Chapter 192: Forced payment of gift money
"Come on, come on, father-in-law, mother-in-law, take a seat", Da Qing's father politely invited Zhuang Yuxiu's father and mother to sit down on the chair at the front of the hall.
Wang Daqing and Zhuang Yuxiu stood in the middle of the hall, surrounded and watched by the villagers, and everyone was very happy.
"Look, we've all grown up and married daughters-in-law, it's so good!" the elders in the village looked at each other, and their faces showed a smile of relief.
"Yes, it's been a long time since we've seen a kid marry a daughter-in-law in our village, it's really lively!"
"Look at it, those boys outside are all looking into the house!" Village Chief Wang pointed to the lively people outside, and quipped, "You guys, don't look at it, go to the barn to see if there is anything you want to help and help quickly!"
"Yuxiu, are you thirsty, do you want to drink a bowl of water?" Da Qingniang carefully leaned to the new daughter-in-law's side, looking at it excitedly and happily.
I saw that the bride shook her head and did not speak.
"I'm not thirsty...... Da Qingniang didn't make any effort to the new daughter-in-law's kindness, she was a little disappointed, but then, her face was replaced with a happy smile, "It's okay if you're not thirsty, wait a while, and then drink it after worshipping the hall and entering the house!"
Everyone is now waiting for the matchmaker to count the hours, and when the auspicious time comes, they will visit the church, and after the worship, they will go to the barn to eat a banquet.
But this is what the people of Wangjia Village think, and the people of Zhuangjia Village don't think so.
"Worship the church?" Zhuang Mu, who was sitting at the front, stood up and said loudly, "What kind of hall to worship, have you received all the gifts for the guests?
As soon as she said this, the people in Wangjia Village in the house were stunned, they looked at a few people from Zhuangjia Village in the house, and they didn't know why, wasn't the gift money given when they were seated at the banquet?
Moreover, everyone is from the village, and some people don't necessarily give gift money, which doesn't seem good to say this to your face!
"Uh...... Yes, yes!" Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was not right, Village Chief Wang hurriedly spoke out to relieve it, "Then the gift money has been being collected, and it has been being collected outside!"
The person in charge of receiving the gift money has been sitting in the courtyard of Wang Daqing's house, but everyone is generally used to giving gift money before eating, and there should be few people in the gift money book at this time.
"Have you been collecting it?" Hearing this, Zhuang's mother stood up, pulled a girl beside her, and went out while looking for it, "Where is it?"
Everyone went out with the people of Zhuangjia Village, and saw Zhuang's mother walking directly to the table where the gift money was collected, and pushed away the elders of Wangjia Village who were in charge of collecting the gift money.
She picked up the book on the table and counted it, then raised her head to look at the people in the courtyard, poked her fingers at the book, and said dissatisfiedly, "It's been a day, why have only four or five given gift money?
"This ......" The people in Wangjia Village in the courtyard saw this and looked at each other, what does this mean?
"Mother-in-law, you misunderstood", Da Qing's father came awkwardly and explained to her: "Everyone in our village is used to giving gift money before eating banquets, not what you think!"
Da Qing Dad is also embarrassed, yesterday I went to the Zhuangjia Village, he was not less angry with the Zhuang, the Zhuang mother was too strong, asked more, and counted their dowries in front of everyone, calculating how much the dowry should be compensated and how much to keep, which made everyone very embarrassed.
But in order for his son to marry his daughter-in-law today, he endured it yesterday, thinking that it would be good to come back, but he didn't expect that she would start to worry about gift money again.
"Do you have to wait until you eat to give money?" Zhuang's mother raised her voice and pointed at the people in Wangjia Village and scolded, "What's the matter, all of you in Wangjia Village are hungry ghosts, and you have to wait for dinner to give money!"
Everyone in Wangjia Village didn't figure out what was going on, so they were scolded inexplicably, and they were all puzzled.
What the hell is going on!
Seeing that everyone was talking, Da Qing Dad stepped forward in a hurry, and with a pleading tone, asked Zhuang Mu to stop talking.
But Zhuang's mother didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what she was doing, she looked like a master, and said to the people of Wangjia Village outside the courtyard: "I don't care, or you will give the gift money now, and if you don't give it to Yuxiu, you won't go to the church!"
After speaking, she also pulled the little daughter next to her to sit at the table, "Shui Xiu, you just sit here and receive the gift money, don't let outsiders swallow our gift money without knowing!"
Mother Zhuang looked at the old man who was in charge of registering the gift money just now, and she meant something, which made Grandpa Wang in the village angry.
"What are you doing in a daze, why don't you come over and pay the gift money!" Zhuang Shuixiu and her mother had the same temperament, spicy and uneducated, and shouted at the people in the yard.
When the bride entered the door, Cheng Yangyang was afraid of crowding, so she didn't follow in, she kept standing outside the yard and watching, and naturally saw the behavior of the mother and daughter of the dealer.
Their behavior made her very unhappy, but when she saw that the village chief and Da Qing's father didn't say anything, she couldn't say anything, she just kept a calm face, just like everyone else.
"Deliver, deliver!" Village Chief Wang, as the head of a village, although he was unhappy with the behavior of the mother and daughter of the Zhuang family, he still had to stand up.
He took out the ten cents he had brought with him, raised a reluctant smile on his face, and said to the rest of the village: "Everyone who brought the gift money came to pay the gift money, and it will be the same now as it will be handed over later!"
"I am the village chief, this is my gift money", Village Chief Wang hesitated for a while, put the gift money on the table, reported the name, and asked the little girl from Zhuangjia Village to help write it down.
Ten pennies gift money, in these ten miles and eight villages, is not less, ten cents can buy most of the bags of rough noodles, a bag of rough noodles can almost be said to be a poor relative.
But the mother and daughter of the dealer are indeed quite dissatisfied with the ten cents, "It's just ten cents?"
"Huh?" Village Chief Wang didn't understand what they meant.
"Didn't your Wangjia Village make a fortune this year? Why don't you give ten cents for a banquet, and you call it Huazi!"
Zhuang's mother has inquired, if she hadn't heard that someone in Wangjia Village had made a big business and made a fortune, so that everyone in the village would have had good luck and become rich together, otherwise she wouldn't have let her daughter marry here!
"Yo, from Zhuangjia Village, who are you listening to, where are we getting rich, we are not a farmer!"
"I still need to hear about it, aren't all the business in your Wangjia Village done in the city? Everyone knows it!" Zhuang's mother didn't listen to Village Chief Wang's explanation, she only believed what she saw.
"From Zhuangjia Village, you misunderstood, it's not us who do business, we are still the little people who farm at home in An'an", Village Chief Wang explained to the two of them with great effort.
"It's not you who do business, but you don't get any benefits from doing business in your Wangjia Village?"