Princess of Nongmen

Chapter 958
Liu Xu'er didn't expect that Zhou Cuilian asked for a bride price, and dared to chase her out and scold her for being unfilial, and she felt extremely wronged.He stopped and turned back and said, "I like Big Brother Xu. Even if he doesn't give me a penny, I'm willing to marry him. If you do this again, I'll... just, I won't recognize you as a mother."

"Oh, are you really planning to be unfilial? Now that you have a man, you don't even want your own mother?" Zhou Cuilian chased after her neck, raised her hand and slapped Liu Xu'er, and said fiercely: "Yes. Niangsheng, there is no mother to teach you. I thought that Yingniang taught you how well, didn't you just learn to be stubborn?"

"You, you hit me, are you still my mother?" Liu Xu'er was also anxious, stomping her feet and shouting: "Mother never hit me back then, she treated me better than Ya'er. You don't deserve it My mother." After speaking, Liu Xu'er pulled Xu Chenming and ran outside.

Xu Chenming was also stunned. First, he didn't understand why Liu Xuer had a mother-in-law; he also didn't understand how Zhou Cuilian became so fast.

But when he saw Liu Xu'er was slapped, he really felt distressed.But he felt that it was unreasonable to just run away with Liu Xu'er like this.

Xu Chenming grabbed Liu Xu'er and comforted him: "Xu'er, don't cry, just speak well and it will make sense. I listened to my aunt, and it was for your own good. Maybe I will tell her about my family She understands that our family really has no money, and she will not deliberately embarrass me."

Liu Xu'er also felt aggrieved just now, but now that Xu Chenming persuaded her, she looked back at Zhou Cuilian, thinking that there might be something wrong with her.So he stopped, stood where he was and stopped running.

Xu Chenming comforted Liu Xu'er, and then came back and said to Zhou Cuilian: "Auntie, let me tell you the truth, our family is really poor. After my mother passed away, I was afraid that my father would be sad at home, so I didn't go out to work. I just help my father farm the land at home. Now my sister is getting married, and most of the money in the family is going to be her dowry. I really can’t spend much. But don’t worry, auntie, I will cherish it Liu Xu'er, don't let her live a hard life with me."

"Treasure? What do you use to cherish? What did you say to me that a girl needs to give a dowry when she gets married? What do you mean, let our family marry a girl for nothing, and I have to give you a dowry?" Zhou Cuilian pinched her waist and pointed at Xu Chenming Nose said: "Your family is poor, let alone a good-looking daughter-in-law. A young widow in the village can marry one, as long as she can have a baby. The big girl raised by our family like a baby cannot marry a poor family."

Liu Xu'er couldn't stand it anymore, so she ran back and shouted, "Mother, what did you say? Brother Xu is the one who won't marry me."

Zhou Cuilian sneered, and said, "If you don't listen to the old man now, you will regret it later."

Xu Chenming gritted his teeth, and didn't want Liu Xu'er to fall out with her mother because of himself, so he said, "Auntie, tell me, how much dowry do you need to agree to this marriage?"

"Then I have to do the math." Zhou Cuilian counted with her fingers, "Our Liu Xu'er looks pretty, so the dowry gift for a girl like this can't be less than 20 taels. Our Liu family can be considered a very good family, with both money and a house." Yes, such a family background is worth ten taels. We have raised Xuer for 17 years, and two taels a year is not much, right? In 17 years, it was 34 taels. I was pregnant in October and gave birth to her with great difficulty. Let’s get ten taels of silver. Calculated in this way, it’s... 74 taels of silver.”

When Zhou Cuilian did the calculation, Xu Chenming's face turned pale.After Zhou Cuilian finished speaking, he swallowed deeply and remained silent for a long time.

But Zhou Cuilian didn't look at Xu Chenming's expression, and just said to herself: "Forget it, since you are sincere to our family Xu'er, I don't want so much. Get rid of four taels, and you give an integer of 70 taels." Money. Cash or bills will do.”

"70 taels!" Xu Chenming was completely stunned, and said after a long time: "Auntie, our family really doesn't have so much silver. Can... can it be less?"

Zhou Cuilian shook her head and said, "Short? Do you think it's selling pork with bargaining price? No, not even a penny."

"Don't pay attention to her, let's talk to my father." Liu Xu'er didn't want to look at Zhou Cuilian's face anymore, and she didn't drag Xu Chenming to run away.Instead, they bypassed Zhou Cuilian and went directly to Liu Dacheng.

Seeing Liu Xuer ignoring her, Zhou Cuilian stomped her feet fiercely and said, "Damn girl, you have no heart. If I hadn't made you look good, who would want you. Hmph!"

Liu Xu'er pretended not to have heard Zhou Cuilian's words, dragged Xu Chenming to see Liu Dacheng, and said directly: "Father, you heard what mother said. Tell me, what should I do?"

Liu Dacheng was so angry that his face was still blue, he looked up at Xu Chenming, and said, "Xiao Xu, I made you laugh. This woman is Liu Xu'er's mother, but she has been outside for so many years, her head is a little broken, she said If so, don't take it to heart."

Xu Chenming breathed a sigh of relief, swallowed again, and said embarrassingly: "Uncle Liu, our family really can't afford 70 taels of silver. If our family has money, we will definitely give it. It's not to buy a wife, but I think Liu Xu'er is priceless in my heart."

"That's good, that's good." Liu Dacheng nodded and said, "You don't have to be afraid, I'm not a prostitute. You go back and deal with your sister's marriage with your father, come back to propose marriage, and give some tokens The dowry is fine. After all, it is a gift, and you can’t really not want it at all. But don’t worry, the Liu family doesn’t want the dowry, and keep it intact as a dowry, and bring it back to her.”

Xu Chenming said again and again: "Uncle Liu, don't say that, the betrothal gift should be given, our family must do our best, and we can't wrong Xu'er."

After finishing speaking, Xu Chenming thought for a while, and was really afraid that the night would be full of dreams, so he said, "Uncle Liu, I will go back early tomorrow morning and propose marriage with my father Zhang Luo."

Liu Dacheng nodded and said, "Okay, then it's settled."

Liu Xu'er finally settled down, looked at Xu Chenming, and said with tears in her eyes, "Brother Xu, you must come back early."

Xu Chenming nodded in agreement, and comforted Liu Xu'er, reassuring her that as soon as his sister got married, he would come to propose marriage immediately.

Early the next morning, Xu Chenming hurried home.Liu Xu'er sent him to the village, and still held his hand.

But the two of them didn't know that Zhou Cuilian couldn't stay at home, so she had already left the house and went directly to Wu's house.She naturally has her own calculations in her heart, she can't just watch the white money fly away.

In Zhou Cuilian's eyes, Liu Xu'er is like a big piece of fat, and she should be able to sell for a good price.

(End of this chapter)