0p0 Chapter 225 Our Family Needs to Be Elevated
Chapter 225 Our Family Needs to Be Elevated
Just because people don't care about the bride price or the wedding house doesn't mean we won't prepare anything.
Preparing to the best of your ability according to your own capability is a sincere gesture.
By the way, "Mom, Dad, we need to raise our family well."
"Baba Gao" is the dialect in Shanyang Village, with a broad meaning, meaning "to become better and stronger."
What Lu Yao meant was that, although the Song family would not mind marrying into the family, her family could not be too bad.
After all, expressing your feelings costs money, and only when your family is well off can you afford it.
Mother Lu nodded and said, "You are right. There is a big difference between our two families. If our family remains so poor in the future, people will look down on us after a while. When you go to your husband's house, you won't be able to stand up straight."
Not to mention wealthy families, even among ordinary people, poor relatives who are not doing well are looked down upon.
A wife from a poor family will also be looked down upon by her rich husband.
The two elders of the Lu family did not want their family to become poor relatives looked down upon by the Song family, and Ergouzi did not want to become a poor wife who could not stand up straight and was looked down upon in her husband's family because her mother married into poverty.
Lu Yao thought to herself: Mom is quite concerned about her reputation.
But this is also true.
If the Lu family was always too poor and weak, Lu Yao would feel like she was just a gigolo when facing the richest family, the Song family.
Even if she wasn't going to be a concubine's wife, it was somewhat like that.
Mother Lu is the head of the family, and her main concern is the family's face and reputation.
Uncle Lu is more practical and his focus is directly on money.
He quietly stretched out his fingers, pinched and calculated, and quickly estimated the cost of his daughter marrying Song Yanyi.
There was no way he could think of a dowry of thousands of taels, but in order to show his importance to this marriage, Father Lu gritted his teeth and decided to raise a dowry of one hundred taels!
Of the one hundred taels of silver, sixty taels were originally prepared as fines.
It's worth using here.
The rest was the money from selling the ginseng that Lu Yao had given her, as well as the money from selling various gifts at home.
The total amount was more than one hundred silver coins. After allocating part of it to the betrothal gift, the rest was used to hold the wedding banquet, prepare the new house, buy new furniture, etc.
In the blink of an eye, the money was gone like water.
Father Lu's hands trembled, and he said in horror: "Pull it out! Pull it out as hard as you can!"
If you don't raise your standards, where are you going to get the money?
Lu Yao is his only child. In this life, he hopes that both of his children can be safe and sound, marry, have daughters, and live a good life.
Old Lu Shan doesn't have to worry anymore. Ergouzi, who had difficulty finding a husband, has finally found his ideal husband. He can't let other reasons delay it!
All the money calculated before was earned by Ergouzi with his own ability, so he, as his father, can't be complacent!
Besides, my daughter is so capable, now she can start a business with the whole family. This way, making money and saving money is no longer the hardest work of digging for food in the soil.
Uncle Lu thought of the two pots of braised chicken and felt more motivated.
Unconsciously, the old couple were inspired by their daughter to fight again.
Just like countless parents, they earn and save money to help their children start a family.
Uncle Lu was very motivated and it only took him half a day to help Lu Yao paste the paper for making playing cards.
After drying overnight, you can cut it the next day.
Mother Lu also took on a new job from Lu Yao - carving stamps on the simple patterns on playing cards.
If we want to mass-produce playing cards in the future, we can no longer rely on handwriting or hand-painting.
Lu Yao divided the numbers, patterns, etc. above into several parts, and asked the woodblock engraving master in the study to carve the words and complex patterns, and asked her mother to carve simple patterns such as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs.
It not only saves costs, but also protects technology from being exposed.
When the time comes, once the typeset is laid out, the ink is brushed upwards and the cards can be printed directly with a click.
Isn't it much faster than handwriting?
After solving this problem, Lu Yao went out.
Taking advantage of the two days when the chicken shop was closed, she took the things that the rich woman had given her as a reward that day, such as the exaggerated large gold hairpin, gold rings, jade bracelets, agates, etc., to the jewelry store and sold them all.
Although she is a boss now and should wear some jewelry on her head and body to show off, those things were given to her by rich ladies. When she negotiates business in the future, if she happens to meet those local rich ladies and they find out that she is wearing the gifts they gave her, wouldn't that be very embarrassing?
What's more, the most important thing is that Song Yanyi doesn't like her wearing those jewelry.
To be more precise, I don't like (the origin of) those jewelry.
So, Lu Yao sold all the jewelry without hesitation.
The exaggeratedly large gold hairpin weighed two taels and eight taels of silver, just the material alone, which translates to twenty-eight taels of silver.
It is indeed the most valuable of all the jewelry.
The rest of the gold bracelets and gold rings were not made of pure gold, but gold-plated.
As soon as the jewelry store owner said this, Lu Yao realized that some wealthy ladies and masters here would specifically buy these gold-plated jewelry.
This is to make it convenient when giving rewards.
It looks quite impressive, but it's actually not worth much money.
Lu Yao couldn't help but sigh: Those local rich ladies are really good at calculating.
In addition, the jade bracelet is not made of very good jade, and the agate is not of good quality and is not top quality.
Lu Yao sighed again: Sure enough, the aunts didn't spend a lot of money on me! Only the aunt who is the richest in Jiangnan is really generous.
However, no matter how cheap they were, these jewelries were still exchanged for 52 taels of silver.
Lu Yao went to the livestock market again with a huge sum of money.
After some careful selection, he spent thirty taels of silver and bought a nice big mule.
He spent another four taels of silver to buy a carriage.
After the mule is harnessed to the cart, it becomes a mule cart that can pull people.
When Lu Yao clumsily drove the mule cart back to the small building, the two elders of the Lu family were frightened again.
Father Lu, who was used to being stingy, almost did the same thing as last time. He asked Lu Yao why she bought this and wasted her money!
However, times have changed.
The last time Lu Yao bought the donkey, the two elders of the Lu family were not optimistic and even blamed Lu Yao for spending money recklessly.
But later it turned out that Lu Yao really needed such a means of transportation.
Even the Lu family benefited a lot from the donkey, pulling things and so on.
Feeling the convenience, the two elders of the Lu family had a change of mind.
More importantly, Lu Yao's financial strength has been demonstrated. When children earn more money, they are less likely to be criticized when spending money.
So, when the two elders of the Lu family saw the mule, they were angry as usual, then they calmed down and finally said kindly:
"Er Gouzi, why did you buy another mule? Don't you already have a donkey?"
"Mom, Dad, this mule and cart are not bought for me, but for you." Lu Yao said as she drove the mule into the backyard.
"We need to raise our house, so here are the tools to raise it."