“You’re all just as good as each other, aren’t you?”
Lin Jingyu chuckled, "Besides, my situation is somewhat different from yours."
"My sister-in-law is indeed a very wealthy woman."
Wen Yunting looked at Lin Jingyu with envy, "Sister-in-law's dowry must be the highest. I heard my brother prepared a check for ten million."
Sister-in-law, is it true?
"A dowry of ten million!"
Yang Shujue's eyes widened, and she blurted out, "Jingyu, you got a good price!"
"screw you."
Lin Jingyu laughed and scolded, "I'll offer ten million to buy you, okay?"
"Okay, sure!"
Yang Shujue exclaimed joyfully, "Give me ten million quickly, and I'll be your slave for life, how about it?"
Lin Jingyu laughed and scolded, "Get out! Get as far away from me as possible!"
"stingy person!"
Yang Shujue rolled her eyes and complained, "With so much money, you could buy all of us here, and we'd all listen to you from now on. Don't you think how great that would be?"
"What a load of rubbish!"
Lin Jingyu sneered, "Your men would definitely come to my door with kitchen knives and fight me to the death, and you think they'd be so easygoing?"
"I think you're trying to make me want to die."
"I don't have such bad intentions."
Yang Shujue firmly denied it, saying, "I just wanted to make ten million from you."
"dream!"
"If it comes true, we'll make a fortune."
"As expected, having a huge face is unbeatable!"
...
Watching them bicker back and forth, everyone present couldn't stop laughing.
"Jingyu, is your bride price really ten million?"
Zeng Miaozhu looked on with envy and disbelief.
The others were also looking at her, clearly wanting to know the answer.
"Yes, it is indeed ten million."
Lin Jingyu nodded in admission, "There were other betrothal gifts, but I didn't look at them carefully."
"You're not even going to look at your betrothal gifts?"
Chen Xinyue couldn't help but ask, "You don't even know what's inside, do you?"
"I really don't know, and I'm too lazy to look it up."
Lin Jingyu responded, "The bride price and betrothal gifts were given to my parents; I didn't get involved in this matter."
Guo Jiamin couldn't believe it. "Sister-in-law, you left everything at your parents' house?"
The others also looked surprised.
"Yes, they were all left to my parents."
Lin Jingyu frankly expressed her thoughts: "In my opinion, the bride price and betrothal gifts are a way of thanking my parents for raising me to adulthood."
"Since it's a thank-you gift for my parents, why should I bring it back?"
"no……"
Wen Yunting was a little confused. "Isn't it said that the bride price and betrothal gifts will be brought back to the daughter's husband's family as part of her dowry?"
"I know, that's a common saying."
Lin Jingyu nodded, "To ensure their daughter's well-being, her parents indeed did not accept any betrothal gifts or dowry, and they even gave her extra money as a dowry."
But I don't need it.
I can save up my own dowry. Besides supporting my parents, I can save the money I earn as my dowry.
"..."
Upon hearing this, all the women fell silent.
Yang Shujue couldn't help but speak up again, "Who told you to be a rich woman? It's not surprising that you don't care about the bride price and betrothal gifts."
"It's not that I don't care, nor is it a matter of whether I have money or not."
Lin Jingyu gently shook her head, "But I feel that the betrothal gifts given by the husband's family are a way to thank the parents, not something to be taken back to the husband's family as part of the dowry."
In my opinion, my husband's family is like getting something for nothing, taking a daughter raised by someone else for free.
The bride price and betrothal gifts are brought back by the daughter-in-law, ostensibly as her dowry, but in the end, they are kept for her grandson.
The grandson is the heir of the husband's family, so the things the daughter-in-law brings back belong entirely to the husband's family.
Do you think that's the case?
"..."
Everyone fell silent again!
"And our parents!"
Lin Jingyu smiled silently, "From the time we were born as babies, we shouldn't say that we started taking care of ourselves from the time we were in our mother's womb."
They taught us and nurtured us to become successful. I believe that the sacrifices our parents made are difficult to balance with money.
When we grow up and earn money, how much can we repay our parents?
Since the groom's family wants to marry off another family's daughter, they should naturally give thanks to the groom's family. Aren't the betrothal gifts and dowry gifts a way to thank the groom's family?
They are grateful that their daughter, whom they raised, married into their family, became their son's wife, and bore them children.
At least that's how I see it, so I left the bride price and betrothal gifts to my parents.
"The more I listen, the more I feel that what my sister-in-law is saying makes sense."
Wen Yunting scratched her head and looked at the others. "However, everyone assumes that the bride price and betrothal gifts should be brought back to the husband's family as part of the dowry. I think that apart from my sister-in-law, no one else should leave the bride price and betrothal gifts at their parents' home."
I didn't stay.
"I didn't stay either!"
"Everyone brings their children back to their husband's family, and so do I."
"Me too!"
...
Several people who were getting married spoke up at the same time.
"Jingyu, I can't believe you have such thoughts."
Yang Shuyu looked at her in surprise.
Having been exposed to the internet in her past life, she knew that the topic of betrothal gifts was still unclear and ambiguous in the new century.
"What, you think I'm wrong?"
Lin Jingyu scoffed, "To put it bluntly, I think it's pretty shameless of a woman to bring betrothal gifts and dowry back to her husband's family and then ask her parents for more dowry."
Not only do they lack gratitude towards their parents, but they also leech off them so that they can live a carefree and happy life in their husband's family.
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