She had asked for a dowry of three taels of silver before because her grandfather was worried that after she got married, he would be in poor health and wouldn't have the money to see a doctor or take medicine.
Since Grandpa is going to pass away anyway, it doesn't matter whether or not there's a bride price.
“It’s a must. You have to have what others have. What’s wrong with my daughter-in-law? Even if we’re in a hurry to get married, you can’t be missing anything. Here, let’s consider this hairpin as our engagement. You can wear it on your head now. It’s quite a coincidence. I was going to leave the hairpin at home when I went out, but somehow I ended up with it on me. It seems we’re destined to be mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.”
Yan Xia's words are true.
She played with the hairpin while taking a shower, and then casually tucked it into her sleeve after getting dressed.
It seems that even Heaven wants Xiaohe to marry into their family.
"Well... then thank you, Auntie."
Shi Xiaohe did not refuse again. She pulled out the wooden hairpin from her hair and inserted the gilded hairpin into it.
Her already beautiful face became even more captivating.
"Beautiful! No wonder she's my daughter-in-law, she has such a lovely face, haha, I wonder if your and Jin Fu's child will be especially cute."
Yan Xia spoke her mind, and Shi Xiaohe's face turned bright red with embarrassment.
Yan Xia likes straightforward people. Even if someone wants something but hesitates and refuses to accept it, acting all reserved, they still end up taking it in the end. Unlike Xiao He, who directly wore it on her head to show that she was willing to be her daughter-in-law. Yan Xia likes this kind of personality!
"Aunt Xu, go and go through the formalities and spread the news that my Jinfu is going to marry Xiaohe. I'll go to town to buy things for tomorrow. Xiaohe, I'll bring you the betrothal gifts tonight. Just wait patiently for the wedding tomorrow."
Yan Xia patted Shi Xiaohe's hand and ran home quickly.
Because she was getting married the next day, she quickly rented an oxcart from Zhao Dali's family and took Jinfu and Jinlu to town to buy ingredients.
The mother and her two children were all feeling dizzy and disoriented on the way.
"Mother, am I really going to get married?"
Jin Fu was still in a daze. He had just been watering the fields when his mother ran back and told him that she had arranged for him to marry Shi Xiaohe the next day.
He was terrified, thinking his mother was delirious from a fever.
It wasn't until he boarded the oxcart heading to town that Jin Fu realized what his mother had said was true.
"Big brother, you've asked five times already. Mom isn't annoyed, but I'm getting annoyed to death by you."
Jin Lu was speechless.
"Hehe, this is too fast. I only spoke a few words to her today, and we're getting married tomorrow. I haven't even had time to process it yet."
Jin Fu awkwardly scratched his head.
"It's alright, Mother didn't quite realize it either. It was indeed a bit fast, but Xiaohe's grandfather is about to pass away, so there's nothing we can do. For her sake, we have to hurry. However, the proper procedures cannot be omitted. Xiaohe is a good girl. Since there's no time to make her new clothes, Mother is thinking of just going to a tailor shop and buying her a wedding dress. Two taels it is. A woman only has one life, and Mother thinks it's worth it!"
"Mother, I'll listen to whatever you say."
Jin Fu didn't care. He would just take odd jobs after he got married. He could work harder and then pay his mother back the money.
and...
He also wanted to see Shi Xiaohe in her wedding dress.
It must be incredibly beautiful...
The mother and her two children were discussing what to buy.
The news caused an uproar in Baihua Village.
A dozen or so women stood under a big tree at the village entrance, chattering amongst themselves.
The topic was nothing more than the Yan family and Shi Xiaohe.
"Have you heard? Yan Xia is going to give five taels of silver to marry that girl from the Shi family, and she even gave her a gilded hairpin! My goodness, that's a gilded hairpin! It's worth at least two taels of silver! Has Yan Xia struck it rich? Did she really sell that grizzly bear for a hundred taels of silver?"
"Come on, my husband went to town to ask, at most he'll sell it for fifty taels. But this woman is really wasteful, marrying a girl who brings bad luck and spending so much money, she must be out of her mind. If it were me, I wouldn't marry this jinx even if I paid her five taels. What if she brings bad luck to my son?"
"That's right. I heard that the old master of the Shi family is also dying. He's cursed the whole family to death. He's too wicked. Yan Xia is really something, marrying an orphan girl. Is he afraid of dying too slowly?"
"I think she's gotten a windfall and gotten carried away! She doesn't know what to do with the money. Let me tell you, but you mustn't tell anyone else, I heard that Yan Xia went to the neighboring Zhao family village to propose marriage and was rejected three times. I bet she just couldn't swallow her pride and was doing it to show that family, after all, Shi Xiaohe is really pretty."
"Huh? Just to spite someone, she spent so much money? Sigh, what a spendthrift woman! If her husband were alive, he'd beat her to death. No wonder the Chen family was willing to divorce her. Having a daughter-in-law like that makes me angry!"
"No wonder she's building houses and spending a fortune to marry Shi Xiaohe. Do you think she still has several dozen taels of silver? Her Jinlu isn't married yet, is he? Oh right, Guihua and Lamei are getting on in years. I wonder if she'll give her two daughters dowries. If she gives them ten taels of silver, wow! That's enough for our whole family to live on for several years."
The conversation gradually shifted to Yan Xia's children.
Families with children of school age began to hatch their own plans.
What they didn't notice was that someone was standing behind the tree, eavesdropping for quite some time.
It was Zhu Xiaohua, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chen family.
She returned home with the gossip.
Just then, all the workers returned.
"Father, Mother, I heard that Jin Fu is getting married tomorrow!"
Chen Duoliang was wiping his hoe when he heard the news and didn't even look up.
"Him? Does that little bitch Yan Xia have any money? Did she pick up a fool on the street and marry him?"
Chen Lishi didn't believe it at all. She was now speaking with a lisp, and only had ten teeth left, making it very difficult for her to eat. She hated Yan Xia to the core and felt better only by belittling her.
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