"Okay, but it has to wait a few days. Otherwise, if I visit several families in a row, people will gossip about me." In the next few days, if those three families can put in the effort to lure the people back to their own nests, it will be considered his ability.
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"Her Aunt Hong, what can I say? I really like every aspect of that girl Meihua. I can't wait to bring her home in a grand sedan chair for my son to marry her tomorrow."
Wang's mother was the most active. It was rare to find a girl suitable for her son, so she had to do her best to grab her.
Next time I wait for Aunt Hong to bring people back, I don’t know if I’ll have to wait for a year or half a year.
"Sister Wang, come and sit down. This girl is a good girl. In today's society, we can't lie to people. Meihua was not very satisfied when she found out that Junjun's brain was not working well. You should try harder. Whether you can succeed or not depends on God."
Mother Wang wanted to question Aunt Hong, wasn't it agreed that this girl would be closely associated with her son Junjun after being brought back?
Why is she taking him to the other two families now? That’s fine, those two poor families are no match for hers.
But before the marriage, I told everyone that Junjun was mentally ill. Which girl would be willing to marry him?
She was planning to make things a fait accompli before slowly revealing it.
Fortunately, they taught Junjun to call her "Auntie" affectionately, but when she didn't stand by her family at the critical moment, she was not a real aunt.
The wild aunt from the Eighth Route Army, bah, always doing tricks to ruin people's marriages.
She was full of resentment in her heart, but she was still very affectionate with him. She pulled Aunt Hong's arm, and the two of them smiled at each other as if they were good sisters. "Aunt Hong, please say more good things about our Junjun to that girl. As long as Miss Meihua marries into my Wang family, I will give her this amount as a betrothal gift." As she said that, she stretched out five fingers.
"Hiss--" Aunt Hong was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
"Fifty thousand?" Aunt Hong couldn't help but confirm.
"Well, fifty thousand, not counting the money for clothes and things for Meihua's parents. Meihua also saves the gifts she receives from the wedding. Junjun's dad and I give the couple five hundred yuan in pocket money every month. If they can't spend it all, they save it.
As long as Meihua lives peacefully with Junjun and can keep the child, whether it's a grandson or a granddaughter, we old couple will raise them. We don't need them to worry about any expenses, and we will give Meihua an extra 100,000 yuan."
"Give Meihua an extra 100,000 yuan for giving birth to a grandson?" Aunt Hong thought to herself that in their small, shabby place, the Wang family's ideas were really avant-garde.
However, the Wang couple have made a lot of money over the years.
"Aunt Hehong, if you can agree on Junjun's marriage, I will give you this amount." He gestured quietly again.
"Five thousand?" Aunt Hong couldn't believe it. She said that she had never received so much as a matchmaker's money.
What a generous gesture! Some betrothal gifts cost less than 5,000 yuan. Now that they are given to the matchmaker, the Wang family must be really rich.
"Okay, wait for good news from my sister." Aunt Hong originally wanted to find a marriage for Junjun, otherwise she wouldn't have taken Meihua to live with two very poor bachelors in the village.
He said that he would bring people to visit other families in a few days, but he just wanted to take advantage of the gap of these two days to let the Wang family show their influence in front of their future daughter-in-law.
When the time comes and they both fall in love with each other, she will sit in the middle and collect the matchmaking fee.
No one can accuse her of being heartless and pushing a girl from a good family into the fire.
We are all from the same village. Who would have thought that there are so many bachelors in my village who are not married?
After all, everyone called her aunt, and everyone came to her for help. She had to help whenever she could and support the young man on her side.
"Meihua, come here. This is the fruit your Aunt Wang sent you. It will quench your thirst."
Meihua was not easy to accept, after all, she didn't want to enter the Wang family.
Aunt Hong was an old hand, so she understood everything. She simply pulled Meihua to sit down and pushed the fruit to her.
"Eat it. If you don't eat a bite of her fruit, you will have to pay her family back. Eat it with confidence. We are in a civilized society now. Aunt Hong will not sell you." The matchmaker's words are deceitful.
Aunt Hong brought plum blossoms to life with just a few words.
"Then I'll eat it." The freshly picked fruit tasted crispy.
"Auntie Hong has told you a long time ago that there are a lot of unmarried boys here. You good girls can pick any one you want, and be sure to pick a good one." Auntie Hong said this so hard that Meihua couldn't help laughing.
But when I think about it carefully, Aunt Hong didn't lie, she really was the one who chose it.
In my hometown, if my parents force me to marry someone else, they don’t care what the other person looks like or what their family situation is like.
Even if the man's family can't make ends meet, she still has to marry him.
There's no other way. My brother is getting married, and building a house, betrothal gifts, wedding banquets, everything costs money. I also have to support my nephew in the future, so I can't be short of money for anything.
Girls like these don’t have the chance to choose.
If her brother wasn't a few years younger than her, she would have been married in her hometown long ago and wouldn't have had the opportunity to work outside.
Aunt Hong knew the customs of Meihua's hometown and had a good grasp of the girls' minds. Meihua was bolder than the other girls, daring to defy her father's orders and carve out a future for herself.
Aunt Hong didn't think she was doing anything wrong. It was a matter of mutual consent. It was better for her to marry someone here than in Meihua's hometown.
"You look down on the Wang family. Do you have any suitable sisters in your family? Can you introduce them to my handsome nephew?" Aunt Hong asked tentatively.
"Ah?" Meihua thought that a fool could still get married? It wasn't the time when he was a landlord.
Unless they exchange the marriage, the Wang family doesn’t have a younger sister.
"Think about it carefully. Your Aunt Wang has already said that once you get married, the couple will have enough pocket money every month. The wedding gift money will also be given to the new bride.
You know Junjun is like that, he definitely won't be able to manage money. Your Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang will be old in a few years, and the family's money will have to be handed over to their daughter-in-law to manage. Don't you think this makes sense?"
Aunt Hong winked at Meihua, "And after the baby is born, your Aunt Wang will give you a reward of one hundred thousand. That's half more than the betrothal gift."
"What?" Meihua was incredulous. "The Wang family gave a betrothal gift of 50,000?" Nowadays, betrothal gifts are generally low, not to mention in the countryside, a remote and poor place. Which family would give so much money? It's not like they are selling their daughter.
"Really, Meihua, do you know anyone who's suitable? Although Junjun isn't very smart, he's very obedient. If you teach him a few times, there's nothing he can't do."
"Wang Junjun's brain isn't good, won't it be passed on to the child?"
"Junjun had a high fever when he was a child and his brain was damaged. It's not a genetic disease. Only genetic diseases can be passed on to children. And there's no such thing as hereditary diseases. Don't you think this makes sense, Meihua?"
"But how can a family survive without a pillar?" Meihua hesitated.
"Marrying a man, does that mean you'll be the pillar of the family? There are plenty of men in this world who rely on women for their livelihoods, and leaders even say women hold up half the sky.
And those who are unlucky and whose husbands die early still have to live their lives raising children.
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