A concubine enters the mansion? Reborn, three matchmakers and six engagements to marry the Prime Min

After Lin Er left, before Su Qingyu had a sip of tea, Mr. Bai, the accountant, came.

"Miss, I sold two calligraphy and paintings from the previous dynasty. The other party offered me one hundred thousand taels of silver. This is the contract document. Please sign it and seal it." Mr. Bai was obviously very cautious, fearing that this matter would eventually be blamed on him.

Su Qingyu picked up the document and read it ten lines at a time. There was nothing inappropriate, so she took out the seal and pressed her fingerprint again.

"Okay, are you ready for the three hundred thousand taels of silver notes for me?"

Mr. Bai twirled his beard twice and said, "Miss, you have to take back the IOU before I can give you the banknote."

Su Qingyu took out the IOU and handed it to Mr. Bai, asking him to take it into his account.

In fact, although the account was kept by the Su family, the IOU had long been in the hands of the Lin family, and the Lin family had no intention of asking for the money back. Before the Lin family went to the hot spring manor, Su Qingyu took the IOU into her hands.

"I'm going to prepare the banknote right now, and I'll deliver it to the lady later."

Not long after, Mr. Bai personally delivered 300,000 taels of silver notes and said, "Miss, after returning these 300,000 taels to the Lin family, our family... I'm afraid we won't have enough money to buy new year's goods."

Su Qingyu didn't take it seriously and said calmly: "It's okay, as much money as you have, you can do whatever you want."

After thinking for a while, he added: "From now on, the accounts of mother's dowry and the accounts of the Hou Mansion will be separated. The food and clothing of the Hou Mansion can no longer rely on mother's dowry industry."

She wanted to separate the accounts and let the people in the Hou Mansion know who they had relied on for their good life these years. Lest the overwhelming wealth blind their eyes.

Mr. Bai was startled when he heard this, and then lamented in his heart that this job was getting more and more difficult. Without relying on the wife's dowry industry, would all the people in the Hou family follow the northwest wind?

Su Qingyu didn't care so much. She just sorted out the accounts according to the rules. Who can say anything to her? As for whether her grandmother's blood swallows could still be eaten, and whether her sisters' jewelry could still be purchased, these were not within her scope of consideration.

Su Qingyu read the account books of the inner house for two days in a row and had a basic understanding of all the affairs of the inner house.

The house has been very quiet these past two days. The two young ladies are still kneeling in the Buddhist hall. The eldest young master was beaten so hard that he couldn't get out of bed. The masters all had cold faces, and the servants were naturally cautious in doing things.

Only Su Qingyu's Bishui Pavilion had a relaxed atmosphere. If Pearl heard some news outside, she would come in to report it.

"Miss, I heard that my cousin had been kneeling at the old lady's house all morning, begging the old lady to release her, but the old lady drove her back."

When Pearl said this, she couldn't help covering her mouth and snickering.

Su Qingyu shook her head and took a look at the pearl with her smiling phoenix eyes, "You should learn more from Jade and be more prudent. If you are so out of touch, it won't be a good idea to get married in the future."

Pearl, who had been smiling just now, instantly blushed, "What are you talking about, young lady? If I don't get married, I will serve the young lady for the rest of my life."

But Su Qingyu was thinking about the managers under her, and planned to find a safe person for these girls.

The master and servant had their own thoughts, and the room suddenly became quiet.

"Miss, someone from the Xu family has proposed marriage to the third young lady and the sixth young master of the Xu family." Feicui walked in, breaking the tranquility.

Su Qingyu collected her wandering thoughts and said casually, "It's been almost three days since this happened. The Xu family is only now proposing marriage. They are not very sincere."

Logically speaking, the Xu family should have sent someone on the afternoon of the day when the two families were impeached. They took two or three days to come, probably because they were not satisfied with the marriage, but they had to come to propose marriage, after all, the matter had been brought to the emperor's presence.

But for the Su family, it is a happy event to be able to join the Xu family.

The current chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Yixiang, was born as a disciple of the emperor. He has been in charge of the cabinet for more than ten years and is the most relied-upon minister of the current emperor.

Xu Liangping, who had become good friends with Su Yihui, was Xu Yixiang's concubine grandson, Xingliu, so they all called him Liu Shaoye.

The news of the engagement between the Su and Xu families soon spread throughout the Hou Mansion. Su Yihui and Cheng Rujin were released the next day. Su Yihui went back, changed her clothes, and came to Bishui Pavilion.

She was wearing a peach-pink phoenix-tail skirt with gold trimmings and a jewel-studded gold hairpin on her head. When she came in, her chin was almost raised to the sky.

Su Qingyu looked at Su Yihui's appearance, and for some reason, the peacock with explosive feathers in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" appeared in her mind.

She looked up at the carved beams and tried to retract the smile on her lips.

Su Yihui saw Su Qingyu playing with a warm jade hairpin. She stepped forward and picked it up to look at it. There was deep jealousy in her eyes. How come Su Qingyu could always get these good things so easily.

I thought so in my heart, but a disdainful smile appeared at the corner of my mouth, "Is this kind of thing worth treating as a good thing?"

"None of the betrothal gifts from the Xu family is more valuable than this."

In fact, the Xu family hasn't hired him yet, she just said that because she wanted to step on Su Qingyu.

In Su Yihui's view, if the Xu family hires someone, the things will definitely be the same.

When Su Qingyu heard this, she pretended to be surprised and said: "The Xu family really cares about their third sister. This hairpin was given to me by my uncle as a hairpin gift. The material and labor cost are almost more than 8,000 taels of silver."

"If the Xu family's betrothal gift can include something like this, then my sister's betrothal gift will be the first in the capital."

Su Yihui's expression froze when she heard this. This warm jade hairpin actually costs more than 8,000 taels?

Even if the Xu family married the head of the family, they wouldn't use such an expensive hairpin, right?

The more aristocratic the family, the more rules it has.

Just like the Su family, the dowry for the legitimate daughter is 20,000 taels of silver, while the dowry for the concubine is only 10,000 taels.

As for the dowry given by close relatives, that has to be considered separately. For example, when Su Qingyu gets married, Mrs. Lin will give her part of her dowry, and her maternal grandfather's family will also add a lot of money to her.

For someone like Su Yihui who does not have the support of her maternal family, the dowry will be a little shabby.

At this time, the more Su Yihui looked at this hairpin, the more she felt in her heart. Why is she a concubine? Why doesn't she have a rich grandfather?

Thinking in his mind, his hand relaxed a bit for some reason, and the hairpin slipped down.

A hint of excitement flashed in Su Yihui's eyes.

Since she doesn't have an eight thousand tael hairpin, Su Qingyu can't even think of wearing it.

She didn't believe it was broken. Could Su Qingyu make her pay for it?

If she was asked to pay compensation, she would go to her grandmother and cry. No matter how important the money was, she couldn't force her sisters to death, right?

Just as the hairpin was about to fall to the ground, Jade, who was waiting on the side, suddenly bent down and stretched out his hand, and the hairpin fell into Jade's hand.

"Third Miss, you should be careful. If this thing breaks, will Third Miss take the betrothal gift as compensation?"

Jade spoke a little coldly, and after speaking, she carefully stepped aside and put away the hairpin.