Xie Yunshu and Lin Cuiping had never gotten along, so she deliberately exaggerated what he said, thinking that Xie Yunshu would be happy to hear it.
Who knew that after hearing this, Xie Yunshu's face suddenly darkened and he became furious: "Feng Qiang, that bastard, actually came to cancel the engagement at this time?"
Aunt Chen was puzzled by her attitude: "Lin Cuiping has lost her job. Feng Qiang is a section chief after all. Isn't it normal for him to not want her?"
Xie Yunshu ignored her, paused on her way out, and turned to walk towards the tube building. She was very fast, and it only took her a dozen seconds to reach the second floor.
Aunt Chen, who was standing nearby, glared and immediately gloated over the misfortune. She pulled the people nearby to follow and said, "Come on, let's go and watch the fun! Lin Cuiping's boyfriend is here to break off the engagement, and Xie Yunshu is going to make fun of her. It will be interesting if the two of them start fighting soon!"
The woman next to him didn't want to go: "Forget it, Yunshu is not that kind of person, and besides, her relationship with Cuiping is not that bad."
Aunt Chen curled her lips: "What do you know? Women are always hostile to each other. When have they ever had a good relationship?"
Xie Yunshu went up to the second floor in one breath. Several people were standing in the corridor, listening attentively. The door of Lin Cuiping's house was ajar, so he didn't hear Lin Cuiping's voice, but he did hear Aunt Lin's voice coming from inside.
"Feng Qiang, do your family members know that you are here today?"
Then a gentle male voice said, "Aunt Lin, my parents don't know. They want me to cancel the engagement, but I don't want to."
Hearing this, Xie Yunshu slowed down his pace and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Feng Qiang was a bit kind.
Since the other party didn't want to cancel the engagement, then they should come to discuss the marriage. There was no need for her to go in or not. Thinking of this, Xie Yunshu turned around and prepared to go downstairs.
But then I heard Lin Cuiping's choked voice, with anger and great grievance: "Feng Qiang, if you want me to marry you, don't add those messy conditions, otherwise just break off the engagement! I don't have to beg you to marry me!"
Aunt Lin had no choice but to persuade her: "Cui Ping, please speak properly. What's the point of breaking off the engagement?"
Lin Cuiping burst into tears: "I won't get married. Getting married like this will make people laugh at me!"
Xie Yunshu stopped and frowned slightly. What does this mean?
Feng Qiang seemed to feel aggrieved: "Cui Ping, I really want to marry you, but my parents don't want me to. I have argued with them a lot at home about this matter. But you don't have a job now, so isn't it too much to ask for three gifts? And forget about the wedding photos and rings."
"Let's just get the marriage certificate and not have a wedding banquet, so my mother won't have so many objections. I've already made a promise to my mother that after we get married you will stay at home to cook and do housework, and take care of my bedridden grandmother. It doesn't matter if you don't make money."
There was a sound of something falling from the room. Lin Cuiping said, "I don't want to be a maid and wait on others. You can marry whoever you want. I won't marry you!"
Feng Qiang was also a little anxious: "Cui Ping, don't be so stubborn, these things are just formalism and don't matter at all! If I want you to marry me, I will definitely treat you well! You are unemployed now, but I am still willing to marry you. Doesn't this prove something? Do you know that my family introduced several girls to me, but I didn't meet any of them!"
Aunt Chen, who had followed Lin Cuiping upstairs to watch the joke, stood at the stairs and clicked her tongue twice: "I didn't expect that Lin Cuiping is so lucky. Feng Qiang was willing to marry her even after she was laid off. She didn't know how to grab such a good man quickly, and she even had the nerve to lose her temper here. Aren't you afraid that he will really not want her when the time comes!"
The door was suddenly opened, and a tall, thin man wearing glasses was pushed out. Lin Cuiping stood at the door with red eyes: "Even if I don't get married, I won't wrong myself. If you have the patience to marry someone better, I won't stop you!"
The neighbors who were watching the fun outside were noticing. Feng Qiang felt a little embarrassed. He gritted his teeth and looked at Aunt Lin and Uncle Lin in the house: "I also came here under pressure from my family. Women have to serve others at home! What's more, I am a section chief and I have to save face. I prepared the same betrothal gifts and banquets, but in the end I married a woman without a job. How will people laugh at me?"
Aunt Lin hesitated: "Cui Ping, don't be impulsive..."
Even before Lin Cuiping lost her job, marrying Feng Qiang would have been considered marrying above her station. He graduated from a serious technical secondary school, became a section chief at a young age, and both his parents were working. If he hadn't really liked Cuiping, the marriage would never have been arranged in the first place.
Now Cuiping has lost her job and her marriage has been cancelled. How can she find a good in-law in the future? Not to mention a section chief, even if it is an ordinary worker, the first person people look for when they go on a blind date is definitely a formal worker.
In fact, although Feng Qiang's words just now were unpleasant to hear, they were also true. After all, it was normal for a woman to do housework and take care of the elderly at home after marriage. Even if she didn't give those three items of betrothal gifts, people might still say that Lin Cuiping took advantage of Feng Qiang by marrying him!
Xie Yunshu was a little worried. According to her, this marriage was better off not happening!
But now Aunt Lin and Uncle Lin are here, and it is not her turn as a neighbor to speak. Now it depends on what Lin Cuiping thinks. Don't just agree with the advice of your family.
Aunt Lin's words gave Feng Qiang hope. He softened his tone and looked at Lin Cuiping with a soft voice: "Cuiping, after we get married, I will slowly give you these things. I may be promoted as a section chief in the future, and my salary and bonuses will support you. Can you marry someone better than me? You have brothers and sisters. If you don't get married, do you still have to wait for your parents to support you?"
Although his tone was gentle and he seemed to be thinking about Lin Cuiping in every way, his last sentence was clearly a soft knife to force her. He almost said directly that he was willing to marry her. Lin Cuiping should be grateful and thankful, so where did she get the confidence to ask for these other things?
Lin Cuiping stood in the corridor, her fingers tightly grasping the door frame, her round and plump eyes filled with cold water. She looked at her mother who was sitting in the room with an embarrassment on her face, and her father who was smoking with his head down, and suddenly she felt isolated and helpless.
It seemed that she had no choice but to marry Feng Qiang...
Father Lin finished smoking the pipe in his hand and spoke in a hoarse voice: "Feng Qiang, our family needs to think about this matter. Cuiping..."
He didn't say he wouldn't marry, nor did he directly ask for marriage. As a father, he didn't want to let his daughter down, but as the head of the family, he knew that this seemed to be the best choice for Cuiping. Otherwise, would the Feng family really cancel the engagement?
Without a job, given their family conditions, they would never be able to find a husband with better conditions than Feng Qiang.
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