When a Song people get married, they pay great attention to money, mainly referring to the dowry of the woman and the dowry of the man. Generally, when a matchmaker comes to propose marriage, he must show the man’s family status and financial gifts. If the woman is satisfied, he can agree to the marriage, and then ask the matchmaker to bring back the man’s birthday, horoscope, hometown, father and grandfather’s identity and surname. Of course, the most important thing is the dowry list.

But many times the man will cancel the marriage discussion because the woman’s horoscope is not in line with her horoscope, but don’t believe any nonsense about the horoscope. The real reason is that the dowry is too small. If the dowry is rich, even if the horoscope is not in line with her horoscope, you don’t care too much. Find a monk to open it and then get it together.

The man took three steps to send the wedding. First, it was a gift, mainly wine. He found two decent handsome servants to carry the big wine jar to the woman's house. Eight red flowers and eight silk silk were tied to the wine jar. Then the woman's house took two bottles filled with clear water, which contained four live fish, and then put a pair of chopsticks and hang two onions outside the bottle. This is called Huiyu chopsticks, which is the homonym of "Huiyu". Even if the wedding is agreed, it is agreed.

Of course, this is a gift for poor families. Rich families use four jars of good wine, plus silk, satin, seven treasure scarf rings, jewelry, beads and jade, etc. as a gift. If the woman's family is in a good family, she can use gold and silver to make fish and chopsticks, and use colored silk instead of two onions to hang them outside the fish jug.

The second step is the betrothal gift. Generally, you can’t regret it after you have a betrothal gift. Therefore, the betrothal gift is usually very heavy, and it costs at least three golds: "golden bracelets, gold bracelets and gold cape pendants". If poor families don’t have gold, they will at least use silver ware instead, and want to use bronze ware instead.

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If you are a wealthy family, you must also have precious clothes such as gold-sleeved large sleeves, yellow-colored gold skirts, satin-red long skirts or red-sulu-colored large sleeves, satin-like satin and other valuable items, as well as various gold and silver jewelry, pearl-verdant special buns, pearl-verdant crowns, etc., as well as various colored satin silk, flower, fruit, tea, sheep wine, reunion cakes and other items.

The woman will also receive gifts, usually green and purple lace, colorful satin, gold and jade toys, etc. In short, the betrothal gift must be generous, the more the better.

The third step is also a big head, that is, wealth and gifts correspond to dowry. The Song Dynasty emphasized the principle of marrying well, and the general wealth could be lower than the dowry. If the man's family was too poor and the woman's family was rich, the wealth could also be cancelled. Perhaps the woman's family would secretly subsidize a little to the man, so the man's family would have some face. After all, the Song Dynasty's marriage demands on the man are more talented than talent, and the woman's requirements are more important to wealth, so poor scholars can also marry the little wife of a wealthy family, just like Li Daqi marry the wife of the Ding family.

If they are all rich families, then the wealth and marriage must be generous.

Today, Li Daqi met with his in-law Cao Xuan at Qingfeng Teahouse. They needed to communicate some details and sort out the gifts and dowry. The main reason is that the Cao family does not want Li Daqi's 10,000 taels of gold gifts, so the two sides had some misunderstandings and needed to communicate.

Before going to Hangzhou, Li Daqi had already given the Cao family ten boxes of clothes, jewelry, sheep wine, tea fruits and other items. The Cao family had accepted and returned the gift, but Li Daqi only sent the list of wealth gifts, but unexpectedly it was returned by the Cao family, so Li Daqi wanted to talk to Cao Xuan again.

The two of them exchanged greetings, drank two cups of tea, and then got into the topic. Li Daqi said bluntly: "I went to Hangzhou to handle some property matters a while ago. Before leaving, I asked an old manager to hand over the list of gifts to the Cao family, but for some reason you returned it again. What's the reason?"

Cao Xuan smiled, "This is what my father meant. Yanqing married a daughter as a child as a imperial examination. This is the honor of the Cao family. The identity of a Jinshi Tanhua is the best gift. Every time he robs a son-in-law, it is like this. There is no rule to ask the man to give a gift. Only the woman is married with a strong marriage. My grandfather doesn't want to break this convention."

"But this is not a robbery of a son-in-law, this is a formal marriage between the Ming matchmaker. It is my son who marrys the Cao family's wife. Both parties have their own parents' orders. The matchmaker's words, through the six rituals, I think it is completely different from a robbery of a son-in-law."

Li Daqi was a little unhappy because the robbery of a son-in-law had a vague meaning of marrying into a wife. He didn't have financial resources, so why don't you give me money?

"If the Cao family thinks that the gift of 10,000 taels of gold is relatively small, then I will add another 100,000 taels!"

"No! No! No! No! The in-laws misunderstood. We are definitely not thinking that we are too little. We really feel guilty. Yanqing's Jinshi Tanhua is the best gift. It is really not necessary to collect another 10,000 taels of gold."

Li Daqi also understood the other party's difficulties. He thought for a while and said, "Let's do this! If the Cao family really doesn't want wealth, I can take back 100,000 taels of gold, but the dowry must be reduced. According to the normal dowry of the Cao family's daughter, I cannot accept giving the dowry according to the standard of robbing son-in-law. I just hope to get a normal wedding."

Cao Xuan thought for a while and said, "A normal marriage to a daughter, the Cao family is marrying 30,000 yuan in money and some jewelry and clothing, and there is no land or house."

"Isn't this great? Our families don't care about money, so I gave the Cao family one tael of gold, five taels of silver, six pieces of colorful satin and forty pieces of silk according to ordinary gifts. Everyone was happy."

Cao Xuan was helpless. He also understood Li Daqi's taboos and hoped that both parties could marry equally. He had to nod, "Okay! I'll convince my father. The problem should not be big. There is another thing that needs to be discussed, that is, the place of the wedding. The main thing is that the Cao family has too many relatives and friends, at least a few hundred people. I am afraid that your mansion can't accommodate so many people. Can it be placed in the Cao family for the wedding? Of course, it's just borrowing the Cao family's territory, or in the name of the Li family."

"This is inappropriate!"

Li Daqi flatly refused, and there was a reason to hold a wedding at the woman's house. He hurriedly said: "I have already thought about it. I will book a house for a day. All the weddings, maids, singing and dancing, wine and food, pickups, etc. are included in the house. I think this is the most convenient way, it is nothing more than spending more money."

Cao Xuan was anxious, "Where is the bed? It won't be in the alum building as well!"

Making a bed is commonly known as the decoration of bridal chambers. It is generally the responsibility of the woman's family, which is also a reflection of the woman's family's financial resources.

Of course, the bed was made in Yanqing's mansion. The bridal chamber could not be set up in the alum building. This was not very nice when it was heard. After the alum building, we used two gold-painted horse carriages to send the newcomers back separately and then went directly to the bridal chamber. There was nothing else to do with us.

Cao Xuan also thought it was feasible, "Okay! I'll go back and tell my father that I'll work hard today."

"Wait a moment!"

Li Daqi smiled and said, "There is another thing I want to ask my in-laws for help, about Baoyanzhai."

"Please tell me! As long as I can help, I will definitely not refuse."

Li Daqi told Cao Xuan about his idea of ​​renting half of the Lianggong Weapons Shop, and said, "I originally planned to build a new shop, but Yanqing insisted on selling the land on Yujie. In the end, I had to accept his intention, but Yujie cannot be without Baoyanzhai's shop, so..."

Although Cao Xuan was cowardly at home, he was in charge of family property in his family. He was surprised and said: "The land of the shops on Yujie is hard to find, so why did Yanqing sell them?"

Li Daqi hesitated for a moment, but he decided to tell the truth to the Cao family, "Maybe it's because he has something to do with Prince Yun, and he doesn't like it."

Cao Xuan nodded. Yanqing was the prince's group, of course he wanted to separate himself from Prince Yun. When he understood, he smiled and said, "Although the Lianggong Weapons shop covers a large area, it does not rely on store sales to make money. I think it is not a big problem to rent half of it to Baoyanzhai. However, I can't make decisions about this matter. I have to go back and tell my father before I can reply."

"I'm not in a hurry, I just ask my in-laws to send me a message as soon as possible."

"I'll go home now and say, I'll give you news before dark, so I'll say goodbye first."

Cao Xuan was going back to report to his father, so he got up and said goodbye. Li Daqi also had a lot of things to deal with, so he hurried to Yujie.

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After listening to his son's report in the study, Cao Ping couldn't help but laugh and said, "This Li Daqi is very concerned about face! He is actually afraid of taking advantage of the Cao family. Did he think Yanqing is a son-in-law for the Cao family?"

"I think it's understandable. After all, he is the boss of Baoyanzhai. He has a rich family and is not short of that little money. He also thinks that giving Yunniang a dowry is too thick and it is not fair to other daughters of the Cao family."

Cao Ping frowned, "Is anyone dissatisfied?"

"There are some rumors in the inner house, and the child is under great pressure. Since the Li family has taken the initiative to ask for a lower dowry, can we just give it..."

Cao Ping snorted heavily, "I can agree to Li Daqi's request to give a dowry according to the normal Cao family's daughter, but it's not because of any rumors. You have to figure this out. If their daughter can also marry a Jinshi, the dowry I give is as generous."

"Boy... understand."

"You understand what a bullshit!"

Cao Ping scolded his son and said, "It is okay to hold a wedding in the Alum Tower, but it is really not appropriate to hold a wedding at Cao's family. This matter is decided."

"Did my father agree to the matter of the Good Job Sword Shop?"

Cao Ping took a few steps behind his hands, and said with confusion in his eyes: "In principle, I don't object. Anyway, the two families are in a marriage! As long as the rent is fair, the people in the mansion will not say anything, but I am a little surprised, why is the land on Yu Street related to Prince Yun, and when will Yanqing get a relationship with Prince Yun?"

"I didn't say this great talent. If my father wants to know, I can ask Yanqing."

"Don't ask about this. Let's talk about it later. You'd better concentrate on preparing for the marriage, and there are only a dozen days left."

"Goodbye, my child!"

Cao Xuan left in a hurry, Cao Ping was still puzzled. Yanqing was obviously the prince’s man, so when did Prince Yun win him over?
Chapter completed!