Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

"Hey! This Ningguo Mansion has always been inconspicuous, who knew that the family was so rich?"

"Who knows if this is really a rich family or if she has emptied her mother's family? You know, this Miss Jia married the emperor's cousin. !"

"Oh, let me tell you, old man, from which corner did you come out? What kind of royal relatives and national relatives? The Jia family itself is the royal relatives. Have you seen the white jade ruyi and the red hairpin in front? They were all sent by the empresses in the palace. The former one was the late emperor's empress, and the princess she gave birth to married Miss Jia's nephew, and the latter one was Miss Jia's cousin, who married the present. Hou?"

Everyone couldn't help but gave a thumbs up, "This Ningguo Mansion is so capable. I don't usually hear about them, but you haven't mentioned how their family is so rich!"

Surrounded by the crowd, an old man in coarse linen raised his chin in an air, glanced at the crowd from the corner of his eyes, and said,

"You really have to ask me about this. My third aunt was working in the Ningguo Mansion. This matter started with the late Mrs. Jia more than ten years ago. He was both the patriarch and a foresight man. Considering the family, The life of the clan is becoming more and more difficult, so the clan members went overseas to look for opportunities... So, now, a different clan member of the Jia family is very rich!"

The others were very moved when they heard this, "If I have this opportunity to make such a fortune..."

"Don't dream, I never heard that a big family like Ningguo Mansion has sunk a lot of ships! They almost died of losses!"

"It's enough to support the bold and starve the timid to death. It's enough to fight a pariah, so that my mother, wife and children can make a living!"

After the bunt man, who was obviously doing hard work, said this sentence, it aroused the sympathy of many people, and they talked a lot. As for the focus of the discussion earlier, Miss Jia's dowry and the old man had long been thrown away. back of my head.

The old man broke through the crowd, ran to a nearby restaurant, went up to the second floor, knocked respectfully on the door of the wing room, and only after hearing the sound, opened the door and entered.

"Grandpa, it's done!"

"I see, you did a good job, this is your reward!"

As he spoke, he threw a silver ingot, and the old man caught it swiftly with his hands and feet. He resisted the impulse to take his teeth, saluted, and left with a bow.

Sitting next to the round table were two young sons, one with darker complexion and the other with fair complexion, said,

"You are going to get married tomorrow, why do you still have to do things?"

The fair-skinned man is tomorrow's groom, the newly promoted Marquis of Pingyuan, Jiang Zining. Hearing Feng Ziying's question, he cast a sidelong glance at him, stood up, and said,

"Don't you do what His Majesty ordered?"

Feng Ziying was choked by him, shook her head, and said,

"I can't say no to you, but you said yes, how could your majesty have the idea of ​​going out to sea to find money? These days, the money stolen from his home is worth several million. He just wants to do whatever he wants. ah!"

Jiang Zi would rather ignore his idiot question, he is going to get married tomorrow, and there are two so-called "elders" who make troubles at home, if he doesn't pay attention, he doesn't know what will happen, He strode towards the door.

Feng Ziying became anxious when she saw him leave, "I asked you something! Why did you leave?"

Jiang Zining waved his hands and said without turning his head, "Who can think too much money!"

After that, he left the house.

Just like what Jiang Zining had imagined, he almost caused trouble when he was posting the dowry.

It turns out that as usual, after the dowry arrives, it will be dried in front of the front yard, just to show the in-laws. Our girl will have everything when she gets married to you, and she doesn’t need to use anything from your family. , showing the dignity of the daughter's family.

Jia Lu's four nuns went out together, and Zhang Shi was talking to the clansmen of the Pingyuanhou Mansion at the front, so the dowry was packed and brought by Nanny Li and the other three nuns. The maids were also trained by Nanny Li herself.

Nanny Li is a strict person, and most of the maids she brings out are cautious and introverted. After deliberately restraining herself, her behavior is orderly, flexible and light, and her every move has an inexplicable aura, which makes people in Pingyuanhou's mansion subconsciously bow their heads Silence.

Although there is a lot of dowry, some furniture and furs are afraid of the sun, so they will be put away after a while.

A nanny representing Pingyuanhou's Mansion greeted her with a smile, and said,

"The nuns have finished drying the dowry, so come with the old slave, the old slave will take you to send the things to the warehouse!"

Nanny Li complied, which was what she should have meant, but she felt something was wrong after walking halfway, so she stopped.

Generally, the houses of their big families, that is, noble houses, are almost planned. Is this direction going in the direction of the big warehouse?

Nanny Li called to the nanny who was leading the way, and asked,

"Mother, where are you going?"

"Of course it's the warehouse. You have a lot of things. If you don't find a bigger warehouse for you, how can you store it?"

Nanny Li said calmly and sternly,

"Then will you take us to the big warehouse?"

The nanny who led the way was a little embarrassed, she laughed and said,

"Isn't the big warehouse also a warehouse?"

Nanny Li became annoyed and shouted,

"Is it possible that your Jiang family still wants to treat our girl's dowry as the public property of the whole family? I want to ask, have you been greedy for the dowry of the mistresses of all generations?"

In ancient times, no matter how low a woman's status was, at least one thing could be guaranteed, which was her dowry, which was also her private property.

Even the dynasties that were harsh on women like the previous dynasties have laws that say, "The household decree, those who should divide the land and houses, and property, brothers should share equally, and the wealth earned by the wife's family is not limited." property.

In this dynasty, it is even more different. Women’s dowry is stored independently and calculated separately. The husband’s family has no right to control it. If they divorce, women can take the dowry away, and they can also make a will to stipulate who can inherit the dowry, even if they are not family members. .

Therefore, according to the normal level, Jia Lu's dowry should be placed in the storeroom in the main courtyard where the head of the family lives. If there is more, a new storeroom can be opened, but it is definitely not like here, where things are randomly placed in the public house. warehouse!

The nanny who leads the way doesn't care about it at all, so it can be said that Nanny Li is no better than Nanny Li, and she is feeling uncomfortable in her heart, secretly thinking, the old lady has sharp eyes and a careful heart!

When the two were in a stalemate, a pretty young woman walked towards her from behind the nanny leading the way, in the direction that Nanny Li had planned to go.

Judging from the woman's attire, she is neither a master nor a servant. She is wearing a water-red dress with large sleeves, and a bright green belt pinches her waist very thin, swaying her waist, her skin is white and tender, and she is long. Excellent, just seeing that he is a little shorter, he came over with a twisted waist.