Qingxing was both surprised and delighted, and completely bewildered.
Jiang Shuwan remained calm, everything was the same as in her previous life.
The marriage has been arranged, and she doesn't care about anything else except her dowry list.
In those days, some official families would start preparing dowries for their daughters as soon as they were born.
Silks and satins, jewelry, land and shops, plates and beads, servants as part of the dowry.
From a bed to a cup, they have everything.
The Jiang family had some wealth, but Jiang Shuwan lost her mother at birth, so there was no one to manage her dowry, making the dowry list quite unsightly.
Currently, the dowry list only contains a few worthless taels of silver left to her by her mother, and two hundred taels of silver that she herself had saved.
It would be enough for an ordinary person to live on for a lifetime, but for the Marquis's family, it was practically nothing.
Jiang Shuwan had no dowry.
Jiang's father, the head of the family, was very generous and immediately ordered Song to prepare forty loads of dowry for her.
Fearing that Song would outwardly comply but inwardly disagree, he even examined each item of the dowry and only nodded after finding them all satisfactory.
Later, he even opened his own slush fund, allowing Jiang Shuwan to take whatever she liked.
This didn't exist in the previous life.
In her previous life, Jiang Yao got married before her, and to a prince no less. Her dowry was absolutely essential, otherwise people would look down on her.
In addition, because Song Shi doted on her, Jiang Yao's dowry almost emptied the Jiang family's coffers.
By the time Jiang Shuwan got married, the family didn't have much money left. They managed to scrape together twenty loads of dowry for her, but none of it was worth much.
In her second life, Jiang Shuwan and Jiang Yao's marriage arrangements are switched.
The dowry that originally belonged to Jiang Yao ended up in Jiang Shuwan's pocket.
Jiang Shuwan felt very pleased.
These days, who doesn't love money?
Jiang's father opened his private stash and let her choose her dowry. Jiang Shuwan didn't stand on ceremony and took a few nice items to add to the dowry list.
Just as she was writing the dowry list, a group of women came upon hearing the news.
"Oh my, our young lady is so accomplished. She married into the Marquis's family and is now the wife of the heir."
"In the past, we only knew that the Second Miss was exceptionally talented and famous throughout the capital, but now it seems that it was all just empty fame and not to be taken seriously."
"The eldest young lady is truly exceptional in terms of demeanor, knowledgeable and courteous, beautiful both inside and out. Otherwise, with so many young ladies in the capital, why would the young master choose the eldest young lady over all of them?"
"Young Miss is so lucky!"
Several women, dressed in fine silk and adorned with gold hairpins, rushed in and surrounded Jiang Shuwan.
Before Jiang Shuwan could even see the person clearly, her hands were stuffed with a lot of gold and silver jewelry, brocade and silk.
Everyone rushed to talk to her, congratulating her on finding a good marriage.
A particularly clever woman with a large face used her buttocks to push aside the others and squeezed directly in front of Jiang Shuwan, shoving a gold-inlaid jade headdress into her hands.
"Young Miss, this is a dowry from your mother. Congratulations on your good marriage! I wish you and the young master a harmonious marriage and many children. By the way, Young Miss, my nephew is currently working in the Ministry of Personnel. I hope the young master will give him some guidance if there is an opportunity..."
Jiang Shuwan: =_=
Auntie, who are you?
I don't even know you, let alone your nephew...
Jiang Shuwan looked completely bewildered.
The big-faced woman's words enlightened the others, who crowded around Jiang Shuwan, telling her where their husbands, sons, nephews, and grandsons held official positions, hoping she would give them a hand.
Everyone rushed to be first, afraid that if they were a step behind, they would jeopardize the future of their husbands, sons, and nephews.
They were talking enthusiastically, but Jiang Shuwan didn't remember a single thing.
Finally, it was Mrs. Song who came after hearing the news and gave an introduction.
“Wanwan, these are all relatives of the Jiang and Song families.”
"The Song family?" Jiang Shuwan raised an eyebrow slightly.
She knew about the Jiang family; her relatives would gather together for meals during holidays and festivals.
Song Mansion?
It can't be the one she's thinking of, can it?
Madam Song nodded awkwardly, "They are all relatives from my own family."
After saying this, Song glanced at her relatives from her maternal family with a look of resentment at their lack of ambition, and of course, she also felt very sad.
All these compliments and gifts should have belonged to her daughter.
However, Jiang Yao suddenly didn't want to get married anymore, and even said that the Lady Hou was a venomous woman with a silver tongue, and that Jiang Shuwan would definitely not have a good life after marrying into the family.
Heaven has mercy! She had already found out that the Lady Hou was a vegetarian and a Buddhist, and very charitable.
Moreover, how could marrying into a noble family mean you wouldn't have a good life?
The Marquis's mansion is such a large and wealthy place, even a single hair of it is thicker than theirs. Even if Jiang Shuwan is not favored by her mother-in-law, she still lives a life of luxury and privilege, which is incomparable to theirs.
Thinking of Song makes my heart ache.
Jiang Shuwan shook her head and chuckled.
She was not familiar with the Song family relatives.
When they met, they would gather around Song Shi and Jiang Yao to praise them and their daughter, and always looked down on her.
Think back to the past.
Now look at the present.
That's so incredibly snobbish.
The world is going to the dogs, and people's hearts are no longer what they used to be...
Jiang Shuwan sighed and pocketed all the dowry gifts given to her by the old women.
After all, it's all about money.
If you have money to offer, wouldn't you be a fool?
As for any mentorship...
The wind was too strong, and she couldn't hear clearly.
While Jiang Shuwan was busily preparing her makeup, Jiang Yao was smashing bowls inside the house.
"Well, all those aunts and uncles, they always praise me to the skies, saying I'm the most successful in the Jiang family, and that they love me the most, but it's all an act."
"That hypocritical old woman, as soon as she saw Jiang Shuwan gain power, she rushed up to her like a lapdog."
"A bunch of fools, blind to the value of a gem. You'll regret this."
Jiang Yao smashed a room full of things.
While cursing her relatives for being snobbish, she also cursed Jiang Shuwan for being morally corrupt and ruthless in accepting gifts, completely forgetting the smile on her face when she received dowry gifts from her relatives in her previous life.
If wealthy relatives give her expensive or nice gifts, she will greet them with a smile.
She looked down on poor relatives who gave her cheap or inexpensive gifts.
Now that her and Jiang Shuwan's positions have been reversed, and Jiang Shuwan is the one receiving the gift, she says that Jiang Shuwan shouldn't accept it.
According to current etiquette, those old women are legitimate relatives of the Jiang family.
It was customary at the time to provide a dowry for the Jiang family's daughter who was about to get married.
Jiang Yao threw a tantrum, but when she saw that the matron sent by the Marquis's mansion to teach Jiang Shuwan etiquette only knew how to drink tea all day and did not properly teach her manners and etiquette, she immediately smiled.
In her previous life, the Marquis's mansion also sent the same group of nannies and wedding attendants, who didn't teach her manners and only fawned over her.
She took it seriously and didn't look for a tutor outside.
Upon entering the Marquis's residence, he suffered much hardship due to his rudeness.
Lady Hou's tactic of flattery to kill was truly shrewd and impossible to guard against.
Jiang Yao sent someone to watch over Jiang Shuwan's courtyard. Seeing that Jiang Shuwan hadn't hired any more nannies, she assumed that Jiang Shuwan had also been tricked, and felt much happier.
What made Jiang Yao even happier was that the noblewoman her beloved had recently married fell ill and died.
On the very day the noblewoman died, Pei Lingyu immediately went to her door to ask for her hand in marriage.
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