small chamberlains to change into comfortable homely clothes.

"Is your third sister okay?"

The prince looked at Li Qingning and asked with concern first.

"It's okay, Prince Xie." Li Qingning replied.

"Sun Daqing has a fold, it seems that he wrote it himself, he wants to go to your father's army and serve the country, you know this, right?"

The prince gets straight to the point.

"I know, this is also what my mother-in-law and A-Niang meant, and my mother-in-law said: Daqing also has the strength to fight, so let's take my life and fight."

Li Qingning relayed his wife's words untouched.

"Fight for your life, that's a big deal.

Sun Daqing has a rough temperament, he can't be a civil official, he can only be a martial artist, if he is a martial artist, he should take advantage of his youth to fight for a few years, this is to experience, not to fight.

However, it is not appropriate for him to go to your father's army.

First, your two families are too close, and he married your third sister, and your third sister will follow? ”

Seeing Li Qingning nodding, the prince continued:

"In your father's army, there is selflessness and selfishness.

Second, your father was not a teacher.

Let him go to the Northwest Army and Huo Shuai's army.

Your eldest brother and sister-in-law are both in the Northwest Army, and in terms of teaching, Huo Shuai is much better than your father. ”

"Yes." Li Qingning was busy owing to himself.

Going to Huo Shuai's army is indeed much more suitable than following his father.

The most important thing is that the eldest brother and sister-in-law are here, and the third sister is on the other side, so he is much more relieved.

"You write a letter to your father, don't mention me, just say your own will, and let your father take care of it.

Also, there are only these two men in the Sun family, Sun Erqing is still young, ask your father to protect Sun Daqing as much as possible, don't let him fight for his life. ”

The prince looked at Huo Wencan, and then explained.

"Yes!" Huo Wencan hurriedly agreed.

……………………

After the marriage, Li Ran can no longer go out and wander around at will as before.

Of course, after the marriage, she was also busy.

In the matter of dowry, although the second grandfather Li Qingping and the second grandmother Cao went all out, and Wang Fu and the second grandmother Ming assisted in taking care of it, most of the things had to be seen by her before she could decide.

For example, all kinds of gold and silver utensils, wedding clothes, furniture and so on, etc., are all used daily after marriage, and this color must be chosen by her.

There are too many of these things, and she has to make more than a dozen boxes and hundreds of pieces of clothes alone, basically, from the day she got married, until she died, she did it all over again, and she really had a set of shrouds.

Li Ran looked at the clothes that filled the entire hall, and the stack of embroidery patterns piled high in front of her, looked at the Linglong Fang Manager Yu who was watching her with a smile, and said with a wry smile:

"If you wear it this year or next year, just make a few pieces, and you have to be eighty or ninety years old, three or four sets a year, and if you make these clothes, you can still wear them when the time comes? Isn't it a waste? ”

"It's the rule."

Grandma Cao Er answered with a smile:

"Why do you want to be ninety-nine years old and add another set of shrouds? Here, there is a special attention!

In a woman's dowry, this dress is accompanied to a shroud from the day she gets married, that is, you don't have to rely on your in-laws, we also have clothes to wear, these are the confidence to be a daughter-in-law. ”

Li Ran looked at Grandma Cao Er, speechless.

Grandma Cao didn't react for a while.

Steward Yu burst out laughing, looking at Grandma Cao Er while laughing.

The dowry of the fourth lady is the silver from General Xie, which is known to everyone in the capital, but everyone knows this, whether she can say it in front of Cao Er's grandmother and the fourth lady, she has no bottom in her heart.

"Alas!"

Grandma Cao Er reacted to the laughter of Steward Yu and laughed along.

"Although it's all General Xie's silver...... It's the same, it's face!

As soon as Ming's second grandmother ** came back, didn't she say that General Xie paid money to do this dowry, just to let the fourth sister get married, and she wanted to marry lively, and she wanted to marry beautifully.

If you want to do what you said, just make the clothes you will wear this year and next year, how much can you make?

When the dowry comes, the dowry clothes will be gone after one or two lifts, so what kind of beautiful marriage is it called? ”

"The second grandmother is very true."

Steward Yu was busy agreeing.

Li Ran sighed and stopped talking.

What else could she say?

Okay, waste is waste.

She always felt that this dowry, according to them, would have to wipe out all General Xie's family resources, and make the general's mansion poor and white.

"Try to have as little as possible, it's too wasteful, two sets a year."

Li Ran still couldn't help but restrict.

"Why don't you send more silk and fur?"

Steward Yu looked at Grandma Cao Er and discussed.

Grandma Cao Er smiled and nodded, "Okay, okay, four sets are less, okay, okay, just two sets, two sets a year." ”

"Sixty is enough......"

"That's not going to work!"

The second grandmother, Cao Shi, interrupted Li Ran's words with a serious face.

Steward Yu nodded hurriedly, "Second grandma is right, this matter has to be auspicious." ”

"Okay." Li Ran sighed.

After picking out the clothes and materials, and returning to Cuiweiju, Li Ran sat on the kang, let out a long breath, took the tea handed by Ziji, and just took a sip, Zhou E came in, looked at Li Ran and asked:

"Going out for a walk?"

"Can you still go out and hang out now?"

Li Ran asked rhetorically.

"Also, Momino asked when you were free.

She said she hadn't been able to say hello to you in person.

You don't have to make up the dowry money, she just rests, and she has been very idle lately. ”

Zhou E came in and sat next to Li Ran.

"It's a bit empty at this point, ......"

Li Ran was thinking about where to go, and Zhou E smiled: "Go to Sister-in-law Wu's, her backyard is convenient and quiet, she has recently learned to cook a few new dishes, just try them." ”

"Okay."

Li Ran simply agreed, put down the cup and stood up.

The two got into the car in the second gate, lowered the curtain, left the Chang'an Marquis's Mansion, and went to Wu's sister-in-law's restaurant.

The two entered the backyard through a side door.

Sister Xi was pushing the small mill glutinous rice flour in the yard, and when she saw the two of them coming in, she hurriedly stood up, moved two chairs out first, and then hurriedly went to the front to call Sister-in-law Wu.

Tao Nong carried her skirt, rushed in front of Sister-in-law Wu, rushed to the porch of the main house in three steps and two steps, looked at Li Ran who stood up, took one step and bent her knees, and laughed.

"Don't you dare! Can't afford it! Sit down, girl!

The girl's complexion is really good!

Congratulations girl! Congratulations girl! Thousands of joys! ”

Sister-in-law Wu and Sister Xi also laughed while bending their knees, and as for the words of congratulations, they were all said by Tao Nong.

Sister Xi looked ahead, and Sister-in-law Wu moved over a table, busy making tea and drinking snacks back and forth.

Tao Nong sat next to Li Ran and looked at Li Ran again.

"She just got engaged and hasn't married, what do you think?"

Zhou E pursed her lips and said obliquely.

"You mouth!" Tao Nong sighed and shouted at Zhou E.

Li Ran squinted at Zhou E for a moment before snorting and looking away.

"Ignore her, I'll get down to business first."

Momino looked serious.

"On the day you get married, I'll sing you a wedding song, okay?"

"Huh?" Li Ran looked apprehensive.

Do you still want to sing to welcome your relatives?

"She doesn't know anything."

Zhou E looked at Tao Nong and sighed a few times, then looked at Li Ran and said, "Let her sing, don't want money anyway." ”

"Is it a joyful song to welcome relatives?"

Li Ran looked at Tao Nong and confirmed, and Tao Nong nodded.

"Welcoming relatives is a matter for General Xie's side, how can I be the master?"

"Huh!" Tao Nong and Zhou E said in unison, pouting together, and obliquely looking at Li Ran with disdain.

"I can only speak for you." Li Ran looked at the two speechlessly.

"It's finished." Zhou E raised her chin at Tao Nong.

"I went outside the city to see Zhuangzi for you."

Momino smiled, her outstretched feet dangling back and forth.

"Look at Zhuangzi for me? How can I have Zhuangzi? ”

Li Ran was a little frightened, could someone send Zhuangzi to her? How did she not know?

"In the future, there will be, the second master of the Wang family and the second master of Li, looking at Zhuangzi everywhere to buy Zhuangzi.

The market was lively for a while, and suddenly there were more Zhuangzi fields, which were sold to you as a dowry.

I'm really tired of looking at Second Master Wang and Second Master Li, I want to see if Zhuangzi is good or not, and I have to inquire about the people who sell Zhuangzi, these two Second Masters are very dedicated. ”

"How many Zhuangzi and how many fields do you want to buy? How much does it cost? ”

Li Ran didn't know what to say, how much silver could the General's Mansion have?

"I don't know, I heard that I have taken a fancy to an orchard and a vegetable garden now." Momono shook her feet happily.

It seems that her recent energy has been focused on inquiring about Li Ran's dowry.

"Buy it like this...... How much silver does General Xie have? ”

Li Ran couldn't hold back any longer, looked at Zhou E and asked.

"I don't know, but it's definitely a lot." Zhou E raised her eyebrows, "What you say, buy it like this, you have to buy General Xie poor?" ”

Li Ran didn't speak.

Isn't it?

"I don't know anything else, I only know that when I followed General Xie and surrounded and suppressed the remnants of Huang Ning, I divided two or three hundred thousand taels of silver.

Huang Ning is a miser, several large silver vaults, like a hill of gold, silver and jewelry.

At that time, the first emperor had just been proclaimed emperor for a few years, and according to the rules before he was proclaimed emperor, half of it was given to the soldiers and half to the emperor. ”

"General Xie also took it?" Although Li Ran knew such a thing and heard it with his own ears, he was still a little stunned.

"Of course, General Xie doesn't take it, who would dare to take it from the soldiers below?

General Xie has been commanding the army since he was thirteen or fourteen years old, and in more than ten years, he doesn't know how many battles he has won and how many kings and emperors he has killed. There is a lot of silver.

You can rest assured that your dowry will be done, and what to do if it is glamorous.

Your General Xie has silver. ”

Li Ran sighed, breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed again for a moment.

Beneath this pile of silver are piles of human life.

Alas, the people of the land of turmoil, she has seen it. I only hope that in this life, the country and the people will be safe.

(End of chapter)