Chapter 170 A Loss That Can't Be Heard
Er Ya simply vanished.
The aunt looked up at the man and asked, "Er Ya, where did Er Ya go?"
The man was also taken aback.
Upon hearing this, the mentally challenged mother slapped her thigh even harder.
"So, you're trying to run away pretending to be someone, huh? Old man, smash it! Smash their house to pieces, turn it upside down, we have to find our son's wife!"
The simpleton's father roared, and a group of strong young men with his weapons rushed into the house.
Old Hu was so frightened that he grabbed the village chief and begged for help.
The village chief frowned deeply and asked Old Hu what he planned to do.
Old Hu shook his head repeatedly, telling him to stop the person first and ask the mentally challenged parents.
"Wait!"
The village chief stopped them and asked them what they wanted to do.
The mentally challenged father, leaning on his wooden fork, declared loudly, "Either pay back the money or hand over my daughter-in-law! We've spent over a hundred yuan hiring a matchmaker, hiring a sedan chair, and holding a banquet; that money has to be accounted for..."
Upon hearing this, Old Lady Hu shouted, "No money? We'll hand over the person! Aunt Dashan, where is the person?"
The man kicked her, and the aunt fell to the ground, but she didn't dare to cry out in pain.
He said hastily, "I know, it must be Erniu's mother. They didn't want me to marry Erya to the idiot from the beginning. It must have been when she called me over to talk that Erniu took Erya away. It must be her father."
"idiot!"
The man cursed, then turned to the village chief and Old Hu with a forced smile. He rolled up his sleeves and said, "Uncle Village Chief, Dad, I'll take a few men to the Fang family and snatch her back. Don't think that just because you have a village secretary, you can kidnap my daughter. If you dare not return her, I'll sue you and see how he can remain village secretary!"
After saying that, he stood on tiptoe and pointed at people in the crowd, calling them to come with him.
Those who were named pouted, clearly unhappy.
After helping them for two days, all they got was a little water. Now they want them to go with him to make trouble for the village secretary of Fangjia Village?
Pooh.
Someone muttered under their breath, "Bringing her back and then marrying her off to an idiot? How immoral!"
"What era are we living in? There are still fathers like this, tsk..."
The man looked over, and the two men fell silent.
The village chief looked rather grim and asked Old Hu, "I remember your son's brother-in-law's father was the retired village chief of Fangjia Village?"
"ah?"
Old Hu gave a guilty "Ah," and said, "Right? I didn't know..."
The village chief saw through his act and was furious, glaring at him.
He said, "A respected old village chief and a village party secretary elected by the villagers themselves, do you think they'd be afraid of you coming to their door? To put it nicely, you're marrying off your daughter; to put it bluntly, you've sold your daughter to a fool for six hundred yuan. This is illegal if it's brought up in the open. If word gets out, who would dare marry their daughter into our village? Which village would dare marry a girl from our village? You're ruining the feng shui of our Hujiazhuang village..."
The old village chief looked at each family member one by one, glaring at them, and said, "Give the money back to them, and this matter ends here."
Old Hu refused; once the money was in their pockets, they wouldn't take it out again.
He glanced at Old Lady Hu and told her to go up.
Grandma Hu immediately said she had no money and told the groom's parents to go and ask for the bride themselves.
The mentally challenged parents realized that the Fang family was not to be trifled with. They spent so much money supposedly to marry him, but in reality, they were just buying a wife for their mentally challenged son. The Hu family was selling to them, and they were buying from them. It was an unspoken agreement, but things have turned out like this.
Feeling guilty, they dared not cause trouble at the Fang family's house. The old couple exchanged a glance. The mentally challenged mother's eyes were red, and she wiped away her tears, saying, "Why should we go? You lost her yourselves! We don't want this daughter-in-law anymore. Give us back our money, seven hundred yuan. If you're short a penny, don't blame us for not giving you face, village chief. We've decided what to do with the Hu family. Or we'll take Hu Dashan away. We'll return the money and the person whenever we want."
Upon hearing this, Hu Dashan grabbed his aunt's arm and screamed, "Mom, I don't want to go! I don't want to go!"
The aunt comforted her son with tears in her eyes, feeling sorry for him.
The man, still angry, kicked his aunt twice more.
He yelled, "You jinx! It's all because of your good sister! What kind of family are you! We were living a good life, our daughter was getting married and our son was about to get married, and now they've ruined everything!"
"Dad, I didn't know she would do this..." The aunt dared not cry out in pain or flinch, and endured it all.
The man spat at her, "Go to the Fang family and demand your return. If you don't get her back, don't bother coming back."
"His father..."
The aunt looked up, her eyes red and pitiful, on the verge of tears. "They did it on purpose. They had to ruin our happy day. I'm going to confront her. Isn't she just taking advantage of having the village chief as her father-in-law and the village secretary as her son?"
The village chief was both angry and speechless.
He said in a low voice, "Alright! It's a fact that anyone would buy or sell marriages or arrange marriages here. You want to go to the police station to behave, right? Hurry up and pay up!"
Then she said to the mentally challenged parents, "Who is your village chief? You've caused such a commotion by buying a wife, and he doesn't care, does he? I'm going to call him right now and see how he manages the villagers..."
The old village chief made a move to leave, and the mentally challenged parents panicked. The father stopped him, saying, "We paid a dowry to marry this woman, how did it become a business transaction?"
The village chief asked him, "Who did you give the bride price to? Hu Erya didn't want it at all. If she didn't want it, then this is an arranged marriage, understand?! If someone sues you, you and your husband will both go to jail."
The mentally challenged mother slapped her thigh and cried, "My daughter-in-law! My son is already in his thirties. What will he do for the rest of his life if he doesn't get married? My husband and I are practically on our deathbeds. We've saved up for so many years to finally afford his wedding. God, you're not giving us a way to live..."
The village chief sighed and said, "It's no use yelling at me like that. You can go if you want, but the moment you go, they'll send you two to the police station. Who will take care of your mentally challenged son then?!"
"So we're just going to swallow this bitter pill? It's clearly the Hu family who acted unfairly. If they didn't want to marry off their daughter, they shouldn't have taken our dowry. Now that we've already spent the money, they can ask us not to marry her or to take her back, but they have to return the money—seven hundred yuan. If they don't give it to us, we'll go to the police station and report them. At worst, both our families will go to jail together!"
The village chief looked at Old Man Hu and said, "Did you hear that? Either pay back the money or go to jail. It's your choice."
"this……"
Old Hu hesitated, afraid that the fool's family would really send them in, so he gritted his teeth and told his son to give him the money.
If a man can't bear to part with it, he can simply tell someone else.
The village chief glared at him and said, "If you keep babbling, get out of Hu Family Village! You dare to sell your daughter right under my nose? Why don't you sell yourself?! Give the money back to them!"
Old Hu cursed "bastard," slapped the man, and told him to go get the money.
The aunt cried her heart out, saying, "That's the money I saved for my son Dashan's wedding! I can't give it to him..."
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