Lu Jiangting knew he was in the wrong and stammered, unable to utter a word.

But his parents are still trying to compensate him.

"No, we can only help her once, how can we help her for a lifetime? Yuyao, this time, it is indeed our Jiang Ting who is wrong. I will not allow him to help next time, please forgive him this time."

Lin Yuyao sniffed and cried, "Uncle, can you return my dowry to me first?"

ah?

"This..." Lu Cong looked at Lu Jiangting, "Jiangting, the money is all in your hands, how much do you have left?"

Lu Jiangting shook his head, "No more, I lent them all to Fang Qing."

"Huh? You had over a thousand bucks on you, and you borrowed it all?"

"Yes." He looked at Lin Yuyao with anger and said, "Why did you go back on your word? Didn't you say you would return it in three months?"

"Three months? After the store is transferred, she needs to renovate it, buy the necessary equipment, and open the business. It's strange that she can pay it back in three months."

"I told her that if she can't pay me back I will help her."

Lin Yuyao smiled bitterly, "Didn't you say that if we get married, you would give me all the money?"

Lu Jiangting: "..."

"Your wages are all mine. What are you going to give me back? Are you going to give me my own money back?"

Everyone suddenly understood.

"Yes, Xiaolu, isn't that the same as paying yourself back with your own money? Don't you want Fang Qing to pay you back?"

He had never thought of asking her to pay it back, but now that he was asked urgently, Lu Jiangting said bluntly: "So what if she doesn't pay it back? Jianjun saved my life, isn't my life worth more than a thousand yuan?"

Lin Yuyao said, "You all see, they are all excuses. Lending money, paying her back, they are all excuses he made to coax me. The truth is, he never thought about asking her to pay him back. He owed her his life, so he should just pay it back with his own money. Why should he drag me into paying it back? I don't owe them anything."

"What do you mean by you and me? Once we get married, we are one, husband and wife. There is no distinction between you and me."

Lin Yuyao said sarcastically, "There is no distinction between you and me. Yours is Fang Qing's, and mine is still Fang Qing, right?"

Lu Jiangting: "..."

Lu Cong: "Yuyao, although Jiang Ting is wrong in this matter, you shouldn't say such harsh words. Yours is naturally yours, how can it be Fang Qing's."

Lin Yuyao looked at Lu Cong's skinny appearance, still smoking a cigarette.

Because of her long-term smoking of low-quality cigarettes and her poor health, she will have to take care of him for at least ten years before she dies.

Lu Jiangting's mother has cataracts in her eyes, which will become more and more serious in the future.

Old ladies nowadays have no idea about cataract removal. Even when the cataract became so serious that they became blind, they still refused to have it removed.

After taking care of an old man who died, she now takes care of a blind old lady. How miserable is her life?

She would never let herself become the person in her dreams.

Seeing that enough people had gathered around and the reasons had been explained clearly, it was almost time for her to propose breaking off the engagement.

It’s not her fault that she broke off the engagement. It was Lu Jiangting who went too far.

"Dad, Mom, I don't want to live this kind of life. I want to cancel the engagement."

Lin Dawei and Ye Lian had already planned to cancel their engagement when they saw their daughter crying so aggrievedly.

When they heard her say she wanted to break off the engagement, they both raised their hands and feet in agreement.

"Okay, let's not get married."

hiss!

Everyone took a deep breath.

Lu Jiangting's expression also changed. Lin Yuyao had been pursuing him and liking him for so many years, why would she break off the engagement?

"You want to break off the engagement?"

"yes."

His blind mother held onto the door frame, looked at Lin Yuyao's blurry figure and said, "Yuyao, marriage is not a joke. Jiang Ting is wrong. I will beat him up for you and make him change. You can't cancel the engagement."

Hearing this, Lin Yuyao laughed so hard that she wanted to cry.

Think of the poor woman in the dream who heard the same words from the blind old lady countless times.

Every time she was extremely angry with Lu Jiangting, the old lady would jump out and say she would help her beat Lu Jiangting so that she wouldn't be angry anymore.

Then she symbolically slapped Lu Jiangting a few times, cursed him a few words without causing any pain or itchiness, and turned to Lin Yuyao and said, "Look, mom beat him for you. He knows he was wrong. Don't blame him."

This cycle repeats itself over and over again, and a lifetime is wasted like this.

Lin Yuyao shook her head, "Whether you want to beat him or not is up to you. I don't want to take the risk after marriage. I must cancel this marriage, and you must return my dowry."

Lu Jiangting: "Lin Yuyao, you are serious."

"It's real, more real than pearls, so please return the marriage certificate and dowry to me."

"But the marriage report has already been submitted, and they should have received it by now. We are not breaking off the engagement, but getting a divorce. Ours is a military marriage, and you can't get a divorce if I don't agree."

Lin Yuyao did not say that she was on her way back with the marriage report because she was afraid that Lu Jiangting would go and make another call and then ask the courier to return.

So she said, "So you have me now, just to take my 300-yuan dowry?"

"I..." Lu Jiangting was speechless for a moment, and sighed, "I don't think so. I didn't marry you for three hundred yuan."

"You always say nice things, but they are just words to coax me. You don't have to keep your promise, so of course you can say whatever you want."

"But what about what you did? You said you didn't do it for my three hundred dollars, but what happened? I gave you three hundred dollars the day before and asked you to use it to buy things for your wedding. The next day you took my dowry to repay my favor."

The neighbors began to talk about Lu Jiangting, saying that this young man was not a good person and deceived the girl from the Lin family.

Every time the words sound nice, but what they do is another matter.

If you owe someone your life, then you have to pay it back yourself. You can even return your whole body to the other person.

But you can't use the girl's dowry as compensation, what's going on?

Lu Jiangting's face turned red after being criticized. How could he not know that what he did was wrong?

He knew it, but he did it anyway.

Then he felt that since Lin Yuyao was his daughter-in-law, she was one of his own and should be one with him as husband and wife.

So he deserved it no matter how he made her suffer.

Her only mistake was becoming his daughter-in-law.

Ye Lian hugged Lin Yuyao and cried, "My dear, you have suffered so much. It's okay to get married. We will get divorced. If Mr. Lu doesn't agree to divorce, we will go to his leadership. We will expose his dirty deeds to the world. I don't believe that the people in the upper echelons can protect him."

Lin Dawei raised his stick and said, "If you dare not divorce me, I will beat you to death."

Lu Jiangting opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a word.

But his father Lu Cong pushed him and said, "Go get the money back tomorrow. Yuyao, I'll ask Jiang Ting to get it back. The marriage is over, and we can hold the banquet as usual."

"How can I do this?" Lu Jiangting said, "I just gave the money to him today and asked for it back tomorrow. How would he look at me? How can I be worthy of Jianjun?"

[ps: Lu kept saying that he was married, firstly to deceive the villagers who didn’t understand, and secondly to make them think that once the documents were submitted, the certificate would be issued easily (some systems in those days were not perfect, and it was not like now where two people must be present to issue the certificate)]