Mingmen Family

Chapter 284 The Dowry
Ye Yaming breathed a sigh of relief.

This crying marriage is really more tiring than negotiating with people in the mall.

Xi Niang, the man, came to support Ye Yaming, followed Zhou on the left and on the right, leading her to go out.When he reached the door, Ye Jiaxing was waiting there, and walked out with Ye Yaming on his back.

Ye Yaming covered her head, and her five senses became insensitive as if covered.

All she knew was that Ye Jiaxing carried her from the inner door to the outer door, surrounded by the voices of relatives and clan members of the Ye family, as well as strangers, and those strangers were probably from Ye Ruhui and Ye Yaxiu's husband's family.

With the sound of festive music and firecrackers, she was put into the sedan chair.Lu Guanyi's voice came from outside the sedan chair, and there were bursts of booing.

After a while, when the sound of gongs, drums and suona increased again, the sedan chair was lifted up and slowly walked out of the alley.

The bulky furniture was placed in the new house, but the rest of the dowry had to be walked around the street with the bride before being sent to Lu's house.

Ye Yaming covered her head and couldn't hear the voices of passers-by outside clearly. Occasionally, she could only hear exclamations and words like "I didn't see clearly" and "Why are you posing like this?"

Ye Yaming could probably guess what they were surprised about.

Ye Yaming's dowry included a lot of land, real estate, and real estate. Not to mention the tea mountains she bought in Huizhou and Fujian, there were six or seven Zhuangzi and shops in the makeup added to her by her relatives.

After all the relatives finished adding makeup, Ye Chongming looked at Ye Yaming's dowry and felt dissatisfied.You must know that Ye Yaming not only gave the Ye family tribute tea, but also very likely to become an imperial merchant immediately.She herself became the wife of the Marquis of Xuanwu, not far away, but near. When her fiancé didn't know who it was, Ye Yaqing got a good marriage because of her that she never even dared to think about before.

It can be said that with her own strength, she has raised the lintel of the Ye family by several levels.In future marriages, the Ye family will have the confidence to discuss marriage with the powerful.If at this time a sixth- and seventh-rank official of the government office wanted to intermarry the Ye family's children, they would no longer feel flattered.

Not to mention that Ye Yaming's marriage was bestowed by the emperor himself.

If her dowry is not decent enough, not only the Ye family will be lost, but also the emperor will be dissatisfied.

So he avoided Ye Yaming, and privately called his son and daughter-in-law to discuss it.

The Ye family's annual income in the past two years is several times that of the previous year, not to mention the income visible to the naked eye after tea production in the tea mountains in Huizhou and Fujian.And everyone knows that making friends with Ye Yaming can benefit future generations.No one wants to jump out and be the villain who offended Ye Yaming and made her bear a grudge.

So in the end, Gongzhong took out another 5 taels of silver and bought several large farms for Ye Yaming in Tongxiang and other places.

A tile represents a house, and a piece of adobe represents an acre of land.If there are twelve rooms in a yard, then twelve tiles are placed in the dowry.If a Zhuangzi has [-] mu of land, [-] adobes cannot be squeezed into a dowry, and the dowry is basically [-] mu in a dowry, and [-] mu is five dowry. It is convenient and easy to remember my mother's family and husband's family, as well as passers-by watching the excitement.

In Ye Yaming's dowry, not to mention the farms in Tongxiang, but the way she bought them in Huizhou and Fujian, one can imagine how many adobes in her dowry represent the fields.

The clansman who helped Ye Yaming arrange the dowry saw their scalps numb, and said to Ye Hongchang: "This property can't be used up even if it is five hundred liters. This is not only ten miles of red makeup, but twenty or thirty miles. .”

"Hongchang, I used to know that your family is rich, but I really didn't expect your family to be so rich. Your family will buy up all the land in Lin'an, right? There is so much land just for the dowry of Ming'er's niece, let alone Talk about your own."

This sounds very sour.

Ye Hongchang has always known that jealousy is the root of evil, and Ye Chongming has always told them to keep a low profile in front of their clansmen, not to show off their wealth, and not to put on an air of condescension.

He smiled and said, "Ming'er's dowry is from the mountains in Huizhou and Minzhou. It's worthless. The price of a mountain top is equivalent to the price of a dozen or twenty acres of medium-sized fields on our side. But What should I do with this dowry, let me ask Ming'er."

After Ye Yaming knew about this, he said: "Our status is not high, and it is not good for us to show our wealth too much. But we can't be too low-key, too low-key will make people look down on you. You do as I said..."

In order to make her dowry rich, the family added another 5 taels of silver to the farm. She could not use the low-value fields and tea hills in other places to make up for it, and smiled generously; Hide your head and show your tail.

Moreover, the value of those tea mountains is not high now, but it does not mean that they will not be high in the future.People who don't care about it now and laugh at her will definitely envy her in the future.

So under her suggestion, the dowry was arranged as it is now:

The dowry representing Zhuangzi is carried by each Zhuangzi, and there are small-scale dense tiles on it, with the words "[-] mu of Tianzhuang" and "[-] mu of Tianzhuang" written on it; it represents the tea mountains in Huizhou and Fujian. The same is true, small adobes are densely placed in a dowry, with the words "one tea mountain" and "five hundred acres of tea mountain" written on it.

Because of this, when passers-by saw the dowry representing the property, they didn't take it seriously at first, but when they saw the words on it clearly, they were in an uproar.

"At first, I thought the dowry was similar to that of ordinary girls from aristocratic families. I didn't expect her to be so bold. It's just a dowry for a farm of several hundred acres, or a tea mountain for a dowry. It's amazing."

"Have you counted how many farms there are?"

"I've counted, I've counted." The passer-by shouted excitedly, as if he had picked up gold himself, "There are seventeen farms alone, and all of them are big villages with hundreds of acres of land. The kind with many Zhuang slaves; there are more than a dozen tea mountains, one, hundreds, or thousands of acres. Oh my god, how rich this is.”

"Which married woman is this? Who is the husband's family?"

"I asked the person who sent the relatives off, and they said that it was the Ye family, a big tea merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, who married into Xuanwuhou's mansion to be the wife of the eldest son."

"No wonder, the big tea merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are so rich."

"What's the use of being rich? The status of a businessman is not high. Marrying to Xuanwuhou's mansion to be the wife of the eldest son is like flying on a branch and becoming a phoenix."

"Hey, that's not necessarily true. The merchant depends on the merchant. I know the Jiangnan Ye family. Have you ever drank Longjing tea? It belongs to his family."

"Longjing? That tribute tea?"

"Correct."

(End of this chapter)