She didn't want to pay attention to these trivial matters, Zeng Yutong was worried about them.

Qin Mingyue sat for a while, then left the Qin family and went directly to work in the Heart Picking Building. There have been too many things recently, and it takes a long time to correct official documents every day, and Qin Mingyue feels that if this continues, her cultivation will be delayed. Therefore, the national teachers of the past generations did not like to manage official affairs, because for the national teachers, the most important thing is not power, but cultivation.

Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it's May. The war in Ba province continues. On the side of the capital, the Qin family is already about to win the second happy event.

The second son of the Qin family, Qin Guotan, who is a concubine, is about to get married.

However, the object of his marriage was not the family in the capital, but the object of his marriage was the Jiang family, a large merchant in Jin Province. Although the Jiang family is rich, after all, they are businessmen and are not valued in the upper class. Although Qin Guotan is the elder brother of Qin Guoshi, he has no official position, no title, no fame, no study, no martial arts, and married a merchant, and his future is basically a rich man. No one dares to bully such a person, however, no one values him either.

Therefore, Qin Guotan's wedding, although it was very lively, and there were many people who came to congratulate him, but it was all for Qin Mingyue's sake, and no one cared about Qin Guotan and the bride Jiang Sango.

Qin Guotan was originally the most noisy, and in order to snatch the title, he fought with Qin Guosong for many years. Later, his biological mother even his aunt died, and he was also banned, and slowly, he also understood that in the Qin family, even his grandmother, who had always loved him, was no longer oriented towards him, and he had no status at all. As a concubine with no future, he can only rely on his brothers and sisters to live his life. Therefore, he didn't dare to continue to make trouble.

Although Qin Guotan is arrogant, he is not a fool, on the contrary, he is very smart. Otherwise, she would not have been valued by the old lady Mrs. An at the beginning, and she won it to compete with Qin Guosong for the title.

Since he was a child, he had seen how his grandmother treated her uncles after his grandfather's death. The uncles who came out of the concubines were even more arrogant than him in the mansion back then, with fine clothes and fine food, but later, after the death of the grandfather, the grandmother sent these uncles away. Some uncles have less than 100 taels of silver in the family property, and now most of the uncles who are concubines are still living a life of urgency, living at the bottom of the capital.

was so poor, so embarrassed, and even had to sell his labor force in exchange for food and clothing for his family, Qin Guotan was scared.

Although the situation of the Qin family has improved again in the past two years, the uncles can also rely on the face of the Qin family and not be bullied, and several uncles are rushing back to befriend their grandmother, father, and eldest brother. Qin Guosong, the eldest brother in charge of housework, still takes care of face, and sends them some silver money to eat every year. Although it was no more than two hundred taels a year, these uncles were finally freed from their abject poverty and no longer had to work as coolies. Therefore, some uncles took the money or bought two acres of land, or started a small business and lived a life. Some of them, who don't have the ability, come to flatter and run errands, just like the people in the house.

The best is the seventh uncle Qin Kang, because he married Qin Mingyue, the sister of the national teacher, he followed him to Ba Province, and made a contribution, not only did the family property increase, but after returning to the capital, he bought a house, bought land, and had an official position.

I saw the lives of these uncles. Qin Guotan knew that he could only rely on Qin Guosong, the elder brother of Liguo Gong, and Qin Mingyue, the sister of the national teacher, in the future.

Therefore, he lived his life carefully, even if he was still resentful in his heart, and tried his best to restrain himself.

What made him happy was that his brother and sister were not ruthless, at least they were much better than their grandmother. They found themselves the daughter of the Jiang family, a merchant in Jin Province, as their wife.

Of course, some of his old friends were unwilling to pry him. It's not good to say that a noble son like him married a merchant girl.

However, Qin Guotan scoffed. Even when he was the heir to the Duke of Liguo, even when he was held in the palm of his grandmother's hand, his life was tight. Because at that time, the entire Liguo Mansion was a dilapidated settlement, and the family couldn't sweep out a few taels of silver.

Maybe it's been too long. Qin Guotan was not interested in the power he had never gotten before. On the contrary, he has an unusual desire for silver.

Now, knowing that his brother has found himself a rich merchant girl as his wife, the wife will bring a large amount of dowry, maybe even more than 100,000 taels of silver. Qin Guotan was immediately satisfied.

When he thought that he would be so rich in the future and live a more luxurious life than his father who was the prince before, he was happy in his heart.

For the sake of silver, Qin Guotan even thought that even if this Jiang Coral was an ugly monster, he would admit it and live a good life. In this way, he became a rich man with a base of 100,000 families, but it was much better than his uncles.

On the day of the wedding, although Qin Guotan, as the groom, was snubbed by the guests, they all rushed to flatter Qin Guosong and Qin Mingyue. However, Qin Guotan didn't care, he was also glad that these unknown guests didn't come to harass him, so that he had time to rush to the courtyard where his wife was and see the dowry that his wife had posted.

As a merchant girl, Jiang Sango's family is rich, and she could have easily made a dowry of one hundred and twenty units. However, because the eldest sister-in-law Zeng Yutong is only one hundred and twenty units as the princess's wife, and she, as her younger daughter-in-law, is not easy to cross, in order to show respect, her mother's family gave one hundred and eight units.

In fact, Jiang Coral was originally going to live in Jin Province with Qin Guotan after marriage, so most of Jiang Coral's dowry was in Jin Province. Only a part of it was sent to the capital. In this way, one hundred and eight units can still be installed.

Qin Guotan looked at the small courtyard full of houses, and he couldn't even fit it, so he put it in the front yard. The dowry, beautiful porcelain, precious jade, luxurious gold and silverware, silk and satin, and ornaments are really dazzling.

This kind of dowry, if you have to find fault, is a bit cheesy, there are no rare books, no good calligraphy and paintings, and no precious antiques. Most of them are gold and silver utensils.

However, Qin Guotan likes such cheesiness.

Qin Guotan looked at it in surprise, why is it that the box where the bath beans are placed in this dowry is a lotus leaf-shaped box carefully made of pure gold? Not to mention the gold-inlaid jade-encrusted ornaments? Qin Guotan was smiling all day long, he liked these glittering things so much, he sincerely thanked his wife who brought him so much wealth, and secretly thought in his heart, even if she was an ugly monster, for the sake of such a rich dowry, he would treat his wife well.