A heavy snow fell, and the weather turned so cold that water froze the instant it dripped.
It was now the twelfth lunar month, leaving less than twenty days until Chen Wanqing's wedding.
Xu Suying had earned a good sum of money and, with some free time on her hands, began to focus on preparing her daughter's dowry.
Qingshui County was an impoverished area. When a local family married off a daughter, a well-off household would provide a dowry of two quilts, two mahogany chests, two new sets of clothes, two washbasins, two wooden buckets, two combs, and two towels.
No one knew the exact reason for this, only that everything had to come in pairs to be auspicious.
As for struggling families, or those who didn't cherish their daughters, they might just bundle up some old clothes and marry the girl off with that.
