Tian Yuan knew that Huang Xiuzhu's family favored sons over daughters as early as when she was very young, but she never thought that the preference for sons over daughters could be so severe.
"Mrs. Xu, right? Our Huang Xiuzhu is well-behaved and hard-working. We don't mind that you are so many years older than her. It's not easy for us two to raise her when she is so old. So, if you want to marry our daughter, of course we
No objection, but we have to agree on the bride price in advance." Huang Dad took off his shoes and sat huddled on the sofa of Tian's house. While talking, he kept clasping the table with one hand and knocking on the glass.
The coffee table kept making a rattling sound, which seemed a bit harsh.
"We gave birth to our daughter and raised her, and sent her to study. She has a high degree of education in our village! Let me tell you, in Houkeng Village, there are not many girls who have graduated from junior high school! We sent our daughter to
It cost a lot of money to go to school, and you have to pay this money since you married her, so we two will not agree to the bride price without this amount."
As Dad Huang spoke, he stretched out his hands and straightened his five fingers, showing them in front of Mrs. Xu, and said, "We don't agree if it's less than 100,000."
"Uncle Huang, this bride price is a custom. Just say what you should say. There are some things you should not say." Tian Yuan saw that Huang Xiuzhu's face was not so good, so she reminded her. Fortunately, the two families were not really friends at this moment.
When we met, the Xu family was also an intellectual family in City A. If these words were heard by Mrs. Xu's family, I don't know how ugly it would be to Huang Xiuzhu.
This is basically selling my daughter, everything is calculated so clearly.
"Yes, yes~ Huang Xiuzhu's father, how should we calculate these things? Our daughter was born to us, why don't you raise her? This bride price is a bride price. How much is the bride price? It proves that your daughter is valuable.
Instead of talking about how much you spent on raising your daughter." Tian Biao quickly asked Li Shufen to go to the kitchen to get some fruit, and then with a wink, asked Li Shufen to pull Huang Xiuzhu's mother in, and explain these clearly, so that she wouldn't really do it then.
When the two families met, the Huang family also said that Huang Xiuzhu would have no status when she married into her husband's family. This was not like marrying a wife. The Huang family said that it was simply buying a wife, just like buying a servant in ancient times.
Fortunately, Mrs. Xu always held Huang Xiuzhu's hand with a smile and said nothing, and the expression on her face did not change. I don't know whether he heard what Huang's father said or not.
It’s not that Tian Yuan looked down on Huang’s father. Although Houkeng Village had a habit of asking for a high dowry when marrying off their daughters, they were in the countryside after all, and they were not particularly wealthy. People in Houkeng Village would get an auspicious number like 66666 when marrying off their daughters. This Huang
Dad must have heard about Mrs. Xu’s family conditions before he came, so he suddenly came and opened his mouth like a self-righteous lion, one hundred thousand.
But little do they know that the country people think that a large sum of one hundred thousand yuan is just a fraction of his bank deposit to Mrs. Xu, and he will not take it seriously at all.
"Dad, cousin Tian Xi is coming over to have lunch with us later." In order to avoid Huang's father saying more shocking words, Tian Yuan quickly changed the subject, paused, observed Tian Biao's expression, and added, "Xia
The merchant will come with us, he said, he wants to pay a formal visit to our family."
Tian Biao suddenly raised his eyes and glanced at his daughter opposite him, and then said a favor for a while. Tian Yuan didn't say anything until now, obviously not wanting him to have time to say no.