The Qinghe County Lord of the Red Chamber

For the list of dowry and employment, the two families will communicate with each other in advance, so as not to be unsuitable.

No matter which one is simple, it is a joke.

Now that Daiyu's three dowry orders have been delivered, Jiang's family began to worry after finishing the accounts.

Even if the emperor granted the marriage by imperial decree, he also promised to do a great job.

But as the saying goes, wealth does not reveal itself.

Shang Duo and Lin Ruhai have high status and power. If the dowry revealed by their children's marriage is astonishing, revealing the tens of thousands of family assets, wouldn't it be like holding a torch in the night, shining brightly, waiting to be criticized?

Seeing Shang Duo pondering, Mrs. Jiang pressed Shang Duo's shoulders from behind: "I'm a woman, and I don't know about important affairs in court. But I also know that the old sage is sick, and there is a war in southern Fujian. Every family has banquets on weekdays." Very few."

In the clan, Princess Pingning took the lead, and the daily banquets for emotional connection were changed to gathering people to copy Buddhist scriptures and lighting Buddhist lamps.

The imperial edicts in Beijing naturally followed suit. At the time, paper was expensive in Luoyang, not to mention the price of sandalwood soared, and the masters of Huguo Temple wished that one person could be divided into eight petals.

Although he is a Buddhist, he can't escape the vulgarity when he enters the world of mortals and eats five grains.

Noble relatives, wealthy families, who is easy to offend?Who has issued an invitation and dare to push it out?

Not to mention that the monks are all tired and thin, and they can't even light the lamp in front of the Buddha!

With so many families in Beijing, it is natural that there are marriages these days.But they all go low-key.

Zhu Yunniang, the granddaughter of Zhu Xiangguo, who had become an official, got married. On that day, Jiang inquired about the process and amount of giving the dowry and posting the dowry with the mind of learning.

Zhu Yunniang's dowry is in accordance with their family's old practice, the standard standard is 64 lifts.

However, counting Daiyu now, I'm afraid it will be more than double.

They are all prime ministers. Your incumbent is more retired than others, and your family is so much richer.

After all, there are few gentlemen in the world, and there are many villains who "hate others and laugh at others".

Seeing how rich and noble the two families are, I'm afraid my heart will get angry with jealousy, and I can say any ugly things behind my back.

As the saying goes, all mouths make gold, and accumulation destroys bones.Shang Duo understands the horror of rumors better than anyone else.

Back then, he and his son still took advantage of this to make Wang Ziteng ashamed, and finally forced him out of the capital.

Now it is impossible to say that some people want to imitate cats and draw tigers, and engage in such public opinion attacks on Baoninghou Mansion and Pingyanghou Mansion.

Jiang sighed: "I understand Marquis Pingyang's intentions. He now has only Yu'er as a single seedling. Naturally, he is like the flesh of his heart. Everything in the world, I wish I could give my best to my daughter."

"Let's not talk about Marquis Lin, it's me who gave birth to three sons and a daughter, and each of them was so painful that I could give up my life. In this marriage, I am not willing to give up at all."

"So, I am very embarrassed about this matter, let you men outside discuss it."

Shang Duo held back his wife's hand that was pressing on his shoulder, and said softly, "Thanks for the reminder, madam. I've been busy with other things these days, but I've neglected these."

"I thought that even if Lin Ruhai loved his daughter, he would know how to measure it, and would not go too far to provoke criticism. I forgot that there is also the dowry from the empress and the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"But that villain won't admit it. This is three dowries. I'm afraid there will be a lot of black mud thrown on the Lin family-he used to be a salt censor for several years. I'm afraid that even that day I will tell you that all the meritorious deeds are corruption!"

Especially today's temperament is not considered magnanimous. If you hear such words too much, if you have doubts about Lin Ruhai's discipline, wouldn't it be a good thing turned into a bad thing.

The husband and wife are connected with each other and smile at each other.

The worry in Jiang's eyebrows disappeared: "Now that the master knows, I don't care about it. I just wait for your letter."

Shang Duo nodded: "Ma'am, take a good rest, don't get tired of busy Chi'er's marriage——Didn't your empress ask Chanchan to leave the palace to stay for half a month? You just ask her to do more."

Jiang said angrily: "Master doesn't know how to feel sorry for his daughter. Now that Yu'er is going to marry into our family, I am both happy and sad, because I know that the day when Chanchan gets married is not far away.

I heard that the empress in the palace is currently teaching her housekeeping herself, and her homework is full.

It's so easy to go home now, but I want her to rest well.You and Chi'er are not allowed to test her, let her relax for two days. "

Shang Duo smiled: "Okay, okay, listen to Madam."

The next day when the imperial court was over, Shang Duo came to discuss the matter with Lin Ruhai.

But Lin Ruhai shook her head and said, "I can't afford to be frugal. Yu'er was born in the south of the Yangtze River, and you have been there too. The dowry is the most important thing there, and it is saved from birth."

"My wife was still there back then, and I've been looking forward to it for many years. After getting this daughter, I naturally saved it for her with great joy."

"Now that she is gone, this share cannot be reduced. I will let Yu'er take it with me."

Jia Min had saved Daiyu's dowry for five or six years, and Lin Ruhai would definitely give it all to Daiyu, including the dowry that the Rongguo Mansion gave her as a dowry.

All the gold and silver jewelry in it was taken away and re-fried to make it brighter.

This is an extremely large portion.

Lin Ruhai said with some regret: "As for what I prepared for Yu'er, I'm afraid it will attract people's attention, and it has been simplified a lot."

For example, in the dowry, tiles and adobe are used to represent real estate, pavement and real estate.

For fear that the number of tiles is shocking and arousing criticism.

Lin Ruhai also used the spring and autumn brushwork to combine many small pavements into one large one in the past few days, using quality to make up for quantity.

So when he heard Shang Duo's words, he just shook his head: "If you subtract it, I'm still a father."

Shang Duo smiled and said, "I knew you wouldn't, so I thought of a different way."

"Our two families each took out 20 taels of silver and gave it to the emperor, and bought a few pieces of paper with the words "Imperial Gift" as amulets, and everything will be fine."

Shang Duo is a typical fox pretending to be a tiger.

The wealth of their two families has pierced the eyes and hearts of others, so naturally some are jealous of the villain and want to scold them.Shang Duo is not the kind of person who stands and gets scolded and thinks that those who are clean will clean themselves.

So he came up with the idea of ​​using the emperor as a card.

It's not a skill for you to scold me, but to scold the emperor if you have the skill.

"Only use the dowry left by the late wife as your Lin family's dowry. Regardless of the dowry from the empress or from the House of Internal Affairs, even the one you prepared for your daughter, all of them will be affixed with gold paper from the imperial court. Don't they? Dare to say that the emperor will fail?"

This amount of money would be stabbed in the back of the official's family, but once it was labeled as the emperor, it would be justifiable.

Not to mention the emperor himself, even when his concubines go home to visit their relatives, each family will spend millions of dollars to build a relative's court.

Ten years later, when the Supreme Emperor went to the south of the Yangtze River a few times, the Zhen's family treated the gold and silver as dirt and spent countless expenses.Even if everything in the world is piled up to fill the sea, there is no such thing as sin or pity.

No one dared to say anything.

Even Yu Shi dared not say a word.

This is the royal face.Whoever dares to talk nonsense will be disrespectfully labeled, which is terrible.

Sure enough, when the emperor heard about this, he said with a smile: "I just produced a few pieces of paper and got 40 taels of silver for nothing, and also gained a reputation for rewarding meritorious officials. It kills two birds with one stone."

Shang Duo also smiled and said: "Although the money and food are still sufficient, the matter in southern Fujian may take a long time. It should be prepared in advance."

"Chen and Lord Lin are just throwing bricks to attract jade. As soon as we donate money to the emperor, I'm afraid there will be as many others as possible to follow suit."

"When the time comes, the emperor will just spend some royal pens to reward a plaque for being loyal to the country."

The emperor snorted coldly: "I don't expect them to be willing to pay for the country, but I only hope that they will have a conscience if they are less greedy."

"There are still many old ministers' homes that owe money to the treasury and have never paid it back!"

The emperor then named the Rongguo Mansion: "Their family spent more than 100 million taels of silver to build a family-friendly garden for the noble concubine. It is said that it is like an innate treasure."

"With such spare money, why don't you know how to pay the imperial debt first!"

The emperor would get angry when he mentioned it.

And since the last time he reprimanded Yuan Chun for looking good and left in a huff, he hasn't seen Yuan Chun these days again.

But I also heard that the noble concubine Xianfei often follows the Queen Mother Chu to the Taishang Palace to pay her respects.

Rongguo Mansion and Dongping County Prince's Mansion each presented many secret recipes, and the imperial concubine ordered the imperial chef to cook them for the Supreme Emperor. Sure enough, the taste was different from that in the palace. The Supreme Emperor bought a lot more these days than before.

Even her mental health improved, and her complexion became rosy.

So I praised the noble concubine and virtuous concubine several times for being filial and courteous.

On the contrary, the empress, because she was with the Empress Dowager Shang, has recently disliked the emperor's favor, but she seems not as good as the two concubines.

It doesn't matter to the queen, let them go.

Anyway, when the emperor divided the lychees, he still only gave himself one tree, his son one tree, and the noble concubines and virtuous concubines added up to a total of twenty.

The emperor went over the account of the old minister again, feeling distressed for a quarter of an hour.

Shang Duo waited for the emperor to feel distressed before he said: "I want to go and ask the empress dowager."

The emperor agreed and ordered Jin You to lead him there personally, but quietly, so as not to disturb the emperor again.

Before entering Fengjing Palace, Shang Duo took a deep breath.

When I entered the room, I saw the Empress Dowager sitting on the couch wearing a home-made tapestrous shirt with a purple begonia-colored peony longevity pattern.

Seeing him come in, he just smiled.

After Shang Duo paid his respects, he saw a sapphire plate on the table in front of the Empress Dowager Shang, and inside it were four burnt yellow boxes of stuffed tofu with meat.

The brown sticky sauce is poured on the tofu, which smells rich and attractive.

Bizhu next to him handed over a pair of silver chopsticks.

The queen mother smiled and said, "Try the crab meat stuffed bean curd box newly conceived in the small kitchen here."

Shang Duo: ...

Can't help expressing grievance and surprise with his eyes: I'm your younger brother, and you let me test poison? !

The Empress Dowager waved everyone back, and then said: "Seeing that you entered the palace in a hurry today, I knew that those two girls just found something."

"Otherwise, according to Chanchan's love for crabs, I'm afraid that when Bizhu rushes over, it will be an empty plate."

Shang Duo put down his chopsticks: "Your Majesty, why don't you discuss such an important matter with me?"

Empress Dowager Shang smiled: "Now that you are here, you can talk about anything."