Chapter 1144: Helping in times of need
The maid cried and said, "Auntie, please forgive me. I have never even met Prince Chu, how could I want to marry him? With my status as a slave, let alone marry him, just being a maid next to him is not rare for others. Auntie, wuwu, please stop fighting. Even if you fight, I won’t let you enter the palace to find the Queen Mother.”
"You still want to be with him as a maid, bah... shameless bitch, see if I don't beat you to death."
Rong Wu grabbed the maid's hair and pulled it out fiercely. He stretched out his other hand to scratch the maid's face, intending to scratch the maid's face so that she would not be able to go out again.
"That's enough."
Rong San rushed over, grabbed Rong Wu, and scolded, "That's enough, Fifth Sister, look at what you look like now, how do you look like a lady?"
"A noble lady?" Rong Wu was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and said, "I'm no longer a noble lady. I'm just an abandoned woman who was abandoned by her husband's family and returned to her parents' family. Why, you hate me too, are you going to Drive me out of the Rong family?”
"You..." Rong San was so angry at the unreasonable and crazy Rong Wu that he felt like he was on fire. However, thinking that she was also a poor person and had been having a hard time in the past few years, the fire inexplicably went away again. Rong San said helplessly, "So what if I'm an abandoned woman? You are my biological sister from the same mother, and I am willing to support you for the rest of my life."
Then, he talked about the Queen Mother's decree, "I just went to meet the Bachelor Qin whom the Queen Mother proposed to marry. He is a nice person, good-looking, and has a good family background. His parents also passed away a few years ago. Brother The family is also separated, and you will be a proper mistress after entering the house.”
"Although you are a little older, old husbands and young wives will love you." Then, he persuaded with earnest words, "Fifth sister, you are no longer a daughter-in-law. Except for older widowers, there is no one in the capital." Can a young man who has already married a wife marry you as his first wife? ”
Rong San's words hurt his heart, but he also wanted Rong Wu to wake up and recognize the current situation.
She was a married woman, an abandoned woman who was divorced by her husband's family. She was able to marry a fourth-grade bachelor. She was already a big pie that fell from the sky. She was still picky and thought she was the one she used to be. What about the little princess of Prince Rong's palace, everyone is going up the pole to marry her?
Without even thinking about it, with her situation and the Rong family's situation, except for the man whose wife died, who would be willing to marry her as his legitimate wife?
Even Bachelor Qin was put on the shelf by the Queen Mother, otherwise, they would not be willing to marry her.
However, he couldn't say this. If he did, he would tolerate Wu's temper. Even if he married into the Qin family, he would not be able to live a good life with Bachelor Qin.
Rong San kept talking, and Rong Wu gradually calmed down.
Rong Wu looked at the courtyard, which was three times smaller than before, and at the ordinary silk and satin he was wearing, and the ordinary gilt jewelry on his wrist, and his whole body was shaken as if he was waking up from a dream.
After a long time, she suddenly squatted down, hugged her knees, and cried loudly. She cried very aggrieved and pitifully.
Rong San sighed deeply and said softly, "Don't worry, my brother will prepare more dowry for you and won't let you make people laugh after you go to the Qin family."
When a woman gets married, if the dowry is small, she will be looked down upon by her husband's family. On the contrary, the thicker the dowry, the more her husband's family will look down upon her.
Rong Wu is an abandoned woman, and her dowry must be generous. Otherwise, she will be looked down upon by the Qin family even more.
Rong Wu has had a hard time in the past few years, so Rong San wanted to prepare more dowry for her so that she would not be looked down upon when she went to her husband's house.
Although Rong Wu still had the dowry that he had brought back from Prince Ping's Mansion, some of the dowry could no longer be used, like the furniture, which Rong Wu had used with Prince Ping and could never be moved to the Qin family again.
There are also clothes and jewelry. The ones she used to have are out of date and can no longer be used for getting married. They need to buy some new ones. Doing the math, it also requires a lot of money.
However, after Prince Rong's mansion was demoted, the palace was also taken over by the imperial court, and half of the Rong family's property was confiscated by the emperor. Only the sacrificial fields left by their ancestors and the land deeds for some Zhuangzi shops and houses were left to the Rong family. There is also Princess Rong’s dowry.
Even the dowry that Rong Wu brought back from Prince Ping's Mansion was left to her by the emperor.
Although the emperor also left a large amount of property to Rong San, all of it was real estate, gold, silver, jade, jewelry, antiques, etc., all of which were confiscated by the emperor.
Therefore, if he wanted to prepare a dowry for Rong Wu, he had to sell real estate.
When Mrs. Zhuo mentioned this matter, she said with great interest, "As soon as your father heard that he was selling the village shop, he went to Rong San and told him that he wanted to buy his hot spring village."
The Rong family has a hot spring village, which is not far from Xia Zihan's hot spring village. The last time Xia Zihan went to live in the hot spring village, he met Rong San and several of his friends in the world. This, Xia Zihan Zi Han knew it.
Xia Zihan said with a smile, "Dad must have bought it, right?"
"Hey, how do you know?" Mrs. Zhuo smiled with crooked eyebrows and a bright luster on her face.
"Looking at my mother being so happy, I guessed it."
Mrs. Zhuo covered her mouth with her handkerchief and laughed, "Haha... that's right. At first, Rong San said he didn't want to sell that Zhuangzi. He just wanted to sell an ordinary Zhuangzi and buy some new jewelry for Rong Wu. Clothes and furniture, but your father deliberately offered a price that was 30% higher than the market price, and Rong San was tempted.”
"High 30% of the price?" Xia Zihan secretly said, "Based on the current value of the Rong family hot spring village, dad will have to pay nearly 5,000 taels of silver to Rong San."
Five thousand taels of silver. When the legitimate daughter of an ordinary wealthy family gets married, the total dowry is only four to five thousand taels of silver. Tsk tsk tsk... Her father-in-law is so generous.
"Your father said that money is nothing to our Chu family." Zhuo said with a proud face, "But for Rong San, it is a great thing to provide help in times of need, light in a dark room, and help those in need. , your father deliberately raised the price just to arouse Rong San’s heart.”
The reason why Chu Xuanyu proposed such a high price to Rong San was because the hot spring village on the outskirts of the city was rare.
That hot spring village was the only one in the entire capital, and there were only a few of them, all of which were given by the emperor. If it hadn't been for such a big event as a family change, no one would have sold it easily.
As the saying goes, rare things are valuable, and the value of that hot spring village is getting more and more expensive year by year. Now, one can be sold for nearly 20,000 taels of silver.
And 20,000 taels of silver is like a pile of paper to the wealthy Chu Xuanyu. If a person has more money, the money is not money, but paper. But the hot spring village is a rare treasure, so don't Saying 20,000 taels of silver, even 50,000 taels of silver, Chu Xuanyu would take it out and buy one for his two young sons without blinking an eye.
(End of chapter)