Chapter 418 Dowry
The written engagement letter will be taken away by the Fan family. When the wedding is over, it will be sent together with the gift letter.
Since then, the marriage between the Fan and Li families has been officially decided.
This is not the first time that the Fan family and the Li family have gotten married, but the meaning of the marriage this time is different. The one on Fan's side is a direct descendant, and the one on Li's side is getting married. A girl with a great reputation.
Both the Fan family and the Li family are happy to see the success.
Mrs. Fan was very happy to marry such a good wife. Although Mrs. Li knew that her girl was very good, how could she say that this Fan Jin was Fan Juren's nephew, and he was also a child, and he was about to marry her. If you take the college exam, you can become a scholar if you can't do it. In the future, you can take the exam to become an official!
No matter how prosperous the Li family is, without official status, they are still one level behind.
This is different.
Both parties are satisfied, so why isn’t it a happy event worth celebrating?
Therefore, it was a lot of fun during the dinner, while we were changing glasses, talking and laughing.
So in the end, Fan Jin's relatives and uncles were carried away drunk.
On the Li family's side, Pomegranate's uncles and uncles were not much better either. They fell asleep so hard that they couldn't wake up.
Pomegranate was also amused by this, so he left them all to live in Zhuangzi until old Yuan passed his birthday before leaving.
The upper courtyard of Zhuangzi's house is quite large. It can be entered three times in front, back and forth, and it even crosses the courtyard. It can be completely lived in.
The men got drunk and fell asleep, while the women gathered in the flower hall to talk and have fun.
The large watermelon sent by Erli Village has been chilled in the well. It is just right to cut it and eat it in this hot mid-afternoon day.
There were people talking and laughing outside. In the east room, Mrs. Wang was handing a box to Pomegranate, "Pomegranate, this is the dowry that your adoptive father and I have prepared for you. Although it is not much, , but it’s also our intention, you can see if it suits your liking, and if you don’t like it, let’s change it.”
Ding Fuguang on the side also touched his beard and nodded, smiling. with pomegranate.
Although Pomegranate had already expected it, when I opened the box, I was unspeakably moved.
The top thing is a gift list, and below it is the land contract, body contract and so on. You can see it clearly just by looking at the gift list.
Her adoptive father and mother prepared for her two shops in Luoshui City, a second-level house in Fucheng, and a hundred acres of high-quality paddy fields outside Pinghe County——
There are also four more According to the contract, her adoptive father and mother gave her Sui Lu and Shi Hong, as well as two young servants.
She said that Jin'er's adoptive father and the others had brought all the green and red seasons with them. It turned out to be Ying here. She also had an impression of the other two young boys. They were both smart and down-to-earth.
Think again of the boxes that my adoptive father and adoptive mother brought in when I arrived today - and then look at the four sets of heads and faces, ten pieces of high-quality Sichuan brocade, etc. on the gift list, that's it.
In addition to these, there is also a stack of silver notes at the bottom, one hundred taels per denomination, a total of twenty, exactly two thousand taels, and the silver ingots mentioned on the gift list but packed in a box Fifty ingots of ten liang and a box of gold cakes, as well as a box of twelve zodiac signs and peanuts and melon seeds made of gold in another small box, are usually used by wealthy families to reward people.
This preparation can be said to be a lot of work.
Before Shiliu could do anything, Li Jihe and Song family exclaimed in surprise after hearing Shiliu read it out.
Ms. Song even pulled Mrs. Wang and said, "Sister Wang, how can this be done? It's so precious!"
Ms. Wang said angrily: "Why is it so expensive? Although It’s a sex act, but in our hearts, Pomegranate is also our real daughter! This is all what we deserve for her!
Her adoptive father originally wanted to buy a complete set of trousseau furniture. He had already taken a fancy to the fine mahogany, but I persuaded him. As the adopted father and mother-in-law, we should not snatch this trousseau furniture from you. . "Not to mention that their family made a lot of money last year because of the pomegranate pull. Even if they didn't, they should be rich.
This is because the master arranged the family property, divided it into ten parts, and gave 20% of the pomegranate!
Because I made a small profit last year, this percentage will naturally be increased.
Ms. Song was sweating after hearing this. Fortunately, she didn’t have to bear the dowry furniture as well!
Look at what is prepared for Pomegranate. In addition to the furniture, it is also a complete dowry. It is so decent that few wealthy families in the city can be so decent.
After all, those families have many daughters, how can they all be given a few thousand taels in dowry!
She lives in the city and has interacted with the wives of several merchants. She has heard of all this!
Although Wang didn't say it explicitly, Shiliu had a rough idea of the Ding family's wealth, so how could she not know how much her adoptive father and stepmother had given her.
It would be a lie to say that you are not moved.
There are so many godparents, but no one can be as close as this.
I won’t say much more, Pomegranate will keep it all in mind.
Smiling at the moment, he said: "I like them all, thank you, my adoptive father and stepmother!"
"As long as you like them!" Wang smiled: "Sui Lu and Shi Hong were originally given to you. Prepared, they will serve you when you come to the house. You also know that our Ding family has only been rich for twenty years, and there is no family that has children. All of them, including Du Ping and Zhu Shi, were bought later and selected by official officials, so you can use them with confidence."
This is to tell Shiliu that even if it is given to the dowry person, it will not matter. They are all single, and there are no hookers in the Ding family. How about telling Shiliu not to worry that they let people go to her side.
How could Pomegranate not know this, she nodded and said: "My foster mother is interested. I was thinking about asking you for Sui Lu and Shi Hong before. They are very good."
The Ding family's village is not far from Dafengji. Mrs. Ding and the others are still on the village. Ding Fuguang and Mr. Wang wanted to rush back, but they only said they would wait until the old lady's birthday before coming back. It was close anyway.
Pomegranate sent them all the way out of Zhuangzi, and when they came back, she first settled the dowry given to her by her adoptive father and stepmother.
It is still early to get married, so all the money and belongings should be deposited in Zhuangzi first.
The thirty boxes of jewelry, jade, etc. are also in this village. With so many guards and villagers, and two large granaries stationed there, there is no place safer than here.
As for people, they must be used as soon as they are delivered, but there is no reason to put them aside.
Therefore, Shiliu made a large-scale personnel arrangement. According to Fu Dong, she should have the style that other girls in the city have.
There are four first-class maids, namely Fudong, Xichun, Suilu and Shihong.
You take it with you every day when you go out in the winter, take care of the tea and meals in the spring, take care of the money in the storehouse when you are green, and take care of the hairpins and jewelry when you are red.
There are four second-class maids, namely Nianxia, Jinhua, Jade Pearl, and Silver Lock.
The last two were selected from Dazaozhuang. Yuzhu is the daughter of the head of Dazaozhuang, and Yinsuo's father is in charge of the granary on Dazaozhuang.
Yuzhu and Yinsuo are both good at needlework, so they only care about her clothes and needlework. From now on, there is no need to go out to buy her clothes, and there is no need to bother Hong Xiu.
Hong Xiu took a few people out of the sewing room at home to make clothes for other people in the family.
As for Du Ping and Zhu Shi, they are always there to listen to orders and help deliver messages.
Everything is arranged, let’s work together!