Cheng Yuanyuan sat in the flower hall and talked for a while, then put a hundred taels of silver into Cheng Wanwan's hand.
"I won't go to the capital to attend Zhao'er's wedding banquet." She said with a smile, "Zhao'er needs money to settle down in the capital. How can I waste his money? He specially wrote a letter to invite me, my aunt, to go I'm already very happy in the capital. Wanwan, you have to go, you are a sixth-grade married woman. You can help Zhao'er save face by going to the capital, lest his future family-in-law look down on him as a countryman..."
Cheng Wanwan put the one hundred taels of silver back: "Sister, you don't have to go to the capital, but you have to accept the one hundred taels of silver. This is Zhaoer's filial piety. If you don't accept it, he will have to prepare other things. I can give you something to repay this aunt like you, so why bother letting Zhaoer worry about these things?"
Cheng Yuanyuan sighed.
Zhaoer is indeed a filial child. If she doesn't want money, Zhaoer will definitely exchange it for something else and send it to her. Can she keep refusing to accept it?
Forget it, just take it and treat it as if it makes Zhaoer feel at ease.
But the next day, Cheng Yuanyuan brought a box: "This is a gift for my future niece-in-law. Wanwan, please help me take it to the capital."
Cheng Wanwan opened the box. Inside was a set of jasper jewelry. It would cost at least eighty or ninety taels of silver to buy it.
She was dumbfounded: "Sister, why are you doing this?"
"You, the second aunt, are allowed to give heavy gifts, but I, the eldest aunt, can't do it?" Cheng Yuanyuan deliberately scolded, "Zhao'er is promising now, so I have to be careful. This noodle is the best one in the jewelry shop in Ping'an County. , I will definitely not lose face to Zhaoer, Wanwan, please put it away and don’t crush it. Okay, we still need to weed the flower garden, I’ll leave first.”
Cheng Wanwan had no choice but to put the things away.
She also had to prepare a meeting gift for her new wife. After much deliberation, she didn't know what to prepare. Finally, she chose a luminous pearl from the mall.
Artificial luminous pearls are not a rare thing in modern times, but it can be said to be rare in ancient times. She sold two of them the year before last. It is said that the price of the two luminous pearls in the capital was raised to more than 10,000 taels of silver... She chose the luminous pearl as a luminous pearl. The meeting gift was mainly to support Cheng Zhao.
It is really difficult for a poor scholar to gain a foothold in the capital.
She can do as much as she can. She only hopes that Zhao'er's future will be easier.
The departure date was set for the eighth day of April. It was almost the end of April as we went all the way. After a few days of rest, it was the wedding date without any delay.
The people in the village knew that Cheng Wanwan was going to the capital for a period of two months. This time was not long, but it was definitely not short, so they were very reluctant to part with it.
Especially Mrs. Zhao, who took Cheng Wanwan's hand and sighed: "Don't worry about your home after you go to the capital. The old man and I will help you keep an eye on it. Don't worry about the workshop. If someone dares to do something wrong, old lady I'll kill him."
Li Zheng took a puff of dry smoke and said: "Don't worry about things in the village. Everyone knows it well, and there will definitely be no problems. It's just that it's too far to go to the capital. Will there be any dangers on the way? Otherwise, we will arrange ten How many people from the patrol team will escort you there?"
Wang Yongcheng stood up immediately: "Da Shan Niang, I will take ten brothers to go with you."
"No." Cheng Wanwan quickly stopped him, "Magistrate Shen has said hello to the government post. Everything will be fine. Don't worry about me."
If she, a sixth-grade woman, brought more than a dozen guards to the capital, and someone saw her and maliciously read her book, saying that she led troops to the capital, then she would not be able to explain it clearly with ten mouths open.
"Auntie..." Donghua came over and said with a wink, "Here is one tael of silver..."
The little girl stuffed a bunch of copper coins into Cheng Wanwan's hand.
Cheng Wanwan was very surprised. Donghua inherited the Sun family. In addition to being greedy, she was also stingy. She actually took the initiative to take out money. The sun came out in the west, right?
"Last year, my aunt brought me a book back from Huzhou, and I read it all." Donghua puffed up her chest proudly, "This time my aunt went to the capital. There should be more books like this in the capital. Can you give me more?" Buy some back?"
Her eyes were full of hope.
Since the village began to develop tourism, her homemade lotus brew opened the market and earned some capital. So she studied many Huzhou snacks based on the book and sold them in the market. The business was very good, every day She can earn more than one tael of silver every month, which she and Qiuhua split equally, and she earns a net profit of six to seven hundred cash. After saving for more than half a year, she has a rich fortune.
But there are only a few kinds of snacks available, and I always feel that there are too few types. Tourists seem to be tired of eating them, and business has not been very good recently.
If we can get some snacks from Beijing to sell, they will definitely be very popular.
Cheng Wanwan accepted the money and said, "Okay, I will definitely bring you the recipe."
Donghua laughed and immediately ran away to chat with Qiuhua. The two sisters laughed together without knowing what they were talking about.
Mrs. Zhao's face was full of relief. Donghua, who used to be the least sensible in the family, had grown up, and all this was thanks to her eldest daughter-in-law.
It can be said that the changes in the Zhao family, the changes in Dahe Village, and even the changes in Ping'an County are all related to the eldest daughter-in-law. The fact that the Zhao family and the eldest daughter-in-law can become a family is really a blessing in disguise.
The old lady clasped her palms together and prayed silently, hoping that the journey would be safe and smooth.
On the eighth day of April, the weather was very nice.
Cheng Wanwan arranged for four carriages to go to the capital. She and Si Dan were in one car, Cheng Jia was driving, the rest of the people were in one car, and Wei Xiaohai was driving.
The other two carriages were for the Cheng family, and it was not her concern who would drive them.
Zhao Dashan and Zhao Ergou helped drive the empty truck to Chengjia Village.
As soon as the convoy arrived at the village entrance, they saw an uninvited guest chatting with the patrol team guarding the registration office.
The person who came was none other than shopkeeper He who came to Dahe Village not long ago. He returned to Yuncheng and sent someone to find out Cheng Zhao's identity before he came again with generous gifts.
I heard that Lord He is also planning to make Cheng Zhao his son-in-law, which shows how much the He family likes Cheng Zhao.
And he, the son of a housekeeper, had offended Cheng Zhao's biological aunt. If this matter was reported back to the He family, he would probably be beaten off by the head of the family.
He laughed along with him, took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and put it into the hand of the patrol member: "Little brother, please do well. I have a very important meeting with Sui Ren. You sell me a favor today, and I will do the same in the future." I will make it easier for you."
The patrolman withdrew his hand and the money fell to the ground: "Don't do this. Do you want me to call someone to throw you farther away?"
Shopkeeper He is almost bald and can't even enter the village. How can he get the forgiveness of the people of Sui'an?
Whenever he thought that Cheng Zhao was the son-in-law that the head of the He family liked, his scalp went numb. Why did he do such a stupid thing?
Just when he had a headache, he saw a motorcade coming out of the village. He knew the man driving the motorcade, who was the guard of the Sui'an family.
It doesn't matter if he can't get in. Didn't the people from Sui'an leave the village?
Shopkeeper He quickly picked up the generous gift and quickly stood in front of the carriage. He cupped his hands and said, "I have met people from Sui'an. He came here specifically to apologize. I also asked people from Sui'an to give He a chance to make amends!"
