Chapter 72: The Bai Family's Troubles

But even if they are reluctant, this girl is going to marry after all!

Seeing that the years are passing, the age of the girl is getting older and older, the older the woman is, the less valuable she is, the more she has no in-laws to ask for marriage, and if she doesn't marry, she will become an old girl.

They not only have to worry about their daughter's marriage, but also take into account the eyes of the neighbors around them, as soon as they talk, they say that the daughters of those and those who are are so old that no one can not marry until now, and take their Bai family as a joke, and the lintel of the house will make her down, let them go out without face, and they can't hold their heads up in front of the people in the village.

Can they not be anxious about their daughter's marriage?

But on the other hand, this girl is a cash cow for them, and they are really reluctant to marry like this.

That's not all, if they can get back a good bride price, how much can they make up for their losses, right?

But no, even if the girl is capable, the bride price that can be exchanged is not much more than that of an ordinary woman, according to the current salary she gets in the hunting team, she can earn back this bride price in less than two months, thanks to it!

Now I have to feel sorry that the cash cow is about to be gone, and on the other hand, I have to look forward to selling her out as soon as possible.

The Bai family struggled with contradictions all day long, and their hearts were tormented by two thoughts back and forth.

On the one hand, I was looking forward to the matchmaker who said that she would come to the door as soon as possible and let them marry their daughters earlier, so that they could hold their heads up in front of the villagers, and hoped that their daughters could earn more money and marry again.

It is said that the ability to earn money is much stronger than ordinary people, and no matter how bad a month it is, it can earn back several times the salary of others, there should be many people asking to marry, and the bride price is also high, how cost-effective it is to marry such a daughter-in-law.

But why is it that the bride price of the capable is not only not much more than that of ordinary people, but it is not as easy to find a partner as ordinary women?

This brings us to what I said earlier.

What is the in-law marrying a daughter-in-law back for? They don't need their daughters-in-law to have the ability to hunt, and it is a waste to marry someone who is able to come back.

You say that if this is about the same or less than the bride price required to marry an ordinary woman, at least she can have more strength than an ordinary woman and do more housework.

But marrying them costs more money than ordinary women, not to mention, the amount of food that the daughter-in-law eats here is worth several big men, and they must not eat their family poor!

Rather than spending more bride price in exchange for the ability to discard the tasteless food for them, it is better to marry an ordinary woman, at least without spending money or food.

Moreover, these female hunters mixed with adult men three days before they got married, and went out all day to show their faces, and there was such a daughter-in-law who was embarrassed.

They are so old, and they don't have young girls to marry, so why do they have to spend money to marry these old women?

Female capable people are not cheaper than ordinary women in family affairs, but it is more difficult to find their in-laws, because often in such a family, parents will attach great importance to their daughter's ability to earn money, when they are young, they are reluctant to sell such a cash cow 'cheaply', they want to stay a few more days to earn more money for the family, but this keeps them as old girls, and it is even more difficult to marry.

This is the case with the Bai family.

No, I finally met a man who came to propose marriage a year ago, and they were afraid that if they missed this village, there would be no such shop, so they were busy talking. Although I feel sorry for this cash cow, as long as the older daughters of the family are married off quickly, they will be able to straighten their backs and be people.

So no matter how much they feel sorry for the silver, they have to seize this opportunity.

It's just that the problem in front of them is that they know that their daughter and the Xue family have signed a contract to work for the Xue family's hunting team for three years, and they will pay the Xue family for breach of contract if they leave early.

How can this be done, and it will be signed for three years!

Three years later, their daughter will be twenty-eight, will she really be an old aunt for the rest of her life?

But they didn't want to lose so much money to the Xue family.

You have to find a way.

They didn't know much about the form of this document, but they still knew that a breach of contract would cost a lot of money, so they went to the next village to find a scholar who was on an errand in the yamen and asked him to give him ideas.

The man came up with a solution for them.

Therefore, even if they feel that they are really a little unreasonable, and they don't know if it will work, they still pretend to be righteous and come to the door, at least in terms of momentum, and give the Xue family a hat first.

I didn't expect this method to be really effective, and they let the Xue family release them without spending a copper plate.

And let the Xue family agree that their daughter would continue to stay in the hunting team for a while.

Although it is not what they want to pay only 50 yuan a day, it is better than nothing. Anyway, the food and housing are all solved by the Xue family, and they can still get one or two halves of silver a month, which is cost-effective.

While preparing for the marriage in his own family, his daughter can continue to earn money, and the marriage of silver money is correct, which can be said to be a perfect solution for the Bai family.

But Xue Langjing is not so wishy-washy, even if she knows the situation in the other party's family now, she can't change anything, she can only consider herself unlucky.

However, she has to write a new copy of the other team members' notes and ask their families to come and sign again, she will never let this happen again, breaking the rules of the hunting team, and the appearance of casual workers is only this once, not an example, otherwise I really think she is a bully.

This is how the Bai family's affairs ended.

After dinner, Xue Langjing, who had nothing to do, went back to the room and rewrote and transcribed the notes signed by the team members, and then dealt with today's business.

Since the establishment of the hunting team, Xue Langjing and Zheng Linchu got along well, and they often exchanged letters and chatted with each other.

Of course, the most talked about is the matter of the ancestors of the Zheng family.

Zheng Linchu's experience is much richer than hers, and listening to the other party talk about some new things that she can't touch in this small remote place is also a way for her to learn more about the outside.

Xue Langjing herself usually writes whatever she thinks, writes more letters, and also exercises her writing ability, when she sees some words on the letters that she does not know, write them down, and ask Old Man Zhang when she has time, which also improves her reading ability, greatly enriches her vocabulary, and can also learn the vassal elegance of the exchange of letters between literati and close friends, which is also a pleasure.

For example, in this letter, she received a lot of New Year's wishes from the other party.

Every time it was her turn to reply to the letter, she found that she was not as well-written as the other party, and could think of so many beautiful words, and when she replied to the other party, she was always short of words, and could only write about some things around her.

This time, in addition to talking about some interesting things that happened recently, she also wrote about the grievances with the Bai family, and of course, the various entanglements and contradictions of the Bai family.