"Mother, my daughter's dowry is enough, you should keep this money for your younger brother's education." Qi Su'e hugged her mother's arm and coquettishly, "Although our Qi family says that they are cultivating and reading heirlooms, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing, they are not very rich." You save all this money, and you don't know how many years you have saved it for a while. If my daughter takes it away, it means that my daughter doesn't know how to be filial and considerate of you and my father. ”

Second Mrs. Qi still needs to be persuaded again, but Qi Su'e directly covered her mother's mouth, "You don't have to worry about me." Didn't you just tell me that the Ming family would give me and... Is it profitable to divide the workshop? There are those dowries that my grandmother prepared for me, and then there are the Ming family to give me and... The workshop dividend, your daughter will be able to run the small family properly. You have to believe in your daughter, but you have taught me personally, and the housekeeper is good. ”

"No shame!" Second Mrs. Qi was both heartwarming and funny, she nodded her daughter's forehead, "Do you like to boast so much?" ”

Qi Su'e smiled and didn't refute, but she made up her mind in her heart that she would never take more stitches from her mother's family.

Their Qi family is different from the Ming family, the Ming family has already given the female relatives of the family the bonus silver of the workshop as the private money of each small family, but the Qi family is a family that strictly adheres to the "parents are here, no selfish wealth", except for the daughters-in-law's dowry silver and the family's monthly silver, all the property in the family is in the hands of the old man Qi and Mrs. Qi.

Second Mrs. Qi's maiden family is not wealthy, and the dowry, jewelry, fabrics, furniture, etc. given by her mother's family are all the kind that can only be used by the cubs, and only the twenty taels of silver at the bottom of the box can be used by her.

In the first year after marriage, the second wife of Qi used the twenty taels of silver and the monthly money she had saved for half a year to buy two acres of Zhongtian.

Starting from these two acres of Zhongtian, she was like a little hamster, and began to accumulate her private money little by little.

Since the Qi family does not allow her family to do business, she can only expand her private property by buying land, but after all, this is slower than making money in business, and to this day, she has only saved 20 acres of land and more than 100 taels of silver.

Just such a little thing, but the second wife of Qi will divide them among her two sons and two daughters in the future.

As the eldest daughter, Qi Su'e has been helping her mother run a small family since she was a teenager, and she can be said to know how much private property her mother has. In particular, the one-third of the private property was almost all the cash that her mother had worked hard to save for several years.

She didn't have that face, and took away the money that her mother originally planned to make up for their pocket money after the four children in the family got married one after another. She didn't even plan to take the twenty taels that belonged to her, because she had married into a wealthy enough family, and her younger siblings were still uncertain.

Her two younger brothers will pay a lot of money to study for the imperial examination in the future, and her little sister should also say that she will marry someone in five or six years, and no one can say what kind of family her mother can find for her little sister at that time.

If it is the kind of child who has a good background but an average family background, Qi Su'e feels that it is necessary for her mother to make up more money for her little sister to run a small family.

With such a calculation, where can Qi Su'e still take away the one hundred taels of silver that her mother has saved with great difficulty.

It's just that what she didn't expect was that before she got married. At night, her mother actually stuffed the silver ticket directly into the secret compartment of her dressing box, so that she could only bring the silver ticket back to her mother's house on the day she returned to the door. Of course, that's for later.

***

The day after returning from the Qi family, Mingyue, Yu Jiayan and the Ming family went to the county government to visit Gu Zhixian's family.

As before, the things that the two of them gave to the Gu Zhixian family were still mainly practical, and the only two things that could be called valuable were a box of medicinal materials and a box of official swallows added by Mrs. Ming.

Mrs. Gu was originally in poor health, and after coming to Fuxing County, she was a little uncomfortable, and Mrs. Ming heard that she had been pestering. After thinking about it for a long time, she finally decided to send some medicinal herbs and supplements to Mrs. Gu.

She asked Ming Xu to go to Dr. Qi's medical clinic to buy a twenty-year-old ginseng with good quality, and then asked him to go to Chi Zhen's father's shop to buy a box of Guan Yan, and the cost was shared equally between the two families.

Chi Zhen is Ming Xu's classmate, and before Mingyue got married, he also helped Ming Xu entertain him and his wife Qin in the Ming family's house.

At that time, they were also guests at the Ming family with Gu Hanqing and Gu Hanqing's wife Li.

Unlike the overstretched Gu family, the Chi family has a small family business in Fuxing County.

Chi Zhen's father and mother only have Chi Zhen's only son, and their only son is a good seedling who reads, so until now, Chi Zhen's father is still in charge of all the family's business.

Mrs. Ming asked Ming Xu to find his family to buy Guanyan, not because she wanted to rely on her personal relationship to pay less, she just knew very well that her own uninformed Zhuang family was the so-called ignorant person who was most loved by those profiteers.

She didn't want her family to be deceived by profiteers as fools because she didn't know the goods, and she didn't want her family to spend a lot of money, but in the end she gave a bunch of rags to Mrs. Gu.

Their family was laughed at as "having eyes but no beads", "really being mud legs who have never seen the world", but it is still secondary, what Mrs. Ming is most afraid of is in case the things they send will make Mrs. Gu eat a good thing...

For her and the Ming family, that is really a big deal, and Mrs. Ming doesn't think that her family can take the responsibility of killing the county commander's mother.

Of course, even if you don't consider the catastrophe that this matter may bring to the Ming family, Mrs. Ming never wants to take care of the old lady.

Although she didn't have much contact, Mrs. Ming has always had a good impression of Gu Zhixian's family, and she wanted to continue to have a deep friendship with this family from the bottom of her heart.

It's not because Gu Zhixian is a county parent, nor because he can help Ming Xu and others in their studies, but because Mrs. Ming thinks that their family is kind people, and they are "tempered" and "can get along with their Ming family".

The family took a mule cart to the back street of the county ya, where Gu Zhixian's nephew had already been waiting.

Mingxu came forward to greet each other, and then introduced Mingdi to him.

Now Gu Zhixian's nephew is also studying in the county, because Gu Zhixian admires Ming Xu and others very much, he naturally gets close to them.

When Mrs. Ming also saw the ceremony, Gu Zhixian's nephew welcomed the Ming family, Mingyue and Yu Jiayan in.

Gu Zhixian and Mrs. Gu, who were smiling, greeted them in the courtyard with their two daughters, and everyone greeted each other again.