Chapter 187 The Marriage is Confirmed

When Lu Qiniang woke up the next day, she was told that Jiang Xuan's family would send someone to propose marriage soon.

"What's going on? Daya, don't you think he's too old?" Lu Qiniang was confused.

"If you think about it carefully, it's not bad." Daya smiled, "The person my father helped me pick must be excellent."

Lu Qiniang felt like she seemed to have overlooked something.

How come the marriage was decided after just one sleep?

Was it decided in a dream?

Why is it so weird?

But except for her, everyone else in the family accepted it well, as if it was normal.

The Jiang family quickly sent a matchmaker, bringing the geese that Jiang Xuan had hunted himself, to propose marriage.

Lu Qiniang was very happy when she saw the pair of live geese.

"This shows how much Jiang Xuan values ​​Daya. When we get married here, we always use geese instead of wild geese. Who really goes hunting for wild geese? It shows that Jiang Xuan is thoughtful."

Erya said, "What's so special about wild geese? Didn't my father bring back a pair to raise?"

"How can it be the same? Your father did it by chance, while Jiang Xuan went hunting deliberately in order to propose marriage."

Xiao Yan: Suddenly I felt sad.

The wedding date is set for the end of next year, and they will marry into the family after Daya reaches the age of 15. After all, Jiang Xuan is quite old.

Lu Qiniang stopped Daya from setting up the stall and asked her to work at home and embroider her dowry.

She said, "Anyway, we'll just have to wait for another month or so. When winter comes and the canals freeze over and the boats stop, it's time for us to go home and spend the winter there. Your father and Yun Ting can help now, so we don't need you."

Daya smiled and nodded.

Erya looked at the betrothal gift sent by the Jiang family with envy in her eyes.

Those gorgeous fabrics and exquisite jewelry made her wish she could grow up and find a husband immediately.

"Sister, when you marry into the Jiang family in the future, you must help me find a good husband."

Erya has never been shy about her marriage.

Who doesn’t like money?

It’s just that some people can pretend, while others just don’t bother to.

Yun Ting said, "Marry whoever you have a grudge against. You'll definitely cause unrest in his family."

"If I were a jinx, I'd marry you!" Erya glared at him fiercely and said, "You'd better not mess with me, otherwise, during the first month of the lunar year, I'll secretly cut my father's hair!"

Yun Ting: "...You are so cruel!"

Lu Qiniang was satisfied with both the Jiang family and Jiang Xuan.

The betrothal gifts sent by the Jiang family were complete with all the necessary formalities and were impeccable, fully demonstrating their satisfaction and importance towards this marriage.

Lu Qiniang was very pleased, but she was also in trouble.

She estimated the Jiang family's betrothal gift to be at least one thousand taels of silver.

Of course she would give these to Daya, but as her family, shouldn't she also give more dowry?

But now she only has a little over 300 taels of silver in her hand, 200 taels of which were given by Jiang Yi and cannot be touched.

Lu Qiniang thought that she should at least give Daya two hundred taels of silver as a dowry.

In fact, the more the better, but after the first daughter, there are the second and third daughters. The two hundred taels of silver have already made her so worried that her hair is falling out.

But she didn't dare show it in front of the children.

In addition to silver, it would be best to have one or two decent dowries.

For example, among the betrothal gifts sent by the Jiang family, there was a jade ruyi.

Lu Qiniang didn't know much about jade, but when she looked at Xiao Yan's ring, she felt that this jade ruyi must be worth hundreds of taels of silver.

She hoped to give Daya a dowry that could calm the situation.

But she was just wishful thinking.

But that’s what a mother thinks after all.

Another thing is that Lu Qiniang is not sure whether to tell her uncle about Daya's marriage.

Unsure, she went to ask Daya.

Daya has the best idea.

Daya shook her head. "Mother, that's not necessary. My uncle went to Jiangxi and returned to Beijing a few years ago. He is now a doctor in the Ministry of Works. If he wanted to find me, he would have come long ago."

Back then, Uncle Cui Zheng still cared about her sisters and was willing to come to see her. Daya was already very grateful to him.

"...But my last name isn't Cui. Besides, I didn't know how to be polite and didn't follow my uncle's lead. Later, we lost contact, and that's it."

Her existence is a disgrace to the Cui family.

This is the difference between men and women.

If she was the offspring of a man from the Cui family left outside, she would at most be called a lost gem and then taken back into the mansion, which is normal.

But her mother was a daughter of the Cui family. She eloped with someone and gave birth to her, which was a shame that the Cui family was unwilling to acknowledge.

If that’s the case, why go back and make people dislike you?

"That's right, I misjudged you," Lu Qiniang said. "I was thinking that the Cui family was of higher status and would treat you well. If that's the case, then forget it. But Daya, how did you know your uncle is now that doctor? How did he become a doctor?"

"No, mother, I'm the doctor of the Du Shui Si Department, in charge of water conservancy. This includes part of the grain transport and irrigation of the fields."

"Isn't the Ministry of Revenue responsible for the Grand Canal?"

"Grain transport is complex, involving the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue."

"Daya, how do you know so much?"

"Because I asked my father. I also asked my father about my uncle's official position."

"How does he know everything?" Lu Qiniang asked in shock.

Daya smiled and said, "Mom, my father is very knowledgeable and has a strong memory. He remembers everyone from different families, especially those who served in the court. He will never forget anyone he has met or a road he has walked on. I can't do that."

"How many people would that require me to remember? I'm like, how come you guys have such good brains? I even have to think carefully about what I had for dinner last night."

These people probably looked at her the same way she looked at pigs.

No, she thought pigs were pretty smart, but these people must think she was stupid.

The gap is even bigger.

Erya interrupted, "Mother, look at you. You always told us that it's better to rely on ourselves than on anyone else. Why are you thinking of asking the Cui family for help now?"

"Mom is doing this for my own good," said Daya.

"I know. What I mean is, it's better to rely on yourself than on others. Instead of asking the Cui family for help, I should hope that my father can become the General Po Lu again!"

Lu Qiniang rolled her eyes at her and said, "Just because you talk a lot, your father will become General Po Lu again? You are the Queen Mother!"

"No, mother, why don't you ask Duke Yun to help mention it to the emperor?" Erya said, "And the emperor is also like, my father is such a good man, why does he always feel wronged? Just let it go."

"It's not that easy. The emperor should have his own considerations." Daya said.

Lu Qiniang said, "I guess the emperor has a lot of things to do, but I didn't expect your father's matter! I couldn't figure it out before, but later I understood that even though we treat the matter as a big deal, it actually doesn't count in the eyes of the emperor."

The emperor has to take care of all state affairs.

The idea that the emperor can do anything just by talking is probably as ridiculous as the idea that the emperor carries a golden hoe and goes to the fields.

"Mother, that's the emperor."

"The Emperor is only a human being. He doesn't have superhuman powers, or super hearing and super vision. Let's not talk about the Emperor. Who do you think is more powerful, the master or the servant?"

"Of course the master is powerful."

"Then if the master is so powerful, why was the Fifth Young Master bullied by the cunning slave before?"

"This..." Erya was speechless.

Lu Qiniang said, "We think too simply, believing that the master is everything and that servants can beat and scold him at will. But the opposite is also true. Listen to what Dai Qi said. The court has stipulated that too much grain cannot be collected from the people, but the people below are doing it anyway. Does the emperor want to kill them all? Your father still refuses to listen to the emperor..."

Because the distance is too far, the people will deify the emperor and people like Xiao Yan.

But when I got closer to Xiao Yan, I realized that he was also an ordinary person, with his own helplessness and pain.

Lu Qiniang thought that the emperor was probably the same.