After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

Chapter 353 Hurry up and go back, you're making a fool of yourself!

At dusk, the newlyweds paid their respects to heaven and earth, and after the bride was escorted back to her new home, the wedding banquet began.

The banquet dishes were all ordered by Madam Xue herself, and the ingredients were the best available. The tableware was also newly purchased, which shows how much importance she attached to it.

Since it was winter, the dishes were mainly meat-based, though there were also some expensive bok choy bought from a hot spring resort outside the city.

In addition, Dong Jin and Jiang Xiwen sent back dried shrimp, salted fish, scallops, scallop meat, dried abalone, sea cucumber and other seafood from Linhai County, which enriched the variety of dishes at the wedding banquet and enhanced its quality.

Jiang Xiaoqi didn't manage to get any novel foods, but she added dozens of essential oil soaps and moisturizing lotions to Jiang Lan'er's dowry, along with soft bath towels, bathrobes, and even hair drying caps and scrubbing towels.

These things made Jiang Lian'er extremely envious, and she even had some thoughts of getting married.

There's no other reason than that my younger brother is too extravagant; the dowry he gave was too much and too novel and rare.

Feng Shi shared the same idea as Jiang Lian'er; after airing out the dowry in the backyard, it was time to seal it up and store it away.

Feng looked at it for a while longer, feeling unwilling. There were a full sixty-six loads of dowry! It wasn't like she was marrying off a princess. The Jiang family really didn't know how to calculate, making their illegitimate daughter give so many good things to her husband's family.

Madam Feng did a rough calculation in her mind and estimated that the sixty-six loads of dowry would cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

She was wrong. The Xue family's betrothal gift alone amounted to 20,000 taels of silver, and the Jiang family didn't keep a single tael; it was all put into the dowry, not including anything else.

The dowry given by the Jiang family was actually not much, worth only a few thousand taels of silver. The bulk of it was Jiang Xiaoqi's additional dowry, which was worth twenty thousand taels.

Adding the two together, the value is conservatively estimated to exceed 50,000 taels of silver.

That's why people say Mr. Feng lacks knowledge; he only saw the gold and silver, but not the more valuable land, shops, calligraphy, paintings, and antiques.

Even if they saw it, they'd probably think it was something worthless.

However, it was the gold and jade jewelry and hairpins that she couldn't take her eyes off and found unforgettable.

With so much jewelry, how could this new bride, Jiang, possibly wear it all? A concubine's daughter, humph, what a waste.

The Jiang family also prepared three tables of food, just for their own family.

This time we ate in the main hall, which was spacious. The servants had lit braziers in the four corners of the hall beforehand, making it warm and cozy.

There were two tables for the men and one table for the women, separated by a screen displaying flowers and birds.

Both Landlord Jiang and Jiang Wenqing drank quite a bit of wine. They were happy to marry off their daughter but not to have a wife come into the family.

However, the Xue family lived on the same street, so Jiang Lan'er could easily stroll back to her parents' home.

Jiang Xiyue wasn't far away; it only took a little over fifteen minutes by carriage.

That is to say, Jiang Xiwen has not been able to come home for the past few years. I wonder if Dong Jin, who is serving his three-year term as county magistrate, could be transferred to a nearby place, even if it's Hejian Province.

"Sigh~ It's just the three of us left. Growing up isn't all that great. We all went to live with other people. It's a luxury to be able to get together with everyone."

Jiang Lian'er was the most heartbroken among her sisters when her older sister got married. Although she was happy for her sister who had found a good husband and had a kind mother-in-law and a sensible sister-in-law.

But how can a daughter-in-law be as happy, carefree, and at ease as she was when she was a daughter at home?

"Fourth Sister, today is Third Sister's big day, please don't say such things."

Jiang Feier thinks getting married is a good thing, provided that she finds a reliable husband's family. Her three older sisters were all quite lucky.

Look at her three brothers-in-law, each one more outstanding than the last. She heard that her eldest sister only has one son now, but the Dong family never mentions taking a concubine.

My second sister has been married into the Li family for quite some time now, but she is still not pregnant. However, her husband and his family have never said a single unpleasant word to her.

Needless to say, the third sister's marriage was a testament to the importance the Xue family placed on the marriage, as evidenced by the sheer amount of betrothal gifts they sent. It was clear how much Madam Xue adored her future daughter-in-law.

"Alright, Fourth Sister is just reluctant to part with Third Sister. Fifth Sister, don't worry, when you get married, I will be just as reluctant to part with you."

"Sixth Brother, you, you really are something else! Either you don't talk at all, or when you do, you're all so unserious! Humph! I'm ignoring you!"

The fourth sister, Jiang Lian'er, looked to the left and then to the right. It was the same face, yet it was easy to tell which one was Jiang Fei'er and which one was Jiang Wei'er.

Jiang Lian'er felt that although these two had different personalities, they were both lively and funny, just like her younger brother said... what was it called... a love-hate relationship?

On the third day after the wedding, the bride returned to her parents' home.

Jiang Lian'er got up early and watched the servants clean the courtyard and stand guard at the door to welcome her sister.

The two sisters walked in hand in hand, while Xue Xu and Jiang Xiaoqi lagged behind.

Seeing Xue Xu's hesitant expression, Jiang Xiaoqi couldn't help but ask, "What happened? If my third sister did something wrong at the Xue family..."

Before she could finish speaking, Xue Xu interrupted her: "No, no, Lan'er does everything very well. My mother likes Lan'er very much, and the whole family likes Lan'er very much."

"Oh? If that's the case, why do you look like you have something to say but can't? Your reaction makes me wonder..."

"Alas, family scandals should not be aired in public, but I don't want to hide it from you, nor from the entire Jiang family."

"Alright, brother-in-law, tell me what's going on, I'm listening."

Xue Xu blushed and then stammered out what had happened at the Xue family three days ago.

"Stealing my sister's dowry?! How dare she!"

It turned out that on the night of the Xue family's wedding banquet, Madam Feng secretly slipped into the storeroom where Jiang Lan'er kept her dowry. The storeroom was locked, but the servants were so busy that they forgot to lock the windows.

Feng was just trying his luck, hoping to go in and see some good stuff, but as he looked around, he became greedy.

The dowry chests were stacked one after another. The few smaller chests on top were filled with gold jewelry, pearl jewelry, and ruby ​​jewelry. The whole chest was full of jewelry of various colors.

When the Jiang family servants found it, all that was left was a silver box with a turquoise surface, perhaps because they thought it was worthless, or perhaps because they couldn't carry it anymore.

However, Feng was truly ignorant; turquoise and gold didn't look good together, so he specially used silver to make the headdress to achieve a harmonious color scheme.

The color scheme is beautiful, the design is novel, and it is the only design drawing that Jiang Xiaoqi personally drew, which led to the craftsmen making six sets.

All six older sisters received one, but the three older sisters who are not yet married have not received one yet; they will be given one when they get engaged or married.

It was only because it wasn't made with gold as a base that the uninformed Mr. Feng thought it was worthless.

Soon, the servants reported the matter to Madam Xue, and the first thing Madam Xue thought of was the look in Feng's eyes during the day.

They quickly searched the guest courtyard where Feng and Xue Yang were staying, causing them a great deal of embarrassment.

Out of respect for the many elders and clan leaders of the same clan, the matter was not taken to the authorities. However, Xue Yang and Feng moved out of the Xue residence that very night.

After staying at an inn for one night, I returned to Puyang early the next morning, feeling ashamed.

After all that trouble, Madam Xue felt quite ashamed and directly handed over the keys to the Xue family's storeroom to Jiang Lan'er, entrusting her with managing the household affairs and all the family's finances.

He simply told the young couple that they should stop associating with the clan and just live their own lives.

Jiang Xiaoqi was speechless. The turquoise stone surface she designed herself was still being disliked?

Yeah, this focus is really something else!