Now that I think about it, if Ah Hao had reached the age to be released from the palace...

That...

No, we must take action.

Murong Yue was strolling along the streets of the small county town.

Curfew is about to begin.

Suddenly a loud, stern shout came from ahead.

"You little bastard!"

"So what if the betrothal gifts weren't agreed upon and the engagement was called off?"

"You dare come here to die?"

"Suicide by poisoning!"

"If you have so much energy, why don't you go and do some work?"

Murong Yue and her group followed the sound and squeezed into the crowd.

Qi Yuan and his entourage shielded Murong Yue in the middle.

At the same time, he cleverly shielded Ah Hao in front of him.

In the crowd, a nimble old woman grabbed a young man with a livid face.

He slapped the other person repeatedly.

"I raised you all these years, and you're trying to kill yourself over something so trivial."

"There are so many days ahead."

"If you're going to die over every little setback, you might as well just die now."

"It also saves on food."

Only then did people understand the whole story.

The young man's name is Zheng Ziping, and his family owns a pork shop.

He got engaged to the daughter of the Peng family's pharmacy in Huaicheng.

As a result, they demanded a dowry of three hundred taels of silver.

Their pork shop's annual profit is about eighty taels.

This is already quite good for an ordinary family.

Three hundred taels was all the family's savings.

But Zheng Ziping isn't the only child in the family; it's impossible to dig out the coffin lid just for him.

Besides, there's a severe drought this year.

This silver is for saving lives in critical moments.

If they can't come up with the betrothal gifts, Peng's Pharmacy will definitely have to break off the engagement.

"We didn't want it to be like this either, but in this whole street, whose daughter's dowry isn't three hundred taels?"

"In early spring, the vinegar shop next door charges 356 taels of silver for a daughter's wedding."

“My daughter is much prettier than that other girl.”

"Moreover, he is knowledgeable, reasonable, and well-versed in pharmacology."

"Marrying a wife is no different from marrying a doctor."

"Think about it, if someone in your family gets sick, whether it's a major or minor illness, wouldn't it cost money?"

"These three hundred taels are a good deal, aren't they?"

As a result, Zheng Ziping didn't know what he was thinking.

Hearing this news made him so distraught that he couldn't think straight.

He grabbed the deworming medicine for pigs from the shop and forced it down their throats.