Chapter 378: Saving the Dowry
"Big brother, don't worry, Mai Miao is right, if it weren't for a coincidence, where would we be able to enter Cheng Mei's eyes. Besides, Cheng Mei is a few years younger than her mother. ”
After Tian Maimiao finished speaking, Bai Sanzhuang came back to his senses.
It turned out that the eldest brother was worried about himself.
But Mai Miao is right, the eldest brother is too worried.
"Besides, even if she is eighteen years old, I only have thoughts about Mai Miao for women in this world." Bai Sanzhuang smiled at his daughter-in-law.
In front of her mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law, Tian Mai Miaoteng, who has always been straightforward, blushed.
"Don't you deceive this? Why is it so coincidental that you saved someone's housekeeper, and they are willing to take you to Nanyang to make a fortune? ”
After all, the shadow of Bai Sanzhuang being framed for rebellion is too great, and Mrs. Bai is skeptical of all the good things that fall from the sky, lest she bring any disaster to the Bai family.
It doesn't matter if you get rich or not, the important thing is that the family is safe and sound.
Zhen had a different opinion, she thought for a while and said, "Mother, this matter can't be completely like this. Back then, my mother also helped the Bai family casually, to be honest, my mother gave the Bai family a leak in her fingers, but the Bai family saved me because of this help. I want to come to this world There are ungrateful people like An Xiucai, but more I believe that there are people like our Bai family who know how to repay the grace of dripping water. ”
Xie Chuntao nodded on the side, very much agreed with her mother-in-law's opinion, and said: "What my mother said is that if you don't mention it far away, you will talk about the Zhou family." Our sister-in-law saved Feng Zhiheng, and the Zhou family gave the fourth brother and Erlang the opportunity to study in Huaicheng. There are also embroidery girls in the village recruited by our embroidery workshop, some of them don't even dare to kill chickens on weekdays, and this time in order to protect us, we dare to take the knife of the official. ”
The truth is true, but it's different.
After all, this housekeeper Bai Sanzhuang is also a one-sided relationship, unlike the Zhou family, which has a century-old Confucian reputation, and it is not like the embroidery girl in the village who knows the roots.
The so-called knowing people, knowing faces, not knowing hearts.
Bai Sanzhuang saw that his mother supported him in her words, and he was relieved at first, and said: "This housekeeper's surname is Yan, and his face was burned, and I didn't intend to meet ...... at the door of the steamed bun shop at that time."
"Burns on the face?"
Zhen and Bai Muban's hearts moved, and they glanced at each other.
"Is it a pimple burning on your face, very terrifying, and your voice is very harsh?" Bai Muban asked suddenly.
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Fuyuan also raised her head thoughtfully, she seemed to have seen this person.
"Grandma, father, mother, let's see this person, when I bought a house in Yangfeng County." Xiao Fuyuan said.
Old Lady Bai thought about it carefully, the mansion in Yangfeng County was indeed bought from a person with burns on his face.
When Xiao Fuyuan said this, Xie Chuntao and Bai Dazhuang also remembered it.
It's really that person who makes a deep impression on everyone.
At that time, his face was very terrifying, originally the Bai family saw that he didn't want to buy that house, but Xiao Fuyuan was not afraid of him.
Not only was he not afraid of him, but he also smiled at him, he directly sold the house half to the Bai family, saying that he was destined for Xiao Fuyuan.
What a coincidence!
"But I remember that the person who was burned last time was surnamed Luo, and the person Sanzhuang met was surnamed Yan?" Zhen asked.
Steward Yan.
Zhen and Bai Muban knew such a person, who was the housekeeper of the Shen family in Huaicheng back then.
Later, Bai Muban found out that he was murdered by Mrs. Ru on the night of Xiao Fuyuan's birth.
"Maybe it's a different person." Bai Sanzhuang said.
"In short, regardless of his surname Yan or Luo, he is indeed Cheng Mei's official family, and he is also a person who knows how to repay his kindness. After I received Du Nian's letter, I thought about it carefully, our shop in Huaicheng is so smooth, and there is his promotion behind it. There is something I didn't tell you, the last time we went to Suzhou to sell silk on a merchant ship encountered pirates, we were driven away by a sailor on a large ship and escorted all the way to Huaishui, and now I think that this big ship is the ship of the Cheng family. It should be this Steward Yan who is protecting me behind my back. ”
It is common for merchant ships to encounter pirates, Bai Sanzhuang didn't say that he was afraid that his family would be worried, but now he said it, just to prove that Steward Yan is harmless to him.
The most important thing is to convince the elders of the family to go to Nanyang.
Bai Sanzhuang is a very ambitious person, and it is not his purpose to go from Nanguan Town to Huaicheng.
He had long wanted to go to this place in the South Seas, first, because he didn't have independent merchant ships, and second, he didn't know anything about the routes of that place.
Now this opportunity has come, and he wants to seize it.
What's more, my sister said that it was okay for him to go to Nanyang.
Sure enough, after listening to Bai Sanzhuang's words, the family was emotional and distressed for him.
"It seems that Sanzhuang has formed a good fate." Bai Muban sighed.
Bai Muban didn't let his son go to Shuzhong, Xiao Fuyuan's biological father Shen Junshan sank to the bottom of the water in the Jialing River, and he didn't know whether he encountered wind and waves or water bandits.
He thought that as long as he bypassed that place in Shuzhong, it would be safe, but he didn't expect that going to Suzhou would encounter twists and turns.
His three sons suffered!
Bai Sanzhuang said: "Why did I go to Nanyang, for the public and for the private, for the public I want to earn the family business." For selfishness, I always think that the eldest brother cultivates the seeds of Yan millet by farming, the second brother teaches private school, and the fourth brother says that he is the champion seedling, and the fifth brother is inspired to be a general, and the younger sister does not need to say. There are a few brothers in the family, but I haven't made any achievements, and I want to go to Nanyang to make some achievements. ”
Xiao Fuyuan looked sideways at the third brother, the third brother has great ambitions, and it may not be only in business.
The old lady Bai and Bai Muban were sad, and Zhen wiped her tears, she thought that her third son was also studying, but he went to be an apprentice for the sake of the family.
Now that I have the mind to break through, how can I interfere again.
Tian Maimiao took the opportunity to say: "I know that my grandmother and father are worried that Nanyang is a long way away and they are not familiar with life. But even if we want to open a shop in Nanguan Town, we have to go through a lot of hardships, and as long as we do business, there are risks. Sanzhuang and I have always wanted to make our shop bigger, if I don't want the shop to grow, I just have to sell pork in my old business. ”
Tian Maimiao saw that her mother-in-law supported Bai Sanzhuang in her heart, and now the biggest resistance was her mother-in-law and father-in-law.
"Although our shop has a good business in Huaicheng, how many silk shops are there in Huaicheng alone? Now it looks like it's okay to make money because the family spends less. In the future, not to mention that the fourth brother needs silver to enter Beijing to catch the exam, and the younger generations like Erlang need silver to continue studying, and the single sister-in-law and eldest Lang are a few older to save a dowry and buy a house in the county, and these silver are always not enough. Instead of developing in Huaicheng, it is better to take the opportunity to take a long-term view, and take advantage of the lack of business in Nanyang, let's take this opportunity to run first. ”
Tian Maimiao said very earnestly, not only pointing out that Bai Sanzhuang is for the public, but also pointing out that Bai Sanzhuang is unwilling to develop only in Huaicheng.
These words reached the hearts of the old lady Bai and the white plank.
The family has been saving a dowry for Xiao Fuyuan.
It seems that the houses in Yangfeng County, the houses in Nanguan Town, the hills in Shangyang Village, the dry shares of embroidery workshops and Huaicheng shops are already a lot for peasant girls.
But in the hearts of the three elders of the Bai family, these are far from enough.
What's more, Xiao Fuyuan is now the owner of the township, and the dowry in the future is even more than ten miles of red makeup to be worthy of her.
Bai Muban's selfish heart is to arrange Xiao Fuyuan's dowry to cover all aspects of her life, even if one day he and Zhen are gone, if several brothers and nephews can't take care of her, those dowries are also the confidence of her straight waist.
Now it's ten miles away, and red makeup isn't even a fraction of enough.
Bai Muban couldn't help but look at Xiao Fuyuan, the little girl was getting more and more beautiful. was born without a father, and after coming to the Bai family, the life of the Bai family became better and better, such a girl made Bai Muban's heart more and more distressed and guilty.
I am afraid that I will not be able to earn such a generous dowry for my daughter, but Sanzhuang may be able to.
Do you want to support the third son to go to Nanyang to save a dowry for his daughter?
Thinking like this, Bai Muban asked Xiao Fuyuan with a smile: "Girl, did you say that your third brother went to Nanyangxing?" ”