The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

Since she’s stepped in to smooth things over, she had to do it thoroughly. Bring those fabrics from the Capital City over, when Ms. Zhang shows them, her mother will recognize them immediately.

Her mother was already dissatisfied with Ms. Zhang’s dowry, and to find out that some of it was added by her, it’s likely Ms. Zhang’s days will not be easy.

"As you wish, madam!"

With that, Mingcui went to make preparations at the Ye Family.

Only after Mingcui had left, Yang Chuxia went to examine the two trunks more closely and unexpectedly found some cornmeal in the boxes. Out of curiosity, she touched it and discovered a particular board in the base that was unusually soft. When she pushed it, the board seemed to have elasticity, bending outward. As the bend grew larger, two large gaps became visible.

She found the other trunk to be the same, with cornmeal inside, the same kind of soft board, and the same gaps.

Yang Chuxia’s anger can only be imagined. If she hadn’t decided to help Qingrui save face in front of his classmates today, she would have never used her own things to supplement Ms. Zhang’s dowry.

She was furious. What was the Zhang Family up to? Yang Chuxia clenched the dowry list, her anger flaring fiercely.

Mingcui, on the other hand, was quite speedy, arranging for a servant to wait halfway with a carriage before Yang Qingrui’s classmates set off.

It was quite a coincidence, for as soon as the Ye Family’s carriage arrived, not only did Yang Qingrui’s wedding procession show up, but his classmates did too.

"What’s going on here?" Yang Qingrui asked suspiciously.

Then he heard one of the clever classmates laugh, "I’m truly sorry, brother Qingrui. We were so careless and accidentally took the wrong dowry items for your bride. We were just about to go back to town to retrieve them."

At that moment, Ye Family’s servant said, "No need for you to go, I’ve brought them for you."

As he spoke, Ye Family’s servants placed the two chests onto Qingrui’s classmates’ ox cart and then drove the carriage toward the town.

Qingrui didn’t recognize the Ye Family’s servants as classmates, but he did recognize that they were from his sister’s family. How could they say they were from the Zhang Family? And they were delivering dowries? Could it be that there was a problem with the dowry?

Yet, it wasn’t the time to be concerned about that. Yang Qingrui’s gaze flickered, and he jokingly teased his classmates, "It doesn’t matter if you guys took the wrong dowry for my bride today, but don’t end up taking the wrong bride when it’s time for you to get married. I will have quite the laugh then."

"Haha, we wouldn’t let that happen!"

Laughing, the group stepped aside to make way, then they climbed into the vehicle and slowly followed behind the wedding procession.

At this point, Yang Qingrui became suspicious of the dowry, and another person grew suspicious—the maid of the Zhang Family.

She knew full well that the carriage wasn’t from the Zhang Family, nor were the people on it, and the two chests definitely weren’t from the Zhang Family.

Yet, those people claimed to be from the Zhang Family. The little maid was puzzled and wondered if perhaps it was the son-in-law who had added to their mistress’s dowry?

She wanted to tell her mistress, feeling that her mistress had found a good husband, but she couldn’t find the chance to speak during the journey.

Soon, the wedding procession arrived at the Yang Family, and the midday ceremony was followed by a feast that lasted into the evening, a custom of Wangquan Town.

After the rites of bowing to heaven and earth, bowing to the high hall, and the couple bowing to each other, Ms. Zhang was led into the bridal chamber.

Once Yang Qingrui lifted the red bridal veil and drank the wedding wine, the marriage was officially complete.

Afterward, he was dragged off to join in the drinking festivities.

Ms. Zhang, her maid, and the wedding matron remained quietly in the bridal room.

Outside the door, several little boys were peeking in with their heads stretched out and eyes wide open.