nucmednet Chapter 638
Chapter 638
Chapter 638
This was only because of the honor of the third place winner, so he was beaten with twenty boards. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, the county magistrate would have beaten the man to death to count.
Hey! There are always people who want to take down my official hat! I will never let them do that!
After being beaten with twenty sticks, Gu Boyan's mother could not bear it. After being carried home, she could not get out of bed again.
Paralyzed!
Once she became paralyzed, she could no longer work as a matchmaker or do any deceptive things, and she cursed all day long.
As the saying goes, there will be no filial son by the bedside of a patient who has been ill for a long time. Moreover, the old woman can't make money, has a bad temper, and costs money for medicine. Her children don't want to take care of her at all.
The eldest pushed the third, the third pushed the fourth, the fourth pushed the elder sister, the elder sister pushed the younger sister, and no one wanted to take care of the old woman.
The children, who used to love to gather together and hang around their mother, now scattered and never interacted with each other again.
Only Gu Boyan would occasionally ask someone to bring back some silver to fulfill his filial duty. The old woman held on to the hard-earned silver, lived frugally, and never made any money again.
These are all later stories, so we won’t discuss them for now.
Back in the capital, because the Marquis's Mansion is still in mourning, the marriage can only be held in a low-key manner.
According to the marriage rules of Beiyi, the bride must send the dowry to the groom's family two days before the wedding.
The Wei family was worried about the dowry.
Because her daughter was marrying up, Mrs. Wei was afraid that a dowry that was too shabby would bring shame to her daughter, and worried that her daughter would not live well, so she tried her best to prepare a generous dowry for her daughter.
Tang Chujun had prepared a lot of betrothal gifts for his son earlier, a total of 108 loads, which contained all kinds of good things.
Although the Shi family gave such a generous betrothal gift, the Wei family did not keep a single thing and prepared to take it all back to the Shi family as their daughter's dowry intact.
But the problem is that the dowry is too much.
The dowry alone was over 148 pieces. The main reason for this was that the Shi family had too much betrothal gifts.
The dowry prepared by the Wei family was very substantial, all of it solid: beds, boxes, buckets, stools, and boxes.
Just take the step-out bed as an example. It was made by Wei Cailing’s grandfather.
And those top-grade An porcelains were the latest and best craftsmanship of her grandfather. The Wei family had prepared all the pots, pans, and bowls.
Wei Zhongshi looked at the dowry of his eldest daughter that filled the courtyard and the house and shook his head, "No, no, it's too much! It's okay on normal days, but now is the hottest mourning period for Qi'er. It will take hundreds of people to carry so much dowry around half the city. Isn't that asking for trouble for Qi'er?"
Mrs. Wei said, "I have already chosen and chosen again. Look, I have taken back all those barrels, but there are still so many."
Wei Zhongshi stroked his forehead and said, "You are so honest. If you really need these pots, pans, buckets, stools and boxes, why don't you send them to them after you get married?"
When Mrs. Wei heard this, her eyebrows raised, "How can that be possible! If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense! How can a dowry be taken away piecemeal after the wedding? That's so unlucky!"
Wei Zhongshi was scolded by his wife, so he didn't dare to come up with any bad ideas. "Then I don't care, but you should not make such a big fuss! I am a small official marrying off my daughter, and the dowry is comparable to that of a royal family marrying off their daughter. Is this appropriate?"
"Isn't it because your in-laws gave a lot of betrothal gifts? Your son-in-law's mother is very generous and wants to give her son everything. Isn't that the case? Let me count for you. Among the 148 loads, 108 of them are betrothal gifts from the Shi family. I squeezed and squeezed, pressed and pressed, collected and collected, reduced and reduced..."
Wei Cailing's gentle voice came closer and closer, "Mother, please leave half of the Shi family's betrothal gift to Pingting. Why would I need so much?"
"No!" Wei Zhongshi and his wife said in unison, this time in unison.
Wei Zhongshi said, "We will prepare Pingting's dowry, so you don't have to worry about it. This is given to you by the Shi family, you can take it all."