The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir

Chapter 173: Getting married is only a trifling matter

Ji Man felt despondent. What did Ning Yuxuan mean by canceling the classes? She had been planning on teaching Haohao how to sing nursery rhymes today.

After changing her clothes, she went looking for Ning Yuxuan. However, when she got to his courtyard, Guibai stopped her and said that the marquis was with a guest.

He was holding Haohao while he was with a guest? Who was he trying to trick?! Ji Man stood at the doorway and looked at Guibai with awkward smile for a long time. She remained here so that she could eavesdrop.

It seemed that there were people talking inside. She even heard words like, "congratulations, congratulations" and "will definitely show up". She was helpless though. Haohao was Ning Yuxuan's heir, so she couldn't take Haohao away by force. Since he wouldn't allow her to give Haohao lessons today, then she could only accept it for now.

Since she had agreed that she would marry Miss Zhu, she had to start preparing for their wedding. Regarding the problem of a betrothal gift, Ji Man had already figured out what she would do. According to the rules of this era, she would have to spend several hundred silver taels to buy the traditional gifts that would be up to par, then she just needed to hire a matchmaker to go to Miss Zhu's home on her behalf. Assistant Minister Zhu was in hurry to marry off his daughter, so he wouldn't be too picky and complain.

As Ji Man walked through the streets and ordered red silk and other wedding decorations from one store and jugs of fine wine from another store, she continued to have conflicting emotions. After she had finished with most of the preparations, she dropped by Zhu Residence to discuss the specific details for the wedding day.

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Assistant Minister Zhu was broadly smiling. Ji Man had fixed the big problem that had plagued him. Although he felt a bit wronged that his daughter's wedding would be done so casually, it was already a blessing from the Heavens that someone was willing to marry her.

Teacher Ji seemed like a trustworthy person, and he heard that Teacher Ji was from a well-off family too. If he opened a few paths for Teacher Ji, his future son-in-law would definitely have a bright future. His daughter wouldn't suffer by marrying this man. Thinking of it like this, Zhu Shuyou was full of smiles as he exchanged many words with Ji Man.

At the end of their discussion, he even offered to visit Ji Man's rice shops to look around.

Ji Family's rice business was going pretty well, but their customers were all normal citizens, and their stores weren't big. Although there was a store in the north, west, south, and east parts of the capital, each of their stores only took up the space of two standard storefronts.

Before leaving his estate, the assistant minister of revenue had changed out of his high-ranking official's attire and into plain clothing in order to go about incognito. He had also brought along a few trusted aides during his tour of Ji Family's business. As they visited each of the four stores, he gave Ji Man some pointers. By his side, there was a person scribbling down his advice. After they had taken a tour of all the stores, Ji Man and the rest of the group bumped into Shopkeeper Liu.

Since the election for the new head of the grain merchant association was at a critical point, Shopkeeper Liu was putting forth his full effort. He had invited Director Tang out today and spent a lot of money to entertain him. They had just come out of Luoyan Pagoda and ended up bumping into Ji Man.

Ji Man politely bowed. "Sir Tang."

Director Tang still had a very good impression of Ji Man, so he nodded his head to acknowledge Ji Man's greeting. Just as he was going to continue walking forward to go browsing at a jade artifact store with Shopkeeper Liu, he saw that the curtain of the palanquin that was next to Ji Man being slightly parted.