"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. We're all family, why say such things? Every girl in our family is good. Just wait until you girls get married, Grandpa will accompany each of you with the best dowry," the old master said with a chuckle.
In this era, women's status was very low, but the Xu family was relatively good, showing equal love for both boys and girls. In some families, women weren't even treated as humans. Some would drown newborn girls, and others would raise them but make them do much work, only to trade them off for a betrothal gift later. However, when these girls got married, they seldom had any dowry. For most families, it was already quite good if a girl could have two bundles of dowry when she got married. Take someone like Huixin, the daughter of a farmer; having ten or twenty bearers of dowry at her wedding was very rare indeed. No wonder the old lady of the Tao family coveted Huixin's dowry— it was indeed too envy-inducing.
