Chapter 408: Chapter 408: Does She Treat My Dad Well? Chapter 408: Chapter 408: Does She Treat My Dad Well? Lin Baiyi quickly nodded and went into the kitchen. In no time, Lu Qiubo came out holding a box.
“Grandma, what’s that in your hands, your dowry?” Lin Caisang jokingly asked, eyeing the box she was holding.
Lu Qiubo grumpily glanced at her granddaughter.
“My family was too poor. When I married your grandpa, all I had was the clothes on my back, nothing else.”
Country girls marrying off, what kind of dowry did they have? If they were a bit better off, they would have a couple of silver coins with them. Those without money could only arrange for their wedding garments, buy a red strap, and that was that.
“This is something your father asked me to keep safe.”
Hearing it was something from her father, Lin Caisang’s eyes immediately lit up.
The bad mood caused by Lin Caihe stealing the silver and running away was immediately swept away. All she was hoping for now was for her father to come back as soon as possible, but there’s really no news from him these past years.
“Wife, what did our eldest son ask you to keep safe? How come I didn’t know?” Lin Laogeng asked.
“With your soft nature, would I dare let you know? Don’t tell me you’ll end up losing our eldest son’s stuff, how would I answer to him?” Lu Qiubo glared at her husband grumpily.
A few pieces of silver from the house were taken away and it wasn’t a big deal, she could let it go. But if this box was taken away by Lin Caihe, she definitely would have to take it back.
“Sangsang, this is what your father left for you and Changhong.”
She came over to her granddaughter’s side and opened the box.
Lin Caisang looked and saw that the things inside were all valuable – there were gold phoenix hairpins, jade pins, jade pendants, rings, and even the least valuable silk flowers were made of pure gold.
There was even a pair of shoes inlaid with jewels. If they were sold outside, how much silver would they fetch?
“Grandma, when did my dad become so capable to bring back such good things?”
If her dad really had that much silver, then they wouldn’t always be starving at home, and wouldn’t need to go to the most dangerous place to harvest cubilose, nor buy Manghuang Mountain for her dowry.
“While these things are said to be your father’s, they’re actually not.”
Mentioning these objects, Lu Qiubo looked somewhat embarrassed.
Lin Caisang was confused, and she looked up at her.
“These were what your mother was wearing when your father saved her. After your mother married your father, these things were always kept by her. Then, after your mother gave birth to you and Changhong, she left just after your first full month.
When your father noticed she was gone, all he saw was this box left on the bed. Your father and I thought, perhaps your mother didn’t want to leave you and Changhong, and left these things behind so the two of you could have better lives.”
From these things, Lin Caisang could imagine that her mother was certainly not just an ordinary peasant, but from a rich or noble background.
Even for a daughter from a wealthy family, could they carry such precious things with them when they go out? Other things might be possible, but this pair of shoes inlaid with so many gems, that was definitely unlikely.
“Grandma, who exactly was my mother, was she good to my dad?” she hesitated, then asked.
In the past, the people in the family never mentioned her mother in front of her and her elder brother, so she really knew nothing about her mother. All she knew was that after her mother gave birth to her and her elder brother, she left without a word.
That’s how people in the village put it anyway.