"I'm going to be so angry when I talk about this. Let me tell you, didn't you say before that by marrying him, I would not only serve their whole family and suffer the anger of his whole family, but also have to keep having children until I give birth to a son.
I couldn't sleep at night, so I thought about what you said carefully, and I think what you said makes sense.
I didn’t want to live such a life, so I went to tell my mother, but my mother said, aren’t all women like this? She asked me to endure it, and asked me if it was someone who said something to me.
Then of course I can't betray you, I'll just tell you what I think.
She didn't believe it and asked me, what if I don't marry my brother's bride price and how I can get a wife.
I just said that I would do odd jobs for others to earn money and save little by little.
It was not easy for my parents to agree, but when Chen Jiannan heard that I didn't want to marry him, he told my parents that if I married him, he would ask his brother-in-law to arrange a job for me as a salesperson in a department store.
This makes my parents happy, they wish they could pack me up and send me to their house overnight."
Lu Qingtian looked thoughtful after listening.
"Qingtian, what do you think I should do?"
"How much does a department store salesperson's salary cost per month?" Lu Qingtian asked.
"Forty-five dollars!"
"In this way, I will give you a salary of fifty yuan a month, and you will work with me.
But don't tell your parents yet, just say that you found a better job with a higher salary than in a department store.
You save all your salary to find a wife for your brother, and beg them not to marry you to Chen Jiannan."
"But...but my mother has already received a gift of 500 yuan from Chen Jiannan's family.
If I said I didn’t want to get married, my mother would have locked me in the house and wouldn’t let me out until the wedding day.”
Lu Qingtian was also in trouble, "You are not willing to marry yet, how can your mother accept the bride price?"
"Then you have two choices now. One is to work with me, and I will pay you fifty yuan a month.
Don't go back to that home. I'll take you to the house I rented and help you rent another one.
You can leave a letter to your family saying that you are safe now and have a job to reassure them.
At the same time, no matter what, you will not marry Chen Jiannan and let them give up.
The second option is that you go home later, just pretend that I didn’t say anything, just wait at home to get married, and do whatever you want."
Jiang Lai was in a dilemma now and didn't know what to choose.
Lu Qingtian saw her hesitation and said, "Let's go and eat first. You can think about it while you eat."
The two of them came to a food stall that sold spicy soup and fried dough sticks. The business was very good.
The stall is run by a middle-aged couple. The man is smoking a cigarette and lying on the lounge chair, swaying freely, while the woman is busy taking orders and serving meals to customers.
There were three little girls next to them, they must be the daughters of the stall owners. They looked young, the oldest was probably eight years old, and the youngest was probably less than five years old.
Two of them are washing dishes and the other is wiping the table.
There was also a little boy running around the stall playing with paper airplanes.
The little girl accidentally knocked down a bowl while cleaning the table, and the crisp sound surprised the man who was smoking.
"It's worthless." The man slapped the little girl across the face.
The little boy next to me was still clapping her hands, "Sister is useless."
Jiang Lai's eyes were sore when he saw it, "It feels like this was the same at home when I was a child."
Lu Qingtian nodded, "If you marry Chen Jiannan, your daughter will repeat your life and be treated like this, and you will be like this woman."
"No, I don't want to, I don't want to live like this, and I don't want my daughter to live like this." Jiang Lai shed tears as he spoke.
"I'll go home and pack my things now, and I'll do it with you."
Jiang Lai said that he was about to run home.
Lu Qingtian quickly pulled her and said, "Come back, can you come out after you go home? Your mother will probably lock you up before you finish packing your luggage."
"Then what should I do? Wuwuwu." Jiang Lai started to cry as he spoke.
No one wanted to eat this breakfast.
"Come with me."
Lu Qingtian took her directly to find Grandma Wan.
Grandma Wan was eating pancakes in the yard. When she saw that she had brought someone back, she looked unhappy and was about to have a fit.
Lu Qingtian took the lead and said, "Grandma Wan, I want to rent a house with you again."
Grandma Wan's eyes suddenly became stern.
Lu Qingtian just told Jiang Lai's situation, it was already quite miserable without adding any extra details.
After hearing this, Grandma Wan didn’t say she believed it, nor did she say she didn’t believe it.
A pair of sharp eyes stared at the two of them, "Let her speak for herself."
Just as Jiang Lai calmed down, she started crying again, and she was crying so hard, "I don't want to marry Chen Jiannan, I don't want to serve their whole family, I don't want to have a son, I'm so scared."
Jiang Lai cried so hard that he was speechless before he finished speaking.
Grandma Wan said nothing and thought for a while.
I went back to the house, took a pen and paper and started writing on the paper.
Lu Qingtian knew that the old lady agreed.
"Thank you Grandma Wan, thank you Grandma Wan."
"You're welcome. Just like you, she paid half a year's rent at a time, sixty yuan, and she will give it to me today." The old lady said with a tigerish face.
Jiang Lai, who was crying sadly, stopped crying for a while, but hiccupped after crying for a long time, "But... hiccup, I don't have... hiccup... money, not even a penny... hiccup."
Grandma Wan's writing pen stopped and she looked at the two of them with unkind eyes.
Seeing that the old lady was about to chase her away, Lu Qingtian quickly said, "I have money, I will pay her."
Grandma Wan nodded and continued to write the contract, "Since you live here, you must abide by my rules. The door will be locked at ten o'clock in the evening, and you cannot bring anyone back to spend the night, not men or women."
The most important thing is to understand your identity. A tenant is a tenant and will never become a landlord.
Never dwell on things that don’t belong to you.”
Lu Qingtian knew that the old lady was very defensive and was afraid that others would be concerned about her house.
She quickly said, "Don't worry about it, don't worry about it. We are just small tenants, how can we dare to worry about your house."
"It's good to know." Grandma Wan said and handed over the rent receipt.
"Lailai, please read the contract first, and I'll go upstairs to get the money." She still had the three hundred yuan that Chun Yusheng secretly slipped into her before, but she hid it in the room.
"Grandma, please borrow your pen and paper. I will also write an IOU to Qingtian. I can't let her give me money in vain. I will pay her back when I make money."
"On the table, get it yourself." Grandma Wan didn't even raise her eyelids.
The old lady thought to herself, if that girl doesn't sell you, it will be Amitabha. You are still afraid of losing money, silly girl.
But this silly girl looks more pleasing to the eye than the one upstairs. The one upstairs must have eight hundred tricks.
Lu Qingtian took the money and came down and saw the IOU written by Jiang Lai.
"There's no need to write an IOU. Why don't you just follow me? I'll just treat it as an advance of your salary."
"By the way, you haven't said yet, why should I follow you?" Jiang Lai asked blankly.
Grandma Wan simply didn't notice. This silly girl didn't even know what she was going to do and just followed them.
