Chapter 1049 Nightmare
Xia Zihan also prepared a dowry list for Chu Cong. She put the two lists together, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law put their heads together to look at it.
Xia Zihan's eyes flickered quickly, his eyes sharp.
She pointed to one of the two lists and said, "Mom, look here, we have prepared a pair of large plum vases, even the height is the same, one meter six."
"Hey, it's really the same. A pair of 16-meter blue-glazed plum vases with white dragon pattern, and a pair of 16-meter blue-and-white plum vases with broken branches, flowers and fruits. You can't have two pairs of plum vases with the same height, otherwise, people will laugh at us. There is nothing good in the prince's palace," Zhuo said.
"Then replace this pair of blue and white plum vases with broken branches, flowers and fruits." Xia Zihan pointed to the dowry list she had prepared and said, "I remember there is a one-meter-two-meter-high coral jade tree in my warehouse, why not replace it with That’s good.”
The blue-glazed plum vase with white dragon pattern was brought as a dowry from Chu Xuanyu's grandmother from the palace. It is more valuable than the blue-and-white plum vase with folded branches, flowers and fruits that Xia Zihan collected from outside.
Xia Zihan naturally crossed out his plum vase and replaced it with a coral jade tree.
Zhuo said, "I still have a lot of good things in my warehouse, but I have to send them to the palace as a dowry, so I still can't get rid of them."
"A small part of what I have prepared is the dowry that your father and his grandmother brought out of the palace back then. Now, if Chu Cong brings it into the palace, it can be regarded as returning it to its original owner."
More than just returning the property to its original owner.
You know, Chu Xuanyu's grandmother was the most favored princess in the palace. When she got married, the old emperor tried his best to collect all the good things in the palace as a dowry for her.
As for the princess's dowry, the Dou family did not keep it, and all of it was given to Chu Xuanyu's mother as a dowry. Later, it all went to Chu Xuanyu's hands.
In the hands of Mr. Zhuo and Chu Xuanyu, there are more than ten or twenty kinds of good things. I'm afraid they can't even be stocked in a warehouse, right?
Xia Zihan thought that when Chu Jingqi married her, the betrothal gifts sent to the Chu family were all very valuable, and many of them were sacred objects from the palace.
Her grandmother didn't keep any of those things. She brought them all back to her and piled them in her warehouse.
Her grandmother said that those were the treasures of the palace and she wanted them to be passed down from generation to generation as heirlooms of the Chu family.
This time, when preparing a dowry for Chu Cang, she didn't even think about those family heirlooms.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhuo brought out a lot of good things from the palace to make a dowry for Chu Cong.
"Mom, I'm very happy that you can treat Chu Cong like this. I want to thank you on behalf of Chu Cong." Xia Zihan frowned.
Mrs. Zhuo glanced at her and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Chu Cang is my daughter now. When she gets married, it is only natural for me, the mother, to prepare a dowry for her."
Having said that, everyone knew in their hearts that Chu Xuanyu and the Zhuo family would recognize Chu Cong as their adopted daughter. It was all because of the emperor's force. If the emperor hadn't insisted on marrying Chu Cong as their queen, how could Chu Xuanyu and the Zhuo family recognize them? A little maid serves as the adopted daughter.
However, Xia Zihan was also very happy that Zhuo could be so considerate in Chu Cang's marriage.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed the dowry list all morning, picking and choosing, and finally decided to prepare one hundred and sixty-six dowries for Chu Cong.
The one hundred and sixty-six dowry packages included ten boxes of broken silver prepared by Xia Zihan.
Zhuo said, "You have prepared pieces of silver, then I will prepare some silver ingots for Chu Cang."
The silver ingots are all solid silver, the smallest is two taels, there are five taels, and the largest is ten taels of silver.
"I have prepared ten thousand taels, is that enough?" Zhuo asked Xia Zihan. Ten thousand taels, plus the twenty thousand taels prepared by Xia Zihan, the thirty thousand taels of silver at the bottom of the box were enough for Chu Xing.
In the evening, Chu Cong, who had been embroidering the wedding dress all day, was summoned by Xia Zihan and Zhuo to let her see her dowry list with her own eyes.
Chu Cong took the long list and saw that everything on it was very valuable and worth a fortune, and there were even three large villages with five or six hundred acres.
Chu Cong looked at Xia Zihan in surprise, "Master...sister-in-law, I don't want this Zhuangzi anymore. After I enter the palace, I won't be able to get out. If I want this Zhuangzi, I won't have time to take care of it."< br>
"If you don't have time, then rent it out. Look at all the twenty or so small farms I have rented out. You don't have to worry about anything. You just need to pay the rent every year."
No matter how much money she gave Chu Cong, it was all worth it. If nothing was done, one day all the money would be used up.
And Zhuangzi rented silver every year, which was a constant stream, just in time to supplement Chu Cang with some money to reward his servants.
"When the time comes, I will personally send your rent money to the palace for you." Xia Zihan said with a smile.
Chu Cong agreed twice and did not refuse. However, she would always remember the kindness between Zhuo and Xia Zihan in her heart.
After she gave birth to her legitimate son, she always taught her son to be close to the Chu family, allowing the Ao family and the Chu family to maintain the brotherhood for six consecutive generations, and also allowed the Anjun Prince's Palace to prosper for six generations.
While Prince An's palace was busy preparing for Chu Cong's wedding, the Queen Mother in the palace was awakened by nightmares all day long.
In the past half month, every time she fell asleep, she would dream of the late emperor.
The late emperor called her in a dark and cold place, and urged her to follow him quickly and not let him be alone underground. He was afraid of the cold. Sometimes, the late emperor would turn into a black shadow to pull him away. She wants to pull her into the abyss.
But she couldn't go. The emperor hadn't married a new wife yet. She had to at least drink this cup of daughter-in-law tea before going to the late emperor.
Every time the late emperor came to pull her, she struggled desperately and cried for him to wait for another month.
Maybe she struggled too hard and the late emperor let go, and she would suddenly wake up from the nightmare.
Every time she fell into a dream, it was the same scene, the same complaint, the same struggle. Every time she woke up from the dream, the Queen Mother would break out in a cold sweat, and her heart would feel uncomfortable.
After the second princess persuaded her for a few days, the queen mother's mood hit rock bottom again. The vitality around her became weaker and weaker day by day, and the gloominess between her eyebrows became more and more gloomy day by day.
Every time Doctor Bai checked her pulse, his brows would furrow and his face would be full of worry.
After the second princess learned of the situation, she went to the palace almost every day to enlighten the Queen Mother. However, it was almost to no avail. The Queen Mother's vitality was still getting less and less day by day.
The second prince, the second princess and the emperor looked very anxious.
The emperor even summoned Chu Cang into the palace and asked the Queen Mother to meet her first, because he was afraid that the Queen Mother would fall asleep one day and never wake up again, without even meeting the daughter-in-law he chose for her...< br>
"Are you Chu Cong? When you and Chu Yu entered the palace, I saw you several times before, but I didn't take a closer look. Now I look carefully and realize that you are very beautiful, and your temperament is similar to that of Chu Yu. You are gentle and elegant. , kind and tolerant, my royal son is more discerning than me, a mother.”
(End of chapter)