Chapter 36: Changes in Marriage
"No." The voice came from Uncle Ye.
The money he had hidden for so long was lost, so how could he be willing to spend so much money as a betrothal gift? Anyway, Lin Yujiao was Lin's niece, so he could just give her some betrothal gift.
"It seems that you are not sincere in wanting to marry our Yujiao." Lin Wangshi knocked the bowl in her hand onto the table, "But now you are ignoring me."
"Sister-in-law, I have three sons at home. Yun Jian's betrothal gift was only three taels. I gave Yu Jiao five taels, which was already too much. We really can't afford ten taels."
Lin quickly explained.
"Yujiao is your niece. She will definitely be loyal to you when she gets married. But the same may not be true for other daughters-in-law." Mrs. Lin Wang was clearly trying to please him.
"Besides, we won't all stay here. We will definitely let Yujiao bring it back." Lin Wangshi promised.
Lin hesitated a little: "But these ten taels are too much, we don't have them."
"Hasn't the girl from the second house been collecting pearls for you? Just let her go into the water a few more times during this period." Mrs. Lin Wang was still thinking about the fact that Ye Mingzhu did not give her face.
"Are you letting those two kids go to the third room?" She remembered that the man next to Ye Mingzhu called Lin sister-in-law.
"No," Lin felt even more bitter when she spoke of this, "Mingzhu and the others are living on their own, and now they are going pearl hunting with the third brother."
"What? You actually let that girl go to the third room. Didn't you give all the pearls she collected to the third room? Are you stupid?" Lin Wangshi stood up, wishing she could go to the third room to snatch the pearls back.
"I heard that Mingzhu takes the pearl oysters it collects home by itself." Lin forced a smile.
Many people in the village were talking behind the scenes, saying that the eldest wife of the Ye family just wanted to take advantage of Mingzhu and her brother, or that Uncle Ye was the best to them and let Mingzhu keep the pearls she had picked.
"Okay, that's other people's business, why bother with so much?" Uncle Ye suddenly spoke up with an unhappy look on his face.
"The three Yunjian brothers are all our sons. Yunjian offered three taels of silver as betrothal gift, and Yunkang is also offering three taels of silver as betrothal gift now."
Mrs. Lin Wang was about to jump up and down. The Ye family had done something wrong. The betrothal gift was not only not much, but also too little.
She narrowed her eyes and looked at Lin, with a forced smile: "Little sister, you were the ones who chose Yujiao first. If it weren't for the fact that you are Yujiao's aunt, how could we have promised our daughter to you so easily?"
Lin looked at Uncle Ye, who narrowed his eyes slightly. Lin shuddered with fear and turned around and said quickly, "We treat all three sons the same, with a betrothal gift of three taels each."
Lin Wang stood up, a sneer on her face, and threatened: "It seems that my little sister doesn't want to go back to her parents' home?"
Lin was in a very difficult situation. If she dared to agree to a betrothal gift of more than three or two taels, Uncle Ye would beat her to death. The last time Uncle Ye beat her, he did not hold back at all.
"Sister-in-law, Yujiao is my niece. I will definitely take good care of her when she marries me."
Lin Wangshi didn't believe it at all. They had said before that they would give a betrothal gift of five taels, but isn't that too little now?
"You better think carefully. Without a betrothal gift of ten taels, don't even think about marrying Yujiao."
Lin's face was filled with embarrassment, and Uncle Ye had already snorted coldly: "If you don't want to get married, don't get married. Go out and ask around in the village, how many families can offer a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver? Even three taels is rare."
Uncle Ye didn't say it out loud. Based on Ye Yujiao's figure, if the two families were not related by marriage, he might not agree to let her marry into his family.
Lin Wangshi's face was filled with embarrassment. After a while, she waved her hands and said, "Okay! Then just wait for our boss to come find you!"
Lin hurried to pull Lin Wangshi: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, don't leave."
Lin Wangshi was full of anger and did not walk fast, but Lin only shouted a few times at the door and did not chase her out. Lin Wangshi became more angry and left directly.
It was already past noon, and most people were either eating or taking a nap at home, so there were not many people on the streets.
This time, Mrs. Lin Wang came to find an opportunity to ask when the Lin family would come to formally propose marriage. Unexpectedly, she didn't even get to eat, but was filled with anger.
At this time, there was no ox cart at the entrance of the village. Lin Wangshi could not wait and strode out of Yuanshan Village.
I had just walked a short distance when I heard some young men and women flirting behind a big tree on the roadside.
"What? You haven't seen me for a few days. Do you miss me?"
Mrs. Lin Wang felt that the voice was somewhat familiar. She ignored her anger and moved closer.
"So what if you thought about it? You are going to get married." A delicate female voice made the sentence more complicated.
"Who said I'm going to get married? If you coax me well, maybe I will marry you!"
Just as Mrs. Lin Wang remembered that this seemed to be the voice of her good son-in-law, Ye Yunkang, she heard him say this.
"You, you are so shameless." Lin Wangshi was furious. She rushed forward, grabbed Lu Jingya's hair and started fighting.
Lu Jingya screamed, struggled, and cried for Ye Yunkang to help her. Ye Yunkang was frightened at first, but then he found that only Lin Wang was there, so he called her aunt and moved aside.
"Your mother lied to me that you only have Yujiao in your heart. You dare to fool around here with a woman. Don't even think about marrying my Yujiao." Lin Wangshi stepped forward and slapped Ye Yunkang again.
Ye Yunkang was a man after all, so he dodged quickly: "Aunt, we just want to talk about something."
Lin Wang snorted coldly, and the two of them hugged each other, saying it was nothing.
In the Lin family, Lin Yujiao grew up pampered. The main reason she chose Ye Yunkang was that she thought she would not be wronged if she married into her aunt's family.
Who would have thought that before Yujiao got married, Ye Yunkang dared to find another woman outside.
Lin Wang thought that the Ye family would feel guilty, so she could ask for some benefits for Yujiao. However, from Uncle Ye to Ye Yunkang, no one took this marriage seriously.
Lin Wangshi couldn't hit Ye Yunkang, so she turned around to catch Lu Jingya, but Lu Jingya had already hidden behind Ye Yunkang.
She went forward to fight again, and Ye Yunkang got angry and grabbed her arm directly: "Aunt, I've already said it's nothing, please stop it."
"Okay, okay, you are really a good son to your mother. I will go back to the Lin family now. We Yujiao don't want such a marriage." Lin Wang was so tired that she was out of breath, but she couldn't hit the two of them.
Lu Jingya smiled at Ye Yunkang from behind. She frowned, looked at both of them coldly, and walked away.
Ye Yunkang rolled his eyes. Just looking at Lin Yujiao's figure, he didn't believe that the Lin family would be willing to give up having him as their son-in-law.
Lu Jingya quickly hugged Ye Yunkang. She had no other choice but to hold on to him tightly, otherwise her life would be even more difficult in the future.
Ye Yunkang was aroused by her and pulled her directly into the village.
As the two men walked away, Jiang Hongyu flashed out from the side. He didn't expect that these two people were actually mixed up together. However, as long as the two men didn't bother him, he didn't bother to pay attention to them.
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