That night, the old lady waited for Li Dubao, who came back from work with a cold face, "You hurry up and eat, come to the house after eating, and I'll tell you something." ”

As soon as Li Dubao heard it, he knew that it must be his marriage to Yaping, and the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't be suppressed, "I'm not too hungry yet, mother, why don't we go back to the house first." ”

The old lady had anticipated her son's attitude and snorted, anyway, only he knows whether he is hungry or not, and if he is willing to be hungry, he will be hungry.

So after entering the house, the old lady learned from him about the bride price that the matchmaker came to talk about the bride price during the day.

Li Dubao was startled when he heard this, it wasn't pretending, it was really frightened, "Two hundred, isn't it eighty?"

Xiaoping let herself say that the bride price last time was eighty, why did it take two months, and when she found an outsider to come over, the bride price was doubled.

"What are you talking about?

"Oh, no, nothing. Li Dubao came back to his senses, he was not really stupid, he knew that he couldn't tell the old lady about it, and now the old lady was very unhappy about her object, if the old lady knew that the object was sitting on the ground and raising the price, the old lady would definitely not agree to Xiaoping entering the door.

"Then what do you think?" the old lady glanced at him suspiciously, and did not ask any questions, but still picked up the bride price and discussed it with her son.

"Yes, a little bit. "Li Dubao is not completely unaware of the market price, even if the rural wedding bride price is thirty or fifty, the bride price in the county is more expensive than in the countryside, but it is generally fifty or eighty, one hundred is considered a high price, and now the Zhou family wants two hundred, this is really a lion's mouth.

"Well, it's really a lot, there is no one near us who wants so much bride price for a daughter-in-law, but your object is from the county, and the gold is expensive, I know, so if she wants so much bride price, there is no other request, my mother just gritted her teeth and admitted it. But in addition to the bride price, their family also needs bicycles, what do you say?" the old lady didn't say anything else, and threw this problem to her son.

Li Dubao doesn't know what to do, his pocket is cleaner than his face, whether it is working or being a soldier, he always gives the money to his wife for safekeeping.

"Mother, what do you say?" If you don't have money, you don't have the right to speak, this question didn't stay in Li Dubao's place for thirty seconds, and he was immediately thrown back to the old lady.

The old lady drooped her eyelids, and now she was very unhappy with this son, "I guess you should know how much money our family has." Your father and I have been working hard all our lives to save that little money, and your father will spend almost the same amount when he is sick, and I have taken your sister alone in the past few years, and I haven't saved anything, so what I have in my hand now is the allowance you sent home from the army in the first two years, and the salary you have worked for this year, which adds up to almost 400 yuan.

However, in the past few years, our family's expenses have not been small, in the past few years, the harvest in the team was not good, and the food was not enough to eat, and the allowance you sent back was basically used to buy food. Later, you went home to do some work and used some of it, and now I have a real account with you, and I have a total of 250 yuan in my hand. In addition to giving the Zhou family bride price, you also have to set aside at least 50 yuan for the wedding, so you can't invite any relatives and friends when you get married.

So if you calculate it this way, it is to hollow out our family's foundation, and the bride price that can be given to the Zhou family will add up to 200 yuan. According to what the Zhou family mentioned, if we give a bride price, we have no money to buy a bicycle, and if we buy a bicycle, we have no money to give a bride price. The old lady put everything on the bright side and let her son choose for himself.

Li Dubao heard that the old lady had saved 250 yuan in her hand, and she felt that it was already a lot, but thinking about the bride price that the Zhou family wanted, he was really a little worried.

"This is the case, I definitely can't agree to the bride price and bicycle requested by the old Zhou family, because I don't have so much money, so I can only give the same for these two things. According to what I mean, I don't give the Zhou family a dowry, let's buy a bicycle directly, so that the two of you can use it when you go to and from work in the future, and it's not a waste, what do you think?"

Li Dubao listened carefully, and in the end, the old lady asked his opinion, and he nodded vigorously, "I see it's okay, I'll see it's okay." ”

"It's good that you agree, then you have time to discuss with your partner, and our family really tried their best. ”

The mother and son of the Li family are discussing the bride price here, and the Zhou family in the county town is also talking about the same thing at this time, but it is much more intense than the Li family.

"What does Li Dubao's family mean? Don't you want to get married like this? They dare to cut off half of the bride price money that our family wants, this is because our old Zhou family doesn't know how to count, right? Father Zhou drank a little wine in the evening, remembered his daughter's marriage, and began to play at the dinner table.

"But no, I see that Li Dubao's family is not well-intentioned, marrying a daughter-in-law is still a vegetable market to buy vegetables, and she can still bargain, hmph, I said that when Mrs. Wang is here today, we should directly let her ask again, do you want Li Dubao to be good, if you don't agree, the big deal will be broken, I asked my daughter to go to the police station to sue her son." "Mother Zhou is also a spicy bastard, and if she doesn't persuade at this time, she will add fuel to the fire.

At dinner tonight, Mrs. Wang came to the house and learned what she said to the old lady at Li Dubao's house. Her purpose is to emphasize the man's non-cooperation, highlighting the difficulty of this marriage, if it can be done in the future, she, the matchmaker, can also get a little more hard money, if not, it is understandable, is the man's family too difficult.

Who knew that she was happy, but she was full of anger when she said the two members of the Zhou family.

"Mom, my dad drank too much, why are you still messing around. Zhou Yaping was a little unhappy.

"You dead child, why do you want me to make a fuss? I'm not doing this for you, you have no conscience, and you haven't married yet, so your heart will run away to the Li family, right? Zhou's mother glared and began to scold her daughter.

"What are you doing for me, let me sue Li Dubao at every turn, you don't want to think about it, if I go to the Public Security Bureau, Li Dubao can't please me, then I can please me. Are you doing this for me or for me?" Zhou Yaping was also angry, and she was under a lot of pressure these days.

In the first two months, I finally found a decent object, but when I wanted to talk about marriage, I went on a business trip again, if she hadn't had the means, she might have become an old girl that no one wanted now.

As a result, now that the object is back, it is his father and mother who threaten to sue him with his mouth closed, isn't this revealing her scars in disguise.

You must know that at this time, it is a big deal to get pregnant unmarried, and if you are caught, the man is a hooligan, and the woman is a broken shoe, and no one is better than anyone. When something like this happens to someone else's daughter, the family is eager to hide it for fear that people will know, her family is good, and her father and mother keep it on their lips every day, I'm afraid others don't know.

"Won't I just talk about it, threaten and threaten that kid, why do I ask for so many dowries from others, don't you take advantage of the fact that you have the handle of his family in your hands now, and make more money in your own hands, and you will really get married in the future, and it will be too late to think about anything." Mother Zhou stretched out her index finger and pushed her daughter's forehead fiercely, looking like she hated iron but not steel.

"Alright, alright, you don't have to worry about my business. ”