Chapter 8 Dowry of 100
June passed quickly, and when July arrived, Jiang Xinlan married into the Zhao family in a grand ceremony. Jiang Xinbai was a little uncomfortable for a while because there was no one to share the bed with.
But soon her attention was attracted by other things, "Mom, are you really giving them all to me? Aren't you going to keep them?" Although my mother would never buy a bicycle in her life, the tickets can be sold and are worth a lot of money.
"What's the point of me keeping it? I'm not buying anything. It's given to you by the Yang family, so just take it." Chen Cui'e was reluctant to part with the bicycle ticket, but in order to make her younger daughter feel confident in the Yang family, she had to give it up.
Then she took out a stack of money from her cloth bag, including ten-yuan big unity notes, five-yuan and two-yuan notes. Finally, Chen Cui'e handed a stack of money to Jiang Xinbai and told him, "Just like your second sister, my family will take eighty-eight, and you can take the remaining one hundred back home. I specially mixed some change in it for your convenience. Mom has already told you that this money is for you to use. Don't be stupid and spend it all when you get to your husband's family. Your husband's family hasn't split up yet, so you are not allowed to use your own money, understand?"
Although she knew her little daughter would not be so stupid, Chen Cui'e still couldn't help but give her a few instructions. No matter how smart she was, she was only eighteen years old after all, and she was afraid that her money would be taken away by others.
Jiang Xinbai only had the stack of money in his eyes. He nodded repeatedly when he heard his mother's instructions, "Mom, no, don't worry. No one can take the money from me, not even Yang Jinsheng."
Chen Cui'e nodded with satisfaction, but still worriedly asked, "Then let me ask you, if your brother and sister-in-law from your in-laws' family ask you to borrow money, what will you do?"
Jiang Xinbai rolled his eyes and sneered, "You wish! The money in my hands is mine, and no one can take it away."
Don't tell her that we are all one family and have started our own families. Although we haven't officially separated yet, we are two families and naturally we have to make things clear. Just look at her eldest brother and the others.
In the room across the street, Wu Hehua quietly observed her mother-in-law's room through the window, but after a long time she could not see anything. She turned around and saw her husband lying on the bed, preparing to go to sleep, and she could not help but feel angry.
"Sleep, all you do is sleep. Dad and Mom are so partial to each other, but you guys don't even say anything. You all act like dumb, right?"
Jiang Baoguo was confused. "No, why are you so mad at this time of night? How did I offend you? How did my parents show partiality to me? Don't be ungrateful."
"I don't know what's good for me?" Wu Hehua pointed at herself, then pointed at Jiang Baoguo and cursed, "You heartless man, who am I doing this for? My second sister received 188 yuan as a gift for her marriage, and my parents let her take 100 yuan back. Just watch my youngest sister get married this time, it must be the same. Have you ever seen a family marrying off their daughters like this? Not to mention taking all of it, it's already a big deal if they can take 20 or 30 yuan back. From this point of view, aren't my parents biased? They don't care about you brothers."
One hundred plus one hundred equals two hundred. She felt bad! If the money was in the hands of her parents-in-law, it would belong to them. But now it was gone. How could she not be angry?
Who would marry off a daughter with such a foolish father-in-law and mother-in-law, and give most of the betrothal gifts back as a dowry? You can't find such a foolish family in the whole village.
In the next room, Jiang Baojia and Sun Ju looked at each other and were speechless about Wu Hehua.
"Xiao Ju, don't be like your eldest sister-in-law, who is short-sighted. Luckily, I asked you when your second sister got married. You said you could come up with one dollar? This time when your younger sister is getting married, let's give you another five dollars. We can't be partial."
Although Jiang Baojia felt bad about taking out the money, he also knew that there is no reward without hard work. If he wanted to benefit from his two younger sisters, he had to pay in advance. He and his wife understood this better than his elder brother and sister-in-law.
Sun Ju naturally understood this, but still sighed, "Well, we don't have much money to begin with, so we'll just pay ten dollars this time."
Jiang Baojia patted his wife's hand soothingly and said, "Don't worry, you can earn it back."
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The Yang family was also decorating the new house. Li Huifen felt uncomfortable watching her mother-in-law busying around. She nudged Su Qiuyan who was cleaning the cabinet and whispered, "Look at mom, she hasn't smiled at all this morning. It's no wonder that her beloved youngest son is getting married. Even this daughter-in-law is more favored than us. She's busy running around right after she got married."
Su Qiuyan was speechless about her sister-in-law. Which family didn't marry a new daughter-in-law this way? What was there to say?
But she didn't say anything, just quietly wiped the new cabinet inside and out.
Seeing that Su Qiuyan didn't say anything, Li Huifen secretly complained in her heart, you are so proud, and she is the only one who cares about it, right?
Sun Erni turned around and saw her eldest daughter-in-law standing there stupidly with a rag in her hand. She frowned and shouted, "Huifen, it doesn't take two people to clean a few cabinets. Go make lunch."
When Li Huifen heard her mother-in-law's call, she secretly rolled her eyes and knew what to do.
But he still responded, "Hey, Mom, I'll be there right away."
Sun Erni stood in the small living room, looking at the crowded furniture, and sighed in her heart. It was still too small. With such a large family crammed in here, the noise could be heard when she turned over in her sleep at night.
The house that the Yang family was given was quite large, about 60 square meters, which would have been very spacious for five or six people. But the sons all got married and had children, so with more people and more things, it became crowded.
You have to know that there are eleven people, big and small, living in the Yang family, plus Jiang Xinbai who is about to marry in, there are twelve people in total. If they have more children in the future, Sun Erni can only hope that her eldest son will move out quickly with a separate room.
"Er Ni, I'm at home. I just happened to want to talk to you about something." Li Guiying from next door stood at the open door and whispered to Sun Erni.
Sun Erni clapped her hands, wiped them on her apron, took a few steps forward, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Guiying took a look inside, then asked in a low voice: "Do you have a bicycle ticket? Can you give it to me first? My kid wants to buy a bicycle, but he doesn't have a ticket. I won't take it for nothing, so I'll give you this amount." As she said that, she stretched out her fingers and made a three gesture.
Sun Erni waved her hands and said awkwardly, "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but I've already given the bicycle ticket to my daughter-in-law as a betrothal gift."
"Ah, this," Li Guiying's face was full of disappointment.
"But Guiying, how did you know that my family had a bicycle ticket? I remember I didn't tell you about it, right?" Sun Erni thought for a while and asked doubtfully. She was not a big mouth and would definitely not tell this to others.
"Well, what a coincidence. I heard it from your Huifen. Since you don't have it here, I'll go ask somewhere else and we can talk later." After saying this, Li Guiying left in a hurry.
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