The words spoken by Cui Qingrou on the day of the wedding ceremony quickly spread, and the influential families in the capital heard mixed reviews. So praised the Cui family’s upbringing, lauding the Cui family girl as virtuous and of good character, while others sneered in private that she couldn’t have children of her own and treasured soone else’s; others sympathized with her, thinking she was planning for her future, seizing an opportunity to curry favor with her husband’s family...
No matter what they thought privately, they repeatedly cautioned their own children that when dealing with the Mo family siblings in the future, they must not be perfunctory or careless, and certainly not offend like the Hu family girl did, otherwise they would be punished severely according to family law.
The Musings and actions of these irrelevant people were, of course, unknown to the Mo family, and even if they knew, they would have simply laughed it off.
In the blink of an eye, Cui Qingrou had been married into the Mo family for two days. During these days, she had been getting familiar with the environnt of the Mo family under the accompanint of Mo Qingze; from the layout of the courtyards and the livestock, to the orchards, dicinal herb gardens, farmland, and wineries.
Cui Qingrou had always known that the Mo family lived a good life, but she didn’t expect it to be even better than she had imagined. After learning that all these properties had been slowly acquired by Mo Yan, she was extrely astonished and gained a new understanding of her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter.
However, Cui Qingrou was not envious of the Mo family’s wealth. Born into nobility, she had never worried about silver coins since she was a child, and although she couldn’t claim to live as lavishly as the princesses in the palace, she wasn’t far off, so she wasn’t the type to covet her husband’s family’s assets.
Moreover, after her divorce from her forr husband, she took all her dowry back to her parents’ ho. The properties she had set up in Jiangnan were not sold, and the annual inco was more than enough for her to live comfortably for over a decade. Over the years, she had accumulated a considerable fortune in her hands.
This ti, marrying into the Mo family, the Cui family had provided a hefty dowry again, and all the betrothal gifts from the Mo family went into her dowry. Just these items alone were enough for her to live without financial worries for several decades.
That day, Mo Qingze brought Cui Qingrou for another tour in the winery and both returned ho in a pleasant mood, only to see the main hall filled with large and small boxes. Mo Yan was picking and choosing among them.
"Yanyan, what are you doing?" Seeing several of the items had been seen in the storeroom and were not needed at the mont, Mo Qingze asked in confusion, "Why have you moved these out as well?"
Mo Yan piled a square wooden box on top of another pile of wood boxes and rolled her eyes upon hearing his question, "Dad, surely you haven’t forgotten what day it is tomorrow? Tomorrow, you and Mom are returning for a family visit. If I don’t prepare the return gifts in advance, will you have enough ti to get ready tomorrow?"
Ah, a family visit? Mo Qingze glanced at his newlywed wife beside him, his face showing a touch of embarrassnt. He had indeed forgotten about the visit.
"Yanyan, it’s good that you reminded us, otherwise I would have completely forgotten." Cui Qingrou also felt embarrassed. She had been living so comfortably these past two days that it had completely slipped her mind.
Mo Yan waved her hand and pointed to a pile of neatly arranged gift boxes, saying, "Dad, Mom, take a look and see if these are appropriate and sufficient. If anything is missing or inadequate, tell , if we don’t have it in the storeroom, we still have ti to buy it from town."
Cui Qingrou briefly looked over the items and, seeing that the return gifts such as tea cakes and sugar cakes were ready, quickly said, "That’s enough, that’s more than enough, there’s no need to buy anything else."
Having already checked everything twice before, Mo Yan knew there wouldn’t be any major issues. Now hearing Cui Qingrou’s response, she breathed a sigh of relief and pointed to two small white porcelain jars on the table, "Inside these are honey brewed by our own bees, which is better than what’s sold outside. Grandmother and cousin-in-law will enjoy it, don’t forget to take it with you tomorrow."
The honey in these two jars was produced by bees from the Space, far superior in quality to the honey from the over twenty beehives in the orchard. It not only amplified the health benefits of regular honey several tis but also had so functions that ordinary honey did not possess, which would be very beneficial to the aging Old Lady Cui and the pregnant Fangcao.
Mo Yan’s thoughtfulness touched Cui Qingrou imnsely, "Your grandmother and cousin-in-law will be very happy knowing you’re thinking of them."
Watching Cui Qingrou, who was smiling gently with an aura of happiness radiating from her, Mo Yan seed to be infected by her mood and unconsciously showed a smile, "We produce it ourselves, so if grandmother and cousin-in-law like it, Mom can surely send more their way in the future."
"Mm!" Cui Qingrou responded with a smile.
The next day, Mo Qingze, together with Cui Qingrou, brought a carriage full of gifts for the family visit to the Cui family, where they were eagerly welcod by Grand Master Cui, the eldest legitimate son of the family.
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