Chapter 364: This Kind of Woman Should Not Be Married
Mengyu also saw her parents drawing back, but she still wanted to get things clear: "Dad, Mom, Brother, my elder sister was brought back by me, as a guest in our home. Now, Tian Xianhua is asking you not to get involved as he takes away my elder sister. What do you think?"
Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao both dared not meet their daughter’s eyes, but when the question was directed at them, and seeing that Tian Xianhua was also waiting for an answer, they forced themselves to say:
"Hua, we are limited in what we can do, we can’t protect her." This meant they were washing their hands of the matter.
Tian Xianhua breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
Although he was using his sister, he still had some affection for her. Since he had already planned to be relatives by marriage with the Xiao Family, he didn’t want to fall out with them.
If the Xiao Family insisted on protecting the girl, it really would have been difficult for him.
Mengyu then asked her mother: "Mom, what is your opinion?"
Mrs. Xiao sighed: "What opinion could I have? I’m not capable of managing you all. Your classmate, she can only blame herself for carelessly going to someone else’s house to have fun. Haven’t you seen that many brides in our village have been bought?"
Mengyu turned to Xiao Zhu: "Brother, what do you think? Before, my elder sister was willing to lend you two hundred yuan for your wedding."
Xiao Zhu hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Mengyu, I think, we can’t stop it, and in the end, a woman has to get married. Maybe, you should persuade her to just get married."
Mengyu asked Tian Ruyi: "What do you think?"
Tian Ruyi glanced at Mengyu, then at Mengyu, and said: "I think, you should choose whether it’s you getting married or letting her marry, instead of asking us."
In her view, since Mengyu did not want to marry her brother, and now there was a girl who could take her place, it naturally should be the other girl who gets married.
What more was there to say?
Suddenly, Mengyu laughed: "I really am naive. I can’t believe how cold-blooded and selfish you all are. And you’re supposed to be my family!"
Tian Ruyi seemed to get somewhat angry at her words, combined with the scolding she had received from her earlier, and unable to suppress her own frustration, she shouted back: "You’re not selfish, you’re great, you’re noble. Well then, if it’s like that, you marry him yourself, so my brother doesn’t have to snatch this woman for a wife!"
Mengyu’s eyes flashed as she focused on Tian Ruyi: "You have no right to talk about me like that. I’ll tell you, even I wouldn’t marry him, let alone my elder sister.
"My elder sister isn’t one of those women sold by human traffickers, she’s someone I invited over as a guest. With me here, I’d like to see who dares to snatch my elder sister!"
She had no favorable impression of Tian Ruyi, who conspired with her brother to manipulate her own brother, then pressured her own family to marry her off to her brother.
Even though in the end she revealed the truth, that was because she was still a virgin but was slandered by Tian Ruyi as a loose woman who had been promiscuous with many men, and said that the Xiao Family didn’t want her. She couldn’t take it anymore and that’s why she spoke out, not because of a newfound conscience.
If such a woman were to enter her house as her elder sister-in-law, she would only bring turmoil and disharmony to the family.
Tian Xianhua saw that Mengyu was messing up his plans, and immediately shouted: "If she won’t marry, then you marry, otherwise, I will not let my sister marry your brother."
"Whether your sister marries has nothing to do with me, let alone my elder sister!" Mengyu’s sharp gaze met Tian Xianhua’s: "Your sister hasn’t even stepped through our Xiao Family’s door and she dares to scheme against my brother.
"This kind of woman, if married into our family, would only disrupt our home, making us discordant. This kind of woman should not be married!"
She turned to Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao: "Dad, Mom, I don’t agree with this woman marrying into our family."