Li Zhi showed off Fanjiazhuang in front of Cui He, which made Cui He admire him very much, so he was going to Cui's house to propose marriage. On a good day, Li Zhi came to Cui's house with a gift worth one hundred taels and paid a visit.
Cui Wending, the head of the Cui family.
Cui Wending was Li Zhi's old customer and made a lot of money from Li Zhi's soap. He saw Li Zhi coming with heavy gifts. Although he didn't know why Li Zhi came, he was very happy. He was talking to Li Zhi in the main hall.
Li Zhi sat down separately as guest and host, and started chatting all over the world.
After saying a few words, Cui Wending asked his servant to call his son and introduce him to Li Zhi.
"Li Zhi, Cui He's younger brother Cui Changwu is seventeen years old this year and has become an adult. He passed the Tongsheng test this year!" At this point, Cui Wending paused, as if he was very proud that his son had passed the Tongsheng test at such a young age, and then said
: "He has grown up playing with you, so you should take more care of him in the future!"
Cui Changwu was very handsome, with big eyes, and looked a bit like his sister Cui He. When he saw Li Zhi wearing a fifth-grade military attaché uniform, he was a little nervous and wanted to prostrate himself to the ground. Li Zhi quickly went up to help him, he was so
Then he relaxed, stood in front of his father, bowed to Li Zhi, and said loudly: "Hello, brother Li Zhi!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Hello, brother Wu, long time no see!"
Cui Changwu shook his head, cupped his hands and said, "Brother Li Zhi is now an official for the emperor, and we don't dare to disturb him at will!"
Li Zhi smiled and did not answer. Cui Changwu sat at the second table and listened to his father and Li Zhi talking.
Cui Wending glanced at his son with satisfaction and said to Li Zhi: "Li Zhi, to be honest with you, more and more people know the benefits of soap now, and there is demand in every prefecture and county in Gyeonggi. I am going to sell soap
Take it to these prefectures and counties. So..." Cui Wending stroked his beard and said, "So this 50,000 yuan per month is really not enough! Li Zhi, could you spread some more soap for me?
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The market demand for soap is so huge that ordinary people can afford it at a price of twenty cents or more than twenty cents a piece, so it has always been in short supply and it is an absolute seller's market.
Not only soap, but also Li Zhi's fine cloth and cement are in short supply, and demand exceeds supply. Li Zhi did not expand production capacity because he was afraid that there would be too many products at once, which would impact the existing interest structure of the market. And if Li Zhi produces a single type of goods in Tianjin
If there are too many, raw material procurement will also be a problem.
Nowadays, being able to sell the goods of the Li family is not considered a skill, but being able to buy goods with Li Zhi is considered a hero.
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Then I will add another 50,000 pieces of soap every month, but the price for you will rise to eighteen cents per piece."
Cui Wending was inexplicably excited when he heard this. He slapped his thigh and said, "Okay! You are worthy of being a disciple of my Jingbianfang. It's so refreshing! Eighteen essays are eighteen essays!"
Cui Wending sells soap in the capital for 25 cents a piece. If Li Zhi gives him an extra 50,000 yuan, he can earn more than 300 taels a month. Although the original purchase price of 50,000 pieces of soap will rise to 18 cents,
He only earned fifty taels less than Shi Qiwen. Now Cui Wending can earn more than 600 taels a month from Li Zhi's soap. The profit is at least 7,000 taels a year, which is much more than his spice business.
. He has received so many benefits, so naturally he doesn’t care about the loss of fifty taels per month.
Thinking of future profits, he became more and more pleased with Li Zhi.
Seeing that Cui Wending was in a good mood, Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "Ms. Cui, I'm here to ask a question today!"
Only then did Cui Wending put away his smile. Thinking of the heavy gift worth one hundred taels that Li Zhi brought today, he asked seriously: "What's the matter? But there's no harm in talking!"
Li Zhi raised his hands and asked, "I wonder if Cui Hehe is engaged?"
Cui Wending was stunned when he heard this, but he immediately understood what Li Zhi meant. He thought about it and laughed. He looked at each other with his youngest son very proudly, straightened his clothes, and stroked his beard.
Xu said: "Not yet!"
Li Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this and was about to speak when he saw Cui Wending raising his right hand and saying, "Stop! You can't say anything. Let the matchmaker speak if you have something to say!"
Cui He, who was eavesdropping behind the hall wall, burst into laughter when she heard this. She quickly covered her mouth after laughing, fearing that her laughter would be heard by the people in the hall, so she lowered her head and ran into the backyard.
When Li Zhi heard Cui Wending's words, he felt even happier, knowing that Cui Wending had agreed to the marriage. However, these days, he couldn't go to the house to propose marriage. These days, parents pay much attention to the order of the matchmaker, and they have to hire a matchmaker! Cui Wending loved Cui very much.
Together, it is natural to decide on the etiquette when it comes to your daughter’s marriage, and it is clear that the matchmaker is marrying the right person!
After hearing this, Li Zhi said goodbye and left the Cui family to find a matchmaker.
The next day, Li Zhi invited a matchmaker to Cui Wending's house to talk about matchmaking.
The matchmaker was Sister-in-law Qin from Jingbianfang. She had watched Li Zhi and Cui He grow up, and she had always been famous in Jingbianfang for her eloquence. Li Zhi gave her five taels of silver, and she happily helped Li Zhi get started.
When Mrs. Qin arrived at Cui He's house and talked about the marriage between Li Zhi and Cui He, Cui Wending agreed on the spot. Moreover, he invited a matchmaker to serve as the matchmaker of the Cui family and the matchmaker of the Li family. Cui Wending loved Cui He very much and wanted to marry his daughter at this time.
, putting on a posture of trying to do the most complicated etiquette.
Li Zhi was very happy to hear that Cui Wending had officially agreed to the marriage. With a beauty like Cui He and Li Zhi's childhood sweetheart, how could Li Zhi not marry her?
However, once this matter was settled, Li Zhi had to meet two matchmakers at Fanjiazhuang every day, answer various questions, and discuss various etiquettes, which was even busier than managing the territory.
Marriage in the Ming Dynasty required three rituals. The first step was to "receive the gift." Li Zhi sent Cui He a wooden comb, two knots of hair rope, and several feet of shoe cloth through the hands of a matchmaker. Cui He responded through a matchmaker with a pair of handmade wax
Cloth shoes and a handkerchief.
The second step is to accept the levy. Li Zhi wants to send a betrothal gift to the Cui family. Li Zhi really likes Cui He and generously sent a betrothal gift of one thousand taels of silver to the Cui family. In addition, there are more than a dozen sets of silk and satin clothes from the girls' families.
, which includes a set of white and purple and a set of bright red skirts. Finally, there is also a set of gold hairpins and earrings.
The Cui family was very satisfied with Li Zhi's betrothal gift and responded with a needlework red gift.
After completing the above two steps, Li Zhi and Cui Wending used a matchmaker to choose an auspicious day. Both parties chose the day on February 13th, which was an auspicious day.
On February 12, the day before the auspicious wedding day, Cui He's family sent the dowry to Li Zhi's deputy Qianhu official hall and began to "lay out the dowry." In front of Li Zhi, the maids of Cui He's family opened all the boxes.
To "open the box and make a fortune".
Cui Xianggong always loved Cui He, and the dowry he made for Cui He was very heavy, costing eight to nine hundred taels of silver. It included all kinds of daily necessities: including sets of gold bracelets, gold necklaces, basins, buckets, bedding, and boxes.
, clothes and so on, there is a dazzling array. There is also a pair of red lacquered chopsticks, which means "have a baby quickly". The bride's new shoes made by Cui He are put into the groom's shoes, which means harmony until old age.
The last of the three rites is to welcome the bride.
On February 13th, Li Zhi hired three drum troupes, riding his own Wusun BMW, beating gongs and drums all the way from Fanjiazhuang to Aicheng, and carried the eight-carat sedan to the door of Cui's house in Jingbianfang.
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Seeing Li Zhi's impressive team, all the neighbors in Jingbianfang crowded to the door of Cui's house to watch the fun.
"What a grand scene! Cui He is finally married to Li Zhi!"
"Cui He is the most beautiful girl in our house, and she is getting married today!"
"If you don't marry Li Zhi, who will you marry? Now Li Zhi is the defense attache of Fanjiazhuang, from the fifth rank!"
"There is no child in our Jingbianfang who is more promising than Li Zhi!"
In the courtyard of the Cui family, Cui He's three aunts and six sisters-in-law gathered in front of the main hall and burst into tears.
Cui He wore a red hijab and walked out of the yard with the support of the bridesmaid and stepped into the sedan. Infected by her relatives, she also cried like a tear, and the tears flowed to her chin under the hijab.
Li Zhi welcomed the sobbing Cui He into the sedan chair, and on the horse held up his hands and said to the neighbors: "Dear neighbors, today I will serve wine at the Fanjiazhuang official hall and the Li family yard in Jingbianfang at the same time. If you are free, please show me your face. Come to Li's house
Let’s have a wedding drink in the courtyard! Don’t bring gifts when you come to drink. Come empty-handed just to give me, Li Zhi, face!”
When the neighbors heard that there was wedding wine, they all sang:
"It's easy to say, you have to drink Brother Zhi's wine!"
"Brother Zhi, then I'll go drink with nothing!"
"I'm free, let's go drink tonight!"
After Li Zhi said this, he said loudly, "Get up the sedan!"
The large wedding sedan carried by eight people was carried up and walked in the long queue to welcome the bride, heading to Fanjiazhuang.
When we arrived at Fanjiazhuang, there were two more drum groups playing gongs and drums in front of the official hall, which was even more lively.
The sedan stopped in front of the official lobby. It was already evening. The courtyard in front of the lobby was already full of guests. They were all management officials of Li Zhi Industry, as well as suppliers and distributors of various industries. Everyone was drinking.
The Li family's wedding wine witnessed Li Zhi's big day. Not only did they have wine to drink, even the ordinary workers and servants of Li Zhi's family who were not qualified to sit at the banquet also had extra food and wine in the canteen today!
Li Zhi jumped off the Wusun BMW, walked into the lobby with Cui He, and began to worship. First, he worshiped the heaven and earth, and secondly, he worshiped the ancestor's tablet, his late father's tablet and his mother Zheng's, and then the couple worshiped each other.
After the two of them paid their respects, there was a roar of applause from the drinking crowd.
After completing all these rituals, Li Zhi took Cui He and walked into the main room in the third courtyard, which was Li Zhi's wedding room.
After a busy day, he finally married a beauty, and Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Li Zhi lifted Cui He's red hijab in the bridal chamber and saw that there were two dried tears on Cui He's face, and his face was as red as two ripe apples.
Li Zhi smiled and said, "My lady is so beautiful when she blushes."
When Cui He heard this, he laughed happily, blinked his eyes and said, "My husband is making fun of me again!"
When Li Zhi heard Cui He calling him husband, he felt a little happy all over. He held Cui He's face and kissed him. Cui He's whole body was tense, and he froze and didn't dare to move. He just let Li Zhi kiss. Li Zhi smiled.
, pushed Cui He on the bed, and spent the whole night being affectionate, needless to say.
Thank you uncle for the 500 reward, thank you. Thanks to s233 for the 200 reward, and the cockroach rat for the 100 reward.
