Chapter 209: Face
"100,000 taels of dowry? Are you crazy? When Duan Tianlan heard Li Xueyan say 50,000 taels, she wanted to question it, but as soon as she changed her words, it was 100,000 taels. Does she think that their house is a money factory, and 10,000 taels should be spent as one or two?
Li Xueyan said helplessly: "Don't get excited, don't get excited, I'll just talk about it." I'll give you an example, I didn't really want that much, but if you were willing to give that much, I would be happy. ”
Li Xueyan's words came out, which made Duan Tianlan want to say that he didn't know how to continue.
Tell me about it, right? Can you get this money, but the bride price is so much? He really hurts. You can't say it's going to be given, right? After all, Li Xueyan has helped their family so much, if he refuses, not only will he be stingy and have no demeanor, but he will also make people feel that he does not want to repay his kindness.
From the accident of their family to the re-establishment of the reputation of the store, and then to the reopening of the silk village, Li Xueyan helped a lot.
To put it bluntly, if there was no Li Xueyan, there would be no current Duan Family Silk Village.
"Let's get down to business, I understand the example you gave. Since you know that you should marry your husband, you should follow our son to live in our house, why do you have to be so stubborn? Duan Tianlan said bitterly. In his opinion, Li Xueyan is indeed a good girl, but she is too stubborn.
If she could listen to them a little, even if it was just a little, Duan Tianlan would be extremely satisfied with this daughter-in-law. And she will be more satisfied with Li Xueyan than she was satisfied with Qiao Linger at that time.
"So the problem now is that I don't want to do that. You didn't know me for the first day, so you know a little bit about me, right? If I want to do something, it's not something I'm going to think about. But if I don't want to do that, it's useless to do whatever I should. Li Xueyan said.
Duan Tianlan and Xie Linyu glanced at each other.
Obviously, Zhou Xinghua is a very kind and talkative person, why is it so difficult for the daughter she educated to do?
And what she means by this is that she can do what she wants, and if she doesn't want to do it, it's useless when King Tianzi comes? How can there be such an arrogant person? Although she does seem to have this arrogant ability......
"Let me tell you that." Xie Linyu sighed in his heart, and his tone softened a lot. "Now that everyone knows about your marriage, they will definitely think that when the time comes, you will live in our Duan Mansion after you get married. But if you still live here when you get married, won't it be a slap in the face? What will the townspeople think of us then? We're so old, we still have to be embarrassed. ”
Since the hard one is not good, then the soft one, Li Xueyan seems to be a person who eats soft and does not eat hard. People like this are often useless to force them, and they can only be moved by emotion and reason.
Sure enough, after Xie Linyu said this, Li Xueyan's attitude was not as firm as before, and the words she said were not three sentences of rejection, and five sentences of ridicule.
"I know, you're celebrities in town, what do celebrities value most? I know all about face. I also know that most of the women in this era have to rely on men to survive, and the unreasonable truth of marrying a husband has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. So it's not just you who think that, but basically all women think that way. ”
Xie Linyu really wanted to nod vigorously to say that you were really right, but since all women think so, why are you so different? Xie Linyu wanted to ask Li Xueyan.
However, although Xie Linyu didn't ask, Li Xueyan took the initiative to answer her doubts.
"As for me, I don't think that women can only survive by clinging to men, I don't need to say this, I think I am enough to use myself as an example. And as for those who follow their husbands or not, I absolutely don't approve of them. In my opinion, although women are weaker in all aspects, they are absolutely equal in the relationship between husband and wife. ”
"We didn't say that we looked down on you because we let you live here......" Xie Linyu didn't understand a little, she was obviously talking about letting Li Xueyan live in the past, how could it be about equality and inequality.
"I know, but I've always been free, and I can't help it. Outside of my own home, I don't feel like I belong, I just live in my own place. ”
"You marry into our Duan family, you are a member of the Duan family, and the Duan family is your family." Duan Tianlan opened his mouth and said, just like his relationship with Xie Linyu, for so many years, he has never treated Xie Linyu as a family member. In his opinion, Xie Linyu has never denied that he is a member of the Duan family.
How could such a simple thing be so difficult when it came to Li Xueyan?
"This is different, even if I am Duan Yunfei, I will not feel that everything in the Duan family should be mine. In my opinion, I have to take the initiative to fight for it, and what I get can really belong to me. Li Xueyan said.
Duan Tianlan understood, "So what you mean is that where you live now, all the things you have are all earned by yourself, so these can be regarded as yours." If you marry into our family, even if it is something we give you, you won't feel that it's yours, and you won't think you're a member of the Duan family, right? ”
"If I marry into your family, then of course I am a member of the Duan family."
"Then why don't you want to live there?"
"Because I just want to live in my own home."
Duan Tianlan: Why did "......" go around and back again? What went wrong? Why is the logic of him and Li Xueyan so incompatible?
Duan Tianlan decided to leave the matter to his son.
Seeing Duan Tianlan's crazy eyes, Duan Yunfei, who had been watching the play beside him, was finally willing to speak.
"Why don't we listen to my father and mother and live in Duanfu? Otherwise, you don't think they're going to be easy to handle, are they? Although Duan Yunfei said this, his tone did not mean to persuade at all, just like an emotionless communication machine.
Duan Tianlan felt that even if he wrote a letter, he was more sincere than asking Duan Yunfei to help him say that he was coming.
Sure enough, such a tone and such words did not shake Li Xueyan's firm thoughts a little.
"No, it's not good. If you want to go back, you can go back by yourself. Li Xueyan said.
"Then I'll live here with you." Duan Yunfei said decisively. He will still stand in such a line, what are you kidding, they lived together before they got married, if they lived separately after they got married, then what was the point of him getting married?
Seeing that his son was so indifferent to this matter, Duan Tianlan almost wanted to give him a punch.
After his daughter-in-law got married, he didn't want to go home with him, but he was not the most anxious, but they came to beg in a low voice when their parents came? When the time comes, let the neighbors know that they are married and still live in the woman's house, what is this like?
After all, if he is ridiculed at that time, isn't it Duan Yunfei himself who is the most humiliating?
It's really that the emperor is not in a hurry...... Duan Tianlan stopped his thoughts, it seemed that there was a bit of a problem with this.
"Why are you so uncompetitive?" Duan Tianlan couldn't bear it, "Who doesn't know that you are the only son of the Duan family, although our Duan family has been in decline for a while, it won't be to the extent that you need to be rich, right?" When the time comes, it will be known to others, and it is not us who will be ashamed! ”
Money?
Li Xueyan was dissatisfied with this statement.
"Master Duan, if you say something redundant, it will be really ugly."
Duan Tianlan's tone was also very dissatisfied, "A dignified man, but after getting married, he has to live in the woman's house, what is this like, isn't it a rich man?" Besides, what's Xiao Nuan's surname, isn't this more obvious? ”
When Duan Tianlan talked about getting rich, he suddenly thought of Li Xiaonuan. is Duan Yunfei's biological daughter, but has the surname Li Xueyan. Although they didn't know who her biological father was at the time, this was understandable. But Duan Tianlan just couldn't accept that Li Xueyan and Duan Yunfei were still living in the same place after they got married, and he couldn't hold his face.
"Just talk about things, don't take Xiao Nuan's surname out to talk about things." Duan Yunfei's face also changed.
"Stinky boy, Lao Tzu is helping you now, don't you fight for it yourself, and you still talk against me? It's really kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs! ”
"Have you ever thought that I don't need this kind of help, and I don't need it at all." Duan Yunfei said lightly.
"You're ......!" Duan Tianlan had to admit that he was more concerned about the face of their Duan family than helping Duan Yunfei.
But even if the Duan family's face is the main component, a large part of the reason why he will do this is for Duan Yunfei! It's his fault that Duan Yunfei is so unappreciative!
Li Xueyan said: "What you just said, I don't agree with this completely. Could it be that Master Duan thinks that now I and my store can have such an achievement, all of which depend on me alone? ”
Duan Tianlan was stunned, he really thought so.
Li Xueyan knew what he was thinking when she saw his expression, and said helplessly: "If I had been the only one all along, I would never have such a result now, you guys, don't underestimate your own son so much." From having nothing to everything I have now, Duan Yunfei has all been involved. Not only was he involved, but what he did was indispensable. ”
The more Duan Tianlan and Xie Linyu listened, the more stunned they became, it was not that they had not been in contact with the lives of these two people, but they had never felt that Duan Yunfei had helped Li Xueyan much in his business?
It's never always Li Xueyan who is busy, Duan Yunfei is on the side and helps out a little.
If such a small favor can be regarded as indispensable in business, Duan Tianlan feels that the child who helped serve tea, pour water and grind ink in his previous study can also become an indispensable person on his way to success.
"Isn't it unbelievable? Is it that every time I see Duan Yunfei helping me, it is a little favor, and I feel that I am alone in the affairs of our family? Actually, it's not like that, usually I'm taking care of it just because I like to do it myself, but if these things are handed over to him, he can do the same thing, and maybe he will do it better than me. You see that he helps me less, but in fact it is just right every time. ”
Li Xueyan didn't have any intention of saying good things for Duan Yunfei, she just thought so.
Duan Yunfei was like her signpost, but he would only appear when she was really confused.