Chapter 717 Xiuzhu's dowry

The weather in the twelfth lunar month is not very good, it always rains and is wet everywhere.

This is completely different from the capital of Liang State.

The old courtyard emits a smell of mold, mixed with the smell of mud and water, which is very unpleasant.

However, Lu Xiangzhi's mother is in good health and she did not get sick again in the twelfth lunar month.

She was blushed and got up to do housework, and wanted to clean the rented house.

Because Lu Xiangzhi was going to marry a bride, the third wife of the Lu family was kind-hearted and sent someone to paint the walls and doors again, took off the screens on the windows, and replaced them with brand new and translucent.

Lu’s mother wants to wash the newly made bedding slurry at home.

"...It's probably going to clear tomorrow. This new quilt will be smooth tonight." Lu's mother said.

Lu Xiangzhi: "I'll do it, don't get tired of you."

When the mother and son were humble, the door was knocked.

Lu Xiangzhi went to open the door.

A woman stood outside the door. When she saw Lu Xiangzhi, she smiled: "Tong'er, I've disappeared for a long time, are your mother okay?"

Lu Xiangzhi was stunned.

This woman is about the same age as his mother, but she looks much younger than his mother.

Her husband's surname was Li, and he used to be next door to Lu Xiangzhi's family. They have been neighbors for many years.

The reason why the surname next to the Lu family is Li is because after Lu Xiangzhi's father passed away, they sold the house that they originally distributed to them in their clan and rented a house in Li's place.

Mrs. Li's youngest daughter Ai Ai has loved to play with Lu Xiangzhi since she was a child.

Lu Xiangzhi's nickname is Tong'er. If he hadn't gone to the clan school, he would probably have been named Lu Tong now. His current scientific name was given by his teacher.

When the children grew up, Mrs. Li even joked that she wanted to marry Ai Ai to Lu Xiangzhi. Every time she mentioned this, Ai Blushed and ran away.

Both Mrs. Li and Lu’s mother smiled knowingly.

Lu Xiangzhi was devoted to studying, but he didn't care much at first, but then Li Aiai made him shoes, and he realized something was wrong.

His shoes are only like his mother. In the clan, he also knows the human nature - women often give shoes to them, which means to be in love.

Lu Xiangzhi doesn't like Li Ai Ai. He grew up together and is too familiar with each other. Li Ai Ai is like his sister. Besides, although Li Ai Ai is beautiful, he is small and exquisite.

Somehow, Lu Xiangzhi likes tall women very much. Maybe his mother is tall, which makes him born to think that women are slender and taller, even though their mother's back is now hunched.

He declined Li Ai'ai's shoes.

Li Aiai cried for a while.

However, Mrs. Li and Lu’s mother didn’t know about this, and Li Aiai didn’t give up.

It was not until that year's Dragon Boat Festival that Mrs. Li went to her parents' home and was excited to come back and said that her parents' sister-in-law was a matchmaker and wanted to marry Li Aiai to a rich family to be her second wife.

The other party fell in love with Li Aiai.

Li Aiai is pretty and cute, and looks well-behaved. How can any man not like her?

Lu's mother was very sad about this and said that Mrs. Li despised the poor and loved the rich, so the two quarreled.

Li Aiai also felt that Lu Xiangzhi was ungrateful to reject her shoes. He was so poor and so stupid that he had no future except for being a better-looking person.

Therefore, she also agreed to marry into the Cheng family to be a re-string.

The Cheng family is a bit famous in the capital, of course, not as good as those rich families, and is considered a little wealthy.

When Li Aiai got married, the Cheng family and Mrs. Li actually begged the eldest wife of the Lu family for decentness and gave a brass hand stove the first dowry.

For ordinary people, the things that the eldest lady of the Lu family rewarded were extremely decent.

Mrs. Li raised the dowry for her daughter and the copper hand stove given by the eldest wife of the Lu family, which was extremely sensational among the neighbors at that time.

Li Ai Ai married very well, and Mrs. Li was also happy about it. She later heard that Lu Xiangzhi had rejected her daughter back then, but she was a little angry.

Later, Lu Xiangzhi met Xiuzhu and had to take care of the third wife of the Lu family. The mother and son moved back to the Lu family and rented the third wife's house to live in.

They were several streets away from the former house and stopped walking around each other.

Lu Xiangzhi's mother also did not communicate with the Li family because Mrs. Li was not trustworthy.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Li came to the door again.

"Auntie." Lu Xiangzhi opened the door.

Mrs. Li smiled and walked in. Seeing that Lu's mother was washing the quilt, she said, "I won't be sunny this day, you're in vain."

Mu Lu is about to marry her daughter-in-law. She is in a good mood and no longer holds grudges about the past. She smiles and gets up, wipes the water from her hands, and greets Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li holds the basket in her hand.

"...Ai Ai's son Man Yue, I will give some happy noodles to the neighbors." Mrs. Li uncovered the red cloth on the basket, "Look, this is the happy noodles to the full moon given by the Cheng family."

"Happy noodles" is a saying. Of course, it is impossible to have only noodles, as well as various gifts such as eggs and pastries.

The richer you are, the more complicated your joy will be.

Mrs. Li seemed to take revenge on Lu Xiangzhi and his son. After Li Aiai got married, she went back to the door, became pregnant and gave birth to a child. Every time there was a happy event, she had to come to the door to see the Lu family and his son.

Lu's mother was in trouble.

Looking at the happy face, Lu's mother didn't say anything.

"...I heard that Tong'er will be different in the future and will be married." Mrs. Li smiled again.

Lu's mother cheered up: "On the ninth day of the first lunar month, you can also sit and have a glass of thin wine."

Mrs. Li smiled and said, "Then I must have it. I heard that I married a maid from a wealthy family. I have never seen a maid from a wealthy family marrying a maid..."

All in the words are sarcastic.

"...Does the dowry given by the master cost hundreds of taels of silver?" asked Mrs. Li.

Lu's mother didn't know either.

All she knew was that her son liked the girl Xiuzhu very much.

Once I saw her, I thought about it day and night. He had no money. In order to see her, he helped the clan write various sacrificial texts and letters, and chose books for other people's bookstores outside.

The meaning of choosing a book is that the bookstore wants to publish a book, but if you don’t know what it is, you ask a few students to get together. Everyone selects a few articles from classical books, and then adds annotations to form a new book.

You can get hundreds of coins every month.

He changed into new clothes and wandered around the door of Dai Jing Pavilion. When he came back, he told his mother that he had seen her.

"...I heard that a box of rouge from Dai Jingge costs hundreds of taels of silver." Lu Xiangzhi said to his mother.

Lu's mother was startled and said to him at the same time: "Did you like someone else's baby? Tong'er, we don't ask for this..."

"I mean, she should be short of money and is used to seeing the world. But she put the hairpin I gave to her on her head, and didn't wear anything else." Lu Xiangzhi's eyes were bright, "Mother, she respects me."

His jade hairpin was bought for 500 cents and the texture is relatively rough.

When Lu Xiangzhi mentioned it, his whole body emitted glory.

Lu's mother knew that these two villains liked each other. The matchmaker also said that the girl was beautiful and quiet, so Lu's mother agreed to marry her son.

As for how much her master gave her to dowry, Lu's mother never thought about it.

Now that she was asked by Mrs. Li, she was a little stunned: Isn’t it enough to give so many hundreds of taels?

Give me three or fifty taels, which is a great gift.

"... Then your new wife's dowry will be brought in, and I'll help you see it." Mrs. Li smiled, "We Ai Ai are now also madams. She knows the best way to marry a maid. I'll take care of you."

Lu’s mother: “…”

She wanted to push Mrs. Li out for a moment. How much dowry can Miss Xiuzhu have? Mrs. Li is clearly here to see the joke.

Lu's mother felt that her son and new daughter-in-law would be embarrassed by that time, so she had to find a way to refuse Mrs. Li's visit that day and give her daughter-in-law some respect.
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