Let's talk about the other end, Mingde Hou Mansion.
Ever since what happened that day, Erfang's life has changed.
The second wife almost passed out without crying while hugging Miss Six. All the people who served Miss Six were punished that day.
But in the end it was irreparable.
In the clear sky and broad daylight, the sixth girl was fished out of the lake by a man, her body was completely soaked, and she was embraced by the man, skin to skin, and her boudoir reputation was long gone.
For the sake of the mansion's reputation, the sixth girl had no choice but to marry that man.
With a dark face, the old lady scolded the first and second wives all over again.
Although she doesn't necessarily like to love Liu Yatou very much, she is also her granddaughter, a girl who was raised and raised in the mansion, and when she is old enough to form a good relationship, it will also be a help to the mansion. thing!
Anger is all about anger, but things can't be changed. The sixth girl is useless, and the old lady understands it very well.
There are still several unmarried girls in the mansion, and the sixth girl must not be burdened.
The old lady opened her mouth and made a final decision. There was no chance of turning around this matter.
The second wife cried and cried and made troubles, but she still couldn't change anything, she could only accept her fate, and finally she tried her best to comfort her daughter.
Just talking and talking, I became sad again.
"Daughter, my miserable daughter!"
The second lady looked at her daughter who had lost weight after lying on the bed for a few days, her eyes turned red, and she rushed over to hug her daughter.
Miss Six had been in trouble for several days, and the whole yard was not peaceful. She was not a good-natured person, she was arrogant, how could she accept this.
That day, she was punished to contemplate the old lady's words in the room because she wanted her to figure it out and accept her fate.
I just didn't expect that the six girls not only didn't understand, but also didn't stop.
She was very resentful in her heart, hated the old lady for being cruel and heartless, blamed the second lady for her incompetence, and the one she hated the most was naturally fifth girl.
"Mother, I won't marry! I won't marry even if I die!" Miss Six cried loudly in the arms of the second wife. She was really scared, tears streaming down her face, and suddenly pushed the second wife away fiercely, and ran down from the bed. , with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, scurrying around the room, throwing whatever they saw.
The second madam was angry and anxious, afraid of disturbing the old lady Gu, she hurried over and pulled the sixth girl back, sat down on the edge of the bed, and said in a low voice: "My son! Mother's darling, what are you trying to do?" Let mother worry to death!"
It was still cold in April, Miss Liu went off to the floor without her shoes on, the maids and mothers in the house were sent out early in the morning, and the second wife pulled the quilt over her by herself. It was originally to have a good talk with her daughter, but now she is so distressed that she scolds her.
Miss Six was still crying, and her voice was hoarse after a few days of trouble.
After a while, she raised her head again and said sharply:
"Ask my daughter to marry such a shabby household, it would be better to hang her with a piece of white silk! If my mother really loves me, I shouldn't accept the old lady's words!"
"You... how did I give birth to you, such an evil!" The second lady was distressed and heartbroken, and she couldn't bear to scold her, and finally she just hugged someone and cried: "My miserable daughter!"
"It's all that bitch Gu Qingwan! She harmed me, she pushed me into the water, you let her marry! Let her go! It's most suitable for a lowly concubine to settle down in poverty! Let her marry!"
The sixth girl was about to burst into tears, yelling hysterically.
How could the second lady not hate that pair of charming mother and daughter! It's just that those two are the flesh on the second master's heart, they are so tightly guarded that even she can't move them.
The fifth girl was also present at the sunset incident, maybe it was the black hand under that little bastard's hoof! But the second master only scolded Miss Six for not being dignified and causing trouble, and then lightly asked Miss Fifth to think about it in the room and let it go.
The second lady hated her so much that she almost killed the mother and daughter with her own hands.
Thinking of this, the mother and daughter couldn't help crying.
The matter could not be delayed, and the rumors could be silenced by doing it as soon as possible. The old lady had a headache, so she waved a second-class nanny in the room to go to Li's house to "negotiate marriage".
The second wife knew that her daughter had no other way out, and in the whole Hou Mansion, her daughter might be the only one who got married so poorly.
Suppressing the pain of a bun, the second lady pulled herself together, and the others watched the joke openly and secretly, so she had to hold on no matter what. The second lady herself only had one son and one daughter, and now that her daughter has suffered such a big loss, the rest of her life will be ruined, so she wants to go all out to buy a dowry for her daughter, just to make up for it.
There are rules and regulations in the mansion, the dowry is two thousand taels of silver for a prostitute daughter, and one thousand taels for a concubine daughter. Of course, this is all on the surface. In private, each family depends on how much it subsidizes its daughter.
Sixth Miss is the daughter of the second wife's first wife, and she gave out two thousand taels from her husband. Old Madam Gu was kind of sympathetic. Among the other girls in the mansion, only Sixth Miss was married so lowly. She was afraid that she would never have the chance to see her again, so she subsidized a thousand taels privately. Two silver coins, a set of golden noodles with butterflies playing with flowers, a box of Dongzhu, and a Zhuangzi and 200 mu of land.
Seeing this, the second wife couldn't help but turn red. The old lady Gu is usually a person who doesn't care about her granddaughter. The three girls who were married before didn't see the old lady subsidizing them at all. Now it's just pitiful to give these to the sixth girl.
Since it is a certainty and the marriage cannot be changed, the Second Madam will have to send someone to inquire about the Li family from beginning to end.
Really, the more you listen to it, the more heartbroken you become. It's just such a poor and poor family, what evil did her daughter do in her previous life
"I don't even have a tidy house! How can my son live!"
Several confidantes and mothers consoled and said a lot of words, but they couldn't make the second lady look better.
The second lady herself can buy a house for her daughter to marry, but there is also a big family over there, so it's impossible for her to follow her daughter in a mighty way
She was panicked, and there was no reason to use her daughter's dowry to support the family.
Eryi thought again, if he subsidizes like this from the beginning, he is so easy to talk to, and if he carefully feeds people's appetite, he will raise a nest of wolves, tigers and leopards. If that's the case, that's what hurt his daughter.
Therefore, she only sent someone to Li's house to "raise points", one of which was to buy a house that could be lived in.
The second wife knew it well, she kept these things in her heart, and she was going to tell her daughter carefully.
Although the second master was disappointed that he wasted a daughter, he had less sympathy for anything else, and he didn't show any sadness on his face. There is nothing besides the bank note, and Youyou unconsciously and shamelessly said such things as adding makeup to the girl.
The second lady was so angry that her heart ached and she broke her nails!
She didn't care about her face, so she made another fuss, and she just got a shop out of the hands of the second master and let it go.
When the second wife got married, the family lived well, and the dowry was generous. Among other things, there were eight prosperous shops and thousands of acres of land.
In the past, it was planned that the daughter would be married to the two shops, and the others would be left to the sons. After all, the daughter was married to someone else's family, and the son had to rely on the support for the elderly, but now he changed his mind.
Among them, she found four shops in the east of the city, a three-entry house in Xiaoyan'er Hutong, plus a Zhuangzi, and the land deeds of 200 mu of paddy fields, and put them in a mahogany box alone, and gave the old lady to Put in the land deed silver note and the house deed silver money from the second master, and take out two thousand taels of silver note from his private house and put it in.
In this way, there are a total of four thousand taels of silver bills, five shops, four hundred acres of paddy fields, and two villages.
After ordering, lock it up and put it away. This is what is at the bottom of the box.
The two thousand taels from the business trip are used for dowry, which can be as large as a wedding bed for a wardrobe and a large cabinet, as small as dishes, teacups, and so on.
Fortunately, the bed for my daughter's marriage has been prepared since she was eight or nine years old, so there is no need to rush.
Immediately afterwards, someone on the other end also negotiated with the Li family, and followed the procedure with three letters and six rituals.
Which girl from the princely family of the government said that the marriage should not last for three to five years. From the acquaintance to the set date, it is all done slowly one by one, so Yang seems precious.
Miss Gu Liu was the only relative, because she had disgraced the Gu family, she was ashamed to prepare slowly, and the whole process was in a hurry.
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The Li family sold half of their property, moved a sum of money they had saved for many years, and then bought the house next to it, and hired someone to renovate and decorate it.
The original Li's house remained unchanged, with side doors opened on both sides, one side walks two steps and the other side enters.
From the outer wall built on the side of Li's house to the other side of the back, the outer walls of the courtyards of the two houses were built together to form one house, and the whole roughly formed an upside-down "Lu"-shaped pattern.
After everything was done and painted, Gu's mansion sent a group of servants to measure the room.
The sixth girl was almost put on her head to accept her fate, and the second wife desperately arranged the dowry for her daughter. In addition to the money and other belongings at the bottom of the box, there were also people who were going to take with her when she got married.
Originally, if there were no accidents, the daughter of a family like the Gu family should marry a well-matched duke and earl's family, so the maids to accompany her to the house should be very particular, and there are many ways to do it.
But now, the two beautiful maids she raised are no longer needed.
Those who have to be brought along include the girl's nanny, two big maids who serve close to her, and two sewing girls, two stove ladies, and two rough envoys.
Counting, that's nine, because odd numbers are unlucky, so I added another errand girl to make up ten people.
This is still the result of accommodating the reduction of the small and poor family of the Li family, and those accompanying housewives are no longer needed.
The days passed quickly, like a white horse passing by, and it will soon be September.
Miss Gu Liu is not very old, not yet fifteen years old. Her birthday is at the end of the year, the twelfth lunar month. Because she is in a hurry to get married, she can only choose a date to move forward. And Ji Li.
The Li family bought a house, and the family resources have been exhausted long ago, so there is not much left, so they can't swell their faces to pretend to be fat. The betrothal gift was handled by the Bai family himself. The dowry was barely given according to the specifications of ordinary people.
There is a load of gift cakes, and the three animals are two pigs and one half each of chicken and duck, two tails of fish, and two packs of seafood, including abalone, shellfish, sea cucumber, and dried shrimp.
Four-color cakes, two drawers of fruit, two drawers of wedding candy, and two catties of tea and sesame seeds.
Two pairs of post boxes, filled with lotus seeds, lilies, green strands of red beans, peanuts, melon seeds, red dates, longan, dried walnut kernels.
The bucket is two meters long, the thread and surface are six catties, and the wine is six jars.
A pair of dragon and phoenix candles, a pair of incense sticks, a pair of ancestral paper, and a pair of dragon and phoenix firecrackers.
Finally, a pair of live geese.
The dowry was set by Mrs. Li, but it was for the sake of her grandson, and she was not as short-sighted as Bai's, so she gritted her teeth and put a lot of her own things in.
The old lady took a gold step shaker she got when she got married and melted it into a style that is popular in Beijing. She also ordered a pair of dragon and phoenix bracelets, a pair of silver bracelets, a silver comb, and a pair of emerald jade earrings. , the last is a small box of pressed silver, ten taels and one ingot, and the snow-white and snow-white ones are worth one hundred taels.
For ordinary people, this dowry is already very impressive.