Chapter 333 Dowry
Fortunately, she controlled her temper in time, raised her outstretched palm, and pretended to hold the gold and silver hairpin inlaid with jewels on the armrest, and then she was fooled.
But with her actions like that, how could she escape Mother Su who was like a human being?
Mother Su snorted in her heart, but smiled on her face and said, "The old lady said that the wife is also busy at home, so I will let the old slave take care of the matter of marrying a concubine. As for the betrothal gift of the Guo family, the old lady will also prepare it." Okay, Madam, just wait and drink the tea.”
Still at ease?
She is marrying a concubine for her husband, but she is not marrying a daughter-in-law and drinking her daughter-in-law’s tea. Where can she go to feel at ease?
Xu was so angry that she almost lost control.
She pulled the handkerchief tightly to control herself from smashing the teacup at Su's mother's face.
She had a stiff smile on her face, "Then everything depends on Mrs. Lao and Mother Su."
"This old slave is working for my uncle. I can't stand the word "work"." Mother Su stabbed Mrs. Xu in the chest again. When she saw that she was about to lose her mind, Mother Su stood up and left, "Old slave, I won't waste any time either. My wife is busy, I’m leaving.”
Mrs. Xu asked her maid to escort Su's mother out in person.
As soon as Su's mother walked to the door of the courtyard, she heard something break in the house. There was only a loud sound of broken porcelain.
Mother Su was happy in her heart and on her face. After leaving the hanging flower door, she waved the maid back.
Next, Su's mother invited a matchmaker to go to Guo's house to propose marriage.
Then I changed the Geng sticker and combined the horoscope.
When the words "husband and wife are of the same mind, they will be together for a hundred years", Su's mother beamed with joy and came back to tell Zeng. Zeng told Xia Shiming, and Xia Shiming also beamed with joy.
However, when Aunt Zhang heard about this, she was stunned at first, and then sat blankly for the whole day. Even when Xia Shiming came, she just twisted her lips and showed a forced smile to deal with him.
After Xia Shiming left, Manager Han advised her, "Madam, you can't tolerate others with your temper. You are a good person and will be rewarded. You happened to fall in the eyes of the second girl, so you came to the Chu family to raise the baby. With such good care, If you raise a baby in the Xia family, my aunt, think about it, can you still be safe and sound?"
Definitely not.
Mrs. Xu's mind is smaller than the tip of a needle. Not to mention that she won't let these concubines become pregnant with the master's child. Even the second girl, the daughter left by the master's first wife, Mrs. Xu can't tolerate it.
Back then, if Mrs. Chu hadn't brought the second girl to the capital before Xu entered the house and stayed in the Chu family to educate her, she might have been killed by Xu.
There are three girls.
How could such a little girl be so cruel that they would poison her with red pollen, hoping that she would never be able to conceive a child.
Xia Ziying is just like the Xu family. She has inherited Xu's family spirit and cruelty.
If she had really raised her child in front of these two mother and daughter who were as vicious as venomous snakes, she would have died eight hundred times long ago.
Fortunately, the second girl was a nice person and brought her to Chu's house to raise her baby, but... she couldn't stay in Chu's house and never go back.
After she gave birth to the child, she still had to go back to the Xia family.
By then...
When she thought that Xu and her daughter might attack her child, Aunt Zhang felt a chill in her heart, and she also broke out in cold sweat on her back.
After all, her status was too low to protect herself and her children.
In the eyes of Mrs. Xu and her daughter, she was just a cheap concubine and maid serving the master. It was just a matter of her words if Mrs. Xu was unhappy and wanted to beat or sell her.
After realizing this fact, Aunt Zhang looked at Manager Han in panic.
Manager Han seemed to have noticed her thoughts, and she said, "Don't worry, aunt. When the time comes, as long as aunt Guo comes in and wins the master's heart, my wife and the third girl will still have the leisure to deal with you and me." Child? ”
When the time comes, Mrs. Xu will be so focused on dealing with Aunt Guo that she will not be able to deal with her at all.
The appearance of Aunt Guo took the master away from her, but it also gave her and her children a chance to survive.
If Aunt Zhang had to choose only one between the master and the child, Aunt Zhang would choose the child without hesitation.
She is just an aunt with a humble status. Although the master is temporarily attracted to her, there are many beautiful and gentle maids. Maybe one day the master will be attracted to another maid again. By then, she will lose the master. of favor.
Without Aunt Guo, other women would appear.
The master cannot belong to her alone forever.
But children are different.
The child was born to her and will be her support for the rest of her life.
Regardless of whether she has a boy or a girl, the aunt who has given birth to a child and the aunt who has not given birth to a child have different statuses with the master.
Perhaps it would be beneficial for Mrs. Chu to marry a high-status concubine for the master.
At least the noble concubine is qualified to fight with the Xu family, and the Xu family cannot treat the noble concubine like he did with them.
After Aunt Zhang figured it out, her mood changed. She even looked forward to the day when Aunt Guo would marry into the Xia family.
Because it was marrying a concubine, there was not as much detail as marrying a wife, and Miss Guo was too old to delay, so her and Xia Shiming's happy day was set for August 12th. Originally, Miss Guo had already embroidered a wedding dress for herself, but what she originally embroidered was a bright red wedding dress, which was worn by the royal family. As a concubine, she could not wear bright red and could only wear a pink wedding dress.
One month was not enough time for her to embroider another wedding dress.
After Xia Zihan heard about it, she took the initiative to embroider her wedding dress. Of course, she didn't have time to embroider it herself. She handed the matter over to Qi Lan and asked the embroiderer in Yusha Pavilion to put down her work. All the work was done to embroider Miss Guo’s wedding dress.
With more people and greater strength, Miss Guo's wedding dress was embroidered in just twenty days.
Qi Lan personally delivered it to the door.
"You...you said this wedding dress was embroidered by people from Yusha Pavilion?" Miss Guo's face was full of excitement.
You know, the clothes in Yusha Pavilion are the most expensive in the capital, and even the cheapest one costs over a hundred taels of silver.
Although the Guo family was relatively wealthy, it was not enough for her to wear the clothes of Yusha Pavilion.
She didn't even bother to buy a handkerchief at Yusha Pavilion.
That piece of veil costs five taels of silver, which is her monthly allowance.
However, her sister-in-law does have a piece of clothing from Yusha Pavilion.
It was last year that after her eldest brother achieved the honor of being a son-in-law, her sister-in-law was so happy that she took her money from the box and went to Yusha Pavilion to buy a piece of clothing. When she held a banquet to celebrate her eldest brother, her sister-in-law wore it.
Although the clothes were the cheapest in Yusha Pavilion, the design, workmanship, and fabric were all exquisite and flawless. At that time, several ladies and girls who were friends with the Guo family were extremely envious.
In fact, she also envied and liked him very much, but she didn't have the money to buy it, so she didn't dare to show it in front of others, for fear that her sister-in-law would be too worried.
But she didn't expect that the clothes she had been dreaming about for a year now actually own it, and it was also her wedding dress.
The Lord of Chuyu County said he wanted to embroider a wedding dress for her, but he actually went to Yusha Pavilion to customize it for her.
Miss Guo was so moved that she almost shed tears. When Qi Lan said goodbye, she personally sent Qi Lan out of the Chuihua Gate.
As for Su's mother, on the second day after the marriage was confirmed, she was sent to the Xia family by Zeng to prepare for Xia Shiming's marriage.
Xia Zihan also thoughtfully lent four maids, Silk Grass, Vanilla, Chu Fei and Chu Kui, to Mother Su for use.
With the help of the four maids, within a few days, the Xia family was completely renewed. Red lanterns and red gauze were hung everywhere, and big red happy characters were pasted on them. They were dressed up as if the master was getting married. Festive.
The yard that Su's mother prepared for Aunt Guo was right in front of the yard where Mrs. Xu lived. If Xia Shiming wanted to go to Mrs. Xu's yard, he had to pass by the gate of Aunt Guo's yard.
This ingenious arrangement was intentional by Su's mother. She wanted to take revenge for Mrs. Xu's attempt to slap her that day.
Mrs. Xu's face turned green with anger, and she smashed the new set of teapots she took out.
But she was so angry that she didn't dare to vent her anger in front of Mother Su.
She was just a stepmother, whose status was one level lower than that of the main wife. Every year during the Chinese New Year, when the Xia family paid homage to the ancestral tablet, she had to give concubine gifts, kowtow, burn incense and serve tea to the tablet of Xia Zihan's biological mother.
Therefore, she did not dare to even fart in front of Mrs. Chu's people, otherwise, Mrs. Chu would have many means to deal with her.
Mrs. Xu also understood this, so she allowed Mother Su to make the wedding to Aunt Guo so big without daring to say anything.
On the tenth day of August, Guo An personally sent the thirty-dollar betrothal gift prepared by Zeng to the Guo family.
Young Master Guo was very satisfied when he saw the full thirty-year-old betrothal gift.
The thirty-year betrothal gift was agreed upon by the two families from the beginning.
When Mrs. Xu married Xia Shiming, the dowry was thirty-two tons. The dowry of Miss Guo's aunt could not exceed the amount of the main wife's dowry.
In fact, Master Guo had already prepared forty-two dowries for Miss Guo, but now it was suddenly reduced by more than one-third. Master Guo ordered his servants to put all the extra dowry into other boxes. , stuffing all of Miss Guo’s dowry.
On August 11th, the thirty-year-old dowry was placed in the front yard of the Xia family for people to admire.
Those boxes that were almost full of stuffing, one could tell at a glance that the things were stuffed in later. It looked like a dowry of thirty tons, but in fact it was probably forty tons.
When all the guests saw it, they started whispering and talking about it. I don't know who spoke, but they talked about Xu's dowry.
Everyone suddenly realized when they learned that Xu's dowry was only thirty-two cents.
"Mrs. Xu is also a girl from the Xu family in Taizhou. Why does she only have to pay so little for the dowry?"
"What I'm saying is that if the dowry is not even comparable to that of an aunt, how can I stand upright in front of Aunt Guo in the future?"
After a woman gets married, whether she has face in her husband's family depends on the support of her natal family. If her natal family does not provide support, the woman's life in her husband's family will be difficult.
In addition to the strength of the natal family, it also depends on the woman's dowry. The one with a large dowry will have more respect in the husband's family. But if the dowry is not even comparable to that of the concubines, then the face will be trampled on the ground. .
(End of chapter)