After being reborn with Sister Zha, I was stunned!

"Dowry?" Shen Zhinian was stunned.

Seeing Shen Zhinian's reaction, Shen Qingyin was surprised and said, "Yes, my daughter is getting married soon, but it was the emperor who granted the marriage. Did you forget it?"

"I haven't forgotten, how could I forget? This is a big event for our Shen family!" Shen Zhinian replied with a wry smile.

Of course he hadn't forgotten, he just thought that Mrs. Du might not have prepared any dowry for Shen Qingyin...

"Okay, thank you father for arranging your daughter's marriage. I think since the emperor has granted the marriage, we must not embarrass him. I will first count the dowry, so as to avoid the day of the wedding when there will be too many people and too many eyes, and if something goes wrong, it will be bad."

The words "can't lose face for the emperor" immediately hit Shen Zhinian.

"Yin'er, what you worry about is absolutely right. What you worry about is absolutely right..." Shen Zhinian praised.

"By the way, I wonder if the Shen family wants to keep the betrothal gift that the general's mansion sent last time?" Shen Qingyin asked Shen Zhinian with sparkling eyes.

Shen Zhinian was startled and waved his hands hurriedly: "No, no! Our Shen family doesn't rely on our daughter's betrothal gifts to make a living..."

Originally he wanted to keep some of it.

Some of the antiques, calligraphy and paintings were rare treasures, and he liked them very much.

There are also a lot of jewelry, which Mrs. Du and the old lady also love very much.

But in this situation, I can't stay here any longer...

Shen Qingyin thanked him: "Thank you, father."

Then he took out a gift list.

"Then please tell my mother to let her tell the storeroom so that I can check the betrothal gifts later. Also, I wonder where the dowry that the Shen family prepared for my daughter is. Can my daughter check it today?"

"Okay, okay." Shen Zhinian agreed and asked Shen Qingyin to wait.

He turned around and went to the backyard to look for Mrs. Du.

When Mrs. Du heard that Shen Qingyin had returned, she immediately became furious.

"This bitch, she actually dared to come back! I'll skin her alive!"

As he was about to call someone to find Shen Qingyin, he was stopped by Shen Zhinian.

"You idiot, you still think you haven't made enough noise, right? Do you know why I came back from work so early today?"

Du was puzzled: "Why?"

"Because my superiors have given all my jobs to others, I have nothing to do! If this continues, I'm afraid I'll lose my job. Lose my job! Do you understand?"

Mrs. Du was surprised and asked, "Is it that serious?"

Shen Zhinian glared at her angrily, then took out the letter from his sleeve and threw it in front of Du: "And this, take a look for yourself!"

Du opened it with full of suspicion and then became anxious.

"No, no, Yuanda can't go to Tianan Academy to study? How can that be possible! Yuanda has always been very smart and is good at studying. If he can't go to the best academy, won't he ruin his bright future?"

Shen Zhinian snorted coldly: "Now you know how serious this is, right?"

Mrs. Du didn't listen to Shen Zhinian's words, but she quickly came up with an idea: "Then can we go and give some silver to the headmaster? Give more!"

Shen Zhinian was annoyed: "Send more? The headmaster is well-known for his integrity. It is said that a senior official in the court once sent a thousand taels of gold to help his young son go to school, but was rejected... A thousand taels of gold, do you have it?"

"The headmaster agreed to accept Yuanda and Yuanduo because the guarantor, Mr. Peng, was originally his favorite student. The most important thing was that the headmaster sent someone to the Yuhu County Academy to inquire about the two's previous academic performance, and only then did he agree."

"Give money? If you have money, you should buy a dowry for Yin'er right now. This is the proper way."

Mrs. Du was furious when she heard this: "Buy her a dowry? Why?"

Shen Zhinian became even more annoyed: "Why? Why do you say? Because the emperor personally ordered her to marry him! If the Shen family gives a very small dowry, it will not only be a disgrace to the Shen family, but also to the emperor. The Shen family will lose face, but if the emperor loses face, the Shen family will not only lose face... Maybe, before your son-in-law becomes emperor, the Shen family will be gone..."

"Why? Because you and Yue'er failed to plot against her yesterday, and you made it known to everyone in the city! If you don't make amends quickly, the saliva of the people in the capital will make you have no way to survive!"

"Also, don't you remember what treasure you took from her back then..."

"You should thank the Buddha for her return today. Otherwise, you wouldn't even have a chance to make amends..."

After being scolded by Shen Zhinian, Du gritted her teeth and said, "Forget it, then prepare ten boxes of dowry for her!"

Shen Zhinian was so angry that he almost laughed: "Ten boxes? You still want to embarrass the emperor, right? You still want the Shen family to have no way out, right? I'm telling you clearly, in addition to giving back all the betrothal gifts from the General's Mansion as a dowry, you must prepare at least another thirty boxes!"

Mrs. Du's eyes widened. "Thirty boxes? Yue'er only got twenty boxes when she entered the palace... Wait, what did you say? The betrothal gift from the general's mansion should also be given to her?"

Shen Zhinian affirmed, "That's right, I'll give them all. The dowry needs to be thirty boxes, which means it has to be more than Yue'er's. Otherwise, how can we show how much we value her?"

"Master, are you sure? Do you think that by giving more dowry, you can shut others up? Who knows, others might accuse us of being insincere!" Mrs. Du disagreed. Isn't this just paying the money and not getting any favor?

"That's better than having people pointing at your spine and scolding the Shen family for being vicious and immoral!"

Shen Zhinian was determined. He had really had enough of being mad today...

Mrs. Du still disagreed: "In the future, when the prince becomes the emperor and Yue'er becomes the queen, even if she is just a concubine... do we still need to be afraid of what others say?"

Shen Zhinian couldn't listen any longer: "You also said that's in the future. How will it be in the future? Looking at Yue'er's current situation, we don't know yet. It's important to get through this hurdle first. If Yue'er really becomes the queen or imperial concubine in the future, will we still need these thirty boxes of things?"

"In short, if you still regard me as your husband, you should not do anything else these few days and concentrate on preparing a dowry for Yin'er! Marry her off in style!"

Mrs. Du was stunned by what she heard.

If you think about Shen Zhinian's words carefully, they do make some sense.

The key point is that Shen Zhinian has never said such cruel words before...

I had no choice but to agree.

Never mind, just be patient for a while.

I heard that Shen Qingyin was waiting to count the betrothal gifts sent by the General's Mansion.

Mrs. Du hurriedly asked Mother Zhang to quietly send the two boxes of gold and silver jewelry in the house to the warehouse.

She also took off the gold and jade hairpin on her head and the emerald green bracelet on her hand and put them back.

These were all the best things picked out from the betrothal gifts, and were originally intended for personal use.

Shen Zhinian also returned to the study and asked two servants to quietly carry a box of precious calligraphy and paintings to the warehouse.

After putting these away, I remembered that the old lady had also picked out a large box, and there were six more boxes that she gave to Shen Rongyue.

It’s convenient to take back the things in the old lady’s room.

But Shen Rongyue’s six boxes... were given away as dowry, she can’t take them back, right?

"Master, how about we just say that the six boxes were taken away by the servants because of carelessness?" Mrs. Du and Shen Zhinian discussed.