Chapter 100 Negotiated
After spending an afternoon with Zhang Yuanyuan,
Wang Yuanchao went home to eat, took a shower in the space, changed into a brand new white shirt and Zhongshan suit, fixed his hair, looked at himself in the mirror, and found himself handsome beyond belief.
Then he left the space, took the two sets of bragi he had just bought today, a pound of egg cake, a pound of honey three-knife, a pound of peach cake,
and took out a chicken and two pounds of pork belly from the space, went out to Wang Hua's house, called Wang Hua, and walked to Zhang Yuanyuan's house together.
When discussing the marriage, Zhang Yuanyuan could not stay there, so Widow Du drove her into the room.
"Aunt Du, hello, I am Wang Yuanchao. I came here today mainly to talk to you about my marriage with Yuanyuan.
I came here in a hurry this time. These are the cakes and clothes I bought at the black market this afternoon. They are a little shabby, please don't mind."
Widow Du looked at Wang Yuanchao's hands full of gifts and thought to herself that this was still shabby. In these days, when a man came to the house, no one was generous.
However, Widow Du actually already regarded Wang Yuanchao as her own son-in-law. Besides, if the woman agreed to the things the man brought when he visited her for the first time, she would definitely accept them, otherwise the man would misunderstand that she disagreed.
Widow Du smiled charmingly, took the things handed over by Wang Yuanchao with both hands, and said, "You are so stingy, kid. Why did you buy so many things? You will live with Yuanyuan in the future, so you have to be more frugal."
"I know, Aunt Du. My family is well off, I am also capable, and I can hunt. I promise you that if Yuanyuan follows me, I will never let her suffer and will let her live the happiest life."
Widow Du was very satisfied with Wang Yuanchao and felt that her daughter had gotten a great bargain this time.
She didn't even want to hide it, she looked at Wang Yuanchao with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Okay, I believe you are a good child, and I am very satisfied with you. I agree to your marriage with Yuanyuan. Sister Wang Hua, let's choose a good day to hold the wedding for the young couple, what do you think?"
Wang Hua was naturally happy to see this happen, so he said, "This Sunday is a good day for a wedding. Sister Du, what do you think of setting the wedding date on Sunday?"
"Okay, Yuan Chao, then you and Yuan Yuan's wedding will be on Sunday, okay?"
"Okay, Aunt Du, Sunday is great, but I don't have many relatives or friends here. We can just invite a few village officials. The main thing is you. How many tables do you think would be appropriate for us to host?"
Widow Du said to Wang Yuanchao with a complaining look on her face: "You still call me aunt now?"
Wang Yuanchao reacted immediately, patted his head, and said in a flattering manner:
"Mother-in-law, we are a family from now on, and you will be my mother from now on."
Widow Du nodded with satisfaction and said, "Our Du family is a big family in the Red Flag Brigade. Yuanyuan has four uncles and two aunts.
Yuanyuan has quite a few relatives on her father's side.
But now, the trend is to break the four olds and establish the four new things, and to hold weddings in a new way! We can’t have a grand wedding, we should “hold a frugal wedding”. We can just invite our relatives over and set up a few tables, that’s all, what do you think?”
Wang Yuanchao thought for a moment and said:
"Okay, then invite all the relatives and the cadres in the team, and set up three or five tables in my yard, how about that?"
Widow Du calculated the cost carefully, and after a while she said, "I calculated the number of people, and five tables are just right. Each table can have a bowl of fish, chicken, or duck. Pork is hard to buy without tickets, so forget about the pork. Everyone will understand."
"Okay, that's a good arrangement."
Wang Yuanchao liked his mother-in-law's smart way of living. He took out five big unity notes from his pocket, handed them to Widow Du, and said:
"Mom, this is my betrothal gift money. In addition to the bicycle I use now, I bought the other three major items of the three-wheeled and one-ring bicycle today. They are ready and placed at my home now.
I will move the things here tomorrow when there are more people, and then I will go and exchange chickens and ducks with the villagers in the next few days to prepare for the wedding on Sunday."
Widow Du took the betrothal money, put it in her pocket, and said to Wang Yuanchao seriously:
"This is not how you should live, kid.
I was thinking that when you got married, you would have a sewing machine, so you wouldn't have to find someone to do the sewing and mending work at home. There was no need for you to spend a lot of money to buy all the three-wheel and one-ring sewing machines.
You've made such a big investment to marry my daughter Yuanyuan.
The wedding banquet will be arranged by our bride, and I will have to pay for it.
You just need to wait at home for the wedding. You don't need to take care of other things."
Wang Yuanchao looked at his mother-in-law who looked serious. He knew that he couldn't refuse this. If he refused her kindness, she would think that he looked down on her family. So he nodded and said:
"Thank you for your hard work, but as for the fish, you don't have to exchange them. I fish in the Qingyu River every day.
Now there are a lot of fish in the water tank at home, so there is no need to replace it. It is enough. You can just replace it with some chickens and ducks. "
Since there was ready-made fish, Widow Du did not refuse and accepted Wang Yuanchao's kindness.
After the two sides agreed on the details of the wedding, Wang Yuanchao returned home and breathed a sigh of relief.
In his previous life, Wang Yuanchao had experienced economic pressure, unbearable marriage, cruel society, and the evil of human nature.
I know very clearly that after the reform and opening up in the future, material things will be the basis for one's survival in society. At that time, anyone's low spirits will be due to their own economic strength.
But it does not prevent Wang Yuanchao from eagerly wanting to marry a wife and live a warm and comfortable life.
Wang Yuanchao did not care about Widow Du's request for a dowry, because Wang Yuanchao's thinking and the perspectives of people of this era were different.
Wang Yuanchao's experience in his previous life made him know very clearly that people in this world are all concerned with their own interests.
In the thousands of years of history of our country, the emperors and generals of every dynasty were nothing more than the Six Dynasties, who only pursued their own private interests.
A true idealist who can persist throughout his life.
In this world, as long as the interests are in place, strangers are all friends. When the interests disappear, friends become strangers.
Therefore, Wang Yuanchao did not dislike Widow Du talking about benefits in marriage, as long as she was not greedy.
After all, the women of this era are very different from the women in Wang Yuanchao's previous life.
Women in this era have relatively feudal and conservative ideas, and most of them believe in taking their husbands as the backbone and being faithful to them throughout their lives.
In this era, productivity is backward and men are the ones who earn money to support the family and set up the household, so in this era, everyone in society favors boys over girls.
(End of this chapter)
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