bookrebus Chapter 416
Chapter 416
When Li Zhiwei and the others returned to the Li family estate, they were still recalling that person's appearance. In fact, Li Zhiwei had once been in close contact with Shangguan Mu, and she clearly felt that the person's facial features really did not look like someone from the Lannuo Kingdom.She thought of what she had heard before, that people from the Qinling Kingdom were coming to the capital.
Lately, they had been busy with the shop's affairs and hadn't paid much attention to this matter. Could it be that the envoys of the Qinling Kingdom had arrived in the capital?
If so, Xu Heming would be busy receiving the envoys while also preparing for the grand wedding. Would he be able to handle it all?
Thinking of this, Li Zhiwei decided to find Li Tianyou to ask clearly.
After all, her father would definitely know whether the envoys had entered the capital.
When Li Zhiwei found Li Tianyou, he happened to be sitting with Lady Yao, discussing something.
"Father, Mother!" Li Zhiwei stepped forward and called out to them.
"Weiwei is back?" Lady Yao saw her daughter and smiled gently.
Especially seeing her daughter growing more and more beautiful, she felt even more delighted in her heart.
"Where did you go today? I saw you seemed to have invited Miss Wen from next door to go with you?" Lady Yao asked with a smile, remembering seeing Li Zhiwei and Wen Xiu going out together today.
"Mother, I went to Jinhua Hall with Sister Wen today." Li Zhiwei sat down, then looked at the paper in Li Tianyou and Lady Yao's hands, asking in slight confusion, "Father, Mother, what are you writing?"
"Your wedding date is approaching. Your father and I are discussing how much dowry we should prepare for you," Lady Yao said as she handed the paper to Li Zhiwei.
"Mother, isn't this too much?" Li Zhiwei frowned. This large piece of paper was almost completely filled with writing.
You must know, Prince An's estate had already given over three hundred chests of betrothal gifts.
The items her mother had written down would amount to at least three hundred chests as well, right?
"Isn't this too much?"
Thinking of this, Li Zhiwei looked helplessly at Li Tianyou beside her, seeking help.
"At the beginning, your father and I agreed that we would provide a dowry equal to the betrothal gifts the Xu family gave," Lady Yao pursed her lips and said. Truth be told, she had originally wanted to give even more.
However, since Prince An's estate gave three hundred and sixty chests of betrothal gifts, she thought of returning three hundred and sixty chests.
This was only decided after she had carefully selected and filtered the list several times.
"Mother, when the former princess consort married, her dowry wasn't this much," Li Zhiwei said, feeling a bit troubled.
After all, she was Prince An's second wife. Being too flashy would only give others a reason to gossip.
"This won't do, that won't do. I'm marrying off my daughter, yet we have to act so aggrieved," Li Tianyou said with dissatisfaction.
"Father, our status is different now. When things happen, we must consider them carefully." Li Zhiwei knew her father was feeling bad for her, but times were different now.
Back then, the reason the Marquis of Ru'an's estate had taken her life was precisely because the dowry prepared by the Li family was too generous.
It had caused the Lin family to become greedy toward the Li family.
In the end, none of the Li family members met a good end.
Marrying again, Li Zhiwei did not want to repeat the disastrous mistakes of her past life.
"Besides, it will be the same if you give me the family's things later on. There is no need to give so much at this time. Anyway, outsiders all think that our family's wealth has been donated to the imperial court. If you give so much now, what will others think?" Li Zhiwei persuaded again.
Li Tianyou looked at Li Zhiwei, then at Lady Yao.
He felt that his daughter's words made sense.
Giving too much dowry would actually be bad.
"But the Xu family gave three hundred and sixty chests of betrothal gifts. If we return too little, won't others think we are stingy? That we can't afford a proper dowry?" Lady Yao said, feeling conflicted.
At the same time, she was worried that Li Zhiwei would be looked down upon by the old princess consort.
After all, a dowry was a woman's confidence in her in-laws' home.
"Mother, it's actually better if others think we have no money." Li Zhiwei deeply understood the benefits of not revealing one's wealth.
Moreover, the old princess consort was not the type of person who would look down on her just because she brought back a smaller dowry this time.
After all, the old princess consort knew very well that she had already donated all her dowry to the imperial court.
It was only reasonable that her dowry wasn't much this time. Otherwise, there would be too many jealous people in the capital.
"Madam, let's do as Weiwei says. We will only add one hundred and sixty chests for the dowry, making it a total of five hundred and twenty chests!" Li Tianyou thought that for an ordinary family, giving over a hundred chests of dowry was also common sense.
"This is inappropriate!" Lady Yao felt that this was truly not presentable enough.
"What's inappropriate about it? Later, you can just give more silver, and pack the items more densely," Li Zhiwei thought for a moment and said.
"Mother, this will do. If Xu Heming despises your daughter because of it, wouldn't I have a perfect excuse to come home and stay with you every day?" Li Zhiwei playfully hugged Lady Yao's arm and acted spoiled.
"You!" Although Lady Yao's heart ached for her daughter, she thought that she would just secretly give her more private savings later.
She definitely could not mistreat her own daughter.
Li Zhiwei breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid that her parents would end up preparing over a thousand chests of dowry for her, which would be far too ostentatious.
What Li Zhiwei didn't know was that when she returned to the estate, a little tail had been following her from a distance. After seeing her enter the Li family estate, the person hurriedly left.
That was exactly one of Shangguan Mu's men.
Meanwhile, at the Marquis of Huaiyang's estate...
When Zhang Yanchu opened his eyes again, he found himself in an unfamiliar room. What terrified him the most was that all his clothes were gone.
"Someone come!" Zhang Yanchu shouted in panic.
"Oh, Young Master, you're finally awake." A young male servant walked in from outside. Looking at the extremely nervous Zhang Yanchu, he didn't seem surprised at all.
After all, his young lady was fond of handsome men, and this was not the first man she had brought back.
However, what surprised him was that this man looked rather ordinary. He didn't know what his young lady saw in him.
"You... who are you? Where am I?" Zhang Yanchu looked at the frivolous servant and asked in confusion.
"This is the Marquis of Huaiyang's estate. Our young lady brought you back yesterday." As the servant said this, he cast a slightly disdainful glance at Zhang Yanchu.
He thought to himself that this was just another man trying to climb the social ladder through their young lady.
"What Marquis of Huaiyang's estate? Where are my clothes?" Zhang Yanchu couldn't immediately recall what kind of place this estate was.
But being completely stark naked right now made him extremely uncomfortable. Especially the way this servant was looking at him, it made him very displeased.
One must know, he was the dignified third-place scholar of the imperial examination.
Zhang Yanchu had always been incredibly arrogant.
"Alright, Young Master, someone will bring you clothes shortly. Since you have entered our Marquis of Huaiyang's estate, you must know your place from now on. Do not do anything to hurt the Eldest Miss," the servant warned Zhang Yanchu.
"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Yanchu frowned. He felt there was a hidden meaning in the servant's words, but he couldn't figure out what it was for the moment.
Why did he get the feeling that he had been sold into this Marquis of Huaiyang's estate?
It was just, which family did this Marquis of Huaiyang's estate belong to again? Why couldn't he remember right now?