"ah?"
Shen Zhiyu was momentarily stunned, but after a few seconds of reaction, he quickly nodded vigorously.
"Of course I'd love to! Don't worry, I'll have my mom make arrangements as soon as I get home."
As he spoke, he patted his chest and promised, "I will definitely raise enough dowry to marry you!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Yuelan couldn't help but smile.
She didn't say anything more, but just threw the few cents she didn't have on the counter.
Then he picked up the bottle of soy sauce, turned around, and ran out quickly.
"Yuelan, wait for me!"
Shen Zhiyu was so excited that he almost lost his soul. He stood at the entrance of the grocery store and shouted at the top of his lungs.
All I wanted was to save up two thousand yuan quickly so I could marry her!
However, when he opened the gate after get off work and saw the dilapidated mud houses in his home, he felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his heart.
Let alone scraping together two thousand yuan.
They're barely making ends meet, they don't even have proper furniture, how are they going to raise the dowry?
This matter...
That's so difficult!
Wisps of smoke rose from the kitchen.
In the courtyard, she sat on a bamboo stool, looking down at an old garment. The garment had been washed until it was faded and the edges were torn. She was carefully mending it stitch by stitch.
"mom."
Shen Zhiyu spoke softly and walked slowly to his mother's side.
"I want to marry Yuelan, but... can my family... scrape together some money for the bride price?"
"snort."
Her needle and thread continued uninterrupted.
"Two thousand yuan? Dream on! Even if I burned all my old bones, I still couldn't scrape together that much money!"
"If you really want to marry her, you should teach that girl to be more sensible and learn from Su Qingzhi. She should even offer herself to you. That's the right thing to do. These days, what married woman doesn't wholeheartedly support her husband's family?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Zhiyu's face instantly turned bright red, and he couldn't utter a single word.
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