Updated: 2012-11-26

Li Danruo returned to Xiayingju, looked at the house that had been cleaned up, and suddenly felt sad and couldn't help himself, is this going to get married? This warm home will never come back.

Yao Huang gently pushed Li Danruo, who was distracted, and said in a low voice: "Girl, don't be sad, the two families are so close, they can come and go often in the future." ”

"Well, I know, it's not sad, by the way, call Wei Zi and the others in, I have something to say." Li Danruo shook his head and shook off those sad commands, Yao Huang promised and was about to go out, Li Danruo followed again: "There are also Zhu Yi and the four of them." Yao Huang answered again, and after a while, he led everyone into the house.

Li Danruo sat on the couch, looking at the girls standing in front of the couch one by one, Yao Huang and Wei Zi next to each other, followed by fat red and bean green, and in the back row stood Zhu Yi, Yu makeup, Hu Yue and green calyx, four second-class girls, all of whom were going to follow her to marry into the Jiang family, perhaps, they would wait for her and follow her for a lifetime, these are her lifelong companions.

"After entering the Jiang family, our master and servant are dependent on each other." Li Danruo's voice was full of faint sadness, paused, and continued: "You have all followed me for several years, and the green calyx came in at the latest, and it has been four years, right?" ”

"Back girl, it's been four years and three months." Lu Calyx hurriedly bent his knees and replied, Li Danruo nodded: "I have all kinds of temperament and character, how to treat you, I don't need to say, I went into Jiang's Mansion later, but I changed places to live, everything is no different from now, the rules are still those rules, just the same, I will explain to you in advance, if you violate it, don't blame me for being polite." The smile on Li Danruo's face disappeared, and everyone looked at Li Danruo in awe.

Li Danruo looked at the carefully selected and brilliant girls in front of him one by one, and then said: "You go with me, you are my girl, except for this, I don't plan to use it elsewhere in the past!" Li Danruo stopped, his eyes swept over everyone, Yao Huang, Wei Zi and Li Danruo were the closest, and they could understand her mind the most, and they immediately heard the meaning of these words, a trace of surprise flashed on the fat red face, Doulu drooped his eyelids, and he didn't know if he understood, Zhu Yi was a few younger, and looked at Li Danruo a little blankly, Li Danruo continued: "You are all selected by me one by one, all of you are top good girls, you have never been a concubine, a room, and a lowly li'er, in the future, no matter who wants to marry you, It has to be your own favorite person, it is you who are willing to marry in your own heart, you are willing to marry, I will prepare a dowry, lively, decent to send you out, if you want to follow me on an errand, come back to me to be a housekeeper, if you don't want to, I will also listen to you, we will always come and go in the future. ”

"The girl's words are so clear today, I have to kowtow to the girl first." Wei Zi listened with a smile on his face, and without waiting for Li Danruo to answer, he had already knelt down neatly and kowtowed, Yao Huang hurriedly knelt down, and said with a smile while kowtowing: "You have to kowtow well!" Fat Hong and the others also followed behind and kowtowed.

"Okay, get up, there's something to say." Li Danruo said with a smile, Yao Huang and the others stood up, Li Danruo swept everyone and smiled: "The front is all good words, and the good words can follow the rules in the back, you have to remember it, I don't want you to be a concubine for the concubine, but everyone has their own ambitions, if you really want to be a concubine, I can't stop it, it's just the same, in front of me, I can't tolerate it!" Li Danruo's voice became cold: "The people around me, in front of me, plan to give my uncle a concubine as a concubine, don't think about this, I can't tolerate such a thing!" If someone wants to force you, just tell me, I will never allow anyone to bully you, but if someone pushes you halfway, and then cries with me as a last resort, they will point out that I can tolerate it, hum!" Li Danruo snorted coldly: "But don't blame me for being unkind." ”

Li Danruo paused, his eyes swept over everyone one by one and asked slowly, "Do you understand?" ”

"Got it!" Yao Huang and the others hurriedly agreed, Li Danruo said lightly, and then continued: "The day after tomorrow, when you enter the Jiang Mansion, be careful about everything, listen more, watch more and talk less, no matter who you are dealing with, you can't be rude." Everyone agreed again, Li Danruo waved his hand and retreated from everyone, Yao Huang and Dou Hong were busy waiting for Li Danruo to wash, Wei Zi and Dou Lu packed up the bed, waited for Li Danruo to rest, and several people retreated to the outside room, Wei Zi and Dou Lu were on duty at night, Yao Huang and Dou Hong went out to bring the door and went back to the East Chamber.

Entering the house, Fat Hong closed the door and said with a smile: "What the girl said today is really scary, the girl is such a good person, I really don't know how she can be polite." ”

"Although you entered this yard a few months earlier than the green calyx, it can be regarded as late, I haven't seen the girl's way of treating people, and I won't tell you more, you just remember, the girl is very good, and she won't get angry easily, but if you are really annoyed......" Yao Huang shrank his shoulders with palpitations: "Anyway, what the girl said, you remember it well, don't violate the girl's rules, okay, hurry up and sleep, you have to get up before dawn tomorrow, you have to be busy for two or three days." Yao Huang didn't want to say more, so he pushed Fat Hong to clean his head and face first, cleaned up and went to sleep.

The auspicious time of the next day when the dowry was issued was before the end of the day, and the dowry was carried out of the Li Mansion neatly and neatly, bypassing the small half of the capital, and flowing into the Jiang Mansion.

In the teahouse not far from the yamen of the Beijing Mansion, Di Tuiguan and Chen Qingmai stood in front of the window on the second floor, watching the dowry flowing downstairs, and whispering.

“…… It's been almost an hour, and I haven't counted how many lifts I have. Chen Qingmai looked at the dowry raising his head at the corner from afar, Di Tuiguan glanced at him, and said with a hearty smile: "This dowry is very good-looking, and it really can't go fast, it is a family in the capital, and this dowry has to go for more than an hour, so it can be regarded as not losing face, the Li Mansion has been prominent for decades, and this fourth lady is the most favored girl in the house, and this dowry is only afraid to live for a small half a day." Di Tuiguan paused, pointed at the dowry downstairs with a folding fan, and then smiled: "In fact, just looking at how much it is lifted outside, the thickness of this dowry is not very visible, and this dowry is also divided into dowry and hidden dowry." ”

"And the one who hid the dowry? How to hide the dowry? Chen Qingmai was surprised, Di Tuiguan turned around and pushed him back to the table, poured him a cup of tea, poured another cup for himself, took a sip before smiling: "Like your daughter-in-law, and the one in my family, the dowry is all placed outside for others to see, ten taels of silver, if you want to put it in a way that makes people look like there are a hundred taels of silver, the dowry of this fourth lady must have hidden a lot." ”

Chen Qingmai looked curious and surprised, and hurriedly signaled to Di Tuiguan, Di Tuiguan picked up a piece of dim sum and ate it, drank a few sips of tea and said: "The first few lifts, one raised the head and put two tiles, but those two tiles are neither golden, nor red, this is hidden, I only know that there are two houses, how many are entered, I can't see, these two enters, three entrances and five entrances, how bad is it?" Then he raised his head, as if he had piled up five or six square bricks, but they were stacked on top of each other, and the outside was wrapped with red silk, which was wrapped in red silk, and a brick was a hundred acres of land, and there were only five or six hundred acres of land in total? I calculated that there must be more than that, and there must be gold in the middle of the bricks below, and one brick is 500 acres of land, which is right. ”

"So much!" Chen Qingmai couldn't help but scream, Di Tuiguan's eyes swept with a trace of disdain, and laughed: "This is not much, if you want to say a lot, you have to count Mrs. Liu's dowry back then, the good land alone is 6,000 acres, this four-room Mrs. Yang, I heard that she took away half of the Yang family when she got married, this good land dare not say much, there are always 1,800 acres, and there are more than five or six hundred acres, not to mention the old lady in their house, the old lady is the old feudal monarch who has been sealed in real place, and she has accumulated it over the years, and she doesn't know how many good things she has saved in hand." ”

"Alas!" Chen Qingmai remembered the situation on the day of the separation, sighed regrettably, Di Tuiguan glanced at him and smiled: "Today's customs are thick marriage, big families say kiss, the most important concubine, in addition to valuing the support of the mother's family, this is also one of the reasons, the mother's dowry, naturally only willing to give her own children, although your daughter-in-law is also a child, but unfortunately the mother is not effective, when the Miao family is the most prominent, there is only a six-grade official in the family, and read and heirloom, two sleeves of the breeze, now early back to the hometown, even the news is gone, you married early, If you get married after splitting up, in addition to the public middle school, the second room also has silver to make up for one or two, but now there is no way. Di Tuiguan laughed, Chen Qingmai nodded and sighed in annoyance: "I only cared about burying my head in the book before, how do I know that there are so many exquisiteness in this high-ranking family?" Alas! Regret not being at the beginning!"

"You can't say that," Di Tuiguan put away the folding fan, slowly patted it in the palm of his hand, and weighed it for a while before continuing: "Don't have that bad mind, this Li Mansion is one of the most famous families in the capital, you ...... We can marry the girl of the Li family, it is considered to be high, no matter what, you can't write two 'Li' words in one stroke, and you are an informed and interesting person, so even if the Li family is not very helpful, take care of it casually, it is always indispensable for you, this is enough, this is one thing, it is the same, if you give birth to something, what kind of daughter-in-law can you marry? Which Gaomen in the capital is willing to marry the girl to fill the house? It's a concubine, and the slightly better ones may not be willing, besides, in case there is a point of disagreement...... This will close the face of the Li Mansion, and the Li family can't ignore the four rooms, and you will lose a lot. ”

Chen Qingmai listened attentively, sighed annoyedly, Di Tuiguan had a hint of disdain in the corners of his eyes, stretched out his hand and patted Chen Qingmai and said with a smile: "Brother said this to you, but it's all for your good, if you don't like it, just leave it at home, how many good things outside are you like?" Put a few outside, a few at home, and it's not up to you to live this day? ”