At the age of twenty-one, in Ding Lu's world, a girl is basically finished when she is twenty-one.

Zhao Juan'er is already twenty-one! I really remember seeing her during the Lantern Festival, wearing a pine-colored short brocade jacket on the ground, surrounded by rabbit-haired hairy little wind collar, so pretty. She is so good at pretending. She is already twenty-one, and she is still wearing tender green onions in the old garlic seedlings!

"Mrs. Zhao has already suggested twice that she wants to get married to two families, but Miss Zhao is really old, and the woman is old quickly." The mother sighed, "Last year, Jin'er went to Baoding Academy to study, and the gentleman took special attention to him. The more she did, the more anxious the Zhao family would be."

Seeing that Mrs. Ding did not treat herself as an outsider, she also helped her analyze it sincerely: "Mr. Ding is very talented. She is already a scholar at the age of only seventeen. She is still a student in the rank of the rank of Zhaozhou. This year's autumn examination, Mr. Ding will definitely be able to go to high school. The Zhao family is probably worried that Mr. Ding's net worth will increase, and then he will become a high-level player with the Ding family."

Mrs. Ding smiled and said, "I only have a son like Jin'er. Regarding his marriage, I value his ideas more. Marriage between men and women is a major event in life. I don't want my son to live a uncomfortable life."

Ding Lu was anxiously listening: "Mom, what if my brother saw a girl who was not good at being a good girl?"

Mrs. Ding smiled, "Do you think your brother is as unreliable as you."

Mrs. Fang also laughed: "Today's spring, I didn't look at the several gorgeous girls who were with Miss Ding, as if they were all beautiful."

Ding Lu said: "Most of those girls are the daughters of gentry and merchants."

Mrs. Fang smiled: "Now the emperor values ​​business, and there are many concubines in the harem who are the daughters of merchants. The most favored Qiu Lipin is the eldest daughter of the Xiangyinqiu family in Kyoto."

Ding Lu said unconsciously: "Incense seal? Incense seal? What kind of climate can it become?"

When the mother heard this, she couldn't help but give her daughter a blank look. Mrs. Fang said patiently: "The Ao family's incense marks are made of high-quality incense wood spices. The picky officials in Kyoto only use the Ao family's incense marks, and even the palace is used. The business actually doesn't care about the size of the goods. If the person selling embroidery needles can make everyone in Kyoto buy his embroidery needles, it will be a big business. On the other hand, if the person selling pearls and jade is not interested, he will be busy."

Ding Lu and his mother nodded repeatedly when they heard this. Ding Lu thought to herself that the animal skins and seaguars of Tang Xiaoxiao's family were selling well.

Mrs. Fang continued: "So, don't underestimate the children of those merchants. The marriage between officials and businessmen in Kyoto over the years is no longer a rare thing."

"Marriage between officials and businessmen?" Ding Lu's voice became sharp again, and she quickly took a sip of tea to moisten her throat.

"No, the marriage between officials and businessmen means a combination of power and money, who doesn't want to?" Mrs. Fang was so excited that she took a sip of tea and continued: "Just say that last year, the second son of the Minister of Revenue was married, and I went with the master to congratulate him. The young master married the eldest daughter of the Ganoderma Jin family in Kyoto! The dowry of the bride... Mrs. Ding, we are all experienced people. If the dowry is solid, it will make people not have to worry about food and clothing for several lifetimes, and it will benefit their descendants; if it is mixed with water, it can only swallow the bitterness of the water."

Mrs. Ding nodded when she heard this.

Ding Lu also pricked her ears and listened, "Dowry, this thing is so important."

"They are all ten-mile red makeup, but the weight is different," Mrs. Fang knocked a melon seed.

"Aunt Fang, tell me and say me!" Ding Lu shook Mrs. Fang's arm.

Mrs. Ding beat her daughter for a moment: "You're so unruly."

Mrs. Fang hurriedly spitted the melon seeds and continued: "This is a long way to say it. Before the twelfth lunar month last year, we went to congratulate the eldest son of the doctor in the Ministry of Personnel for the wedding. His family married a lady of a good family, the eldest daughter of the head of the Qing Lishu Department of the Ministry of Justice..."

Ding Lu wanted to understand it very much, but she couldn't control her mind. What is the chief official of the Ministry of Justice? What is the chief official of the Xiqing official? The doctor of the Ministry of Personnel sounded like a high-ranking official, but what about this chief official? Is it bigger than the chief official? The chief official is smaller than my father's official anyway, so the chief official may also be younger than my father's official. What if he doesn't matter, listen first. No matter how much he listens to Kyoto, it's fresh and interesting.

"...That Shili Hongzhuang looks very pompous, but it is impossible to compare with the bride of the Ganoderma Jin family."

"Why can't you compare?" Ding Lu's eyes lit up when she heard this topic.

"I dare not say anything else, and my dowry cannot be opened for us guests to see," Mrs. Fang said it was not an exaggeration, she said the truth: "That box is just a comparison. Every box in the Ganoderma Jin family is carried by eight people!"

"Why are so many people carrying boxes?"

"There are fewer people and you can't carry it! That big box is just as good as the sedan chair we usually sit in."

Ding Lu's eyes were shiny, and she couldn't help but gossip: "Who knows what is in that box? The big iron ball is also heavy."

Mrs. Fang was amused by Ding Lu: "I really didn't see the things inside, but the surfaces of those boxes were gilded."

Ding Lu's mouth opened into an O-shaped shape and remained motionless for a long time.

Mrs. Fang continued, "There is a good thing among the guests. Mrs. Qiu asked a sedan chairman what was lifted in the big box nearest. The sedan chairman said it was his head and face. Mrs. Qiu said it was his head and face. The sedan chairman said that it was not all, and it was full of gold. She also said that their old lady said that silver and gilded were not good enough and should not be put into the box, so as not to make people laugh." Mrs. Fang took a sip of tea slowly and laughed, "There was a joke at that time. Then Mrs. Qiu saw that there was a small box that two people carried behind her, so she went to ask what was put in here again."

"That's right, what is in that small box?" Ding Lu asked hurriedly.

"Maybe it was also exaggerated that people said there were boxes of silver deeds and land deeds."

Ding Lu felt fluttering, and such a beautiful thing sounded like a dream.

"However, I have an old friend with the wife of the doctor of the Ministry of Personnel. One day, she took the initiative to talk about her daughter-in-law's dowry, but she didn't mention the property, but said that there were twenty hectares of land, five shops, and several houses with four or five inches and several farms."

Mrs. Ding was also fascinated by the ears and murmured: "It seems that this business is indeed different from the official ones, especially those giants."

Mrs. Fang opened the conversation and couldn't stop it, so she simply set up the dragon gate formation and spoke freely: "If you don't say it far away, just talk about the old friend, Mrs. Tang, whom she and her husband are also considered to be a marriage between officials and businessmen."

Tang Xiaoxiao? Isn’t she just a small vendor? Why did the officials and businessmen get married? Who is the official? Who is the official in her family?

Mrs. Fang smiled: "Mrs. Tang's father, Mr. Gu, once served as the Imperial College for priests. Their family is a veritable scholarly family and a family of Qingliu."

The Imperial College Prison? What is the Priest? Ding Lu listened hard to Mrs. Fang's words, which was related to Tang Xiaoxiao, and she didn't want to miss a single word.

I saw my mother exclaiming: "The Imperial College Priests are all famous people."

Mrs. Fang nodded: "After Mr. Gu resigned, his eldest son was also a genius. He once won three yuan in a row, which became a good story. Now he is a Hanlin."

Ding Lu bit her lip and listened to her mother's repeated amazement, she had to be sure that Tang Xiaoxiao's grandfather's house was indeed unusual.

The mother couldn't help but ask curiously: "Which businessman did this old Mr. Gu marry?"
Chapter completed!