Before the commotion broke out here, someone went to look for Luo Fuli and his wife. Because Luo Fuli was the team leader and was always the last to leave after work, the person who went to look for him saw him in the field and just dragged him over here.
When Luo Fuli and Aunt Du arrived, they saw Second Aunt Luo rushing over to beat Luo Xiangli. Just as they were about to go over to separate the fight, Luo Xiuyan grabbed them and whispered a few words to them. After they figured out what was going on, they looked at each other and suddenly felt a headache!
Luo Fuli knew that women always take the lead in such matters, and how to solve the problem still depended on the head of the family. He glanced at the men in work clothes standing there, asked Aunt Du to go over and separate them, and walked straight to the middle-aged man.
No one knew what the two people said, and finally the four members of the Luo family, the Zhang couple, and the two parties involved entered the house together. After Luo Daqiang, Luo Dazhuang, and Luo Daniu discussed it, they came over politely to drive them away.
"Grandpas and aunts, uncles and aunts, you still have to go to work in the afternoon. Don't let our family affairs delay our lunch break. Everyone go back first." Luo Daqiang stood in the yard and said to the crowd of onlookers. If people came to see the excitement in his family, he had to persuade them to leave in a nice tone, otherwise they would spread the matter in an even more unpleasant way.
Seeing that her two brothers had gone over, Luo Xiuyan said something to Tian Cai and went to the kitchen to pour water for the people who came with the Zhang couple. Regardless of anything else, the Luo family at least had proper etiquette.
Besides, she had figured out the matter clearly. Maybe both families were victims, and the cousin had taken advantage of them all.
Although Second Aunt Luo was not a very good person and was usually picky and competitive, no one really had any deep hatred against her. Besides, the one who came to chase people away was Luo Fuli's eldest son. Luo Fuli had always been popular in the village, so everyone was willing to give his family this face, and they dispersed in groups of three or four to go home.
Tian Cai nodded to Luo Daqiang and left.
After the matter fermented for a whole afternoon, everyone in the village knew about it. In the afternoon, all the Luo family members, young and old, took leave and did not come to work. The people working in the fields discussed it unscrupulously.
"Luo Lao Er seems to be quite honest, but I didn't expect he is also a girl-seller!"
"I see this guy, he didn't sell his daughter because the price offered wasn't high enough. Zhou Lao Er, if someone wanted to marry your daughter and offered 500, would you marry her?"
Zhou Lao Er bared his big yellow teeth and smiled with narrowed eyes, "Don't even mention asking for 500, I'll marry you even if it's 200!"
"I just don't know what Luo Laoer is going to do. From what I hear, his family only took 300 out of the 500, and I'm afraid the remaining 200 was swallowed up by someone else. I don't know what they're going to do next."
"If Luo Juan really doesn't want to marry me, not only will the five hundred have to be returned, but I guess his family will have to pay for the big items too."
"Yes, this time Luo Laoer's family lost a lot of money!"
"If she had just found a good young man from the village to marry, there wouldn't be so much trouble. But she's just greedy. Who knows what his family will do with this girl in the future? I think Luo Fuli wants to chop off his second son's wife. Doesn't this also affect Xiuyan's reputation?"
"Tsk tsk, as the old saying goes, marry a virtuous wife, and a virtuous wife will bring less trouble to her husband!"
Luo Fuli didn't have time to care what other people said. He had confirmed again and again that his niece just didn't want to get married, so their Luo family had to pay back the 500 yuan betrothal gift.
This result is already the best. Seeing that Luo Fuli was efficient in both his words and actions, the man's father Zhang Yongqiang did not waste any words and readily put forward two solutions.
The first is that Luo Juan will go with them and become the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family in the future. She must bear children for the Zhang family without any objection.
The second is that Luo Juan can come back, but the Luo family must return the 500 yuan betrothal money. As for the betrothal gifts, the bicycle has been ridden and his family definitely doesn't want it. Luo Laoer has to compensate according to the price, and they can take the remaining three items away.
When Aunt Luo heard this, she sat down on the ground and burst into tears. The money in her pocket had not even warmed up yet and she had to return it. What's more, she would have to pay so much back. She felt heartbroken when she heard that all the money was gone.
"Oh my God, this is so unfair! My innocent daughter has been slept with by someone else, and he still asks me for a betrothal gift. He simply doesn't give me a way to live. He wants me to die."
"Pa!" Luo Xiangli could no longer bear it and slapped him in the face with all his strength.
The world is quiet.
"Well," Luo Fuli was very disappointed with his younger brother. He had already known how to beat his wife, but he had been controlled by a woman at home and outside for so many years. If he were to say, his sister-in-law deserved to be punished.
Dai Fanghong glanced at Aunt Luo lying on the ground with contempt. This woman was so shameful that she even felt ashamed to be her son's mother-in-law. What a piece of shit.
Luo Juan glanced at her mother who was lying on the ground and the elders sitting in the main room. She didn't dare to say a word or go over to help.
Luo Xiangli found the box where Aunt Luo kept her money, snatched the key from her, took out all the money in the box and counted it, then he was dumbfounded.
There were only twenty-one Great Unity notes in the box. Counting all the Mao and Fen notes, there were only a little over two hundred and thirty. Where did the rest of the money go?
Luo Xiangli looked at Second Aunt Luo, only to see her eyes evade him. He was also driven to rage by what happened today. He went over and pulled Second Aunt Luo's hair and asked, "Where's the rest of the money?"
Aunt Luo's hair was pulled, and she grimaced in pain, but didn't say a word.
"Pa!" Luo Xiangli was furious and slapped him again. "I'm asking you, where the hell did all the money go?"
You have to know that the money in this woman's hands is not only the betrothal gift from Luo Juan, but also the money their family has saved over the years. Although most of it was spent on the eldest son's marriage in the past few years, the money saved in the past few years must be dozens of dollars. Where did it go now?
When Second Aunt Luo didn't say anything, he slapped her again and again. When he got tired of slapping her, he switched to punching. In the end, Second Aunt Luo was beaten so badly that her face was bruised and swollen. Even Luo Fuli couldn't stand it anymore.
"Alright, Second Brother, if she refuses to speak, it's useless even if you beat her to death," Luo Fuli turned to Zhang Yongqiang and said earnestly, "Brother, can you give me a few days? You know the middleman has two hundred dollars left, and my family must get it back. Five days, we'll personally deliver the money to you in five days, okay?"
Zhang Yongqiang looked at Dai Fanghong. This was different from what they had discussed before.
Seeing Dai Fanghong nod, Zhang Yongqiang said, "I do have a way to make you pay less, but I don't know if your family is willing. Of course, I'm not saying that Luo Juan should marry into my family."
Since Luo Juan wasn't going to marry him, Luo Fuli was willing to listen. "Brother, you tell me."
"Luo Juan is already four months pregnant. If she's willing to give birth to the baby, I'll agree to ask for two hundred less." Dai Fanghong said this and saw the shocked expressions of Luo Lao Da and his wife.
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