"You've already said everything, how could I dare to hold it against you?"
Qin Boyan replied nonchalantly and ignored Qin Yaxin.
"Sister-in-law, how about I wash the dishes after dinner?"
Dinner was almost ready, and there was really nothing she could do to help in the kitchen. Thinking this, Qin Yaxin decided to take over the task of washing the dishes after dinner.
"good."
Song Lan nodded.
Suddenly, a woman's cursing and wailing came from the next yard.
"Those damned good-for-nothings! Do they think they're all grown up now and can disregard us, their parents? They actually dared to marry local peasants behind our backs! No way, I'm going to find them and teach them a lesson!"
"You good-for-nothings! You good-for-nothings! Da Ya and the others are good-for-nothings! Mommy, go and beat them to death! Let's see if they dare to disobey us again!"
“Brother, you can’t say that.”
"Why can't I say it? Wuya, you're a good-for-nothing too! A good-for-nothing who doesn't listen should be beaten! Beat the good-for-nothing to death! Oh oh oh!"
It wasn't hard to tell that the sound came from Cui Xingwang and Zheng Laidi, the couple next door, and their precious son, Cui Jiabao.
As for the other two voices, one belonged to Zheng Laidi, and the other to Cui Wuya.
"Oh dear! Why is my life so miserable?! I raised those sisters with my own hands and feet, and then, so that they could have enough to eat and could serve the country, I sent them to the countryside. And yet, those heartless people repay me like that. It's outrageous, my husband, it's just not fair!"
Zheng Laidi sat on a chair against the wall in her main room, wiping away tears and slapping her thigh, wishing she could immediately drag her daughters Er Ya and San Ya back and give them a good beating.
Cui Xingwang remained silent, his brows furrowed as he stared intently at the letter in his hand.
To be honest, he was somewhat prepared that his daughter, Er Ya, would get married in the countryside where he had been sent to work, but... when he actually saw the letter, which stated that his daughter Er Ya had married a local farmer last year, he still felt inexplicably upset and unable to accept it.
Especially when she saw that Sanya wrote in her letter that she had also gotten married last month, and that she had also married a local farmer, her anger kept rising!
That's right. This afternoon, Zheng Laidi received a letter from her daughter Sanya, who had gone to the countryside. Since she couldn't read many words, she waited until Cui Xingwang got off work and came home before showing the letter to him and asking him about its contents.
He felt upset and irritable upon learning that two of the three daughters who had gone to the countryside were already married, and that the two sisters had married into the same village and might never return.
Zheng Laidi wasn't heartbroken for her daughter; she was heartbroken about the bride price.
The daughter they had raised with great difficulty was married off to a peasant far away. She only accepted twenty yuan as a bride price from the other family, saying that she needed to make a living on her own and would not send the bride price back home.
Twenty yuan?
The bride price was only twenty yuan?
Er Ya and San Ya are the same kind of people. Do they have a grudge against their family or their parents?
Don't they know that in their hometown, the bride price is at least 100 or 200 yuan?
Some families treat marrying off their daughters like selling them, demanding exorbitant amounts from the groom's family, sometimes asking for two or three hundred yuan.
She had long planned that once her daughters, who were considered a financial burden, grew up, she would arrange marriages for them. She wouldn't ask for exorbitant dowries, but she would definitely ask for at least a hundred or two hundred yuan.
Now look what's happened! One or two of them didn't even tell their families before marrying off themselves to local peasants for a dowry of twenty yuan. All her efforts have been in vain. They deserve to die!
Zheng Laidi cried and cursed, feeling more and more that her family had suffered a huge loss. The more she felt she had suffered a huge loss, the more heartbroken she became, and the more intense her crying and cursing became.
"Alright!"
Cui Xingwang snapped out of his daze and scolded Zheng Laidi: "Things have come to this point, what are you making a fuss about?"
Zheng Laidi's wailing stopped abruptly. She looked at Cui Xingwang and said, "Is this all there is to it? We raised our daughter for so many years, and we didn't even get a penny of dowry. She's just going to become someone else's wife like this?"
"So what do you want to do?"
Cui Xingwang's face darkened: "The groom's family has given a dowry, and besides, the marriage has already taken place... Er Ya might have already had a child, and San Ya is probably pregnant as well. What else can we do if we don't acknowledge it?"
"But I'm not willing to accept this!"
Zheng Laidi let out a howl, and then said, "It's all my fault... It's all my fault for signing Er Ya and San Ya up to go to the countryside. If they hadn't gone to the countryside, none of this would have happened."
"Honey, what was I thinking? That girl next door is about the same age as our Fourth Sister, but I... but I sent Fourth Sister to the countryside too! I'm not having it! I'm going to complain to the neighbors! They have a son and a daughter who could both go to the countryside, but they didn't even sign up..."
"Shut the hell up!"
Cui Xingwang interrupted Zheng Laidi: "Why are you dragging other people's business into your own?"
With a gloomy face, Cui Xingwang felt an itch to punch her. If it weren't for the fact that Zheng Laidi had borne him children, he would have loved to give that damned woman a few punches to clear her head.
Suppressing his anger, Cui Xingwang said, "The two siblings next door are still studying; they haven't graduated yet and don't need to go to the countryside."
Zheng Laidi still looked unconvinced.
"As for our Er Ya and her sisters, firstly, it was you, their mother, who took the initiative to sign them up, and secondly... Er Ya and her sisters didn't have jobs, so according to the policy, they were supposed to go to the countryside to settle down. Now you understand, right? Er Ya and her sisters can't compare to the brother and sister next door."
To prevent Zheng Laidi from having a conflict with Song Lan's family without his knowledge, Cui Xingwang decided to explain the situation in detail. Zheng Laidi's expression changed repeatedly as she listened, and she started crying and cursing her heartless daughter.
"I think the people next door are just bored and have nothing better to do!"
Qin Yaxin stood at the kitchen doorway, glaring at the neighboring yard, muttering, "Why drag my second brother and me into their family business?"
"Never mind what they say, just serve the food."
Qin Boyan threw a sentence at Qin Yaxin.
Song Lan was serving porridge into a bowl when she realized that Zheng Laidi had suddenly brought up Qin Boyan and Qin Yaxin while talking about their own family matters.
Yes, Song Lan recognized that the two siblings next door that Zheng Laidi mentioned were Qin Boyan and Qin Yaxin.
Okay, even if Zheng Laidi goes to sue, Song Lan isn't afraid.
As Cui Xingwang said, Qin Boyan is in his first year of high school and Qin Yaxin is in her second year of junior high school. The two siblings have not yet graduated and do not need to go to the countryside right now.
Of course, if the two of them cannot find jobs after graduating from high school, going to the countryside will be inevitable.
Zheng Laidi's wailing and cursing continued to ring out, but Song Lan had no mind to listen anymore. She called Qin Boyan and Qin Yaxin to bring the food to the table and said, "You don't need to worry about what others say before you graduate from high school."
Qin Boyan and his companion nodded, indicating that they understood the situation.
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