In order to show his attention to Zhang Xueru's arrival, Hao Desheng deliberately turned around and locked the door after sending the guests away.

This means telling outsiders:

I have an important guest here, and now, you are the king of heaven, and I won't open the door!

"Master Zhang, is there anything you need my help with?"

After locking the door, Hao Desheng poured a cup of tea for Zhang Xueru first, then returned to the desk and sat down, picked up his teacup and took two sips.

"Director Hao, I'm really sorry, every time I have something, I always come to bother you."

After Zhang Xueru bowed down and took the teacup, he held it in his hand gratefully, looked at Hao Desheng with two eyes and said:

"In the morning, after you and Mengdu's mother left, I discussed with my wife for a long time, but I couldn't get an idea, and I didn't know what dowry to buy for Liping. I have no choice but to trouble you again and ask you for advice again. ”

"Oh, I don't dare to ask. Zhang Shifu, do you and your sister-in-law have any basic considerations? ”

Hao Desheng asked with a smile.

"Not yet."

Zhang Xueru shook his head and said:

"We calculated that if we only bought bedding and household appliances as a dowry, it wouldn't cost much! Liping's marriage is a lifelong event, and we dare not be sloppy. What's more, Liping is married to Mayor Wang's family again, so she doesn't dare to be sloppy! ”

"Well, that's what Master Zhang said! If you only buy household appliances and bedding, it really won't cost a lot of money. But now that you've come to ask for my opinion, I'm short on time, and I'm really going to have to think about it! ”

Hao Desheng held the teacup in his hand and groaned without answering immediately.

After pondering for a while, Hao Desheng asked tentatively:

"Master Zhang, I'm sorry, I want to ask, how much dowry do you plan to give Liping?"

"I think, send about 150,000, right? Director Hao, you see, can you get a dowry of 150,000 yuan to Liping? ”

Zhang Xueru asked with some apprehension.

"Ouch, you're going to send so much?"

Hao Desheng looked at Zhang Xueru with some surprise.

"150,000, I don't dare to say much. I'm worried, if we give Liping 150,000 yuan as a dowry, it won't be too little, right? ”

Zhang Xueru looked at Hao Desheng's expression, and he couldn't tell what he meant, so he was a little drumming in his heart.

"It's not a lot of it, it's too much! Do you know, Mayor Wang and Mengdu's mother are both good leaders and good wives who care about the masses! They know that your family's current economic conditions are not well-off, so, in their hearts, they don't want your family to spend too much money! ”

Hao Desheng told Zhang Xueru the truth.

"Yes, yes, my old Zhang Zhen doesn't know which life has cultivated the blessings to climb into the in-laws with such a good leading cadre family; Also, I met you, a noble person! Director Hao, no matter what the big and small things in my family, you have thought about it for us and done it well. In the future, our whole family will not know how to repay you! ”

"Master Zhang, I see you are talking outside again. The little thing I did is not worth mentioning! Now, let's discuss Liping's dowry, shall we? ”

Hao Desheng hurriedly waved his hand to Zhang Xueru, meaning not to let him express his gratitude to him.

"The dowry of 150,000 yuan, according to it, is not a small number for a family that gets a salary!"

Hao Desheng muttered to himself the number "150,000", while frowning and continuing to think about Liping's dowry.

Seeing Hao Desheng's face showing a certain embarrassed expression, Zhang Xueru became more aware of the importance of getting a dowry for Liping!

You see, even Director Hao, who is highly appreciated and praised by Mayor Wang, feels embarrassed on the issue of giving a dowry; You said that as Mayor Wang's in-laws, can we be careless?

In the past, when the eldest daughter got married, how could she worry about getting married?

I remember that when my eldest daughter Jianping got married, the family only bought four quilts, two sets of sheets, and two pairs of pillows for her.

Now, that's a big difference!

The first is that times are very different now:

When today's girls get married, they are very particular about the dowry!

If a daughter of any family marries, the dowry given by her mother's family is too shabby, and the daughter will have no status after marrying into her in-law's family, and she will be looked down upon by others, and she will be despised and bullied in her married life!

And secondly?

No, I can't say secondly, I must say that the more important thing is that Liping is now married to the son of the mayor of the provincial city!

What kind of family is Mayor Wang?

That's a high-level family!

Liping married into a high-ranking family, if she made a mistake in the dowry, she would definitely regret it for the rest of her life!

"Director Hao, why don't we just buy a car as a dowry, do you think it's appropriate?"

When Zhang Xueru was thinking about his thoughts, somehow, he suddenly remembered a colleague in the Urban Construction Bureau, when he held a wedding for his son last month, the woman gave a BJ-made South Korean Hyundai brand "Solata" car as a dowry.

At that time, Zhang Xueru inquired that the "Solata" car was only about 120,000 yuan, and the price was not very expensive.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xueru's head moved, and he said it to himself.

"Buying a car? Well, you make me think about it. Buying a car for Mengdu, and it's a 'Sonata' car, doesn't that seem appropriate? ”

After Hao Desheng heard Zhang Xueru say the idea of buying a car as a dowry, he thought seriously for a while and slowly shook his head.

He stood up from behind his desk, walked slowly to Zhang Xueru and asked:

"According to you, you're going to buy a 'Sonata' car for the groom?"

"Yes. Last month, the son of a colleague in our unit got married, and the dowry given by the woman was a 'Hyundai' brand 'Solata' car, and I heard that it only cost 120,000! ”

Zhang Xueru gave a brief introduction to Hao Desheng about the marriage of his colleague's son when he got married.

"Master Zhang, you don't really want to buy a 'Sonata' for Mengdu, do you? If you think about it, Mengdu is now driving an 'Ao' A6, which is a car of more than 300,000 yuan! If you buy him a 'Sonata' now, the price is only more than 120,000, will you use it in your dreams? I guess he won't use it! ”

Hao Desheng shook his head in conviction, continued to pace a few steps around the room, and continued:

"What's more important is not the question of whether you need 'Sonata' in your dreams, but what kind of social impact you may have on Mayor Wang after you buy 'Sonata' as a dowry!

Master Zhang, you know, now in our country, no matter what it is, as long as someone enlarges it for you, sesame seeds can be said to be watermelons; Thatched houses can be blown into high-rise buildings! Think about it, if you buy a car for Mengdu as a dowry, once this matter spreads, let people with ulterior motives exaggerate it, and they will say that the 'Sonata' you gave you is a "BMW", or a "Mercedes-Benz", or a famous car such as "Bao Shijie". At that time, we will have a hundred mouths, a thousand mouths, and we will not be able to tell!

Recently, I don't know if you have heard that in AH Ma'anshan, there is a news that a mother-in-law sent a Bentley to her son-in-law. ”

"I heard that! It was an explosive news that once caused a sensation on the national Internet and netizens! ”

Zhang Xueru nodded and replied.

Speaking of the news in Ma'anshan, Zhang Xueru clearly remembers that not long ago, when he saw the report on the Internet, three or four colleagues in their office also gathered around for a long time to comment and express all kinds of comments and feelings!

ACCORDING TO ONLINE REPORTS, NOT LONG AGO, A HIGH-END WEDDING BANQUET WAS HELD IN A VERY GRAND HOTEL IN AHMAS CITY. The price of the wedding banquet alone is 5,888 yuan per table! That alone stunned all the guests who went to the wedding!

According to the report, the groom and bride are both locals, and after more than a year of dating, the two lovers, who were born in 1988, finally tied the knot.

Before getting married, the groom knew that his girlfriend's father was a miner, and the family was very rich;

As for the groom's parents, both of whom work in private enterprises, they are ordinary wage earners.

In terms of economic conditions, the two are absolutely not a good match!

However, fortunately, the groom has one of the most prominent advantages in the eyes of the bride, and it is incomparable to ordinary men, that is, the groom is handsome and dignified.

On the festive occasion of the wedding banquet, the parents of both sides thanked the guests on the stage and wished everyone a good meal and drink, and the host specially asked the bride's mother, that is, the groom's mother-in-law, to stay on the stage for a while, and asked the mother-in-law to "continue a show".

So, the mother-in-law once again extended her blessing to her daughter and son-in-law's daughter, "mutual respect and love, live in harmony, and grow old together", and then took out a beautiful key and sent it to her son-in-law and said:

"Son, I heard from my daughter that you are very fond of cars. Everyone says that parents are wholeheartedly thinking about their children! Today, I married my daughter to you, and I see that you have always been good to my daughter, so I discussed with your father-in-law, and today, the dowry we give to my daughter is the gift you like! ””

Without waiting for the mother-in-law to finish speaking, the host strode up to the mother-in-law, took the exquisite key from her hand, held it high above her head, and announced on the spot:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the key to a luxury car, and it is the key to a 'Bentley' brand Continental car! I have long heard that 'the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at it, the happier she becomes', and today it seems that this is not bad at all! ”

After the host announced loudly, he immediately won the "wow" sound of the audience.

Because among the guests present, there are many people, including the groom, everyone knows that a Bentley car is worth at least 4 million yuan!

When receiving the keys to the car, the little couple was so excited that they both burst into tears.

The groom cried even harder!

According to reports, the groom's official suddenly knelt down on the stage with a "porphy" and assured his mother-in-law, "I will not disappoint the bride for the rest of my life; Be filial to both parents for the rest of your life"!

As a result, the mother-in-law was moved to tears, and said to the groom:

"Good son, get up quickly."

After this news was reported on the Internet, it triggered countless people's sighs!

So some people said, "It doesn't matter if you don't fight hard, the 'local tyrant' mother-in-law can also change her life."

It was also said:

"In the future, if you can't fight your father, you will do everything possible to fight your mother-in-law!"

More interesting is yet to come!

It is said that at that wedding banquet, after three rounds of drinking, a man in his early 30s among the guests launched a drunken mania on the spot!

When the bride and groom went to his table to toast, he put his arms around the bridegroom and kept praising him for his good fortune and his mother-in-law's pride and generosity; Then, he began to tell about the poverty of his family, constantly complained about his ** silk history, and kept complaining about the failure of blind dates many times, and the main reason for the failure of blind dates was that there was no independent marriage room, personal income was not high, and he was not even qualified to fight for his mother-in-law.

As he spoke, the man suddenly stood up and pointed at his parents at the same table and shouted:

"Not a million! What are you doing with me! Aren't you hurting me? ”

The man's angry rebuke made the father speechless; The mother wept silently beside her.

Seeing that the situation was not good, relatives and friends quickly pulled the man out of the hall to sober up.

"Director Hao, didn't someone say later that it was fake news?"

After Zhang Xueru briefly recalled the story of "Mother-in-law Sending Bentley", he suddenly remembered that Hao Desheng was still discussing his daughter's dowry with him, so he quickly raised his head and talked to Hao Desheng.

"Oh, that kind of news, maybe it's true, maybe it's fake. Anyway, whether it's true or not, the social impact of this news should not be underestimated! Think about it,"

Hao Desheng pointed to Zhang Xueru's mobile phone on the coffee table and said:

"Nowadays, modern information equipment such as mobile phones, iPads, networks, and televisions, as well as modern information systems, are highly developed. In the city, let alone adults, even many elementary school students have mobile phones! As for the countrymen, basically every household has a mobile phone and a TV set.

You say, if you send a car to Mengdu as a dowry, in case some people with ulterior motives know about it, they will give you a 'sesame seeds into watermelon', say that you sent a 'Bentley' to Mengdu, and then send a message on the Internet, won't it be uploaded all over the world?

At that time, what kind of impact and consequences will it have on Mayor Wang?!

That day, when Mayor Wang had dinner with you and his sister-in-law at the Zhangjiang Hotel, he mentioned that the village official in the suburbs of BJ was dismissed from his post because of a big wedding banquet, and he reported it through the Internet! ”

"Oh, yes, yes! Director Hao, hearing you say this, I understand it completely! Director Hao is still politically minded! Luckily, I'm here to ask you today. If I take the initiative to buy a car as a dowry, I may get into trouble! ”

Zhang Xueru nodded convincingly, and then asked:

"Director Hao, then according to your consideration, what should we give the child to dowry?"

"In my opinion——? Otherwise, now young people like imported foreign goods, I suggest you buy an Apple brand iphone6 mobile phone for Mengdu and Liping, each priced at more than 6,000 yuan; If you buy an iPad for each of them, the unit price is about 5,000.

Of course, the colors of mobile phones and iPads must be separated, and they must be bought according to the gender of men and women. Men buy white, women buy pink. It cost more than 20,000 yuan;

Also, if you buy each of them another Swiss watch, be sure to buy a mechanical watch. Now the high-end Swiss mechanical watch, one piece is about 15,000, and two pieces are more than 30,000!

The above items add up to a total of more than 60,000.

Then, you buy them another set of household appliances:

For example, an imported 64-inch color TV, the unit price is about 10,000;

An imported drum washing machine, with drying function, the unit price is also about 10,000;

Buy another imported refrigerator, the unit price is about 10,000;

Buy another imported disinfection cabinet at a unit price of about 5,000;

Also, you can also buy a set of indoor fitness equipment, with a unit price of about 8,000.

How much does it add up?

10,000, 20,000, 30,000, 44,000, the amount of all the above dowries is added up, and there are almost forty-five thousand!

Forty-five thousand plus the previous sixty thousand, isn't it one hundred and five thousand?

Then, buy about 20,000 duvets, cashmere blankets, bed sheets, quilt covers and other bedding for the couple, won't it cost 120,000 or 30,000?

In my opinion, 120,000 or 30,000 yuan is enough for you to give your children!

Your in-laws, that is, Mayor Wang and Mengdu's mother, have told me many times before this, I hope that when the child gets married, your dowry, as long as the meaning is there, don't spend too much money!

Because they know that your family doesn't have enough money right now, so don't put too much pressure on yourself.

Master Zhang, do you think this will work? ”

After Hao Desheng finished speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Zhang Xueru and walked towards the chair in front of his desk.

"Well, that's a good arrangement! Director Hao, you are really thoughtful and thoughtful, which makes people have to admire! It's just that I have a concern, according to your calculation just now, Liping's dowry will only cost 120,000 or 30,000 yuan in total, will this be too little? ”

Zhang Xueru is still worried about the face and status of the bride after her daughter marries into the Wang family.

"Twelve or thirty thousand is not less! In my opinion, 120,000 or 30,000 is not only a lot, but also very face-saving!

Master Zhang, you must understand what Mayor Wang and Mengdu's mother mean. They don't want their children to be a burden on your family when they get married, so they don't want you to give too much dowry. It can be said that they are also well-intentioned in the matter of marriage! ”

Hao Desheng said to Zhang Xueru with great emotion:

"I'll tell you the truth, Mayor Wang and his family are really rare good leaders and good ladies! In particular, Mayor Wang has always been sympathetic to the people, and he is always worried that the people will not live a good life. Besides, you are his own family! Master Zhang, I'll just make it clear to you, this morning, why did Mengdu's mother only send you a dowry of 80,000 yuan? Can't she take out 200,000, 300,000? No! To put it bluntly, Mengdu's mother is worried that if she gives you more dowry, you will give more dowry! Wouldn't that add a burden to you? You say, where can you find such an in-law in the world? ”

"Yes, yes. My in-laws and mother-in-law are indeed the best good people in the world! ”

Zhang Xueru nodded frequently with great emotion, and said after a while:

"Liping can find Mengdu as a son-in-law, it is really a blessing that our Zhang family has cultivated for several lifetimes! Of course, this is all thanks to Director Hao's great help! Our whole family will never forget Director Hao's great kindness and virtue for the rest of our lives! ”

"Look at you, Master Zhang, how many times have I told you, doing things for you and Mayor Wang's family is actually my blessing and our fate! In the future, please don't say thank you to me......"

As he spoke, there was a knock on the door.

Hao Desheng got up and asked Zhang Xueru:

"Master Zhang, if you see Liping's dowry, just follow my suggestion just now, is it okay?"

"Yes, yes, your arrangement is too good! I'll do as you say! ”

Zhang Xueru also got up from the wooden sofa as he spoke.

He knew that Director Hao was very busy with business and couldn't take up too much of his time, so he picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table and said:

"Director Hao, I won't bother you. I'll go first. ”

"Hmm, Master Zhang, goodbye! No matter what happens in the future, just call me. You don't have to come to the office every time. ”

Hao Desheng nodded politely at Zhang Xueru.

"Hey, okay. Director Hao, goodbye! ”

Zhang Xueru walked up to Hao Desheng, stretched out his hand and shook his hand tightly, and then walked towards the door of the office.