Chapter 2021 (1/2)

Mulan's marriage is scheduled for the sixth day of September. Time is a little short, but the dowry must be bought.

Although Chen Zhong was disgusted with Chen San's master, he would not be critical of his niece's dowry, and asked his wife to withdraw five thousand liang of silver from Gongzhong.

Mrs. Chen stopped: ”MuQing is married to the king's mansion. My Mulan dare not compare with her. But Mu Dan has a dowry of seven thousand Liang silver. Why my Mu Dan is only five thousand Liang. ”

Chen Zhong said: ”the third one didn't take six thousand liang of silver from Cai's family. You asked him to take it out to buy Mulan a dowry.”

Mrs. Chen San will not rest. She sees that Chen Zhong is not going to add money and cry loudly.

Chen Zhong can't help Cui Shi, but he won't be frightened by Mrs. Chen San: ”if you feel aggrieved, I'll let the old three send you back to your mother's house.”

Mrs. Chen San is the second daughter of a six grade official family in the Imperial Academy. Her father is Hanlin, and most of the Hanlin are poor. Mrs. Chen's family is also very poor. Every time I go back to my mother's house, I have to be scratched with oil. If you want to be sent back, you must be killed by her mother.

So Chen he used this threat very effectively. When Mrs. Chen was frightened, she dared not cry.

Cai, surnamed Cai, is sincere in marrying Chen Mulan. The betrothal gifts of 18 lifts were all good things. But Mrs. Chen left the valuable things like golden pig, silk and satin. Those worthless preparations were taken by Mulan. Another five thousand Liang silver dowry silver, she is only going to take one thousand Liang out to buy dowry.

At this time, the Chen family grew up in the capital. This Chen family leader is Chen Ran's elder brother Chen Yu's second son, one year older than Chen Zhong's father. When the situation in the capital was turbulent, Chen Ran was unable to leave, so he sent the only nephew back to Jiangnan. In this way, even if their family didn't survive, Chen's branch also left a root.

Chen Zhonghe got the news and told him to leave. Seeing patriarch Chen, Chen Zhonghe said, ”uncle, why don't you tell me in advance when you come to the capital? I'd better send someone to pick you up.”

The patriarch Chen didn't answer this, but instead asked, ”why didn't you see your daughter-in-law?”

Chen Zhonghe paused and said, ”Huan Zhang's mother is ill. She went to Tongzhou to cure her illness.”

”Can TongZhou's doctors be better than the capital?” said Chen, frowning Niece and granddaughter are concubines of Shisun in Youwang mansion. Please get them all.

Chen Zhong said vaguely, ”she has some complications. There is a doctor who is good at treating this disease in Tongzhou.”

Chen's head is in his sixties. It seems that he knows there are cats in it. Thinking of the news he got, patriarch Chen's face suddenly turned ugly.

”Uncle, I don't know why you came to Beijing this time,” Chen asked Although Chen is in good health, he is also a man of sixty and five. He would not have come to the capital if it had not been for great events.

Chen didn't beat around the bush with Chen Zhong He either. He asked, ”I heard that Zhong Sheng is going to gamble and owes a huge amount of gambling debt. Is this true?” Zhong Sheng is a taboo of master Chen San.

Although it was a question, the patriarch Chen believed that it was true. Otherwise, he would not come to Beijing. Asking Chen Zhonghe is just a conventional practice.

Chen Zhong nodded heavily: ”yes. My mother helped him pay the gambling debt with her private house. ” This matter, even if you want to hide it, you can't hide it. It's better to tell the truth.

The patriarch Chen said coldly, ”how can our children get involved in gambling. We should be severely punished if we find out about it. But how did you do it? ” If we had been severely punished, we would not have sold women later.

Although Cui indulged in all this, Chen Zhong had an unshirkable responsibility as the head of his family.

”And be ashamed.”

Patriarch Chen's face was very calm. When he reached this age, he would not easily get angry: ”I ask you, how much do you know about Mulan?”

Chen Zhonghe didn't expect that patriarch Chen knew everything about their family: ”the third brother took six thousand liang of silver from others, and then he betrothed Mulan to each other.” He was thinking that CAI was old, but he didn't care because he married the right man.

The patriarch Chen held the crutch tightly in his hands and asked in a cold voice, ”the third man sold his daughter, and you even connived?”

”I asked him to return the money to cancel the engagement, but he didn't want to,” Chen said. He also said that it was his daughter. I have no right to interfere in the matter of whom he would marry Mulan. ”

Hearing this, the patriarch Chen was disappointed: ”if the third one says so, you don't care.” After all, the wedding events are decided by parents. However, the premise has to be a single family. The whole family of Lord Chen is supported by Chen Zhonghe. He has to take care of it.

”Uncle, I can't care. Every time I take care of it, my mother will... ” Later, he swallowed and said nothing.

Cui will faint when he quarrels with him recently. Last time I was just about to split up, I was in a coma for a day. If Cui died of anger, he would be unfilial. However, he can only compromise.

”You are filial,” said the patriarch with a sneer, ”but you know that our Chen family's hundred year reputation is almost destroyed in your mother's and son's hands.”

Over the years, the Chen family has also sent out some scholars. But when these officials and children are the biggest, they are also the fourth class. Therefore, Chen family members have relied on Chen Ran's branch for decades. If this one is broken, Chen's family will be broken.

Chen Zhonghe's face has changed a lot: ”how can you say that, uncle?”