Chapter 187 How can I hold my head up when my niece marries into your family?

The more Mother Li thought about it, the more she felt that this was the right thing to do. However, as she was usually a person without much opinion, she hesitantly told her eldest daughter, Li Chunhua, about this idea.

Li Chunhua made the decision for her mother and sister: "That's it!"

Li Chunhua said to the matchmaker, "Cousin, I think I have to bother you again. You know this well. Our Li family didn't force Second Brother Zhan to marry into our family. But out of nowhere, someone came out to make trouble, saying that this marriage couldn't be done. I think, no matter what, if it really doesn't work out, Second Brother Zhan has to come to our house in person to explain to us."

As she spoke, Li Chunhua took out a dozen copper coins from her pocket and put them in the matchmaker's hand, "Thank you for taking this trip, cousin. This little money is for your tea."

The matchmaker held the dozen copper coins in his palm, smiled, and agreed immediately.

She also kept praising Li Chunhua: "After Dani got married, she has become more and more capable of handling things. She is worthy of being the eldest daughter-in-law."

Li Chunhua smiled in agreement.

"Then you wait, I'll go to Beimanggou to talk to Zhan Laoer." The matchmaker Lei Liefeng was very quick, he immediately left the house and went towards Beimanggou like a gust of wind.

Li Donghua felt a little depressed and didn't want to talk much, so she went into the inner room and lay on the kang to sulk.

Li Chunhua remembered that Xingxing went to Beimanggou with Mrs. Wei yesterday, so she asked Xingxing about what happened yesterday.

Xing Xing tilted her head and thought for a while, then tried her best to describe the situation at that time.

The more Li Chunhua listened, the more she felt that the neighbor surnamed Wang must be mentally ill.

At noon, Li's mother cooked several delicious dishes with the bacon and fish that Li Chunhua brought. Xingxing's eyes sparkled as she ate them. She said to Li's mother with admiration, "Mother-in-law is so amazing! Xingxing asked, why are the dishes cooked by my aunt so delicious? It turns out that I learned it from my mother-in-law!"

"Oh my, what a sweet mouth!" These words made Li's mother praise her so much that her mouth almost stretched to her ears. She picked up several chopsticks of meat for Xingxing and piled the small bowl in front of Xingxing high.

Xingxing held the bowl and ate obediently without being fed. She ate with a delicious taste and in a graceful manner.

Mother Li was so jealous: "Although I have four daughters, none of you were so well-behaved when you were four little kids!"

The little cheeks are puffing up, how can it look so cute?

Li Chunhua was also quite proud of herself, calling her "our Xingxing" all the time, which made her mother jealous.

Li Donghua finally couldn't help laughing and looked less upset.

After dinner, Li Chunhua helped Li's mother clean up the dishes, and the mother and daughter went to the kitchen to wash the dishes together.

Soon, the matchmaker's loud voice was heard outside: "Cousin! I'm here with someone!"

Mother Li quickly wiped her hands and left the kitchen with Li Chunhua.

Li Donghua was originally playing flipping rope with Xingxing on the kang, and when she heard the noise, her expression changed slightly. She first got off the kang in a huff, but before she reached the door, she hesitated again.

She quickly said to Xingxing, "Good Xingxing, don't tell anyone that I'm in the back room."

Having said that, he ran to the inner room and hid.

Xingxing was still holding the red rope in her hand. She blinked, put the rope on the small table on the kang, and sat obediently by the kang, waiting for someone outside to come in.

Soon, Li's mother, Li Chunhua, came in with her friends.

When Li's mother saw that there was no one on the kang outside, she glanced at the door of the inner room which was ajar, and she knew what was going on.

On the Zhan family's side, in addition to the second son of the Zhan family, there was also someone who looked older.

I think it should be the eldest son of the Zhan family.

Li Chunhua and her mother were not the type to take advantage of Qiao, so they asked the two of them and the matchmaker to sit down.

The second son of the Zhan family felt very embarrassed, rubbing the corner of his clothes, not knowing what to say.

The eldest son of the Zhan family was also a little panicked. He called out "Auntie" and didn't know what to say.

It was Li Chunhua who spoke first. She looked at the younger one and said, "...You are Zhan Zhicheng, right?"

Zhan Zhicheng nodded in a panic: "Yes, that's right."

"I called you here for no other reason. I just want to ask, can this agreed marriage still take place?" Li Chunhua was not one to beat around the bush, she came straight to the point and said it directly.

Zhan Zhicheng blushed and nodded: "Of course."

Li Chunhua's expression softened a little, and she asked again: "What do you mean by your neighbor?"

The eldest son of the Zhan family is called Zhan Zhide. He was also very embarrassed and shook his head: "...Auntie Wang has always been very caring towards us. Maybe she couldn't accept that the second son was going to marry into the family."

"Can't accept it?" Li Chunhua was even more puzzled. "Do you still need her to accept your family's affairs?"

Zhan Zhide smiled bitterly.

To be honest, he also felt confused.

Being a live-in son-in-law is indeed a very shameful thing.

But their family... has been in hardship for so many years. Can the difficulties brought by being a live-in son-in-law be compared to the difficulties of not having money to buy medicine for their parents?

Can it compare to... the embarrassment of his father who didn't even have a full meal before he died?

Just as Zhan Zhide was about to say something, he heard someone outside shouting, "Wait a minute - I have something to say -"

He rushed into the Li family's yard breathlessly.

The matchmaker looked out the door and his expression changed: "Why did that Wang guy come after us?!"

Before Li's mother and Li Chunhua could react, they saw a woman rushing in in a hurry.

She had obviously been jogging all the way here and was out of breath.

Zhan Zhide and Zhan Zhicheng both looked stunned.

Before Li's mother and Li Chunhua could say anything, the woman took a deep breath and immediately said to Zhan Zhide and Zhan Zhicheng, "Zhide and Zhicheng, I'm telling you, I don't agree to this marriage!"

"Why?" Zhan Zhide really didn't understand. The dark-skinned man looked confused. "...Auntie Wang, what does this have to do with you?"

Aunt Wang glared at Zhan Zhide and said, "...Aren't you afraid that you will go down to see your father in a hundred years and your father will beat you to death?"

Zhan Zhide was puzzled and asked, "My father still has two sons, Zhixin and I. It's not like we have cut off the family line. Why did he beat me to death?...No, Aunt Wang, people say that it's better to demolish a temple than to destroy a marriage. If you try to stop my second brother from getting married, I don't think we will have to wait a hundred years. I'm afraid my father will come to you in his dreams tonight."

Aunt Wang’s face turned red with anger!

"You little bastard!" she said impulsively, "Your family has a son-in-law who married into the family. How can my niece hold her head up high when she marries you?!"

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Everyone present was shocked.

Aunt Wang saw that she had said something too hastily. She could no longer care about anything else and angrily said, "...You don't know about my niece's affair with your third son, do you? Your wife ran away, and Zhicheng became someone else's son-in-law. I don't know what kind of suffering and hardship my niece will have to endure if she marries into your family!"