Xia Youcai spent more than ten taels of silver on this matter, but in the end he was still arrested and tied up with a rope and taken away. He couldn't help but feel extremely depressed.
But he did not blame the government, the Qianhu Office, or his own boss or the industry tycoon "Mr. Sheng". He just cursed Xia Youtian and his family all the way.
He kept cursing until he arrived at the site to build the beacon tower and started working.
Later, he was whipped twice by the supervisor and finally stopped.
Xia Youcai is used to a life of luxury, how could he do these kinds of work?
Not to mention that I couldn't eat or sleep well, and I had to constantly watch the supervisor's face. If the supervisor was unhappy, I would be beaten and scolded...
I really hate Xia Youtian's family.
Fortunately, the project progressed quickly, and Xia Youcai survived this hellish disaster in less than a month.
But his original round and plump figure and his clean, round face were gone.
He was as thin as a stick and his face was tanned so dark that it was even darker than the black soil.
At first glance, it seems like a different person.
When he stood in front of his own door, holding a tattered bag and smelling of something bad, and knocked on the door, he was almost beaten out by the doorman.
It was Liu who heard something wrong and came out to check, only to find that it was Xia Youcai who had returned.
After Xia Youcai returned home, he fell ill and the illness lasted for a long time. He almost missed his eldest daughter Jinhua's wedding.
Speaking of Jinhua, we have to mention that this time, Mr. Xia and Mrs. Zhou were not fooled by Liu's sweet talk, and finally did not agree to Liu's request to sell a few pieces of land to Jinhua as a dowry.
However, the old couple still loved their eldest granddaughter very much. On their behalf, Zhou gave Jinhua a pair of four-liang twisted silver bracelets as a bonus.
For ordinary farmers, such a gift is already very important.
But how could Liu be interested in this silver bracelet weighing only four taels?
Not to mention Jinhua, who has a pair of rich eyes.
From the second to the fifth wives, they also gave Jinhua some embellishments. However, they were all things that Liu and Jinhua disdained. They were very practical, but not worth much.
Sun hated Liu for using her as a pawn and selling her out when the time came, so she explicitly refused to add any dowry to Jinhua.
Taohua and Erlang secretly sent Jinhua a pair of pillowcases with a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water and a three-foot-long red cloth in the name of Sun and the second wife without her knowledge.
As for Taohua and her peers, they teamed up to send Jinhua a box of twelve tongcao flowers.
The additions to other rooms are also mainly practical.
Mrs. Wu gave a pair of peach wood hairpins.
Jiang made some money, so she was generous and gave a hundred wedding cakes.
Cheng gave two pots of kumquats as a gift for good luck and prosperity.
When Liu and Jinhua saw these additional beauties, they did not appreciate their family's thoughts and blessings at all, but were extremely angry.
Jinhua immediately burst into tears and smashed a set of teacups while crying.
Liu and Zhu persuaded Jinhua for a long time before they finally managed to stop her tears.
Liu really felt sorry for Jinhua. Zhu didn't dare say anything, but she secretly felt sorry for the set of teacups.
That set of teacups is pretty expensive too!
I bought it originally for the Dai family to decorate their storefront when they came, and it cost me two taels of silver!
However, although not much money was taken from the old couple, the dowry that Liu prepared for Jinhua was actually quite good.
For a girl from a farming family, it was considered lucky to have a handbag when she got married.
For a wealthy family, having a dowry of two or four loads of luggage was considered quite impressive.
However, Mrs. Liu prepared six loads of dowry for Jinhua.
Although a lot of things here are false.
For example, the clothes in the box were all stacked loosely, and there were two wide benches underneath taking up space...
For example, although she was very dissatisfied with the additional dowry from the old Xia family, Liu still put these things and some other scattered items into a box, which was counted as one load, to make up the number for Jinhua's dowry list.
But generally speaking, among peers of the same family background, he is already quite outstanding.
From the perspective of appearance alone, Liu's actions are very authentic.
The Dai family also expressed great satisfaction with their daughter-in-law's decent dowry.
Jinhua's wedding was held at a restaurant in town, where Xia Youcai was the owner, for her family, and at the same time, for the Dai family in Wu's hometown.
The Dai family held a buffet for three days, and everyone in the village could come and eat.
The Xia family went to the town to marry Jinhua, but found that Liu and Jinhua were not very enthusiastic. Instead, Zhu, while holding A Liu, entertained everyone warmly but with some caution.
Xia Youcai was fine with the other heads of the family, but he couldn't control his anger when he saw the fourth head of the family. However, it was Jinhua's wedding day after all, so he just walked away with a cold attitude and didn't get angry.
Xia Dalang was unaware of what was going on. He greeted the guests with Zhu, occasionally exchanging glances with the Xia family, and his attitude was very humble and friendly.
The Xia family was not stupid either. They quickly understood the reason and were very angry.
But considering the Xia family's affairs, he shouldn't let outsiders laugh at him, so he didn't lose his temper on the spot.
Xia Daohua, however, felt that it would be better not to have this relative.
They don’t even treat you as a relative, so why should you consider them?
However, Xia Daohua was a junior after all. Although she was increasingly valued by Zhou and others, no one was willing to listen to her opinions on such matters of human relations and social etiquette.
She was too lazy to make herself unhappy.
Later, when the Xia family went to the Dai family's banquet, Xia Daohua did not go.
Not only did she not go herself, she also stopped Rika and Goro.
Linghua, the little foodie, did go.
Anyway, her purpose was just to have a feast, so it didn't matter.
When Xia Youtian and Jiang heard that Lihua and the others were not going, they nodded in understanding and agreed - after all, Lihua and Dai Sanlang had met each other, and it did seem inappropriate for them to go to the banquet.
When Liu and Jinhua saw that Lihua and others did not show up, they thought that Lihua was regretting and jealous, and they couldn't help but feel secretly happy.
The mother and daughter actually reduced their hatred for the fourth wife and their dissatisfaction with Tianzhuang a lot.
On the three-day visit to her parents' home, Xia Jinhua was all smiles and Dai Sanlang was as happy as a fool.
He admired the scholar Xia Dalang.
It's not like the Dai family didn't send Dai Sanlang to school, but he always felt overwhelmed by books and never understood them. Even now, he can't recognize even a few large characters.
Therefore, he admired Xia Dalang very much for being able to study to become a scholar and planning to continue his studies.
However, I don’t know if Dai Sanlang is really stupid. He pulled Xia Dalang aside to chat, and as they were chatting, he made Xia Dalang so angry with just a few words that he walked away in anger.
Xia Youcai couldn't believe it after hearing Xia Dalang's retelling.
"Did Jinhua's son-in-law really say that?"
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