Chapter 459 - 312 Who Do You Think You Are as an Elder
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Hongji’s father had his daughter-in-law call the matchmaker as scheduled and send the betrothal gifts to the bride’s family.
The remaining balance of 100 silver taels would be paid in full on the day the bride was carried in the sedan chair. He had planned this and arranged for the driver to handle it, a driver who was naturally his daughter-in-law’s older brother and a trustworthy person.
The old couple had not yet realized why their daughter-in-law had chosen her own brother as the driver, nor had they considered why they did not hire a matchmaker from their village but one from another.
They simply thought that the village’s matchmaker had offended Mrs. Li, preventing the local matchmaker from earning this money.
On this day, the family also held a small celebration with a few tables to commemorate moving into the new house.
Ye Shiqi and her sisters entered the new house for the first time. The house wasn’t large, featuring a small kitchen, a living room, two bedrooms, and a small courtyard, which was quite decent for a concubine to reside in.
The house already had furniture that was not newly made; Ye Shiqi knew it was furniture her grandfather had bought from elsewhere.
She surveyed the house. With dozens of workers, there might be many employees involved, but the pace was fast. Without modern cement or decorating materials, in ancient times they would use wood and stone, which could also beautifully decorate a house.
Mrs. Lai also entered the house to look around and, seeing her husband’s grand gestures of preparing the house for a little demon to live in, she felt a wave of dizziness.
"Mother, what’s wrong?"