Xu Sheng worked quickly. When Chen Jinjun walked to the door of the warehouse, he had already led someone to wait at the door.
Chen Jinjun took out the key and opened the door to the warehouse.
This is the Chen family's warehouse. The types of items inside are basically comparable to those of the royal family. There are even yellow vests that were awarded by the previous emperor.
Chen Jinjun went straight to the corner of the warehouse, where most of the Chen family's tokens were stored, as well as gifts from the emperor and various land deeds.
She held the account book in front of her and counted them one by one. Every time she counted an item, Xu Sheng picked it up and put it in the box.
"What is this?" Chen Jinjun saw an inconspicuous thing.
A palm-sized jade plaque was lying there. It was not considered a precious jade. At least in Chen Jinjun's eyes, the appearance of this jade plaque was very abrupt.
She checked the account book carefully and found that the jade plaque was not recorded.
"Xu Sheng, in all your years in the Chen family, have you ever seen who owns this jade plaque?"
Xu Sheng came over to take a look and shook his head: "I haven't seen anyone in each room bring it, but generally only the dowry of the eldest lady of each room is not recorded in the book. Could it be the dowry of someone else's wife?
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"The second bedroom has long since separated. The third uncle's eldest wife is a girl from a scholar's family. The dowry is all in the third bedroom. The fourth uncle is busy with the imperial examination and has never married. How could it be in the warehouse?
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Chen Jinjun picked up the jade plaque and looked at it carefully. Although the texture of the jade plaque was not very good, the carvings on it were extremely delicate. A black bird and a blue luan fit perfectly with the black and cyan colors of the jade plaque itself.
"Good work." Chen Jinjun couldn't help but sigh.
"Young Master, we found it." Xu Sheng called to her.
"What is the origin of this jade plaque?" Chen Jinjun was still admiring the ingenious design of the jade plaque.
Xu Sheng looked troubled: "There is no record of the jade plaque, but the things in this row were all added after the wife got married."
"After my mother married my father?" Chen Jinjun squinted his eyes. Then this jade token was probably his mother's dowry, but was put into the Chen family's warehouse by her or his father.
Chen Jinjun put it into the sachet on his waist as a matter of course. Regardless of whether it was a gift from his father to his mother or a dowry from his mother, it could not be left to the rest of the Chen family in the end.
It would be nice to wear a rope and hang it around your neck when you go home at night. My parents have been gone for so long, and it is not easy to have something like a token of love. I always feel at ease when it is close to my body.
Then he continued to order until he had walked through the entire warehouse. Chen Jinjun had ordered ninety-nine and eighty-one boxes of dowries.
Xu Sheng stood behind Chen Jinjun and watched the servants of the Chen family seal eighty-one boxes with red silk and send them to the courtyard of the main house: "Including the old lady who asked for the imperial edict from the royal family for you, and the wife's dowry back then."
After assembling the boxes, I still need to collect a dowry of 108 liters for the young master."
"If the Qing Dynasty hadn't fallen now, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been easy to fight such a big battle."
Chen Jinjun looked at the red makeup that was lifted up again and again, and gently touched the jade plaque with his fingertips. He felt a little ridiculous in his heart. Since his parents passed away, he had never thought about getting married, but now that he was getting married, he actually had to give it to himself.
Prepare your own dowry.
"Young Master, all the shopkeepers are here." Uncle Liang ran from the meeting hall.
Chen Jinjun nodded: "Uncle Liang, please keep an eye on this place. I'll take Xu Sheng there first."
The journey from the warehouse to the meeting hall is not very short, and the sweat on Uncle Liang's forehead just now is unusual in late autumn.
As she walked, she sighed: "Actually, in that imperial edict, the old man was not asking for the last emperor, but for the first emperor."
"It has been so long since the late Emperor's funeral. Didn't the old family master have expected this a long time ago?"
"The jade seal on it belongs to the last emperor. The calligraphy on it is at least five years old. The old man has already left a way out for me."
"Are you talking about the chaotic period when the Queen Mother imposed heavy taxes?"
"He was afraid that the Queen Mother would make things difficult for him, that he would be executed if he left the royal family, and that I would be secretly sentenced to death like my father and mother."
"So, as long as you agree to let me go out early, no matter how the Chen family is criticized, I will be the safest."
Chen Jinjun's throat became thicker and Xu Sheng followed her without saying anything, but he was also moved by Old Mrs. Chen's careful thoughts.
"I'm afraid this imperial edict has been hidden by my grandfather for a long time. After all, it involves the royal family."
"But when there was a revolution, he could only ask someone to cover the last jade seal in a hurry. He knew that he was gone and I could not leave the Chen family alone, so he transferred the imperial edict to the third room. I had to
Marry to Yongzhou."
"He is really scheming." Chen Jinjun's tone was sour and heartwarming.
Xu Sheng could only comfort her: "My master asked you to go to Yongzhou because of the young master's consideration. Please be at ease, young master."
Chen Jinjun nodded and walked faster and faster.
Arriving at the door of the council hall, Chen Jinjun heard the quarrels among the shopkeepers inside and did not go in immediately.
"I still remember that when I went on a business trip with my parents for the first time when I was eight years old, I stood outside the door like this and listened to the quarrels of these old men."
She lowered her head and smiled nostalgically: "Now I just hope that most of them can understand that staying in the capital is probably not a good thing."
Seeing her walking in, Xu Sheng hurriedly announced: "My boss is here!"
The meeting hall fell silent for an instant, and all the shopkeepers turned to look at Chen Jinjun, who was wearing hemp and mourning, just like they had looked at her in men's clothing more than ten years ago.
"Every uncle knows that my grandfather asked for a marriage decree for me to marry the second son of the Huo family in Yongzhou City." Chen Jinjun sat on the Taishi chair directly above the meeting hall for the first time and looked around at the shopkeepers.
"Is there anyone willing to come with me to Yongzhou?"
There was even more silence in the meeting hall. Many old shopkeepers knew that staying in the capital at this time of dynasty change was not a good choice, but after staying in the capital for half a life, they really couldn't bear to leave, so they could only hesitate again and again.
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And there are some inexperienced shopkeepers who are not willing to give up the prosperity of the capital and keep their heads down.
Chen Jinjun and Shopkeeper Wu of the grain store met their eyes. Shopkeeper Wu, who was nearly 70 years old, nodded gently at her, smiled kindly, and signaled her to calm down.
"Then let me say a few words for my boss." Shopkeeper Yu from Buzhuang across from Shopkeeper Wu took a puff of his pipe, "This time my boss got married, it was the intention of my old boss. My boss went to Yongzhou, and there were only three and four bedrooms left in the capital.
Room available. Three bedrooms
I have been enjoying my success all these years, and my fourth brother has devoted himself to pursuing fame. If he wants to have a good future, other than being self-reliant like the second brother of the Chen family who was separated ten years ago, staying in the Chen family without an owner is not a good choice."
The old man blew his pipe, closed his eyes and took a leisurely puff: "We old men have been in the capital for so many years and have too many worries. But you young people have a lot of strength. It's time to go out and have a try with your boss."
,Dad is right, Erzi?"
Shopkeeper Yu's second son, Yu Ce, was named by his old man from behind. He sighed with a smile and quickly stood up: "You are right, then I will take my wife and I will go to Rongcheng with my boss to have a try.
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"Hey, that's right. The water in Yongzhou is shallower than the water in Beijing. If you can't make a name for yourself, don't say you are my son." Shopkeeper Yu smiled and snorted, expressing that he was very satisfied.
Seeing that someone was going to Yongzhou with Chen Jinjun, which was the number one cloth shop in the capital, someone started to have some thoughts.
"How do you know that when you get to Yongzhou, you will be prosperous?"