In a coffee shop near the advertising media company, Bai Qing looked across at Bai Fugui and the other two and said coldly, "Tell me, how did you get here?"
"How could I not know that you and Bai Yu are in contact? I am your father after all. How could you hide those little tricks from me?" Bai Fugui said complacently.
Bai Qing's family has four children, three girls and one boy. The eldest is Bai Yu, the second is Bai Qing, the third is Bai Xue, and Bai Xiaowei is the youngest.
"I see. Since you've come here today, there must be something. Tell me what it is."
The eldest sister has a simple and honest personality, and Bai Qing didn't think she could hide it from her parents.
"Someone has found a marriage for Xiaowei, and the other party wants a betrothal gift of 280,000 yuan. You earn the most in our family, so this matter must fall on you, right?" Bai Fugui said as a matter of course.
"Ha!" Bai Qing sneered, "Where's Xiaoxue? I don't believe you can let her go."
"Our second daughter is very smart. Xiaoxue will get a dowry of 180,000 yuan when she gets married."
"Is the other party a fool or a cripple?"
Bai Qing knew very well what kind of person her father was. He would sell anything for money.
"Why do you say that? Xiaoxue is my daughter after all. How could I marry a fool or a cripple?"
"Haha!" Bai Qing didn't believe it at all.
Back home, the 80,000 yuan betrothal gift is the norm, and no one violates it because raising the price doesn't benefit anyone. As for those who are mentally retarded, idiot, or disabled and can't find a partner, it depends on how much the woman wants.
As for why Bai Xiaowei's marriage proposal required 280,000 yuan, it was because Bai Fugui was a gambler and Bai Xiaowei was not working properly, so the other party was planning to sell their daughter. In some places, this kind of thing is not uncommon.
The eldest sister Bai Yu didn't give birth to a child for three years after getting married. The man broke off the engagement and not only did he have to return the betrothal money in full. In short, it was the woman's responsibility that she couldn't give birth.
Bai Qing didn't want to repeat the same mistake, so at the age of seventeen, she ran away and boarded a train to Shanghai. Thanks to the village teacher's earnest persuasion, her family finally allowed the three girls to attend elementary school, allowing Bai Qing to at least learn to read and understand how to interact with others when she went out.
She'd assumed that finding a job in Shanghai, the country's largest city, would be easy, but she had no idea it was also the most competitive. Newly arrived, Bai Qing had worked as a waitress in a small restaurant, in a factory, and at odd jobs—all her options were limited by her lack of education.
This is also why she wanted to learn something after following Si Mingyu. She was really influenced by her previous experiences.
Later, when he learned that the bar made more money, he went there. Later, because Bai Qing was really pretty enough, he embarked on his current path.
After all, she still missed home, and since she had made some money, Bai Qing left 50,000 yuan for her family when she returned. Seeing the money, her parents had nothing to say.
Bai Fugui, who had become rich overnight, was trembling with fear. Seeing that he was rich, people with ulterior motives naturally lured him into gambling. At first, Bai Qing sent 2,000 yuan back home every month. It was not that she didn't want to give more, but that it was not enough for her own expenses.
If she doesn't want to sell herself cheaply, she has to go the high-end route. With her academic qualifications, she has to spend money to study even if she wants to pretend to be good. Besides, she spends a lot of money on food, clothing, housing and transportation on a daily basis.
Rich people are not fools. How can you trick them into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy things for you just by having a good look and knowing nothing else?
Two thousand yuan a month wasn't enough for Bai Fugui, a gambling addict. After all, Bai Xiaowei had also developed a habit of spending lavishly. He'd find excuses to ask Bai Qing for money, and even small amounts of ten or twenty thousand yuan weren't considered a lot, so he'd give them to her. But after this happened so many times, he felt something was amiss.
When she asked about her elder sister, Bai Yu was hesitant. Only after being pressed did she say that her father had lost everything in gambling, but he didn't allow her to tell Bai Qing.
Angry, Bai Qing returned to her hometown and tried to persuade her father. The first time, Bai Fugui agreed verbally but still did his own thing. The second time, Bai Fugui became impatient. The third time, Bai Fugui, who was stuck in the quagmire, didn't care about family affection at all and scolded Bai Qing. As a result, the two had a quarrel and Bai Qing left with hatred.
Bai Qing deleted their contact information and changed her phone number, not wanting to contact them anymore. But she still had to send the money every month on time, otherwise her eldest and youngest sisters might lose their work earnings to Bai Fugui to gamble, and how would they survive?
I secretly gave my contact information to my eldest sister so I could know their current situation and transfer some money to them every month. I didn't dare to give them too much, because if I got caught, there would be nothing left.
Bai Qing looked at the three people in front of her. Her father Bai Fugui was beyond redemption, and her mother Fang Guizhen was completely focused on her son and ignored her daughter. Bai Xiaowei had no hope like this.
"I can pay the full 280,000 yuan, but I have a condition. The three of us sisters will move our household registration out, and I'll take in Big Sister and Xiaoxue. You sign a document severing ties with us."
"You want to get rid of me with just 280,000 yuan? Impossible! You can break up the relationship, but you have to give me enough money for my retirement." Bai Fugui refused.
"How many?"
"Two thousand per person per month, six thousand for three people, that's seventy-two thousand a year, seven hundred and twenty thousand in ten years, two million and eight hundred and eighty thousand in forty years. You just need to give three million to make it a whole." Bai Fugui said, counting on his fingers.
"No way, I don't have that much money."
Bai Qing could certainly come up with more than one million, but she really didn't have three million. After all, she earned a lot and spent a lot, and this was the Magic City.
"I'm not discussing this with you, I'm just telling you. You should figure it out on your own. Xiaowei has to pay the betrothal money next week anyway, and it's either you who pays or Xiaoxue."
Bai Fugui was sure of Bai Qing's fate. After all, she was his own daughter, and he knew the relationship between the three sisters.
"I can't come up with the money no matter what you say."
"Then I don't care."
Bai Fugui imitated the "big boss" in Hong Kong movies and took out the one-yuan water-based pen he carried with him and wrote down the phone number on a note in the coffee shop.
"We'll go back tomorrow. Call me when you've made up your mind."
"You're a fucking bastard!" Bai Qing couldn't help but curse.
"You can curse as much as you want."
Bai Fugui left triumphantly with Fang Guizhen and Bai Xiaowei. He'd been beaten and scolded when he couldn't pay his gambling debts. Could Bai Qing's scolding be worse than the debtor's? Bai Fugui didn't care.
In a small hotel.
"Dad, even if my sister agreed, she wouldn't have that much money." Bai Xiaowei said with some concern.
He wasn't so out of kindness as to worry about Bai Qing. He was actually worried that Bai Fugui's asking price would be too high and Bai Qing wouldn't be able to afford it, leaving him with no money for the bride price. Even if Xiaoxue married and the other party gave her 180,000 yuan, she still needed 100,000 yuan. Bai Fugui had squandered all the valuables in the house, leaving him with nothing to even pay 10,000 yuan.
"What are you worried about!" Bai Fugui lit a cigarette. "I know Bai Qing's personality better than you do. She'll have to come up with the money even if she has to sell herself."
"If I really had that much money, I would buy a car." Bai Xiaowei immediately became excited.
"Buy it!" Bai Fugui waved his hand generously.
So the father and son began to think about how to spend the money they had not yet received.
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