Chen Xihua didn't say anything after that, she just felt like there was something she couldn't remember, so she kept thinking back. Now when she heard her second sister say the four words "fighting and brawling", she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered: it was that domestic abuser in the original book, who was almost betrothed by Li Yumei again!
"Yes, my nephew served in the army and his family is well-off. Why doesn't your Chen family agree?" Aunt Zhao pressed, her face darkening.
"You're back after just over a year?" Chen Xihua looked at Aunt Zhao with a half-smile, but didn't expose her. There were too many people around! She didn't want to cause any more trouble. As long as her eldest sister didn't agree to get married, there was nothing the Zhao family could do!
"Well, well, her leg is injured!" Aunt Zhao was a little afraid to look at the fifth daughter of the Chen family. Her eyes seemed to see through everything. Her face turned pale and then red.
"Sister Zhao, I'll say it again, I haven't considered arranging a marriage for my daughter so early." Chen Lao Er frowned, his face turning grim, as a group of women surrounded him at the door.
"Sister Zhao, when Li Yumei's daughter gets married, the bride price is over 20,000 yuan. Her family probably thinks your family's bride price is too low!"
Li Juan, who was standing at the very back of the doorway, finished speaking in a sarcastic tone and then retreated into the corridor.
At this moment, Li Juan was extremely excited. Five thousand yuan in betrothal gifts! Didn't Li Yumei laugh at her eldest daughter Shuifang for only receiving eight hundred yuan in betrothal gifts when she married into the countryside?
If her youngest daughter, Shuiqin, could marry Zhao Jie's eldest nephew and receive five thousand yuan, wouldn't she be able to regain face in front of Li Yumei?
"Twenty thousand? You Chen family are robbing us!" Aunt Zhao suddenly screamed, then angrily pushed through the crowd at the door and left without looking back.
Did they think Chen Chunhua was some kind of celestial being? They even wanted 20,000 yuan. If they could afford 20,000 yuan, what woman couldn't her nephew marry? Aunt Zhao went out into the corridor and spat.
"No, no, everyone, don't listen to what Sister-in-law Wang said. Our Chunhua is taking the college entrance exam, that's why we haven't gotten engaged so quickly!" Upon hearing this, Chen Lao Er's eyelids twitched, and he immediately tried to explain.
If Li Juan's words get out, how will her daughters find husbands in the future!
"Chen Lao Er, this is what your Li Yumei said, she said she wanted ten or twenty thousand!" a woman walking behind retorted. She was also there at the time, and Li Yumei had indeed said it. Several other women around her nodded in agreement.
"I said it, so what? I didn't force them to ask for 20,000. I said it was possible! If your family were to marry off your daughter and the groom's family was willing to give more dowry, would you refuse it? What are you pretending for!"
Li Yumei's face darkened, and she immediately started cursing! It had nothing to do with her; it was all that bitch Li Juan's fault. Did she think no one knew what she was up to?
The faces of the women who had been watching the commotion immediately turned ugly, but they couldn't really say anything wrong with what Li Yumei had said, so they all left awkwardly.
Just as they were about to go downstairs, they noticed that Li Juan and Aunt Zhao were whispering something to each other in front of the Wang family's house on the left. They slowly crouched down the stairwell wall to eavesdrop, instead of going down immediately!
"Sister Zhao, you know my youngest daughter, Shuiqin. She's twenty years old this year. I'm going to give her to your nephew. What do you think?" Li Juan asked with expectant eyes!
"Your Shuiqin? Wasn't she already betrothed?" Aunt Zhao asked, displeased and somewhat suspicious. Shuiqin, that dark-skinned girl, had already been betrothed, yet she still wanted to marry her nephew? Dream on!
"No, it's not decided yet, Sister Zhao, could you talk to your brother about it?" Li Juan quickly denied, trying to appease him.
Anyway, the person Shuiqin mentioned is from her hometown in the next county. If she doesn't go back and tell them, who will know? Let's settle things here first, then go back and cancel the order!
"Alright, I'll go back and ask first!" Aunt Zhao didn't refuse immediately. After all, the Chen family wasn't willing right now, so it would be good to have another daughter from the Wang family as a backup.
"Okay, okay, I'll wait for you!" Li Juan immediately said with a smile, and warmly saw Aunt Zhao downstairs. Back home, she was overjoyed, practically dancing with glee, as if the five thousand yuan was about to be hers, and the wealthy husband was already hers!
Ten minutes later, in the open space on the first floor of the residential area, the women who had been eavesdropping by the stairs started chatting again!
"I never expected Li Juan to be so scheming! She even wants to marry her daughter Shuiqin off to the Zhao family! She's obsessed with getting five thousand yuan in dowry!"
"That's right. Li Juan often said that Li Yumei wanted to sell her daughter to get married. But when she heard that the Zhao family was offering five thousand yuan, didn't she shamelessly jump on the bandwagon?"
"Yes, her daughter Shuiqin is already engaged in the countryside. She's shameless!"
These women's sons or daughters are all unmarried, and they inevitably feel resentful when other families have better marriage prospects than their own children, so they want to find opportunities to gossip about other families!
At this moment, at the Chen family dinner table
"What are you looking at? I already explained things to Manager Zhao yesterday afternoon!" Li Yumei was about to eat when she saw her whole family staring at her, as if she couldn't eat without an explanation!
"Mom, why didn't you find out more before arranging my eldest sister's marriage? That Zhao Zhiyong and his older brother are both thugs who are always fighting. Just because they have money doesn't mean they're all that. We...we'll be rich in the future too!" Second sister Chen Jinhua almost blurted out that she and her siblings also had money, tens of thousands of yuan!
Actually, Chen Xihua was a little confused. Her second sister was so hostile to the Zhao family, so in the original book, she should have stopped her eldest sister from marrying into the family. Could it be that Li Yumei wanted to arrange a private engagement? Or was she afraid that the man would change his mind and was forcing them to get the marriage certificate first?
That must be it, Chen Xihua felt she was pretty sure she was right!
"Yes, Mother, Fifth Sister hit me yesterday! Please don't arrange any more marriages for anyone, or I'll get hit again! From now on, don't worry about your sisters' affairs. Just be good to me and think about your precious son!" Chen Baohua seemed to have superhuman intelligence.
Yes, why didn't he think of that before? His mother is good to him, and he can't refuse her kindness, nor can he blame his mother for only being good to him. But he doesn't want his sisters to get hurt. He can talk to his mother himself!
As long as Mother doesn't interfere too much in my sisters' affairs in the future, Mother can actually be very happy, and my sisters will be happy too!
Moreover, he vaguely understood one thing: as long as his fifth sister was around, his parents would not be able to make decisions about their sisters!
"Okay, Xiaobao, from now on I'll only be good to you. As for the girls, I won't care if I don't want them! Who cares! Does that third girl need me to pay for her high school education?" Li Yumei was seething inside. Wasn't the fifth girl supposed to be so capable?
"Whatever you want, but Dad, it's up to you whether you're going to pay for our high school education!" Chen Xihua looked at Chen Lao Er with a smile. She could afford it now, but she just wanted to take advantage of Chen Lao Er and his wife!
Chen Lao Er turned his head and saw San Ya Tou staring at him with a wronged and coquettish expression, while Wu Ya Tou, directly in front of him, had a half-smile on her face. He was indeed a smart man, so his mind was very clear, and then he said seriously and firmly,
"We'll support your education as long as you pass the exams! But if you don't pass, don't blame us for stopping the financial support!"
"What a waste of money!" Li Yumei muttered under her breath, then angrily began to eat large mouthfuls of food, as if she were chewing something up!
It's true that everything has its counter, just like brine curdling tofu. Chen Xihua's lips curled up slightly, and she began to eat!
In the afternoon, Chen Chunhua returned to school smoothly, and Chen Xihua resumed her daily routine of practicing calligraphy in the morning and knitting bags or handling workshop matters in the afternoon!
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Silver City, Ontario, which borders Southern Province
Mao Shan drove for a day and a night, stopping twice to rest, and finally, around 10 a.m. this morning, he brought Ying Jie back to Yincheng, near the city center, to a 15-story hotel, the Golden Club, decorated in a glittering gold style!
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