Hearing the old lady's words, Wang Tianxiao roughly calculated that, compared with the income and purchasing power of this era and later generations, 1,600 here was equivalent to about 300,000.
Even in Qingcheng, which is known for its high dowries, there is absolutely no such level.
They asked for at least two-thirds more.
In those days, the typical bride price was two or three hundred yuan, and even if it was slightly more, it would still be less than five hundred yuan.
That's really outrageous; they can really eat!
"Too much? Where is it too much? Do you know how hard it was for me to raise her? If you think it's too much, then don't pay. I'll just take my daughter with me."
The old lady was unwilling to back down and instead humiliated Wu Qiancai.
Wu Qiancai didn't know what to say, his face flushed red, looking at Wang Tianxiao with distress. He was usually an indecisive person, and he always listened to his younger brother Wu Wenhua. Now that his brother was not here, he subconsciously handed over the power to make decisions to Wang Tianxiao.
Wang Tianxiao glanced at the old lady, then at her several cold and greedy sons behind her, and sneered, "This money is too much; you won't get it."
"You mean if you can't have it, then you can't have it?"
"Yes, I said it."
Wang Tianxiao looked coldly at the old lady, "Do you really think you can get 1,600 yuan from this honest-looking man? Ask him if he has 160 yuan?"
Wu Qiancai lowered his head in shame.
He really didn't have much money. If he hadn't worked for Wang Tianxiao for a month or two and saved up a little bit, he probably wouldn't have been able to come up with even a hundred yuan.
The old lady was taken aback for a moment, but quickly said, "It's easy to not have money. I'll just take my daughter home."
Is your daughter a commodity?
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, if you say you're taking your daughter away, does she really have to go with you? What if she doesn't want to go? Are you going to forcibly kidnap her?"
"this……"
Wang Tianxiao gave her no chance to rest or think, continuing his oppressive attack: "This is a new society, do you think it's still the past? Even if she is your daughter, you have no right or the right to restrict her freedom. Besides, she works at my station now, so I can't just watch you take people away."
"So, either you agree on a dowry amount, and I'll help Wu Qiancai scrape together the money for you, then you can take it and leave, and never come back to cause trouble here again, or you can just take your people and leave now, and you won't get a single penny."
"You...you...don't you even know the law?"
"Get this straight, this is a new society, your old ways don't work anymore. Since you're unwilling to talk about it, I'll give you a price: three hundred yuan, according to the market rate, no more, no less."
"Three hundred yuan? No, that's too little. I can't even get a daughter-in-law for three hundred yuan!"
"Oh, so you want to sell your daughter in exchange for a daughter-in-law?" Although Wang Tianxiao knew that was the old lady's idea, the fact that she said it so bluntly still made him feel very uncomfortable, as if he had eaten shit.
What kind of emotion could lead someone to say such cold words?
Is there really no mother-daughter bond between them?
If the son is a human being, then the girl isn't?
He even claimed that he had raised his daughter.
This is probably like raising pigs. It's not that people like or have any affection for pigs; it's just about raising them to be big and fat, then selling or slaughtering them for money.
The fact that there are parents like this in the world truly opened the eyes of Wang Tianxiao, who has lived two lives.
"Isn't that how everyone does it? Isn't that how you raise a daughter? Do you think I raised her for nothing and gave her away to someone else? What kind of joke are you talking about? Anyway, three hundred yuan won't do."
"Three hundred yuan won't do. Then you can name your price, but stop here. If you keep asking for an inexhaustible amount, then I'm not in the mood to talk to you anymore. If you want to keep haggling, then keep haggling."
The old lady whispered to her three sons for a few more moments.
Give me a thousand yuan.
“A thousand yuan, that’s still a lot,” Wu Qiancai said subconsciously. “Auntie, the market price is no more than five hundred yuan. You’re asking for too much.”
"I don't think it's too much at all. If you really don't have the ability, then stop arguing."
"Five hundred yuan is fine, I can try to scrape together that, but I really can't come up with a thousand yuan."
Actually, Wu Qiancai wasn't very confident when he said this. He had less than 200 yuan in savings and could only earn 60 yuan a month if he didn't eat or drink. Even if Shi Huanhuan was willing to sacrifice herself to subsidize him, it would still take some time to earn that much money.
"No, it's only one thousand yuan. This is already a concession because you don't have much money."
"But where am I supposed to get all this money out of you all at once? Even if you skinned me alive, I wouldn't be worth a thousand yuan." Wu Qiancai was so worried he was about to cry.
Even a hero can be stumped by a single penny; a grown man is helpless when faced with the cold, hard sum of money.
"That's your problem. If you don't have money, why are you looking for a wife? There's more than one old bachelor in the world."
"That……"
Seeing that the old lady was unwilling to compromise, Wu Qiancai thought for a while and then pleaded, "How about this? One thousand yuan it is, I'll give it to you in several installments, and finish it by the end of this year."
"What are you thinking? Do you want to keep dragging this on?" The old woman wouldn't budge an inch. "Either you give me the money today, or you give up this idea and I'm taking my daughter home. Don't try to play tricks on this old woman. No one can fool me."
"This...you're trying to force me to my death, oh dear!"
Wu Qiancai squatted on the ground dejectedly, clutching his head in extreme pain.
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