Chapter 251 This color is delicious
In the afternoon, He Yunxiao wanted to find Chuchu to go shopping with him and buy a dowry for Sister Jiang. I haven't seen Master Chuchu for a day and I miss her.
But He Yunxiao changed his mind and thought, taking Chuchu to buy dowries for other women, isn't it too bullying for her to not understand these things?
He Yunxiao thought about it and decided to forget it. Don't bully her, wait until tomorrow when I have time to go to her to play.
Not only Chuchu, but also Nanzhu's wife gave way to Sister Jiang today. He Yunxiao, who used to go to the palace at night without fail, chose to go to the palace in the afternoon to take medicine today. He was afraid that he would be too busy at night and would not have time to go to the palace.
After leaving the palace, He Yunxiao found a carriage team, and then rushed to major stores and shopping malls in Yinjing to buy a dowry for Sister Jiang.
There are many types of dowries for women in Qi.
The simplest ones are women from poor families. Generally, they tear a few feet of cloth and pack a bag of grain, which is the entire dowry.
The daughters of merchants are more particular. Silver, land, shops, calligraphy and paintings, etc. can all be dowries.
As for the dowries of the daughters of the royal family, it is more complicated. They are bound by etiquette. They can't give whatever they want and how much they want.
It is even possible that the dowry of the princess of the royal family is not as much as that of the daughters of the merchant family. However, generally no one would do this. Doing so would be a slap in the face of the royal family and would cost one's life.
Although He Yunxiao is rich, he can't buy a dowry for Sister Jiang.
The colors of yellow and red, including patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, should be avoided.
The specific amount of the dowry should also be controlled.
The total amount of the betrothal gift given by the Marquis's Mansion to Nanzhu is about 50,000 taels. Among them, some rare treasures given by the previous emperor cannot be counted and cannot be measured.
With the 50,000 taels of betrothal gift as a base, the dowry that Mengshi matched for Nanzhu will be at least 50,000 taels.
According to the normal process, Nanzhu's status is here, and she is the legal wife, so no matter who enters the house in the future, the dowry cannot exceed this amount.
He Yunxiao worked hard for an afternoon and spent 15,000 taels. With the 10,000 taels given to Sister Jiang, Sister Jiang's dowry has reached 25,000 taels at this time.
It is almost half of Nanzhu, and no more can be bought.
25,000 taels is not much for He Yunxiao now. Daqi Bank can take it out. Of course, if this money is to be used for something, it is necessary to symbolically ask for the consent of Sister Du.
25,000 taels is not much for He Yunxiao, but it is an astronomical figure for ordinary people.
Suppose you are a waiter working in a tavern, with food and accommodation, and earning two cents of silver every month, you can only earn two taels and four cents of silver in a year, and you can only earn 24 taels of silver in ten years. It takes a hundred years to earn 240 taels of silver. It takes a thousand years to earn 2,400 taels of silver.
If you want to earn 25,000 taels by working, you have to work for more than 10,400 years.
To change the unit of measurement, ordinary officials of the sixth and seventh ranks in Yinjing can only marry a few hundred taels when marrying a woman. Only when they reach the level of earl or marquis, will they bring thousands of taels. The powerful marquis or duke family will raise the betrothal gift to nearly 10,000 taels when marrying the eldest daughter of the eldest house.
For the powerful but inexperienced marquis family like Wuqing Marquis Mansion, it is simply an act of emptying the family's assets just to marry a daughter-in-law to double Nanzhu's dowry and spend 100,000 or even 100,000 taels to marry Xiaoyue.
Therefore, the 25,000 taels that He Yunxiao gave to Sister Jiang is already an extremely exaggerated dowry configuration. In the whole Qi Kingdom, it is not as good as the two princesses, plus those legitimate daughters of aristocratic families with deep background and wealth. For example, Li Qingmeng of the Jiangnan Li family, who borrowed 10,000 taels, is indeed not as good as him.
In addition, he is above ten thousand people.
Just look at the convoy of dowry, more than 20 carriages, lighting torches in the night of Yinjing, lined up from the first street of Chunfeng Tower to the end of the street, brightly lit, mighty and magnificent.
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Jiang Wuyou didn't know what the noise outside was because of. She was concentrating on putting on makeup in her boudoir.
She was born beautiful and rarely needed to put on makeup, let alone such a concentrated makeup. The last time she did this was when she attended the Queen Mother's birthday.
But today, for Jiang Wuyou, it is more important than attending the Queen Mother's birthday.
Although she can't wear wedding clothes, can't sit in a sedan chair, and no one wears a bouquet and rides a high horse to pick her up, but today is actually the day she goes to meet her "parents-in-law".
Let's not talk about today, whether she can marry He Yunxiao in the future still depends to a large extent on the opinions of the master and the lady of the Marquis's Mansion.
Today's first meeting, no carelessness is allowed.
Since the clothes can't wear the red dowry, she chose the light yellow series that also represents warm colors. Not only does it make people look warm, but the light color also makes people look younger.
Jiang Wuyou's makeup was not heavy, but light and pink. Even the lipstick was not red, and the pink color was also chosen to be more youthful.
Jiang Wuyou's skin, figure, and appearance are all terrifying configurations of the heroine level. Although she is 25 years old, her skin age is not at all. She looks younger just from her appearance, but her temperament is mature.
Now a set of clothes is ready, making Jiang Wuyou look like a girl under 20 years old. Except for the figure, there is nothing wrong.
He Yunxiao came to call Sister Jiang to go downstairs and sit in the sedan chair, but he was stunned when he entered the door.
Is this still my Sister Jiang?
"Sister, you look ten years younger when you put on makeup!"
Jiang Wuyou usually doesn't wear makeup, but this doesn't mean she can't put it on. As an outstanding student of the Women's Academy, Jiang Wuyou is also very accomplished in makeup. At least there is no problem in dressing He Yunxiao up as a woman.
Jiang Wuyou frowned slightly when she saw He Yunxiao say this, "Am I that old normally?"
He Yunxiao was stunned and shook his head repeatedly, "No, no, sister usually looks very good, now it's a little too..."
Jiang Wuyou said: "What?"
"I don't know if sister has heard of an adjective." He Yunxiao was embarrassed to say.
"Hurry up."
"Baby face and big breasts."
Jiang Wuyou blushed and scolded on the spot: "Pervert! Your mind is full of bad things!"
He Yunxiao smiled and said: "I am full of breasts, no, my mind is full of my wife."
Now there is still enough time, He Yunxiao simply moved closer to Jiang Wuyou, hugged her body, and said good things. "My wife, you are so beautiful today."
Based on Jiang Wuyou's understanding of He Yunxiao, he must have no good intentions in pestering her like this.
"Xiao'er, don't move. I finally... um..."
With her waist being held, she couldn't escape at all. Jiang Wuyou was thinking about the makeup she had finally put on, and she waved her little pink fist desperately to hit He Yunxiao.
As she was hitting, she forgot to hit.
First, she clenched her fist and placed it on He Yunxiao's chest, then relaxed her fist and turned her palm into a palm against his chest.
A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Wuyou sat in front of the dressing table again and picked up the lipstick to touch up her makeup.
He Yunxiao pointed at her from the side.
"My wife, this color is beautiful, and it looks delicious at first glance."
Jiang Wuyou glared at He Yunxiao fiercely, so He Yunxiao, who only knew how to make trouble, didn't dare to speak.