Mr. Hong sent Li Wenliang away, stayed for a while, and then slapped his hand on the coffee table.
He is still careless!
The Yueyang Preserved Egg Shop has just opened, and the first person who came to place an order was the manager of Wangfu Biye!
He should have thought that the fourth sister of the Li family and the prince must have exchanged more than a few words!
He thought of it at the time, but he was careless!
He still looked down upon the Li family!
The etiquette of the marriage between Aye and Yinzhu was too rough.
Mr. Hong slapped him again.
He is really old and confused. He only thinks about benefits. His old eyes value money too much!
Until now, Aye and Yinzhu have been discussing the marriage, but there has been no decent etiquette, from posting to hiring...
There's still room!
"Hurry up and ask the master to come over, hurry up!"
Mr. Hong slapped the table and roared.
"And your eldest wife! As for Lao Liu, quickly pick someone to go to Pingjiang City, ask the second old man to come back, and tell him to come back immediately! The sooner the better, you must get home before dawn tomorrow!
"Choose a few more people, go to Linhai Town, call the second master back, and ask him to get home before dark. Go quickly!"
The servants all over the yard were so frightened that Mr. Hong shouted at them that they ran away.
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Not long after Li Wenliang arrived home, Hong Zhenye's father, Mr. Hong, arrived at Lijiaji on horseback, sweating all over.
Li Shikuan, Li Wenliang and others are all in the ancestral hall, and are rearranging manpower with the clan elders and heads of several families in the clan to deal with the large number of people who have already arrived.
Master Hong entered Lijiaji, rode on his horse, raised his voice and asked, and went straight to the ancestral hall.
Li Wenliang saw Mr. Hong first and hurriedly stood up to greet him.
"No, no, no, it's best to say it here, and it's best if everyone is here." Mr. Hong pulled out the handkerchief, wiped the sweat one by one, with a dry smile on his face.
"Have a cup of tea first. No matter how anxious you are, don't rush now." Li Shikuan gestured to Mr. Hong to sit on the chair Li Wenliang had just given up.
Li Wenru hurriedly poured a cup of tea and sent it to Mr. Hong, then put the pot over.
Mr. Hong drank a cup of tea, picked up the pot, poured another cup and drank. He looked at Li Shikuan and smiled dryly: "Dad asked me to come over quickly. It's no big deal, just a little thing.
"My father said, although the Yinzhu siblings lost their parents, they lost their parents, but the etiquette must not be simplified.
"What dad means, that..." Mr. Hong spoke with his tongue and front teeth, "Well, the day after tomorrow is auspicious, and my second uncle will come over to give you a gift the day after tomorrow. No matter what, the betrothal gift must not be less, uncle Shi, don't you think so?
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"It's a good day, good luck. I'm telling the old man now, it's really, ha! Haha! Isn't it, it's a good day.
"Second uncle will set off from my house early the day after tomorrow. Around noon, he will be able to meet at our Li's house.
"Well, I won't bother you anymore, see you later!"
After Mr. Hong finished speaking, he quickly stood up, cupped his hands and ran out.
Li Wenliang's eyes widened. Li Wenru pointed at Mr. Hong, who was running around very fast, with a strange look on his face. Li Wenhua stretched his head in front of Li Wenliang and wondered: "Didn't the betrothal gift already be given? How come it is still given? Is his old man confused?
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"This old guy!" Li Shikuan slapped his hand on the table.
"If this is the next betrothal gift, do we have to formally select auspicious dates? We are only a few days away from welcoming the bride!" the clan elder next to Li Shikuan asked with a glare.
"Not only this, I'm afraid that the makeup reminder, personal welcome items and honor guards that were originally agreed upon will have to be doubled!" Li Wenliang said with a wry smile.
"I'm afraid it will more than double." Li Wenru curled his lips and continued.
Everyone in the circle stopped talking. You looked at me, and I looked at you.
According to the etiquette of their Pingjiang Prefecture, the man has a betrothal gift, and the woman’s family has a dowry. The man uses gold clothes, pearls, and emerald crowns to make up the dowry, but the woman’s family has to go back to the gold and jade study room to have colorful satin and jade pendants. This is not only the manpower, but also the real money.
Gold and silver!
"The Hong family is very rich." Li Wenliang frowned.
"Our Li family is not poor either!" Li Shikuan's cousin Li Shiji slapped the table, "I'll get some silver beads for you!"
"The discussion hasn't started yet, why are you in such a hurry!" The Manchu family man next to Li Shiji gave Li Shiji a sideways glance, "This is a matter for all of us, how can we let your Wangzi family make money! Brother Kuan
We have already paid a sum of money, we can’t make another payment!”
"The silver beads belong to our Shengzifang. We have to pay for the money. We can afford it, so it's just this little money, isn't it!" Li Wen'an, the new head of Shengzifang, expressed his position hurriedly.
"That's right, Fengsheng doesn't separate families, so let's have two families." Li Wenqing, the head of Fengzifang, quickly answered.
"Our Li family is one family, why should you share a room with us?"
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"Let's do this." Li Shikuan raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, "My cousin is right what he said just now. The Hong family has a strong family background, and our Li family is not weak either. But," Li Shikuan paused and looked at everyone one by one. "
If word gets out that Yinzhu’s dowry was put together by the Li family with all the efforts of the entire family, that would be bad, wouldn’t it?”
"We can't let outsiders gossip! I think our family should be the only ones. There can't be too many, because people talk too much!"
"Yes, yes! That's what I mean too!"
"Uncle Kuan is right!"
"Yes, yes, everyone, please keep your mouth shut!"
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The people in the circle quickly expressed their position that they would pay for the money, and there was no need for the clan to collect it from house to house.
"That's it, let A Liang make a general estimate first, and each family will have a general understanding first, and have an idea in mind." Li Shikuan said with a smile: "When this happy event is completed, how much money and things each family will give, let's list it.
A list comes out and everyone has read it. I will send it to our scholar. The scholar must know about this.
"As for the outside world, let's talk about it: the expenses for Yinzhu's wedding were all paid by the scholar's family."
Everyone hurriedly agreed, smiling happily and saying that this was the best.
They provide money and effort, as long as Mr. Xiucai... and his sister know about it, no one else needs to know!
The already negotiated manpower allocation was all overturned. Li Wenliang and Li Wenru were writing down plans at the small table next to them. According to the Pingjiang Mansion's upper-class betrothal gift, application period and makeup requirements, they budgeted what they should return and what they needed.
How much silver is needed?
The rest of the people got together to readjust the allocation of manpower and discuss whether they should go to Yahang in Pingjiang City to invite people back. There were not enough young men in their clan.
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Before Li Jinzhu could interrogate Li Xiaonan, he was called out together with Li Yuzhu and Li Yinzhu.
Li Xiaonan, A Wu, and Wang Yuting were sitting in the yard talking.
"You guys came from Linhai Town?" Li Xiaonan took the dim sum plate from Sister Mei and filled the table.
"I went to Wangfu to leave my business first. I said I was leaving and chased after me all the way." Wang Yuting was still embarrassed.
A Wu stretched his head and looked at the snacks on the table, picked out a piece of crispy rice candy and handed it to Wang Yuting.
Her cousin likes to eat crispy rice candies the most.
"Are you okay over there? No one is giving you a hard time, right?" Li Xiaonan asked tentatively.
"Okay!" Ah Wu said the word "good" happily and proudly, then frowned and showed a troubled look, "I'm just worried, too worried!"
Li Xiaonan glanced sideways at Awu, who was shaking with pride.
"Those two horses of yours are pretty good." Li Xiaonan changed the topic.
Awu's frowned eyebrows were raised. She was ready, waiting for Li Xiaonan to ask her why she was worried, but she was stunned by Li Xiaonan's divergent words.
"Of course! One hundred and twenty taels of silver!" Wang Yuting pursed his lips and smiled, "The prince rewarded him with one hundred taels, and shopkeeper He Da gave him fifty taels, and they all went to buy horses."
Li Xiaonan trailed off and said oh.
Her divergent words were reversed!
"Guess why the Crown Prince rewarded me with a hundred taels of silver!" Awu stretched out her head, and without even waiting for Li Xiaonan to answer, she began to talk happily about how she discovered something was wrong with the silk on those boats.
Li Xiaonan held her chin, looking at A Wu who was extremely excited about the talk and kept tapping his feet on the table, and Wang Yuting who smiled like a flower and added a sentence or two from time to time.
Alas, that prince’s judgment of people is very bad. For someone like Wang Yuting, who is obviously the same as A Wu, how can she have any evil intentions!
