"These eighty-one loads are a complete dowry. It looks like everything is complete, and so full that you can't even put your hands in. But no matter how you look at it, it seems like something is missing." Mrs. Lu frowned and said.

"Yes." Su Shaoyuan nodded in agreement. "Chuchu is now a princess. The dowry of a princess is more than that of an ordinary person. We can add some more. Even if we can't show it too much on the surface, if we give a little more secretly, no one will investigate it."

"That's the case." Mrs. Lu said, "In addition, she needs more gold, silver, land, and shops to rely on, so that Chuchu can feel more at ease when she marries. Besides, these things are just some silver bills and land deeds, house deeds, etc., and they don't take up much space."

"If Chuchu marries the property in Luonan Prefecture, it will be inconvenient for her to manage it on a daily basis. I think it would be better to give half of the property purchased in the capital last year to Chuchu."

Su Shaoyuan agreed to Lu's proposal, but he was a little worried. "It's feasible, but I don't have too many businesses in the capital. There are only those grain shops, a tea business and a porcelain business. The total is not much. The annual income is only more than 10,000 taels. If I give half to Chuchu, it will only be 5,000 taels per year, which seems a little little."

"Then give it all to Chuchu." Mrs. Lu said, "Wenxuan is running a shipping trade with Yan Xiu, and the annual income is not small, so it can be considered his own property. Ruoruna's horse farm also gives her something to rely on. The rest can be discussed after they are both married. There is still time to buy other things in the next two years. Money can make money quickly."

"That's right." Su Shaoyuan nodded, "Let's do it this way for now, and give some extra silver notes to Chuchusai..."

Su Yujin, "..."

In just a few words, she became a new class of rich? It was indeed her biological parents who gave her a dowry without blinking an eye.

In addition to these, Su Shaoyuan had already ordered people to bring many rare porcelains, calligraphy and paintings, cloths, beautiful jades, etc. from Luonan Prefecture to add to her makeup a few years ago.

This attitude is definitely intended to ensure that she will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life.

Su Yujin felt warm in her heart, but she declined politely, "Father, mother, I already have a lot of businesses. Juweizhai and several other shops alone make a lot of money every year. Add to that the businesses I have cooperated with Princess Jia and the Li family. Even if I spend freely, I will never be able to spend all my wealth in my lifetime."

"For this marriage, the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and Consort Shu also gave me generous gifts. Yan Xiu also helped me buy some things from time to time. It was really more than enough."

"I understand what my father and mother are thinking. If they are willing to give me some dowry, they can give me some, but this is too much..."

Su Shaoyuan and Lu naturally felt that it was not enough and insisted on taking the entire dowry.

Su Yujin declined.

After such a "bargaining", Su Yujin's dowry changed from two grain shops, a tea shop, and a porcelain shop to three grain shops, a tea shop, a porcelain shop, plus a farm of more than 300 acres, and some silver bills.

Su Yujin, "..."

After the "bargaining" got higher and higher, Su Yujin decided to keep quiet.

As the wedding was approaching, more and more guests came to the Su family residence, most of whom were wives of officials whom Su Yujin knew and came to add to her dowry.

The so-called adding dowry does not mean to have many expensive things, but mainly to express a thoughtfulness.

From rare antiques to screens and furniture, to handkerchiefs and purses, everything is feasible.

But now Su Yujin is Princess Ping'an, and she is married to the prosperous He family. Concubine Shu will be crowned as the queen soon. Many people want to curry favor with her, claiming to add to her bridal party, but in fact to make friends with her.

Some people even set their sights on Su Wenxuan and Su Yunruo, who were still unmarried at the time, and took this opportunity to sound out the situation, hoping to bring about a good marriage.

Although Su Yujin had been in the business world for a long time and was often on the go, she was no problem dealing with these things, but things like adding makeup were usually handled by the elders, so Lu shouldered this heavy responsibility and was busy from morning to night with almost no time to rest.

After being busy like this for a few days, Mrs. Lu had met almost all the prominent women in the capital.

Many of them were wives of officials whom Lu had met before when she took them to a banquet. When they met again this time, they felt even more familiar with each other.

While Mrs. Lu was busy, Su Shaoyuan was not idle either. He just sorted out all the properties that were given to Su Yujin as dowry, and even found an opportunity to let the managers in various places come to recognize the owners so that Su Yujin could use them more conveniently in the future.

Su Wenxuan has been very busy these days. In addition to handling the various affairs of the ceremony for the enthronement of Concubine Shu as the Queen in the Ministry of Rites, he has also been busy with the various affairs of the wedding of Su Yujin and He Yanxiu.

He was in charge of all matters, including the expenses for various ceremonies, personnel arrangements, routes for the wedding procession and the bride's send-off, and even the specifications of the banquet, dishes and drinks for entertaining the guests. No matter how big or small, he took care of every detail.

Su Yunruo went to the horse farm for some time after the New Year. After almost settling the affairs there, he rushed back in the past two days and stayed at home to accompany Su Yujin and Lu to take care of some trivial matters.

Princess Jia and Qin Jiashu also returned to the capital these two days. Without even taking a rest, Kang came straight to find Su Yujin, saying that she wanted to add some makeup to her.

Looking at the large boxes that Kang had his people carry in, which were filled with all kinds of gold jewelry, head ornaments, porcelain antiques, etc., Su Yujin's brow was immediately filled with black lines on her face.

This is not a dowry, if you don't know, you might think it's a betrothal gift...

Mrs. Zhou Li, County Magistrate Ye and others from Qinghe also came one after another.

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Shuang Ye, Yu Yongye, the Feng brothers and others also came to congratulate Su Yujin and He Yanxiu.

Su Yujin also specially brought along Mother Liu and Shuilan from the farm outside Beijing, along with a few maids that were handy here, and prepared to bring them all into the He family.

In the blink of an eye, it was February 21st.

The wedding is tomorrow and everything has been arranged. The night before, Mrs. Lu personally prepared a large table of sumptuous meals.

Squirrel fish, sweet osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, braised pork with sand, seafood stew...

Su Yujin also cooked two home-cooked dishes herself: three-cup chicken and stir-fried assorted vegetables.

A family of five sat together and happily had a reunion dinner.

After dinner, Lu went to Su Yujin's room and had the usual long talk between mother and daughter the night before their wedding.

There were old-fashioned topics like being filial to parents-in-law, being prudent in doing things, and living in harmony with husband and wife. At the end, Mrs. Lu even handed a booklet to Su Yujin.

Then he said earnestly, "Although this matter is a little difficult to talk about, you are about to get married, and you have to understand many things..."

Seeing what Lu said in a mysterious tone and seeing that the booklet was quite exquisitely made, Su Yujin had a guess in her mind.

Could it be that...