So, the brigade agreed to pay the teachers' salaries, and the money would be deducted from the donations. Upon hearing the news, the villagers and educated youth all rushed to become teachers.
The salary offered is quite high, ten yuan a month, and they have already received it for a month.
Ever since Gu Wanwan announced that she would not support the village school, the brigade decided not to pay them any more wages. Later, Gan Qi and the others started making trouble again, so the brigade leader discussed with the commune and decided to settle the accounts using work points.
Although a teacher's job is easy and the work points are few, it is not as good as working in the fields. Now, except for He Shuyan and Gu Yarou, Gan Qi is too lazy to attend classes. He fishes for three days and slacks off for two days, and it all depends on his mood whether he attends or not.
Zhao Simei glanced at Xu Luoxue with disdain. "A phoenix in trouble is worse than a chicken. You are even worse than my Zhao family. You are a bunch of trouble-making educated youth. If you come to add to my dowry, I welcome you. If you come here to laugh at me, you can get out of here!"
"Mom and Dad, I just want to ask you, are you really not going to give me a dowry? Secretary Ding's daughter-in-law, Shi Yueling, is the daughter of an accountant, and her parents gave her an additional 300 yuan dowry. Secretary Ding's daughter, Ding Yanli, got married, and the Ding family gave her a dowry of 100 yuan. I'm the daughter of the brigade, so you should give me at least 1,000 yuan, right? I still have to give three turns and a ring. I can't let them compare to me and embarrass my parents, right?"
Zhou Tiancai thought that having a thousand yuan was not bad, enough for him to eat, drink and have fun for a while. He and Zhao Simei could live alone and he wouldn't have to look at his parents-in-law's faces. He could lie down comfortably all day, or spend a few days in the city. He could just live off the money and when he ran out of money, he would come back to the Zhao family to ask for more.
Aunt Lu was really pissed off by Zhao Simei's exorbitant demands. For ordinary families in the village, giving a dowry of ten yuan when marrying off their daughters was already a great honor, and it was also three times the price. Not to mention that the Zhao family couldn't afford it, even the daughters-in-law in the city didn't have as much dowry as Zhao Simei. "Just a house, nothing else!"
This condition was immediately opposed by Deng Xiunü and Sun Chunlian. Deng Xiunü didn't care because she was not short of money. The little savings of her parents-in-law were not as much as she had earned during this period.
Sun Chunlian is different. The second wife lives a relatively tight life. Although she is now a temporary worker in a small workshop and earns only a few yuan a month, it is unknown whether she can get a permanent job. She still relies on her parents-in-law to subsidize the second wife.
Even though the two sisters-in-law seemed to get along well at first, both praising Gu Yarou and stepping on Gu Wanwan, their friendship could be torn apart in an instant once their own interests were involved. "Sister-in-law, do you think you're a princess or the daughter of a wealthy family? Are you really that valuable? A thousand yuan for three rings, plus a house for that, you're really audacious."
"You are just a daughter-in-law who married out, but you have to drain your parents' money to support you two. Your parents' family still has nephews and nieces to support. If they give everything to you, your parents' family will still have trouble making ends meet. I support my parents-in-law's approach. Just give them the house. Don't think about anything else. If you don't bother to take the house, we, the second wife, will!"
Zhao Simei refused to accept this. "My wife is an outsider. When my sister-in-law married into my family, she only had a few tattered clothes as a dowry. You are not ashamed. I am ashamed for you. How dare you say that to me? I am the only daughter of the Zhao family. Don't think that you can take my house just because you gave birth to a son."
This was a long-buried pain in Sun Chunlian's heart, and it was also a thorn that she could not erase. She hated it most when others brought up the dowry. "You also know that I have no dowry, so why do you want so much dowry? You, Zhao Simei, don't deserve it. A daughter married out of the country is like water spilled out of the country. You come to your parents' home, which is equivalent to a visiting relative. Your parents-in-law raised you in your old age, but they have no obligation to support you until old age. The family money is not left to their own grandson, so why do they want to give you a daughter who marries out of the country? It's ridiculous. You can't smash pots on your parents-in-law in the future!"
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