"What. You want to sell your ancestral home?"
Hearing that Lu Yitong wanted to move the family's house, Mrs. Zhao quit.
"No, absolutely not!" She frowned and shook her head, "That ancestral home has been passed down from generation to generation of your Lu family and is the root of the Lu family. If you sell the ancestral home, in the future, under the Nine Springs, How can I have the nerve to see your father?"
"Mom, it's not selling, it's pawning." Lu Yitong explained quickly, "When my son has money in the future, he can redeem the house sooner or later."
"When will you get rich?" Mrs. Zhao curled her lips and asked immediately, "If you marry such a delicate wife, will you still be able to save money in the future? You have no idea whether you can afford to support her."
"mother……"
"Don't call me mother, I'm not your mother!"
Mrs. Zhao glanced at her son and felt angry.
She has worked hard all her life and served the Lu family all her life.
Finally, his son grew up, won the election and became an official. Finally, it was time for him to enjoy peace and happiness, but he insisted on marrying back an ancestor.
I haven't even married yet, so I have to sell my ancestral home.
When she gets married, will the Lu family still have a voice for themselves?
Thinking this way, Mrs. Zhao became more determined.
But she couldn't refute her son too much, so she thought about it and took out a folded square handkerchief from the bottom of the suitcase. He opened the handkerchief and gave a fifty-tael silver note and a few larger pieces of silver inside to Lu Yitong.
He only kept a few pieces of broken silver and some copper plates.
She stooped her waist, patted her son with rough and warm hands, and said earnestly: "Yitong, this is all the family's savings. It's all for you. You can give it to that young lady. If she really likes you, she will definitely give it to you." I will understand you."
"well."
Lu Yitong sighed.
Seeing that his mother was so determined, he couldn't persuade her any more.
Asking Mrs. Zhao to collect all the money, he went back to his room and took out the banknote he had given to Yuanwai Yang before.
After going to the bank and changing all the fifty taels of silver into broken silver, and adding a lot of copper coins into it, he made an appointment with Xiao Qintang again.
"Qintang, look."
As soon as he saw Xiao Qintang, Lu Yitong happily handed over the package.
"What is this?" Xiao Qintang took it curiously, opened the package and found that it was full of broken silver. She looked at Lu Yitong strangely, "Why did you give me this?"
"The betrothal gift."
"What!"
Xiao Qintang's expression changed instantly.
She looked at Lu Yitong in disbelief, "You just use these things as a betrothal gift for me? What do you think of me? Am I, Xiao Qintang, such a lowly person in your eyes?"
"Don't be angry first..."
Lu Yitong hurriedly pulled her to coax her, "You also know the situation of my family. My father died early, and my mother is already very powerful as a woman who can raise me up and provide me with education. How can she still have the money to marry me? Where is my wife? I shamelessly borrowed this money from family to family."
"Didn't you say you were selling your ancestral home?"
"How much is the ancestral house worth?" Lu Yitong sighed, "Besides, even if I am willing to sell such an old house, no one will be willing to buy it for a while."
"Then what should I do? Are you going to use these dirty and smelly pieces of silver as a betrothal gift for me?"
"Of course not? How can these broken pieces of silver be worthy of you?" Lu Yitong said quickly: "Actually, I have already thought about it. You can keep the money for now, and I will continue to borrow it. If one family can't do it, I will borrow it from two families. If one day can't do it, I will borrow it. Just borrow it for two days, and one day I will borrow enough money, and I will be able to marry you in all glory!"
"Then when do you have to borrow it?"
"No matter when you borrow it, I will borrow it!" Lu Yitong grabbed Xiao Qintang's finger and said affectionately: "Qintang, as long as you are willing to marry, I will marry you even if you are seventy or eighty years old!"
"Seven old and eighty..."
Xiao Qintang felt a chill when she thought of how she was still waiting to get married when she was seventy or eighty years old with gray hair.
She began to regret inexplicably.
If Lu Yitong couldn't even afford the betrothal gift, would he be able to support him if he got married in the future? Will she have to live a hard life with him in the future?
"Qintang, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Xiao Qintang's expression change, Lu Yitong asked hurriedly.
"nothing."
Xiao Qintang shook his head.
She sighed softly and looked at Lu Yitong, "Brother Lu, you will always be devoted to me, right?"
"Of course." Lu Yitong immediately expressed his loyalty, "Didn't I make an oath before? If I, Lu Yitong, betray you, I will die badly."
"good."
Hearing what Lu Yitong said, Xiao Qintang strengthened his determination again.
She returned the entire bag of broken silver to Lu Yitong and asked him to go home and wait for the letter.
As for herself, she turned back to the general's mansion.
Sui Feng Garden.
Xiao Qintang was stopped in a hurry before entering the door.
She frowned and looked at Aunt Wan who dared to stop her, and asked in annoyance, "Old man, are you blind? How dare you stop me!"
"Miss Third, please forgive me."
Aunt Wan quickly apologized with a grimace. "Miss Third, I don't know what happened. Our wife, for some unknown reason, suddenly caught wind and cold recently. She coughed all day long, wishing she could cough her lungs out. To prevent bad luck, Madam, she specially asked the people in Sui Feng Garden to No one is allowed to go to other courtyards. No one from other courtyards is allowed to enter Suifeng Garden. Especially Haitang Pavilion..."
"What happened to Haitang Pavilion?" Xiao Qintang was puzzled.
"It's okay in Haitang Pavilion, but Miss Third, you are having a happy event recently. What if there is a collision? Aren't our ladies thinking about you too?"
"So that's it..."
Xiao Qintang blinked and nodded.
She was about to leave in a daze when she suddenly realized, "But I see that my sister-in-law has something important to do!"
"What's the matter?" Aunt Wan looked curious, "Why don't you tell me, and I can go in and ask you questions?"
"Actually, it's nothing..."
Xiao Qintang hesitated, a little embarrassed, "Just... help me ask my sister-in-law if she can lend me her dowry?"
"dowry?"
Grandma Wan was surprised.
She didn't expect that Xiao Qintang could actually open this mouth.
Let alone a wealthy family in the capital, the sister-in-law of an ordinary rural family is not so ignorant.
Suppressing the unhappiness in her eyes, she smiled and pretended not to hear clearly, and continued to follow Ruan Yunluo's instructions: "Third Miss, your dowry and the Second Young Master's betrothal gift have actually been moved out separately, and now they are all in Aunt Yin's house." Keep it in your hands. If you want to go into the warehouse to see the dowry, why not go find Aunt Yin?"
