Chapter 100 The Best Mother-in-law's Handbook 22
At the Zhu family, Zhu Zhenmei, dressed in red and green, sat shyly in her room, with a blush on her fair face.
In the main hall, the matchmaker with a rich peony flower in her hair spoke eloquently, praising the proposed family again and again, and also proposed a high betrothal gift. The couple from the second house were so moved that they wished it was their daughter who was marrying.
Feng Wu had a calm expression. Since the head of the family was present, she didn't intend to say much.
In the past month, Emperor Wansheng had only seen his daughter in the clinic, and there was no father-daughter relationship between them.
Hearing this, he just said: "We still need to consider the marriage for a few days, and come back when the time comes..."
"Dad, why don't you agree to such a good marriage?" Besides, she offered a betrothal gift of thirty taels. Zhu Erlang didn't quite understand his father's thoughts.
"Your father is right. Marriages should always be decided after discussion among the whole family. This is a matter that will affect your sister's life, so how can we be careless about it?" Feng Wu glanced at her second son casually, then politely said to the matchmaker, "I only have one daughter, and I hope she can marry well. We need to ask my daughter about this first. If our two families can get married, we will certainly thank Matchmaker Fang."
Matchmaker Fang's face was full of wrinkles from laughing. Her pale face was covered in thick powder, and her big mouth, painted with red cream, looked like a bloody mouth. "Well, that's the truth. Then you two families should discuss it first. I will go back to the man's family and tell them. If it's settled, we will start preparing the six rituals."
The matchmaker came and went in a hurry. Feng Wu saw her out the door and the smile on his face faded.
The couple called Zhu Zhenmei into the room and asked her about her feelings in front of her brothers and sisters-in-law.
"Do you really like the eldest son of that wealthy family? Why would a rich young man like you, a peasant girl? Aren't you afraid that this young man has some unspeakable secrets, so you can't..."
"Mom, why are you always so jealous of me? You are so mean..." When Zhu Zhenmei heard her mother slandering the young man who was like a banished immortal in her mind, she became furious and retorted without thinking.
Bang!
The table was shaken by the Wansheng Emperor's slap, and the original crack on the surface of the tabletop was cracked into a gap the size of a little finger. "Shut up! Your mother is just helping you analyze the situation. If you don't want to listen, just keep silent. Who taught you to be so rude to your biological mother? Well, if you want to marry, then marry me. There is only one thing: if you are unhappy in the future and you blame your mother, I will not allow it!"
Wansheng Emperor squeezed his wife's hand and continued, seeing that she didn't try to stop him, "Your mother and I have agreed to this marriage. We will also give you five taels of silver as your dowry. We will also prepare other dowries for you. Our family is in such a difficult situation that we can't afford to give you more. All right, all of you leave now!"
Not to mention the expressions of the other families when they heard about the five taels of silver as a dowry, in the couple's room, Emperor Wansheng felt sorry for his wife. The children in the family were all selfish and had their own plans. He hugged his wife distressedly and said, "Little Phoenix, don't be sad to hear those words. You still have me. I just want you to be happy every day and no one can bully you."
"I'm not upset, I just feel it's not worth it. It's still early today, I'll go buy my dowry later. Whether my life will be good or bad in the future depends on my fate."
She took out five taels of silver with a distressed look on her face. She had to take care of her reputation if she wanted to live well here. She couldn't let her daughter get married without paying any dowry!
It's not worth losing the big for the small.
She also planned to let Zhu Zhenmei take away all the man's betrothal gifts.
Thinking of the young master with bright moon and fresh breeze, Feng Wu curled his lips.
Wan Shengdi amusedly pinched his wife's pouting lips, leaned forward and bit them gently, and said gently: "I will earn money, don't feel bad."
On that day, Feng Wu went to her younger sister's house to learn about the rules regarding dowry, and then borrowed an ox cart to go to the town.
In the afternoon, the couple closed the kitchen door and were doing something unknown. Liu Qiao came out several times, but her father-in-law was too scary, so she didn't dare to run into the kitchen to peek.
Although Emperor Wansheng was a prince since childhood, he had suffered more hardships than ordinary people. He cleaned up the half-leaky woodshed neatly and sent the first batch of soap made by Fengwu into the woodshed to dry in the shade.
Since there were no special wooden racks for drying in the shade, the two of them spread summer bamboo mats on the ground and placed bamboo tubes on them.
Time was running out and Feng Wu didn't have time to make a mold. She planned to first see the market performance of the soap before deciding whether to continue.
But when Emperor Wansheng knew that the soap would take a month to saponify, he planned to make hundreds of pieces every day, and after a month, he would have a large amount of soap to sell.
Since his wife likes money so much, he has to find a way to earn more.
Feng Wu felt that if they continued like this, her husband's hands would be ruined. It took them two hours to stir this pot of soap liquid.
There is labor at home. If one person spends a little time every day helping to mix the soap liquid, she can just pay him/her wages.
No one knew what the parents were doing, they only knew that they were very busy every day. When Feng Wu asked them to help with some work and get paid, they were all very enthusiastic.
Only the three Lin family members, mother and daughter, looked down upon the two cents a day and stayed away from it.
Every time they went to town, the couple would bring back no less than 100 kilograms of pork fat. The two butchers in the town had become acquaintances with the couple.
With business to do, butchers are more active in collecting lard from everywhere.
Making soap is not that difficult, but for Feng Wu, the recipe is kept very secret. Apart from Emperor Wansheng's full participation, the sons and daughters-in-law in the family are given designated tasks to do.
The six ceremonies went very quickly. The man seemed to be in a hurry. The wedding date was half a month after Zhu Zhenmei came of age. It was said that day was an excellent day and if you missed it, you would have to wait until after the New Year.
Feng Wu doesn't care whether this is true or not?
On the day of the wedding, all the members of the Zhu family dressed in the same attire. Zhu Dalang carried his sister on his back to the bridal sedan, and then eight loads of dowry and betrothal gifts were carried out of the house.
Everyone exclaimed that the Zhu family was kind and did not squeeze the betrothal gift from their daughter just because she married a wealthy man in town.
Xu Lamei stood among a group of women, still sighing, "Mrs. Feng really loves her daughter. Not only did she not withhold the Wang family's betrothal gifts, she also prepared the dowry herself and added five taels of silver to her treasure chest."
The women all looked envious, saying that the girl from the Zhu family had fallen into a lucky nest. They wondered why they were not so lucky to have such a family!
The younger generations in the family all went to the Wang family in town to attend the wedding banquet. After Feng Wu and his wife sent Zhu Zhenmei away, they actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, this troublemaker was sent to Mr. Wang's house. Zhu Zhenmei was dazzled by the colorful flowers in front of her, but she didn't know that the beauty of flowers requires nutrients to be watered.
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