novelraw Chapter 411 - 11: Should We Leave Together
Chapter 411 - 11: Should We Leave Together
Chapter 411: Chapter 11: Should We Leave Together
Old Shi Family.
Even with such a big incident happening, it didn’t stop Shi Suifeng from demanding braised pig’s feet, but after all that hassle, Zhao Xiuhua openly refused:
"Eat, eat! You’re driving me to death! Look at you, not working when you come back is one thing, but you have to meddle in other people’s affairs, and now look, got stuck with that girl from the Old Chu Family."
Shi Suifeng replied seriously, "Mom, saving people is my duty. But you’re right; I don’t think that girl is a match for me, so—"
Zhao Xiuhua suddenly became anxious: "Whether she matches or not, everyone in the village knows. If you break your promise, how will we live later?"
That girl Chu River, diligent, honest, can earn money.
She can earn two hundred yuan a year by herself, who in the village doesn’t know?
And that old hag Old Mrs. Chu, either hitting or scolding her all day, seeing the young girl at the age to talk about marriage, goes outside to ruin her reputation, saying she’s violent at home.
Bah!
Who do you think you’re fooling?
Clearly, they don’t want to marry off this money tree easily, they’d rather ruin her reputation and delay a few more years.
Drag it until she’s over twenty, and they can’t drag anymore, then find some cripple or fool to make a big sum...
For this plan, Zhao Xiuhua, putting herself in their shoes, understood it clearly!
Such a young girl, young age, honest character, and can earn money, with no one to support her.
In this village, who else is more suitable than her?
No replacements, no replacements.
If you switch to the daughter of a brigade leader, or an educated youth, it wouldn’t be easy to control Little Three.
However, realizing they’ve shot themselves in the foot, Zhao Xiuhua immediately woke up.
...
Fearing Shi Suifeng’s dissatisfaction, she dared not pretend with these words, instead making the decision final:
"It’s Little He! She’s diligent, when you’re back in the army, having a daughter-in-law at home can lighten my load."
Shi Suifeng nodded, thinking: Little He is indeed diligent, else why would she go fishing in the dead of night?
But on the surface, he looked unsatisfied as he glanced at his elder brother and second brother:
"Elder brother, second brother, it’s not that I, as your younger brother, want to say—you’re truly unfilial."
"I thought, though I’m not at home, I haven’t sent less for holidays, and I send money every month, your burden should be much lighter. At home, can’t you do more work for mom and show filial respect to her, isn’t this right?"
"But now mom has to rely on my wife to take care of her..."
He looked at his two sisters-in-law with unspeakable complexity: "Eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, you... sigh!"
Eldest and second sisters-in-law: ...very angry!
Don’t you know what your mom is like? She deserved to have spent all the money.
...
Seeing the conversation going off course, Zhao Xiuhua quickly changed the topic:
"Alright, alright, enough of that. You’re about to return to the army, we have to settle this matter before you leave, come, let’s plan together."
When talking about arrangements, it naturally involves spending money, and as soon as money was mentioned, the brothers and sisters-in-law were full of energy.
Zhao Xiuhua pondered: "Little Three. Among you three brothers, I’ve always been fair, and it’s the same for marrying a wife."
"Your eldest and second sisters-in-law have been in the family for ten years, their dowries back then were twenty pounds of dried sweet potatoes each, so for you it will also be..."
"Mom!"
Shi Suifeng interrupted her with a stern face.
"Mom, you can’t be so unfair."
"When we married the eldest and second sisters-in-law, even five yuan couldn’t buy a pound of dried sweet potatoes, what a famine it was. How important was grain!"
"To marry sisters-in-law for elder brother and second brother, mom, you sacrificed too much."
He finished speaking and looked at the two sisters-in-law: "Eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, you should be grateful to mom, don’t make her work hard and suffer."
The perpetually speechless sisters-in-law: ...
The brothers sensed something wrong and wanted to interrupt, but Shi Suifeng didn’t give them a chance.
"Mom, as a son, I can’t be selfish and use all the family’s savings to marry a wife. Let’s do this, give 888 as the bride price!"
He calculated: "I have about fourteen or fifteen hundred, bride price 888, 200 more for the banquet, and the rest for mom as her pension."
...
888?!!!
Zhao Xiuhua was almost jumping!
This is insane, even wealthy city folks don’t shell out this much for the ’three major items’, how can you, from a farming family, speak so generously?
Giving 888 to Old Mrs. Chu?!