my grandmother

Li Xiaonan's dowry only needs to be prepared according to Jiangnan's rules. Even with Jingle City's exquisiteness, there is nothing to prepare for this dowry. In a day and a half, Li Shikuan, Mr. Hong, He Chengze and the general manager of the palace, Mr. Hong, discussed the dowry.

Li Shikuan looked at the thin dowry list in the middle of the night. Early the next morning, he went to Hong's house with the dowry list in hand.

Mr. Hong let Li Shikuan in, looked at the dowry list that Li Shikuan slapped on the table, with a clear look on his face, and said with a wry smile: "I'm thinking about this too, it's too meager, not as good as her third sister. This dowry needs to be decent." Difficult, it’s not that your Li family doesn’t have money, I also want to add some money, but if I arrange the dowry in a decent manner, can grandma nod her head? Where is her eldest sister? "

Li Shikuan frowned. The problem was that Grandma and her eldest sister refused to nod. Grandma was okay, but it was too difficult to get her eldest sister to nod.

"You must know the difficulty better than I do. What are your plans?" Mr. Hong looked at Li Shikuan and asked.

"I just came to discuss this with you." Li Shikuan sighed.

"Grandma and her sisters all have very right ideas. It's difficult!" Mr. Hong sighed.

"It seems that the prince also nodded." Li Shikuan said.

"Let's not talk about this. After the New Year, I plan to let Yinzhu and Aye take their children to Jiale City, and they will live in Jiale City permanently from now on." Mr. Hong changed the subject, "What are your plans here? ?”

"What about Aye's father?" Li Shikuan asked.

"Stay in Jiangle City too. Aye can't survive alone." Mr. Hong replied.

"I asked Jin Zhu, and Jin Zhu said that Grandma had said that her brother would not be allowed to go to Jiale City. I also checked Mr. Gao's words, and Mr. Gao never thought of letting Xuedong move to Jiale City. So Jiale City On the other side of the city, I plan to let the boss and his family move there to live there."

"Your boss is a safe man. If this is the case, Aye and his father will be much better off with your boss helping out in Jiangle City." Mr. Hong said with a smile.

"I heard that Hong Xiucai wants to move to Jiale City?" Li Shikuan looked at Mr. Hong.

Mr. Hong's face darkened, "As I get older, my delusions start to creep up again, what's the matter of spring and autumn! Aye wants to be a boy, but he doesn't even spit out silver beads, hum!" Mr. Hong snorted angrily. .

"It's so troublesome!" Li Shikuan thought about the large family blocking the courtyard of Jinzhu's house, and suddenly felt that the dowry was not a big deal. There were many big things that really worried him.

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In late July, the college examinations in Hangcheng ended. The admission list was posted in the early morning and delivered to Li Xiaonan in the afternoon.

The person who sent the list was the steward of the palace. Li Xiaonan only asked where the list was copied from. The steward said that it was copied after it was posted, and she didn't ask any more questions.

Ni Rushi's name ranks seventh.

Li Xiaonan picked up the thick envelope underneath the list. Inside were the transcripts of all Ni Rushi's examination papers and the comments from the graders.

Li Xiaonan slowly read all the test papers, put them together, lost consciousness for a while, called into the rain pavilion, and asked her to go to the eldest sister and tell her: Ni Rushi ranked seventh in the exam.

Yu Ting didn't know what was going on, but under Wan Qing's advice, Yu Ting had learned to just be obedient and do things, not to meddle in other people's business, and hurried out and went to find Li Jinzhu on horseback.

Li Jinzhu is busy with fine cloth, so he may not be at home, but he must look for it.

Watching Yuting go out, Li Xiaonan picked up the cattail leaf fan from Yuting and shook it, thinking about Ni Rushi. She wondered if Wei Xuezheng knew about Ni Rushi. If he wanted to know, he could only know it from Ni Rushi. Not so good.

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Hangcheng.

In an inn not far from Gongyuan, Mr. Shao stood at the door of the inn's small courtyard, looking at Ni Rushi, who looked exceptionally handsome and outstanding in a green shirt, and several others of the same age said goodbye and entered the inn.

The innkeeper and several waiters greeted Ni Rushi with long bows and congratulations. The guests in the inn also stood up one after another and raised their voices to congratulate. Ni Rushi smiled and returned the gift, then retreated all the way to the entrance of the small courtyard. He turned around and saw Mr. Shao. , hurriedly bowed down.

"How dare you?" Mr. Shao stepped forward and helped Ni Rushi up.

"This green shirt..." Ni Rushi tugged at his sleeves and felt a lump in his throat.

"This is just the beginning." Mr. Shao pushed Ni Rushi into the house.

"Yes." Ni Rushi calmed down his excitement.

"That's the invitation sent today. I've already taken it upon myself to return it for you. We have to rush back to Pingjiang City." Mr. Shao patted Ni Rushi and said business directly to divert Ni Rushi's excitement.

"Yeah." Ni Rushi carefully took off the green shirt. "Ask for marriage when you get back?" "Before you ask for marriage, you have to go see the old man of the Li family. It's best to go to the old man Hong. There is also the fourth lady, you have to go and see her too. We have to discuss the order." Mr. Shao watched Ni Rushi folding his green shirt.

"Where's Madam?" Ni Rushi sat next to Mr. Shao.

"When I meet the eldest lady, I will ask for her hand in marriage." Mr. Shao replied, "What I mean is to go and ask the fourth lady first. What do you think?"

Ni Rushi was silent for a moment, "I think it's better to meet Mr. Li first, who is more of an elder, and to meet the Fourth Lady first, it seems..."

Ni Rushi didn't say anything else, as he seemed to be too snobbish. When he was attracted by Li Yuzhu's marriage, all he thought about was his future. He knew what he was thinking about, so he was particularly taboo about thinking too much about him. Nakedness revealed.

"You are still thoughtful." Mr. Shao looked at Ni Rushi with admiration, "In this case, let's go to see Mr. Hong first and ask for advice on asking for marriage. I also ask Mr. Hong for advice on whether to go to see the Fourth Lady or Li first. Old man."

"Yeah." Ni Rushi nodded.

Mr. Shao hired a speedboat and set off before dawn the next day. In the evening, the speedboat docked at Pingjiang City Pier. Mr. Shao accompanied Ni Rushi to the Hong family to ask for Mr. Hong.

Mr. Hong warmly entertained Ni Rushi and directly suggested that Ni Rushi go directly to Li Jinzhu to propose marriage. Li Jinzhu nodded. He was willing to be the matchmaker and officially come to propose marriage for Ni Rushi.

After sending Ni Rushi away, Li Jinzhu stayed for a long time and went to Hejiabieye to find Li Xiaonan.

Wan Qing brought two small chairs over, and Li Xiaonan and Li Jinzhu sat on the porch and talked.

There was an ice mirror in the room. Li Jinzhu felt that although the weather was hot, it was not too hot to bear. Using the ice mirror was too much, so Li Xiaonan accompanied her to the corridor to talk.

"Ni Dalang came here today and said he wanted to marry your second sister." Li Jinzhu looked worried, "Ni Dalang is wearing new clothes today, a moon-white silk shirt. He is very beautiful. Your second sister is not worthy of him. My sister looks to be four or five years older than him, so she is not a good match. His proposal of marriage is for the prince and the palace."

"Can the second elder sister choose someone who only likes the second elder sister and admires the second elder sister, and doesn't look at the palace at all?" Li Xiaonan asked.

Li Jinzhu smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"No matter who you discuss marriage with, the first thing people look at is the palace." After a pause, Li Xiaonan continued: "At this moment, in Pingjiang City, the second sister is interested in, no matter which house, I'm afraid it's all mentioned That’s it, even if that person doesn’t want to, his family and clan will have to force him to nod without even looking at Second Sister.”

Li Jinzhu stayed for a moment and sighed.

"In this case, there is nothing wrong with Ni Rushi. At least the second sister likes him. The third sister married into the Hong family not because the third brother-in-law liked the third sister." Li Xiaonan looked at her eldest sister.

Li Jinzhu sighed, "The Hong family... Ni Dalang is not the same as your third brother-in-law."

"Ni Rushi is good at writing and learning. He can be a Jinshi. He is good-looking, smart, and ambitious. But even if he becomes the Minister of Science and the Prime Minister one day, the palace will be able to suppress him."

These are Gu Yan's words.

Li Jinzhu stayed for a while, "Ah, we are not discussing marriage, but doing business."

"In the past, when we were poor, marriage discussions were based on how many acres of land the man's family had, how many strong laborers he had, how many brothers he had, whether he had cattle, and how much dowry the woman's family could give. We had to fight over a few big betrothal gifts and dowries. Yes, isn’t it also for business?” Li Xiaonan said with a smile.

"When my father proposed marriage to me, he asked me if I liked anyone." Li Jinzhu said in a low voice.

"Second sister has taken a liking to Ni Rushi." Li Xiaonan said.

"Well, I'll go back and ask your second sister, she nodded, then this is the marriage. Grandma, if we decide on this marriage, from now on, your second sister and third sister will all have pressure on you. It's on me." Li Jinzhu took a fancy to Li Xiaonan.

"Tang Wengweng said that the entire Li family is looking at me." Li Xiaonan said with a smile.

Li Jinzhu wanted to laugh, but almost burst into tears.

"It's supposed to be a great joy, but I always..." Li Jinzhu hurriedly wiped away his tears.

"Sister, please relax!" Li Xiaonan imitated Li Shikuan's tone and patted the eldest sister on the shoulder.

Li Jinzhu laughed, "Okay, then I'll go back. You used too much ice in that room, and it's too cold."

"Okay." Li Xiaonan agreed, stood up and sent the eldest sister out. (End of chapter)