The weather was very good, with a clear blue sky and not a single cloud in the sky.
There are potted chrysanthemums under the corridor, one by one, in full bloom.
In the Taiping jar in the yard, the remaining lotus leaves had been picked away, leaving only an empty jar.
The maid brought in Zhuang Qingyu and Zhuang Qingchan, "Sister Ning."
"Why are you sisters here?" Jiang Changning asked with a smile.
"Come and add some makeup to your face." Zhuang Qingyu said with a smile.
When Jiang Changning saw Zhuang Qingyu, now dressed as a woman, with no longer a hint of sadness between her brows as she did when she was a girl, he knew that she had been living a very comfortable life in the past ten days of her married life.
Jiang Changning let the Zhuang sisters into the warm room. The maid brought them tea and then left.
Zhuang Qingyu put the brocade box on the table, "Sister Ning, I know you have always liked jade, so I will give you a piece of jade. Do you like it?"
Jiang Changning opened the box, revealing a large piece of jadeite with fine, transparent texture and bright, pure color. "Thank you, second sister. I like this piece of jade very much."
"As long as you like it, the Liu family is in the jade business, etc..." Zhuang Qingyu twisted her handkerchief.
She is not the kind of person who can get along with everyone, so there are some things she can't say.
"I'll visit your shop some other day and pick out a few more pieces of good jade. Second sister, please give me a fair price." Jiang Changning said with a smile.
Zhuang Qingyu looked at her gratefully and said, "I'll give you the most realistic price."
Yesterday, Liu Zhen knew that she was coming to add to Jiang Changning's makeup, so she specially found this piece of jade from the storehouse and replaced the gilded flower hairpin she had prepared.
She knew that she was the concubine's daughter of a third-rank official. Although marrying into a merchant's family was a downgrade, her life would not be easy if she had no support.
During these ten days, the Liu family treated her very well. She cherished these days very much and was willing to please her cousin for the Liu family.
Rather than pleasing her biological father and stepmother, she would rather please her cousin.
"Sister Ning, this is the makeup I gave you." Zhuang Qingchan placed a brocade box on the kang table in front of Jiang Changning.
"Thank you." Jiang Changning opened the lid and revealed a set of pearl head ornaments.
Each pearl is as big as a thumb and exudes a lustrous luster.
Such a set of pearl head ornaments would cost a lot of money to buy.
Jiang Changning and Zhuang Qingyu looked at Zhuang Qingchan at the same time. This was not a good thing she could come up with.
Zhuang Qingchan smiled, "I am going to be a wife in the palace after all. The old lady and the master are counting on me to become the third wife in the future. No, it is the help of Zhuang Cairen who gave me a lot of good things. They also said that when I get married, they will prepare a generous dowry so that I will remember the good things at home."
"Here, just take it. You don't know what life will be like when you arrive at the palace in the future. It's always good to have more things with you." Zhuang Qingyu said.
"When you went to the palace, I was afraid that I couldn't afford to buy you a dowry because of my status. Now that you are here, I will give you the dowry." Jiang Changning raised his voice, "Fang Ju."
Fangju answered and came in, lifting the curtain, "Girl."
"Go and get the makeup I prepared for the fourth young lady." Jiang Changning ordered.
Fangju turned around and went out again, and after a while she brought in a small brocade box.
The dowry Jiang Changning gave to Zhuang Qingchan was the same as the one he gave to Zhuang Qingyu, a stack of silver notes, five hundred taels, "With silver on hand, you can spend it however you want."
"Sister Ning, thank you." Zhuang Qingchan did not refuse. All the Zhuang family gave her were objects, and she had no cash in her hands.
Sometimes, she needed silver to buy things, and she also needed silver to reward her servants. Jiang Changning's silver notes were what she wanted most.
Jiang Changning invited the Zhuang sisters to have lunch before letting Xiulan see them out.
The next day, Zhuang Qingmei and several girls from the West Mansion came with Sun Huihui and Qian Li, but Zhuang Juxiang did not come.
Jiang Changning had lived in Beijing for six years, but he had gone out only a few times and hadn't made many friends.
Jiang Changning was a little surprised to see Sun Huihui and Qian Li coming over, but he immediately understood the reason.
They were received politely, invited to have lunch, and then politely sent them away.
As the wedding day of Jiang Changning and Prince Jin drew closer, Song Yirou became more and more irritable.
That day, the tea-serving maid followed her instructions and served her a cup of hot tea.
Song Yirou didn't know whether she was too thirsty or distracted, she picked up the cup and drank.
"Puff" she spat out the tea in her mouth, threw the tea on the maid who served her tea, and cursed: "Bitch, do you want to burn me to death?"
The maid who served tea was wearing a padded jacket, so she was fine, but a little bit of tea splashed onto the back of her hand, which immediately turned red.
But she didn't dare to cry out in pain, she knelt down and kowtowed, "Miss, please spare my life, Miss, please spare my life."
Song Yirou walked over and kicked her hard a few times.
The maid was kicked to the ground. She clenched her teeth and dared not say a word.
The other maids stood by, watching with trembling bodies, not daring to step forward to persuade them.
Since the marriage decree was issued, Song Yirou has been in a irritable state and loses her temper at the slightest provocation.
Mrs. Song didn't dare let her go, so she spent the whole day beating and scolding the servants in the yard, causing unrest in the whole house.
"Girl." Song Yirou's nanny, Mrs. Chen, walked in. "All of you go down."
Two maids who were on good terms with the maid who was kicked hurried forward, helped up the maid who served tea, and left the room with the other maids.
"Nurse, is everything done?" Song Yirou asked impatiently.
Mrs. Chen replied, "Don't worry, young lady. It's all done."
"If they make a fool of themselves on the wedding day, Jiang Changning will never be able to raise her head to face people again in her life." Song Yirou smiled sinisterly.
Song Yirou knew that it was impossible for her to marry Prince Jin again. She did not dare to blame the Queen Mother who arranged the marriage for her, nor could she bear to blame the Prince Jin whom she loved, and she hated Jiang Changning for being able to marry Prince Jin.
The Song family members are all smart and will not indulge her mischief, but they did not expect that Song Yirou could not order others around, but could order her wet nurse around.
After the master and servant discussed it, they came up with a vicious plan to harm Jiang Changning.
Jiang Changning, who was sitting at home when disaster struck, was talking to Jiang Nan.
Jiang Nan held a booklet in his hand and said, "Miss, this is your dowry list. Do you want to add more?"
"Uncle Nan, this is already enough, no need to add more." Jiang Changning frowned.
"Girl, you are going to marry into the palace and become the mistress, so the dowry must be generous." Jiang Nan had already prepared a very generous dowry for Jiang Changning.
When it was known that Jiang Changning was going to marry into the palace, the dowry increased by three times.
Although the girl has no father or brother to rely on, and no sisters to help and support her, she has a group of loyal servants and a generous dowry. When she marries into the palace, she is still confident and not afraid of anyone.
"If we make some changes to this first one, the palace will probably give us some rewards." Jiang Changning flipped through the booklet.
Jiang Changning didn't know what other people's dowries looked like, but the items in her own dowry book made her amazed.
(End of this chapter)