Allure of a Country Maiden

On the day Xu Wenhui got married, Ms. Liu invited the whole village to her house for a feast!

The girl whom Mrs. Liu recognizes and the people from Mrs. Liu’s natal family naturally came. They treated it as if they were marrying their daughter again, but they just went out at Liu's house.

Xu Wenhui was so moved that she felt confused, and secretly swore in her heart that she would treat them as her own mothers and sisters to honor them from now on.

Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Liu's natal family prepared the dowry for Xu Wenhui Mingming together: wooden furniture including an oak bed, various tables, chests with nanmu tops, standing cabinets, kang cabinets, and two camphor wood boxes (contained inside Quilts, sheets, clothes for all seasons), jewelry boxes, money boxes, dressing tables, Kang tables, copper basin stands, etc.

These furniture are all produced by furniture shops. The styles and carvings are very exquisite. They are simple yet simple, and elegant yet noble!

Many people praised these furniture and said that their daughters would order something like this when they got married!

These furniture were all prepared as dowry by Liu's natal family.

Mrs. Liu prepared all kinds of porcelain: vases, tableware, tea sets, jars, etc.!

Gold and silver jewelry: a string of pearl bracelets, a set of gold-tipped noodle sets, and a set of silver-tipped noodle sets.

Ornaments: a Kang screen that brings joy to the eyes, and a hanging screen for Guanyin to send her children.

Four pieces of bedding, clothes for all seasons, shoes and socks, two pieces of fine silk, two pieces of brocade, and two pieces of fine cotton.

There are also various daily necessities, basins, wooden basins, copper basins, wooden barrels, etc.

Privately, Mrs. Liu also gave her twenty taels of silver from the bottom of the box and a pair of high-quality, emerald green, round, and transparent jadeite bracelets. Xiaoer bought this jade bracelet and raised it in the space!

This kind of stuff, if bought in a shop, would definitely cost no less than a hundred taels.

Xu Wenhui's dowry, plus the betrothal gift, totaled twelve loads.

Many people don't understand why Ms. Liu is so nice to this girl who has recognized her as a relative. Although many large items were prepared by Ms. Liu's family, they were not prepared because of Ms. Liu!

It was only after seeing Xu Wenhui's embroidery work that Mrs. Liu realized that she was Jingrui's savior.

Jingrui was playing by the river when he was a child. He slipped and fell into the river and was rescued. When Shen Chengyao ran to find someone, he only saw a woman's figure disappearing into the woods.

The river at that time was actually not deep and the current was not fast, but it was still fatal to a three-year-old child.

He was worried when he saw Jingrui lying motionless by the river. Besides, there were too many women of the same age in the village, so he didn't recognize who it was!

The woman's clothes were probably wet, so she ran away when she saw Shen Chengyao running towards her.

Later, Jingrui woke up and said that he accidentally fell into the river and saw a sister who came to the river to rescue him. However, he was already unconscious when he was rescued ashore, and he could not tell who the sister was. At that time, he He was only over three years old, and he met the person after he fell into the river, so it was normal for him not to be able to tell who he was.

However, he tore off the woman's sachet in his hand. Later, Mrs. Liu took the sachet and asked many other women, and they all said that it was not hers. At that time, Xu Wenhui got married not long after, and generally women before getting married Most of them would stay at home and embroider their dowry, but she didn't expect it to be her.

Later, after I recognized her as a relative, I came into contact with her frequently because of the doll-making business. I went to her house and saw her half-embroidered purse. I felt familiar and took the sachet to ask, and I confirmed that it was her.

Mrs. Liu felt that Xu Wenhui's previous marriage and childlessness were all due to the fact that she fell into the water and caught the cold while saving Jingrui that year.

For this reason, I specially took her to Dr. Luo to have her pulse checked, and she was relieved when she heard that she was fine.

Mrs. Liu and Shen Chengyao are both people who know how to repay their kindness. After knowing this, they still didn't prepare the dowry generously. If they weren't worried about giving too much, something would happen to Mrs. Shen Zhuang. They wanted to give more!

But there are some things that won't happen if you don't worry about them and deliberately accommodate them.

After sending off the bride, the villagers all finished their meal.

Shen Chengyao and Mrs. Liu were called to the old house to go to bed. Before they had time to say hello, Mrs. Shen Zhuang asked directly: "How much dowry have you prepared for that Sangmenxing?"

"It's not much. Those betrothal gifts take up a lot of space."

"Bah, who are you lying to? Not much! Those cabinets alone are a lot. I have never seen a girl in the village whose dowry can match hers! As for that Sangmenxing, she still got married later. , she deserves it too!”

"Those cabinets were prepared by my parents' side! It's none of our business!"

"Fart! It was prepared by your mother's family! Doesn't my son have a share in that furniture store? Take my son's things and say they belong to your mother's family! I tell you, if you want to take my Shen family's things to your mother's family, don't even think about it. think!"

"I don't. I haven't been back to my parents' home for so many years. Even when visiting relatives every year, I haven't given a single annual gift. You know this, mother!" Mr. Liu's face turned pale. This slander was serious.

In this day and age, if a woman is accused of taking her husband's property back to her parents' home, she will be forcibly divorced by her clan!

"Mom, my mother is not like this."

"What do you mean by that? Who stopped you from replying? Do you still blame me if you don't reply?" After hearing this, Mrs. Shen Zhuang became angry.

"I didn't mean that." She had all the money in her hands and didn't give her anything. Every time she mentioned it, her nose was not a nose and her eyes were not eyes. She even forced her children to work. How dare she reply!

"You don't mean that, then who can show you the bitter and resentful look on your face! Those who don't know think I'm bullying you! You duplicitous bitch! Forget it, I won't argue with you about this matter today. I called you here because of Yuzhu’s dowry. Tell me how much dowry you have prepared for Yuzhu!”

"Is Yuzhu engaged?" Shen Chengyao felt strange.

"Can't you prepare a dowry without an engagement? Who's daughter doesn't start saving a dowry as soon as she is born! You have even prepared twelve dowries for outsiders, so your own sister must prepare eighteen dowries no matter what!"

"Third brother, my dowry cabinet, bed, cages, Kang table, stools and other furniture must be made of huanghuali, which is the wood of the furniture in your main room!" She had heard from her eldest brother that huanghuali Wood is so valuable! Some huanghuali wood furniture is worth thousands of dollars.

"When the time comes, Third Brother will make a set of exquisite and elegant furniture for you as a dowry."

Shen Chengyao did not agree to use huanghuali wood to make it. There is not much of this wood left in the shop now. Even if it is available, customers will order it, and this wood is not available if they want to buy it. There are very few good huanghuali trees on the market. I just heard from my uncle recently that a customer has ordered two sets of furniture. The goods will not be received until the end of next year. They requested that they be made of huanghuali wood. Now I am looking for this wood everywhere!

It's really impossible to make a complete set of huanghuali wood, but one or two pieces should be able to do it in time, Shen Chengyao thought. After all, she is his biological sister and he will not miss her.

"I also want ten sets of red gold headscarves, twenty sets of silver headscarves, ten pairs of gold bracelets, 100 taels of gold, pearls, precious stones, no less than ten pieces of each kind of silk, brocade, and cloud damask, and 50 taels of fertile land. Mu, there is one shop in the county, I will prepare these for now, and I will add more later if I feel it is missing."

Shen Chengyao's face turned dark when he heard that. What did he take him for? If you feel it is missing, add more! Is this his biological sister? Does anyone regard him as his brother? This is to take yourself as the biggest victim!

Mrs. Liu also looked at this sister-in-law in disbelief. Although her family has become rich, it is not that the wealth of the Wan Guan family is endless. What's more, most of this money is earned by children! She has so many children, she must leave some for them!