In mid-July, it was the beginning of autumn, and the weather was not as hot as the previous days.

The sky has just revealed a ray of morning light, the huge Bianjing City has been busy, and the trading restaurants have also set up stalls to prepare for business, and the morning fog and oil smoke are rising, setting off Bianjing as if it were in the sky.

Tianbo Mansion, located in the northeast of the inner city, is particularly lively, with red lantern brocade decorating the entire mansion, and today is the day of Yang Bajie's marriage.

In the boudoir, Sister Yang started to get up in the middle of the night to clean up her makeup, but she always felt dissatisfied, and she was both worried and excited in her heart, and felt that time was difficult.

The maid Mei Jian handed over a glass of wine and said:

"Why should the lady worry? If there is something wrong, Hou Ye Cao will also help us cover it up. ”

Eighth Sister Yang was not worried, and she couldn't explain her mood to the maid at the moment, but when she heard this, she also relaxed a lot, so she took the wine and drank it slowly.

When she put down the wine cup, her fair face was already stained with a blush.

The maid was about to speak, but saw Sanniang and Wuniang walking in together, and Sanniang said with some jokes on her face:

"I didn't expect that my eighth sister would also be afraid to marry."

When Sister Yang heard this, she became arrogant and denied:

"I'm not timid, it's just a change of residence, what's so scary?"

Seeing this, Sanniang wanted to be funny, and couldn't help but laugh a few more words, before saying with a smile:

"We are here to tell you that your dowry has gathered enough 200,000 yuan, no worse than the little lady of the Pang family, and you can marry the Cao family with confidence."

When Eighth Sister Yang heard this, she was silent for a moment, frowned, and said:

"That's too much? The family has always been poor, and I don't want to fight for power with the Pang family's lady, Cao ...... Bin doesn't care, so why bother with the dowry? ”

"Isn't it a lot of debt for the family to take out so much money?"

Although the income of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty was high, they could not stand the lack of other income of the Yang family, and most of their silver money was used to support their relatives and help the disabled old department, so they lived a very frugal life.

Not to mention 200,000 guan, even 10,000 or 20,000, it is also very difficult for them to take it out.

But the customs of the Great Song Dynasty attach great importance to the dowry, which is the body of the daughter's family and their confidence, and the husband's family cannot use it.

When an ordinary family marries a daughter, the dowry must be at least twice as much as the dowry, otherwise they will be despised by the husband's family and despised by the neighbors.

Therefore, Sanniang waved her hand and said:

"The old lady said, you and the lady of the Pang family are in the same position in the Cao family, even if you are not in charge of the Hou Mansion, you can't be compared to others in terms of dowry."

"Brother Bin may not care about this money, but our Yang family can't be too shabby, and we can't afford to lose this face, even if the Yang family raises some huge debts, it doesn't hurt......"

As she spoke, she put on a pitiful look and said:

"Eighth sister, for your sake, the third sister-in-law may have to eat bran in the future, your Cao family is rich, you have to think more about your sister-in-law in the future......"

Seeing that Eighth Sister Yang showed a tangled and uncomfortable expression, Wu Niang was a little speechless, and hurriedly interrupted:

"Don't listen to Sanniang's nonsense, our Yang family didn't have any debts at all, and Juncai has already helped solve it."

As she spoke, she took the eighth sister's hand and said with emotion:

"Juncai is very careful, and he is worried that giving us a dowry directly will hurt your face, so he arranged a lot of shops to send business to your door."

Eighth Sister Yang was a little puzzled and said:

"What's our business?"

Wu Niang smiled slightly:

"Yesterday, some shopkeepers came to our house, and they said that they wanted to use your marriage to make a name for the goods, so they sent a lot of gold and silver jewelry and other things in the name of congratulating the newlyweds."

"Although they didn't explain, we also guessed that most of them were the business of the Marquis of Zhongjing's mansion......"

After speaking, some envy inadvertently flashed in her eyes, and she looked at the eighth sister and said:

"There are few men in the world who are so careful, you have found a good husband, and you will have to be gentle with others in the future."

Although this method seems to be a bit cheesy, it can solve the problem at hand, and those merchants have found a good reason, and it is harmless.

When the eighth sister heard this, she pouted and muttered:

"Where am I not gentle?"

As he spoke, he smiled with apricot eyes:

"He has a heart, but I don't care about that."

Still, she couldn't help but feel a burst of sweetness in her heart.

Seeing this, Sanniang couldn't help but grin:

"Thanks to the eighth sister, we also made a lot of money this time, who made Brother Bin our brother-in-law?"

Sister Yang was stunned when she heard this, and immediately reacted, and said with some anger:

"How can you do that? Cao Lang was kind-hearted, so he sent the money over. ”

"If he knew that the Yang family was intercepting it privately, wouldn't he think that my Yang family was greedy?"

Saying that, regardless of the pearls and clouds, he was about to get up and go out:

"No, I'll go to my mother and ask for clarification!"

Wu Niang hurriedly stopped her, glanced at San Niang speechlessly, and dissuaded:

"Eighth sister, don't pay attention to your third sister-in-law, she saw that you were married well, and her heart was sour, so she spoke crazy, and she didn't have a proper shape."

Seeing that Sanniang was still stiff in her mouth, Wu Niang smiled and said with a smile:

"If you dare to speak again, don't blame me for telling your good deeds!"

When Sanniang heard this, she was immediately unconvinced, and shouted with her eyes:

"Oh, you stuffy gourd is making waves, I want to hear what good things you can tell me?"

The two of them have always had a good relationship, but Wu Niang is usually silent, and when she heard her threaten herself, she suddenly became unconvinced.

Seeing her disrespectful words, Wu Niang screwed her hard and sneered:

"Don't think I don't know, when you were in Jiangnan, you took advantage of the convenience of Juncai to steal money......"

Sanniang's face changed, and she hurriedly covered her mouth and begged for mercy:

"Good girl, I'm wrong, can't I be wrong?"

Wu Niang looked at her with a smile and said:

"Sanniang, you know what to do, right?"

Sanniang said depressedly:

"I didn't expect you to be the most insidious, that's the favor that Brother Bin gave me...... Forget it, I'll divide you into three, no, two percent, okay? ”

Eighth Sister Yang glanced at them suspiciously, but she didn't have the heart to watch them fight, and asked anxiously:

"Wu Niang, tell me quickly, what's going on?"

Wu Niang smiled bitterly:

"Juncai is too bold, he is afraid that your dowry will not be enough, in addition to the advertising business, he also used the name of your righteous daughter to extort a large amount of money from the empress dowager."

"In this way, your dowry has exceeded 200,000 yuan."

"When the little lady of the Pang family married into the Cao family, it was also this amount, we can't surpass her, and it will ruin the harmony of the Cao family."

"Therefore, I can only discuss leaving some of the money for the time being, and then slowly replenish it to Juncai in the future......"

Hearing her say this, Sanniang was also a little speechless and said:

"I kind of know why Brother Bin asked you to recognize the Empress Dowager as your stepmother, he has already calculated to let the Empress Dowager give you a dowry."

"Didn't you see the old eunuch's face when he sent money to our family, I'm afraid that the empress dowager has already held a grudge against Brother Shangbin."

When Sister Yang heard this, her face suddenly became wonderful, and she was also a little speechless, although Cao Bin was intimate, this method was too lacking in morality, and even the Queen Mother's idea was beaten.

The old man went to Xixia for a while, and there was not much treasure left over the years, but this time he was pitted by Cao Bin, and I am afraid that there is not even a family fund left......