The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

Mr. Lou was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth and nodded: "As long as you keep the matchmaker." You can talk about anything later, if it drags on, Lou Wen will really lose the idea of ​​getting married.

This is for the sake of my precious grandson, I don't care about anything!Lou Yuzhu couldn't help laughing or laughing, but was extremely disappointed in Mr. Lou again.

Lou Hua's gaze was extremely cold: "Grandpa, go back and wait for the news." After saying that, he got up and left, Lou Yuzhu shook his head and went to work, Lou Chengyi looked at this and that, finally gritted his teeth and got up to chase Lou Hua.

The servants also had winks, and they fled as they walked. In the magnificent and spacious Ruoda main hall, there was only one person watching, nose, nose, and heart, wishing to be the leading servant of an invisible person.

Mr. Lou's curved spine became more and more distorted, and he stood up tremblingly leaning on the back of the chair.

The servant leading the way hurriedly came up: "Master, please slow down, the servant will support you."

"No, no, no," Mr. Lou waved away the hand extended by the servant, and moved towards the side door step by step.

The servant didn't force it, and followed beside him with low eyebrows, ready to make a meat pad for Mr. Lou at any time.

During the slow and long steps, all the servants passing by stopped to salute respectfully and shouted "too lord". Chicken, duck, fish, sugar, rice, oil, salt, etc.

Among other things, Sanfang never treats the old house badly with respect to etiquette. It's not because of soft-heartedness. It's just that I don't want to ruin Sanfang's reputation for such trivial things.Things are accepted as they are, and even the peasants look down on the thing of swearing when you wipe your mouth.It's not like the people in the old house, who have no ability but want to suppress those who have ability, it's strange if they don't turn over!

Two days later, Sanfang went to the family surnamed Tan in Lou Wenwang to propose marriage. Because Mr. Lou was in a hurry, the wedding date was set in two months.The Tan family deserves to be unscrupulous people. When the wedding date is certain, they will send a dowry gift list. In order to show their importance, since they have also invested in building a big house for their brother, they claim to spend no less than 500 taels, and the dowry may be thousands of taels.It has been said in ancient times that the dowry is expensive and the dowry should not be cheap. If the dowry of a thousand taels requires the old house to only pay a dowry of a hundred taels, it will be ugly not only for the people of the old house, but also for the reputation of the third house.

Facing the dowry list that was handed over by the old house, Fu Lin's chest hurts in anger.

Liang Zhao persuaded softly at the side, Lou Yuzhu stepped in, took a look at the dowry list, pursed her lips and sneered: "It costs a hundred taels of silver to buy the best embroidered brocade. ?”

A good family loves my brother, and it is possible to spend half of the family property as a dowry, but that must also consider the conditions of the husband’s family. In order to avoid jokes caused by the husband’s family’s dowry being too light, both parties must discuss it during the engagement. As much as the dowry is given in the open, it is too much to beat the husband's face. People who really love their brothers will never do things that cause hatred for their brothers before they are married. Most of them give a share behind their backs. It is to take care of the face of the husband's family in the open, but the Tan family's approach is obviously not to take care of the face of the husband's family. A dowry list is nearly 600 taels in all, plus the big house that has been built, more than a thousand taels of dowry is given to the old house. The betrothal gift must be at least 800 taels before you can see it!

After the division of the old house, the property of the big house and Mr. Lou’s total net worth was only 500 taels. If all of them were sold in cash, it would not be enough for the dowry gift. Even if the dowry gift was enough for the daily expenses in the future?

The date of the engagement was decided by Mr. Lou and Lou Wen himself. It is impossible that the two parties have not discussed the dowry and dowry. Therefore, it is obvious that the Tan family and the eldest family have joined forces to deceive the third room. This is to force the third room. Give the big house a betrothal gift!No wonder Fu Lin's bookish chest hurts!It's not that he feels sorry for the money, but he is angry that the big house has tried his best, and since Mr. Lou still has the face, he is crying and begging the third house to make up his mind!

"Father, don't need to be angry. It's the eldest wife who got married, not our third wife. They accepted the dowry list, and they discussed the wedding date themselves. It's also their eldest wife's business to look ugly."

Liang Zhaochong Lou Yuzhu said: "That's what you say, but the bad thing is that this marriage is a matchmaker for our third-party insurance company. The Tan family will not modify the dowry list. When the dowry is released on the day of marriage, others will only say that the big house has no ability. Those who are capable will not help." After saying this, he took the hot tea offered by the servant and served Fu Linshu to take a sip.

After taking a sip of hot tea, Fu Linshu felt more comfortable, patted Liang Zhao's hand and made him sit down, thinking about what the big house did, he felt depressed again. "Begging us to keep the matchmaker first, and then forcing us to pay the bride price, does this mean you are relying on our family anyway?"

Putting down the dowry list, Lou Yuzhu smiled: "This is probably calculated by Lou Wen. Three generations have not been able to enter the official examination, and he has not kept his reputation as a scholar. If he has power, he wants to be a rich man." Then he shook his head: "No If you work hard on your own but rely on marriage to bite us, the root cause is broken.” Don’t worry about this kind of person, just watch coldly that he can kill himself by doing it himself, just like this marriage.

Liang Zhao has been married for several years, but he has dealt with Mr. Lou, but he really can't understand the other party's thoughts.Let's say he is greedy for wealth and honor, he doesn't hold the high-flying Sanfang like a treasure, but instead holds the downright corrupt Dafang in the palm of his hand, say he is not greedy for wealth and honor, he used to bully Sanfang up to this point for the sake of the Dafang's fame.

Fu Linshu breathed out, eyes tired: "I really don't understand what your grandpa is thinking. He helped the big house all day long and plotted against our third room. As the saying goes, helping others and helping the weak. Didn't the big room become like this because they cocooned themselves? How come it seems to him that it is all caused by us, so we should become that villain when we become rich?"

Mr. Lou acted as if he sympathized with the execution of the criminal who commits all crimes, murder and arson, and never thought of the words 'what he deserves'.

Lou Yuzhu could guess what Old Man Lou was thinking.One is that it has become a habit to hurt the eldest son, and it is unbearable to see the eldest son who is holding it in the palm of his hand; the second is face, he used to help the elder brother bully the third wife, and when the third wife turned around, he wanted to curry favor with the third wife for fear of being betrayed by others Break his spine and call him snobbish.Mr. Lou, who was in the middle of the game, couldn't see the situation clearly. The previous form of donating resources from his family to Lou Chengzu was already distorted, and the addition of Lou Wen from the same family made the original distorted form even more deformed. Sooner or later, it will collapse. Yes; now he thinks that the behavior of helping the big house to calculate the third house will only make the two houses more and more strangers.Outsiders say that the second house is a division of the family because the big house is not profitable, but there may not be reasons for being disappointed with the big house and Mr. Lou.

Not being able to see the situation clearly is the ultimate reason why Mr. Lou failed all his life.Just like this time, he was only worried that Lou Wencheng was not married, but he didn't think about the character of the Tan family. The so-called marriage and marriage, the Tan family brother is not good, and this marriage is probably similar to Cheng Qiu.

Even if he didn't want to, when he got married, Fu Linshu still prepared things and sent them to the eldest room as a betrothal gift. In his heart, he didn't even ask the eldest room to sign the IOU.

Although the betrothal gift list did not see the brocade of "an inch of cloth and an inch of gold", the betrothal gift equivalent to more than 800 taels of silver still made the Tan family happy from ear to ear. On the wedding day, there were seventy tables for the wedding wine. I can't wait to let everyone in the county know that this matchmaker is guaranteed by the Gongdelou family. What's even more ironic is that since the other party has the cheek to invite Li Yue, who was promoted to the county magistrate, half of the merits of being promoted from the county magistrate to the county magistrate It's from Lou Hua, Li Yue knows this well, so naturally he won't save face for the big family who has slapped Sanfang's face, let alone the Tan family, who has turned a corner in their relationship, and directly returned the post without even explaining it!

Not to mention how angry the post was returned to the Tan family, the [-] tables on the wedding day were almost full. Of course, most of them were probably forced by the Tan family. Well, not everyone has a magistrate with a strong waist, and the post will be withdrawn as soon as it is said.As for the relationship with the Gongdelou family, they have to wait and see.

Before the bustling wedding ceremony was over, the wedding team set off, and it took half an hour to arrive at Yanjia Village.In the old house, the old house was knocked down and the new house was built with a big yard. Fifteen tables that were closely related were placed in the courtyard, and [-] tables were placed outside the courtyard.In order to save money, Lou Wen really went all out, even the classmates who hadn't contacted for a long time went to the post to make up for it, and the post even cheekily stated that they were the matchmaker of Gongde Lou's family insurance, and the other party would not even be able to come if they didn't come.

In the main hall of the new house, Liu Ama, who hadn’t seen her for a long time, was wearing a new satin dress with a red face, her chin was raised high, and she wanted to look at people with her nostrils. To Fu Linshu, the nose was not the nose and the eyes were not the eyes. Even Liang Zhao didn’t have a good face. Only Lou Yuzhu didn't dare to turn his nose or eyes. It seems that after so many lessons, Liu Ahma finally admitted his cowardice.

Lou Yuzhu hooked her lips, and pulled Liang Zhao to sit outside to hide quietly.

It's just that Liang Zhao probed frequently, and was a little worried that Fu Linshu would stay inside alone.

Lou Yuzhu, who saw through his thoughts, smiled: "Don't worry, my father has summed up his experience in getting along with my aunt." The left ear goes in and the right ear goes out, just listen to it.

Their table was the main table, and seeing Lou Yuzhu and Liang Zhao sitting behind them in the posture of two or three servants, no one dared to move forward.Therefore, the two of them whispered something without worrying about being overheard.

"Why didn't you see Uncle?"

"Maybe I'll clean it up later." Tang Lian smiled and became more reckless since she was sitting still. She gave Lou Chengzu some tiger wolf medicine every now and then, and Lou Chengzu, who had crippled legs, didn't go out and probably didn't clean up. No, this person going out might reveal his secrets if he glanced at it, so Tang Lianxiao might spend some thought on dressing up Lou Chengzu.

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao will be here, and Chengzu of the Xianglou was carried out, a new suit made the original three-point complexion look seven-point, the spirit is strong, the hair is black, the face is rosy, and the thin point is removed, and it is not obvious that it is a pair of legs Totally useless.But this is only in the eyes of people who don't understand, in the eyes of people who know how to do it, Lou Chengzu is full of flaws everywhere.

The close brother Qiushi is a person who is quite accomplished in dressing, and it can be seen at a glance. "...the hair is dyed with black powder...the face is powdered...the red color on the face is wrong, it's too red."

Liang Zhao looked around and found that the red color seemed to be coming from the skin.Thinking of the fierce medicine that Lou Hua mentioned to him, he was startled. "...Did you take medicine?"

Lou Yuzhu nodded: "Probably so." Tiger wolf medicine has a strong dependence, and if you don't take it for a day, you will be depressed. Even if Tang Lianxiao doesn't secretly give it to Lou Chengzu, Lou Chengzu will ask for it. "Ten years minus four, I'm afraid there are only three years left."

Hearing this, Liang Zhao's heart was full of horror, unfortunately he saw someone coming from the corner of his eye, so he had to swallow the rest of his words.

The people who came were Ji Xiaorong and Lou Yuan's husband, who hadn't seen each other for a long time. As soon as they were at the table, they introduced to their daughter-in-law: "Look, this is our brother Yu, from the Golden Bodhisattva. Any leak from your fingers is enough for your whole life." It's gone." Saying that, he pushed his daughter-in-law, who was six or seven months pregnant, in front of Lou Yuzhu for her to see her.

When Lou Yuan got married, Lou Yuzhu went to Fucheng, and on weekdays, Lou Cheng kept the family from going to the third room, so this was the first time for Lou Yuzhu.According to seniority, Lou Yuan's husband Lang is taller than Lou Yuzhu, and the meeting gift should be given by the other party, but this doesn't work in front of Ji Xiaorong who can never be clear.

Fortunately, Lou Yuzhu didn't care about this anymore, and took the red seal from Qiushi kindly and stuffed it into the opponent's hand. "I was in Fucheng on the wedding day, so I didn't come to have a glass of wedding wine. My cousin is not surprised."

Lou Yuan's husband is really honest. He was so nervous that he didn't even know how to put his hands. Liang Zhao, who had met him before, patted each other's hands to comfort him and said, "It's okay, just hold it."

Ji Xiaorong resisted the urge to look at the red envelope, and said some festive words with a flattering expression.

Lou Yuzhu turned her head and ignored it. Liang Zhao, as Lou Hua's husband, couldn't be so emotional and reasonable, so he had to listen patiently, and he had to answer a few words from time to time to avoid embarrassment. Not to mention the connotation, but the whole story of Piansheng is full of trivial matters, and most of these trivial matters are taken care of by servants, Liang Zhao, who has never been in contact with it, even struggles to obey.Fortunately, Fu Linshu was seated soon, and he was liberated.

Lou Yuzhu, who had been watching her all the time, showed an unkind smile, which caused Liang Zhao to roll his eyes.

As the sound of ceremonies and music stopped, a couple of newlyweds were welcomed into the house to greet Lou Chengzu and Mr. Lou, and they were welcomed into the new house after the ceremony.Ji Xiaorong went inside to watch the excitement, and when he came back, he curled his lips and said in distaste: "The new husband is not beautiful at all, he can't compare to our brother Yu's one finger!"

Lou Yuzhu, who was also shot while lying down, couldn't laugh or cry, Liang Zhao laughed, turned around and stopped Ji Xiaorong.The past few years of marrying into Lou's family are enough for him to figure out the habits of the family. The first two elders are broad-minded and they are the best family members. The spirit is strangely intelligent and close to a demon, the third floor Yuzhu is the only elder brother in the family, she said Jiao, she was able to handle all the big and small matters in the family, she came up with the idea, if she was not Jiao, she would just ignore her if she loved her For those who are reasonable, the word willful is appropriate.

Before leaving the banquet, Lou Mingzhu, who hadn't seen her for a long time, entered the door with a half-grown child in her arms.

Lou Mingzhu, who was originally a concubine, was oppressed by the husband of Guo's eldest son, so that she couldn't even have a child. Later, Lou Chengli, who was separated from the family, came to the door and expressed her position with a strong attitude. Do not let Lou Mingzhu go home.I don't know what the Guo family thinks, it seems that they chose the former, but with Lou Mingzhu's nervous expression, it is estimated that life is not as easy as he imagined, but I don't know if he regrets it or not. regret.

Ji Xiaorong's eyes lit up, and when he leaned over to hug the child, there was a burst of affection, but unfortunately, the child punched and kicked Yiyi, and looked like he didn't admit it. Send it back to Lou Mingzhu.

Lou Mingzhu went up to the table awkwardly with the child in her arms, her demeanor and demeanor had completely disappeared from the flamboyance of her youth.

Lou Yuzhu looked at Lou Mingzhu who looked like another person like a monster, and couldn't imagine that Lou Mingzhu who spoke without thinking at the beginning turned into the current appearance like a frightened bird.

Liang Zhao lightly coughed to remind Lou Yuzhu that his eyes were too eager, did he break out in a cold sweat when he didn't see Lou Mingzhu being looked at?

Lou Yuzhu turned her attention to the child: "Is this Brother Ming's son? How old is it?"

Lou Mingzhu replied cautiously: "One year and three months old."

"what is it call?"

"It's Guo Liang."

"Oh..." Lou Yuzhu didn't look at it anymore after giving it meaning to the meeting.Liang Zhao had heard about Lou Mingzhu, so he didn't mean to give the child a meeting gift.

Being a concubine in the Guo family for the past few years, Lou Mingzhu has been trained to be afraid, and she dare not show it recklessly, even if she is envious, she can only hide it secretly in her heart.This does not mean that his scheming has increased, but that he has been frightened by the means of the master lord, and he dare not even express his thoughts.

As the banquet was approaching, an unexpected person entered the courtyard. Lou Yuzhu looked up and the person had already sat down beside him unceremoniously.

"Why are you here?" Lou Yuzhu was stunned.

Zhou Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Why can't I come over?"

Lou Jinzhu, who had returned to her home to help, led her husband and son-in-law over to the table, and was also very surprised by Zhou Cheng who suddenly appeared, until his husband-in-law's eyes lit up and he moved closer. "I didn't expect Master Zhou to come here~"