Chapter 533: bride price
Chapter 533 Dowry
Early the next morning, Eunuch Duan volunteered to go to Mu Mansion with the dowry in person.
How could Junli refuse this?
So after the morning pilgrimage, Eunuch Duan took the imperial decree and headed towards Mu Mansion with a mighty team and the dowry.
A total of sixty-six boxes of betrothal gifts, countless jewelry, gold and silver, rare treasures, silk and satin, precious medicinal materials...
The betrothal gifts are so many and so precious that it makes people greedy!
At the same time, the Mu Mansion also took on a completely new look today. The servants all put on new clothes, and they were as beaming as they were during the New Year.
The gate of Mu Mansion was wide open, and many servants were already standing here, looking around, waiting for something.
Mu Yao also stood outside the gate early in the morning, looking around.
Seeing the sun rising gradually, I couldn't help feeling anxious, "Why hasn't it come yet?"
Hearing this, the housekeeper on the side smiled and said, "It's only morning, maybe it's afternoon."
After finishing speaking, Mu Yao nodded. I feel that I am really too impatient.
"Patriarch, why don't you go in and rest for a while, and let me watch here?" the butler said.
Mu Yao wiped the sweat from his forehead, shook his head and said, "I'll wait a little longer."
Today is the first day after the end of the two-month period, so before dawn, Mu Yao got up and ordered someone to clean up the mansion. At the same time, she dressed up and came to watch outside the gate in person.
Waited for a while, but no one came. Mu Yao thought, maybe it is really like what the housekeeper said, come in the afternoon.
Thinking like this, Mu Yao ordered people to watch outside, while he hurried towards Mu Xiuzhu's room.
As soon as he entered, he saw Mu Xiuzhu sitting in a wheelchair, with a hint of joy on his cool and handsome face.
Seeing this, Mu Yao was taken aback for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face, "Xiuzhu."
After the words fell, Mu Xiuzhu turned his head abruptly, and when he saw the person coming, a trace of disappointment flashed unconsciously in his eyes.
Seeing this, Mu Yao sighed slightly in his heart. Boys are not allowed to stay!
"Sister, why are you here?" Mu Xiuzhu said, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Is she here?"
Seeing the current state of his younger brother who had always been as cold as a fairy, Mu Yao sighed again in his heart. Then he smiled and said, "It's just this morning, maybe it will come in the afternoon, so don't worry. Could it be that she can play tricks?"
Hearing this, Mu Xiuzhu nodded with a blushing face, and then stopped talking.
Seeing this, Mu Yao couldn't help shaking his head, and said, "Sister, go out and look for you?"
After the words fell, Mu Xiuzhu looked up, with a look of hesitation on his face, and said, "Sister, I also want to..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mu Yao with a stern face, "You are from a man's family, you should wait for the news here, don't let the future wife-head's family think you are impetuous."
Hearing this, Mu Xiuzhu nodded, hiding the disappointment in his eyes.
Mu Yao sighed helplessly, and was about to comfort him when a servant ran in in a panic.
Seeing this, Mu Yao frowned, "Why are you in such a panic! People who don't know think that our Mu House has no rules!" If it was on a normal day, Mu Yao would never be so strict, but today is different...
"Master, someone has come to the palace, and they brought a lot of betrothal gifts." The servant said out of breath.
Hearing this, Mu Yao was startled, "What! Are you sure you are from the palace?"
The servant nodded, "It's true, there are many guards and attendants, carrying many boxes of betrothal gifts."
Mu Yao was startled for a moment, then hurriedly looked at Mu Xiuzhu behind him.
Guo saw that Mu Xiuzhu's face was slightly pale, and his body was crumbling.
Mu Yao knelt down and comforted her, "Don't worry, Xiuzhu, sister knows that you love sister Li. Even if the betrothal gift from the palace is given today, sister will never agree to it!"
Hearing this, Mu Xiuzhu's face was pale, and then he shook his head and said, "Sister, if the people in the palace really made the decree, our Mu family has no right to disobey the decree." Even if he already has his own heart .
Mu Yao's face was full of anxiety, "Why would a good palace make such a decree all of a sudden." Besides, her younger brother has a leg problem, so how could the one in the palace pay attention?
"Xiuzhu, don't worry, my sister will never accept these betrothal gifts no matter what!" After speaking, she cursed again, "This Muli, don't send the betrothal gifts here sooner!" use!
It can be said that no one thinks about the fact that Muli is Junli.
Not even the shrewd Mu Yao!
Also, how could the empress go to business. Based on this alone, Mu Yao would not think of Mu Li as Jun Li.
Just when the two of them were in a complicated and depressed mood, the servant at the side suddenly said weakly, "Maybe it's not the young master."
After the words fell, Mu Yao looked up instantly. eyes lit up.
Yes, Xiuzhu is not the only man in Mufu! Moreover, Xiuzhu had never met the empress. Maybe the empress has taken a fancy to a certain servant in her mansion!
Although this idea was difficult to establish, Mu Yao still walked towards the gate of the mansion with a slight possibility.
Until everyone was gone, Mu Xiuzhu closed his eyes bitterly, reached out his hand and took out from his neck the blue diamond-shaped crystal that Junli gave him that day, and held it tightly in his hand...
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When Mu Yao came to the gate of the mansion, the mighty team just stopped outside the Mu mansion.
Seeing this, Mu Yao's heart sank slightly. But he still went forward with a smile on his face, towards the father-in-law who was obviously in charge at the front, "Mu Key in Xiamu Mansion, I don't know what father-in-law you are..." He said looking at the long dowry gift.
Hearing this, Eunuch Duan showed a smile on his face, "So you are Mu Yao, I wonder if Brother Ling is here?"
Mu Yao's heart sank in an instant, but there was still a smile on his face, "I don't know why my father-in-law is looking for Xiuzhu?"
Eunuch Duan pointed to the betrothal gift behind him and said, "Of course I'm here to give the betrothal gift, and I'll announce the decree by the way."
As he spoke, he took out a bright yellow imperial decree from his sleeve, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty knows that my brother's legs are inconvenient, so I allow him not to come and worship."
As he spoke, he suddenly unfolded the imperial decree, and said loudly, "Mu Xiuzhu accepts the decree—"
Although it was Mu Xiuzhu who was talking about, it was Mu Yao who knelt down.
"Now I heard that Mu Xiuzhu, the son of the Mu Mansion, is virtuous and virtuous, with both talent and sentiment. He was specially summoned to the palace, granted the title of Noble Monarch, and granted Liuqing Palace. He will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold and silver, and a hundred pieces of silk and satin. A piece of millennium ginseng, One thousand-year-old fleece-flower root. Eight jade ruyi handles, three pairs of gold silk jade bracelets, six South Sea night pearls..."
The names of countless rare treasures were read out from Eunuch Duan's mouth one by one, all of which aroused the envy of the audience.
Mu Yao's face was slightly pale, and Mu Xiuzhu's disappointed and bitter eyes kept appearing in his mind.
(end of this chapter)