Chapter 23 The bride price is revealed
Li Hui was in the back garden, picking beans with a small basket, with a few bean leaves glued to her head, her face tensed, and the movements in her hands did not stop.
Lou Zhiming came to the backyard, stood outside the garden, looked inside and saw his mother's figure, looked at his mother standing next to the bean rack, pursed his lips, and walked over with his feet raised.
"Mom, why are you here?" Lou Zhiming came to his mother Li Hui's side, looked at the small basket on his mother's arm, and hurriedly took it. Li Hui glanced at her son Lou Zhiming and pursed her lips, "Gone?" Lou Zhiming nodded.
"What did she take again?" Li Hui asked while picking beans. Lou Zhiming glanced at his mother and sighed, "Mom, you know everything, and you still ask her what she does." Besides, isn't the sister-in-law just like that? It's been more than ten years, and I can't change it if I want to. ”
Li Hui turned her head and glared at her son Lou Zhiming, "Okay, don't say it." It's not my daughter-in-law anyway, I'll take care of her. Lou Zhiming smiled and touched his nose.
"Mom, I'm going to get married." Li Hui was stunned when she heard this, and it took a while to react. I saw that the beans that Li Hui was holding in her hand fell to the ground excitedly, turned around, and looked at her son Lou Zhiming with a smile.
"I'll just say that Li Wan's girl is good, what's the matter, now that you know that people are sincere to you? Mom still thinks that you really plan to marry Tang Jing, this time Mom can be regarded as relieved....... Li Hui said a lot of things to herself, and she didn't notice the smile in her son Lou Zhiming's eyes.
Li Hui said a little dry-mouthed, and glared at her son Lou Zhiming with a smile, "Okay, I'll go to Li Wan's house tomorrow and give you two in advance, you are not small, if the Li family agrees, it will be done this winter...... ”
Lou Zhiming was still happy before, but when he heard his mother say this, he hurriedly intercepted his mother's words. Lou Zhiming was afraid that if he didn't say anything, his mother would have to talk about the unborn child for a while.
"Mom, when did I say I was going to marry Li Wan?" Lou Zhiming looked at his mother helplessly.
Li Hui was stunned, "What?" It's not Li Wan, whose girl is that? ”
Lou Zhiming looked at his mother's expression and coughed, "Mom, how about I marry Tang Jing back to you as a daughter-in-law?" As soon as Lou Zhiming's bombshell came out, Li Hui frowned, and people were stunned.
Lou Zhiming was silent, looking at his mother's tangled expression, his heart also hung with his mother's expression.
Lou Zhiming had no father when he was three years old, and he had special respect for his mother when he was a child, knowing his mother's hardships and hardships, and also understanding what his mother had paid for himself. Therefore, Lou Zhiming is also very concerned about his mother's attitude towards Tang Jing.
"Son, what you said is true?" Li Hui asked uncertainly. After all, his own son knows and knows that his son will not joke about this, but Li Hui feels that it is very unreal. Tang Dashan's personality is a set behind the surface, and it is not ambiguous to instruct his son to work, and he has scolded his son Lou Zhiming for this matter, but his son has been taught repeatedly.
Lou Zhiming nodded. Li Hui looked at it and sighed! "Say, how much dowry did his Tang family want?" Li Hui knew that the Tang family would not be a good talker, and since she promised to marry her daughter to her own son, she would definitely open her mouth.
Lou Zhiming looked at his mother and shook his head. Li Hui was confused, saying that the Tang family didn't want a bride price, that is, they killed themselves, and they didn't believe it, they had lived in a village for more than 20 years, and they still knew some about the Tang family.
"Mom, this matter is only a few days, you can show me when I go back, how much money I still have, if it is not enough, I will be in my own hands."
Li Hui's eyes widened, "Okay, Mom has a good idea, Mom has saved all the money you have earned from working over the years, and if it's not enough when you turn around, Mom is thinking of a way." ”
"Mom, listen to me about this, you and Dad will talk about it later, as for the wedding house, I want to repair the old house, so that I can save a lot of money, and I will build a house when I have money in the future."
"Then how can I go back and tell him that his two sons are married, no matter how big or small, they are all new houses, why do I have to live in an old house when my son comes here? I will not do this. Li Hui said with a strained face.
"Mom, I'll talk about this later, I still have a little to discuss with you." Lou Zhiming looked at his mother and said.
"If you have something, what are you doing?" Li Hui glared at her son Lou Zhiming.
"Actually, there are other things in the middle of this matter between me and Tang Jing." Lou Zhiming briefly talked to his mother. Li Hui, who listened to it, was stunned for a moment, and her eyes were full of incredulity.
Li Hui stood there for a while digesting what her son Lou Zhiming said, pursed her lips, and glanced at her son Lou Zhiming, "Is this matter graspable?" Is Tang Jing really willing to do that? ”
Lou Zhiming listened to his mother's questioning words, with a stinky face, and said happily: "Mom, you don't look at who your son and I are, if she doesn't agree, I will let her really get pregnant with ......."
Li Hui stretched out her hand and pinched her son Lou Zhiming, "Don't blow it, you were born by me, I don't know how many catties and taels you have." Come on, tell me what you're going to do in the future. ”
"If you have any plans, let's talk about it then!" Lou Zhiming also sighed a little. The Lou family is broken, and everyone doesn't want to have a stop, and the Tang family is even more of a headache. However, when he thought of Tang Jing, Lou Zhiming's confidence was full again.
The mother and son talked again, and then they carried the beans back to the house to cook.
Tang Jing was lying on the kang, looking at the roof of the shed, a little absent-minded, heard the footsteps, hurriedly sat up, and saw that it was his mother, "Mom." Zhang Yun glanced at his daughter Tang Jing with an expressionless face, took off his shoes and went to the kang.
"Your father said that the Lou family wants to marry you, and the bride price is 3,000, not a single penny." After Zhang Yun sat on the kang and said this, he was outside the window, not looking at Tang Jing.
Tang Jing was startled when she heard the amount of the bride price, and smiled sarcastically in her heart, and suddenly felt that her value had increased again. I remember that in my last life, when I married Gao Hongsheng, my father asked the Gao family for a bride price of 2,000 yuan, but this time the Lou family asked for 3,000 yuan.
"Mom, you don't know the situation of his family, or you can't make up enough if you don't eat or drink? Besides, do you think the bride price of the married girl wants these bride price? Didn't my sister-in-law just ask for more than a thousand? Tang Jing looked at her mother's side face and said.
When Zhang Yun heard this, he turned his face around, stretched out his hand and poked Tang Jing's forehead, with a look of hatred that iron is not steel.
"I don't count other people's daughters, the Lou family wants to marry you, this is the minimum requirement."
When Tang Jing heard this, she smiled, "Mom, are you marrying a girl?" Or sell your daughter? Or are you waiting for my bride price money to give my eldest brother a daughter-in-law? ”
Zhang Yun was stunned when he heard this, and it took a while before he reacted and sighed! "What are you talking about, kid? Are mom and dad like that? Isn't it still for you? In a family like the Lou family, it's not my mother who says, what do you want, your father and I don't want much dowry, I see what life you expect in the future, and ....... ”
Tang Jing smiled, tears of laughter were about to flow out, listening to her mother's words, she knew that her parents were thinking about themselves like this, why didn't she see it?
"Mom, what if the Lou family doesn't have those bride price money?" Tang Jing asked tentatively.
The mother's eyes widened, "Don't marry without you, take the child away, his Lou family doesn't even have a daughter-in-law's gift money, can I still give a daughter to his family for nothing......?" ”
Tang Jing was angry when she heard this, and squinted at her mother, "Mom, how much did my grandmother ask for a bride price when she married my grandfather?" Tang Jing said this on purpose, isn't her mother unwilling to let others mention it? , Tang Jing had to mention that .......
As soon as Zhang Yun heard the fire, he stretched out his hand and hit Tang Jing's face, Tang Jing hurriedly dodged it, and before Tang Jing could sit firmly, Zhang Yun threw himself at Tang Jing like crazy. Tang Jing looked at it and hurriedly shouted, "Milk, help...... ”
Li Guizhi heard Tang Jing's shouting and hurriedly ran barefoot to the West House.
"What is this for?"
As soon as Tang Jing saw her grandmother Li Guizhi, she hurriedly jumped off the ground and ran behind her grandmother Li Guizhi while her mother was stunned.
"What is this for? Do you still look like a mother? Grandma shouted at her mother.
"Mom, don't worry about it, you don't know, this girl's guts are getting fatter and fatter, if I don't clean her up today, I won't be her mother." Zhang Yun looked at his mother-in-law Li Guizhi with an angry expression, and said with hatred.