nucmednet Chapter 354 The Marriage Is Set 5
Chapter 354 The Marriage Is Set 5
Gu Wenxuan was concerned about something else, "Does their family have a lot of rules?" She didn't want to restrict her lively and clever sister-in-law and make her unhappy.
Bai Jingzhou was also a little worried, so he specifically asked Su Yunzhan about the content of their family rules. Of course, he asked Su Yunzhan under the pretext of "increasing knowledge and learning a thing or two."
He told Gu Wenxuan, "It's definitely a lot compared to us, but fortunately it's not too strict."
Gu Wenxuan: ...It doesn’t have to be more than their family rules. After all, they don’t have any family rules written down.
About a month after Madam Su's nephew and trusted maid left, the Su family's matchmaker, accompanied by Su Yunzhan's aunt, came to Baijia Village to propose marriage.
Bai Jingzhou's family had already learned about the Su family's dynamics in advance from the person responsible for inquiring about the news, and were mentally prepared for the arrival of the matchmaker.
Although Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi had never seen Su Yunzhan in person, they had a general impression of him from Bai Jingzhou's description.
The young man has good appearance and character, good family background, talent, is easy to get along with his family, and has good family rules.
Most importantly, he can live separately as soon as he gets married, and his new wife does not have to live under the same roof with his brother, sister-in-law, parents, and grandparents for a long time.
Compared with the above advantages, Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi do not care much about the disadvantage that Su Yunzhan does not get much of the family property.
After all, although Su Yunzhan's share of the family wealth was small, it was enough for their small family to live a worry-free life.
The two were very satisfied with Su Yunzhan as described by Bai Jingzhou. Bai Jingxin, the person involved, rarely shook her head at Su Yunzhan as a marriage partner, so her parents happily agreed to the marriage.
Aunt Su Yunzhan, who originally thought that this marriage was a little unreliable, gradually began to have a new respect for the Bai family and Bai Jingxin during the process of discussing the marriage of Su Yunzhan and Bai Jingxin with the Bai family.
The reason is very simple - Bai Jingxin is not only extremely outstanding, but also has a generous dowry.
Su Yunzhan's grandparents asked her and the matchmaker to send the betrothal gifts and betrothal gifts. Except for the consumables that need to be taken out for entertaining guests according to custom, such as wedding cakes, wedding candies, tea, wine, etc., the Bai family plans to give all the other things, such as cloth, silk, jewelry, betrothal money, etc., as a dowry to their own daughter.
In addition to these, the Bai family also prepared a dowry for Bai Jingxin, including a box of silver, books, jewelry, shops, farms, mansions, a full set of furniture, clothes for all four seasons, pillows and bedding, etc.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the dowry that the Bai family prepared for Bai Jingxin was slightly more than the property that the Su family planned to give to Su Yunzhan.
In addition, Aunt Su Yunzhan had already learned that Bai Jingxin was not only of good character and appearance and lively personality, but she was also a versatile and capable girl who was proficient in general affairs.
It is more gratifying for a girl to be able to earn money on her own than for her parents to give her a generous dowry.
After all, a huge fortune will gradually shrink if it falls into the hands of someone who is not good at management. A small amount of wealth in the hands of someone who is good at management will gradually develop into a big thing.
The more they got to know the Bai family and Bai Jingxin, the more satisfied Su Yunzhan's elders were with this marriage. Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi, who met Su Yunzhan several times during the marriage process, also became more and more satisfied with Su Yunzhan.
Su Yunzhan's grandparents are old, and his parents are not in their hometown. The two have never met Su Yunzhan's four elders, but they can clearly feel how much importance the Su family attaches to this marriage.
The three books and six ceremonies were all strictly followed in accordance with the procedures. The betrothal gift and the betrothal gift were also very generous. Aunt Su Yunzhan, who came to represent the Su family to negotiate the marriage and go through the procedures, was also very humble and gave the Bai family enough respect.
Ning Cuizhi, who had often been gossiped about behind the back by some gossipers in nearby villages and towns, and even in the county, because Bai Jingxin's marriage had not been finalized, was very proud - good things are never too late, and her daughter's marriage was a perfect one for everyone!
Bai Jingzhou was very generous to his younger brothers and sisters. After Bai Jingxin's marriage was settled, he directly took out one thousand and two taels of silver from his and Gu Wenxuan's private property to help her buy property in Su Yunzhan's hometown, Lincheng County next to Qingshan County.
Most of the shops, farms, and mansions listed on her dowry list were purchased by him and Gu Wenxuan themselves.
The two of them even made a special trip to Lincheng County for this purpose. All the properties they bought for Bai Jingxin were the best choices carefully selected from the brokers.
In addition to the several properties they temporarily acquired, Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi also gave Bai Jingxin a farm in Qingshan County as a dowry.
The farm was not large, but it was bought by Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi with the money they had saved over the years, and it was not the money that Bai Jingzhou had previously given to the family.
Bai Jingheng, the youngest in the family, who had no source of income except pocket money, talisman money, and occasional wages from his brother and sister-in-law, used his own saved money to buy Bai Jingxin a set of pure gold headwear.
Mr. and Mrs. Bai, Uncle Bai's family, Second Uncle Bai's family, Uncle Ning's family, and other relatives of Bai Jingxin's family, basically all gave Bai Jingxin dowry gifts.
For those who are close to each other, the gifts they give are not only valuable but also thoughtful. For those who are not so close, they basically just follow the convention and give two feet of coarse cloth, two handkerchiefs, two pillowcases... these are the gifts that the villagers usually follow.
The Bai family used to give gifts to their relatives in the same way. They would give expensive and thoughtful gifts to those with whom they were close, while they would just follow the crowd like other villagers to those with whom they had an average relationship. Therefore, they would not dislike the villagers for giving small gifts.
Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi added everything that Bai Jingxin could use to her dowry list. As for the coarse cloth, handkerchiefs, pillowcases and other things that the villagers gave as a gift, Ning Cuizhi simply left them for the orphans adopted by Gu Wenxuan.
Not long after Su Yunzhan and Bai Jingxin's marriage was settled, Bai Jingzhou was once again commended by the court.
The two pamphlets he submitted through the county government received great attention from the emperor and court officials.
The officials of Sinong Temple have been troubled by various problems such as seedling death and root rot caused by continuous cotton cropping, weak seedlings and lack of roots, cotton being weak and aging prematurely, being more susceptible to diseases and pests, low cotton yield and poor quality, etc. in the past two years.
After discovering the problem, they made many attempts. They used traditional methods such as seed selection, deep plowing, fertilization, and pest control, but unfortunately the results were not good.
The cotton-grain rotation and cotton-manure multiple cropping mentioned by Bai Jingzhou in the booklet, as well as the extended ideas about grain-fertilizer rotation, grain-fertilizer multiple cropping, intercropping of grain and fertilizer, and even intercropping between orchards and woodlands, planting green manure in idle farmland and wasteland, creating green manure forests on non-arable land, and raising aquatic green manure crops on water surfaces, were like opening a door to a new world for the officials of the Sinong Temple.