Lao Zhoutou and Qian Shi have some private houses. They originally thought that if Da Fang and San Fang didn't join hands, they would help them out, but since Man Bao took the initiative to lend them, it would be difficult for the two old men to intervene. , well, this is also a bowl of water.
The husband and wife with a bowl of water took out their account books and carefully distinguished the numbers on it. The old Zhou said: "I have seen a lot of Zhuangzi and fields. Alas, the land in the capital is too expensive, and the land in Yongzhou is not so expensive." It’s cheap, and there aren’t many people selling land, so I thought I’d better buy this one in Yongzhou, it’s not Zhuangzi, but it’s sold by a big family with 80 mu.”
Old Zhou Tou took out a note, scratched his face and said: "Seven taels of silver per mu, I asked Wu Tou before, he calculated it for me, but I forgot, anyway, it's more than five hundred taels, out of money For this part of the money, we don't have much money left, so what else can we buy for her?"
Qian Shi also didn't understand, but this problem is not a big one, she said: "Let's buy the land."
She said: "The palace and the nobles have rewarded a lot of fabrics, and we can't buy better ones, so we bought two more bolts of red cloth, paid for the wedding dress made by the embroidery workshop, and left the rest Buy her land."
There is no shortage of treasures in the house. If you want a shop, you can't buy a shop in the capital with this amount of money, so you can only buy land.
"The job land belongs to the imperial court after all, and it's not very stable. She should still have a few pieces of land of her own," Qian said. , As long as there is land, people will not be hungry."
Old Zhou responded, and picked up another matter, "What do you think the Bai family will give as a betrothal gift?"
Qian looked up at him and said, "Anyway, there won't be any less."
"But I haven't seen them buying anything recently. Are they preparing dowry gifts?"
Zhou Lizhong, who walked out of the yard, waited for his uncles and aunts to return to the house, bumped into Zhou Liwei, winked and said, "Okay, you, you will sing a good face to Li Jun."
Zhou Liwei blushed slightly and said, "I'm going to start with the bad things first. There are more people in the family now, so I naturally need to explain more to avoid misunderstandings."
Zhou Lizhong nodded, turned his head and said with a smile to Zhou Lijun: "I will leave this matter to you, but will it open sooner in September? Or wait until my sister-in-law gets married?"
Zhou Lijun shook his head, "It's too late, September is just right, and autumn is dry, so it's time to use moisturizing cream and whitening cream."
Zhou Li nodded emphatically, frowned, and had the same question as his grandfather, "By the way, is the Bai family preparing a betrothal gift? I haven't seen anything added there when I came back several times."
Of course there are, Mrs. Liu has been asking people to move things to the newly bought house since last month.
Every now and then, she would take Mrs. Zheng out to check the delivered things in the newly bought house.
Not to mention the house deed and land deed, all kinds of decorations, jade, porcelain, and some antique calligraphy, paintings and books prepared by her were also sent from Longzhou and Qili Village one after another.
Of course, most of her things went to Qili Village with her when she moved, and only some things were left in the old house in Longzhou because they were too heavy to take away.
She also didn't expect that Bai Shan would get married in the capital. In order to make the dowry gift look good, she asked someone to go back to Qili Village to fetch some things, together with some things left in Longzhou, as a dowry gift for Bai Shan.
Not to mention the others, even Zheng's daughter-in-law was terrified when she saw it, and couldn't help but ask, "Mother, are these all dowry gifts?"
Mrs. Liu nodded with a smile, and said: "It's different now, whether it's Man Bao or Shan Bao, the people they make friends with are not low, and there are not many people. From this point of view, we have to make some preparations for the future, so Shanbao’s dowry must not be short, so that Manbao’s dowry can be supported.”
She said: "I know what those people outside think, they just think that our Bai clan has fallen, Shanbao doesn't have a father or brother to help him, and Manbao came from a poor family. For this wedding, I will let them take a look at the background of the two families."
The Zhou family doesn't have much heritage, but the Bai family does.
Based on Mrs. Liu's understanding of the Zhou family, no matter how much dowry she sent in the past, I am afraid that in the end, except for the cash, everything else will be sent back with her.
The cash can also be exchanged for other more decent dowries.
Although these things changed hands from the Bai family to Zhou Man's personal property, but she is only a grandson, isn't the granddaughter-in-law's property still the grandson's
Mrs. Liu's eyes are piercing, and it's time to let the people in my family see whether their branch has fallen, hmph.
There was a corridor separated from Mrs. Liu, and Man Bao from the two courtyards was crawling over to close the window. After closing the window, she sat cross-legged on the bed and entered the space, and then counted her money.
When Zhou Shulang returned to Beijing in June, he gave her the money for selling gems and spices, most of which was silver, and the rest was copper coins.
Man Bao didn't put the copper coins into the space because it took up too much space. Generally speaking, she would only put a dozen copper coins in it, and if it wasn't enough, she would go home and stuff some more.
The rest of the copper coins are placed in the ear room next door to her, which she uses as a warehouse, and all the belongings that she can't put into the space are stored in it.
Among them, there are several sacks of copper coins.
Man Bao went to open the box, and there were silver in several boxes, one ingot with neat official seals, and some not neat ones, but the quality was okay.
Man Bao has counted them. When she counted the money before, she wrote labels and pasted them on the boxes. In addition, she also has her own account book, so it is easy to know how much money she has.
She counted and found that there was a lot of money, so she breathed a sigh of relief, so she made room for the two boxes and threw them in the corner.
The next day Zhou Dalang and Xiaoqian were told to count the silver quietly.
Five hundred taels was not light, so Zhou Dalang took two big baskets, put a lid on them, and went back with Xiaoqian carrying a basket.
He also greeted people along the way, but no one knew that there was silver in the big basket.
Man Bao thought this method was very good, so he dug out two baskets filled with silver and went to Zhou Ligu, "You have to write me an IOU on behalf of your father."
Zhou Ligu was also worrying about the lack of money. He nodded immediately when he heard the words, and asked strangely after seeing the silver in the basket, "Why put it in the basket?"
"It's so inconspicuous that no one will notice."
When Zhou Ligu heard this, he immediately lowered his voice and asked, "Sister-in-law, can't you tell your family about this?"
Man Bao asked: "You tell the family what to do, just tell your parents."
Zhou Ligu struggled, "Then can't you tell the third brother? The third brother and I are the best friends. I can't hide many things from him."
"Then tell him," Man Bao said, "he owes me money too."
Zhou Ligu was startled, and asked, "How much do you owe?"
"Same as you, five hundred taels."