Chapter 1245 - 392: Foreign Spies, Tear Them Apart
Tied with red silk, one hundred and twenty dowries filled the courtyard of the Mo Family to the brim. Half of these were gifts sent by the Mo Family to the Cui family as bride price, and the other half were additional dowries provided by the Cui family.
In these bride prices and dowries, not a single item was shoddy; hence, the collection was exceptionally lavish. Even without opening the wooden chests and deliberately displaying the contents for show, the relatives, friends, and neighbors who came to witness the event had no doubts about the value of these dowries.
"I’ve lived to a ripe old age and thought I’d seen it all, but only today did I realize that what I had seen before isn’t worth mentioning in the face of these dowries."
"Who’s to say otherwise? This is what real wealthy families are like; a single dowry can sustain several generations."
"When the Mo Family first sent a bride price to the girl’s family, I thought that by giving so much, the Mo Family must have drained much of their coffers. Now it seems they had the foresight all along; the return doubled, and it’s all the Mo Family’s doing, isn’t it?"
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Watching the courtyard full of dowries, some sighed, some envied, and some spoke jealously, but no matter what, in these people’s eyes, the Mo Family had made a profit. Not only had they secured a powerful and influential in-law, but they also married a veritable gold and silver mine.
These people had forgotten about the Mo Family’s bountiful harvest from their orchard earlier that year and about their rice shop that earned a fortune daily; they never considered that the Mo Family didn’t need to focus on the girl’s dowry given their current wealth.
Such talk was not uncommon and reached the Mo Family members’ ears intermittently. Except for a few youngsters who were extremely angry and wished to rush out and argue, Mo Yan and Mo Qingze remained very calm. They knew that words belonged to others, and they were free to say what they wanted; eventually, they would have their moment of embarrassment.