Wei went over to take a look at the price, and her face suddenly changed. She was about to lash out when no one was paying attention, but then she realized that the mirror was so big and the reflection of the person was so clear! Her face changed, and the ladies behind her all looked over.
Wei could only grit her teeth and force a smile: "Of course."
Anyway, the betrothal gift is generous, so you can just use the money from the betrothal gift to buy it.
Qian Jingyi also expected that Wei would withhold the betrothal gift, so she naturally took as much as she could at this moment.
She asked for a large mirror, and several dressing mirrors that were more than one meter tall, not to mention the one-foot-long mirror on the dressing table and some small mirrors.
Qian Jingyi said beautifully, "Buy dressing mirrors for both of my sisters. I'm getting married far away, and they'll both be at our mother's side. These mirrors will be a keepsake for them. Take the rest to Dongwu, so people know that we have such skilled craftsmen in the Great Zhou who can make such fine things."
Wei's face was full of green, but she could only grit her teeth and nod in response to Qian Jingyi's words: "Okay."
Wei's heart was bleeding, but since everyone was here, the most important thing had to be done.
She had found out clearly that all the guests coming today were wives of powerful families. With the current power of the Chang'an Marquis Mansion, not all of them could enter other banquets. If she wanted to show her face in front of more people and make her presence felt, she could only look for opportunities.
And today is a good opportunity to show your face.
Mrs. Wei regrouped, took her two little daughters and introduced them to the ladies. She looked at Miss Qian lovingly and said, "This child was only this young when I married her. I held her in my heart and raised her with great care. Now she's finally married. It's just that the marriage was arranged so hastily, and I always feel sorry for her."
"I can only give more makeup to make it complete, with my loving mother's heart."
Madam Lu glanced at her and said, "If that's the case, then give all of Madam Su's dowry to Miss Qian."
The Su family is not well-known, but Mrs. Lu knows that the Su family has many good things. The splendor of Mrs. Su's dowry is not on the surface, but on the inside.
Wei's expression changed, and she smiled, "I can't make the decision on this. She has an older brother. Ethically, it's her brother, our eldest young master, who should decide how to divide the dowry."
Madam Lu sneered, "You forced the eldest young master to run away from home, and now we don't know whether he's alive or dead. And you sent her, your younger sister, to find her brother to share their deceased mother's dowry. She said it was out of gratitude for her mother and she wanted to leave something as a remembrance. But to put it bluntly, it's like she's thinking about her mother's things, which is unfilial and unbrotherly."
Wei's face instantly stiffened. It was indeed she who had forced the eldest young master of the Qian family away. This was known to everyone, but Madam Lu also knew it.
She couldn't argue. Her eyes turned red and tears fell instantly: "My stepmother is in trouble. I don't need to defend myself."
Her appearance made some people present begin to empathize with her. It was because giving birth for a woman was like taking one foot into the gates of hell. Even wealthy families could not avoid it. Every year, someone would die from childbirth. Therefore, among the people present, there were one or two stepmothers.
Naturally, someone spoke up for her: "Look at Miss Qian, she has grown into a beautiful lady. You must have taken great care of her."
She looked at Miss Qian again and asked, "Right? Miss Qian, your mother treats you very well, right?"
In the past, Qian Jingyi would have said it was excellent, but now she was too lazy to care about anyone's face.
Qian Jingyi lowered her head slightly, her eyes quickly reddening, and she imitated Wei's attitude perfectly: "Mother treats me very well, of course. I want to have a share of everything my sisters have."
Everyone's eyes fell on the three of them. The two daughters of the Wei family were still young, dressed in silk and satin, wearing gold necklaces and large gems hanging around their necks. They were particularly eye-catching and looked particularly wealthy.
Looking at Qian Jingyi again, she was dressed in plain clothes, how could she look like a bride waiting to be married?
Madam Lu gave Wei a rather inelegant look, then looked at Qian Jingyi kindly, "Have you embroidered your wedding dress?"
Although Qian Jingyi seldom met Mrs. Lu, she knew that she had been protecting her openly and secretly over the years, and she was supporting her today.
Thinking of her grandfather's words, Qian Jingyi felt more confident: "When I was twelve or thirteen years old, I had already started embroidering my own wedding dress."
Wedding gowns were supposed to be prepared by the mother, but if the daughters were more skillful and dextrous, they would embroider them themselves. A single person could embroider a gorgeous wedding gown, taking at least several months. Adding to the busy schedules of the young ladies, a single gown could take a year or two.
However, powerful families in Beijing would prepare dowries for their daughters as soon as they were born, and would find embroiderers to embroider the wedding dresses early on.
If you can't find a good embroiderer, then look for an embroidery workshop. You can spend a lot of money and order one from the best embroidery workshop in the capital a few months in advance.
If time is urgent, you can buy ready-made ones. They are available in the embroidery building, but they will cost more.
But Miss Qian has been embroidering since she was a child, and has been doing so for so many years...
Who doesn’t understand the truth?
Wei had never expected that such a docile kitten would reveal its claws at this moment. She secretly hated it, tears welling in her eyes: "I raised you to be a beautiful girl, how could you slander me like this?"
Qian Jingyi smiled softly: "Mother, how could your daughter slander you? I know how well you treat me. Look at my two younger sisters, I like them very much too."
Qian Jingyi touched her younger sister's cheek as she spoke, but she slapped him away.
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