Hearing Yan Ruohua's words, Zhang Xiaodong was stunned for a moment.

He knew that Xiao Nizi must have a lot of questions, but he didn't expect her to ask this first.

Regarding this matter, Zhang Xiaodong did not intend to hide it from her.

"In order to make money for my stupid son and marry a daughter-in-law, they went out to work and died in an accident on the construction site. Well, the 5,000 dollars used to marry you is their compensation. ”

"Ah...... I'm sorry......" Yan Ruohua didn't expect that this matter had something to do with him, and he felt a little sorry.

But she rolled her eyes and said strangely, "But, why do you need five thousand dollars to marry me, that ...... Is the agency fee for the matchmaker who brought me back so high? ”

Brokerage fees?

Zhang Xiaodong was suddenly dumbfounded, and his hand stirring the noodles with chopsticks stopped unconsciously.

"What kind of intermediary fee, isn't the bride price you received at home 5,000? Our whole village knows about this. ”

Yan Ruohua was also a little confused, but she retorted very seriously: "Impossible! I definitely didn't receive a penny of the bride price, you can't slander me! ”

Zhang Xiaodong looked at Xiao Nizi's serious eyes, was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

This picture is too much like a newlywed couple who are there to review their marriage after a wedding, and then argue over the details that do not match it for the sake of the face of their family.

In the months of his previous life, Yan Ruohua had never spoken to him like this.

Yan Ruohua also seemed to realize this, and her face was a little red. But he still insisted:

"Originally, if I had married you like this, then I would have accepted this bride price. But since you promised me to go down the mountain, it means that you didn't marry a daughter-in-law, and if this money is collected by my family, then I will not also participate in the fraud. ”

Zhang Xiaodong smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at the little girl's appearance, relished, looked at Yan Ruohua's words and said:

"Then tell me why you are so sure that your family will confiscate my bride price."

Zhang Xiaodong actually didn't care whether Yan Ruohua's family received the money or not, whether it was all into Mrs. Li's pocket. He knew that this was the opportunity to learn about her family background from Yan Ruohua's mouth.

"......" Yan Ruohua paused, seemingly hesitating, but finally said:

"I didn't really want to tell you about this, but I still have to make it clear about the compensation of your parents.

My mom died when I was in elementary school, and then my dad married a woman who was virtuous and considerate in front of my dad, but very mean to me behind the scenes.

My dad is in business and does ...... Not bad. Originally, he was there, and although this woman treated me badly, I could bear it. Even if this woman gave birth to another brother later, and my father's attention was mostly on their mother and son, I felt that it didn't matter, as long as I could study and go to school with peace of mind, I would be content.

But later, in order to expand his business, he went to Haicheng. It was only after that that I got to see what this woman really was. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Nizi's eyes were a little red, and Zhang Xiaodong knew that there must be all kinds of unspeakable grievances and mistreatments.

He sighed inwardly and didn't say much on the surface. Instead, he took out the boiled noodles and added a lot of lean and lean pork to Xiao Nizi and placed them in front of her.

Yan Ruohua smelled the smell of meat, shrugged her nose, and seemed to ease her mood a little.

She took a large bite to fill her stomach after a day of hunger, and then continued:

"After that, I just looked forward to the stars and the moon every day, and hoped that my father would come home. But year after year, except for a sum of money to his family's bank card at a fixed time every year, he never came back, not even a phone call.

After I went to high school, my goal was always to go to college in Haicheng, so that I could go to the city where my father was and find him, and I would never have to look at that woman's face again. ”

I know.

Zhang Xiaodong said in his heart.

In his previous life, when Zhang Xiaodong came back from the ground, he saw Yan Ruohua sitting lonely in the courtyard, looking at the sunset with empty eyes, and muttering something in his mouth.

At that time, Zhang Xiaodong didn't understand, but just memorized what she was saying. It wasn't until Yan Ruohua died of dystocia that he left the mountain. After checking it, I found out that the word that Yan Ruohua talked about the most at that time was:

Haicheng University.

Yan Ruohua took another bite of meat and continued:

In this way, as the years of my father's absence from him became longer and longer, this woman became more and more aggressive towards me, and my obsession with the college entrance examination became deeper. Later, this woman often brought men to the house, making the house a miasma. I went to study at a friend's house and came back late.

My grades have always been very good, and after the college entrance examination this year, I thought that after going to university, I would be able to get rid of it. But I waited until September and didn't get my acceptance letter.

It wasn't until later that I found out that it was this woman who tore up my acceptance letter. By then, however, I had already missed the latest deadline to enroll. ”

"But that's not all. I didn't know at the time that from the day I turned eighteen, she had been asking someone to contact a foreign place, ready to marry me directly, as far away as possible.

Later, she contacted the matchmaker you have here. It wasn't until the matchmaker came to the door that I knew I was going to be married off by that woman to the mountains. I listened to their conversation, and instead of charging a penny from your matchmaker, the woman gave her 10,000 yuan as hush money.

Then I was tied up and left the house, got on the train, then the carriage, and finally to this mountain village.

So, the bride price you mentioned, I estimate that eighty percent of it was also swallowed by the matchmaker. ”

Yan Ruohua finished speaking, except for a little emotional fluctuation in the middle, she returned to her normal narrative state later, as if she was just talking about an ordinary thing.

After finishing speaking, she immediately began to bow her head and eat noodles, after talking so much, the noodles made by Zhang Xiaodong were going to be cold, and she didn't want such a delicious bowl of noodles to be wasted.

She was very calm, but Zhang Xiaodong, who was sitting opposite, really couldn't calm down.

He expected that Yan Ruohua's origin would be very miserable, but he still couldn't control his distress and anger at the moment.

Yan Ruohua didn't mention what the stepmother did to her in the whole process, only mentioned tearing up the notice and marrying her off at the end, but Zhang Xiaodong could imagine how many grievances she had endured and how much suffering she had endured in the past few years since her father left home.

In her previous life, she married into this mountain and lost too much.

Life, innocence, an excellent young man's pursuit of the highest university, and a daughter's desire for family affection from her father.