Chapter 176 November 7th
Cui Si smiled and replied, "You can choose to drink tea."
Can you just shut up?
Cui Jing was delighted when he heard this.
Cui Yi didn't understand. He looked at Cui Jing and then at Cui Si, and for a long time he couldn't figure out what the two were so happy about.
But if you are happy and he is happy, then I will be happy too.
So he also laughed foolishly.
He's not very smart to begin with, and he looks even sillier when he laughs.
Cui Si sighed. In fact, Cui Jing and Cui Yi each had their own problems. Cui Jing had a sharp tongue and could often make people angry to death. Cui Si was worried that he would be beaten to death sooner or later. Cui Yi was stupid and would be easily plotted against if no one was watching him.
"Third brother, shouldn't Fifth brother have someone with brains by his side?"
Cui Jing touched his chin and said, "It's time to look for him. I heard that he was ordered around by the master in Xiangzhou, but what happened? All the credit went to the master."
"Although we are all of the same clan, it is really hard to accept that we have to work so hard to help others."
"Why don't you come to my side, Fifth Brother? We can be of one mind, and if we achieve something, we can split it equally."
Cui Jing is a mean-spirited person who holds grudges, but he treats his younger brothers and sisters like a father.
After all, his father was unreliable and his mother passed away early, so he had to lead his younger brothers and sisters.
"No." Cui Yi refused immediately. "If Third Brother needs me, I will certainly not refuse, but as long as Third Brother can get things done, I won't get involved."
Cui Jing did not force her: "If you don't want to, forget it. I will think about your matter again. The important thing now is A'si's marriage. A'si, you don't have to give me my share of what mother left behind. Leave me some things as a remembrance, and you can keep the rest for yourself."
Cui Si shook her head and refused: "Since it is something left by my mother, how can I take more? These properties have been in my hands for many years, and I have already taken the profits. This is what I deserve. These assets are divided into three parts, and no one can refuse."
Cui Jing thought for a moment and said, "Then let's follow the rules. When we get married, there will be assets given by the family. Most of my mother's dowry should be left to my daughter. How about this, my fifth brother and I will take half, and you will take half."
Cui Si thought about it and felt that it seemed feasible: "Then let's follow Third Brother's idea."
"Okay." Cui Jing nodded and drank a cup of hot tea. He felt much warmer. He thought for a moment and asked Cui Si again, "Ah Si, I'll ask you one more time. Do you really want to marry Mr. Jiang?"
It’s not that he thinks Jiang Cinian is so bad, but he thinks Cui Si can have better choices, and he doesn’t want Cui Si to regret it in the future.
Cui Si paused.
At this time, a cold wind blew outside the house, the branches swayed, the cold sound rustled, and the lanterns under the eaves shook.
"Of course I'm serious." Cui Si lowered her eyes. "Third brother, we've discussed this issue a long time ago, haven't we?"
"Yes, we've already discussed it. Since you remain committed, I trust you." Cui Jing laughed. "Don't worry about what others think. Living the life you want is the most important thing."
The three brothers and sisters chatted for a while, then went to pay their respects to their elders, and then went back to rest.
The next morning, the snow stopped and the weather cleared up a lot.
When Cui Si woke up, she lay on the bed for a long time without moving.
Last night, she dreamed of the scene of her wedding with Yan Xingchuan again, but the scene became more and more vague as she dreamed about it. In the end, everything returned to calm and silence.
After waking up, the chill in her heart took a long time to subside.
Maybe they were wrong from the beginning, so there was no good outcome.
This day was the seventh day of the eleventh month, the day before Cui Si was to get married. The unmarried sisters in the clan and the sisters she was close to came to her house to add to her dowry.
Cui Yao still hated her very much, but he was generous and gave her a pair of pure gold peony bracelets.
Cui Hao gave her a dress inlaid with hundreds of butterflies that she had prepared herself, and also copied a copy of his recipes that he had kept for many years and gave it to her.
The other sisters in the clan each gave gifts. Those who were better off gave better gifts, while those who were less well off gave a token of their appreciation. A silver bean or an embroidered handkerchief was also considered a gift.
Unmarried girls from various clans in the city also came to give gifts, some precious and some ordinary, and Cui Si accepted them all.
Although she didn't know what some people were planning, for her, giving a gift today was just a courtesy. In the future, she would just give something of equal value according to the gift list.
However, what Cui Si did not expect was that Wang Xiuzhu actually came.
"Sixth Mother, this is a gift from me to you to add to your dowry. Please don't despise it." Wang Xiuzhu opened the box, and inside were two thumb-sized pearls that looked like golden sand.
The two pearls that Cui Hao brought to make wedding shoes for Cui Si were very valuable. They were obtained from century-old shells in the deep sea of the South China Sea, and only pearl divers with excellent diving skills could get them.
That pearl is worth no less than a hundred gold pieces (a thousand taels), and it is also a rare treasure.
Those were still white pearls, but the pair that Wang Xiuzhu took out now were actually golden. It’s not entirely golden, because the surface of the pearls seemed to contain colorful rays of light, which flowed and was beautiful.
This is a rare treasure in the world.
Cui Si suddenly remembered an old story that Wang Xiuzhu had told her. When Wang Xiuzhu was one month old, her family held a full-moon banquet. An old Taoist priest passed by, ate at the Wang family's banquet, and left two treasures as a gift.
I think this is the right one.
Cui Si frowned, feeling unhappy: "What are you going to do with this pearl?"
Today, her sister came to add to her dowry. She thanked her for the cheap gift and thanked her for the good gift. She planned to give her a similar gift when she holds a wedding at her family's home.
But she doesn't like to accept things that have special meaning to others.
Wang Xiuzhu's pair of pearls are already valuable, and since rarity makes things valuable, they might be worth three hundred gold (three thousand taels) each.
"I...I don't mean anything else. Could you please ask Liu Niang to help and ask Cui Jing to let my cousin go?"
Cui Jing originally left Xianyang City and took Cui Si and Jiang Cinian to Chongshan Pass to detoxify Yan Xingchuan. Therefore, although he told Wang Xiuzhu that he wanted Zhu Lanyi to die, he only asked someone to get Zhu Lanyi from the Wang family and threw him into the Cui family's private prison before leaving.
Cui Si: "?!"
After Cui Si saw Wang Xiuzhu say these words, the looks of the people around her became curious and subtle, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Regarding Wang Xiuzhu's affair with her cousin Zhu Lanyi, the Cui family also gave the Wang family some face and did not expose it. They just asked the Wang family to cooperate and broke off the engagement on the pretext of Wang Xiuzhu's poor health.
Now that Wang Xiuzhu directly said that her cousin asked Cui Jing to let him go and also sent such a treasure to ask Cui Si for help, everyone's hearts became active, and the more they thought about it, the more strange it seemed.
This Wang Xiuzhu...could it be that she had an affair with someone else, which is why Cui Jing broke off the engagement?
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