Ink Burns

Chapter 110 Private Property Guaranteed

Shanyue had to arrive at Hanshan Temple before dawn when the Liu family came to pick her up. After soothing Shuiguang into a sobbing sleep, Doctor Wei hurried to a nearby restaurant to borrow a donkey cart for delivering food. The wheels of the cart clanged and sparks flew, and finally Shanyue was delivered on time.

Shan Yue did not explain anything. He took a roll of banknotes from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Doctor Wei. He lowered his head and said respectfully, "I've troubled you and your aunt to take care of the house in Qiaotou Nong."

Look! Look!
Is this the quality of a high-ranking official’s wife?
He actually gave them money for free and spoke so gratefully!
Doctor Wei was thick-skinned, but not so thick-skinned. He waved his hand and said, "You can keep it. I heard from the accountant Xu in the village that in that damn place of the capital, a pancake costs twenty cents! I guess the money in the capital is not as heavy as the money we have in our hands. Tsk tsk tsk tsk."

Shan Yue lowered her eyes and said briefly to stop Doctor Wei: "Don't worry - my husband's family is very rich."

Doctor Wei was choked: "Okay, okay, you are rich, you are rich, you are the richest in the world."

Since you are rich, Doctor Wei stopped arguing and wiped the silver bills with his palm, all of which were fifty-liang bills. He weighed them in his hand and said: Hey, this roll is at least three or four hundred liang.

In addition, there is a long-term rental yard in Qiaotou Nong.

Even if she doesn't rely on her husband's family, she is definitely a rich woman!

Doctor Wei solemnly promised: "All this money will be given to Ruguang!"

I stumbled across something and wanted to say Ruchun, but I also wanted to say Shuiguang.

"Oh no, Shuichun, oh! Shuiguang!"

Shan Yue smiled and said, "Since I've given it to you, you can do whatever you want with it."

The fact that the Wei family saved Shui Guang, raised her well, and were not in a hurry to marry her off even after she reached the age of 15 in order to get a dowry shows that although this family is not wealthy, they have a bottom line when it comes to money.

The next morning, the Liu family's carriage arrived as scheduled, picked up Shan Yue and went straight back to the Liu family's old house.

In order to avoid Liu Hezhou's funeral, Shanyue, as her cousin and within the four mourning periods for Liu Hezhou, should not have been in mourning. However, she still observed mourning for Liu Hezhou for the full 100 days to save face before getting married from the old house.

The Xue family set March 21st as an auspicious date. On March 12th, the groom went to Songjiang Prefecture to propose marriage. He had to publicize his titles as the Prince's Grand Tutor and the Three Dukes so that he could have a smooth journey by water and arrive in Beijing on time.

According to custom, the Liu family opened their doors for a banquet on March 10th to entertain the groom's wedding party and the bride's relatives who were unable to go to the capital.

The Qiu family was mainly responsible for arranging this marriage.

She was selfish and wanted to keep everything simple. She bought the worst Sanjiang cloth to cover the lanterns. The cloth was tough and dull, and not even a little light could shine through the lanterns.

Not to mention the banquet.

As the guest at the main table, Liu Huan's face turned pale before she even picked up her chopsticks. She called Qiu to the flower room and spoke rudely, "Aunt, are you short of money and have no extra money to make ends meet? - I remember that the Xue family's betrothal gift included three hundred taels of cash, and the Cheng family gave eighty taels of silver notes in addition to forty-eight loads of dowry! There are eight people at the table, and the four cold dishes are all ordinary cabbage and water spinach, and the meat is mostly cheap pork, chicken, duck and other cheap things. What do you want others to think? "The nephew was rude. Although his family was poor, he was the elder after all!

Qiu was furious.

Qiu felt wronged: "Our family suddenly had a daughter, and the close relatives all knew what was going on. Why would those who are not close relatives spend a lot of money to make a big fuss?"

"idiot!"

The little fool Liu Huan scolded the big fool Qiu: "Don't the Xue family know that this is a big show? Take a good look at what is included in the betrothal gift!"

When he was sorting out the betrothal gifts yesterday, even though he was used to seeing rare treasures in the capital's vanity fair, he was still shocked when he opened the box -

The silver bills at the bottom of the box are very real: silver bills are usually not included in the gift list. If the girl's parents love her, they will give them to her as a treasure. If the girl's parents do not care about her, they will use them to pay for the wedding expenses, which is also common. However, the act of giving silver bills as a treasure usually occurs when the two families are close friends.

The Xue family bet 300 taels of silver, which really gave face to the Liu family: as both are Jiangnan aristocratic families, the Xue family and the Liu family are not on the same line. The Liu family flatters themselves and says that they are an aristocratic family of officials, but if you count them carefully, most of the officials are prefects, prefects, and magistrates, who are at the top of the fourth or fifth ranks, and it is rare to have a third-rank official, which is the result of the ancestors' good interpersonal skills and connections. The Xue family is also known as a century-old aristocratic family of officials, and the third-rank official is qualified, the second-rank is normal, and the first-rank is excellent.
The gap is so big that it’s hard to even commit fraud.

Looking at the jewelry for the bride, everything else was ordinary except for one thing that was not on the gift list - a pair of gold, jade, aquamarine and emerald plum blossom hairpins contained in a gold-painted lacquer box. They were exquisite and beautiful, and the emerald used as green calyx petals was half the size of a palm, with a warm and surprisingly green color. A casual glance at them showed that they were definitely not ordinary items!
This pair of plum blossom hairpins is worth an entire box of jewelry.

There is one more thing that is not on the gift list.

A wooden box containing a dozen paintings, including works by four great masters, ancient paintings from previous dynasties, and even "Orchid in the Valley", the first of the Twelve Flower Fairies painted by the extremely mysterious Zhu Siming!
The most unexpected thing is that there is a land deed included in the bride price!
The title deed to the land outside the capital!
Three hundred acres of land!

It's not a lot, but please note that the location is the capital! This is fundamentally different from the 300 acres of land in an ordinary state capital! That, that is the capital!
Just for these four courtesies from the Xue family, how dare Qiu Shi be so shabby and neglect this marriage! ?
Even if it is a play, it has to be performed with great color and style, right?
Liu Huan didn't like Qiu's short-sightedness, and asked Xue's family to look down on Liu's family: it was clearly a cooperation that others wanted to join, how could they neglect the etiquette because of money? ——Since his father Liu Hezhou retired and passed away, Bai Yusi, who was born in the northwest, gradually encroached on Songjiang Prefecture. In the officialdom of Jiangnan, Liu's family was in a difficult situation! Thinking back to the previous month, he still heard from Shanyue that the Ye Ting was recruiting good family boys!

What does this mean?
This means that the Jiangnan officialdom, symbolized by the "Qingfeng", will no longer play with them!
He also hoped that through the marriage with the Xue family, he could snatch one or two "Qingfeng" heads from Songjiang Prefecture and send them to the palace!

"Replace the lanterns and banquet menus, and clean up the old house inside and out! As for the dowry, whatever the Cheng family gave, leave it to He Shi intact, and don't think about taking it for yourself!"

Liu Huan lowered her voice and rebuked Qiu: "Don't upset the Xue family! Tomorrow that mad dog will come to pick up the bride, don't let him see any clues! If this marriage is ruined, don't even think about asking for the sacrificial land and expenses from Third Uncle's family for the next few years!"

Qiu's face turned pale.

Liu Huan thought about it and added a few words to comfort her: "Don't be reluctant. If He dies suddenly, according to the laws of Wei, all the gifts and dowry will be taken back to her parents' home. I will guarantee that they will not be included in the public property and will all be considered the private property of the third room."

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