When Song Liyun realized that Nanny Xu was the nanny that Duke An Guo had obtained from the Queen Mother and was going to give it to Mrs. Wu Ya, she was a little dumbfounded.
Zhao Yanjiao was afraid that Mrs. Wu Ya would not accept it, so he took a detour and sent it to him, saying that it was given to him by Mrs. Guard.
Lin Luyin is a well-rounded person. She brought Nanny Xu and did not forget to build a relationship with Song Liyun.
"In addition, Mrs. Guard still has some dowry to send over.
She is worried that it will be difficult for you to be accommodated here, so she will stay in Hecheng for the time being and then send her directly to the Mida Valley."
"What kind of dowry is it? Why would Mrs. Guard prepare a dowry for me? Isn't this unreasonable!"
Song Liyun was a little confused as to why Mrs. Guard prepared a dowry for herself. I am afraid she was delivering it to Duke An Guo!
"Xiaoyun, Mrs. Guard is the most kind and approachable person. She didn't know until she came back from the capital that you had been wronged in Hecheng last time and had sent Aunt Li out of the house.
Please let me say no to you first, and I will personally apologize to you when you two sisters-in-law meet in the future!"
Through Lin Qingyuan's introduction, Lin Luyin, who had taken over the jewelry business, entered the Shoufu Mansion several times and had a good relationship with the Shoufu Madam and the official wives of Pingyang Mansion.
"It stands to reason that Mrs. Guard is an outsider, so it would be inappropriate for her to add makeup.
But the wife said that if your family doesn’t have any elders to take care of you, there might be some omissions. If you lack anything in your life in the future, it might not be convenient for the Third Young Master to replace it, so she took it upon herself to make a list. If you think it’s okay, she’ll ask Qingyuan to send it to you.
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With that said, Lin Luyin asked the little maid to bring a wooden box.
Song Liyun opened it and took out a long roster.
Looking at it, it says "Fifty Double Happiness Red Bedding", "Ten Pairs of Red Lacquer and Gold Gong Buckets", "Two Sets of Huanghuali Wood Furniture", "Celestial Silk Summer Quilt... Hundreds of Brocades of Various Colors"
The more she looked at her, the darker her face became. She also prepared a dowry, but it only contained a large amount of cotton cloth, quilts, charcoal, salt tea and rice noodles. It was a dowry, but it was better to open a grocery store.
Mrs. Guard's place is the real dowry for wealthy families.
Looking further down, Song Liyun was completely speechless.
"Four personal maids, eight general maids, twelve servants, eight nuns, fifty acres of land deeded..."
At this time, Song Liyun had already believed that this was the betrothal gift that Duke An Guo compensated for Mrs. Wu Ya, and that she was just the one who changed hands.
This matter... She looked at Nanny Xu with doubtful eyes. I'm afraid this matter is not that simple!
Sure enough, at night when no one was around, Nanny Xu, who stayed at Baolin Residence, told the truth.
Just as she expected, Nanny Xu was not her person.
"The slave was requested by Duke An Guo from the Queen Mother. This time I will go with the girl to the grassland and serve Mrs. Wu Ya from now on!"
Song Liyun breathed a sigh of relief, and she just said that no matter how good or good she was, the Queen Mother in Beijing would miss her and travel thousands of miles to give her a palace maid.
She frowned and said, "Why would Duke An Guo do this? Now that there is frequent trade between the two sides, it is feasible to just let grandma go to the grassland."
Aunt Xu smiled lightly: "I used to be the treasurer of the Clothing Bureau, in charge of the clothes of the masters in the palace.
Over the years, the Empress Dowager has lived up to her great trust. No matter what happens, the clothing bureau has always been in peace, and the embroiderers have not left even a needle on the clothes.
After finally seeing the emperor ascend the throne, the slaves were impatient with the disputes in the capital and wanted to return to their hometown for retirement.
It's just that the servant left home at a young age and no longer knew where his hometown was.
The Queen Mother wants her slaves to serve Mrs. Wuya, so naturally the slaves must follow the Queen Mother's decree."
Song Liyun's brows twitched slightly, she heard the meaning behind Nanny Xu's words.
Aunt Xu is the Queen Mother's confidant.
A few years ago, when the Queen Mother was still a Queen, she was in a difficult situation. Aunt Xu helped the Queen overcome several difficulties.
Going to the Di tribe was not only an honor, but also an eye-catcher of the Wu Dynasty on the grassland, so I had to accept it.
"The items in the guard's wife's gift list were all prepared by Duke An Guo for the girl. They were brought out of the capital by the slaves and are now being stored in the Hecheng Guard House."
"The maidservants are all selected by the palace. When the girls get married, they will be sent by the Zhenbei Army."
As soon as Song Liyun heard about Cai Nv, he thought of the amber jade he met in the garrison mansion.
Those beauties were carefully selected by the imperial court and sent to him...
She couldn't help but frown secretly. Although Zhao Tingduo didn't intend to take a concubine, she looked at it every day and there were always some omissions.
But Song Liyun didn't want to worry about things that hadn't happened yet, and just focused on the present.
Since Nanny Xu was going to serve Mrs. Wu Ya, she knew the relationship between An Guogong and the Di tribe.
She said to Song Liyun: "The Empress Dowager originally wanted to recruit Mrs. Wu Ya to come to the capital and be granted a royal title as the concubine of the Duke's Mansion. But An Guogong said that Mrs. Wu did not like the etiquette and red tape of the Wu Dynasty and would not come to the capital. She only asked for these rewards.
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At this moment, Song Liyun suddenly felt that Duke An Guo knew Mrs. Wu Ya quite well.
She also couldn't imagine what it would be like for Madam Wu Ya to enter the capital, drink tea and enjoy flowers with a group of noble ladies, and talk duplicity.
But... these beautiful maids are making things difficult for me and Madam Wuya!
More than half a month passed in a flash. Qin Huai and others arrived at Suijin Town and quickly dispersed to the Bahrain tribe and several guard posts.
It's not too cold this winter.
The Bahrain tribe, which moved to the Huangsha River Valley last year, was doing well and actually attracted several small tribes of twenty or thirty people to gather here with their livestock.
Song Liyun welcomes this kind of thing the most. Only when the tribes gather together and everyone develops can her trade route have a future.
These small tribes used their cattle and sheep to trade with merchants from the Wu Dynasty for hay, concentrated feed, salt, tea and cloth. The Bahrain tribe had a steady supply of beef, mutton and leather goods.
Song Liyun did not create a monopoly, but set the purchase price early.
If you single-handedly control the cattle and sheep business, you can certainly earn a few more taels of silver now, but for a business that requires long-term and healthy development, it is a narrow-minded and short-sighted behavior.
Even if she is exhausted, she will not be able to earn all the money, and she will be too popular.
Only if more tribes are willing to get closer to the Wu Dynasty and more merchants transport goods can the whole people win a long game.
Driven by profit, many small traders around Qili County went to great lengths to pay taxes and pass through Suijinguan to "adventure" to go to the grassland.
The Bahrain tribe was also building houses, and merchants from the Wu Dynasty brought all kinds of building materials in bullock carts and made a lot of money.
In a short period of time, Bahrain tribesmen came and went, turning it into a small market town.
Even the herdsmen from Shitanbao, two days away, came to exchange the herbs and dried mushrooms they picked on the grassland in summer for the supplies they needed.
Paulin Curie is also very busy.
The betrothal gift from the Wuda tribe has been sent, and it is Elder Shan and Wu Dan who are welcoming the bride.
Elder Shan is no stranger to Wu Dynasty. After all, he is an old man who has lived with the Zhenbei Army for twenty years. He speaks Wu Dynasty fluently.
Only Wu Dan came to the city of Wu Dynasty for the first time. Looking at the crowded market with people coming and going, he felt strange and shy at the same time, which was very strange.
So, he was taken to Qili County by Xiao An, and he ran wildly in the crowd with Dahua Dazhu and others.
Song Zhenping also returned to Ruijin Town.
When Aunt Xu arrived at Baolinju, Song Liyun sent him a letter telling him about the "dowry" she had received for free.
Originally, he wanted to make Song Zhenping feel at ease, knowing that his sister was cared about by her "law-in-laws", but she didn't expect that Song Zhenping immediately left his pregnant wife and rushed to meet her.
Although in Xiaoshi Village, Song Liyun asked him to take good care of Yang Hua and not go to Suijin Town to get married.
But how could Song Zhenping agree? Xiaoyun was his only sister. Without Xiaoyun, he and Xiaoan would still be struggling to survive.
My sister got married and moved to the grassland. The world is far away and it is difficult to see her again.
Even if Xiaoyun said that he would often return to Ruijin Town to take care of business, the nature of it was different.
She will be the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, no longer simply a daughter of the Song family. She will be hampered in everything she says and does, and she will not be as free as she is now.