Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 503: Little Troubles After Engagement

"You know, there is only one runner-up, not to mention the Lu family."

Li was still there in distress.

Shen Yu felt overwhelmed after hearing this and didn't want to listen any more.

I heard that the dowry can be rich or simple, and can be daily necessities, or gold and silver jewelry, or farmland.

Shen Yu silently calculated the money in his family's banknotes and asked Zheng Sanniang how much money it would cost for an ordinary family to buy eight loads of dowry, of course, not including gold, silver, jewelry and land.

Zheng Sanniang thought for a moment and said, "I heard that if an ordinary family marries off their daughter, the dowry would be eight loads, and even if jewelry is included, the silver money used would not exceed three hundred taels."

Three hundred taels.

Shen Yu had an idea in mind. With the family's current savings, taking out this sum of money would not affect the daily operations of the inn and restaurant, and the lives of Li and the others.

It can be said that there is no impact at all, it's just that the deposit on the money discount is a little less.

Thinking of this, she waved her hand and made the final decision: "How about this, let's calculate it according to the standard of eight loads of dowry."

"Except for the necessary wedding dress, you don't need to buy anything else. Just convert it into silver. Let's convert it into three hundred taels. I'll use it as cash for self-defense."

“This is not a small amount, and it can do a lot.

"If I need anything in the future, I can just buy it."

"The dowry has been decided. I don't know whether we will get married in the Anping County government office or in the capital."

"Do I have to go through all the trouble of bringing a lot of dowry with me? How many cars would I need to hire? It's too much trouble. It's better to just convert it into silver and save trouble."

After Shen Yu finished speaking, he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "I will also make a lotus leaf duck today."

"The menu was posted yesterday, and several diners have booked to taste it today. If you're late, it will be too late."

"Okay, I'm going to get busy."

Having said that, he ran away without caring whether Li agreed or not.

Li and Zheng Sanniang were stunned when they heard this.

After a long while, Zheng Sanniang finally said, "Madam, I think what the young lady said makes sense."

"If we go to the capital to get married, it will be inconvenient to carry the dowry with us. Let's do as the girl said and convert it into silver."

"What's more, Fengnian Inn is already under the name of the young lady, and it makes a profit every day."

"In the past, the profits of the restaurant and the inn were recorded together and deposited in the bank. Why don't we keep them separately in the future? The profit slip of the inn can be deposited in a banknote for the girl."

"Isn't it better to have a dowry that increases every month than to have a dowry that decreases as time goes by?"

Zheng Sanniang's words reminded Li, and Li laughed and said, "You see, I was so anxious that I was confused. I only thought about the fact that the Lu family was a wealthy family and the dowry was too small to show off. How could I have forgotten this?"

"When I bought this inn, I registered it in Yuzhi's name, so that she could have a bigger dowry when she got married."

"She has a profitable inn, which is much more useful than those few beautiful dowries."

"Alas! I just don't know where Yuzhi will live in the future. I have to take good care of this inn for her."

"If she follows Mr. Lu to live in the capital, I may not be able to become more powerful, but I think I can protect what she already has."

When Li said this, she felt a little sad that her daughter was leaving home.

Zheng Sanniang was also very dependent on Shen Yu and couldn't help feeling reluctant to let him go.

The two of them comforted each other for a while before going to the restaurant to get busy.

The lady originally said that she wanted to dine at the restaurant another day.

After returning, Master Lu heard that the engagement was successfully completed and that he had already agreed with Lady Li from the Shen family to formally propose marriage after Lu Lang was appointed an official. He then smiled and said, "In that case, we don't have to stay here."

"I have two old friends who have lived in Ji'an Prefecture since they retired. Although we often exchange letters, we haven't seen each other for two or three years."

"It's a rare opportunity for us to come here this time. We will set off tomorrow and stay with them for a few days."

"I heard from their letter that there is a Yuquan Villa in Ji'an Prefecture. The hot springs there are excellent, especially for back pain and leg pain."

"Let's stay there for a few days. Maybe your back and leg pain will be cured."

Mr. Lu is usually busy with official duties. This time he had a rare vacation. Seeing that his grandson's lifelong event had been completed, he immediately began to make arrangements with great enthusiasm.

This made Lu Zheng listen eagerly, but he could only envy.

After listening to this, the lady also thought that the upcoming trip was good, so she agreed with a smile and planned to set off with Mr. Lu tomorrow.

She thought that she had already promised Shen Yu that she would go to her restaurant another day to taste various dishes, but she had to leave now, so she sent Mother Huang to go to the restaurant to tell Shen Yu.

After listening to this, Shen Yu thought about it and asked Mother Huang to wait for a moment.

She trotted to the kitchen in the backyard of the restaurant and wrote down the recipe for the sour plum soup that the lady had praised.

There were also five or six ready-made herbal bags for making plum soup in the store, which were handed over to Mother Huang, and she was told one by one how to make them.

Mother Huang took the recipe and said with a smile, "Young lady, you are really thoughtful. Yesterday, when the lady returned home, she praised the sour plum soup highly."

"That's good. Now that I have this recipe, when we return home, Madam Tai can drink it whenever she wants."

"Perhaps with this recipe, I can earn more rewards from the ladies in the mansion."

Shen Yu chuckled and said, "Although the sour plum soup tastes good, it is a cold drink that has been chilled."

"Mr. Lu and Madam Tai are old, so they shouldn't drink too much."

"It is best not to chill it with ice, but to use freshly drawn well water instead."

“It’s not as cool, but it tastes softer and sweeter, with a different flavor.”

Mother Huang wrote down everything, thanked them with a smile, and then went back to the county government office.

In this way, Shen Yu's marriage was settled.

Although the dowry can be converted into money, the bride's wedding dress, the accessories, shoes and socks that are given as gifts to her husband's relatives and friends when she gets married, according to the rules, must be sewn by the bride herself.

Therefore, Li began to prepare to let Shen Yu sew the wedding dress.

Shen Yu was stunned to see the table full of various silk fabrics that Li had bought.

Pulling her closer and telling her excitedly that these were all prepared for her and asking her to sew them well, Shen Yu felt sick.

Are you kidding me by asking her, who still can't even sew a button properly, to sew and embroider?

Looking at Li's serious face, Shen Yu couldn't help but begin to regret secretly. If she had known that getting married would be so troublesome, she really shouldn't have agreed to it so easily.