Chapter 19.2

Translated by Aviana

“There isn’t any money in the house for you to arrange the wedding banquet. Pay it yourself, you can, can’t you?!”

He-shi still hadn’t turned back, but her voice full of discontentment and resentment rang out.

Yang Tiezhu closed his eyes and put aside He-shi’s words to not let her spoil his mood.

He then took out a piece of silver from his bosom and put it on the kang table in front of Old father Yang. The silver seemed to be worth 3-4 taels, which was already more than enough to set up a banquet in Luoxia Village.

The old father Yang’s complexion, became extremely unsightly; however, he also truly didn’t want to quarrel with He-shi in front of a child.

He placed down the tobacco pipe in his hand with shaking hands, picked up the marriage contract on the table, stained his finger with ink from the inkstone, and put the fingerprint on the marriage contract. Then he pushed both, marriage contract with fingerprint and the piece of silver towards Yang Tiezhu.

“There is no sense for a family to not pay for the feast when a son is getting married. She has become old and muddleheaded.”

Originally old father Yang didn’t intend to hurt the child’s heart. But who would have imagined that He-shi was finally unable to bear? It goes without saying that she had been suppressing the fire in her stomach for quite a long time, but once she heard old father Yang saying that she had become old and muddleheaded, resembling like dynamite that was ignited, she exploded at once.

She nimbly at once turned around and pounced upon Old father Yang. She incessantly started tearing him apart, as she cursed him: “Yang Laoshuan, you damn bastard. This old lady had worked hard for a lifetime to give birth to kids for you, and now you are saying that I have become old and muddleheaded….”

Old father Yang became simply dizzy from He-shi’s anger. Nevertheless, he didn’t want to fight with his wife in front of his son. Thus he could only use his hands to resist He-shi’s blows.

By the time he pushed He-shi away with great difficulty, he had realized that at some point, Yang Tiezhu had already walked out.

The marriage contract on the kang table was already taken away. However, the piece of silver was still left behind…

“You ah, you ah …… I don’t even know what to say to you at all ……”

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When Yang Tiezhu had the matchmaker drop by to send the betrothal gifts, the entire Luoxia village was stirred into commotion. Firecrackers’crackled and rattled’, resonating in the whole village, and the villagers formed a circle of a crowd to spectate.

When Yang-shi came out to welcome Yang Tiezhu and the matchmaker, she also set off a string of firecrackers at the courtyard gate, signifying that the bride’s side has also placed quite an importance on this marriage, representing their welcoming attitude.

As the firecracker exploded, the red paper scattered all over, appearing quite jubilant and lively.

A large group of crowd encircled outside Yang-shi’s gate, as each and every one of them spoke about Yang Tiexhu’s generousness in spending money and his righteousness.

Not to say the betrothal gift was also two parts heavier than the usual households when taking a wife. The betrothal price was also a lot…

8.8 taels!

When it was mentioned that the betrothal price was 8.8 teals, everyone at once endlessly smacked their lips. Usually, in other households, when marrying, apart from betrothal gifts, monetary gifts would be at most 6.6 taels, and only the well-off families in the village have the ability to give this much.

To the villagers, the most commendable one is that the bride is not the usual village household’s young lady, rather a young woman bought by the bridegroom himself.

For the bridegroom to treat a young woman bought by himself this seriously, it could only imply one thing – the bridegroom who was being married is placing enough importance on the bride. Furthermore, it is also not regarding the bride as a bought one. Everyone admired Lin Qingwan for her good fortune ……

Inviting a matchmaker with such a big gift truly made all the young married women red-eyed. Everyone praised that Yang family’s second-eldest is a man, loving dearly his wife this obviously, whichever woman could get married to him can be truly happy to the death.

Why didn’t they think of him as this heroic, generous, magnanimous, and lofty, previously? His tall, sturdy stature and scar on the face, which usually always made all the females in the village scared, suddenly made one feel that he was particularly handsome.

All the people fell over each other in eagerness to pass on words of Yang family’s Tiezhu’s generosity for such a big betrothal gift…

Even the people in the Yang family were stunned by such a large sum of money.

Old father Yang remained silent, while Yang Tieshuan sneered, saying the second eldest was truly generous. Wang-shi’s eyes were red as she incited, He-shi. Yang Tiegen and Yao-shi husband and wife pair were silent as usual, also didn’t express any opinions.

Upon hearing the insane rumors being passed outside, He-shi, coupled with Wang-shi’s instigation, shivered from head to foot in distress.

She had only heard Yang Tiezhu saying that he had invited a bridal sedan chair, set up a banquet, and sent betrothal gifts, but she didn’t expect that damned brat to go as far as to invite a matchmaker to send betrothal gifts with great fanfare.

Granted that even if he gave a betrothal gift, one didn’t anticipate that he would give 8.8 taels as a monetary gift, He-shi’s blood dripped in distress at once.

However, she didn’t dare to curse Yang Tiezhu in front of old father Yang. Thus she flared up at her daughters-in-law, Wang-shi and Yao-shi, before dropping the subject. However, whenever she recalled those 8.8 taels, she was neither able to sleep nor able to eat.

As Yang Tiezhu’s marriage day neared, the family was also busy arranging a feast, and perhaps as He-shi had that piece of silver in her hand, she was a little bit relieved and didn’t create a fuss anymore.

The curtain gradually fell on the betrothal gifts matter, and in the blink of an eye, it wasn’t long before the day of the marriage.

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