Qiao Yi

"Old lady, there are people from the palace."

The chief steward of Prince Ming's Mansion brought the betrothal gifts to Qiao's house, and the whole yard was filled with boxes of things.

Mrs. Qiao hurried out with Xiao Sun and a group of female family members of the Wang family. When they saw the things covering the yard, they all took a deep breath.

"Old Madam Qiao, this old slave is the chief steward of the royal residence. Today, I came to Qiao's house to make an engagement by the order of my lord. This is the dowry list, please have a look at it." Steward Cui saw the old madam standing in front of her. , I knew this was Mrs. Qiao, and handed over a list in my hand.

The housekeeper of the Qiao family stepped forward to pick it up and sent it to their old lady.

Mrs. Qiao smiled when she saw the betrothal gift list, and said, "Thanks for your hard work, butler. Come here, please have tea in the house of the butler."

"Thank you for the kindness of the old lady. But the old slave has to go back to return to his life, so there is no need to use tea." The housekeeper Cui declined the old lady Qiao's kindness, delivered the dowry, and completed what the master ordered, and he still has to go back to the palace. He returned to his orders, bid farewell to Mrs. Qiao, and led the servants out of Qiao's house.

"Wow, so many things!"

"The palace has sent so many betrothal gifts..."

Everyone in the Qiao family standing in the yard saw the boxes full of boxes, and they had all sorts of thoughts in their minds.

The Qiao family was originally just a small local gentry, with a shallow background and little money.After moving to the capital for more than ten years, one member of the family is an official in the court, and the whole family is in the capital. They need money for food and clothing, and the monthly expenditure is a large sum of money.

The Qiao family looks beautiful on the surface, but in fact it has long been unable to make ends meet.The ladies and wives in the family didn't have any new clothes and jewelry, they were wearing old clothes. They had never seen so much gold and silver treasures before, and they didn't expect such a rich betrothal gift from the palace just to marry a bastard.

The eyes of the young ladies of the Qiao family were all envious. At this moment, they were all thinking in their hearts, how could it be that Qiao Yi in the backyard was the one who married not themselves!

What's the use of a man who married and couldn't even lay an egg?At least they can have a son when they get married, and the mother is more expensive than the son.

Seeing that the palace sent so many things over, Mrs. Wang tightly held the handkerchief in her hand, with a vicious light in her eyes: that bastard!

"Aniang, I didn't expect that the palace would send someone to send so many betrothal gifts. These things are worth a lot of money." Tian moved over to see what was on the betrothal gift list.

"Put these things into the storeroom first." Mrs. Qiao gave Tian a look, handed the dowry list to the butler, and gave a few instructions.The housekeeper hesitated for a moment, and said, "Madam, our storeroom is small, and I'm afraid it won't be able to hold so many things."

"If you can't put it down, move it to another room." Mrs. Qiao said.

The housekeeper answered "Yes" and arranged for people to carry all these things into the warehouse.

Tian curled her lips and looked at the boxes full of yards, thinking that the things inside are worth tens of thousands of silver, right?If she could pick up one or two valuable things and exchange them for silver, it would be enough for her to buy several sets of gold and silver jewelry, right?But thinking that the right to head the house is in the hands of that old woman, it is almost impossible for her to touch these things.

Tian was not the only one who thought this way, Xiao Sun and Gao looked at so many things one by one, and each of them was red-eyed.

It wasn't until now that the members of the Qiao family really realized that the young master of their Qiao family married to the palace to be a princess, and his status would be different in the future.

Everyone went to the yard where Mrs. Qiao lived and sat down in the room.

Mrs. Qiao, who was sitting in the upper seat, said, "Today the palace sent someone to deliver the dowry. We are here to discuss how to arrange the dowry."

Originally, the old Sun didn't care about marrying a grandson, but after seeing so many things from the palace, the old Sun realized that the grandson was going to marry into the palace.The Wangfu sent people to send so many things today, so naturally they couldn't be careless about the dowry, otherwise it would not only embarrass their Qiaofu, but also make the Wangye feel that their Qiaojia didn't pay enough attention to this marriage.After all, the other party is a prince, and the Qiao family cannot afford to offend them.

Everyone knows how much property the Qiao family has.

"Aniang, here, there are still a few girls in the family who are not yet married, and they don't need a large dowry." Tian said with an embarrassed smile on his face.

Tian's words are naturally selfish.

Their family has not yet separated, and all the money in the family must be included in the gift. The dowry brought by their daughters-in-law can be taken by themselves, but when their daughters get married in the future, they will have to pay a large portion of the dowry themselves, and the family will only subsidize it. A little bit, not more.She didn't bring much dowry, and she thought that when her daughter got married, the family would be able to subsidize a little, so that her daughter could get married in a prosperous way.

Who would have thought that her daughter hadn't said goodbye yet, the concubine of the second room would marry someone first, if it was an ordinary person, it would be fine, but the one who married was still a prince!

"A concubine gets married, so why don't we have to give money as a dowry?" Naturally, Mrs. Wang would not agree. She has to leave her things to her daughter, how could she give it to some bastard!

Gao is the daughter of a merchant, and she brought the most dowry back then, but these things were all in her own hands, so that's why she has lived a happy life in Qiao's family for so many years.

At this time, it was about the interests of all of them, and everyone was twisted into one mind. On the one hand, they wanted to keep so many things sent by the palace, and on the other hand, they didn't want to send anything to the family. That would be great.

"Then tell me, how do you deal with the dowry?" Mrs. Qiao slapped the table and asked after hearing the people below talking to each other.

The people below fell silent immediately.At this time, Xiao Sun came out to smooth things over and said, "Aniang, you have always been in charge of family matters, and we all listen to you."

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"Third Young Master, Third Young Master..."

"Why are you running in such a hurry?"

Green Yi hurriedly ran into the house from the outside, before he could catch his breath, when he saw the third young master, he said happily: "Third young master, the palace sent someone to deliver the betrothal gift."

"Oh, is that so?" Qiao Yi shifted his gaze from the book in his hand to the little girl. Compared to the girl's happiness, his face was calm, and he didn't seem to have much joy.

"The lord sent a lot of things, so many things came that they filled the whole yard and almost couldn't fit them down." Lvyi clattered the news from outside to their third young master.

Qiao Yi sat there quietly listening to the servant girl's words, recalling the day he met Xie Yin, it had been several days since they met, and when he came back, he thought about what they had said that day.

After talking for a long time, there was no reaction on the faces of the third young masters, and it occurred to them that the third young masters were also men, and men should marry wives, but now the third young masters wanted to marry, so they might not be happy about it.The little maid put away the smile on her face, and asked cautiously: "Third young master, are you unhappy?"

Qiao Yi shook her head with a smile, and only said that I got it, "I don't have anything to do here, you can do other things. If there is any news from the house, you can come back and tell me."

"Okay, third young master. The servant girl is out. If you have any orders, third young master, call the servant girl." Lu Yi observed the expressions of the third young master, not knowing what the master was thinking.She found that since she came to serve the third young master, it was better than working at the old lady's. There was less work and more free time. The master almost didn't order her to do the work.

That's good, she is happy to be free, she has nothing to do and she can chat with other sisters and gossip.But the old lady told her to take care of the third young master, and to report to the old lady if there was anything, so she still had to look after him.

Chu Liu followed behind, closed the door when people went out, pouted and looked at their young master, it was this time, and he was still in the mood to read!

Back in the room at night, Mrs. Tian told her man everything that happened today, including a lot of embellishments.Qiao Zhengzu only heard one important point, "There are really many things?"

"Yeah, you don't know, the storeroom can't fit, and A Niang asked someone to arrange another room to put it out." The two have been together for so many years, and Tian naturally knows what is going on in his man's heart.Tian glanced at her man, pouted, and said, "It's a pity, the key to the storeroom is in A Niang's hands. I saw a lot of valuable things inside. If we..."

Can you take one out and pawn it, and worry about no money?

Qiao Zhengzu rubbed his chin. Recently, he lost a lot of money in the gambling shop, and he was worried that he had nowhere to change the money. Didn't he come here? "Baby, it's really timely that you sent this news. I will go to find A Niang tomorrow. You know that A Niang loves me the most."

"Death." With a smile on Tian's face, he stretched out a finger and poked the man's chest. The man grabbed Tian's hand and pulled Tian, ​​and the two of them fell onto the bed together.

There was a wedding in the family, even though it was just a concubine who was going to get married, but because he was marrying the prince, this marriage was an imperial decree issued by the emperor himself, and everyone in the Qiao family had to pay attention to this marriage.

There were lanterns and festoons everywhere in Qiao's mansion, and the words "Happiness" were pasted on the doors and windows.

The butler brought people over, and the following maid was holding a set of bright red wedding clothes in her hands.The housekeeper said: "Third young master, this is a wedding dress sent to you by someone from the prince. The old lady also ordered someone to prepare a set of wedding clothes for you, but the prince sent someone to send this set, so the old lady asked someone to send you a wedding dress." When the time comes, you will wear the suit sent by the prince."

"Put it there." Qiao Yi asked people to put the wedding dress on the bed.

The housekeeper waved his hand, and the maid who followed put the wedding dress on the bed, "Third young master, don't be nervous when the time comes, the old lady will teach you about the rules, you just need to put on the wedding dress and go out happily. "

"Understood." Qiao Yi asked Lvyi to send the butler out.

The butler bowed slightly and led the people out.

Looking at the bright red wedding dress on the bed, thinking that he would really wear this dress to marry in two days, Qiao Yi stretched out his hand to pinch the space between his eyebrows, and casually flipped through the wedding dress. Fortunately, it was a set of men's clothes. Xie Yin dared to ask someone to send a set of dresses worn by women over to see if he went and beat him to death!