161 Gu Rui Gets Married(1/2)
Gu Shuyu held five shops, three farms and 80,000 taels of loan documents in his hand. After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to share them equally.
"Share it evenly, you can choose it yourself. Third brother, you have the hardest life, you can do it first."
Gu Ning looked at Gu Shuyu in surprise, unable to believe what he heard.
He was a transparent man in Dingyuan Hou Mansion, Gu Huai was the prince, Gu An was the most capable, Gu Feng was the most favored, and he was the only one who was not trusted and had nothing. Unexpectedly, Gu Shuyu actually asked him to choose first.
No matter what, since he asked him to choose, he would be polite. This is the first and last time I think of him first, and I must not lose my chances and never come again.
Gu Ning thought for a long time, took a few shops and thought carefully for a while, and finally picked up the grain shop and a thirty-acre farm.
Gu Shuyu looked at Gu Ning with satisfaction, and praised him in his heart.
He knew that Gu Ning would not choose the most profitable shop. He was cautious and considered a lot, so he would definitely give up the most profitable shop.
Gu Shuyu thought Gu Ning very well, but he didn't know what Gu Ning was thinking. If he knew about it, he would definitely scold Gu Ning for being treacherous.
The two shops that Gu Ning got when he split the family were close to East Street, and the profit was not much. It would be nice to have a thousand eight hundred taels a year. He accepted the grain shop on East Street to be closer to these two shops to facilitate his management, and to facilitate the purchase of goods from the Tang family. The Tang family would never cheat him because he was Gu An's younger brother, and would take good care of him. In this way, there was basically no need to take care of this shop, just hand it over to the Tang family.
Although the farm he wanted was not much land, it was fertile land and the output was not low. Not only could it provide food and food for their family, but the remaining amount could be sold in the grain shop, killing multiple birds with one stone.
Gu Shuyu didn't think much about it, but felt that he was much more pleasing to Gu Ning now, and he was better than the other three sons.
Gu Shuyu then asked Gu Feng to choose, "You are the youngest, you should be the second one."
Gu Feng was not polite, so he picked up a fifty-acre farm, and the jewelry shop on Fuyang Street also returned to his bag.
Gu Shuyu nodded and looked at Gu An again.
"Come on, this is because the big house did something wrong. You can choose the rest before returning it to the big house."
Gu An raised his eyebrows and glanced at Gu Shuyu, and glanced at Tang.
Tang ignored him and turned his head to look at Gu Yan.
"Yan'er is grown up, and she will get married sooner or later. Yan will choose it, it's all yours."
Everyone almost lost their anger when they heard this.
Your family is really rich! One shop and one farmer can give it as much as you say. Why do you give her so much movies? They are all from other people’s families!
They cared so much about these things, she was so nice that she gave them all to her daughter with a wave of her hand, and she was too lazy to pick them up.
Gu Yan was not polite, and reached out to take the land deed of the last village and the restaurant on South Street into his hand, and then pulled over 40,000 taels of loan documents from Gu Shuyu.
"Mom, give the 20,000 taels of silver from the division to the third uncle and third aunt."
Tang understood at a glance and asked Zhao's mother to hand over the silver notes to Jian.
Jian said anxiously: "How can this work? The money hasn't been back yet, if you don't come back..."
Tang waved his hand indifferently, "It's okay, what a big deal, I'm missing this little money? Just let you take it and take it. Our master is better than the third master. When will your family want it? The senior official level is a big hit to death, not only to the people who do it, but also to the common people."
Haha, our family has a secret guard, and this little money is so easy to ask for. As long as it is not really money, what kind of money can't be returned?
Jane smiled at Tang with gratitude and accepted the 20,000 taels of silver that Tang gave him.
When Gu An saw that he had nothing to do here, he immediately stood up and said goodbye.
"Does my father have something to do? We'll go back first if there's nothing to do."
Gu Shuyu breathed a long sigh and pointed to the clan elder's written document and said, "Sign up that, leave after signing it. Come here to have a meal with the clan elder in the evening, and it will not be easy for them to travel."
Gu An nodded without objection, "Okay, I'll come over later."
Gu An took the document from the clan elder, and saw that there was no source, so he signed and approved it and returned it.
Gu An's family left first, Gu Ning then signed the letter and chased Gu An's family and left.
Old Qu stared at the back of the two families leaving unwillingly, and couldn't say a word, but instead stared at Yu.
Yu ignored her and called her two sons and daughters-in-law and Gu Rui back to her yard.
"Brother Hua, you have also seen it today. What is your grandfather and grandmother like, what is your father like, and what is your heart? You must know what to do in the future. It's not that my mother likes to talk, but you and Wenhao's habit of liking beauty has really changed. What's the good thing about concubines? Haven't you seen that my mother has suffered for a lifetime? It's enough for two women to be with you, but it's too late to regret it if you have to mess up.
Now you know our family’s family’s background. I didn’t say that you would just be like the concubines and concubines raised by your father, and you would have to sell shops and land in a few years. What will happen at that time? Do you have to wake up only then?
In the future, Dingyuan Hou Mansion will be the world of you two. One is to have brothers united, and the other is to be upright and educate the next generation well, and strive to make Dingyuan Hou Mansion reach its peak again. Of course, if the Hou Mansion is defeated by your father, you don’t have to worry. It’s yours after all, it’s yours, and it’s useless if it’s not yours.
What you need to do is to improve your own abilities and strive to achieve fame as soon as possible. The year after that will be the year of imperial examinations. Don’t go anywhere during this period, study hard at home.”
Gu Wenhua and Gu Wenhao were quite dissatisfied with their literary talent and believed that they would definitely win the imperial examination in the next world.
As for women, a man is willing to do the beauty of Hongxiu Tianxiang. If you don’t care for the beauty, how sad it is!
Yu said a lot of truth, regardless of whether Gu Wenhua and Gu Wenhao listened or not, and asked Gu Wenhua's wife Gao to manage a good family, and reduced the expenditures of various concubines and children on the grounds of dividing the family, even they had to cut them.
Gao responded and discussed Gu Rui's marriage by the way.
"Your sister's dowry is all given by the public, and we took advantage of it. When we split up, we detained this item, and the other three bedrooms didn't say much. Since they didn't say much, it would be equivalent to admitting it. So we don't have to pay the money again. Rui'er, my mother will give you a brief statement. Your dowry is 5,000 taels in total, and my mother will give you a box of 10,000 taels.
Never let your in-laws know about this ten thousand taels of silver. Even Tao Jiaming, you are not allowed to say that you can just take out a thousand eight hundred taels of silver. I am afraid they will plot against you. You should know how chaotic the Deyang Hou Mansion is now. Their family is going to be crazy, and I am afraid that your dowry will not be kept, so you must collect the ten thousand taels of silver and don’t let people see it.”
Gu Rui nodded solemnly, "Mom, I understand, don't worry."
Seeing that Gu Rui was really relieved, Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to let everyone leave.
Yu couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the backs of his two sons.
"I have done everything I should say and do. It depends on you wherever you can go, and I can do nothing."
Yu returned to the inner room with melancholy, took out his dowry list and looked at it several times, and called the dowry manager's wife and said, "Re-check my dowry again, take out the few things I hooked up as, and hand it over to me."
The old lady took the order and left. Yu leaned on the recliner and looked at the roof. She felt that her life was really miserable. She must not let her two daughters take the same path.
Gu An's family returned to Baifangyuan, and Tang handed over the land deeds of three shops and one farm to Gu Yan.
"Yan'er, this is your future dowry, you can take it away."
Gu Yan frowned, "I only want that restaurant and farm, I don't want the other two."
Tang knew Gu Yan's personality well. She would never move if she said she didn't want it, so she didn't force it. She planned to give it to Gu Yan when she got married in the future.
"Gu Rui is going to get married, what are you going to give to her? You are a sister, and things that can be made up should not be too expensive. I just need to embroider a screen."
Gu Yan shook her head, "I'll give you a golden hairpin."
She didn't have the time to embroider things for her. If she had time, it would be better to embroider a fan cover for Gu Zhehan. If she was wasted, she would not be grateful and would be useless to lose her friendship.
Tang did not stop him and nodded in agreement.
At night, Gu Yan and Gu Zhehan competed with sword skills in Taolin. Gu Yan looked at the Qingyue in Gu Zhehan's hand, "This sword is good, brother must collect it properly."
Gu Zhehan smiled and said, "Of course, you can't put the gifts from the emperor randomly. Yan'er, turn around and make a sword spear for your brother. It's golden, just match this Green Moon Sword."
Gu Yan frowned, "No."
He looked for her in everything and thought she was omnipotent? She is not a Dingdang Cat!
Gu Yan turned around and left. Gu Zhehan kept chasing him and insisted on making a sword spear for him. The brother and sister started fighting after a disagreement, and ended with Gu Zhehan's horns being cut off.
"How can I marry so violently? It seems that I have to earn more money, otherwise I will be under a lot of pressure to raise another sister in the future!"
Gu Yan rolled her eyes and closed the door with a "bang".
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Gu Rui and Tao Jiaming got married. Before dawn, Gu Yan asked Madam Qiao to dig out of the quilt. She yawned and let Juxiang dress her up, put on the clothes prepared by Shuxiang, held Mei Xiang's hand warmer specially prepared, and took a group of people to Gu Rui's water clouds while no one came to congratulate her.
As soon as Gu Yan entered the door, she saw Gu Rui's face painted like a flowery butt, with four or five layers of white powder applied to it. The red blush was the size of a baby's fist, and her thick eyebrows were like a broom. She couldn't see her bloody mouth, which made Gu Yan instantly remember the "flower-like girl" in her previous life.
When Gu Yan saw Gu Rui, all her sleepiness disappeared and cursed in her heart: Damn! Is this still a human? Is there any deviation in the aesthetics of ancient people? Or is it a widow to be a widow when he was about to scare the groom to death? Otherwise, it is to be a virtuous woman in the future? Let the groom see such a bride at the wedding night without any interest?
Gu Yan realized it instantly. She felt that she was right. The bride was drawn like this and must have been thought of by a man. The purpose was to prepare for taking a concubine in the future.
Think about it, such a bride and groom must not be able to do anything! He was disgusted and could not speak up and kiss him? If Tao Jiaming could endure the disgusted and kiss him, she would definitely pay him a good greeting next time she saw him.
Such a strong man has such a good psychological quality, so she has to be a close friend.
Gu Yan glanced around the room, and there was no one except a few mothers. When he saw that it was Gu Yan, he saluted and greeted him.
Gu Yan shouted, walked to Gu Rui, looked carefully, took the brocade box from Shuxiang and handed it to Gu Rui.
“Add makeup.”
Two words are straightforward and neat, without any extra sentence.
Gu Rui gave Gu Yan a blank look, took it casually, opened it and saw a golden hairpin lying in the brocade box.
Gu Rui glanced at Gu Yan in surprise, closed the lid and said, "I didn't expect you to give me a gold hairpin. I thought you would give me an embroidery!"
Gu Yan frowned, "Please."
Two more words were thrown out, and Gu Rui was so angry that she said angrily: "I got married today, so you won't say a few nice words? Are you here to anger me, right?"
Gu Yan ignored her, turned around and left.
“Happy wedding.”
When he walked to the door, Gu Yan still said a blessing, not for Gu Rui, but for Yu's future, he would not cause trouble for Tang's affairs today.
Gu Rui looked at Gu Yan's departure back with a complicated expression, gritted her teeth, and threw the brocade box on the dressing table with a "click".
"Who cares about it?"
Gu Yan didn't care whether Gu Rui liked it or not. Anyway, she had finished sending it, and whether she wanted it or not.
To be continued...