Huang unfolded the red paper and wrote He Chanling's name first. She omitted the dot under the character "Ling" on purpose, and then removed the top of the middle horizontal line of the character "Chan". In this way, there were two typos in He Chanling's name.

"Mom, will this help?"

"Yes, I heard from the old folks that if you write the wrong characters on your name on the Engagement Letter, the King of Hell won't be able to summon you in the underworld, and you won't be a member of the Hou family."

"Oh, I know."

Huang then reversed He Chanling's birth time. "Your second aunt and the others all know your birth date and month, but they can't remember your time. I reversed them so that there's a right in the wrong and a wrong in the right. Even if they think it's wrong, they won't doubt us. They'll only suspect they made a mistake."

He Chanling understood, "Mom, you are really amazing."

Huang smiled bitterly, "Mother is not that powerful. If she were, she wouldn't have ended up like this. These things were all taught to me by my grandmother."

After she finished writing, Hongcao came to urge Huang. Huang looked at her silently for a few times. Even Hongcao betrayed her, who else could she trust?

However, this also reminded Huang that it was fortunate that she discovered that something was wrong with Hongcao, otherwise it would have been exposed later.

Huang gave the engagement letter to Ouyang. Ouyang flipped through it and saw that it was roughly the same as she remembered. She nodded and said, "Put it in a box and send it to the Hou family immediately."

Lin took it, stood up and said, "Mother, I will go myself."

"Row."

Just now, after He Chanling took away the two thousand gold, Lin and Ouyang felt very painful. Lin immediately suggested that what the Hou family gave was too little and they should ask them for more. It was a good opportunity to use the exchange of engagement letters to negotiate terms with the Hou family. Ouyang readily agreed.

Huang said, "Wait, I have something else to say."

"What?"

"The marriage is scheduled for half a month from now. Although the time is short, Chanling's marriage cannot be sloppy. The three matchmakers, six betrothals, dowry, banquet, and all the necessary etiquette cannot be missed. The liveliness that our family should have cannot be perfunctory at all."

Ouyang was about to jump up and down, "Dowry? Didn't I just give Chan Ling two thousand gold? Isn't that enough for a dowry?"

"I've decided to keep that money as her last resort. The dowry has to be prepared separately. What about the big items like the bed and cabinets? What about bedding and clothes? And what about needles and thread, toilets, and basins? These are things Chanling will use for her whole life. There are so many things to prepare. Don't they all have to be done at the mansion?"

Ouyang didn't say anything. Huang's words meant that she didn't intend to pay, and it seemed that she wanted her to pay.

Besides, Huang probably doesn't have much money. Her eldest son He Feng lives in the northwest all year round. The future of the Northwest Mansion is in Dong's hands. The annual festival gifts are all given to herself and never to Huang.

But Ouyang didn’t want to pay at all!

Lin was even more furious. Everything in the mansion now belonged to their second wife. Now that the first wife wanted to marry off her daughter, why should she use their second wife's money?

"Sister-in-law, what you said is not right. Why should my mother-in-law and I pay for your daughter's wedding?"

"Haha, that's fine too. We won't get married. Chan Ling is still young anyway, there's no rush. Just give me the engagement letter!"

"Hey, hey, don't!"

Lin was furious, but Huang's threat of using the engagement letter hit her sore spot, and she dared not say a word.

Huang smiled and said, "Mother, I can buy Chanling's dowry myself. The money that Master sent back over the years is probably with you. Give me some and I'll buy it myself."

Ouyang was completely discouraged. "Okay, okay, don't worry about it. I promise to get everything ready for you. Just talk to Chanling and her mother."

"Thank you for your consideration, mother."

Huang brought He Chanling back to the house. He Chanling asked in confusion, "Mother, why do you still need to prepare a dowry?"

"Ling'er, we have to set a trap when we're acting. The more realistic it is, the less they'll doubt us. Besides, it's all for nothing in the end anyway, so they deserve to waste some money."

Ouyang was in no mood to prepare a dowry for He Chanling, but in order to coax her into marrying, she had to put on a good show. She took out two hundred gold coins and found a one-stop shop for weddings. She asked them to prepare the dowry, making sure it looked respectable on the outside but was full of chaff on the inside.

The Ouyang family is really not a good person.

After finishing these, the most important thing is how to get He Miaomeng to the sedan chair?

Huang said, "Ling'er, we can't do this. We have to ask Princess Shanzhen for help."

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