Noble Lady

"Madam, please calm down first." Seeing that Liu was always happy, Mother Huang quickly handed her hot tea to calm her down.

"Our master has been busy with his studies since he was little, and has never handled household affairs. Perhaps there really are some twists and turns in this matter. You might as well ask him about it. Don't get yourself hurt by getting angry."

After being reminded by Mother Huang, Mrs. Liu suddenly remembered.

She really didn't let He Minzhi and He Ruyi get involved in these family matters.

Dalang was going to be a pillar of the country in the future. Why did he need to get involved in these matters in the backyard? It was just wasting his time studying and bringing honor to the He family.

As for He Ruyi, she will eventually get married, and I have never heard of letting my daughter manage the household.

Moreover, after Dalang passes the imperial examination, he will naturally marry a noble lady to take charge of the household, and then he will naturally have a virtuous daughter-in-law to take care of the family.

At least, that's what she thought and practiced in the past.

But at this moment, Liu regretted deeply that she had not let He Minzhi know the real predicament of the He family.

"Da Lang, the preparations for your sister's wedding have already seriously exceeded the budget."

"All the money our family spent was withdrawn from the account only after your consent. Think carefully about what Zhang...your Second Aunt said to you, and what did she ask you to sign?"

Liu's tone calmed down, and He Minzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

He stood up, shook his official robe, and found a place to sit down.

Liu didn't scold him again.

He Minzhi recalled what had happened and continued, "Second Aunt is now the manager of our family, and since you, mother, are not in good health, I have handed over all the preparations for the wedding to Second Aunt."

"At the beginning, Second Aunt came to ask me how to organize the wedding banquet and what specifications to follow. I didn't know much about it, so I asked Second Aunt to follow the specifications of the banquet when I got married."

When Liu heard that He Min asked Zhang to prepare the banquet according to the same standards as when he got married, she almost couldn't breathe.

"You, did you really tell your second aunt this?!"

"Yes, mother. I thought, after all, Ruyi is my biological sister, and she's marrying into the Cui family. Even if we only have a few tables of wedding banquet, we can't let people laugh at her."

"you!"

He Minzhi, unaware of the seriousness of the matter, said complacently, "When I got married, didn't my mother say that those were just ordinary dishes? She didn't say it would cost so much."

"How can they be the same?!" Mrs. Liu was so angry that she beat her chest and stamped her feet.

Did he know that when he got married, the banquet was paid for by the Wu'an Marquis Mansion?

What kind of family is the Wu'an Marquis Mansion? Madam Xue is the daughter of the Jiang family. The Jiang family's businesses are spread all over the country. They are extremely wealthy!

For their family, tens of thousands of taels of silver are just a little slip through their fingers.

But for the He family, this is a huge hole!

"I don't understand why mother is so angry. When I got married, there were more than ten tables of banquets, and I never saw mother frown."

"Now that my younger sister is getting married, and the marriage is to the renowned Cui family, naturally, I can't let anyone see it clearly. It's just a five-table banquet, why does mother take it so seriously?"

"You, you! You're an idiot who has no connection with the real world!"

Liu, who had been holding it in for the entire afternoon, finally exploded when He Minzhi said this.

"He Minzhi, a wedding dress costs two thousand taels, and a few bowls of bird's nest cost another thousand taels. Are you eating this money?!"

"Let's not talk about anything else. Just a few tables of banquets cost tens of thousands of taels. Can our He family afford such spending? Is this what I taught you all these years?!"

Liu had been holding it in for too long and was furious at him.

He cursed everything from the wedding banquet, the staff, to the wedding dress.

She cursed and got angry at herself, wondering how she could have given birth to such a son who was ignorant of the sufferings of the world?

She really deserves to die!

He Minzhi looked at her blankly and aggrievedly, "What do you mean by a wedding dress costing two thousand taels? What do you mean by bird's nest costing one thousand taels?"

Liu threw the account book in front of him and said, "Every single item on this has been approved by you, and you signed it. Don't tell me you didn't know!"

Don’t mention it, He Minzhi might really not know.

He opened the account book and was stunned by the astronomical figures.

What kind of wedding dress costs two thousand taels?

There is also bird's nest. Just a few bites of it cost more than a thousand taels of silver.

There were also other dishes at the banquet. Since it was a daughter's wedding and not a daughter-in-law's marriage, there were only five tables in total, but those dishes cost eight hundred or one thousand taels.

This isn't a wedding banquet, this is clearly a feast for the money!

"Mom, mom, I really didn't know this thing was so expensive. I..." He Minzhi boasted that he was not afraid of the Spring Examination, but at this moment, his hands were shaking as he held the account book.

"You didn't know, and yet you dared to sign?! ​​All this money was withdrawn from the account with your consent, and your monthly salary has already been deducted ten years from now. Can you shirk your responsibility by saying you didn't know?"

"I, I really don't know." He Minzhi knelt down again with the account book in his hands, a worried look on his face.

This was also fortunate that the person kneeling below was He Minzhi. If He Ruyi dared to squander like this, he would have been punished by the family rules long ago.

Beating him to death would be the least of his worries!

"Mother, at this rate, when I get married, won't it be..."

Mrs. Liu gave a bitter smile and said, "You just realized this? The family has been emptied of money for your marriage. Now that your sister is getting married, I was thinking..." Save as much as possible.

But she couldn't say those words.

He Minzhi stammered, "Son... didn't I receive a huge reward back then? At least tens of thousands of taels of silver. Is there nothing left?"

"You also said that your sister was going to marry into the Cui family and couldn't be looked down upon. But you wanted to marry the daughter of the wealthy Wu'an Marquis's family. Could it be that the betrothal gift was so shabby that it would make people laugh at you?"

"The little reward you gave me wasn't even enough for the betrothal gift. You even had to sacrifice three of my dowry shops to buy a bigger shop for your new wife."

He Minzhi, who had never managed a household before, was dumbfounded when he heard this.

How can this be?

Over the years, no one had ever told him that organizing a wedding would cost so much.

Where can he get so many hundreds or thousands of taels of silver in the account?

Moreover, he had just promised his colleague an expensive gift today, and wanted to go home to ask his mother for money. Where would he get the money now?

We can't let him lose face in front of his colleagues.

"Mom, the deficit is so huge, what should we do now?"

"You ask me, but who should I ask?!" Liu turned around angrily.

"Mother, you've always been the head of our family. If you can't come up with a solution, then this marriage will be ruined. We've already spent all our money. If you don't let my sister marry him, we'll lose everything."

"You've always told your son to strive for excellence. We can't let such a good opportunity slip away, right?!"

"Besides, Ruyi has already been abused by that Cui guy. Do I have to support her for the rest of her life?"

He Minzhi also got angry and rushed to Liu with the account book.

Mrs. Liu originally thought that her son would say a few soft words and ask her to take action as he did before, but she never expected such a threat. She was so angry that her blood boiled and she fainted.