Chapter 269 Dowry and Betrothal Gifts 3
After the marriage was finalized, Ma Xiulian and Chen Dazhu did not stay for dinner. Instead, they went home and told their families about the dowry and betrothal gifts.
Upon hearing about such high dowry and bride price, the Chen family's sons and daughters-in-law were all shocked, especially the daughters-in-law, who felt a pang of envy.
Zhao Mei was an honest and obedient person, and apart from a little envy, she had no other thoughts.
Although Zhou Zhaodi was also a little jealous, she was able to take it in stride.
After all, she brought a bicycle as part of her dowry!
Moreover, the family of this fifth sister-in-law is really generous. I'll have to try to win her over when she marries into the family.
Eighty yuan? And cloth, cigarettes, alcohol, and candy too?
After a moment of stunned silence, Li Chunhua reacted and let out a sharp and high-pitched shout.
That's a whole eighty yuan!
She had never had so much money in her entire life!
Ma Xiulian glared at her and snapped, "What are you yelling about?!"
Li Chunhua shut her mouth in grievance, her heart filled with both bitterness and sorrow.
Her original bride price was only fifty yuan, which the Chen family thought was too expensive. Now they are giving the fifth son's wife a full thirty yuan more!
There were also cloth, cigarettes, alcohol, and candy. All told, the bride price for Old Liu's family would be at least one hundred yuan.
My in-laws are so biased!
Ma Xiulian saw through her thoughts at a glance and was speechless.
This idiot doesn't even realize that when she married into the family, she didn't bring a cotton bed with her. The clothes she wore on her wedding day were all provided by the Chen family.
The dowry from the Liu family included a bicycle and other items.
But this daughter-in-law was so stupid that she was beyond saving. Ma Xiulian was too lazy to waste her breath trying to reason with her and just let her think whatever she wanted.
So that night, lying in bed, Li Chunhua tossed and turned, unable to sleep, feeling suffocated.
She suddenly sat up in bed and shoved Chen Jianye forcefully: "Don't sleep!"
"What are you making a fuss about so late at night?!" Chen Jianye smacked his lips impatiently, even though he was already asleep.
With red eyes and a face full of grievance, Li Chunhua complained, "I'm making a fuss?! Your mother is so biased! When she's getting the fifth son married, she's asking for eighty yuan as a bride price, not even counting the cost of cloth, candy, cigarettes, alcohol, and the banquet! But when we got married, my parents wouldn't even give us fifty yuan!"
Moreover, with so much money, she could get twenty or thirty yuan when the family divided the property!
Now look what's happened, all the money went to the fifth son!
Li Chunhua grew angrier and more aggrieved the more she thought about it: "Look at our Jinbao and Xiaobao, they haven't eaten anything good at all. Your mother has spent all the money on Lao Wu and that wretched girl!"
Chen Jianye hadn't felt anything at first, but now that she said that, he felt a little uneasy.
He wasn't really stupid; he could naturally sense that his parents hadn't been paying as much attention to him as before in recent years, and they didn't seem to like his two sons as much either.
It's because he can't work as hard as his older brothers, nor can he earn as much money as his fourth and fifth brothers.
Besides, the fifth son gave his parents two hundred yuan when he came back this time, which is equivalent to the bride price he gave himself.
He wasn't shameless enough to covet his brother's wedding money, so he frowned and scolded, "Alright, you're not my place to meddle in this! Go to sleep, we have to get up early to work tomorrow."
As he spoke, he turned over and went back to sleep.
Seeing him like this, Li Chunhua felt both frustrated and upset, so she kicked his back lightly with her foot: "All you do all day is eat and sleep, you don't even think about what to do for your two sons!"
Her response was Chen Jianye's deafening snoring.
No update today, will add more tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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