Erlang knelt upright in front of Xia Yougui and Sun and told the couple that he wanted to marry Zhou Yunniang. If his family did not agree to marry Zhou Yunniang, he would marry into Zhou Yunniang's family.
These words made Xia Yougui so angry that he was gasping for breath and he wished he could beat Xia Erlang to death on the spot.
Although Sun was also angry, she stopped Xia Yougui when he was about to take action.
After Erlang nursed her back to health for a while, Sun gradually came to her senses. Regardless of what Xia Yougui was like, the second wife's children, especially Erlang and Taohua, were truly filial and good children.
Therefore, even if she fell out with Xia Yougui, she could not break up with Erlang.
Even if Zhou Yunniang wasn't a good person, she could still slowly persuade Erlang to change his mind. After all, there was still a lot of time to go on, and as long as he put his mind to it, there would always be a chance.
But she must not let Erlang become estranged from her because of this incident.
Xia Yougui raised his hand and gestured twice, but when Sun stopped him, he put it down.
It's not to give face to the Sun family.
But he found that Erlang had grown bigger and he could no longer hit him. When he just raised his hand, he saw the light flashing in Erlang's eyes, and that light made his heart tremble.
As soon as Sun stopped him, he stopped and let it go!
Besides, Erlang was clearly very resolute in this matter. Come to think of it, most young men his age were already married.
The couple hasn't found a wife for Erlang yet, and now they don't allow him to find one on his own?
But the one he hooked up with was too expensive...
Zhou Yunniang has elderly parents and young children to take care of, and she has quite a few demands.
But Erlang was fascinated by her and insisted on marrying her no matter what!
The couple in the second house were in mixed feelings. After thinking about it, they felt extremely regretful.
Firstly, he deeply hated himself as a parent for failing to control his son; secondly, he deeply hated himself for not finding a wife for Erlang in time, which caused Erlang to no longer trust him...
The couple felt lost and finally had to use their trump card:
"If you insist on marrying her, then our family won't pay a penny for the bride price! And you're not allowed to marry into the family!"
Erlang thought about it and nodded: "I promise not to ask my family for money."
Sun suddenly became cautious: "You are not allowed to borrow from your fourth uncle and aunt!"
Erlang smiled and said, "Okay. I won't say anything to Uncle and Aunt."
Sun angrily grabbed a large bowl of water, paused, put it down, and replaced it with a broken palm-leaf fan that she often used. She swung it out and threw it at Erlang's face:
"You're still laughing! You're almost pissing me and your dad off! And you're still laughing!"
Erlang lowered his head, his expression unclear: "Mother, Father, I am an unfilial son. But except Zhou Yunniang, I don't want anyone else."
Sun was so disappointed that she said, "You! Don't regret it!"
Erlang smiled again, raised his head, and looked at Sun with a sincere face: "Son, I don't regret it."
Sun sighed, "Whatever you say! What's the point of me working so hard to raise a son? All you do is piss me off all day long!"
Xia Yougui's expression grew uglier. "So you two have already agreed that I, your father, am just a figurehead?"
Erlang could make Xia Yougui happy with just a few words, but he didn't want to.
He didn't say anything and simply gave Xia Yougui his consent.
Xia Yougui was so angry that his head hurt. He slammed the table, stood up and left.
He was too lazy to care about Erlang's affairs.
In the future, he wants to learn from the old couple and, when he reaches a certain age, have his children pay him monthly pension.
Anyway, he and Sun had six children, three sons and three daughters. Even if the daughter gave less, it could still be used as half a son!
Besides, they are not too old now, maybe they can have a few more children...
Xia Yougui walked into the yard and saw that the rooms in the fourth room were empty, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.
Among all the brothers in the family, Xia Yougui cares about the eldest brother the most and is also the one he is most jealous of. He is occasionally envious and jealous of the fifth brother, but the ones he looks down upon the most are the third and fourth brothers.
He looked down on the third brother, mainly because he was a henpecked man and always obeyed his wife, Wu.
Moreover, the third son only had two daughters and no sons. But he did not blame his wife at all, and treated his wife, Wu, the wife of the scoundrel Ma Zhang Fei, like a treasure.
He looked down on the fourth brother because the couple, to put it nicely, were honest people, and to put it bluntly, they were a pair of clay and dough figurines, people with no temper.
Anyone can step on them and they won't get angry.
I never expected that the couple in the fourth room were honest on the surface but treacherous at heart.
I heard that because Lihua went to help Jinhua with embroidery, the two sisters had a quarrel for some unknown reason. In order to support that little bitch Lihua, the fourth wife actually broke off the relationship with the first wife!
He even signed a document to sever the relationship and filed it at the government office!
And the strangest thing is that the old couple didn't even stop them. The fourth wife moved out, and the old couple actually kept the house for them!
The fourth room built a new house on the sandy land beside Nanhu Lake, and it has a very large yard!
There are so few people in four rooms, how can they all live in such a big place?
Xia Yougui was unwilling to admit it, but he knew very well that he was a little jealous in his heart.
No one wants the sandy land in Nanhu, and the land price is ridiculously cheap.
But building a house requires more than just a piece of land. Hiring carpenters and masons, buying bricks, red tiles, and river stones—which one doesn't cost money?
The couple in the fourth room built the house quietly, which shows that they have some assets.
But the fourth son's wife was also a cunning person. As soon as she started building the house, she started shouting to the whole village that she had borrowed seven or eight taels of silver from her sister-in-law in order to build the new house.
My relatives only charged me one percent interest, so I have to be tight-fisted and work hard to pay back the money in the next two years.
I don't know when the fourth son's wife developed the ability to predict the future. She actually kept saying this, making it difficult for her to open her mouth when she wanted to borrow some money from the fourth son.
However, this is mostly untrue.
Otherwise, if they really borrowed money from Jiang's sister-in-law and were short of money, how could they be willing to pay the tuition and send Wulang to school?
In fact, the money in the fourth room was more than enough to repair the house or send Wulang to school.
But after Xia Youtian and Jiang discussed it, he actually went to Jiang's parents' home and borrowed eight taels of silver from her family, and also calculated a tenth of interest.
This is done to shut up the Xia family and villagers who come to borrow money.
Therefore, Xia Youtian and Jiang told Jiang's mother and sister-in-law that they were not short of money, but just needed a short-term turnover. Giving this interest was also to explain to other people in her mother's family.
But the Xia family still needs my mother and sister-in-law to help cover it up.
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