Chapter 407: I'm full and bored

Lady Pingguo frowned and said, "At least we have to get 10,000 taels. Otherwise, what's the point?"

Duke Ping looked unhappy.

At this time, Liu Xiawei walked in angrily: "Is mother crazy? Give her 10,000 taels, is she worthy of a village girl?"

"Shut up!" Lady Pingguogong said sullenly, "This is my dowry. I can give you as much as I want."

"How can I shut up! If she were your biological daughter, I would have nothing to say, but she is an outsider, why should I spend so much money on her?" Liu Xiawei was furious, "If you have this money, you might as well spend it on me!"

"Where did I give you the money to spend? Did you gamble with it again?"

Liu Xiawei's face changed, thinking of the new gambling debt he owed yesterday, he was so anxious that his mouth was about to bubble: "Mom..."

"Don't call me that. I'm not your mother!" Lady Pingguo became angry as soon as she saw him. "Even if Jiaojiao is not my biological daughter, at least she doesn't make me angry. She doesn't just gamble and lose money every day! She is a hundred times more filial than you."

Liu Xiawei's face was grim: "You are really hopeless! What mother would go through all the trouble for an outsider and not care about the life or death of her own son?"

"Don't care whether you live or die? Am I not giving you food or clothes?"

Liu Xiawei had a sullen face and said nothing.

Lady Pingguo was stunned and stared at him: "How much money do you owe this time?"

Liu Xiawei pursed his lips: "Not much, just, just thirty thousand taels..."

Lady Pingguo's face suddenly changed. She grabbed the teacup in her hand and threw it out: "Get out! Get out now and never come back to this house again!"

Liu Xiawei said with hatred: "I signed a contract. If you don't return it, you have to leave one hand behind!"

Lady Ping was so angry that she almost died on the spot: "Okay, okay, then give them your hand! With one less hand, you lose less money. Get out of here!"

Liu Xiawei: "Are you really so cruel? It's only thirty thousand taels..."

"Only 30,000 taels? Our annual income is only a little over 30,000 taels, which is barely enough for our monthly food, clothing, and various other things. Did you lose it all in one go?"

"What's the point of talking about this now? You've already lost! Thirty thousand taels, if you sell two farms... you'll have it."

"Selling the farm? That's the golden goose that lays eggs, you loser!"

"I'm a spendthrift? No matter how much I spend, I'm not as spendthrift as you!" Liu Xiawei roared, "That Ye Caiping originally wanted to take you to open a glass workshop. Do you know that glass is selling like hot cakes now? Maybe you can make tens of thousands of taels a month."

"You are so good! The God of Wealth came to knock on your door, but you just kicked him out with a big broom! You have cut off the family's financial resources!"

"You you you—get out!"

"Get out if you want!"

Liu Xiawei walked out full of hatred. His mother and Li Jiaojiao were unlucky stars! The mother and daughter are a pair of unlucky stars!

They were the ones who cut off his source of wealth!

No matter what, he had to get some money to pay off his gambling debts first.

It would be nice if I could get the title deed to my house...

Lady Pingguo was so angry that she closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair.

Duke Ping, who had remained silent the whole time, stared at her coldly: "Old Second has a point. You are the one who pushed the God of Wealth away. I don't know what you were thinking! Humph!"

The Duke's wife gritted her teeth and said, "You believe such words? What do you mean she plans to open a glass workshop with me? Oh, didn't she say that at the beginning? She is just saying this after the fact, just to irritate me."

Although Lady Pingguo had been comforting herself in this way, her heart bleeds whenever she thought of the glass workshop.

It’s all Ye Caiping’s fault! If you want to set up a workshop with her, you should have told her earlier.

She was too lazy to pay attention to him and went back to her room holding Nanny Yu's hand.

Then, he asked the maid to call Li Jiaojiao over.

Li Jiaojiao walked into the living room and saw Lady Pingguo leaning listlessly on the couch: "Mother called me?"

Seeing her, Lady Pingguo's sorrow finally dissipated a little: "Come here. The marriage certificate has been written. As soon as he returns to Ningguo Marquis's Mansion, you will get married immediately. Mother has also prepared your dowry and other things for you."

Li Jiaojiao's eyes lit up: "So fast?"

"Yes. Mother had quite a bit of dowry before, and I'm giving some of it to you. Besides that, I'm also giving you 10,000 taels of dowry."

Li Jiaojiao was stunned. Ten thousand taels?

If she had been in the village before, she would have been crazy with joy when she heard this number.

But now she has seen the world.

I know that when an ordinary noble lady gets married, the dowry is about 10,000 taels.

Those with a wealthy family will give more than 20,000 yuan.

The more powerful ones might even offer a dowry of 50,000 or 60,000 taels.

The top ones will be more...

Ye Caiping got married... I heard that the betrothal gift was more than 80,000 taels, all of which became her dowry, so her dowry was more than 80,000 taels, and she also had a glass workshop, a furniture workshop, and a spicy soup workshop...

I...only have ten thousand taels?

Li Jiaojiao's face was grim: "That..."

"Why, are you so happy that you're silly?" Lady Pingguo patted her hands with a smile, "That's right, the village girl you dated before seemed to have only a few taels of silver as a dowry."

Li Jiaojiao wanted to ask her to add more words but she swallowed them back and thought for a while: "Then...when the time comes, Gu Han will give me a betrothal gift..."

"Don't worry, I'll give them all to you as dowry."

Li Jiaojiao breathed a sigh of relief: "I don't know how many..."

"The betrothal gift from the Ningguo Marquis's Mansion... is probably around 10,000 or 20,000 taels. When Gu Shen married Que, it seemed to be 10,000 taels. Before the New Year, Gu Shen talked to the Shen family about Gu Yang and Shen Manman's marriage, and it seemed to be 15,000 taels of betrothal gift."

"Anyway, it's whatever it is. We have to consider the old lady's mood."

What this means is that no matter how much Gu Han loves Li Jiaojiao, if Li Jiaojiao wants to gain a foothold in the Gu family, she can't ask for too much.

Li Jiaojiao's face looked grim. All together, the maximum would be no more than 20,000 taels?

Far worse than Ye Caiping.

Why should Li Jiaojiao be suppressed by her?

Lady Pingguogong smiled and said, "It's still early. While you have some free time, you can learn from me how to manage the household and the accounts."

Li Jiaojiao frowned: "Why should I learn this?"

"Are you stupid? You don't have to take care of your dowry in the future? And you don't have to take care of the big and small matters and internal accounts of the Ningguo Marquis' Mansion in the future?"

Li Jiaojiao was completely unwilling. She thought that since she was already a noble and a rich person, why should she still work?

When she was in the village, she envied the life of rich people and thought that rich people didn’t have to do anything.

She thought that after she married Gu Han, she would enjoy a life of luxury every day, sleeping after eating, and when she felt bored, she would take her maid out to buy jewelry and clothes, and dress herself up beautifully every day.

Or I would attend various banquets and compete with others for beauty...

This...even asked her to look at the account book? Taking care of a bunch of messy things? What is all this?

You obviously have money, so why don’t you let the maids and nannies take care of you? Looking for something to do when there is nothing to do!