Seeing that he was already thinking about these things, Xie Yanzhi didn't bother to help him think about it.
Thinking of traveling tomorrow, Li Yuan had to deal with road traffic and went directly to the workshop immediately.
Yes, the county government office in each place is equivalent to a small court hall, with three classes and six rooms.
The so-called three shifts and six rooms refer to the three shifts of Zao, Zhuang and Kuai. The six branches of official, household, rites, military, punishment, and work are responsible for the subordinate staff.
The third squad is responsible for the judiciary, taxation, and prison system, while the sixth squad corresponds to the responsibilities of the emperor's six ministries.
At present, transportation is managed by the factory or the Ministry of Industry.
Xie Yanzhi had a great reputation. Whether it was due to his bad luck or his extremely high talent and learning, basically everyone in Liuyun County had heard of him, not to mention those in the yamen who knew how to please senior officials.
The people in the workshop were very familiar with him. They heard him mention that a woman would go to Fucheng with him tomorrow, so they filled in the detailed information one by one based on his description.
Before Li Yuan knew it, he had already arranged Lu Yin to do it for her.
At that time, Li Yuan was carrying a basket and heading to the home of the patriarch Li Qinghua with Mrs. Wang.
Facing Mrs. Wang, who looked worried, she seemed to be saying that the weather was really nice today, and said: "Miscellaneous, if nothing else happens, when I come back from Fucheng this time, Brother Xie will come to my house to propose marriage. Here we are, Do you have any marriage requirements for the girl who remarries with Li?"
"What, Yuan Niang, what did you say, I didn't hear clearly!"
Mrs. Wang stopped, reached out and took out her ears, and looked at Li Yuan with eyes filled with disbelief.
Is she not deaf?
Did Yuan Niang just say that Xie Xiucai wanted to marry her?
But, but Xie Yanzhi is a scholar, a scholar who is very likely to be admitted to the imperial examination.
His family is so well-off and his conditions are so good. How come he has fallen in love with Yuan Niang before he has even gotten married?
Yes, although she boasted that Yuanniang was no worse than anyone else, she knew it well.
The fact that Yuan Niang was married cannot be erased. She gave birth to a child for someone else, and she also raised two children with Li. This cannot be erased.
Could it be that Xie Xiucai wanted to marry Yuanniang just because he wanted her to cook for him for the rest of his life?
In this way, he can marry a young and beautiful woman to serve him?
Mrs. Wang thought so and then thought of Li Yuan's current situation.
It would be nice if she could marry Xie Yanzhi.
A man with a scholarly reputation will protect her, and she will be a scholar's wife. In the future, she may still be the wife of a scholar or an official.
It doesn't matter if the man doesn't have his heart for her in the future, she won't give birth anyway!
As long as we can take the opportunity to raise two children, it would be better than having nothing at all now to marry them as if their natal family was a scholar, or a member of the imperial family, or even the daughter of an official family.
Thinking like this, Mrs. Wang's heart felt much smoother again, and she felt that her previous worries were in vain!
How did Li Yuan know that she could think so much at that moment? She heard her confirming and repeated what she just said.
At the end of the day, let me say this: "Otherwise, Junzi and I will get married together as Canniang. I heard that one in and one out has a bad meaning, so go out first and then in."
Mrs. Wang didn't know how to describe her inner feelings at this moment, so she could only follow her words.
"Well, it's good to just go in but not go out, it means that the family is prosperous and the family is full of children and grandchildren. If you want the same day, you can only go out first, and then let the girl Can go in!"
As she said that, she remembered that she had not sent her off to get married because she was so angry, and said.
"Mr. Xiucai is quite good. For you, if you want to remarry, there is no better candidate than him. If you marry him, you will have peace of mind. In this way, there will be no mother-in-law above you, and no sisters-in-law or sisters-in-law in the middle. For you and your children, It couldn't be better. Yuan Niang, when you go to Fucheng this time, just buy some things for your dowry."
Having said this, under Li Yuan's puzzled gaze, she pulled her back quickly.
When they arrived at the main room of the old house, they saw her rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and finally took out a wooden box from the bottom of the cage and handed it over.
"Yuan Niang, you are the eldest girl in our Li family, but Shu Niang and Lin Niang are both similar to you. When you were old enough, grandma gave you each a pair of silver bracelets, a pair of earrings, and a silver hairpin. , I thought I would give it to you as a dowry when the time comes.
But I know that on the day you accepted the Liu family’s betrothal gift, you were about to get married. I went to find you, but I was so angry that I forgot about it. After you got married, I wanted to give it to you after you returned home three times, but... forget it, what are you talking about? These things should have been given to you a long time ago! "
The old lady said, lowered her eyes, opened the wooden box, took out a cloth bag and put it in Li Yuan's hand.
During this time, Li Yuan roughly calculated the income of the old house for a year based on the memory of the original owner.
Then he calculated how much the original father spent on studying while he was still alive, how much he spent before his death, and how much the old house gave them after they separated.
She calculated for several days, carefully and clearly, over and over again.
Finally, we came to the conclusion that when the family was separated, the old house probably really had no money on hand at that time.
Her father took medicine for two or three months after seeing a doctor. After that, the money he received from gifts for the funeral was not worth what he spent.
Immediately afterwards, the family did not separate immediately. Instead, her mother felt a little unwell and began to see a doctor and take medicine.
In this way, no matter how well-off the family is, it will become very difficult to make ends meet for several months.
So the silver needed for these bracelets, earrings, and silver hairpins was probably made by the old lady as something she pawned.
In her memory, the old lady had a golden hairpin as a dowry, could she have pawned it?
Without a daughter or three sons, it would be inappropriate to give the gold hairpin to anyone. The only way is to pawn something else and give it as a dowry to the daughters of the three wives.
Everything is the same, impartial, no one will have an opinion!
Thinking like this, after she took the cloth bag and opened it and saw the blackened jewelry inside, she felt a lump in her heart and couldn't move up or down.
It is said that the bracelets are so beautiful that the moonlight has no silver.
Logically speaking, if these jewelry are newly made, the color should be very bright.
But what she saw now was that all the jewelry was oxidized.
If you look carefully at the pattern on the bracelet, you can see that it is the auspicious cloud pattern that was popular at that time.
She had seen this pattern on Li Danniu's shop before, so she remembered it deeply.
So, her milk didn’t lie to her!
The original owner only had a copper hairpin when she got married. Although she did not want a dowry and tried her best to keep the money to pay off the debt, she was still in her husband's family and could not hold her head high.
Perhaps she didn't expect that because of her resentment, she yelled at the old lady, why would she act like an elder now, and let her get married completely alone?
Wouldn't it be much better if she didn't say that and got married with these silver jewelry?
She estimated that the bracelet was solid, and with the earrings and silver hairpin, it was estimated to weigh three ounces.
Three taels is equivalent to three taels of silver, but the silver house charges a labor fee.
This ancient jewelry is handmade by craftsmen. Adding these things together, the labor cost may be several hundred yuan to one tael.
Mrs. Wang saw her in a daze and felt a little uncomfortable.
He opened his mouth, and it took him a long time to utter out a sentence with relief: "Ms. Yuan, my breasts can't help you, I've made you suffer!"
