There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 370 The sixty bride price is brought (one more)
Luo Cheng looked at the direction Cong boy left, and frowned, "Jiao Niang, why did this child become greedy?"

In his memory, Cong was only interested in food and never cared about money. He didn't want any change when he gave him change.

Li Jiaoniang whispered to him, "I taught it." She blinked mischievously as she spoke, "If he doesn't make trouble, why would the old lady hate it?"

She has to let the Lu family know that Cong Boy is not a good stubble.

A person who is not good at making trouble, others can't beat and scold, it's enough for Mrs. Lu to have a headache.

Luo Cheng was stunned.

He tugged at the corner of his lips, "How cunning!"

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Cong Boy followed Old Madam Lu to the back house, asking all the way, "Grandmother, where is the betrothal gift, where is it?"

Nanny Jing frowned several times, thinking that where did Mrs. Li pick up such a fool?Don't even look at your face?

Can the dowry be won?Can you really take it away if you win?

So why not offend the Liu family?

The Liu family is not an aristocratic family, but they are rich.

There is more money than the old lady!
The old lady Lu suppressed her anger and coaxed young Cong, "It will be in my main room."

"Where is the main house?"

"That's it." Mrs. Lu said, pointing to the big yard ahead.

We have arrived at the gate of Mrs. Lu's garden.

The girl at the door was surprised when she saw Cong boy coming alone with Mrs. Lu, why did the old lady bring such a fool here?
Entering the main room, Cong boy called out for the dowry again, "Sixty, I can count them, don't lie to me."

The little girls covered their lips and laughed secretly.

Jin Xiu glanced at them and warned in a low voice, "Don't laugh, this is the old lady's guest!"

Jin Xiu didn't know Cong's real identity, but seeing that the old lady respected him very much, he didn't get angry when he messed around with the old lady, so he guessed that this person's identity was not simple.

She is the most powerful girl around the old lady, once she scolded her, no one dared to snicker anymore.

The old lady Lu looked back at Jin Xiu, "Go, bring the box with the butterfly copper lock in the warehouse."

There are six big boxes in the warehouse, which are all the treasures of the old lady, and the private money that has been saved all her life.

The lock of one of the boxes was a very fine red copper lock. Jin Xiu didn't know what was inside, but only knew that it was the heaviest box.

Jin Xiu replied suspiciously, and took the two nuns to the warehouse.

"Sixty bridesmaids will come soon, you sit quietly for a while." Old lady Lu smiled and patted the back of Cong boy's hand, and called the girl to bring tea.

Cong boy withdrew his hand in disgust, "Don't touch my hand, only my mother can touch my hand."

The old lady Lu's face darkened with anger, she was sullen, and didn't want to talk anymore.

The tea was brought to the table next to Cong boy, along with seasonal fruits.

Juvenile Cong picked up the tea and smelled it, frowned and said, "It's not as fragrant as the tea ordered by mother." He took another jujube, took a bite and threw it away, "It's not as sweet as the dates that Daddy picked. Bah, bah, bah, It’s so unpalatable, how did you manage to eat it? Ah, don’t you even have a sense of taste? You’re still so stupid!”

Mammy Jing couldn't help it anymore, the old lady didn't care about this kid out of face, she was the old lady's dowry!

He is the servant with the highest seniority in the mansion, and even the three young masters are very polite to him.

"Young Master Cong, the tea is wagashi, which is used by the old lady on a daily basis. They are the best in the house. How can you despise them so much? Isn't it that you despise the old lady too?"

Most of Cong's words were taught by Li Jiaoniang, he could only parrot the words, and asked him to respond to questions, but he couldn't understand many of them, and if he didn't understand, he just ignored them.

He muttered and complained that the tea, snacks and fruit tasted extremely bad, as if they were eaten by horses.

Old lady Lu twisted her mouth in anger.

She thought it was Cong boy who remembered the taste of royal food, but what she brought out was only commoner food, how dare she say a word?

After a while, Jin Xiu and two nuns carrying boxes came over.

The box was placed heavily on the ground.

Cong boy walked over to look, "Why is there only one lift, and there are still 59 lifts?"

Jin Xiu's face was dark, this silly boy really dared to ask for sixty suitcases, and the old lady's entire net worth was only six big suitcases.

Madam Tang's private money, I heard there are only three big boxes.

"Yes, yes, don't worry." Mrs. Lu coaxed again.

"Where is it?" Young Cong asked again.

Old Madam Lu nodded to Nanny Jing.

Nanny Jing picked a key from a bunch of keys at her waist and opened the big box.

The girls and women were all surprised when they saw what was in the box.

The two nuns who carried the box just now were even more amazed. No wonder the box was heavy. It turned out that there were a lot of silver ingots, gold ingots, antiques, jade, and pearls in it.

During this period, the whole country was short of silver, and the currency in circulation was mainly copper coins.

A string of one thousand coins, the whole string is a string of money, which is the value of a tael of silver, and large amounts of money of ten strings will be circulated in paper money, which is officially called Jiaozi, and commonly known as silver bills.

Many poor people have only seen one or two taels, at most five taels of broken silver and shapeless silver, and have never seen more than ten taels.

Those neat and tidy ingots are only found in official storerooms and rich households.

Now when the girls saw the big silver ingots and the big gold ingots of 50 taels, 100 taels, and [-] taels, all eyes lit up.

Old Madam Lu said to Nanny Jing again, "Bring the scale for weighing silver."

Nanny Jing was suspicious, "Old lady, this..."

The old lady Lu breathed heavily, "Go." This stubborn fool will not give up without spending some money.

Today is a big day for the Lu family, and the Liu family is pretty good, so we can't let him ruin things.

Nanny Jing shook her head, and went to fetch the scale beam.

The scale beam was brought, and the old lady Lu took it in her hand, took a piece of ten taels of silver ingot, put it on the weighing pan and lifted it, "Lift it." Then she picked it up and put it on the table beside her, and then picked up another The silver ingot was placed on the weighing pan, "Second lift..."

Juvenile Cong blinked, so this is lift? "Sixty lifts, no less!"

The maids and women on the house suddenly realized, yes, this child is a fool, how do they know how much the bride price is?

Just give something worthwhile to send.

According to the old lady, she only gave sixty ten taels of silver ingots, and it was only 600 taels of silver, or six hundred guan, which was much less than the real sixty taels of betrothal gift from the Liu family. !
"After I've counted, you can count again." Mrs. Lu smiled slightly, and took another silver ingot, "Three lifts."

In this way, sixty large silver ingots were counted and placed on the table.

Cong pointed to the silver ingots and counted them one by one, "One, two, three, four... sixty. Well, sixty, not too bad."

At this time, Old Madam Lu said again, "Jin Xiu, find a big box and put the silver ingots into Young Master Cong."

"Yes, old lady." Jin Xiu pursed her lips and smiled, and went to find the box.

Seeing that the sixty silver ingots were packed, Cong quickly hugged them in his arms, "I'll save them." He ran away, looking for Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng.

"Hey, just run away?" Mother Jing said in surprise, "What should I do if I lose it, so much money?"

The old lady Lu said, "I can't lose it, let him go."

Young Cong was running around the house, asking everyone he met, "Where's my father, where's my mother?"

It can be said that he stole the limelight today, the entire Lu family, including the guests, knew that this idiot boy was the adopted son of Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng.

Knowing that Mrs. Lu likes him very much,
The old servant of the Lu family who was questioned did not dare to neglect him, and said, "I will take you to find them."

After turning a few corners, Juvenile Cong found Li Jiaoniang.

At this time, Li Jiaoniang was sitting in a warm pavilion, talking to the junior girls of the Lu family.

Several little girls asked her about "Auntie is long and Auntie is short".

Four junior girls, the youngest is five years old and the oldest is only ten years old.

It is the age that talks the most.

Seeing Li Jiaoniang, young man Cong rushed in excitedly, "Mother, mother!"

Li Jiaoniang once told him that if he wanted to earn a lot of money, he would marry her a wife and tell him to be more obedient and less troublesome.

Therefore, when he has money, he will save it for Li Jiaoniang.

Li Jiaoniang looked up and saw Cong boy running into the Nuan Pavilion with a big box more than one foot long, half a foot high and half a foot wide, and said with a smile, "It's Cong'er, come here, sit here, here No wind, warm."

Young Cong stuffed the big box into Li Jiaoniang's hands, "Mother, I won back the sixty dowry gift!"

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "Really?" She opened the lid, only to see that there were neatly arranged silver ingots lying inside, counting them, there were sixty of them.

She understood, this is Mrs. Lu's "sixty bride price"!
Just a way to fool a fool.

Anyway, if there is something to make up for, she doesn't care if it's more or less, and it's not good to make too much noise.

"There are sixty lifts, right, I counted them!" Cong said happily.

Li Jiaoniang touched his face and boasted with a smile, "Cong'er is so powerful, she is indeed sixty! However, since we promised the old lady, you can stay there and play, go back first, in a few days I'll come pick you up again."

"Yeah." Juvenile Cong nodded happily, turned around happily and left.

The five-year-old girl Lu Qin blinked and said, "Aunt Biao, this is only sixty ingots, not sixty lifts!"

Li Jiaoniang closed the lid, she said with a serious face, "It's as much as the old lady said. Do you understand?"

(End of this chapter)