Chapter 60, The Dowry of the Xie Family
The matter of Su Jinyan's mother and daughter sending Yuyan paste to Su Chun was not a secret matter, and Su Jinyan did not intend to hide it, so this matter quickly spread throughout the entire Guogong Mansion, Mrs. Du's family, the county lord of Beiping in the fourth room, and the Ye family in the sixth room had no idea, while the others were heartbroken.
One thousand taels of silver may be a huge amount of money for ordinary people, and for a family like the Su family, one thousand taels of silver is only half a year's expenses for the concubine to go out of the house, which is not much, but it is very rare to be able to wave a thousand taels of silver to give away.
Because the Su family has not yet separated, the public school gives two thousand taels of silver a year as a year's living expenses in the house, whether it is enough or not, when the two thousand taels of silver are used up in a year, there will be no more, of course, except for marrying or something.
For the five rooms of the Su family, when Su Minghua was working outside in the past, this; Two thousand taels of silver is not enough, in addition to life, he also has to do something in the officialdom, although Xie is unwilling to give his dowry to Su Minghua to raise other women, but when he encounters a major event, he will still give a sum of silver, which is almost three or four thousand taels a year.
If three or four thousand taels will be exchanged for the daughter-in-law of the other concubines of the Su family, it will also be a lot of silver, but for the Xie family, a wealthy businessman and the only daughter of the Yingyang Lu family, this is just a drop in the bucket, and the Xie family's dowry is worth millions of taels, and the annual profit is more than 100,000 taels or 200,000 taels, and this mere three or four thousand taels of silver is nothing.
The other people from the Su family, who did not have much contact with the Xie family, despised Xie for being a merchant's daughter, covered with copper stench, and on the other hand, they were red at the silver in Xie's hands, and their hearts were very conflicted.
"Yan'er, where did you get the jade face ointment, this jade face paste of Xianzifang has to be booked two years in advance·······" On the way back to the West Wind Courtyard, Xie still couldn't hold back, and asked Su Jinyan at this time.
Xie Shi also knows a thing or two about his daughter, this will definitely not be booked two years ago, Xie Shi is very puzzled, this is not two years ago, how did this come about, why don't you know anything about it?
"Mother, please allow your daughter to have a secret in her heart about this, okay?" Su Jinyan didn't plan to tell the Xie family about the Yingyang Lu family, her mother's character, if she knew that Xianzifang was actually the property of the ancestors of the Yingyang Lu family back then, and if she was tricked, she would inevitably leak her mouth, so it was better not to tell her.
I'm also ten years old, this is already a big girl, and I can talk about marriage in two or three years, and I should have my own little secret, if the time is ripe in the future, I will tell her that it is not too late, or I will bury this matter in my heart alone, anyway, my mother has a large dowry, and she does not lack food and clothing, which is enough for her to squander several lives!
"Okay, my mother just asked you to ask, and when I turned around, my mother asked her to send you a thousand taels of silver tickets, and my daughter's family still has some silver in my own hands·······" Xie thought to himself that his daughter was older, and it was inevitable that she would have her own little secret, and besides, her daughter was so sensible that she was more capable than herself, so what else did she worry about.
The daughter's family should have some silver in their hands, otherwise they will be bullied when they go out, Xie thought about it, and decided to let someone send Su Jinyan a thousand taels of silver tickets.
Su Jinyan heard that Xie Shi asked her to give her a silver ticket, and wanted to open her mouth to refuse, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed it, although there were endless silver tickets in the space she carried, but rashly took it out, it would inevitably arouse suspicion, and besides, the mother gave her unmarried daughter her own silver, this is a mother's intention, how can she refuse!
That's it, when he is older, after he is thirteen years old, his mother gives him a dowry, and then he will pay more filial piety to his mother!
There is an unwritten rule in the Dashun Dynasty, after the girl's family has decided on the family, the mother will hand over the daughter's dowry to the daughter to take care of herself, one is to exercise the daughter's ability to take care of the dowry, if the ability is lacking, the mother will teach some, and the other is also for the daughter to marry to better help the husband's family take care of the house.
There are a lot of dowries in Xie's name, millions of taels, in the past, Xie only had three daughters, so he wanted to have three daughters, after Su Jin decided on the marriage of the Chen family, the dowry given by Xie was worth more than 100,000 taels, which was only given when the marriage was made, and some more will be given after the marriage.
In the previous life, it was this generous handwriting, which made their foreign family, the Xie family, and the Wu family eyeing them, and then waited until Aunt Wu became a flat wife, two-thirds of the Xie family's dowry was asked to go back by the Xie family, and the other third was also taken by the Wu family, and the beautiful name was to take care of them, but as a result, when their sisters got married, the eldest sister only had a dowry of 30,000 taels, and it was all shoddy, and she was even less, and when it came to the younger sister, I was afraid that there was no direct ·······
In the five-room West Wind Courtyard, the aunts of the five-room were already waiting outside the main courtyard at this time, and when Su Jinchu came back with the younger siblings below, he was also questioned.
Because the main courtyard of Xifeng Courtyard where the Xie family lives is not large, so when the Xie family and the Su Jinyan sisters are sitting on the fifteenth day of the new year, only the three sisters of the Xie family and the Su Jinyan family are sitting, and the other concubines and aunts are all standing, and the maids in the room are waiting outside the house.
Today, because there is more Su Jingye, the sister-in-law, so in the living room at this time, Su Jinchu and Su Jingui sisters are sitting on the lower right side, and Su Jingye is sitting opposite, and there is a seat in front of Su Jingye, which is specially reserved by Su Jingye for Su Jinyan, the fourth sister.
According to the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women, since Su Jingye is a son-in-law, he should sit in the first seat on the left, but Su Jingye thought that he was a concubine in the past, and he was promoted by his mother, so he became a son-in-law, so he took the initiative to sit in the second position on the left and left the first seat to Su Jinyan.
The concubine Su Jingchang and Su Jingfan, who was held by the nurse, stood behind Su Jingye and the vacant seat on the left, and behind the sisters Su Jinchu on the right stood in a row several concubines in the fifth room, and the righteous daughter Tsing Yi stood at the front.
The aunts were divided into two teams, one team stood at Su Jingye's hand on the left, and the other few people stood at Su Jingui's hand on the right, one by one with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, but everyone was contemplating in their hearts, this Tsing Yi and a maid wore the girl's clothes, and she was still standing at the forefront, did the young lady take her as a righteous daughter?