Chapter 89: Another Critical Attack
When Xiuxiuniang heard this, her face suddenly changed.
Carpenter Cai seemed to be enlightened, his eyes flashed with brilliance, how could it be possible?
Looking at Xiuxiuniang, he sneered:
"Okay, if you don't want to give up, then don't give up! I'll set the wedding date for sixty years, and I'll marry her when she's eighty."
"I will go home now and spend a few taels to buy a girl and take her as my concubine! You can have as many sons as she wants. Since she likes being my fiancée so much, then I will let her be my fiancé for life."
"I will come back to propose marriage several decades later. I hope you will still be alive to spend the twenty taels of betrothal gift!"
The villagers all gasped. This was such a mean move... what a talent!
In this way, Xiuxiuniang will never get the remaining 19 taels of betrothal gift.
But Xiuxiu was stuck there, unable to get married and unable to exchange the betrothal gift.
Xiuxiuniang's eyes went dark: "How dare you! I will sue you in the government."
"Come on! Then I'll tell the official about your fraudulent marriage. Let's see if the official will fall for your trick."
Xiuxiu's mother finally couldn't bear the blow, she rolled her eyes and fell down.
"Hey, Xiuxiu's mother." Tie Niu's wife and the headman's wife hurriedly caught her.
I helped her lie down on the ground, pinched her Ren Zhong point and shook her.
"Mom!" Hu Xiaosi and several other kids also came forward.
Hu Xiuxiu ran out of the room and checked her breath, and found that she had just fainted.
Hu Xiuxiu breathed a sigh of relief, and rummaged in her sleeve pocket for a while, then took out the marriage certificate and Carpenter Cai's engagement letter.
She clenched her fists, stood up, and held up the two things with a solemn expression:
"My dear uncles, brothers, aunts, and sisters-in-law, marriage is a matter of parents' orders and matchmakers' words. But things have turned out like this, and I have no choice but to disobey my mother's wishes and make the decision myself. Everyone here be a witness!"
Ye Lizheng walked out of the crowd and said, "Don't worry, it's not that you are disobedient or unfilial, you just have to do it. We are all watching."
"Yes!" The villagers also expressed their understanding.
The Hu family fled here to escape famine 20 years ago. They have no other relatives in the village, so whenever there is any major event they go directly to the village head.
Now that Ye Lizheng is supporting her, Hu Xiuxiu has nothing to worry about.
This kiss, she retreated on her own!
"Take out the marriage certificate!" Hu Xiuxiu looked at Carpenter Cai.
Carpenter Cai frowned. For some reason, he felt reluctant to leave the pretty Hu Xiuxiu in front of him.
But this reluctance only appeared for a moment and then disappeared.
What’s the point of being pretty? She’s a huge pit of fire! It’s so expensive! not worth!
Carpenter Cai quickly took out the marriage certificate from his arms.
The two of them exchanged the engagement letter back, and with a "hissing" sound, they both dropped the marriage certificate in their hands.
Hu Xiuxiu said: "The marriage certificate has been torn up. From now on, the man and the woman will have nothing to do with each other when they get married."
Carpenter Cai threw the debris away and said, "Since you've called off the engagement, why don't you return my ounce of silver?"
Hu Xiuxiu's mouth twitched, and she felt inside Xiuxiu's mother's sleeves, but nothing.
He touched the other one and finally took out some silver.
"Return it to you."
Carpenter Cai took the money and was very satisfied. He and his mother left in high spirits, like victorious generals.
Ye Yong, Mrs. Du and others all breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Caiping pulled Mrs. Du and said, "Let's go home."
The group then walked back.
…
It was completely dark.
After Xiuxiu's mother woke up, she kept crying.
Hu Xiuxiu brought in the porridge and placed it gently on the bedside table.
"You stupid girl, it's all your fault!" Xiuxiu's mother sat up suddenly and wanted to grab Hu Xiuxiu.
Hu Xiuxiu avoided her and looked at her coldly: "Why blame me? It's not me who gave birth to seven sons!"
Xiuxiu's mother choked and almost passed out: "I mean, why did you decide to cancel the engagement on your own initiative?"
"If you don't want to return it, what should I do? Fine, if you like, I will sell a bundle of firewood every day. After selling it for a year or two, I will be able to save enough to earn one or two taels. I will give you one or two taels and I will continue to stay at home."
"After all, this is no different from not canceling the engagement. I won't get married until I'm eighty anyway."
Xiuxiu's mother almost vomited blood again. She closed her eyes and fell back onto the bed.
Seeing her eyelids moving, Hu Xiuxiu sneered, turned around and left.
Xiuxiuniang was almost mad with anger.
But now that things have come to this, it's too late to say anything.
The next morning, Xiuxiuniang went to see Matchmaker Huang again.
Matchmaker Huang kicked the man out directly: "I dare not accept such weird business as yours again."
Xiuxiu's mother was furious, so she went to find another matchmaker in the town.
The matchmaker sat down on the chair, waving her handkerchief and saying:
"Oh, everyone in Dashu Town knows that your Xiuxiu has a miserable life! With seven burdens, who would want to be the scapegoat?"
Xiuxiu's mother: "My Xiuxiu is guaranteed to give birth to a son."
The matchmaker rolled her eyes and said, "People would have believed this before, but now... after Carpenter Cai's fuss, everyone is shocked. You said so, so what? Even if you do, what's the problem? Other women can't give birth."
"Why would someone spend twenty taels to marry someone like this? She's not young anymore, and she's got a burden."
"The rich are looked down upon by others, so it is better to take in more concubines. The poor cannot afford to marry."
"However, if you lower the betrothal gift to three taels, maybe you can get her married."
Xiuxiuniang vomited blood again: "There is no need for us to focus only on Dashu Town, we can look for neighboring towns or the county."
Matchmaker Hua's eyes widened: "Just tell me straight: No one in Dashu Town is fooled anymore, go and fool people outside! But I'm a matchmaker, not a scammer."
"Carpenter Cai has already made such a fuss. If he meets someone more ferocious, he will come to kill him with a knife. I dare not do that."
"I'm kindly reminding you that this matter has become so serious. Even if you contact the county or other towns, as long as they go to Qinghe Village to inquire, nothing can be hidden. Don't waste your energy."
Xiuxiu's mother collapsed to the ground: "Old sister, please teach me, what should I do now?"
"What else can we do? With your current reputation, you may not be able to get married even if you have two or three taels of silver. Otherwise, you can wait a few more years until her brothers grow up and then marry her."
Xiuxiu's mother's eyes went dark: "How can I wait?"
Hu Xiuxiu is already seventeen. In a few years, she will be twenty.
That's a real old girl! Forget about the high bride price; just not being able to get married is enough to embarrass you!
"How about we ask you two older kids to be more diligent and work hard?"
Xiuxiu's mother shook her head. Trying to get her two grown children out of bed was harder than climbing to the sky.
"Humph, you can't do this or that, and I can't help you."
Xiuxiuniang dragged her tired body out of the town.
This is not the cruelest thing. What is even crueler is that Carpenter Cai is a big chatterbox who likes to seek recognition.
The next day he also went to find a matchmaker to propose marriage, and told his experience to every person he met.
The film also portrays Xiuxiuniang as a greedy she-devil who wants to sell her daughter to suck the blood of her son-in-law.
The three words "Hu Xiuxiu" suddenly became a terrifying existence in the marriage market of Dashu Town.
Xiuxiuniang was hit hard again and lost a lot of weight.
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