Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade
Chapter 696 - 340 Dowry_2

Chapter 696: Chapter 340 Dowry_2

Qian Sangui’s opening statement was, "The majority of our family estate was earned by Yixiu, and originally, I wanted to give her a dowry equivalent to half of the Qian family’s wealth. However, Yixiu disagreed, saying she wanted to leave more for her younger brothers and sisters. The bridal gifts from the Liang family are all going to be part of her dowry, and our family will add these items..."

Back in Huaxi Village, in order to prevent the family estate from being usurped should he die early, Qian Sangui divided the properties there between the then Qian Yeejin and Qian Yixiu.

Later, when Qian Yeejin changed his name to Zhu Sujin, he should no longer have been entitled to the Qian family estate, so the deed was changed back to Qian Sangui’s name. In fact, the Qian family still gave Zhu Sujin some properties, and among all the children, he received the most—the thirty percent share of the Glass Factory, which is currently the most profitable venture.

Qian Sangui said that in Xishan County, the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits would go to Qian Yixiu, as well as the Liancourt Cosmetics Factory which was being moved to the Capital City, and a ten percent share of the joint venture with the Wuxi Tea Garden. In the Capital City, a ten percent share of the Glass Factory, the Peach Court, and one thousand acres of land, along with a shop and a three-section residential property in the city, two shops, and one thousand acres of paddy field in Jiangnan. The Lotus Pond would not be given, as the Liang family also owned several hundred acres of lotus ponds within Ten Lotus Fragrance.

In addition, another twenty thousand taels of silver were given as part of Yixiu’s personal savings.

The items listed above, except for the ten percent share in the Glass Factory and Liancourt Cosmetics Factory, where the most profits are made and it is difficult to calculate their worth—when all the other dowry items were added up, they were roughly worth several tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Pan Yue also took out many ancient calligraphy and paintings, antique ornaments, jewelries, brocades and silk, as well as several major works by Old Master Pan, from her own dowry. These items together were worth about fifty thousand taels of silver.

Over the years, although Yixiu had always been committed to earning silver, she had not managed the silver herself. Suddenly having so much wealth at her disposal, she felt a bit excited.

She returned some of the jewelry that Pan Yue had given her—those made of pearls from the Cave Sky Pool—back to Pan Yue, saying, "These pearls will be impossible to obtain in the future. Mother, keep them for your own use or give them to the younger sisters."

The pearls from the Cave Sky Pool, which Yixiu had taken some to give to Grandfather Sangui, did not include the two most valuable White Pearl and Blue Bead. Because such dazzling pearls were not suitable for a family like theirs to use openly. They would be kept for difficult times, to be presented to the Royal Family or used in trade with foreigners.

Yixiu’s four maids, Blue Bead, Zi Zhu, White Pearl, and Pink Pearl, along with Sister Zeng, would follow her to the Liang Family. Blue Bead was of age and already betrothed, with her fiancé set to follow her as her accompanying servant. However, Blue Bead was exceptionally capable and was asked to serve for one more year before being allowed to leave the house to marry.

Four additional maids from respectable families were selected as accompanying servants. This included White Pearl’s family, which consisted of Old Man Cai, his son Cai He, his daughter-in-law Madame Yu, and his young grandson Cai Xiaoji.

Old Man Cai, being advanced in age, honorably retired to care for his health at home. Meanwhile, Cai He was appointed as the head manager of the newly established First Embroidery Shop, overseeing the sales operations of all Yixiu’s products, such as Liancourt cosmetics, glassware, Golden Lady tea, and other goods—comparable to the role played by Qian Hua at the Jinxiu Embroidery Workshop.

And Blue Bead’s fiancé, Wang Xi, who was formerly a minor manager in the Qian family’s accounts department, would now serve as the chief accountant for the First Embroidery Shop.

Yixiu was busy straightening out the various industries on her end, and before she knew it, the end of the twelfth lunar month had arrived. It was nearly New Year, and the Capital City was bustling, with the Qian family even more so, since many relatives had come from Xishan County.

Li Zhandong had passed the Graduate exam in the autumn, and he came to the Capital City to sit for the imperial examinations in the spring, accompanied by Qian Xiang and Uncle Li along with their eldest grandson Hu Zi, just in time to attend Yixiu’s wedding.

The candidates taking the spring examinations were in luck, as the new year would be the first year of the Yongqing era. The Emperor was set to introduce a series of benevolent measures. Firstly, there would be a twenty percent reduction in taxation, along with an additional one hundred Graduates and associates admitted during the spring examinations. Although it would have been a special favor by tradition, since the examinations were being held that spring anyway, the Emperor chose to be practical and reduce unnecessary waste by increasing the number of admitted candidates during the spring examinations.

Hearing that Qian Xiang and the others were coming to the Capital City, Qian’s first wife and the second wife were also tempted to join. They all said they were coming to add to Yixiu’s bridal attire, meanwhile, the first wife wanted to visit Qian Yishan and the second wife wanted to see Qian Mandua. Consequently, Qian Dagui and Lady Wang, along with Qian Manchuan leading Duo Duo and Sheng Wa, came. Qian Ergui and Qian Manhe led De Wa and Sheng Wa. It was said that Lady Tang also wanted to see Qian Mandua; secretly following them, she was discovered only when they reached Wenzhou Province, after which they hired the Armed Escort Bureau to forcefully send her back.