After Lin Er left, before Su Qingyu could even take a sip of tea, the accountant Mr. Bai arrived.
"Miss, I sold two paintings and calligraphy from the previous dynasty. The other party offered one hundred thousand taels of silver. This is the contract document. Please sign and seal it." Mr. Bai was obviously very cautious, fearing that he would be blamed for this in the end.
Su Qingyu picked up the document and read it quickly. Seeing nothing wrong, she took out her seal and pressed her fingerprint.
"Okay, are you ready for me with the 300,000 taels of silver?"
Mr. Bai twirled his beard and said, "Miss, you have to take back the IOU before I can give you the banknote."
Su Qingyu took out the IOU and handed it to Mr. Bai, asking him to record it in his account.
In fact, although the account was kept by the Su family, the IOU had long been in the hands of the Lin family, and the Lin family had no intention of asking for the money back. Before the Lin family went to the hot spring villa, Su Qingyu had already taken the IOU into her hands.
"I'll prepare the banknotes and send them to you later."
Not long after, Mr. Bai personally delivered three hundred thousand taels of silver notes and said, "Miss, after returning these three hundred thousand taels to the Lin family, I'm afraid our family won't have enough money to buy New Year's goods."
Su Qingyu didn't take it seriously and said calmly, "It's okay. I'll do as much as I can with the money I have."
After thinking for a moment, he added, "From now on, the accounts of mother's dowry and the accounts of the Marquis' Mansion will be separated. The food, clothing and other expenses of the Marquis' Mansion can no longer rely on mother's dowry."
She wanted to separate the accounts and let the people in the Marquis' Mansion know who they relied on for their good life over the years, so that the overwhelming wealth would not blind their eyes.
Mr. Bai was stunned at first, then he lamented inwardly, this job was becoming increasingly difficult. Without the wife's dowry, would all the people in the Marquis' Mansion be left with nothing?
Su Qingyu didn't care about that. She just followed the rules to sort out the accounts. Who could say anything to her? As for whether her grandmother's blood swallows could still be eaten, or whether her sisters' jewelry could still be bought, it was not within her consideration.
Su Qingyu looked at the account books of the inner house for two consecutive days and had a basic understanding of all the affairs of the inner house.
The mansion has been very quiet these past two days. The two young ladies are still kneeling in the Buddhist temple, and the eldest young master has been beaten and cannot get out of bed. The masters all have cold faces, so the servants naturally do things with caution.
Only the atmosphere in Su Qingyu's Bishui Pavilion was relatively relaxed. Zhenzhu would come in to report as soon as she heard some news outside.
"Miss, I heard that my cousin's wife knelt in front of the old lady for the whole morning, begging her to release my cousin, but she was sent back by the old lady."
When Pearl said this, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
Su Qingyu shook her head and glanced at Zhenzhu with her smiling phoenix eyes. "You should learn more from Feicui and be more steady. If you are so impulsive, how will you get married in the future?"
Pearl, who had been smiling just now, blushed instantly. "What are you talking about, young lady? I will never marry. I will serve you for the rest of my life."
However, Su Qingyu was thinking about the managers under her, and planned to find reliable people for these girls.
The master and servant each had their own thoughts, and the room suddenly became quiet.
"Miss, someone from the Xu family is here to propose a marriage between the third young lady and the sixth young master of the Xu family." Feicui walked in, breaking the silence.
Su Qingyu collected her wandering thoughts and said casually, "It's been almost three days since this happened, and the Xu family is only now proposing marriage. They're not very sincere."
Logically, the Xu family should have sent someone the afternoon the two families were impeached. They took two or three days to arrive, presumably because they were unhappy with the marriage, but had no choice but to propose, after all, the matter had reached the emperor's presence.
However, for the Su family, being able to marry into the Xu family is also a happy event.
The current chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Yixiang, was once an imperial tutor. He has been in charge of the cabinet for more than ten years and is the minister that the current emperor relies on most.
Xu Liangping, who was having an affair with Su Yihui, was Xu Yixiang's illegitimate grandson, the sixth in the family, so everyone called him the Sixth Young Master.
The news of the engagement between the Su and Xu families soon spread throughout the Marquis' Mansion. The next day, Su Yihui and Cheng Ruijin were released. Su Yihui went back to change her clothes and came to the Bishui Pavilion.
She was wearing a peach-pink phoenix-tail skirt with gold details and a jewel-studded gold hairpin on her head. When she came in, her chin was almost raised to the sky.
Su Qingyu looked at Su Yihui like this, and for some reason, the image of the peacock with its feathers standing on end in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" came to her mind.
She looked up at the carved beams and tried hard to suppress the smile on her lips.
Su Yihui saw Su Qingyu fiddling with a warm jade hairpin, so she walked over, picked it up and took a look, with deep jealousy in her eyes. How come Su Qingyu could always get these good things so easily?
Even though he was thinking this, a disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "This kind of stuff is worthy of your attention?"
"Which of the Xu family's betrothal gifts is not more valuable than this?"
In fact, the Xu family had not yet made an offer of marriage. She just said this to put Su Qingyu down.
In Su Yihui's opinion, since the Xu family is offering a betrothal gift, it must be of good quality.
Su Qingyu feigned surprise upon hearing this and said, "The Xu family truly cares about my third sister. This hairpin was given to me by my uncle as a coming-of-age gift. The material and labor cost nearly eight thousand taels of silver."
"If the Xu family's betrothal gift includes something like this, then my sister's betrothal gift will be the highest in the capital."
Su Yihui's expression froze when she heard this. This warm jade hairpin actually costs more than eight thousand taels?
Even if the Xu family married a woman to be the head of the family, they wouldn't use such an expensive hairpin, right?
The more aristocratic the family, the more rules it has.
Just like the Su family, the dowry for a legitimate daughter was 20,000 taels of silver, while that for a concubine's daughter was only 10,000 taels.
As for the dowry given by close relatives, that was another matter. For example, when Su Qingyu got married, Madam Lin would give her a portion of her own dowry, and her maternal grandparents would also give her a substantial dowry.
For someone like Su Yihui who has no support from her maternal grandparents, her dowry will be a little shabby.
The more Su Yihui looked at the hairpin, the more she felt anxious. Why was she a concubine's daughter? Why didn't she have a wealthy maternal grandfather?
As she was thinking about this, her hand loosened for some reason and the hairpin slipped down.
A hint of excitement flashed across Su Yihui's eyes.
Since she doesn't have the hairpin worth eight thousand taels, Su Qingyu can forget about wearing it.
She just didn't believe that if it was broken, Su Qingyu would still ask her to compensate for it?
If she was asked to pay compensation, she would go to her grandmother and cry to her. No matter how important money was, it couldn't force her sisters to death, right?
Just as the hairpin was about to fall to the ground, Feicui, who was serving on the side, suddenly bent down and stretched out her hand, and the hairpin was in Feicui's hand.
"Miss Third, you'd better be careful. If it breaks, will Miss Third compensate you with the betrothal gift?"
Feicui spoke a little coldly, then carefully stepped aside and put the hairpin away.
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