"If you're so generous, your parents wouldn't have been willing to marry you off so cheaply; they would have asked for an even bigger dowry," Zhang Hongxia said with a look of disdain.
The reason she initially arranged for her son to marry Zhang Lanhua was because she was cheap and didn't ask for a high dowry.
Although the bride price wasn't much, it was still given, but who knew she would marry into the family wearing tattered clothes.
She gave Zhang Lanhua a disdainful look and said, "Your parents don't like you either, otherwise why didn't they give you anything when you got married, not even a new set of clothes?"
"Ah!" Fang Yuyan looked at Zhang Lanhua in surprise.
Doesn't the family prepare a dowry for their daughter's marriage?
Zhao Chunyu said with a look of disdain, "What's so strange about that? In our city, many families sell their daughters. The groom's family doesn't give the daughter a single penny of the betrothal gifts, nor do they prepare a dowry."
She'd seen this kind of thing many times before.
When she was at home, her parents would often whisper to each other behind her back, wondering how much dowry they would get in return for raising her all these years.
Later, when she was forced to go to the countryside, he married her off to an old man in order to make money off her.
She refused to marry and voluntarily went to the countryside.
Although it's tough, it's still much freer than marrying someone you don't want to marry.
Chen Rong nodded in agreement.
Her family favored sons over daughters, and after she went to the countryside, they didn't send her anything.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have lived such a hard life. She could have done as much work as she wanted, just like Fang Yuyan, and made up for any work points she didn't have with money.
Some people are really lucky.
She cast a jealous glance at Fang Yuyan.
Zhang Lanhua felt a little embarrassed by the stares from everyone and glared at her mother-in-law.
Meeting her mother-in-law's disdainful gaze, she couldn't help but say, "That just means your son isn't any better, otherwise why would he have married me?"
She snorted coldly.
Zhang Hongxia curled her lip and cursed, "How shameless."
She turned to the only person who could make the decision and said, "Vice Captain, you have to stand up for me. What kind of daughter-in-law treats her mother-in-law like this? She must apologize to me, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to hold back and will pick up an axe and chop her up again."
She cast a sinister glance at Zhang Lanhua.
Zhang Lanhua's heart skipped a beat. Before the vice-captain could speak, she said, "I'm sorry, is that enough?"
At worst, I'll just ignore that old hag from now on.
Anyway, I'm all alone.
She pulled her two sons to her side.
Zhang Hongxia also witnessed this scene, and recalling the words Zhao Hu had just used to scold her, she felt a pang of sadness.
This is the child she's doted on since he was a child, and now she's treating him like this.
Her eyes were a little moist.
With her head down, she said, "Zhang Lanhua can't let the two children avoid me and talk badly about me behind my back."
Zhou Yan nodded, looked at Zhang Lanhua, and said, "Did you hear that? How can you let the child hide from his grandmother? Even if you've separated the family, you're still a family. Blood is thicker than water. You can't do that, and you can't talk badly about her behind her back. A family should live in harmony."
Zhang Lanhua was reluctant, but with so many people present and hearing the whispers around her, she said, "Fine, I agree!"
Anyway, she's the mother of two children. No matter how close the grandmother is, there's always a biological mother.
She wouldn't let her mother-in-law win over the two children.
After mediating between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Zhou Yan looked at Chen Rui, who was standing to the side with a nonchalant attitude, and nodded with his finger, saying, "Watch your words in the future. As a man, be more generous in your actions. Don't be like a stingy little wife, always arguing with women."
Chen Rui: ...
He's acting like a timid, submissive wife.
He didn't do it for no reason; it was clearly some people who were asking for trouble.
"You... sob sob"
Before he could finish speaking, Qian Mingjuan covered his mouth and pinched him.
He struggled desperately, but the country girl was too strong.
He could only have his mouth covered; he was so pitiful.
Qian Mingjuan quickly smiled apologetically and said, "Chen Rui is still young and doesn't know any better. I'll take him home now and teach him properly."
Zhang Lanhua scoffed and said, "Yes, he's only in his early twenties, still very young!"
Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Chen Rong gave Chen Rui a disdainful look.
Chen Rui is about to be wrongly accused and die.
He said something wrong.
He forcefully pried his sister's hand away and said angrily, "Don't think you can talk nonsense just because you're the vice captain. Point out what I said wrong."
He is justified.
He never wrongs anyone.
The crowd fell silent.
What he said was indeed true, but we live in a society that values personal relationships, so not everything can be said.
Even if that's the truth.
Seeing that no one spoke, Chen Rui immediately said smugly, "What? Speechless? Or have you become mute? You should think twice before you speak in the future, and stop talking nonsense."
He then looked at the deputy captain and added, "Now we're advocating gender equality, so why should I give way to women? I'm the only one in the right, and I can say what I want, regardless of whether it's a man or a woman. As long as I haven't broken the law, no one has the right to interfere with my freedom. Even the county magistrate has no right to interfere, let alone you..."
He shook his head.
The group looked at each other, then at the vice-captain.
Zhou Yan: ...
He scratched his head, wondering if his thinking was outdated.
But this has always been the case.
As a man, you shouldn't be as gossipy and petty as a woman.
But what Chen Rui said also makes sense; it's all in the Little Red Book.
Unable to resist the Little Red Book, he sighed and said, "Alright! I was wrong."
Chen Rui's little tail was practically wagging. He glanced smugly at Chen Rong, then looked at the vice-captain, raised his chin, and said, "It's good that you know. Don't do it again knowingly. I'll forgive you this time."
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