Hearing this, several people breathed a sigh of relief.
Old Mrs. Deng laughed and said, "Let me tell you, you have liked Aqiu since you were a child. How could you change your mind so easily?"
The members of the Li family all accept death, but they are half-hearted and uncertain.
Lihua also glared at Li Yang and asked, "Then have you visited Aqiu when you came back? Does she know you are back?"
Li Yang nodded, "I arrived yesterday evening and stayed at the Songshan Inn for the night."
Mrs. Chen's face became excited, "Have you had a good chat with Aqiu? When are we going to propose marriage? While you have these few days off, you can make an appointment in advance! We'll have a good time then.
, it will be a good time for you to take leave and come back to get married!"
"Aqiu is such a good girl, if she doesn't settle down quickly, I won't feel at ease!"
Li Yang looked at Mrs. Chen and said: "We have to take advantage of these few days to decide on the marriage, but what kind of marriage should we propose? Mother, have you forgotten? Aqiu is going to have a wife. I also mentioned it to Grandma Yuan last year. I
It's okay to marry into the family, as long as I have a baby named Li in the future."
Being mentioned in this way, Chen reacted, "I almost forgot about it."
As he spoke, he pursed his lips, looked at Li Donggua, and then at Old Mrs. Deng, "Then marrying into the family?"
Old Mrs. Deng calmed down and nodded to express his position, "I said this. The situation was different at that time. I didn't know that the subsequent changes could be so fast, right? I just thought that staying in that house would be a coward, and it would be useless."
It's better to recruit a wife and be free. I wouldn't be willing to give it to another family. I can rest assured that I will give it to your Aunt Yuan's family. Once I have said it, I can't change my mind no matter what!"
"Just get married! Aqiu is not an ordinary girl. If you really get married, you won't be able to bear her having to serve her parents-in-law all day long, wandering around the house and working so hard that she is no different from other little daughters-in-law, isn't it? That's not burying her.
Is it because of her ability? You still have to let her do what she likes.
It doesn't make any difference whether you are married into the family or not. Besides, you two are still young and can move. It's no problem for you to live your own life. If the day comes when you can't move, they won't care about you.
Yes, when the time comes, I will definitely take you to take care of you in old age. If you give birth to a child with the surname Li in the future, the Li family will have an heir. To be honest, it’s all the same. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.”
"Since you like someone else's daughter, it doesn't matter if you feel a little wronged. Aqiu is a good girl and deserves it!"
"If you really want to be left-wing, stubborn and old-fashioned, and don't know how to adapt, you will miss such a wonderful wife!"
Li Donggua then said: "Mom is right, A Yang can get a girl as good as A Qiu as his wife, I can laugh in my dreams. No matter whether it is a marriage or a marriage, isn't it my daughter-in-law?"
Aren’t they all my good grandchildren? Our family is not that unenlightened, they are just marrying into the family, there is no shame in it!”
"Besides, most of the people who get married are just freeloaders, but that's not the case in our family! We're not afraid of what others will say."
As he said that, he looked at his mother and daughter-in-law, and then said: "I will prepare a generous dowry, use all the betrothal gifts for asking for a daughter-in-law, and ask Ayang to take him into the Song family's house, in all glory."
of."
"Cao'er and I left ten ingots of gold, and we took them all to A Yang. In addition, we live in this house and have a tailor shop, which are all dowry. Together, they are worth seven hundred taels. Apart from these, we
I have also made a lot of money in the past six months, so I asked Manager Qu to help introduce me and bought 20 acres of paddy fields outside the town, including them!"
In front of his daughter, Li Donggua pulled the dowry for his son. Li Donggua loved his children and was afraid that his daughter would be jealous. He turned around and said to Lihua: "The two shops in Changxingfang and Ankangfang are yours, and your mother pays the rent."
I keep it for you. When you get married later, I will take it with you along with the house deed, as well as the house on Fukang Lane. You will get married next autumn, and there is still one year left. In this year, the money earned by father and mother will be all.
I'll save it and buy you forty acres of paddy field, and I'll give it all to you when the time comes. It's a little less than your brother's, but if you take it with you to marry into the Zhou family, the dowry will be generous."
Not only is it rich, except for the Cheng family and a few landlords, among the girls from ten miles and eight villages, no one can compare with her dowry.
Lihua was so moved that she opened her mouth and said: "We are all here, so dad, what do you do? I'll leave the shop and house to you, I'll just take a shop with me."
Li Donggua waved her hand, "My parents have not been with you since childhood. No amount of money can make up for the more than ten years of companionship. We only hope that you will live happily in the future and have a stable and smooth life. Bring more dowry with you and stay in your husband's family."
Straighten your back too! Don't worry about your mother and me. We have an old house in the village. We will move back when the time comes, and we will also get the dividends from the woodcarving shop. We will live well with you and me."
Li Yang listened and shook his head, waving his hands and saying: "Give her these things from Lihua, a lot of them. In addition, give her four more gold ingots, and you can keep the remaining six for yourselves, dad. There are also
Now you can keep this house and clothing store, but I don’t want them either."
When Mrs. Chen heard this, she lost her voice and said: "A Yang, you really come here naked to eat soft food and ask A Qiu to support you? How can this be done? How can we give birth to a baby with the surname Li? How can we not give up at all? It's all for nothing.
What? How embarrassing is this!"
Old Mrs. Deng also echoed: "Although people have to come to marry at home and nothing else is needed, but if our family doesn't have it, it's not that we can't get it. If we have it, then we have to bring the dowry to the bride, and it will be glorious."
, it’s also decent, this way, you also value Aqiu.”
Lihua also shook her head repeatedly, "My dowry is enough. If there is more, I'm afraid Shitou and his family will be uncomfortable! I don't want any gold ingots, brother, take them all!"
Li Yang was both amused and filled with emotion when he saw that his family members were unconditionally supporting him in marrying into his wife, and they were planning and considering it for him.
He said hurriedly: "Didn't I say that in my letter? I got a reward of one thousand taels of silver! In addition, when I killed the enemy on the battlefield, the prince gave me a reward of silver per head. I also got a lot. King Changshan also gave me a reward.
In addition, he rewarded me with many good things, I can just take these to my wife!"
"Also, I am a fifth-rank official, and I have a salary every month. I rely on my ability to get in! There is no more honorable bridegroom in the world than me!"
Only then did a few people remember that he still had a reward.
A thousand taels of silver, this dowry is decent enough.
But Li Donggua still said: "That's not possible. You can't get married and your parents won't do anything, right? This house and shop are just that. You have to take those ten gold ingots with you!"
The shops and the house are in their hands, and they will still leave them to their sons later on, so they will live there first.
Li Donggua insisted on giving it, but Li Yang did not refuse the gold ingot anymore.
He nodded and said: "I told Aqiu that I will discuss it with you when I come back. Let's go back together tomorrow and the two families will discuss our marriage face to face."
His son's marriage is more important than anything else. Li Donggua nodded quickly, "Okay! Let's all go back to the village tomorrow!"