Chapter 181 - Chapter 181: Chapter 181: Some Families Are Happy, Some Families Are Sad
Chapter 181: Chapter 181: Some Families Are Happy, Some Families Are Sad
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Every time Xiao Baoxin had a little something, it would definitely cause a storm in the city. Even the last time when he sneakily went to see Xie Xian off, he was blocked by Pan Shuo and Yang Shao. And Xie Xian was someone who was proud in front of Emperor Yu Heng. He had offended countless aristocratic families and was also a figure in the limelight.
Right now, the atmosphere in Jiankang was gloomy and tense. Xie Xian and Xiao Baoxin did not want to stir up trouble at this time. Even if they wanted to scratch each other’s hearts, they endured it. They did not want to be exposed at this time.
It didn’t matter if they met in private since they were already engaged. However, the problem was that Emperor Yu Heng had just lost Imperial Consort Liu and was still grieving. No matter how arrogant Xiao Baoxin was, he didn’t want to cause trouble for the Emperor.
She did not say that the lights were bright in front of the baldies, and she did not say that the legs were short in front of the shorties. She still had this kind of eye.
It was just the death of the emperor’s concubine, not a national funeral. What was wrong with an official drinking wine on his birthday? If the official was abandoned, where was the reason?
The problem was that Liang was someone else’s, and the one with the strongest fist had the final say.
Xie Xian naturally had his misgivings, so he didn’t visit. However, no matter how secretive the gifts were, they couldn’t be hidden from the entire Xie family. Sikong Xiao was so satisfied that he was grinning happily all day long. His mood was good, and his mental state was brought out. He was glared at by Emperor Yu Heng several times in court. He wasn’t happy, and he didn’t want to see others happy.
Madam Xie was much more reserved, but she couldn’t help but sigh to Xiao Baoxin that this Xie Xian was also a good person. He knew how to curry favor with his future wife before they even got married. He would definitely not go wrong in the future. He had a good family background, good character, good ability, and treated his daughter well. He had finally found the right person. As for his body, he would slowly recuperate. It would eventually recover.
Xiao Baoshu,”You have to have it, I have it too. I’ll treat my future wife as well.”
According to Mrs. Xie, he had already started to save money in a planned manner so that he could sell it out in the future. After ail, he had been giving out gifts for more than ten years in one go, and none of them were the same. Any one of them would be a high-quality gift, and he still needed a strong financial backing.
Xiao Baoshu even went to ask Sikong Xiao how much money he would get in the future, but in the end-
In the future, did he mean after he died? Sikong Xiao was furious at that moment. He performed two sets of punches in a row and beat Xiao Baoshu up until his face was swollen. He was no longer the baby that his father loved the most.
Xiao Baoshu:” I’m talking about after I get married. Won’t you give me money when I get married? Brother took so much silver this time, do you still have any for my wedding?”
The result of the communication was that he was beaten up again. Then, he ran away from home in anger for two days and only returned after spending all the money on him.
It was impossible to hide the fact that Sikong Xiao had let Xiao Baoshan take away one-third of the silver in the residence. At most, she didn’t know the actual number, but she definitely brought a lot. How could she not know that Madam Xie was the housekeeper?
This matter could not be hidden.
Madam Xie was worried every day, and her hair was almost turning white. The Xie family had given so many betrothal gifts, far exceeding the dowry she had prepared for Xiao Baoxin. This showed the difference between the aristocratic families and them who started from scratch. The wealth that the aristocratic families had accumulated over several lifetimes was really not something they could imagine. Madam Xie had only heard of the rare items in the betrotrothal gifts and had never seen them before. She gave Xiao Baoxin enough face to show her satisfaction with this marriage.
If they gave you so much and you didn’t have enough dowry, wouldn’t you be a joke to your in-laws?
Not to mention that other than the beautiful and kind-hearted Madam Yuan, the kind and kind Mother Xie, there were also the second and third families who were jumping up and down and opposing this marriage.
No matter who looked down on them, they couldn’t look down on them.
The main thing was that the ones who caused trouble were the elders, so they could not be beaten or scolded!
In the end, Sikong Xiao was really at his wit’s end from Madam Xie’s pestering. He finally confessed to her,””They took away silver, but don’t they still have real property at home? What manor, shop, ail kinds of good things rewarded by the emperor, if you are willing to marry over, just bring them over! It’s not like 1 don’t want you to accompany me. Accompany me!”
“Their Xie Clan has mountains of gold and silver, and they can’t handle a large population. No matter how Xie Xian is the Clan Head, he can’t come alone. We only have our precious daughter at home. It doesn’t matter even if we give her Baoshu’s share. I don’t believe that our family can still be laughed at by the Xie family!”
Xiao Baoshu, who was hiding in an unknown corner, shrugged.” Am 1 not surnamed Xiao or what? Don’t you need money to marry a princess? He was just a son-in-law, not a live-in son-in-law.
Unfortunately, he didn’t know that his father would say such a thing. Otherwise, he would probably… He would be beaten up again.
Madam Xie was the one who had important matters to attend to. After all, it was her own child. Who couldn’t suffer for their child? If she had known that Sikong Xiao had given one-third of his family property to Xiao Baoshan, she wouldn’t have given the 1,000 taels of silver to the Cai family in private. Now, she and Xiao Baoshu were the poorest.
“That won’t be the case. With your words, I have an idea in my heart. It’s better to leave the silver as it is. It was fine if people didn’t laugh at the matter of a chicken giving birth to an egg giving birth to a chicken. Boshu would also get married in a few years. Did he not need a dowry?”
“She’s still a princess…” Madam Xie was laughing so hard that her eyes almost disappeared.
Her daughter had married into a top-notch family, and her son had married into a princess. It had fulfilled her dream for many years. There was no need for another two generations. At most, in another generation, their Xiao family would also be a well-known family.
Now that he said it out loud, he would have some face.
Who would have thought that the Xiao family’s reputation had been ruined a while ago and that they had been ridiculed by the entire Jiankang City, be it the aristocratic families or the common people? She was so embarrassed that she could not even raise her head.
She felt that her life…Perfection!
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However, not everyone was like Madam Xie, not everyone was like the Xiao family, full of complacency.
Emperor Yu Heng’s heart was filled with sorrow. No one should be happy. Xiao Baoxin and Xie Xian were still fine. They had just been engaged, and the date had not been set yet. The earliest would be the next year.
Although there was no explicit decree forbidding marriage, Princess Lujiang, who was already prepared to be married, had already stopped sending out half of the wedding invitations. With the royal family there to make preparations, did the lower echelons not know what to do?
The higher-ups followed suit. Although the higher-ups did not directly ban marriage, it was almost the same as a ban. After all, the emperor was still the Song family. No one wanted to make the emperor bear a grudge because of a child’s marriage.
A few marriages had no choice but to be postponed, including the marriage between Wang Qiang and Chu Silang.
Originally, it was set to be the sixth of October, but it was almost here. After a discussion between the two families, they both knew the taboo and tacitly pushed the wedding date to March of the following year.
Originally, this wasn’t something worth making a fuss about. However, just two days after the marriage was postponed, the fourth son of the Chu family was killed by a cow that had been bitten by a dog on the road…
Wang Qiang had become a widow before she even married into the Chu family. On one hand, the Chu family had a triangle lawsuit with the owner of the cow and dog. On the other hand, they also asked Wang Qiang to keep Chu Silang’s three-year festival before getting married..