The peasant girl who escaped the desert: she cried when she found the cruel prince

Chapter 372: The girl with hard wings can’t control herself

Chef Fan and others were dumbfounded when they heard this. Yes, if you are just happy to see the betrothal gift, how can you deal with the dowry?

The old Wangtou, who was always taciturn, said: "Let's not do all the idle work. The prince grew up in a noble family. He has never seen any good things, and none of us have heard of them. Maybe others will treat him like a prince." Ordinary objects!”

"So let's not bother with that. The world is not stable now. Nothing is worse than having money and food in hand!"

"Now we are guarding this big river and we have no shortage of land. Unless there is a flood and the river water surges, we will have a crop failure. Under normal circumstances, we will not be short of food, so the only thing left is money!"

After thinking about it, several old men thought that what Old Wangtou said was reasonable, but they should not mention antiques, calligraphy, paintings, fine jade, etc. to them.

In their view, those things that are not suitable for food or clothing, and if they encounter difficulties, they have to find a way to pawn them off, and they will discount them by more than half, which is not as affordable as gold and silver.

Mr. Jing made a decision: "Every family will have a meeting tonight. It's the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. Zhang Peng is getting married on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Zhao An is getting married on the fifteenth day. The decision will be made on the 25th. We must decide this matter quickly!"

People are so busy these days, they are just stumbling over each other, with no time left at all.

In the evening, all the heads of the families were present for the meeting, but Su and her daughter did not know about it.

Mr. Jing said: "A Li Niang didn't know about today's matter. She would definitely not let her know!"

"Everyone knows that we were able to escape all the way from the countryside of Qingzhou, and many of us survived safely, but it was all because of this kid A Li!"

"After settling here, we built a fort on a wasteland and got so many fields. If it weren't for Ah Li, it wouldn't matter whether we could fill our stomachs. Do you think this is true?"

Mrs. Ge said anxiously: "Stop nagging, we have been very busy these two days. Everyone knows how our family got here, so just tell us!"

Old Mrs. Fan also said: "That's right, there are no outsiders here, just say so!"

Mr. Jing took a breath and said, "I have reviewed the accounts with Quan Zi in the past two days. Excluding the dividends given to Ah Li and her daughter, our village still has 18 silver!"

"Of course, most of them are those who were robbed by the Liao people, collected from the Wang family, and some were blackmailed by Uncle Bai, as well as those who sold medicine prescriptions, and Xiao Huo helped to get them from the emperor!"

"In the final analysis, what we earned by ourselves is only about [-]!"

"What I mean is, 15 of them will be given to Ah Li as a dowry, leaving more than 3 for us to deal with emergencies! It will cost money to plow the horse farm in the spring, so this is almost enough. What do you think?"

Mrs. Ge sighed and said, "To put it bluntly, even if it's all given to Ah Li, we don't have anything to say. Without this child, it doesn't matter whether we are alive or not!"

Mrs. Fan also followed up and said, "Yes. In the past, if you put a few grains of salt in the water during the New Year, it would be a good day. But now, the little kid is still too fat to eat meat. It's really a good life!"

Mrs. Qin whispered softly: "I don't have any problem even if you give it all to me. My family is doing well now. I can support the whole family, live in such a good house, have so much land, and my children can go to school. Old lady I’m very satisfied!”

Aunt An also followed up and said: "No, who would have thought that we could still be able to support our children in school one day. It was Ah Li who gave us the life we ​​have today, and I have no problem giving it all to my family."

In the end, it was unanimously agreed to spend 17 yuan as a dowry for Jingli, leaving more than [-] taels of silver for emergencies. Isn’t this a winery and a paper mill that can still produce even if they need to print!
Even the little Cui Niang, who was always stingy to the extreme, did not hesitate and shouted that she would give everything.

Mr. Jing was very satisfied with the outcome of this meeting. He planned to finish the wedding in the next two days and settle the dowry matter with Wan Baoquan and Tiesheng.

After each family went back and closed the door, Xiao Cui's father couldn't help but ask his mother-in-law: "You have always dug so hard that you are not willing to spend an extra copper plate for your own children, but now you are very generous!" Xiao Cui's mother pulled the abacus and said: "You are stupid! What are our identities now!"

"The prince Ah Li married is the prince, do you know that?"

"As long as Ah Li lives a good life in the future, and we go to the city to open a shop, who else dares to embarrass us, the money will not come flooding in!"

Xiaocui's father sighed and said, "Don't just think about making money all day long. Xiaocui is not young anymore. It's time to see each other. You'd better pay attention to her!"

"Hmph!" As soon as Xiao Cui was mentioned, Xiao Cui's mother became angry: "What should I pay attention to!"

"I don't think she's so capable. She built a house for herself and doesn't even live next to us. Looking at this situation, I think she has to separate from us because her wings haven't grown strong yet!"

When she was building a house, Xiaocui approached Jingli and wanted to use her military exploits and money to buy herself a small house.

Mr. Jing was not happy to leave this matter to him. After all, the old man still wanted to see his family live with Meimei. There were no children who had not grown up and had a family, so they lived separately from their parents.

But Jingli was different after all. She didn't want to live with the Su family, so Mr. Jing couldn't help but give Jingli face.

There was a set left for Xiaocui next to Haitang. The one next to Xiaocui turned out to be Xiaosu's family. Isn't this Wang Tan'er here?

The old man figured out that this single girl couldn't live too close to the men, so as not to cause trouble in the melon fields and plum blossoms, so he simply changed the relationship with Xiao Su, so that Xiao Cui and Wang Tan'er became neighbors.

After the house was built, Xiaocui didn't take care of it much, but Haitang couldn't stand it and helped clean it up.

A few months had passed, and Xiao Cui Niang was stunned that she had not even been able to go upstairs to Xiao Cui's house. When she thought of this, she felt panicked.

"Before that girl got married, all her money was taken care of by her parents. But she is different. She puts the money she earns into her own pocket, and her parents don't even hear a sound!"

Not only that, Xiaocui didn't even want to see his own brother. When he saw the child, he would walk past without even looking at him.

"Damn girl, I think she is very powerful. She has become a family in this life and has no parents or brothers to help her. I don't think her life will be better!" Xiao Cuiniang was so angry that she didn't even think about counting the money.

Xiaocui's father was silent for a long time and said: "If you don't want to pay attention to her, just ignore her and go to bed. You will be busy tomorrow!"

In a blink of an eye, the wedding day came. With the help of a group of brothers, Zhang Peng stood in the yard wearing a bright red groom's suit.

I feel that I am really looking very cool today, and the brothers around me are also in high spirits. Together with Da Lang and other young men, there are a total of twenty groomsmen.

Mrs. Fan chuckled and said: "Be careful when you go out. Don't turn around and let the villagers snatch these energetic young men riding white horses!"

Everyone joked for a while, and then saw the old ladies staring into the distance.

Zhang Peng and others took a quick look and were immediately discouraged.

(End of this chapter)