As soon as I stepped inside, before I could even speak, I heard whispers coming from inside the house.
"Are you telling the truth? Their family is really willing to offer 200 yuan as a betrothal gift?"
That's her mother Fu Xiuye's voice.
"Of course it's true, that's the amount the matchmaker pays."
Xiao Feng clearly heard her father Zhang Dagen's deep, greedy, and envious voice.
"Five yuan? Tsk..."
Fu Xiuye looked at Zhang Dagen's outstretched hand and felt uneasy thinking about the 200 yuan betrothal gift.
"Tch, what do you mean 5 yuan? It's 50 yuan..."
Zhang Dagen rolled his eyes at his wife and said with a smirk.
"5...50 yuan? That much?"
Upon hearing the number, Fu Xiuye gasped in surprise, then covered her mouth tightly, her eyes widening in disbelief.
When she married Zhang Dagen, her parents only received a dowry of 30 yuan.
Moreover, she brought all the betrothal money to her husband's family.
However, what she brought to the Zhang family was not only the 30 yuan betrothal gift, but also 10 yuan of her own money that her mother had secretly given her.
However, on the very night she brought them back, Zhang Dagen tricked her into giving them all to her mother-in-law.
The excuse was that they were afraid she was too young to understand, so they were keeping it for her.
To this day, Fu Xiuye has never seen that 40 yuan again.
Nowadays, people only give 200 yuan as a betrothal gift, and even the matchmaker only gets 50 yuan.
This left her speechless for a long time. Thinking about what her husband had said, she felt both bitter and sour.
Zhang Dagen clicked his tongue and muttered regretfully, "If Xiaofeng weren't so young, it would have been so much better if she had been given to her family."
Even if it's not as educated as your second sister's, I'd be willing to accept a lower dowry!
He thought that even if his daughter had never been to school, she looked like her mother and was quite pretty, so he only needed a dowry of 100 yuan!
Unfortunately, Xiaofeng is only 6 years old. Even if her family were willing to let her be a child bride, the other family wouldn't want her.
Hearing her husband's words, Fu Xiuye couldn't help but feel resentful.
Back when she was still at home, because she was the eldest child and the family was relatively well-off, her parents wanted to send her to school.
She absolutely refused, as the sight of any character caused her pain.
When the second sister got a little older, there were more younger siblings in the family, so naturally there was no longer the means to send them to school.
So, everyone was the same, and at the time she didn't feel there was anything wrong with it.
But now, with both parents gone, my second sister has actually gone to school and is doing so well.
I heard that they all went to high school in the county town.
Thinking about her older brother's attitude towards her, she felt a pang of jealousy.
Why should I?
Why is it that she suffers so much in her husband's family, and her older brother doesn't help her out?
Why is it that my second sister, who is so old, can go to school comfortably instead of working in the fields?
Moreover, the thought that her second sister was so smart and that she could get into a school in the county town at such an advanced age filled her with jealousy.
If she hadn't refused what her parents said, she definitely would have been able to get into a school in the county town.
If that were the case, wouldn't she be different now?
Fu Xiuye didn't want to think about it, but it felt like there was a worm in her heart, constantly gnawing at the darkest part of her soul.
This thought just kept popping into my head.
Now, when she hears her husband say that someone is willing to offer a dowry of 200 yuan to marry her second sister, she can't help but feel resentful.
Along with that, she also harbored resentment towards her deceased parents!
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