After leaving a warning, Yu Qiuying pulled Zhou Cailian away.
Only after they had walked a distance did she let go of Zhou Cailian's hand and say to her, "Cailian, if you ever run into that person again, you must never talk to him, understand?"
"Mom, what happened to that person?" Zhou Cailian asked, completely bewildered.
Yu Qiuying then told her about the matchmaker from Changling Village who had come to her door that day to arrange a marriage for her.
Finally, fearing she might be fooled by the man's appearance, she quickly added, "Cailian, don't be fooled by his respectable looks. He's no good. I've asked around, and his ex-wife didn't die of illness; he beat her to death. Otherwise, why hasn't he found another woman even though she's been dead for over two years?"
"Everyone in the village knows he's no good. Who would want to push their good girl into a fire pit? That matchmaker isn't good either. She knew the man was a scoundrel, yet she still acted as his matchmaker. Isn't that just harming people?"
"Also, I clearly refused to let you go on a date with him that day, but he still wouldn't give up. He must have come here specifically to block you today. Don't be blinded by his appearance. Don't come to the market alone in the future. Who knows if that guy will come to bother you again? You have to be careful."
"Oh, okay." Zhou Cailian felt a little embarrassed. She had indeed been captivated by the man just now, but after hearing what her mother said, her good impression of him vanished instantly.
She has always listened to her mother since she was a child, and she knows very well that anyone in this world might want to harm her, but her mother would never. Her mother only hopes that she will be well, that she will marry well, and that she will live a good life.
Yu Qiuying felt relieved after explaining things to Zhou Cailian. However, she still had to be careful in the future. After all, there's a saying that what you can't have is always alluring. Who knows if that man might have some bad intentions in order to get Cailian?
One should always be wary of others; one cannot wait until something happens to regret it.
The mother and daughter caught sixteen chicks and went home, arriving at exactly eleven o'clock.
Yu Qiuying asked Zhou Cailian to take the chicks to the backyard to settle them, while she washed her face and prepared to make lunch.
Unexpectedly, not long after she entered the kitchen, Zhou Jiadong came over, leaning on his cane with a gloomy face.
"Mom, you said before that the family didn't have enough money to pay the 1,000 yuan dowry for me to marry Xiaolan. Now, I heard that the neighbors poisoned all our chickens, and they gave you 500 yuan in compensation." Zhou Jiadong had only recently learned about this; it was after Zhong Xiaolan left that Zhou Laogen from behind the house came over and told him.
He hadn't left the house in the two days since he returned, and neither Yu Qiuying, Zhou Cailian, nor Zhou Jiahong had told him, so he had no idea about it before.
However, at this moment he didn't care at all whether the chickens in his house lived or died; what he cared about now was the five hundred yuan.
Didn't Mom say before that the family didn't have that much money and couldn't afford a thousand yuan dowry?
Now, can you produce it?
Yu Qiuying turned to look at him, "Who told you about this?"
"Never mind who told me, I just want to ask you now, if you can come up with this money, will you still help me get married?"
"Here you go, I'll ask someone to introduce you to someone tomorrow."
"Mom! Can you please stop doing this!"
"What's wrong with me? Didn't you say you were going to get married?"
"You know perfectly well that I want to marry Xiaolan! Why won't you let me marry Xiaolan?! Why?!"
"I'm not stopping you. If you want to marry her, then marry her. I'm not stopping you."
"Didn't you stop me?! How am I supposed to marry Xiaolan if you won't give a bride price?! I've never seen a mother like you! What mother doesn't want her son to be successful?! What mother doesn't want her son to get married?!"
"Nobody else asks for a thousand yuan dowry when their son gets married!"
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