"Mother!" Yang was surprised, Mrs. Gao smiled and patted her hand: "You, think about it with your brain, this stepson, since you have entered the door, it is your room to support the top of the door, you can't always treat him as an outsider, if you want to be so close to Sister Ruo'er, you can't, but you also have to treat him as your own family, you can think of it for him, you have to plan for him, the first one, his future, you have to rest assured, you don't have to worry about things outside, you have to worry about the outside things, you have long sleeves and good dancing, famous for your exquisite hands, but your house, There is a rule that is different from other people's families, speaking of this matter, the roots are all in your sister-in-law in the long house, count up, the ancestor of the Li family is a cook, what family rules and family laws can't be mentioned at all, to your father-in-law, and he is an only son and a single seedling, and it will be your generation, it can be regarded as a branch, and your sister-in-law married in, but the silver is piled up in a mountain, and you have a net silver in your house to earn a decent amount. Each room has to think of its own money for the future!"

"But no, if it weren't for the sister-in-law's rich dowry, the eldest man wouldn't be able to earn such an honest official reputation." Yang chuckled under his breath.

"Alas, this rule, can't be said to be bad, I looked at it and felt that there was nothing bad, each room to make a little future of the silver out of their own room, the money earned by the official is also collected, there is the ability to eat meat, no ability to drink soup, this is also fair, you old lady is an understanding person, I say this, not to comment on whether this thing is good or not, I mean, since your house has this rule, you have to keep a good future for your brother, he is poor without a penny of silver, you keep a good silver, when the time comes to pick a daughter-in-law, you will have confidence, only look at people, Regardless of the dowry, alas! In the end, he is the heir, and he wants to find one with all four corners, but I am afraid that people will not want to. Old Madam Gao sighed, paused for a long time before looking at her daughter and said with a wry smile: "Brother Straight, that daughter-in-law must also be good, you will have a better life in the future, and your mother-in-law will be over seventy, how many years can you last?" It's the same, I'm leaving, let's go here, you don't have to count on it. ”

"Mother!" Yang shouted angrily and anxiously, Mrs. Gao patted her lightly, and said in a low voice: "You, you are a solid eye, when you got married, I accompanied you thickly, your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law don't know how many times in private, saying that I gave you most of the Yang family as a dowry, this is not wrong, so what?! This woman is different from a man, a woman relies on that dowry to support herself, and the man does not go outside to stand up to the sky and the earth, and remember this little thing at home, that is called useless!"

"Mother." Yang pulled Old Madam Gao and called out in a low voice, Old Madam Gao patted her hand and smiled: "Okay, mother is far away again, you said that your mother is such a strong person, why are you supple like this?" Okay, okay, if you don't talk about this, I'll tell you, the Yang family, if I'm not there, don't count on it, your two brothers are not like me, not atmospheric! Although I haven't said a word about this marriage, those two are the flesh that fell from my body, and I can see it clearly! This heart, I've been letting it go!" Old Madam Gao chuckled a few times and shook her head sadly: "Alas! This man is not open-minded, not atmospheric, there is no pattern, there is no interest, your two brothers will lose on this, otherwise, it is not difficult to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, alas! This is also fate, my mother-in-law has also done her seventieth birthday, I am gone, if my mother-in-law is also gone, you remember, if there is anything, discuss it with Sister Ruo'er, let Sister Ruo'er give you ideas, and the people next to you, my mother can't believe it!"

"Mother!" Yang's tears rippled when he listened, lying in the arms of Mrs. Gao, her sobbing shoulders shook non-stop, and Mrs. Gao was also sad by her crying, patted her gently, and smiled after a while: "Okay, what's there to cry about?" How can anyone live forever? Birth, old age, sickness and death, the way of heaven returns, don't cry, go and call Sister Ruo'er over, let's talk easily. Yang sobbed for a while before he stopped sobbing, wiped away his tears, and went to the door of the East Chamber to tell the girl to call Li Danruo over.

Li Danruo and his mother Yang accompanied Mrs. Gao to dinner, before saying goodbye and going back, Mrs. Wu sent the two to the second door and got into the car, the car went out of the gate of Yang's house, Yang looked at the warm and familiar gate with red lanterns through the gap in the car curtain, Li Danruo moved, took his mother's arm, leaned over and looked at the gate that was getting farther and farther away with her, after a while, Yang exhaled heavily, put down the curtain, hugged his daughter's shoulder, and shook with the car for a while, before whispering: "Mother still has you." ”

"Well," Li Danruo responded softly, squeezed into his mother's arms, Yang hugged his daughter, and after a while, he sighed and whispered: "In a blink of an eye, you are so old, you like to squeeze in your mother's arms when you were a child, and you don't let go when you fall asleep, you wake up as soon as I move, and you are so big in a blink of an eye." ”

"I want to squeeze when I grow up, but my mother won't let me squeeze it." Li Danruo rubbed a smile in his mother's arms, and Yang couldn't help but show a gentle smile: "Look at you, you're so big, you're taller than your mother, and you're still squeezing into your mother's arms?!"

"Nope! I'm still young!" Li Danruo shook his mother while laughing, Yang laughed, patted her and said: "Okay, okay, it looks like she has grown up, and she is still like a child, her mother's head is swayed by you, you sit down, and your mother has something to say to you." ”

"Well," Li Danruo agreed, moved back, sat upright and looked at his mother, Yang straightened Li Danruo's skirt with pity, and said in a low voice: "Your grandmother told your mother something, and your mother thinks it makes sense, but she wronged you." Li Danruo's heart jumped, looked at his mother, and waited for her to continue, Yang sighed a few times before he said embarrassedly: "You also know that the girl in our house is married, and the dowry in the public middle school is just a little bit, I can't tell you, my mother originally planned to bring all my mother's dowry to you, but your grandmother's meaning is that you have to leave some silver for your third brother to have a future in the future, but your mother's dowry is not much, not to mention compared with your eldest uncle, even compared with your third uncle, it is also worse, it is already less, and then divide it out...... Alas, no matter what, I can't wronged you, my mother will discuss this matter with your wife when she goes back, and she can't wronged you. ”

"That's the grievance that my mother said?" Li Danruo raised his eyebrows and asked, Yang nodded: "This is not a big deal?" Look at you childishness, what could be more important than this? ”

"Mother, this matter is not wronged! Alas, I tell my mother about my mother's dowry several times every year, but my mother has never been at ease!" Li Danruo complained half-truthfully: "Mother's dowry, these years have not been moldy in the library, those Zhuangzi, shops, silver, take out, they are all good at making money, in the past few years, I haven't calculated carefully, doubling is inevitable, even if it is split in half, it is not less than my mother's dowry back then, plus the public middle school, what else is wronged?" Although there are many dowries in the long house and the third room, there are also many children, and they can't be given to any one, this Li family, no matter how you calculate it, I must be the one with the most generous dowry! Mother said, what's the grievance about this? ”

Yang blinked her eyes for a long time when she heard this, and Li Danruo pushed her to shake her back and forth and smiled: "Mother went back and called in the big steward Jiang and asked him to calculate it carefully for you, the grandmother also knows about this, and the grandmother asks every year, if the life is less in any year, the grandmother will check it carefully!" Yang Shi was stunned for a while before he smiled and said, "How can I understand these things as a woman?" ”

"The eldest aunt understands, the grandmother also understands, and I also know something, but the mother doesn't care, and this has nothing to do with the woman's family!" Li Danruo scratched his face and laughed at his mother, Yang smiled and patted his daughter, and the mother and daughter laughed all the way back to Li's mansion.

As soon as the winter came, the days slipped quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was the day of Li Yuju's marriage, the day before the dowry, Mrs. Liu watched the mothers-in-law put Li Yuju's dowry neatly in front of Xiaocui Hall in the second gate, and breathed a sigh of relief with satisfaction, this blockbuster looks really decent, this happy event, what she wants, is the word 'decent'!

The eldest girl Li Shuihua returned to her parents' house early in the morning to help her mother Zhang Luo Li Yuju get married, this is the custom of the capital, there are girls in the family to marry, and the sisters who have been married, as long as they can come, will come back to live for two or three days to get married.

Li Shuihua stood beside his mother, a little stunned to look at the dazzling array in front of him, the beautiful dowry, the housekeeper mother-in-law stepped forward and Mrs. Liu carefully reported, with a few mothers-in-law and holding the dowry list, the dowry that had just been placed again, Mrs. Liu saw that everything was correct, nodded with satisfaction, and ordered the three dowry lists to be pressed into the dowry first, and before the dowry was issued early tomorrow morning, it would be ordered again.

Mrs. Liu watched her mother-in-law press the dowry list, slowly walked up the steps of Xiaocui Hall, swept back and forth condescendingly a few times, showed a very satisfied smile, and told her mother-in-law to keep it, beckoned Li Shuihua, and the mother and daughter slowly walked to Mrs. Ning in the main courtyard together.