Volume 1 Chapter 96: Switching the Dowry (Part 1)

  Chapter 96: Switching the Dowry (Part 1)

  Mozzie's recent favorite action is leaning against the car door.

  The horse-drawn carriage was the most popular mode of transportation in this era, and getting on it meant leaving behind the suffocating inner courtyard, leaving behind a group of women who were idle, vying with each other openly and secretly, and never tired of it.

  And let's not mention the strong and capable Qiu San Niang, who cried uncontrollably under the red veil when giving the farewell gift to Old Master Qiu for his daughter's wedding; nor the tears of Bai He and her mother-in-law, sighing about when they would meet again; nor Zhang Shi, who was reluctant to part with her daughters but had different thoughts in mind, leading to insincere words and unexpressed feelings; nor the two wives of Qiu Si and Qiu Wu, who were dismissed by Zhang Shi earlier, still bearing the marks of slaps on their powdered faces, which were noticed by Mo Zi's keen eyes. Because, going into details would be too tedious and has already lost its interest.

  In short, from the moment Qiu San Niang got into the sedan chair with her red wedding dress embroidered with swallows flying in the clouds, she became a member of the Xiao family. And everything about the Qiu Mansion would no longer have much to do with her.

  "Get in, let's go." Green Chrysanthemum pulled her, and got into the car first.

  They were still second-class maids, and whether they could be promoted to first-class would depend on the rules at the Jing Wang Fu. Green Chrysanthemum was quite eager for it. First-class maids earned more monthly wages than second-class maids and could also order around other maids and servants, following their masters wherever they went. Mozi thought that whether one was a first-class or second-class maid made no difference in essence. Accompanying a noble was like accompanying a tiger, which equally applied to the relationship between young ladies and senior maids. The closer you followed, the more likely you were to be pushed out as a scapegoat when the lady had bad luck. Moreover, Qiang San Niang needed her to move around outside and didn't want her to attract attention either.

  Because they had to travel a long way, the carriage was large enough for people to lie down in it. However, half of the space inside the carriage was taken up by Qi San Niang's dowry chests. When Qi San Niang got married, apart from the dowry brought by Shi Shifu and her brother Qi Xin, she only had four maidservants and eighty sedan chairs full of dowry goods. Zhangshi wanted to plant a spy among them, so she made some sarcastic remarks about Qi San Niang, who was furious and never mentioned it again, which also became an excuse for not giving the shop to Zhuangzi.

  Mei Zi walked into the car and saw Lü Jú hitting the trunk. She couldn't help but laugh, "What are you doing?"

  "Listen," said Green Jade with a pout. "This voice is really empty, empty, empty! Madam won't give us girls an empty box, will she? Few words."

  "The empty trunks won't work, they're not worth much and can't be filled anyway." The dowry chests are meant to be opened for the in-laws to see, using an empty trunk as a childish revenge tactic is something Zhang would never do, at least make some effort.

  "We girls are too easy to bully, not a word was said." Green Chrysanthemum and White Lotus were good helpers of Qiu San Niang at home. Although they knew that Qiu San Niang had a business outside, they only understood the general idea. As for income and expenditure, they were completely in the dark.

  Mozi La still wanted to continue hitting, but Luju sat down on the soft cushion, "Alright, our girl doesn't make a sound in the mansion, once she steps out of this gate, everything is up to her. You, stop worrying unnecessarily."

  "I'm worried sick. As the maid of the young lady, I have to think more for her." Green Chrysanthemum said frankly and adorably, "Before you let the young lady buy back two years ago, I started embroidering her dowry with rare materials she brought back from various places, such as ivory beads, agate stones, and golden silk threads. The fourth grandmother showed the young lady the dowry list after she left, and I asked the young lady if there were any of my prepared items on it. The young lady smiled and raised three fingers, saying that eighty taels was not enough to be worth three thousand taels of silver. No matter how I think about it, just those materials are worth tens of thousands of taels. The mistress is so greedy towards the young lady, maybe she replaced the good things with inferior ones. Only after opening the boxes did I realize that they were not even full. The young lady married into the Wang family, not an ordinary civilian's home, and a dowry of three thousand taels would be laughed at. Just thinking about this makes my heart burn with anger. If it weren't for the young lady's big wedding day, I really wanted to open each box and take a look. If the mistress really privately deducted from it, I...I..."

  Mozi listened to her passionate speech and asked with a smile, "What's gotten into you?"

  "I just asked my wife to come back." Green Chrysanthemum is usually timid, but now she clenched her fists and puffed out her neck, as if ready to fight someone to the death.

  Although it is a sad slave nature from the perspective of modern people, from another angle, it is also a kind of emotion between masters and servants. Mozi has been slowly understanding them since she got along with these maids. They are all orphans without fathers or mothers, and they are girls. If they don't unite together, how can they survive?

  Mozi had originally wanted to continue teasing Lüju, but seeing her become so serious and dignified, he was afraid that if she really went to ask Zhangshi for it, it wouldn't be good to tease her anymore. "Lüju, don't underestimate us girls. The dowry you prepared for her, Qiu San Niang wouldn't bear to hand over to the mistress." Even if Mozi didn't see Lüju's efforts, he would still see that the materials worth tens of thousands of taels were already packed up by Qiu San Niang herself, with profit being her top priority.

  "But I didn't see the girl having any luggage, there were several large trunks. Every time I handed them over to her, she would say put them away." Green Chrysanthemum still did not know Zhuo San Niang's plan at this time.

  "She said it's been put away, must have been put in a safe place." Mozi is not good at explaining things to people, anyway, when the time comes, Green Chrysanthemum will understand.

  Green Chrysanthemum still had doubts, but the convoy had already left the Qu Mansion, and she couldn't do anything about it. As the team moved forward, the bustling streets gradually appeared before her eyes. Having not left the mansion for half a year, she was dazzled by the sights, and that bit of worry gradually settled down, and for the time being, she wouldn't think about it again.

  The purple quilt was laid out, and she turned over and went to sleep. From the last batch of private goods, until today, she hasn't had a good night's sleep. At first, the front was filled with the sound of drums and gongs, people's laughter and shouts of admiration, and Green Chrysanthemum occasionally pushed her to say that there were new and interesting things. Soon, these sounds became muffled and unclear, consciousness floated vaguely, and a thread couldn't be grasped.

  "Mei Zi, wake up." Someone pushed her hard, "Xiao Yi is calling us over."

  She rubbed her eyes with both hands, stretched a lazy waist, and got up half awake in purple clothes. "How long did I sleep?"

  "For an hour." Green Chrysanthemum teased Purple Ink, "Such a bumpy carriage, you can still sleep so soundly, I really admire you."

  When I was a soldier in the ink purple era, tunnels, grasslands and forests were all places where one could sleep. Therefore, adapting to running ships was also quick.

  "Has the carriage stopped?" She only felt a slight swaying. Lifting the curtain to look, it was the official road outside the north gate of Luozhou. "It seems we've arrived."

  "Where to?" Green Chrysanthemum didn't understand what Ink Purple was saying. "Xiao Yi said, Wei Yi's wife said that we will rest our feet and drink tea at the pavilion ahead, then continue on a long journey, it won't be easy going."

  Dark purple blocking under the eyes of the car, light is very bright.

  Today's first update.

  Chapter 96: The Switched Dowry (Part 1)

  Chapter 96: Swapping Dowry, Arriving at the Website