Chapter 3: Urban household registration, dream on!
"Chu Yue! Are you crazy? You're asking for five hundred dollars just by talking to me! Why don't you just rob someone on the street?"
Chu Yaoyao struggled out of Li A'mei's hands, with the slap mark on her face, and looked at Chu Yue with fiery eyes.
Chu Yue snorted and retorted.
"Is five hundred yuan too much? Go out with five hundred yuan and see if you can buy a virgin girl for just five hundred yuan. Or do you want her to marry like a blind man?"
"Besides, you've been engaged to the Lu family since you were in the countryside, which is almost ten years ago. In the past ten years, have you received ten yuan from the Lu family every month? Do you want me to calculate it for you? Ten yuan a month, how much is the total amount after ten years?"
"Lu Zhanlin is willing to give this money to his future wife. Now I am the one who is marrying and joining the army. I am his wife. Shouldn't this money be given to me? I didn't ask for a thousand yuan, only five hundred yuan. That's a bargain for you!"
After these sharp words, the other four people in the room were stunned.
Whether in terms of logical thinking or reason, what Chu Yue said was exactly right.
Even Li A-mei couldn't find the loophole.
In the past ten years, she had indeed taken a lot of money from the Lu family, no more, no less.
But……
Li A-mei is such a stingy person, how could she possibly give up the money?
She could only use the old trick, which was "tears + playing the victim".
"Yueyue, we don't have that much money... We really don't have that much... Your father only makes 35 yuan a month, and Mr. Lu is just a private. How could he possibly give us 10 yuan a month? There's no such thing..."
"Private? That's not what you said just now. You just said that Lu Zhanlin is a platoon leader in the army and has influence throughout the army. If he hadn't given you the money, would you have let Chu Yaoyao get engaged to a man who was about to go to the battlefield and whose future life was uncertain?"
Chu Yue's light words exposed all of Li A-mei's past.
Li A-mei's true greed for money was exposed, but she still refused to give up.
"I don't have any money... I really don't have that kind of money... Even if you force me to death, I can't come up with that kind of money... As a daughter, are you so cruel? Do you want to force me to die?"
"Die? I forced you to die? Sister Li, don't you think this is ridiculous? Who forced who to die?"
Chu Yue's expression instantly turned cold.
If the original owner hadn't been angered to death, she wouldn't have traveled to this world of the 1970s.
"I said five hundred, and that's five hundred! I won't marry you for a dollar less."
"Don't tell me military marriages can't be divorced? So what if my name is on the marriage certificate? Isn't the essence of this matter a marriage fraud?"
"Believe it or not, if I write a letter of denunciation to the army, the police from the police station will come to your house to arrest you two tomorrow!"
Chu Yue said it in one breath with all her might!
Li A'mei's face turned ashen, and there was only gnashing hatred in her eyes as she looked at Chu Yue!
A little girl whose mother died, whose father didn't love her, and who had been controlled by her for five years, was actually going to rebel today.
But what Chu Yue said hit Li A-mei's soft spot.
Her original plan was to grab the university place and then tie Chu Yue up and send her to the army on a train. Once she was in the army, Chu Yue would not be able to escape even if she wanted to.
Could it be that Lu Zhanlin could just watch his wife run away?
As a result, her plan was aborted just as it was beginning.
At this moment, everyone else could see that Chu Yue was determined to break up with her, but Chu Yaoyao, the fool, still thought she could continue to threaten Chu Yue.
"Chu Yue! What good will it do you to write a letter of denunciation? If they investigate, you won't be able to go to college, and you might even end up in jail."
"Then let's go to jail together." Chu Yue sighed and laughed, "I'll just be locked up for a few months, but you two, for deceiving a soldier into marriage, will be in jail for life!"
Chu Yaoyao was so frightened that she immediately took a few steps back.
She asked Li A-mei in a panic, "Mom, is what she said true? Are we really going to go to jail?"
"No, no. Yaoyao, your father loves you so much, how could he let you go to jail. Nanshan, please say something, persuade Yueyue, you are the head of our family..."
At this time, Li A'mei remembered that Chu Nanshan was the head of the family.
Chu Nanshan kept his head down and smoked the pipe in his hand even harder.
He took a deep breath and uttered three words.
"Give her money."
When Li A-mei heard this, she immediately jumped up and down.
"What did you say? Are you old and confused? How can you give her money? Besides, our family is very poor, where would the money come from?"
"Give her money!" Chu Nanshan repeated in a hoarse voice, "If you don't give her money, she won't marry you. Then you'll send our whole family to the police station? Do you think this matter is not shameful enough? Do you want to make it known to the whole neighborhood?"
The man was tough in front of Li A-mei for once.
When Li A'mei saw that Chu Nanshan was really angry, her arrogance immediately subsided.
"No, Nanshan, that's not what I meant... That's not... money... I don't have any money..."
To put it bluntly, Li A'mei just has no money.
But whether Li A-mei has money or not, Chu Nanshan has slept in the same bed with her for five years. Is it possible that he really has no idea?
Chu Nanshan glanced at Li A'mei and said, "I'll give you two hundred as Yueyue's dowry. You pay the remaining three hundred. I don't care what method you use, you must give her all the five hundred."
"Dowry? Two hundred yuan for a girl's dowry? Are you marrying off your daughter or marrying off your wife? Have you ever thought about Yaoyao and Jianjun? Your son Jianjun will have to marry a wife in the future. Besides, where did you get two hundred yuan?"
"For the past five years, my monthly salary has been in your hands, and it comes from that."
"Your salary? Oh my God... We have two adults, three children, and five mouths to feed in our family. With your salary of just over thirty yuan a month, there's no way there's anything left. Five hundred won't do... Five hundred won't do, three hundred at most."
In a hurry, Li A'mei gritted her teeth and said a number.
Chu Yue quickly responded at this time.
"You said it, three hundred is three hundred! It's settled!"
Li A'mei quickly turned her head to look at Chu Yue, just in time to see the smile on Chu Yue's lips.
Damn it!
She was fooled!
Chu Yue knew from the beginning that Li A'mei could not come up with 500 yuan.
In the 1970s, 500 yuan would take a city family two years to save even without eating or drinking, and it was a huge sum of money for rural people.
What Chu Yue really wanted to know was how much money Li A'mei had.
Chu Nanshan's salary is in her hands, and the subsidy given by Lu Zhanlin is also in her hands. Only Li A'mei knows how much money she has hidden.
These three hundred yuan were definitely enough to make Li A-mei bleed heavily.
Li A'mei opened her mouth wide, her throat was very dry, she wanted to speak but couldn't.
I can only suffer this loss in silence.
After Chu Yue made the first request, she quickly made the second request.
"This house was originally bought with my mom's years of work experience. After she died, the house's household registration is only in my dad's, my, and Jianjun's names. Even after I got married, my household registration will still remain here. My second request is that Li A-mei and Chu Yaoyao's household registrations cannot be moved to this house."
“You…you…you…”
This time, Li A'mei was so angry that her hands were shaking and her face turned red.
She was longing for a city hukou so that she could eat commercial grain in the city.
In the five years since they got married, Chu Nanshan has always given in to her in everything except the household registration issue, which he would never give in.
Now that Chu Yue has made this request, it has completely cut off Li A'mei's future hopes.
Chu Nanshan nodded in agreement first, "Okay. When Yaoyao goes to college, she can transfer her household registration to the school, and the school will distribute food rations."
In this way, Chu Yaoyao's household registration was arranged. If Li A'mei made a fuss about her own household registration, it would be unreasonable and inconsistent with her image of a white lotus.
She could only stare at Chu Yue with resentment in her eyes.
At this moment, there was only one thought in Chu Yue's heart: If you want a city hukou, you're just dreaming!
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