peasant girl allure

Chapter 127 The Dowry Incident
On the day Xu Wenhui got married, Mrs. Liu invited the whole village to her house for a feast!

The sister Liu recognized, all members of Liu's natal family naturally came.It was the same as marrying their daughter again, but they just went out at Liu's house.

Xu Wenhui was so moved that she became confused, and secretly swore in her heart that she would respect them as mothers and sisters in the future.

The dowry on Xu Wenhui's face was prepared by Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Liu's natal family together: wooden furniture including oak babu beds, various cases, chest cabinets with nanmu tops, vertical cabinets, kang cabinets, and two camphor wood boxes (with Quilts, quilts, clothes for four seasons), jewelry boxes, money boxes, dressing tables, kang tables, copper basin racks, etc.
These furniture are all produced by furniture shops, the styles and carvings are exquisite, the simplicity is yet simple, and the elegance is full of extravagance!

Many people are full of praise for these furniture, saying that their daughter ordered it like this when they got married!
These pieces of furniture were prepared as dowry by Liu's natal family.

Mrs. Liu prepared all kinds of porcelain: vases, tableware, tea sets, jars, etc.!
Gold and silver jewelry: a string of pearl bracelets, a set of gold face, a set of silver face.

Ornaments: a kang screen with happy brows, and a hanging screen for Guanyin to send a child.

Four sets of bedding, four seasons clothes, shoes and socks, two bolts of fine silk, two bolts of brocade, and two bolts of fine cotton.

There are also all kinds of daily necessities, basins, wooden basins, copper basins, wooden barrels and so on.

In private, Mrs. Liu also gave 20 taels of silver at the bottom of the box, and a pair of high-quality, emerald green, round, and transparent jadeite bracelets.This jade bracelet was bought by Xiao'er and kept in the space!

These kinds of goods can be bought in shops for no less than a hundred taels.

Xu Wenhui's dowry, plus the betrothal gift, totaled twelve loads.

Many people don't understand why Mrs. Liu is so kind to this girl who recognizes relatives. Although many big things are prepared by Mrs. Liu's family, they are not prepared because of Mrs. Liu!

It was only after seeing Xu Wenhui's embroiderer that Mrs. Liu realized that she was Jing Rui's savior.

Jingrui used to play by the river when he was a child, and he fell into the river and was rescued by someone. When Shen Chengyao ran to find someone, he only saw the figure of a woman disappearing into the woods.

At that time, the river was actually not too deep, and the current was not too fast, but it was still enough to be fatal to a three-year-old child.

When he saw Jing Rui lying motionless by the river, he was anxious, and there were too many girls of the same age in the village, so he didn't recognize who it was!

The woman probably had wet clothes, so she ran away when she saw Shen Chengyao running.

Later, Jingrui woke up and said that he accidentally fell into the river and saw a sister who rescued him in the river, but he was already in a coma when he rescued him, and he couldn't tell who that sister was. He was only over three years old, and the person he met when he fell into the river, so it was normal not to be able to tell who he was.

However, he tore off the woman's sachet in his hand. Later, Mrs. Liu took the sachet and asked many women from other families, and they all said that it was not hers. At that time, Xu Wenhui married not long after. Most of them would stay at home and embroider the dowry, and she didn't expect it to be her.

Later, after recognizing her relatives, because of her work as a doll, she often came into contact with her. I went to her house and saw her half-embroidered purse. I felt familiar and took a sachet to ask, and I confirmed that it was her.

Liu felt that Xu Wenhui had been childless before she got married because she saved Jingrui that year, fell into the water, and suffered from the cold.

For this reason, I specially took her to Dr. Luo to have her pulse checked, and she was relieved when she heard that she was fine.

Liu Shi and Shen Chengyao are both people who know how to repay their kindness. Knowing about this, the dowry is not prepared for the thick, if it is not worried about giving too much, there will be moths from Shen Zhuang Shi, they want to give more!
But some things, if you are not worried, will not happen if you deliberately accommodate.

After seeing off the relatives, the villagers all finished the banquet.

Shen Chengyao and Mrs. Liu were called to the old house to go to the room. Before they had time to say hello, Mrs. Shen Zhuang asked directly: "How much dowry did you prepare for the funeral star?"

"It's not much, those betrothal gifts accounted for a lot of tables."

"Damn, who are you lying to! Not much! There are a lot of cabinets alone. I have never seen the dowry of the girl in the village can match hers! As for the bereaved star, she will remarry later. , she deserves it too!"

"Those cabinets were prepared by my mother's house! It's none of our business!"

"Fart! Your natal family prepared it! Doesn't that furniture shop belong to my son? Take my son's stuff and say it belongs to your natal family! Let me tell you, if you want to take things from my Shen family to your natal house, you don't even want to think!"

"I don't. Over the years, I haven't been back to my mother's house a few times. I haven't given an annual gift to my relatives every year. Mother, you know it!" Liu's face turned pale, the slander was serious.

In this day and age, if a woman is charged with taking her husband's property back to her natal family, she will be forcibly divorced by the clan!
"Mother, the child's mother is not such a person."

"What do you mean by that? Who stopped you from replying? Do you still blame me if you don't reply?" After hearing this, Shen Zhuang became angry from embarrassment.

"I didn't mean that." She had all the money in her hands, and she didn't give anything. Every time she mentioned it, her nose was not her nose, her eyes were not her eyes, and she tried to force her child to work. How dare she answer!

"I don't mean that, so who will you show your face of bitterness and hatred! Those who don't know think I'm bullying you again! Dumb bastard! Forget it, I don't care about this matter with you, today I called you here because of Yuzhu's dowry. Tell me, how much dowry have you prepared for Yuzhu!"

"Is Yuzhu engaged?" Shen Chengyao felt strange.

"Can't you prepare a dowry if you are not engaged? Whose daughters start saving dowry as soon as they are born! You even prepare 12 dowry for outsiders, so you have to prepare [-] dowry for your own sister no matter what!"

"Third brother, my dowry cabinet, bed, box cage, kang table, stools and other furniture are all made of huanghuali, which is the wood of the furniture in your main room!" She had heard from her elder brother that huanghuali The wood is precious!Some huanghuali wood furniture is worth thousands of gold.

"At that time, the third brother will make a set of exquisite and elegant furniture for you as a dowry."

Shen Chengyao did not agree to use huanghuali wood. There is not much of this wood left in the shop now.There are very few good huanghuali woods on the market.I just heard from my uncle a few days ago that a customer has ordered two sets of furniture, which will be delivered at the end of next year. He asked for all to be made of huanghuali wood. Now he is looking for this wood everywhere!
It's really impossible to make a whole set of huanghuali wood, but one or two pieces should be fine by then, Shen Chengyao thought.After all, it is his own sister, and he will not lose her.

"I also want ten sets of red gold noodles, twenty sets of silver noodles, and ten pairs of gold bracelets, 100 taels of gold, pearls, and precious stones. There must be no less than ten pieces of silk, brocade, and cloud silk, and 50 taels of fertile land. Mu, there is a shop in the county, let’s prepare these for the time being, and add more later if you feel less.”

Shen Chengyao's face turned dark when he heard it, what did he take for him?I feel less and add more in the future!Is this my own sister, does anyone treat me as my elder brother?This is taking oneself for a fool!

Liu Shi also looked at this sister-in-law in disbelief.Although her family has become rich, it is not Wan Guan's wealth that cannot be spent.What's more, most of the money was earned by the children!She has so many children, she must leave some for the children!

(End of this chapter)