The only sound left in the room was Xu Huixian's sobbing. She looked at her great aunt with tearful eyes. Her lips were dry and chapped. Noticing that Qi Yunxi had not spoken for a long time, she could not help but call her "Aunt" in a low voice.
After being urged like this, Qi Yunxi finally reacted. She turned her head, touched Xu Huixian's head, hummed, and said earnestly: "When God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his heart and mind suffer, starve his body, and exhaust his muscles and bones..."
After sighing for a few times, she smiled and said, "Forget it. Why should I tell you this?" After a pause, she picked up a small seal from the desk and handed it to Xu Huixian, "Other people's affairs have nothing to do with us, and you don't have to think about those useless things. In a while, you should get married, and you just need to live your own life in the future. The things here will be handled by my great aunt. Take this thing and play with it."
Xu Huixian reached out to take it and saw that it was a vividly carved rabbit. It was soft and transparent to the touch and very cute. Her bad mood improved a little. She turned the rabbit over and saw her name engraved on the base. She couldn't help but ask Qi Yunxi in confusion: "Grandma, what is this..."
"This is your dowry." Qi Yunxi said lightly, "A county lady with only a title is just a good name on the surface. But this seal is actually worth thirty thousand taels of silver. Xian'er, you have grown up and should know how important silver is. Take this. With this money, your life will not be bad no matter what."
Thirty thousand taels!
Even with Xu Huixian's identity, she was shocked by the number. She clenched the seal in her hand in astonishment and looked at Qi Yunxi with surprise and joy.
She only knew that her great aunt was good to her and that she always gave her the most generous gifts every New Year, but she never expected that the dowry she received from her great aunt would be thirty thousand taels of silver.
Such a huge sum of money is enough to marry off the daughter of a noble family, or even several others.
Qi Yunxi was amused by her appearance and burst out laughing: "The little girl really has never seen the world. She is so happy that she doesn't know what to do. What is Su Yao? If it was back then..."
When she said this, she stopped talking with a sense of loss, and said to Xu Huixian in a listless manner: "Well, you rushed out like this, I'm afraid your mother will be scared, go back quickly. Give the things to her, and she will naturally know what to do. I have some things to do here, I will come to see you in a few days."
Xu Huixian originally came here to complain about her grievances, but unexpectedly she made a fortune. She was not so sad now. She got on the carriage in a daze and went home. It was not until she saw her mother that she came back to her senses from the shock. She handed the seal to Qi as if awake from a dream and repeated what Qi Yunxi had told her before.
Qi just frowned slightly and put the seal away without any shock.
Xu Huixian realized it later, and after observing her expression for a while, she couldn't help but tentatively called out to her mother: "Mom, why is my great aunt so generous?"
As the day of her wedding approached, Xu Huixian had already begun to learn how to be the housekeeper like Qi, and she knew what thirty thousand taels represented.
But when Qi Yunxi took out the silver, it seemed like just a drop in the bucket.
This made Xu Huixian curious.
Qi's face was not smiling at all. She locked the seal. Seeing her daughter's high spirits, she was a little annoyed: "I told you to stay at home recently and not go out to cause trouble, but you just can't sit still! Will you still be so reckless after you get married?! You should also learn how to write the two words chastity and tranquility! The things your great aunt gave you are naturally because she values you, and you have to live up to her value! She doesn't only have you as her niece's daughter. Doesn't the Tong family have any descendants? Don't make a fuss about it, or you will offend your great aunt."
Xu Huixian was evaded and had to stop making trouble for the time being.
However, although there were still many things she couldn't understand, her anger about Su Yao being able to be conferred the title of County Princess had finally subsided a lot.
At this moment, Su Yao, who was envied and jealous by countless people, was also finding it difficult to calm down.
Needless to say, her fate in her previous life was that she was a plague that everyone wanted to avoid. Her long and monotonous life had almost nothing to say about it. Even in this life, she had never thought that she would have such a glorious day.
She had been waiting for a long time until the eunuch Chen who was here to announce the decree left, but she still couldn't react. After a long while, she went to see Mrs. He and the smiling old lady Su.
Old Madam Su rarely saw her in such a dazed state, so she laughed and said to Madam He, "Look at this little girl. I thought she had seen through the mundane world and nothing could make her lose her composure. It turns out there are still times when you can't predict what will happen."
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
People need to be smart, but not too smart. These days, she watched Su Yao coldly arrange matters for Mrs. Su San, and she felt complicated.
On the one hand, he was glad that Su Yao was so smart and alert, and had already taken precautions against others attacking Mrs. Su San. On the other hand, he was very scared.
Su Yao is really too cold when it comes to feelings.
No matter what Mrs. Su San was like, she was her biological mother after all. She could understand why Su Yao hated Mrs. Su San, but she still felt some unspeakable taboo in her heart about Su Yao's indifferent attitude towards Mrs. Su San.
After all, human emotions are very complicated. How can everything go smoothly
Now that Su Yao has a good relationship with the first wife, he naturally helps her in everything.
But what if in the future, Su Xingyi and Su Rong fail to take care of something and offend Su Yao
Does she treat Su Xingyi and Su Rong the same way she treats Madam Su San
Mrs. He disagreed, with a smile on her face: "You think she is smart, but I always think she is a fool. Our Yaoyao was actually still a little girl!"
She waved at Su Yaozhao, embraced Su Yao, and straightened her clothes lovingly: "Yaoyao, the more those people want to belittle you and trample on you, the more we must not let them have their way! In this life, grandma always felt that face was more important than anything else, but now I realize that only by bending down can you hold your head up. This was taught to me by you, a little girl. They are so anxious to deal with you because they think I am still the same as before, clinging to that little face and backbone, and they think I will not go to the emperor."
She really didn't want to bow down to Emperor Yuanfeng in the past, but the situation has changed now. She should also thank those people for their aggressiveness, which helped her overcome the most difficult hurdle.