diskusbooks Chapter 303 Wedding Date and Dowry
Chapter 303 Wedding Date and Dowry
Ning Cuizhi did have a position for a minor manager under her, but Wang was such a busybody that she would never hire her into the workshop even if the position was left vacant.
Not to mention the positions of those minor managers, Gu Wenxuan had already arranged suitable candidates in advance.
Their family has no obligation to hire anyone to work in the workshop. The most basic thing is to select only those they need and who are capable of doing the job.
After all, their family is hiring someone to do the work, not planning to invite an ancestor who wants money and causes trouble to be worshipped.
Ning Cuizhi had already made up her mind. Once the workshop officially started operating, she would call the two young wives from Bai Jingzhou's uncle's family into the workshop. As for Bai Jingzhou's aunt's wife, it would be better for her to stay at home and do housework and farm work, otherwise she would definitely mess up the workshop.
After the large-scale trial run was successful and the women workers successfully spun enough cotton thread and wove cotton cloth and pure cotton gauze, Bai Jingzhou compiled the drawings of the new spinning wheels and looms, as well as the methods of making cotton into cotton yarn, cotton thread, cotton cloth, gauze and other items, and the wide range of uses of cotton cloth and gauze into a book and kept it properly.
The Chinese New Year is almost here, and they plan to send the booklet and samples to Beijing after the New Year.
He discussed with Gu Wenxuan and decided not to follow Mu Hanzhi's path this time.
Both families live in Qingshan County, so when something good happens, the county and state governments must get some credit.
By the way, they can also test what kind of people the prefect and other officials are like. Only after testing them can Bai Jingzhou decide whether to let these people continue to follow him and benefit from him.
While Bai Jingzhou was doing these things, Ning Cuizhi was not only busy in the workshop every day, but also picked a good day to go to Gu Wenxuan's house with Bai Chong.
They went to discuss the wedding date of Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan with the Gu family. After formally proposing to Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou personally went to a fortune teller to pick out a few auspicious dates for the wedding.
The fortune teller calculated three auspicious days for them according to Bai Jingzhou's request. The first was March 8th, the second was May 16th, and the third was May 28th.
In short, Bai Jingzhou is going to get married in the first half of the year.
When his mother Ning Cuizhi saw these three auspicious days, she immediately saw through Bai Jingzhou's little thoughts of being in a hurry to get married, and she could not help but give her son a speechless look.
"Look at the dates you picked. You have to take the county exam in February, so how can you have time to prepare for your wedding? In May, everyone is busy with farm work, so who has the time to worry about your wedding?"
Bai Jingzhou disagreed, "The county exam will be held in the middle of February. I can use the ten days in the second half of the month and the seven days in March to prepare for the wedding. Besides, our family is no longer what it used to be. I don't need to do everything myself. I just need to give a word, and other people will naturally help me take care of the subsequent matters."
Ning Cuizhi realized it later, "...So you deliberately chose the last two dates during the busy farming season?"
Bai Jingzhou nodded. "You also said that everyone is busy with farm work, so the Gu family will probably prefer the auspicious day in March."
Ning Cuizhi: ...Haha, this is a little thought.
She looked disgusted and said, "Didn't you say you wanted to take the exam to become a scholar? You've spent all your time thinking about how to get married quickly. Do you still have a chance to become a scholar?"
Bai Jingzhou smiled and looked very well behaved. "Grandpa Lin said that I have an eight or nine chance of passing the exam next year."
After a pause, he continued, "But if you don't let me get what I want, I'll be in a bad mood and I don't know if I can win."
Ning Cuizhi wanted to flip the table: "...You little bastard, you are threatening your mother!"
Bai Jingzhou continued to smile, "How could that be? Mom, you misunderstood. I was just stating the facts."
After a pause, he continued, "I have prepared the marriage certificate and betrothal gifts. Do you and Dad have time now? Then go and run an errand for me first."
He handed the betrothal gift list to Ning Cuizhi, who glanced at it and was shocked, "Six hundred taels?! Where did you get so much cash?"
"Wenxuan helped me earn this little by little. Have you forgotten? Whether she went into the mountains to steal things or bought goods from Haizhou to make a profit, I was always involved every time."
Ning Cuizhi was more satisfied with Gu Wenxuan as her daughter-in-law after hearing this. But she was not so pleased with her son who took advantage of Gu Wenxuan without feeling guilty.
She snorted coldly and went to discuss with her husband when it would be appropriate to help her useless and worthless son to discuss the wedding date with the Gu family.
Bai Jingzhou, who got what he wanted, didn't care about his mother's disgust and dissatisfaction at all. As long as she could get the job done for him, he would be in a good mood even if she rolled her eyes at him every day.
Ning Cuizhi had no idea what Bai Jingzhou was thinking. She first asked someone to choose a good day, and then asked Bai Jingzhou's second aunt, Qi, to pass a message to the Gu family.
When the day they had chosen arrived, the two of them packed up and went to Gu Wenxuan's house to discuss the wedding date with her parents and grandparents.
In addition to the small note with the auspicious wedding date, they also brought the marriage certificate and betrothal gifts prepared by Bai Jingzhou:
The betrothal gift was six hundred taels, ten rolls of fine silk they brought back from Haizhou, ten rolls of newly woven cotton cloth from the textile workshop, two sets of the latest gold jewelry made together with the rings (16 pieces in each set), eight jars of fine wine and eight cans of fine tea that Bai Jingzhou bought specially from the state capital, and a load of freshly made wedding cakes and candies produced by the county's pastry shop.
The wedding cakes were still warm when they were taken out. There were six kinds in total, namely sesame cakes, ox tongue cakes, glutinous rice cakes, flower-shaped trough cakes, jujube flower cakes and red bean cakes.
There are also six kinds of candies, namely dragon beard candy, pine nut candy, almond candy, sesame candy, winter melon candy, and plum candy. Like the wedding cakes, there are two full boxes of each kind of candy.
Even though the Gu family had made some mental preparations, they were still shocked by the generosity of the Bai family when they saw all these things and the 600 taels of betrothal gift written on the betrothal gift list.
It’s not that the Gu family had never seen six hundred taels of silver, they had just never seen the amount of six hundred taels of silver as a betrothal gift.
In Baijia Village, even for a very wealthy family like Bai Lizheng's, when their son gets married, the dowry they give is 28 taels, which is the market price. This way, they will not embarrass the daughter-in-law's family, nor make their own family look too rich.
The Gu family originally thought that since it was just a formality, Bai Jingzhou's family would not do anything too conspicuous, but they did not expect Bai Jingzhou to give them a big one.
What they didn't know was that this betrothal gift that shocked them and the surrounding villagers was actually the result of Gu Wenxuan's cuts again and again. If it was up to Bai Jingzhou, he would have planned to add some jewelry, jade, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings.