After two days of crying and making a fuss, Zhao Caifeng suddenly disappeared without a word.
The Chen family searched everywhere in the commune but couldn't find her.
"She hasn't even returned to her parents' home, where else could she go?" Wu Xiu'e said with a worried look on her face. "I hope nothing else happens!"
Chen Dingguo snorted twice and complained to Wu Xiu'e, "Shanhe and Shiyue are getting married soon, why don't you say something auspicious?"
Wu Xiu'e frowned and sighed, looking worried, but didn't say anything else.
Li Chuntian gave Jiang Shiyue another thumbs-up. "With just a few words, you've instigated a rift between Zhao Caifeng and her family, effectively cutting off her escape route."
"Don't wrongly accuse a good person." Jiang Shiyue denied it, with an innocent look on her face. "I'm just claiming the compensation according to the price. However, Zhao Caifeng's personality is not the kind of person who would commit suicide."
Chen Shanlin nodded. "She won't. Don't worry. But her sudden disappearance isn't a good thing either. Who knows what bad things she might be up to! Let's try to find her again, so she doesn't suddenly show up and cause trouble during your wedding."
Jiang Shiyue agreed with this.
Zhao Caifeng had been dominating the Chen family for over twenty years, so it was a wonder she would let it go now that she had been kicked out! Not to mention that she was petty and vindictive.
Chen Dingguo sighed softly, "There are thieves who steal for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against thieves for a thousand days. Shanhe and Shiyue are about to have their wedding, so you should all be busy with what you should do. You can look for Shanlin and Jiadong everywhere. After all, they have been daughters-in-law of our Chen family for so many years, so you have to make sure they are safe."
Chen Shanhe and Chen Shanlin agreed in unison.
Wu Xiu'e sighed deeply, her face bitter. "What sin has our family committed? Why can't things go smoothly for us? Shanhe is finally getting married, and I thought we could finally close our eyes and see our children get married. But now, look what's going on! Our youngest son is getting married, and our eldest is getting divorced!"
In the late 1970s, divorce was a particularly shameful thing.
Jiang Shiyue suddenly felt a little ironic. In the 1970s, most people did not have a marriage certificate and could live their whole lives with just a simple wedding. Unless they could achieve the level of Zhao Caifeng, they would only be widowed but not divorced.
In the surrounding area, you wouldn't hear of anyone getting divorced for eight or ten years, but if there was a couple, it would be enough for the members of the twelve production brigades and more than one hundred production teams in the entire commune to talk about it for two or three years.
The parties involved in the divorce are like being caught cheating, so embarrassed that they cannot even hold their heads up in the commune.
This is also why Zhao Caifeng always talks about divorce but never really thinks about divorce.
Decades later, young people still choose dates like "520" and "10.10" to get their marriage certificates.
The more grand the marriage marriage was, the more hasty the divorce was. Not only is divorce no longer a shameful thing, but some families even hold divorce banquets with great fanfare.
The rising divorce rate has forced the country to introduce a cooling-off period for divorces.
As a result, more and more young people are afraid of the trouble of divorce and simply do not get married.
As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison.
Chen Shanhe waved his hand in front of Jiang Shiyue's eyes, "Mom is asking you a question. Why are you daydreaming?"
"Ah?" Jiang Shiyue looked at Wu Xiu'e in confusion.
Wu Xiu'e hung her head like a child who had made a mistake. "I said, here, you need to give a betrothal gift to marry a wife, and you also need to prepare six quilts." Then she took out a bulging small cloth bag from her trouser pocket, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Jiang Shiyue. "Our family has always been managed by your eldest sister-in-law, and all the money in the family is in her hands. Your father and I can't work to earn money, so we have saved this much. It's not much, please don't despise it!"
Jiang Shiyue was a little surprised. Such a bulging cloth bag would cost at least several hundred yuan. Where did the two old people get the money?
Out of curiosity, Jiang Shiyue picked up the cloth bag and opened it, and a one-cent coin fell out first.
There was a thick stack of banknotes, the largest denomination was a two-yuan note, and there were very few of them, most of which were Mao Zedong notes and fractional coins.
Jiang Shiyue had only seen the golden penny in her previous life at a friend's house. It was a sailboat made of pennies.
Ten one-cent bills are worth one dime, and ten one-cent bills are worth one dollar.
Most of the money in this cloth bag is one cent, two cents, five cents, one cent, and two cents.
Sixty-six pieces.
It was saved by two sixty-year-old elderly people who were unable to work and had saved money for many years by living frugally.
Jiang Shiyue guessed that he had saved up money for at least ten years just to use it as a betrothal gift for Chen Shanhe to marry a wife.
Chen Shanhe's eyes were red, "Dad! Mom!"
Jiang Shiyue pushed the money back as if it were hot, "I can't take this money."
Chen Dingguo looked up at Jiang Shiyue and said, "You think it's too little? I know you city people give high bride prices. You're a very good girl, and you'll have a bright future after you get into college. It's us, Chen Shanhe, who are marrying up to you. These sixty-six pieces are a token of our love."
"I don't think it's too little." Jiang Shiyue shook her head, feeling sad.
Sixty-six yuan was definitely not enough to marry a wife even in the countryside in 1978.
However, these sixty-six yuan are more valuable than the six thousand six hundred yuan or sixty-six thousand yuan of a rich family.
Even Jiang Shiyue himself could come up with about 6,000 yuan.
Because six thousand or sixty thousand for a rich family may only be a small half of their vast fortune, but these sixty-six yuan are everything the two old people have had for more than ten years.
"But I've already received the betrothal money, there's no reason to ask for it again." Jiang Shiyue took out the five hundred yuan he had snatched from Zhao Caifeng yesterday from his pocket and put it on the table.
Everyone in the room suddenly had complicated expressions.
In particular, Chen Shanhe looked at Jiang Shiyue twice more.
Li Chuntian tutted twice, stroking his chin and asking Jiang Shiyue suspiciously, "I've discovered that you, comrade, are quite calculating despite your young age. Since you entered the yard yesterday, you've been arrogant and domineering, saying nothing you'd listen to. But in reality, every move you make is useful. You beat someone up to vent your anger, sow discord, and even took the opportunity to get the betrothal money! You're really a little fox."
Lu Zheng patted Chen Shanhe on the shoulder and said, "Brother, if you marry such a powerful wife, your life will be ruined! As a token of sympathy, I decided to give you a generous gift."
Li Chuntian hugged Jiang Shiyue's arm and snorted at Lu Zheng, "Sister, don't worry, we are not selling ourselves when we marry. Our dowry will not be small. Although we are few in number, we will not let them look down on us."
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
Chen Shanhe brushed Lu Zheng's hand away, his face clearly showing disdain. "How can you understand the joy of a fish if you are not a fish? An unmarried bachelor will never understand my happiness. Save your generous gift for marrying a wife!"
He also felt in his pocket, took out all the money he had and counted it, then borrowed more than twenty yuan from Lu Zheng to make a hundred yuan, and put it into Jiang Shiyue's hand, "Let's make a betrothal gift of six hundred yuan, a lucky number!"
Most of the five hundred yuan that Chen Caifeng earned was earned by him.
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