Chapter 3:

On the other side, Mingdehou House.
Since what happened that day, the sky in the second room has changed.
The second wife held Miss Liu and almost fainted without crying. That day, all the people who waited on Miss Liu were punished, beaten and sold, all sent out.
But there is no way to save it.
In the blue sky and white sun, the six girls were fished out of the lake by a man, her body was soaked, and she was hugged by the man. She had a blind date, and her reputation was long gone.
For the reputation of the mansion, Six Girls had no other choice but to marry that man.
The old lady scolded all the old lady and the second lady with a dark face.
Although she doesn’t like to love Liuyao so much, she is also her granddaughter, the girl who grew up in the mansion, and when she is old, she has a good relationship and is also a help to the mansion, but she has come out of such a bad heart. Thing!
The anger turned to anger, but things couldn't be changed. The Sixth Girl was considered a waste, and the old lady understood very well in her heart.
There are still several unmarried girls in the mansion, and the six girls must not be tired.
The old lady opened her mouth and gave a final word. This matter didn't even have a chance to turn around.
The second lady cried and cried and made troubles, she still couldn't change anything, she could only admit her fate, and finally sighed and cheered up to comfort her daughter.
Just talking about it, I feel sad again.
"Daughter, my struggling daughter!"
The second wife looked at her daughter who had lost weight after a few days in bed, her eyes turned red, and she rushed to hug her.
Six girls had been making trouble for many days, and the whole yard was not peaceful. She was not a good-natured child, and she was so arrogant, how could she accept this.
I was punished in the room to think about the words of the old lady that day, but also to make her think of her own fate.
I didn't expect that these six girls not only didn't figure it out, they became more and more unstoppable.
She hated the old lady with great resentment, she hated the old lady for being ruthless, blamed the second lady for being incapable, and naturally the fifth girl hated the most.
"Mother, I won't marry! I won't marry if I die!" Six girls lay crying in the arms of the second lady. She was really scared, her tears flowed down, and suddenly she pushed the second lady away fiercely and ran off the bed. , The Beatles ran out of clothes and ransacking around the room, seeing what they fell.
The second lady was angry and anxious, for fear that it would startle Mrs. Gu, she hurried over and pulled the six girls back, sat down on the edge of the bed, and whispered, "My son! Mother's dear, you want to Let mother worry to death!"
It was still cold in April, and the six girls went off the ground without wearing any shoes. The maid in the room sent her out early in the morning, and the second lady pulled the quilt on her own. It was to have a good conversation with her daughter, so she was so distressed that she scolded her.
Six girls were still crying, and her voice became hoarse in the past few days.
After a while, she raised her head again and said sharply:
"Telling my daughter to marry such a shabby family, it would be better to hang a white silk to death! If my mother really feels distressed, I shouldn't answer the old lady's words!"
"You... how did I give birth to you!" The second lady was distressed and sad, and she was reluctant to scold, and finally cried with her arms around others: "My poor daughter!"
"It's all that Gu Qingwan! She hurt me, she pushed me into the water, you let her marry! Let her go! The most suitable for a lowly prostitute to settle down in poverty! Let her marry!"
The Guliu girl was screaming hysterically.
How could the second lady not hate the pair of fox-mei son and mother! It's just that those two are the flesh of the second master's heart, so they are so tightly guarded that she can't even move.
The fifth girl was also there for the sunset and water, maybe it was the black hand under the little hooves! But the second master only scolded the sixth girl for not causing serious trouble, and then let the fifth girl think about it in the room.
The second wife hated the mother and daughter by herself.
Thinking about this, the mother and daughter couldn't help crying.
Things can't be delayed, and the wind can be put out as soon as possible. The old lady has a headache and waved away a second-class maid in the room to go to Li's family to "discuss".
The second wife knew that her daughter had no other way out, and the entire Hou Mansion would later count out that only her daughter was married so badly.
After pressing a bun down with uncomfortable pressure, the second wife energized her. Everyone else was watching the jokes openly and secretly, and she had to hold on no matter what. The second wife herself had only one son and one daughter. Now that her daughter has suffered such a big loss, she will be ruined for the rest of her life. She wants to buy a dowry for her daughter, just to compensate.
There are rules and regulations in the government. The dowry is two thousand taels for the prostitutes and one thousand taels for the prostitutes. Naturally, this is all on the face. In private, each family subsidizes their daughters according to their ability.
Six girls are the daughters of the second house, two thousand taels in the family, the old lady Gu is kind of compassionate, and there are many girls in the house, but the six girls are so lowly married, afraid that they won't have the chance to see each other again, so she privately subsidizes 1,000. Two silvers, a set of golden noodles with butterflies and flowers, a box of Dongzhu, and a Zhuangzi and 200 acres of land.
Seeing this, the second lady couldn't help but blush. Old lady Gu was a person who didn't care about her granddaughter. The three girls who married before did not see the old lady subsidize her. Now she gave them to the six girls, but it was pitiful.
Since it was a certainty and couldn't change this relationship, the second wife had to send someone to inquire about the Li family from beginning to end.
The more you listened, the more heartbroken you were, and she settled down so poorly, what kind of evil her daughter had done in the past life.
"There isn't even a neat house! How can you tell me how to live!"
A few confidant mothers were comforting, and they said a lot, but they couldn't make the second lady's face look better.
The second wife herself can buy a house for her daughter to marry, but there is also a family of children, is it possible to follow the mighty life of the daughter?
She was just stunned and had no reason to use her daughter's dowry to raise that family.
The two thought again, if they were subsidized like this at the beginning, and talked like this, they would feed people's appetite carefully and raise a nest of jackals, tigers and leopards. Really like that, that's what harmed my daughter.
Therefore, she only sent people to Li's house to "raise some points" from it. One of them was to buy a house that could be lived in.
The second wife knew everything in her heart, and keeping these things in her heart was to prepare to tell her daughter well.
Although the second master was disappointed and wasted a daughter, there was less compassion on the face, and there was no sadness on the face, and it was not as good as the cold-hearted old lady Gu, so he took out a dry one thousand taels. The bank note, there was nothing beside it, and I even said shamelessly to add makeup to the girl.
The second lady was so stricken with pain in her heart that she pinched her nails for life!
She didn't care about dignity, and had another quarrel. It was only a matter of pulling out a shop from the second master.
When the second wife was married, she had a good family life, and her dowry was rich. Apart from anything else, there were eight prosperous shops and hundreds of acres of land.
In the past, I planned to marry my daughter to two shops and leave the others to my sons. After all, my daughter was married to someone else's family, and she had to rely on her son for the elderly, but now she has changed her mind.
She found four shops in the east of the city, a three-in house in Xiaoyan'er Hutong, plus a Zhuangzi, and the title deed of 200 acres of paddy fields, put it in a mahogany box, and gave the old lady Put in both the Tianqi silver note and the house lease silver money from the second master, and another two thousand taels of silver note from his private room and put it in.
In this way, there are a total of four thousand taels of silver notes, five shops, four hundred acres of paddy fields, and two villagers.
After clicking it, lock it up and put it away. This is the bottom of the press box.
The two thousand taels from the public school are used for dowry, ranging from the size of the wedding bed to the closet and the small bowls and saucers.
Fortunately, the bed for my daughter’s marriage was prepared since the age of eight or nine, so there is no need to rush.
Immediately afterwards, there were also negotiations with the Li family on the other end, and the Three Books and Six Ceremonies followed the procedure.
The girl from the courthouse said that you don’t want to be married for three or five years, and you can see that the date is set slowly. Then Yang looks precious.
Only Gu Liu is the only relative, because she has lost the ugliness to the Gu family.
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The Li family sold half of the land, and then moved the sum of money that had been saved for many years before buying the house next to it and inviting someone to repair it.
The original Li's house remained unchanged, with side doors opened on both sides, and two steps out here and then in.
From the outer wall of Li's house to the back, the outer walls of the two courtyards were built together to form a single household, and the whole structure became an inverted "Lu" shape.
When everything was done, after painting and finishing, the Gu family sent a crew to measure the room.
Six girls were almost confessed with their heads pressed, and the second lady tried desperately to organize her dowry for her daughter. In addition to the money and the corresponding items at the bottom of the box, there were also people who were to be taken with her.
Originally, if there were no accidents, the prostitutes of people like Gu's family should be married to the right house of the Marquis Count. The maidservant who had to be brought to the accompany room was very particular, and there were many ways of doing things.
But now, the two beautiful maids that she kept are no longer needed.
What you need to bring is the girl's nanny, two close maids, two needlework maids, two stove maids, and two rough maids.
Counting, there are nine, because it is singular and unlucky, so I added another errand girl to make up ten people.
This is still the result of accommodating the poor and small households of the Li family. Those who accompany the housemaid are no longer needed.
The days flew fast, like a white horse passing a gap, and it soon came to September.
Girl Gu Liu is not very old, under fifteen, her birthday is at the end of the year, the twelfth lunar month, because she is rushing to get married, she can only choose a day to move forward, invite a familiar girl to come over, and simply do it. And 笄礼.
The Li family bought a house, and the family’s assets had been exhausted early, so they couldn’t beat the swollen face to fill the fat man. The betrothal gift was personally managed by the Bai family. The Bai family also complained about the domineering behavior of the Hou family, and he was taken aback. He only barely gave the bride price according to the specifications of ordinary people.
There is a load of gift cakes, three animals are chicken and duck, two pig halves each, two fish tails, two packages of seafood, including abalone, yuan, sea cucumber and shrimp.
Four-color pastries, fruit, two trays of wedding candy, two catties each of tea and sesame.
Two pairs of post boxes, filled with lotus seeds, lilies, green wisps, red beans, peanuts, melon seeds, red dates, longan, and walnuts.
Two meters of bucket, six catties of noodles, six jars of wine.
A pair of dragon and phoenix candles, a pair of incense sticks, a pair of ancestral paper, and a pair of dragon and phoenix firecrackers.
Finally, there is a pair of live geese.
The bride price was set by Mrs. Li, but it was for the sake of her grandson, and she didn't have the short-sightedness of Bai's. She gritted her teeth and posted many things on herself.
The old lady shook a golden step she got when she got married and melted it, making it a popular style in Beijing. She also ordered a pair of dragon and phoenix bracelets, a pair of silver bracelets, a silver comb, and a pair of jade earrings. , The last is a small box of pressed silver, twelve ingots, snow white, a hundred taels.
For ordinary people, this dowry gift is already very visible.