Chapter 693 - 339: The Birth of a Child_2
Now that there’s a funeral in the Pan family, it’s not appropriate to handle these matters. When Qian Yixiu heard about it, she called over Old man Cai and asked him to go to the Academy after tomorrow with Qian Yishan to help Sean with the matter. They were to buy a residence next to the Academy as well, with the Qian family covering the necessary silver.
The 26th is an auspicious day for weddings, and it is also the joyous day of Qian Manting’s marriage. The day before, everyone went to add to Qian Manting’s dowry, Qian Yixiu giving a set of gold-inlaid Dong Pearl headwear; Father Jiang and his wife gave a pair of jadeite bracelets. Qian Sangui and Lady Wu, estimating that the wedding would cost over four hundred taels of silver, presented Qian Manting with six hundred taels of dowry silver.
In total, the third branch of the family spent over fifteen hundred taels of silver on Qian Manting’s wedding, which was even more than what the fourth branch contributed, and naturally Qian Sigui and his wife were endlessly grateful.
Although Zhu Sujin didn’t come on that day, an official from the Crown Prince Mansion did, and he brought a generous gift. Others, such as the Liang Family, Fu family, Changfeng Princess Mansion, Song family, and many civil and military officers, came to congratulate the family; even the Prince Shou Mansion sent someone with gifts. Liang Jinzhao and Song Huaijin both specially took leaves of absence to attend the wedding and were a part of the bridal procession. The Pan family, observing mourning, only sent someone the day before to contribute to the dowry.
Qian Manting has certainly married off with full honors. This made Huo Ming and his son exceedingly happy, knowing that though Qian Manting’s background was somewhat humble, with the support of the Xiangen Marquis Mansion, she was indeed a match for the second son of the Huo family.
Amid the sounds of music, Qian Manjiang carried Qian Manting on his back into the bridal sedan chair.
Qian Mandie, Qian Manxia, and Qian Manting were all beautiful, kind and industrious young girls. Qian Yixiu watched them slowly grow up, and one by one, witnessed them getting married. In a way, at the time of their weddings, the three young girls were all filled with hopes for the future—a feeling that all brides share. But beyond hope, each carried different emotions; Qian Mandie was apprehensive, Qian Manxia happy, while Qian Manting was uniquely ambitious, as if she was not just heading to her husband’s family but also to a career.
Personality determines destiny. Their future paths were now theirs to walk, but their maiden families remained important, of course.
Three days after returning to her maiden home as a new wife, Qian Manting was bashfully happy, and her husband was very protective of her. It appeared that the Huo family had not mistreated Qian Manting, which greatly relieved and pleased Qian Sigui and his wife.
However, on the sixth day of August, which was also a day before Qian Sigui, Lady Wong, and Qian Manpo were to return to Ji’an, when Qian Manting came to see them off, people noticed that one of her maids, Rourou, had her hair styled like a married woman’s.