Zhumen Chunshen

Chapter 286 Preparations ([-])

"That's right, the dowry is complete, there's nothing for us to worry about, the dowry girl and the companion—" Mrs. Gu smiled at the fourth aunt with a drawn-out tone, "I haven't heard what the second brother said about it, I don't know. How did he plan, do you want to remind me?"

Compared with Mrs. Ma, who always showed her sense of superiority and put on airs, Si Yiniang undoubtedly liked Gu Shi more, and Gu Shi also saw Si Yiniang's current status in the Yao Mansion, and she was very polite when talking to her.

"Let's not ask about this matter." The fourth aunt glanced around, and whispered to Gu Shi with a smile: "The dowry girl will definitely not pick again, it must be the red Polygonum, Hongling and Xiao Xing beside the second lady." The four of them, Xiaoli and Xiaoli, followed, and Mama Rong also followed. As for the companion house, the second lady might not want someone from this mansion. According to Mama Rong, she might choose two or three families from Zhuangzi to fill her. Just count!"

Back then, Mrs. Yun only brought two companions, and she had asked Mrs. Ma to find the wrong place and rush to Zhuangzi. Now, all the people in this house are related to Mrs. Ma, so Yao Cunhui would not pick them.

Gu understood it, so he stopped talking.After a while, he whispered again: "It's fine to accompany the room. The four girls of Hongliu are not young, and their looks are just as handsome. If the second lady doesn't bring two people with some potential to go with her, she won't be afraid of being cheap in the future. Is it a woman? Hey, I have no other intentions, I am doing it for the sake of the second lady! We women are like this, every month when we are not feeling well, or we are pregnant in the future, isn’t that—General Shen is a general, I’m afraid That demand is stronger than that of ordinary men!"

Although Fourth Aunt had already given birth to a child, and in private she would often talk sweet and nasty things to Master Yao in private, but in front of an outsider of Gu's family, she couldn't help but her face turned red and hot when she heard this.

She lowered her head in embarrassment, and said with a forced smile: "Well, the second lady must have plans for the second lady... Uh, it's getting late today, why don't we come here first? Continue tomorrow?"

"Well, okay!" Mrs. Gu smiled, seeing that Fourth Aunt had a thin skin, she didn't continue the topic.After thinking about it, she was afraid that Fourth Aunt would say something in front of Yao Cunhui, so she smiled again: "What you said is that Hui'er is so smart, she already had an idea, we just said it casually in private, we can't take it seriously."

"That's it, that's it!" Si Yiniang hurriedly laughed and said, "Don't worry, who dares to say this in front of Second Miss!"

Only then did Gu Shi nod her head reassuringly.

As expected, just after the dowry ceremony of the Shen residence, within two days, Mrs. Yun and Mrs. Min brought several young ladies from the Yun family, Yun Fang, Yun Ru, and Yun Ning, to add make-up to Yao Cunhui.The three Yunfang sisters gave some small embroidery trinkets they made by themselves, and presented gifts for their respective mothers. Qi's gift was a white jade Guanyin, and Zhao's gift was a pair of emerald bracelets.

Mrs. Yun and Mrs. Min are Yao Cunhui's aunts and cousins, so they naturally gave more.

Mrs. Yun presented a beaded tent with Baiying pictures, a beaded tent with Yutang Fugui, two Persian carpets, two fur cloaks, a pair of multicolored porcelain Xianzhi Rui grass vases, and a bronze banana leaf flower dendrobium Right, a pair of famille rose plum vases with folded branches of flowers, a pair of chiseled gold and silver powder boxes, a pair of red sandalwood dowry boxes inlaid with glass mirrors, a pair of carved hibiscus jade rings, various sets of jewelry accessories, fine brocade, etc., full of decorations. In addition to jewelry accessories, Min’s gift also included a set of exquisite four treasures of the study made of sapphire, a set of bean green tea bowls with pictures of live shrimp playing in water, Yao Cunhui caressed the bean green tea bowls, the color was vivid, the texture was fine, the top The little shrimp playing in the water seemed to come alive, Yao Cunhui couldn't help but praise and praise, and thanked the aunt and cousin.

Mrs. Yun took her hand and pointed to the six big boxes on the ground and said with a smile: "These are all given to you by your grandmother, please take your time to look at them later, there are too many things, so be careful when picking them up." Got it! This is the list, you put it away!"

"So many! Grandmother, her old man is really... Huier is so sorry!" Yao Cunhui sighed with mixed feelings, feeling very sorry.

Mrs. Yun still has a few grandsons who have not married wives, and how many granddaughters have not left the cabinet. After giving herself so many things at once, the eldest uncle and aunt will naturally not say anything. It's hard to say, if some bad words are passed to the old man's ears and make the old man uncomfortable, wouldn't it be his own fault?

Not to mention anything else, the eyes of the three Yunfang sisters looking at the boxes were a little strange.

"This is the old man's wish. You are filial if you happily accept it! Don't worry, it's mostly crude benzene porcelain and silk brocade. The old man has a lot of things like this! Besides, I didn't give you all of them! " Mrs. Yun joked.

Everyone laughed when they heard this. Yao Cunhui followed Mrs. Yun's eyes, smiled and stepped forward to open a mouthful of the box. Sure enough, there were some porcelain inside, and another mouthful was opened, which was bright red and purple embroidered brocade.

"Then ask my aunt to thank my grandmother for Hui'er, and Hui'er will kowtow to the old man someday!" Yao Cunhui closed the box and smiled.

Mrs. Yun nodded with a smile and said hello.

Not long after, Mrs. Gu came over with a smile and invited Mrs. Yun, Mrs. Min and all the ladies of the Yun family to have lunch in the front hall. Min waited.

After lunch, she sat down for a cup of tea, knowing that Yao's residence was busy recently, Mrs. Yun took her daughter-in-law and niece back.Yao Cunhui personally sent them to the second gate, and watched them go before returning.

Going back and opening the makeup list drawn up by Mrs. Yun, Yao Cunhui was overwhelmed with emotion. The two opened the box. The upper layer was made of porcelain and brocades, while the lower layer was full of valuable fine items, all kinds of exquisite and beautiful touches. Needless to say, emerald-inlaid gemstone jewelry, there are also exquisite jadeite carvings, white magnolia flower vases, sapphire chimes, red coral gem bonsai, gilded beast head ring copper furnace, nanmu beads, rosewood wood carvings, etc., in addition to 1 taels The bank notes and the land deed for [-] acres of fertile land.

Apparently, the old lady was afraid that she would be bullied when she came to the Shen family, so she paid her a lot of money.

Yao Cunhui thought for a while, erased the 1 taels of silver note from the list and kept it privately, and only ordered Rong's mother to take someone to count everything and hand it over to Gu and Si Yiniang for packing.

After the Yun family came, other families also came one after another, including the major shopkeepers of the Yao family's rice shop, business partners of Mr. Yao, friends and relatives who had frequent contacts on weekdays, people from the Yun family and Xie's family in Jinling. Some relatives and friends who have or have not had acquaintances also sent their female family members to the door, and Gu and Yao Cunhui were very busy.Prince Li's Mansion and Ma's natal family also sent gifts, and the gift from Ma's family was not light, which surprised Yao Cunhui.

What surprised her even more was that the Lu family also sent someone to bring a gift. The lady who came was the number one housekeeper of the Lu Mansion. She presented a set of emerald jewelry and a pair of dragon and phoenix gold cups, repeatedly expressing that the Lu family is big. The madam was going to come over, but she didn't want her relatives to entertain her when her natal family came temporarily, so she couldn't leave for a while.

This was all a scene, so naturally no one would go to the bottom of the matter, everyone smiled and politely vagued the words, and the butler lady left after sitting down for a cup of tea.

Before leaving, Yao Cunhui gave a big red envelope, and the lady in charge generously accepted the reward, and said with a smile that she was also happy with Second Miss Yao.Turning around, he opened the red envelope, and inside was a 100 tael bank note. The lady in charge squinted her eyes and smiled quite satisfied.

The members of the Yao family are very good at doing things!
Not only her, but all the stewards who came to give gifts and add makeup on behalf of the master, everyone sealed a red envelope, treated each other politely and sent them away, and did not show the slightest arrogance and contempt because of the lack of status of the visitors.Even before the wedding, the Yao family's reputation has spread very well.

And Bai Muyuan, the current rumors are rumors at all, she didn't avoid suspicion at all, she also sent the lady in charge of the house to give a gift.

Yao Cunhui accepted it as well, but he didn't dare to put this gift in the dowry, so he gave it to Polygonum rhizoma.She was afraid that Shen Quan would be angry if she found out.Moreover, she herself doesn't like Bai Muyuan, this person has a good skin, looks elegant and gentle on the outside, but is actually a sinister and cunning thing!

After being busy for several days, Yao Cunhui finally took a break for the time being, so Yao Cunhui took the time to go to Yunfu to visit Old Madam Yun and kowtow to the old matriarch.

"Grandmother!" Yao Cunhui entered with a smile, raised her skirt and knelt down, and respectfully kowtowed three times in front of Old Madam Yun. Old Madam Yun leaned forward and stretched out her hand to help her up with a smile. .

"This child! It's still so polite!" Mrs. Yun smiled and took her hand and sat down next to her.

Yao Cunhui laughed and said, "Hui'er has nothing to repay you, so let Hui'er kowtow a few more times, and wish you a long life in Nanshan!"

Zhuzhu and the others all laughed when they heard this, and Old Madam Yun also laughed repeatedly, caressing her hand carefully, staring at her and sighing softly: "Okay, okay! Grandmother just live with it, when you marry into the Shen family, I'm afraid I won't be able to visit my grandmother often! Sigh, seeing you all grow up, come out of the court, and get married, my grandmother is both happy and sad! The days to come, you have to live well, you know? "

Yao Cunhui's expression froze slightly, at this time Fang realized that the atmosphere in the room seemed a little different, when she came over in the past, Mrs. Yun and Mrs. Min would sit and talk with her, but today the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are not there.Moreover, Mrs. Yun's complexion didn't seem to be very good, her eyes were slightly red, as if she had just shed tears.

Yao Cunhui quickly agreed, and said with a smile: "After leaving the pavilion and becoming a family, she is also your granddaughter. As long as you are happy, Huier can still visit you often and kowtow to you!"

"Hehe, you are talking stupid things!" Mrs. Yun gave her a friendly look.The old man took a breath, moved his mouth and closed it again, looked at her for a while and smiled kindly: "You are a sensible and intelligent person, and you will be able to live a good life in the future. Grandma is very relieved! It's just that being a married woman is no better than being a girl at home." Sometimes, sometimes it’s good to be confused, and it’s good to turn some small things into things. You don’t have to distinguish right from wrong in everything, and family harmony is more important! Only when the family is harmonious can you live a comfortable life!”

Yao Cunhui answered "Yes", and said coquettishly: "Grandmother said so, aren't you afraid that I will be bullied?"

(End of this chapter)