But before the person got on the bicycle, the bride, Sun Meiying's mother, grabbed Liu the matchmaker's hand and said with a smile, "Don't be in a hurry."
Matchmaker Liu was a well-informed person. She knew from the looks of things that today's marriage would not be so easy to get together.
She looked at the people who were watching the excitement in the yard, and said with a forced smile: "Oh, mother-in-law, look, it's getting late. Let's let the children go to the man's house first, and we can talk about other things after we get back!"
Sun Meiying's mother was unwilling to do so. She stretched her neck and shouted to Lu Chuan, "Today is a happy day. As your mother, I won't make things difficult for you. I will give you another 20 yuan to make the betrothal gift even!
A few days ago, I asked someone to calculate it, and they said that the previous number was unlucky, and I had to make it a hundred in order for the whole family to be reunited and happy! "
Sun Meiying's face, which was originally a little red due to shyness, instantly turned as pale as paper.
She shifted her gaze from her mother to her father in confusion. Old Sun was puffing on his pipe, not even daring to raise his head.
Matchmaker Liu cursed Old Sun's whole family in her heart, why did she not bring it up earlier or later but on such a happy day.
Isn't this just putting Captain Lu's entire family on the fire?
"Oh, elder sister, look at what you said. Feudal superstition is no longer practiced in our country. The Lu family has given a lot, from 50 yuan to 80 yuan!
Even if it's a girl from the city, the bride price is about this much!"
Matchmaker Liu's words made the people who came to join in the fun in the yard gasp. Wow, isn't the Sun family satisfied with an eighty-yuan betrothal gift?
Usually, when many people in the village get married, the general gift is 30 yuan. 50 yuan is the best. If you are not satisfied with 80 yuan, you want another 20 yuan to make a total of 100 yuan?
Sun Meiying's mother looked at her daughter's pleading eyes and couldn't help but look away.
"If you don't give me twenty dollars today, don't even think about marrying my daughter!"
Matchmaker Liu waved her handkerchief and stamped her feet, shouting, "My dear mother-in-law, today the leaders of the commune are going to Captain Lu's house for a wedding banquet. Logically speaking, these matters need to be decided by adults.
Isn't it that Captain Lu wanted to entertain the leader but he didn't come! There was no one who could make the decision. Besides, who would carry so much money?
Let’s let the couple get married today, after all, the leaders are still waiting!
"I'll ask Captain Lu to come over to discuss this matter in person, what do you think?"
When Sun Meiying's mother heard that the commune leaders were going to Captain Lu's house for a banquet today, her originally determined mind hesitated for a moment.
But her eyes swept over her son standing not far away, and the girl beside him, and she remembered what her son said when he pulled her into the house.
Sun Meiying's mother was determined, and said, "No! If Lu Chuan gets married, won't he be the head of the family?
"Does he decide whether to give me the twenty dollars? I can't let him get away with such a beautiful girl like me!"
Sun Meiying almost cried: "Mom, can you please stop making trouble?"
She grasped Lu Chuan's clothes with a little force and looked at her mother with tears in her eyes, pleadingly.
Matchmaker Liu saw more and more people gathering around her. She knew she would just be laughed at if she continued like this!
He quickly pulled the bride and groom into the house.
At this moment, Sun Meiying's younger brother Sun Guoqiang walked out of the crowd. He rushed into the house and looked at his sister with a little disapproval: "Sister, your brother-in-law is so reluctant to spend this little money?
Our mother is right, we should make everything into a whole, so that we can be happy and reunited! My brother-in-law's family has already paid 80 yuan, what else is missing?"
When Sun Meiying saw the girl standing behind her brother, she immediately understood who was responsible for what was happening before her eyes.
She closed her eyes, and after a long while she asked her mother, "Mom, since Dachuan gave me the twenty yuan today, I will be completely part of their family from now on.
One hundred yuan is enough to buy a wife! If there is any problem in the Sun family in the future, I will not visit them again!"
There was determination in Sun Meiying's words; she was eager to escape from this suffocating home.
From childhood to adulthood, the elder sister's dowry was left for her brother to marry a wife, and now her mother is trying to put the dowry money for her younger brother's wife on her.
"Meiying, what are you talking about? Do you want to sever ties with our Sun family?
Well, you have grown wings, right? I will beat you to death, you damn bitch."
Sun Meiying's mother angrily picked up a feather duster and was about to hit Sun Meiying with it.
Lu Chuan quickly pulled Sun Meiying over to protect him.
"You guys forced me to do this! We originally agreed on a fifty-yuan betrothal gift, why did you add thirty, and now twenty! Aren't you selling your daughter?
For him, you even gave up your daughter."
Sun Meiying cried so hard that she was out of breath and most of her makeup was ruined by her tears.
She looked at her brother and the girl behind him with a hint of hatred in her eyes.
Lu Chuan felt so heartbroken when he saw Sun Meiying crying and sobbing.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, Matchmaker Liu pulled him hard. Looking at Matchmaker Liu's disapproving expression, Lu Chuan remembered his father's constant reminders after getting up in the morning that he should listen to Matchmaker Liu in everything!
He could only swallow the words in disappointment.
"Sister, think it over carefully. If you cut off your relationship with us, no one will support you if you are bullied by your husband's family in the future!"
Sun Meiying's brother said that she was fearless. In his opinion, Sun Meiying was just trying to scare her mother. Who doesn't want to have a few brothers from her mother's family to support them?
Sun Meiying wiped her tears and looked up at Lu Chuan: "Will you be nice to me in the future?"
Lu Chuan nodded vigorously and promised again and again: "I will never let you suffer any injustice!"
Hearing his honest and simple words, Sun Meiying felt more at ease.
"Mom, I'll pay the twenty dollars, and I'll ask the uncles to be witnesses. From now on, whether I, Sun Meiying, am good or bad, it has nothing to do with the Sun family!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
