Chapter 140 Engagement
Chapter 140 Engagement
When Wang Yang received Gu Yao's message, he immediately went to the backyard to find Doctor Lang and said with a smile: "Look, A Yao has replied to the letter and also sent a token of love. We must send the token of love over quickly, because our Xiao Qi will marry over in the future."
Wang Yang had set his sights on Gu Yao's eldest daughter before, but he was too embarrassed to speak up.
Now the Gu family can be said to be a fifth-rank official family. Moreover, from what Gu Yao did, it was clear that she would have a bright future, so it was difficult to speak up.
As more and more people wanted to marry her youngest son, even her own family was thinking of marrying her son to other people, she felt uneasy.
Moreover, she still thought it would be best for her son to marry into the Gu family. After all, she and Gu Yao were good friends, and she knew Gu Yao's character.
Gu Ping is now a thirteen-year-old scholar, and he ranks first.
Although I don't plan to take the exam now, I will definitely become a juren in three years, and my future will be good.
So she thought about sending her son to the Gu family, which would make her feel more at ease.
When Doctor Wang heard this, he was delighted: "That's great, my wife. I feel at ease with the Gu family. Besides, Master Gu is your good friend. We have met the Gu family before. They are a family with good family traditions. It would be best for our little wife to marry there. I will tell him later."
"You should teach Xiao Qi well. He will be the future doctor of the Gu family. Besides, the entire Gu family belongs to A Ping. It will not be easy for him to be the doctor."
Doctor Wang smiled and said, "Don't worry. You may not know our Xiaoqi, but he is very smart and learns things very quickly. If he knew that we would marry him to the Gu family, he would definitely like it."
Wang Qilang was a little shy when he heard the news: "Dad, do I really want to marry Miss Gu? Will she dislike me?"
Wang Qillang knew before that his mother and father were looking for a family for him, after all, he was already twelve years old.
He didn't find it in this area, and finally he seemed to hear that his mother was going to marry him to the daughter of her best friend, so he was quite looking forward to it.
It was already good enough to be able to marry into a good family. He had heard before that some of his friends did not live well after getting married, so he was very scared.
His sisters and brothers all said that he would have a good life with the Wang family around.
But he also knew that whether he could live a good life or not did not necessarily depend on his family background, but on whether his future wife was good.
They didn't know much about Gu Ping, but his mother would usually talk about some of his good friends in front of them, and the one she talked about the most was the Gu family.
There is also the eldest daughter of the Gu family. When he knew that the eldest daughter of the Gu family passed the examination for a scholar, she was only thirteen years old. Just thinking about it, he felt that he was really amazing.
"Our Xiao Qi is so beautiful and outstanding, how could she not like him? If she didn't like him, the Gu family would not agree."
Looking at Wang Qilang's white jade face, he said seriously: "My dear wife, you are now married to a husband's family. You must study hard in the future. You will be in charge of the entire Gu family in the future, so I have to teach you again about housekeeping, and even some etiquette. After all, the Gu family is also a fifth-rank official family. You can't let others find fault with you when you marry into the family."
Wang Qilang nodded and said in a low voice: "I understand, Dad, I will study hard and will never bring shame to our family."
Wang Yang's family has only five daughters and seven sons, and the other men are already married, leaving only Wang Qilang.
Because Wang Qillang is the youngest boy in the Wang family, he is very much loved.
But also because he is good-looking, Wang Yang wants to marry him to a reliable family so that he can live a happy life in the future.
From that day on, Wang Qillang had been in dire straits. Every day he read books and learned how to be a housekeeper with his brother-in-law. He even had to learn etiquette from scratch.
But he is also very serious. Although it is a bit hard, he is willing to do it.
After all, as his mother said, the Gu family is a good family, and they are also his mother's good friends, so he absolutely cannot bring shame to the Wang family.
If he was laughed at because of his mistakes in etiquette and housekeeping, he would be so sorry to the Wang family.
Doctor Wang has already started preparing Wang Qillang's dowry. The Wang family was considered a middle-class family before, and they also have relatives in Meicheng.
Wang Yang became an official and slowly rose up the career ladder. Because Doctor Wang was good at business, the Wang family was considered wealthy.
However, because the Wang family had many people, six men had married before, and some had married their own husbands, which emptied most of the house.
Although he was slowly accumulating wealth later on, he still had a headache when he saw Wang Qillang's dowry.
Miss Wang also knew about this, and she and her sisters prepared some dowry for Wang Qillang, which made Doctor Wang feel quite guilty.
"We were the ones who prepared the eldest brother's dowry, but we asked you sisters to help prepare it. But don't worry, when the family conditions improve, we will return your money."
Miss Wang laughed when she heard this and said, "Dad, this won't do. Xiaoqi is our brother, and as his sister, it's our duty to prepare a dowry for him. We all know the situation at home, so this is just a token of our appreciation. If you return it, wouldn't it create a rift between us siblings?"
"But you all have your own families. If your husbands knew about this, they would probably quarrel with you again."
Doctor Wang didn't want his daughters' families to be disturbed because of these dowries.
"They know this, too. So just accept it. We are your daughters. Do you think the store will be estranged from us?"
After hearing her say this, Doctor Wang accepted it. What her daughter said was that they were a family, and if he really paid them back the money, they would become estranged from each other.
When the situation at home gets better, I will give them more of the inheritance.
Wang Yang also knew about what happened today and sighed, "We have too many children in our family, otherwise we wouldn't be able to afford the dowry. After all, Xiao Qi is marrying the eldest daughter of the Gu family. If the dowry is too little, wouldn't he lose face?"
However, Wang Yang is not a corrupt official, so her family only has some economic assets.
As for the others, they didn't have much money, so they said: "Why don't we buy some land for Xiao Qi in Shicheng? That way, the harvest can be his dowry in the future, and it will make him look better if he has land."
Doctor Wang thought about it and said, "My wife, you are right. Let's do this. With the land, Xiaoqi can also collect food and daily necessities from the land in the future. At that time, we can also give these to the Gu family and let the country appreciate his kindness."
He did what he said. The next day, Doctor Wang arranged for his maid to go to Shicheng to buy land and put it in the name of Wang Qillang.
Doctor Wang was satisfied with the eighty-eight dowries, so he sealed them all in the warehouse and waited until the time of her wedding to send the dowry to Gu's house.
Wang Qilang also knew about this matter and felt guilty: "Daddy said it was not good. If it weren't for me getting married, my sisters wouldn't have paid for my dowry."
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