Chapter 575

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the blink of an eye it was the weekend, and Du Xiaojuan brought Wang Dashan back to their hometown again.

This time Wang Dashan brought 188,800 yuan in bride price money.

Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi saw that Wang Dashan had brought so much money, and they were overjoyed.

In their whole lives, they probably had never seen so much cash before.

At mealtime, they warmly entertained Wang Dashan.

The atmosphere was actually better than when Wang Dashan first came to meet them.

But halfway through the meal, when Du Xiaojuan proposed taking the household registration book to get the marriage certificate, Du Guoqing replied:

"Getting the certificate isn't urgent; let's talk about it after the wedding banquet is done."

Hearing these words, Du Xiaojuan sensed something was wrong.

"Dad, Dashan and I have already agreed: get the certificate first, then hold the banquet."

Lin Xiudi, as her mother, said at this time:

"My dear younger sister, we're doing this for your own good. Hold the banquet first, then get the certificate—that's safer."

Then she asked Wang Dashan:

"Dashan, getting the certificate a few days later shouldn't bother you, right?"

What else could Wang Dashan say? He could only dryly laugh and say:

"I don't mind; it depends on what Xiaojuan thinks."

Hearing this, Du Xiaojuan was furious. She pinched Wang Dashan's arm hard:

"Can't you be a bit firmer? Show some backbone! You barely scraped together 188,800 yuan in bride price—can't you be firmer?"

Then she directly laid her cards on the table to Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi:

"Dad, Mom, if you don't give me the household registration book today, I'll have Dashan take this 188,800 yuan back, and I won't marry."

Hearing this, Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi were both displeased.

But they couldn't say anything too harsh.

The two exchanged a glance, then took Du Xiaojuan into the room to talk privately.

Lin Xiudi said to Du Xiaojuan:

"My dear younger sister, you're our biological daughter. We don't mean to make things hard for you. It's just that you know your brother can't earn much money, and it will probably be hard for him to marry in the future. You need to help your brother, right?"

Du Xiaojuan coldly said:

"He's mud that can't support the wall. What can I do?"

Du Guoqing said:

"Two days ago we went to the county town and found a house we liked. If we buy a house for your brother in the county town, it'll be easier for him to marry later. But the down payment on that house is 238,000 yuan. Your man's 188,800 yuan bride price isn't enough at all, so you need to ask him for another 50,000."

Hearing this, Du Xiaojuan immediately flew into a rage:

"You clearly know Dashan doesn't have much money, so why are you making an exorbitant demand! Part of this 188,800 yuan bride price is money Dashan borrowed from online loans—you know that too! And now you actually want to raise the price! Have you even thought about how I'll live after I get married!"

Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi remained expressionless. No matter how hysterical Du Xiaojuan got, they stayed calm.

"Since he has the ability to borrow online, let him borrow another 50,000. Anyway, 50,000 isn't much. Besides, more debts don't weigh on the body. In any case, you must think of your brother first. After all, he is the only incense of our Du family; continuing the family line depends on him."

Lin Xiudi said this lightly, and no one knew whether she was deliberately trying to anger Du Xiaojuan or if this was simply her understanding.

Perhaps the latter was more likely.

She had lived her whole life under an environment of favoring sons over daughters, trapped for a lifetime, and now she was forcing her own biological daughter to continue her unfortunate life.

Strangely enough, women like Lin Xiudi were not a minority in the rural area but very common.

In the rural area, within a family, the one who most favors sons over daughters is often the old mother; the one who squeezes the daughter the hardest is also the old mother; the one who endlessly spoils the son but won't give the daughter a bit of love is also the old mother.

She herself was a woman, yet still favored sons over daughters. It was absurd, but also very real.

"Why should I consider that good-for-nothing Du Jiabao? Whether he can marry is none of my business!"

Du Xiaojuan screamed hysterically.

She was an extremely rational woman with extremely stable emotions.

But now, facing her own biological parents' unreasonable demands, she still lost control.

"Why should Dashan borrow money for you? Won't you let Du Jiabao borrow money? We agreed on 188,800 yuan bride price—why do you want to add more? Do you have to kill me to be happy!"

Du Xiaojuan's hysterical screaming could be clearly heard by Wang Dashan, who was waiting outside the living room.

Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi, facing their biological daughter's hysterical loss of composure, remained very calm.

After the screaming died down and the room returned to silence.

Du Guoqing coldly said:

"In any case, you must come up with another 50,000."

Du Xiaojuan was completely defeated.

She said nothing more.

She turned around and slammed the door as she left.

Coming outside the living room, she grabbed the box containing the 188,800 yuan bride price money, pulled Wang Dashan, and quickly went out the door.

"We're leaving. This damn place—I'm never coming back!"

Du Xiauan muttered coldly as she walked:

"If you won't give me the household registration book, forget it! At worst, we won't get married! You want to use this to manipulate me—no way!"

Wang Dashan followed Du Xiaojuan outside, and seeing her furious expression, he couldn't help but feel heartache.

He had been with Du Xiaojuan for so long, yet it was the first time he had seen her lose her composure like this.

Even when Du Xiaojuan had broken up with him back then, she had never lost her composure like this.

It can only be said that some people are so emotionally stable because they have already experienced enough moments that would make others collapse, so that when they later encounter things that would make normal people collapse, in their eyes it's nothing at all, which is why they are incredibly stable.

Du Xiaojuan's emotional stability was partly due to this reason.

The two took the bride price money and returned to the car.

"We're returning to Guangzhou right now!"

Du Xiaojuan's eyes were red, and she burst into tears.

Her voice trembling:

"Go, leave immediately!"

But Wang Dashan did not immediately drive away.

Instead, he waited until Du Xiaojuan's anger had subsided a little, handed her a tissue, and then said:

"Xiao Juan, I understand your mood, but you should be very clear that emotions cannot solve problems."

Du Xiaojuan wiped her tears and said nothing, tacitly agreeing with Wang Dashan's words.

Actually, she also knew in her heart that emotions could not solve problems.

But facing parents like that, she really found it hard to remain emotionally stable.

She was not one of those stupid women who helped her maternal home inflate the bride price for her future husband; she was very clear that after marriage she would live with her husband, not with her parents.

So her series of operations were all for her own small family in the future; in her view, those women who forced their men to pay bride prices beyond their means were either stupid or bad.

Stupid women couldn't distinguish priorities; if her man took on huge debts to pay a high bride price, how would they live in the future? After marriage, wouldn't you have to repay debts with your husband?

Bad women knew all this, but they never intended to live a good life at all; they probably started calculating divorce before even getting married—they were making money from the bride price.

And Du Xiaojuan clearly belonged to neither type of woman.

She sincerely wanted to live a good life with Wang Dashan, so when facing her parents' excessive demands, she argued with reason and would not easily let them get their way!

"Then how do you say we should solve this problem?"

Du Xiaojuan, her anger subsided a little, asked Wang Dashan one sentence.

Wang Dashan said:

"Let me communicate with them; I will make them give us the household registration book."