Chapter 11 Song Qingci's Red Makeup
Shan Li did not show up at dinner time, and Song Qingci did not ask.
She thought this was fine. After all, they were just partners. She felt more comfortable when he wasn't around.
After she finished her meal, she asked Yin Xing to clear the table. She called Yin Qiu over and asked casually, "Do you know where the dowry I brought is? Take me to see it later." "After eating, people still need to walk around to digest the food. This is good for health. Her body is very precious, and she must take good care of it."
"Yes, I will prepare it right away." Yin Qiu replied and left.
There were also disadvantages in the ancient times. There was no electricity. Once it got dark, it was really a test for the eyes.
No matter what kind of lamp, oil or torch, the visibility is very low. Fortunately, her night vision ability has been specially trained by [Lingxiao].
After a while, Yinqiu brought two other maids and walked to the door with lanterns to wait for Song Qingci.
The original owner's dowry is now in the storeroom of the Chixiao Courtyard. It was specially packed out before the wedding for the original owner. It took about two quarters of an hour to walk there like a stroll. Song Qingci thought, this Chixiao Courtyard is really big.
If she wanted to live in a house like this in modern times, how much wealth would she have to save?
Arriving at the warehouse door, Yin Qiu took out the pair of cards and handed them to the person guarding the warehouse. After confirming that they were correct, Yin Qiu took the pair of cards back from the guard, along with another key.
This key and the key in Yinqiu's hand must be used together to successfully open the warehouse lock.
Although it is not high-tech, Song Qingci also found it quite interesting. In ancient times, the limitation was only due to the underdeveloped technology, not the lack of brains. The wisdom of the ancients is still very admirable.
Entering the storeroom, Yinqiu took two maids to light the lamp. Song Qingci stood at the entrance, looking at the piles of boxes and shelves, thinking that although the Shangshu Mansion had no foundation, it seemed that it had no shortage of money.
There is more than one daughter in the Shangshu Mansion. If a daughter is married, the dowry is so much. If all the daughters in the mansion are married, will the Shangshu Mansion be emptied? No wonder the older generation always scolds girls for being money-losing goods. It's because of this.
Yin Qiu handed a booklet to Song Qingci with both hands, and then said, "Madam, this is the dowry list. Except for the furniture and utensils placed in the bridal chamber on the wedding day, everything else is here."
What?! The furniture and other things in the new house were all her dowry? Then the things she and Shan Li broke were all her things?!
Why does my heart suddenly hurt?!
All that was her money?! Woohoo~~~~Not lacking money is one thing, but losing money is another.
No, no, her heart aches so much, she needs to take a break.
"You guys go out and wait for me. I'll take a look myself."
"Yes. I'll be waiting at the door. Madam, please call me if you need anything." Yinqiu left with the two maids. When she turned around, Song Qingci suddenly smelled a faint fragrance. It was there for a moment, but it disappeared again. It was so fast that she couldn't catch it. She suspected that it was an illusion of her heartache.
The warehouse door was closed again, and Song Qingci sat in front of a desk specially reserved in the warehouse, flipping through the dowry list in his hand.
The first page listed gold, silver and jewelry, the second page listed silk and satin, followed by property deeds, furniture and utensils, books and paintings, antiques and valuable medicinal materials, and finally the address of the dowry farm and shop, as well as the list of slaves and servants. It was a long list written in a fluent manner.
The house deed and the servants' indentures are not here. They are probably kept in the new house. I will go back and look for them tonight.
She placed the dowry list on the desk, then stood up and began to look through the actual items.
When she opened the first box, she was dazzled by the golden light. Fortunately, she had seen the world. She also had a lot of gold bars in her space, but the ones in her space were the kind issued by the bank, in a regular shape.
Each box of Song Qingci's gold dowry was in a different shape, all of which were auspicious and festive, including the box of silver at the back.
Except for the first box which contains regular gold and silver ingots, the others are all filled with various auspicious patterns.
Song Qingci took a few of each and put them in the space as a souvenir.
Then she went on to open other boxes. This feeling was really good. It was more exciting than opening blind boxes in modern times~
At the end of the drive, she was tired and gradually numb. She later took the dowry list and looked through it, only finding antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and precious medicinal materials and putting them in her space. These more fragile and difficult to store things were better kept in her space, which was safer.
As she was about to leave, she suddenly noticed a box placed alone in a corner.
At first, she didn't notice the box because it was blocked by other boxes and shelves. She had to go around a corner to see it. Driven by curiosity, Song Qingci walked up to the box and opened it, and found that it was a box of spices.
Maybe it was because they were afraid that the spices would be too close to other things and contaminate the smell, so this box was put aside separately.
Song Qingci suddenly seemed to smell a hint of that faint fragrance again. After sniffing carefully, he could only smell the scent of the commonly used spices in the box.
Song Qingci took some spices from the box and put them into the detector in the space. It was her habit to solve any doubts.
Besides being curious, she came to the storehouse tonight to look for clues. However, she wanted to look at the jewelry at first. There was more than one person who wanted to poison the original owner, and there might be something else besides arsenic and diamond powder.
Jewelry is the easiest to tamper with. Skilled craftsmen can easily make a hole in a bracelet or make a hairpin hollow, and these places can hide dirty things. She came to check it out in advance to be prepared.
As a result, the jewelry and head ornaments in the dowry were all fine. Instead, spices were found.
She wasn't sure it was definitely the spice, but she had felt it twice in a short period of time.
She never believed in luck. If she had relied on luck in the missions issued by Lingxiao, she would have died countless times.
After returning all the things to their original places, she walked out of the warehouse. After Yin Qiu finished paying her respects, he locked the warehouse and divided the key into two parts, leaving one to the person guarding the warehouse and the other one for her to take back and enter into the account with the pair of cards.
When she turned around, Song Qingci smelled that smell again. It happened again and again tonight.