She and the village chief are honest people, not the kind of people who like to take advantage of others. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so conflicted about receiving the gift. They would have just accepted it and given gifts like everyone else. Would the Zhou family have complained that their gift was too insignificant?
Even if they really felt the gift was too meager, they couldn't say it directly; at most, they would discuss it privately.
After seeing Zhao Xiu and her daughter off, Zhao Guihua and Zhao Guizhi sat in the courtyard chatting.
“I didn’t bring any jewelry with me, and I didn’t go out to buy any. Tomorrow I’ll go to a jewelry shop and pick out one for you to take back and give to Zhao Xiu. Just say it’s for Qiu Qiu’s dowry.”
After Zhao Guizhi finished speaking, she remembered something and whispered, "Sister, the gift you gave is a bit too expensive. When Brother Fu gets married, how should the village chief's family give it? If they give the same amount, they'll have to empty their pockets. If they give too little, they might offend them."
"Hmm, now that you mention it, it's true. I hadn't thought that much about it before," Zhao Guihua realized that she had put the village chief's family in a difficult position. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Let's talk about it later. The gift has already been given, and we can't ask them to return it. Should I give them something cheaper instead?"
"At worst, I'll pay it back when Dongsheng gets married." Zhao Guihua sighed and rubbed her forehead. These social obligations are really exhausting.
Seeing that she suddenly looked worried, Zhao Guizhi laughed out loud, "Alright, don't think too much about it. Things have already come to this. At worst, when Brother Fu gets married, if the village chief's gifts are so extra that he's practically bankrupt, you can just give the couple more wages as compensation."
Zhao Guizhi said it as a joke, but Zhao Guihua took it to heart, thinking that the village chief and his wife should be paid more wages. She decided to give them more at the end of the year, so that the village chief would not suffer a loss.
As for Xingxing, she and Ruru were the ones who went to find girls, and now Chun Chun had joined them. The three of them would wander around outside after meals, waiting for the guards to announce which girl from the register had gone out, and then they would try to bump into her.
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