Zhou Cunming certainly liked Li Yulan. Although he really wanted a job in the city, he wouldn't have considered marrying her if he didn't like her.
“Dad, I understand what you mean. Of course, I want to marry her because I like her.”
"I'm just worried that she won't like me."
Although he was full of confidence, the choice was actually in Li Yulan's hands. No matter what he planned, what could he do if the Li family didn't want him to?
Zhou Qingyun understood what he meant and nodded. "In that case, do as you please."
“We don’t only have one son in our family. You’re welcome to become a live-in son-in-law if you’re willing.”
"We, as your parents, can't find you a job so you won't have to toil in the fields like we did, spending your whole lives toiling for a living."
“You’re ambitious and have your own ideas, so we have nothing to say about that.”
Hearing his father say this, Zhou Cunming felt a little relieved. He knew that his father would never go against his mother. As long as his father made a decision, it meant that his mother's opinion was similar to his.
He did breathe a sigh of relief. He was really worried that his becoming a live-in son-in-law would enrage his mother and could cause the family to fall apart.
"Dad... about the bride price Mom was talking about..."
A dowry of 500 yuan, plus the "three turns and one sound" (a traditional Chinese stringed instrument), is not something every family can afford.
They live in a small county town, and the Li family is just an ordinary working-class family. How could they afford to pay thousands of dollars in betrothal gifts all at once?
Even ordinary people can't afford such a large dowry when they get married, let alone a son-in-law who moves into their family home.
Zhou Qingyun understood what Zhou Cunming meant. He smiled and said, "A bride price is definitely necessary, but it's negotiable."
"But it still depends on whether you can satisfy them. What if it's just one-sided enthusiasm on your part?"
If neither the Li family nor Li Yulan approves of Zhou Cunming, what's the point of him rushing around trying to get his parents to agree to his request?
Zhou Cunming understood what his father meant and quickly promised that he would do his best to win it.
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"Your parents just agreed like that?"
The rest of the Zhou family were surprised when they heard that Zhou Cunming was going to become a live-in son-in-law. What surprised them most was that his parents did not strongly object.
Especially their own mother, given Comrade Chen Suwen's temper, shouldn't she have given Zhou Cunming a good beating after hearing about this, and not stopped until he was bedridden for ten days or half a month?
Why is everything so calm right now?
Xu Huixue had many thoughts, looking at Zhou Cunzhi and then at the other members of the Zhou family.
If only she had known, she would have also taken in a son-in-law and made Zhou Cunzhi her live-in son-in-law.
But as soon as this thought popped into her head, she suppressed it.
Because she knew very well that her situation was different from Li Yulan's.
She wasn't her parents' only child; she also had brothers and sisters. Although she was favored by her parents, they would never allow her to marry into their family.
She has no choice but to get married.
Moreover, Zhou Cunzhi is the eldest son, and his parents-in-law were willing to let Zhou Cunming, their younger brother-in-law, become a son-in-law, perhaps because he was the second son and did not need to support them in their old age like the eldest son.
The eldest son is not suitable.
Moreover, she had just heard her mother-in-law's proposed "bride price," and let alone the three turns and one radio, her family couldn't even afford half of the five hundred yuan bride price.
Even if her family had the money, they wouldn't use it to "marry" a man for her; instead, they would save it to help her brothers find wives and for the whole family to use.
So her idea was just a thought; her family would never allow her to have a son-in-law live with them like Li Yulan.
Zhou Cunzhi looked at his second brother with admiration; he was truly brave.
Everyone knows his mother's temper.
He actually dared to pull the tiger's whiskers off its face. Wasn't he just tired of living?
Aren't you afraid that your own mother might betray you and kill her own son?
"Second brother, your courage is truly commendable." Zhou Cunzhi patted his younger brother on the shoulder and said admiringly.
Zhou Cunming: "..."
Despite saying that, everyone was still afraid of angering Chen Suwen, and seeing her expressionless face, they remained silent and dared not speak loudly.
Zhou Cunming eventually went to the city, and when he heard that the Li family was looking for a son-in-law to live with them, he went to curry favor with them.
The Li family was well-off, and it wasn't just Zhou Cunming who was eyeing their position as a live-in son-in-law.
Who doesn't know that the Li family only has one child, Li Yulan?
There are plenty of people who want to eat up the spoils of the dead.
What's wrong with becoming a live-in son-in-law these days?
They might even be thinking about returning to the ancestral lineage after three generations. Anyway, there's only one Li Yulan in the Li family. Once Li Cheng and his wife are gone, Li Yulan can be treated however she wants.
There are more benefits now.
Becoming a son-in-law in the Li family not only means having a job, but also having your father-in-law Li Cheng mentor you, and a beautiful wife, Li Yulan.
Isn't this a win-win situation?
Therefore, many people have their eyes on the Li family.
It wasn't just young men from the countryside like Zhou Cunming; eligible young men from the same county town and even the same residential compound were all eyeing him.
Those from the same residential compound even said that everyone knows each other well, and that if the two families were to become related by marriage, it would be even closer.
The main reason is that they feel that even if they are nominally marrying into the Li family, their own home is not far from the Li family's, so they can treat it as if they are moving out after marriage and not living with their parents anymore.
So recently, many people have been eyeing Li Yulan and trying to curry favor with her.
After graduating from high school, Li Yulan was assigned to a factory by her parents to work as a lowly employee in the publicity department—just an ordinary one.
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