Similarly, your demand for compensation is also a way of protecting me. Unless I'm out of my mind, I wouldn't know right from wrong and blame my own mother.
The Zhao family wants to annul the engagement, and even if it's her family who has to break it off, it would seem rather contemptible of her to simply return the engagement gifts exchanged between the two families and call it a day!
When an engagement is broken off, regardless of whether the man or the woman is at fault, as long as the party who initiated the breakup is at fault, the other party has sufficient reason not to return the items given by the other party's family during the engagement, and at the same time, to ask the other party's family for compensation. This is perfectly reasonable.
Otherwise, it would be too unfair to the other party!
Feng Yuanyuan didn't think that her family wanted to take advantage of the Zhao family. On the one hand, her mother's request was reasonable, and on the other hand, the Feng family's conditions were no worse than the Zhao family's.
First of all, the Zhao family only has one son, Zhao Jing. On the other hand, Feng Yuanyuan has older brothers and sisters. Her eldest brother, Feng Jianhua, joined the army and is now a company-level officer. He married the daughter of a leader and works as a nurse. Her eldest sister, Feng Shanshan, married into the county town and works at the county post office. Her husband is the director of the first workshop of the county food factory.
Feng Yuanyuan graduated from high school and works as a sales clerk at the county supply and marketing cooperative; her younger brother, Feng Jianping, is currently studying at the town's middle school; her younger sister, Feng Tingting, is two years older than her younger brother and was adopted by her uncle, who works in the city, when she was young.
The father, Feng Xueyi, was the head of the town's grain station, and the mother was a housewife who was responsible for the family's food and drink.
In Feng Yuanyuan's own eyes, her family's financial situation was far better than that of the Zhao family.
Now that she is about to break off the engagement with the Zhao family, she doesn't feel any regret at all.
The Zhao family consists of three people. Although Zhao's father was transferred to work in the county, he was not a high-ranking official. Zhao Jing worked at the county agricultural machinery factory as an ordinary worker, earning only five yuan more per month than her.
There's really nothing to brag about!
"I'm glad you understand."
Mrs. Feng looked pleased, then shifted her gaze to Mr. Feng: "Don't look so bitter and resentful. If you ask me, it would be better to break off the engagement with the Zhao family. Just think, how frustrated would our Yuanyuan be if she found out that the Zhao boy had someone else in his heart after marrying him?!"
If Zhao's son is still clueless and constantly gives our Yuanyuan the cold shoulder after marriage, and secretly has dealings with the woman he's eyeing behind her back, how can Yuanyuan possibly live her life?
Although we live in a modern society where divorce is possible, it still sounds unpleasant, especially for women. After a divorce, regardless of the reason, gossip and rumors will almost always surround the woman.
"I have no problem with breaking off the engagement, I just feel that the Zhao family is really bullying us!"
Mr. Feng sighed and said in a deep voice, "Does Zhao Shengli really not know that his son already has someone in his heart? In my opinion, he most likely knows, but he's just not satisfied with the one his son has his eye on, so..."
After a long pause, Feng's mother saw this and said, "So what? You don't even know how to continue, which shows that your guess is not unreasonable. Besides, the reason why our family and the Zhao family were able to arrange the marriage is because Yuanyuan and the Zhao family's son are in love and have no objections. That's why the two families have this marriage."
"How did things turn out like this?"
Mr. Feng frowned, his eyes filled with confusion.
"It's either that Zhao's son has fallen for someone else, or that he's been deliberately seduced by another girl and is being manipulated by her, which is why he's causing trouble at home and trying to break off our engagement."
In short, it's a fact that the Zhao family boy has fallen for someone else. Our family's decisive decision to break off the engagement won't do any harm for our Yuanyuan.
On one side of the Feng family, Mr. and Mrs. Feng were chatting idly about breaking off the engagement with the Zhao family. On the other side, in Shisong Village, Mr. and Mrs. Song Sanhe were sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed), both looking grim, thinking about going to the Han family the next day to break off the engagement between the two families.
"Those two seem like honest people, how could they raise such a shameless daughter?!"
Li Jumei was furious. Yes, her family was thinking of breaking off the engagement with the Han family, but she never expected that her prospective daughter-in-law, Han Bailan, would have an affair with someone else and even have a child, causing the marriage between the two families to fall through. Wasn't this just trampling on the face of the Song family?
"The engagement will be called off tomorrow, there's no need to think about it so much."
Song Sanhe received a call from Song Qingbin in the evening. After the father and son finished talking, he was so angry that he was trembling all over. Just like Li Jumei was thinking, he felt that the Han family had trampled the Song family's face on the ground. Otherwise, how could they have raised a daughter who was so promiscuous and had affairs with other people before marriage?
But what's the use of getting angry now that things have come to this?
Moreover, their family had already planned to reject the marriage proposal from the Han family. Now, the Song family had simply humiliated them, providing them with a sufficient reason to break off the engagement.
"I'm worried that acquaintances will find out the truth about the broken engagement between the two families."
Li Jumei's face was very ugly: "If other people find out, won't our eldest son become a coward in their eyes?"
"You're overthinking it! What coward? So what if your partner cheated on you? How can that be the eldest's fault? It's just that the Han family didn't raise their daughter well. It's that the Han family's daughter is shameless and did such a shameful thing. And our eldest, as the victim, is the one who's wronged!"
Unless someone is extremely bored and has nothing better to do, and their mind is completely muddled, no one would think our eldest son is eating turtles (a Chinese idiom meaning to eat something stupid).
As Song Sanhe spoke, his expression gradually softened. He sighed softly and spoke again, "You can't expect the eldest brother to cause trouble at the Han family's house, can you? Or to lay a hand on that girl? What good would that do for the eldest brother?"
“I know you’re right, but the thought of that girl from the Han family putting a huge green hat on our eldest son’s head makes my heart ache.”
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