Upon hearing this, Yang Chuxia stared in astonishment at the Land Officer’s wife and asked, "Where is my Uncle Dayong now?"
"Ah, your Uncle Dayong is at home, sleeping." The Land Officer’s wife sighed, "Originally, your Uncle Dayong thought highly of that girl, or else he wouldn’t have waited for her for so many years. Now look, he’s at home feeling upset."
"So what do you plan to do about this, Granny?" Yang Chuxia asked the Land Officer’s wife.
The Land Officer’s wife shook her head and said, "Granny doesn’t have any good solutions either. I thought you might have some good ideas since you’re usually so clever."
"Me?" Yang Chuxia didn’t know what to say. What kind of ideas could she have?
This wasn’t modern times where you could sue someone for marriage fraud, and it seemed that there was no such law in ancient times either.
She couldn’t possibly lead a group of people to kidnap the girl, could she? Besides, even if they did, would her Uncle Dayong still want her? Wouldn’t that be awkward?
Seeing her not speaking, the Land Officer’s wife suddenly realized that she had been foolish to expect a solution from a girl who hadn’t even reached adulthood yet. Surely she couldn’t know about these things or have any good solutions?
The Land Officer’s wife sighed, "Ah, Granny was wrong to expect too much from you, forgetting that you’re still young. Anyway, I just can’t swallow this injustice. Your Uncle Dayong has waited in vain for years, but at least the girl has also waited, right? But your Uncle Dayong hasn’t missed sending any gifts during the holidays over the years. This year, since your uncle made a lot of money following you, he thought of giving more generous gifts to the bride’s family. We won’t even mention the May festival; just the August festival alone, your uncle sent them twenty catties of meat, which is worth hundreds of Wen."
"And all those things your family sells, like drunk crabs and drunk shrimps. Your uncle sent them quite a lot of those too. If they were still going to be our relatives, I wouldn’t care about the gifts, but now we didn’t get the bride, and the gifts were wasted. It’s just so stifling."
After listening to the Land Officer’s wife, Yang Chuxia knew that Uncle Dayong was indeed at a loss. Not only his youth was wasted, but also a lot of money was gone on those gifts.
Both families had already agreed to the marriage and were about to finalize it. Almost all kinds of gifts and tokens were already exchanged between them.
Now Uncle Dayong had two options: either stubbornly marry the girl despite everything or break off the engagement. If Uncle Dayong breaks off the engagement, he won’t be able to get back any of the betrothal gifts, and the bride’s family would never actively break off the engagement themselves. Why would they make such a silly move?
Yang Chuxia couldn’t think of any solution, but she knew they couldn’t eat this loss. Otherwise, their Yang Family would only become more prosperous in the future, attracting more scammers. Would they ever be able to escape them?
"Grandpa and Grandma, we can’t take this loss!" Yang Chuxia clapped her hands and said, "We have to get the betrothal gifts, big and small, all back. Even things that they’ve already eaten, we have to make them throw up, even if it’s something from three years ago. They’ll have to pay us back."
"But Xiaxia, how can we do that? Daqian Village won’t break off the engagement themselves. If your Uncle Dayong breaks off the engagement, it won’t be easy for the groom’s side to ask for the gifts back."
The Land Officer’s wife wiped her tears. She also knew how difficult this situation was; otherwise, she wouldn’t have come to Yang Chuxia’s house.
"We don’t need to think about how; let’s just go knock on their door! I want to see if the Qian Family still has any shame."