fruity fragrance

Chapter 224 The Dowry and the Dowry

Lin Guoxiang and Xiucai had not had time to rest when they arrived in the capital, and they were announced into the palace by the new emperor the next day.Wearing the complicated and heavy outfit of Mrs. Gaoming, Lin Guoxiang rolled her eyes under the pressure.She gritted her teeth in her heart, greeted her baby face, and thought about her ancestors in her life, it's okay now, when she gets old, if she wears such a suit every time she enters the palace, she won't be able to Broken old bones?
Thinking of this, Lin Guoxiang felt that her future was bleak, so she hated Babyface even more in her heart.

Seeing Lin Guoxiang gritted her teeth and wished she could touch the kitchen knife to cut and cook the one above, the scholar sighed inwardly, and patted her hand: "Eunuch Liu outside is still waiting." It is to remind Lin Guoxiang that even if you wish to throw the person above you into the frying pan, you can't show it on your face, otherwise it will be disrespectful and fatal.

She was also afraid that Lin Guoxiang would pretend not to understand what he meant, so she hurriedly added: "After all, Zhi'er is still in the hands of others to make a living. Although we parents can't help, we can't let the child too much. It's embarrassing." You almost told Lin Guoxiang that it's not worth it for you to keep up with the puffed up man above us in the end as the final victims.

Lin Guoxiang is not a fool, she knows what Xiucai said better than anyone else, it's just that she has a short temper and can't get angry.So I said: "Okay, I know it in my heart." It's just showing dissatisfaction in front of you. If you go outside, even if you are dissatisfied with face, you have to do more.

When Xiucai saw her say this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: This time, there should be no such thing as a few years ago when there was a big fight when there was a disagreement, right?Thinking of the past, Xiucai was really speechless to these two, they were so grown up and they would fight like children if they disagreed, fighting like black-eyed chickens.Of course, although he didn't agree with Lin Guoxiang's actions on the surface, but in his heart he would be lying if he said he was not happy about the boss above being beaten by his daughter-in-law.

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Lin Guoxiang and Xiucai followed their father-in-law into the palace, although both of them were very curious about all kinds of things in the palace, especially Lin Guoxiang, who had seen the Forbidden City in modern times, also wanted to see the history of this dynasty. Is the imperial palace the same as the original Forbidden City, but she also knows that it is better to be cautious and follow the rules when she first arrives, and don't be caught by someone who is interested in making a fuss just because she looks around out of curiosity.Even if she doesn't care, she has to give her son some face. Don't let people gossip behind his back and say that Mrs. Founder's mother is a farmer in the countryside, and she doesn't know the rules.

Not to mention, Lin Guoxiang's prudence was right. The empress had married her eldest daughter to Wang Yuanzhi, who was a farmer, for the emperor's sake, and felt that she had wronged the eldest princess.According to the unwritten rules of the Great Xia Dynasty, the eldest princess does not need to marry outside, so the queen was thinking about finding a good family for the eldest princess, but she didn't know that before she took any action, she would be poured cold water from the beginning by her husband It was cold to the feet.

To actually marry the eldest princess Changping to the founding prince Wang Yuanzhi who was born as a farmer, oh, that's not right, at least his father is still a juren.But with such a background and family, it would be strange for the queen to be willing to marry her own daughter, so she is trying to persuade the emperor to withdraw the imperial decree of marriage, but when she falls asleep, someone will give her a pillow. Unexpectedly, the founder's parents were summoned by the emperor.

So the queen was excited, and quickly sent a confidant to lurk secretly in the necessary way, trying to catch the mistakes of Lin Guoxiang and Xiucai, and then told the emperor that this family was really not the eldest princess's choice for her husband's family.

But these scholars and Lin Guoxiang don't know. Otherwise, Lin Guoxiang would hold the Queen's hand and tell her relatives with tears in her eyes, and would actively cooperate and make more mistakes to mess up the situation. Unwelcome marriage.

It is because of ignorance that the queen is doomed to be disappointed.Although Xiucai and Lin Guoxiang also made some small mistakes, they have not undergone formal training in etiquette, so neither of them can enter the palace for the first time without making mistakes, right?As long as you don't make too many mistakes, then these small mistakes, even if the queen picks on the bones of the egg, it will not be of any use to find fault with the emperor. I guess it may offend the emperor in the end and make him feel disgusted. This is the queen. Absolutely not wanted.

Seeing the baby face, although Lin Guoxiang was unwilling, she followed the scholar and kowtowed to him in a polite manner. Although she said long live the emperor, she didn't mean any respect in her heart.It is estimated that Babyface also knew that he was not pleasing, so he simply didn't take it to heart.

After saluting, everyone in the room was waved away except for the eunuch and chief executive who was standing neatly not far from the baby's face, so only Lin Guoxiang and Xiucai were left in the room. four people.

The room is full of old acquaintances who have known each other since 800 years ago, Lin Guoxiang simply put away the cautiousness she had deliberately pretended just now, and looked up and down the baby face sitting on the rosewood dragon pattern chair with carefree eyes, This guy is wearing a bright yellow dragon robe today, the bright color makes the already charming baby face even more dazzling.Even if Lin Guoxiang doesn't want to admit it anymore, she still has to praise her.

I have to say that although the character of the baby face is not very good, but this skin is very good, it is definitely a woman who is ashamed of a man.

But Lin Guoxiang couldn't help curling her lips inwardly: You only have this skin in your eyes.Of course, she would never admit that she was jealous.

The baby's face was looked up and down by Lin Guoxiang's big thorns without even lifting the eyelids, just sitting there lazily and letting Lin Guoxiang look at it enough, and it took a long time before he never knew what changed. He took out a folding fan inlaid with gold and jade, opened it with a "shua", and shook it coquettishly.

The large group of enchanting peonies on it could dazzle people's eyes, and the corner of Lin Guoxiang's mouth couldn't help twitching at that moment.Sure enough, the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change. Even if this guy becomes the emperor, he will always be extremely coquettish, which makes people hate it.

Lin Guoxiang decided not to waste her life with such big eyes and small eyes, so she said straight to the point: "Let's stop talking, you came to us because of the marriage of the two children, let's just talk about it directly." Tell me." In fact, what she wants to say is that my aunt doesn't want to see you at all right now, so if you have something to say, hurry up and leave.Staying in this place is really depressing, and now she is so depressed that she wants to beat someone up.

The baby face couldn't help grinning when she heard Lin Guoxiang's words. In an instant, the lazy and enchanting smell poured out from her bones, and rushed towards Lin Guoxiang, making Lin Guoxiang's already a little irritable mood even worse Because she doesn't know why, she always feels that this guy seems to be discharging electricity towards her.In fact, to put it bluntly, he was playing her like a fool, like the owner teasing a pet, and she was the pet being teased.No one would like this feeling.

The scholar frowned calmly, but he didn't speak, but quietly listened to the two people fighting each other, openly or secretly, like a battle without gunpowder. war.It seems that these two people haven't seen each other for several years and still look the same.

Lin Guoxiang curled her lips in annoyance, and said directly, "Let's talk about the dowry and bride price." Lin Guoxiang cut straight to the point, and she felt that if she continued to babble like this, she would definitely burst out , if the time comes, if you can't help but beat Babyface, then it's over.

The baby face raised his eyebrows, and suddenly laughed: "Then how much dowry do you plan to give?" The tone clearly told Lin Guoxiang that it would be too hurtful if the dowry was given too little. The eldest princess married into your family, you have to do something to show it.

"How much dowry do you plan to accompany?" Lin Guoxiang asked back.Tch, do you still want to get married in vain with just a bride price?Originally, Lin Guoxiang really didn't care about the woman's dowry or anything like that, but the fact that she didn't care was aimed at ordinary people's daughters, but since Babyface is going to beg for nothing to forcefully marry that Changping to her family, the situation will have to be different. said.

Maybe it was Lin Guoxiang's tone of voice that made the baby face a little displeased, he couldn't help raising the eyebrows, and the words he said became more straightforward: "What do you mean, do you want to marry back for nothing?" Maybe it was with Lin Guoxiang was used to dealing with people straightforwardly, so Babyface didn't beat around the bush like usual, but spoke out straightforwardly.Of course, there must be an element of fear that Lin Guoxiang would not understand.

"I should be the one asking you what you mean?" Lin Guoxiang didn't realize how honorable it is for her family to marry the eldest princess. "Have you ever seen someone marry a daughter without giving a dowry?" She is shameless, really With the idea of ​​her family's money.

"You said that you earned so much money just to leave it to your children. Now that your son has finally married a daughter-in-law, he is still reluctant to part with that little gift. You are too stingy." The baby face continued to smile, "Wouldn't it be better in the future?" You have to rely on your children to take care of you, and money cannot replace your children to serve you."

Lin Guoxiang couldn't help but cast a cold glance at the baby's face: "I'm just a rural person, how can I have any money, and who in this world can compare to you in wealth? Besides, as you said just now, Why do you leave so much money, you can't eat or drink, and the eldest daughter of a direct relative is not willing to give a dowry when she gets married, who is really stingy?"

Lin Guoxiang can basically be sure now that one of the most important reasons why this guy married that Changping to her son is definitely because of the money in her hand.What do you mean by looking at the character of her son? In fact, to put it bluntly, is it because of the good conditions of her family?Her family has a small population and a simple background. After marrying the eldest princess, no one will be able to bully her based on her noble status.If Wang Yuanzhi really only had the name of the founder of the country, she really didn't believe that the cunning baby face like a fox would really marry the eldest princess.

The baby's face obviously froze, but he has always had a good face, and he covered it up in just a second: "You have to know, Changping is the eldest princess." The implication is that your princess Nengshang is already a princess. It's a great blessing, and everything else is cheap and good-looking.

Lin Guoxiang couldn't help curling her lips, and said very bluntly: "Anyway, our family has no money, but I believe there must be many people in this imperial capital who are willing to pay a lot of money to marry the princess back."

As soon as these words came out, the baby's face suddenly became stiff, and the room fell into a terrible silence, and even the slight breathing of the four people could be heard clearly.

A layer of evil spirit slowly gathered around Babyface's body, making the already tense atmosphere even more tense.But Lin Guoxiang obviously didn't take it seriously, she didn't even change the expression on her face, but Xiucai had never experienced such a thing before, and her breathing sank suddenly.But he quickly calmed down, thinking that his daughter-in-law was afraid of him as a man, why should he be afraid of him, at most, he would pull him out and snap together.

At that time, what will be rumored outside, the scholar can guess with just his toes, it must be because of the dowry and dowry, the two families are at odds.But if that's the case, things can be fun.

The two sides were in a stalemate for nearly three seconds, and the baby face suddenly withdrew the evil spirit emanating from its body, and the face returned to the smiling appearance just now, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a smiling fox.

"How about this, I will give 5 taels of Changping's dowry, and you can give 50 taels of dowry." When the baby face said it, it still had an expression of being taken advantage of, and Lin Guoxiang's teeth looked straight at him. itch.

"50 taels?! Why don't you go grab it?" Lin Guoxiang was furious, "It's not good for you to think that the silver falls from the sky, even if it falls from the sky, you have to bend down to pick it up. "Good guy, it's really a lion who opened his mouth, and asked for a gift of 50 taels as soon as he opened his mouth. Can he really kill her like a fat sheep?Does she have a face that has been taken advantage of?

Babyface obviously knew that he wanted too much, so he smiled and said, "We can discuss this further."

"10 taels of silver." Lin Guoxiang made a "ten" with her hands and said, "Is that too much?" Originally, she originally planned that Wang Yuanzhi and Wang Yuanyue's two children would each get 20 taels of silver when they got married. The home purchase fee, and the rest of the money will be shared equally between her and Xiucai brothers after a hundred years in the future, but because of Babyface's sudden intervention, all her plans were disrupted.

Babyface was obviously not very satisfied: "Isn't 10 taels too little?" He knew Lin Guoxiang's family background very well. How could he be willing to take out 10 taels of silver.

This time Lin Guoxiang didn't even bother to say anything, she just pursed her lips and said nothing, and put on a rascal expression of "it's just so much money, whether you like it or not, it's up to you".In fact, she really wanted to say, isn't it only 5 taels of silver for your majestic eldest princess to marry?

After Lin Guoxiang said this, the baby face knew that this matter must not be discussed, so she nodded after thinking for a while.Anyway, Wang Yuanzhi is the eldest son of the family, and now he has an official title. In the future, the position of the head of the family will definitely fall to him, and he will definitely be in charge of the family property. Just don't suffer.

Babyface's calculations like this are beautiful, but she doesn't really understand Lin Guoxiang's life and thoughts. She is not a real native aborigine, and she doesn't have any concept of age. The working environment, so it has always been based on fairness.Therefore, it is impossible for Babyface to plan for Wang Yuanzhi and her brothers to divide the family and leave most of the family property in her hands to Wang Yuanzhi.

Although Lin Guoxiang doesn't like to use her brain, she still knows something about what Babyface slaps and pays attention to her, but she doesn't say anything if Babyface doesn't mention it.

The two of them settled on the dowry and dowry, and then they talked about some rules when they got married. Lin Guoxiang, who listened to those red tapes, was as big as two, and soon became impatient: "I don't know any of these rules." I don’t understand, anyway, when the time comes, people from the Ministry of Etiquette will follow along to organize the wedding, so let your people do it all, and we will cooperate accordingly.”

After a pause, Lin Guoxiang suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked: "But before the wedding, we have to make it clear. Is this our family's marriage or is it a marriage?" This must be made clear, don't make it to the end Her well-behaved son will become an adult, and she will have to squirt blood in aggrieved manner.

"Is there any difference?" Babyface smiled and turned her eyes to look at Lin Guoxiang and asked back.

Lin Guoxiang almost rolled her eyes from her mouthful of blood, and said to herself: Why is there no difference, grandma, the difference is huge.

Lin Guoxiang straightened up her face: "Since you are so insincere, forget it, our family can't afford such a great relationship." The implication is, just stay where you are cool .If you have racked your brains and calculated that you have no sincerity in marrying your daughter and still want to get married, your aunt and grandmother are too lazy to play with you, so go as far as you want now.

Anyway, Lin Guoxiang was not happy with Princess Wang Yuanzhi from the very beginning, so she took the opportunity to implicitly hint that she was not willing to marry the emperor.But after all, she still underestimated the thickness of the baby face's skin, she said it so obviously, people can pretend to be stupid and pretend that they don't know anything.

"If it's a marriage, please take back the imperial decree of the marriage. Although the princess is a daughter, we can't climb high." Lin Guoxiang simply explained, "If you marry into our family, then You have to follow the rules of marriage. You can have a princess mansion, but the rule that the couple needs to get the consent of the lowly maidservants to meet each other has to be removed. My son is marrying a daughter-in-law and going home to live a good life. , it’s not about marrying a princess and going home to make offerings. Another thing is that when you marry, you can’t bring anything from the palace except for a nanny and a few maids who are usually used, although these people change the rules But for the future harmony of the young couple, all people and things that may cause disasters must be eliminated first."

Babyface didn't say anything about Lin Guoxiang's words, but just raised the end of her eyebrows to signal her to continue.Lin Guoxiang was not polite, and said directly: "One more thing, you have to take good care of the concubines in your harem, don't cut your head and try to squeeze your own people into our house if you have nothing to do , and the housework of our family does not need the empress in the palace to intervene. It is their own business how their little couple will live in the future. We parents can't control them for the rest of their lives. Some things are still on the sidelines. It's good to go."

"Did you finish?" Babyface asked Lin Guoxiang with a smile and raised eyebrows, a face that was much more coquettish than a peony flower, no one could see any other emotions.If it were someone else, I would probably be thinking about this person in my heart, but Lin Guoxiang was not afraid, and she didn't think it was necessary, so when Babyface asked her like this, she was even quite sympathetic. After thinking about it seriously, he said, "Also, I just haven't figured it out for the time being, and I'll talk about it when I figure it out."

The chief eunuch who was carefully serving behind the baby face secretly glanced at Lin Guoxiang's stern face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, thinking: This is really not polite at all, every time One condition is to look in the opposite direction of royal protocol.I don't know if the master in the palace will lose his temper if he finds out about this matter. She is such a direct eldest princess, but now she is asked not to interfere in the affairs of her daughter and son-in-law. It would be strange not to jump her feet.

But these are the affairs of the masters, and he is not easy to manage as a slave.

Babyface smiled for real this time, unlike the fake smiles of the past, this time the smile seemed more real.I saw his slender index finger tapping lightly on the rosewood table top, making a slight crisp sound.The man was also lost in thought, he didn't speak, Lin Guoxiang and Xiucai also didn't speak, let him think.Anyway, Lin Guoxiang had made up her mind, if Babyface didn't agree, she would go all out and not agree to this marriage, even if it was bestowed by the emperor.

Babyface thought for a while, but nodded in agreement with Lin Guoxiang's request: "I agree to all your requests, and if anyone who is not open-minded wants to meddle in the affairs of their young couple, come to me , I will call the shots for them.”

Babyface gave Lin Guoxiang a guarantee by saying this, and it is estimated that those nobles in the harem will not dare to wear their small shoes in the future.Especially the eldest princess's own mother, who is a queen. As her status, if she really wants to wear Wang Yuanzhi's little shoes for her son, she can only accept it, but now that the emperor has promised it, it will be different.

With Babyface's guarantee, although Lin Guoxiang still has grievances about this marriage, her attitude has eased a lot, and she actively discusses some matters of marriage with Xiucai and Babyface.I don't know what was said in the middle, and I saw Lin Guoxiang and Baby Face arguing, and in the end the two sides still ended the matter with a big fight to an unsatisfactory end.

(End of this chapter)