"Daughter! Your marriage with Li Kui has not been gone, and your horoscope is also a good match. The media protection is also a famous old prime minister like Mr. Su. I won't say that my decent is the family should marry you in a grand manner."

Mrs. Han glanced at Liu Baosheng and said to herself, "It's a dead man, what's the matter with my daughter's family?"

Of course Liu Baosheng wanted to speak, but the question is, did he speak?

"Your mother has spent all the dowry prepared for you. The family needs to be slowed down before they can recover?" Is he a dignified Grand Tutor who has the face to say such things to his daughter?

The Song Dynasty was an era when it was about face-to-face discussion and wealth. If the Taishi Mansion really married his daughter, the dowry was worthless. What kind of face would he have to live in the capital? What kind of face would he have to go to the court to attend the court meeting?

Besides, what he was embarrassed about was not his own family, but his daughter, Concubine Xian, and the emperor.

Liu Qingyan looked up obediently and looked at Wen Wan and Ke Ren, but the light flashed in her eyes seemed to see through her mother's tricks and asked softly: "Mother, don't you want to change your mind again, right?"

"Is your mother such a person?"

Mrs. Han was silent. She couldn't pretend to face her daughter's questioning eyes. She said angrily: "It's all your fourth sister. She wants to win over Cai. She is not even the Empress of the Palace, so she started to worry about it randomly, which makes it bother for both mother and you."

This is definitely the truth, but whether to tell my daughter is another situation.

Liu Baosheng knew the importance of the palace well and whispered: "What are you talking about these useless things? Tell me the serious things."

Mrs. Han snorted in anger and said to herself: "Why don't you say the serious matter?" The family has no money, of course, it is the problem of the male owner. Is it easy for her to worry about these things, just a woman?

But now... I will get through the difficulties first. Mrs. Han finally relieved her tone and said with a smile: "Daughter, you are still young. If you marry like this, you will hurt your body if you have a child..."

"mother--"

After all, Liu Qingyan is a woman, and she is still an unmarried young woman. Faced with the problem of getting married and reproductive heirs, her cheeks are shy and she lowers her head and dares not agree.

Huh--

When Mrs. Han saw that her daughter, who was a little biting, finally gave in and gave up, she rarely acted as a little girl. Then she nodded with satisfaction and wanted to say proudly: Xiaoyao, I'm smart and tender!

Mrs. Han hurriedly finished what she wanted to say: "Daughter, what does your father mean to decide the marriage first. After two years, I will go out. Now, you are the only daughter in your mother and your father. If you are out of the box, the family will be deserted. Let's settle this matter first. Don't worry, daughter, your marriage will definitely not be hasty at home."

After saying that, Mrs. Han hurriedly left her daughter's boudoir without waiting for Liu Qingyan to speak.

Liu Baosheng also quickly left.

Liu Qingyan sniffed and looked at her parents leaving in confusion, as if she was running away. She felt her parents' strangeness and unusualness and muttered: "Don't my second brother-in-law often live at home? How could it be deserted..."

The Grand Tutor's Mansion, Liu Qingyan's boudoir.

As the most favored daughter in the Taishi Mansion, Liu Qingyan, who had not yet been married, gathered all the people in the Taishi Mansion, and was favored. But the favored Liu Qingyan was also worried.

After calculating the accounts, she had discovered the strange reason for her parents, and it seemed that her family's money seemed to be a little low.

Mrs. Han gave all her support to the house to give money to the palace. Although the process has been full of twists and turns, this family affection must be maintained. The Grand Tutor Mansion has been very expensive in recent years. As soon as it is released, it is necessary to maintain the decentness of the family of Concubine Xian’s mother. At the same time, it is necessary to supplement the two sons-in-law. It is impossible not to mention the bad things without mentioning the white things. When paying the money, I think of people and forget them when I get the benefits.

If this is the case, my daughter may have complaints, let alone the son-in-law?

Of course, although the son-in-law of the Liu family is almost capable, he really doesn't value money very much.

But the elders must take it seriously and have to give it a bowl of water.

The second son-in-law gave it to the farm and the house in the capital.

The third son-in-law gave it to the farm and shop.

This is a huge expense, especially since Mrs. Han cannot give an empty farm to her daughter, son-in-law, servant, and manager, and she must prepare it properly. This is another big expense.

Although his father Liu Baosheng was the Grand Tutor, the Grand Tutor was just a casual official who was in charge of affairs. He was favored by the court. His salary was only 120 guan, and with a subsidy of 240 guan (the duke's official salary), he could receive a salary of 360 guan in a single month. In addition, the land and shops in Grand Tutor Liu's hometown had been sold three years ago. If the two sons-in-law had not been prepared to go to the capital to pave the way for his daughter, they were robbed by the bandits from Niubeishan. Liu Baosheng would not have known Li Kui through his third son-in-law.

After meeting Li Kui, the Liu family embarked on a smooth journey of glory and prosperity.

Thank you for your kindness, Master Liu.

He absolutely can't do it. Now that he has a high status, he looks down on Li Kui's ordinary family background. But the empty treasury is true, and he has no choice.

In recent years, the Liu family has bought a big mansion in the capital and spent nearly 50,000 jin. This is a huge sum of money and one of the confidences that Liu Baosheng can be respectful in the court. The man is rich!

But in fact, after the secret recipe of Snowflake Salt was presented to the court, the Liu family's serious income was only Liu Baosheng's official salary, 360 guan per month.

This money is already a huge sum of money for ordinary officials and even senior bureaucrats. But for the Taishi Mansion, how can this little money maintain the decentness of the royal relatives of the Taishi Mansion?

Liu Qingyan suddenly realized that her family had no money to marry her daughter, and her parents were not reluctant to leave her. She pushed the account book in front of her and became sulky.

And Liu Baosheng and his wife had headaches one after another.

There are no female family members who are suitable for dowry at home.

There are no concubines, maids, managers, slaves, and other servants. What’s more important is that where to find a dowry farm and shop is not a big problem.

And there is nothing that Liu Baosheng seems to be able to solve.

Let's talk about maids?

The Liu family has insufficient background and has trustworthy maids, but their military background is more rude than the other. As for the cousins ​​who choose to marry dowry among poor relatives, they cannot find it. This is not a trivial matter, but face. If someone else has it, the Grand Tutor's Mansion cannot take it out. Is this a good thing?

However, the Liu family was very small, and the relatives were struggling for a while, but they could not find a suitable candidate. Mrs. Han's family, forgot, they were not a good deal. Liu Baosheng felt that giving a group of disasters to his son-in-law would inevitably lead to complaints in the future.

However, Liu Baosheng had a solution. After thinking for three or four days, he really came up with someone. He hurriedly called his second son-in-law and asked: "The descendant of the provincial examination once, Renjie seemed to have stayed in a family in Beijing. Is this a matter?"

Cheng Zhijie thought his father-in-law had doubts about Li Kui's character, so he patted his chest and said, "Father-in-law, you still don't know about Renjie's character? There is this, but Renjie did nothing."

"Okay, he just did nothing." Liu Baosheng smiled comfortably with his hands and said, "I heard that the woman in that family is unmarried, how do you look?"

"Goddess and beautiful, of course, it's not as good as my wife." Cheng Zhijie smiled and followed the words of his father-in-law Liu Baosheng. He suddenly seemed to see someone passing through the front hall of the main room. The color of the skirt seemed to look like his wife. He immediately changed his words and praised his wife for being virtuous. What made Liu Baosheng feel so unhappy, and what made him even more frightened was that Cheng Zhijie approached and whispered in a low voice: "Father-in-law wants to take a concubine?"

Liu Baosheng glared at him, and he didn't understand. Is he so anxious? The father of a dignified concubine, can't he think about it seriously?

Liu Baosheng scolded, "What nonsense? I am thinking that according to our family's current family background, your fifth sister will get married, and no matter how you get married, you have to prepare a few concubines and train the maids. Forget it, let alone anything else, it's just that the concubine is troubled by me. Since you said that Renjie had a fate with that woman, it would be better for me to come forward to recognize a goddaughter, so that Renjie would not let people gossip behind my back because of the original affairs. By the way, talk about the situation of that family, you will be concerned about these things on weekdays."

Cheng Zhijie finished the situation in detail, and Liu Baosheng felt it was right.

A young coach, who is only accompanied by his daughter, is a military family, and is not a serious official. Anyway, it must be enough to give Li Kui a dowry. Liu Baosheng felt that he had done something good, and Li Kui should thank him: "Okay, you have to take me to see these days and settle the matter."

"No, you can't go!"

Mrs. Han appeared in front of Liu Baosheng in a elusive way, scaring Liu Baosheng almost threw out the tea bowl in his hand. Put down the tea bowl that had sprinkled with tea soup, Liu Baosheng said in a deep voice: "Madam, this matter is a big matter for my family. After Xiaoding, then Dading. This time, everyone in the Su family did it with an ancient mind and was waiting for the Li family to give a betrothal gift. This matter cannot be delayed."

"You can't go?"

Mrs. Han insisted.

The dignified Grand Tutor Liu Baosheng didn't believe it. He was so big outside, could he still convince a coach who was as big as a sesame mung bean? This is too underestimating himself? Liu Baosheng said unhappily: "Why?"

"What if you steal it?"

Liu Baosheng's face turned green. He found that since the jealous jar broke, his family was sour all day long, guarding him like a thief in the flower picking thief. Mr. Liu also had a temper. He swayed his clothes and left angrily. He left Cheng Zhijie nervous because he was unclear and whispered: "Mother-in-law, he can't do this."

"When it is done, the sky will collapse!" Mrs. Han said contemptuously.

Finally, Cheng Zhijie was entrusted with an important task and sent the return gift to Li Kui's house. The reason why the marriage was delayed for two years showed that his daughter was too young and got married two years later.

In addition, Cheng Zhijie also wanted to go to Teacher Zhang's house to convince Teacher Zhang to contribute his daughter. Yes, it was wrong. He was to let the Grand Tutor take the goddaughter and marry Li Kui together in the future.

In addition to the mansion, Cheng Zhijie climbed onto his own flower horse and muttered: "What's going on every day? If you can't do it, you have to find a helper."

He found Gao Qiu to be with him. After seeing Li Kui, the two of them secretly winked at Li Kui and were so happy. Li Kui asked, "Second brother-in-law, are you having a happy event?"

"No, you were having a happy event." Cheng Zhijie said with a smile.

Gao Qiu said in a whisper: "Renjie, I have to thank us brothers at that time. You have made a lot of money."

Looking at Gao Qiu and Cheng Zhijie's collusion, Li Kui touched his nose and muttered: "It's mysterious. What's going on? No, I have to go and take a look!"
Chapter completed!