The legitimate daughter of the marquis, Lin Ran, who had just experienced the loss of her mother and the only relative in her maternal family, was plotted against by her father and stepmother, but ...
In the end, Aunt Shen was unable to win over Yang Chunshan. When Lin Ran's family met Aunt Shen again, she had already brought Yang Chunshan to the Zheng family to propose marriage.
This time, Aunt Zheng didn't dare to ask for too much.
But thinking of the betrothal money that the Yang family promised when they first came to visit, Aunt Zheng was unwilling to give up and could not help but test it:
"Mrs. Yang, look, how compatible are these two children?
We mothers won’t hold them back.
I won’t say anything more. How about we just follow the rules as we said last time?”
Aunt Shen's face almost froze when she heard such shameless words.
She was not happy about Zheng Daya as a daughter-in-law. If her son had not been so insistent at home on marrying Zheng Daya, he would rather be a bachelor all his life, and the couple would not have compromised.
Considering the Zheng family's current situation, the Yang family is willing to come and propose marriage, not only not to mention giving Zheng Daya some dowry, but they even have the nerve to ask them for a betrothal gift?
What does it mean to follow the rules from last time?
Do they still want the one hundred yuan betrothal gift that was agreed upon last time?
What a pipe dream!
Don’t you even look in the mirror to see if you are worthy?
Of course, Aunt Shen only muttered these words in her heart. Looking at her disappointing son whose eyes seemed to be glued to Zheng Daya from the moment he entered the door, Aunt Shen endured it again and again, and finally swallowed the fragrance that was about to enter her mouth.
But I was really angry inside, so naturally the words I said were not very nice.
"Just like last time? I remember you looked down on our Yang family last time, didn't you?
It seems that we have come here for nothing today, and we are not worthy of your Zheng family."
When Aunt Zheng heard this, she knew that Second Aunt Shen was still angry about what happened last time.
The Zheng family was originally in the wrong in this matter. Of course, in the past, she did look down on the Yang family.
But things are different now. Ever since her husband got into trouble, she has seen the fickleness of human nature.
My daughter's marriage has been repeatedly thwarted.
It's hard to find a normal family. Almost only old bachelors or widowers who can't find wives are interested in her family.
It was a rare opportunity that the Yang family was still willing to come and propose marriage, so she certainly couldn't let this good marriage fall through.
So he didn't dare to take Qiao anymore and took a step back.
"Mrs. Yang, you're joking. The last incident was all because of my husband Zheng's lack of vision. I have always been optimistic about Chunshan.
Oh, look, Daya and Chunshan look so well-matched when they stand together.
As parents, we must definitely support this wonderful marriage.
Let go of the unpleasantness of the past.
What do you think, Sister Yang?
Yang Chunshan, who was standing by, was so excited to get the approval of his future mother-in-law that he kept scratching his head and grinning foolishly. He also did not forget to touch Aunt Shen's arm and whispered a reminder.
"Mom, we're here to propose marriage today, why are you bringing up unhappy things from the past?"
Looking at her son with his elbows bent outward, Aunt Shen was so angry that she laughed.
But in the end, I skipped this topic and got straight to the point.
"Okay, let's speak frankly.
I'm sure you all know my family's situation, and we can't afford much money.
After scraping together all the money, I could only come up with a betrothal gift of ten yuan.
It can be used to buy new clothes for Daya for her wedding.
It is a token of our Yang family’s appreciation, and I hope you will not think it is too little.”
"What? Just ten dollars?
Didn't you guys collect a hundred yuan for the betrothal gift last time?"
Although Aunt Zheng knew that asking for another hundred yuan was unrealistic, she still asked again without giving up.
Second Aunt Shen finally skipped over this topic, but she didn't expect Aunt Zheng to have the nerve to bring it up again, and she sneered immediately.
"It's not that you didn't like it at first, so we had no choice but to return the money."
Seeing Aunt Zheng move her mouth to say something, she immediately interrupted her.
“It’s not that we don’t want to borrow money anymore, but people also need money to live.
We had just returned the money, and they used it to buy food.
We can’t help it.”
After these words were spoken, Aunt Zheng couldn't say anything more and her face became very ugly.
Aunt Shen saw this and couldn't help but feel happy.
Humph, don't think she doesn't know the other person's little thoughts.
Aunt Zheng is really regretting her decision now.
If I had known this, I should have agreed to the marriage with the Yang family.
In this way, they can also get a betrothal gift of 100 yuan, which is enough for their family to support for a long time.
But now one hundred yuan has become ten yuan. The gap is too big for her to accept for a while.
"Isn't ten dollars too little?
Not to mention I need to use it to make new clothes, how can ten dollars be enough?"
"That's none of my business. If you don't want to spend the betrothal money on new clothes, you can get married in old clothes."
Anyway, no matter what Aunt Zheng said, Second Aunt Shen just held on to the ten yuan and refused to give up.
In the end, Yang Chunshan couldn't bear to see Zheng Daya cry, so he forced Aunt Shen to raise the betrothal money to 20 yuan.
In fact, under Zheng Daya's tearful attack, Yang Chunshan wanted to add more.
But twenty yuan is the limit in Aunt Shen's mind, and it is also all the assets of their Yang family.