Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 653 How to say this
How should I put it? The girl is pretty good. She was able to thrive in just two days, which shows that she is quite capable.

For example, her eldest sister Zhou Daya initially thought that Dr. Lin’s daughter would be easier to get along with, but before nightfall the next day, she slapped herself in the face.

And her mother.

Generally speaking, those who can get along with her mother are either of the same temperament as her mother and not very smart, or they can see that her mother is a person who says one thing and means another and don't want to argue with her.

Gu Wenxuan burst out laughing.

Are you going to let people speak?
Zhou Banxia glared at him.

"Go on. I listened."

Disturbed by his laughter, Zhou Banxia paused for a moment and continued, "This little girl gets along very well with my mother. I didn't know why at first."

Now, it is not that the girl is not as smart as her mother-in-law, but that she must have known the real purpose of coming here in advance and came to investigate in person.

interesting!
Gu Wenxuan tried his best to hold back his laughter, but he didn't dare interrupt his wife mid-sentence. He patted her gently, but why did she suddenly stop talking?

Zhou Banxia hesitated for a moment, "Objectively speaking, Dajiang is marrying above his station. If you hadn't hidden it from me, I would never have dreamed that there was such a meaning.

After all, there is still a third brother in front of me. I thought that something happened in the Qi Mansion, and it was not easy for Uncle Qi to ask my uncle for help, so he wanted to write a letter to my uncle through his daughter.

I even thought about the melodramatic scenario where some prince wanted to take some family's daughter into his backyard, and Uncle Qi learned the news in advance and sent his daughter to us to avoid disaster.

But then I thought the age was not right. After all, Hui Jie'er was only fifteen after the Chinese New Year. Why didn't she get married at sixteen? I also wondered if Uncle Qi was short of money.

Gu Wenxuan interrupted quickly, "No, although the old lady of the Qi Mansion is not as wealthy as the old lady Gao, it is impossible for Master Qi's family to be short of money.

The Qi family has not yet split up, but it depends on the situation. After all, he is the youngest son, and he was sent to learn skills from a master in order to preserve the family line.

As parents, they owe this son something, so they will not lack him financially, so Uncle Qi still has a considerable amount of private property."

"Uncle said that?"

"Correct."

Zhou Banxia was shocked by his response without hesitation, "Why did uncle suddenly tell you all this? Did he mention the little girl's dowry?
That shouldn't be the case. If it was the little girl from Uncle Qi's family, your uncle would not care about the amount of the dowry, let alone discuss with you how much betrothal gift to give.

From what I know about my uncle, if he takes a fancy to this girl, he will take care of all the betrothal gifts. Why would he discuss with you how much I should prepare?

Besides, whether it will succeed or not is still unknown, and my uncle can't use this to test your attitude. It's obvious, I don't believe that my uncle doesn't know that you have many tricks -"

"Stop, stop, stop." Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but pat her, "Stop thinking first, smart people like to think a lot, it's not as complicated as you think.

I heard that Uncle Qi is interested in getting married, so I'd like to ask him in person, what kind of betrothal gifts have been given by the husbands of the daughters of the Qi family who have married off in the past two or three years?
Speaking of betrothal gifts, we naturally talk about dowries. In addition to the betrothal gifts and dowries of the eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter, the Qi family will use more than ten thousand taels of silver from the public account of the family.

For other legitimate grandchildren, the budget for males is 5,000 taels of silver, and for females, it is 3,000 taels.

As for the illegitimate children, the amount was even less, with only 3,000 taels of silver being given to the illegitimate children. In other words, Uncle Qi's daughter was only given 3,000 taels of silver by the emperor.

In addition, there is the dowry that Uncle Qi and his wife prepared for their daughter. "

Normally, for a wealthy family like the Gao family, the budget for marrying a son born out of wedlock would be only three to five thousand taels of silver.

After all, there is only one wife, but there are many concubines.

No matter how fertile one belly is, how can it compare to several bellys at the same time? Especially when the scumbag is over 50 and still keen on taking concubines, it is natural that he will have more illegitimate children.

A budget of three to five thousand taels of silver is required for the marriage of each illegitimate child. Then, when the family is divided, each person must be prepared with at least one house, two shops, and a farm. It is not necessary for five generations to live together, and four generations to stay together. The Qi Mansion, which has as many legitimate masters as the Gao Mansion, would be heavily in debt.

"When I heard the budget of three thousand taels of silver, to be honest, I just breathed a sigh of relief, but then the master said that Uncle Qi was preparing a dowry for his daughter?
Among them, the good wood he had been buying from the south for making furniture since his daughter was a little girl was worth at least two to three thousand taels of silver, but that didn't scare me.

After all, I haven’t seen the bunk bed that the master prepared for you, but I can imagine it must have cost a lot of money just by hearing that the carving took several months.”

But what's the use of it? It's not as good as other things. It can be taken back. But it is still placed in the dowry house in the capital. It's a pure waste.

"Shops and farms are more valuable, but they are definitely not as valuable as the shops and farms from all over the country that are in your dowry.

According to the information the gentleman got from his aunt, it seemed that Uncle Qi and his wife had prepared shops and farms in both the capital and Tianjin for their daughter.

But I made a rough estimate. Although the number is not large, it is just about four shops and four farms, but it should be worth at least 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver.

Add to that the dowry of silver, jewelry, clothes and other miscellaneous items, the girl's dowry might really be around 40,000 or 50,000 taels of silver.

That's the point. Her dowry is no less than your sister-in-law's. If she gives less as a betrothal gift, people will laugh at her and it will be a bad scene."

That's why I say this marriage is inappropriate. Not only is there a huge gap in their family backgrounds, but the dowry is also quite large. Qi is not a good match, and Dajiang will be under a lot of pressure!

"Of course, we can pretend not to know how much dowry they prepare.

Even if your eldest brother married your eldest sister-in-law before, didn't he send the betrothal gifts first, and then the woman took out the dowry list?
So your eldest brother's betrothal gift at that time could not be compared with your eldest sister-in-law's dowry. The couple's dowry was almost twice as much as your eldest sister-in-law's.

This is crucial. According to you, generally speaking, for families with a little bit of family background in the capital, the dowry of the bride will basically be more than the betrothal gift.

But most of them will definitely combine the betrothal gifts together as dowry.

So I calculated again, and it’s actually not so bad. After all, everyone knows what our family background is.

Once it's done, no matter whether what Uncle Qi and Mr. said about the couple focusing on a person's character is true or not, we should be able to prepare a betrothal gift of 10,000 or 20,000 taels of silver.

Don't feel sad, there are gains and losses. If Dajiang can marry a suitable wife, we will feel much more relieved.

But what does that little girl look like? "