Chapter 1261 - 396: Return to the Homestead, Purchase a Servant
The words spoken by Cui Qingrou on the day of the wedding ceremony quickly spread, and the influential families in the capital heard mixed reviews. Some praised the Cui family’s upbringing, lauding the Cui family girl as virtuous and of good character, while others sneered in private that she couldn’t have children of her own and treasured someone else’s; others sympathized with her, thinking she was planning for her future, seizing an opportunity to curry favor with her husband’s family...
No matter what they thought privately, they repeatedly cautioned their own children that when dealing with the Mo family siblings in the future, they must not be perfunctory or careless, and certainly not offend like the Hu family girl did, otherwise they would be punished severely according to family law.
The Musings and actions of these irrelevant people were, of course, unknown to the Mo family, and even if they knew, they would have simply laughed it off.
In the blink of an eye, Cui Qingrou had been married into the Mo family for two days. During these days, she had been getting familiar with the environment of the Mo family under the accompaniment of Mo Qingze; from the layout of the courtyards and the livestock, to the orchards, medicinal herb gardens, farmland, and wineries.
Cui Qingrou had always known that the Mo family lived a good life, but she didn’t expect it to be even better than she had imagined. After learning that all these properties had been slowly acquired by Mo Yan, she was extremely astonished and gained a new understanding of her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter.
However, Cui Qingrou was not envious of the Mo family’s wealth. Born into nobility, she had never worried about silver coins since she was a child, and although she couldn’t claim to live as lavishly as the princesses in the palace, she wasn’t far off, so she wasn’t the type to covet her husband’s family’s assets.
Moreover, after her divorce from her former husband, she took all her dowry back to her parents’ home. The properties she had set up in Jiangnan were not sold, and the annual income was more than enough for her to live comfortably for over a decade. Over the years, she had accumulated a considerable fortune in her hands.
This time, marrying into the Mo family, the Cui family had provided a hefty dowry again, and all the betrothal gifts from the Mo family went into her dowry. Just these items alone were enough for her to live without financial worries for several decades.
That day, Mo Qingze brought Cui Qingrou for another tour in the winery and both returned home in a pleasant mood, only to see the main hall filled with large and small boxes. Mo Yan was picking and choosing among them.