She thought if this woman were to enter the family, demanding an extravagant dowry would certainly be out of the question. Her husband might agree, and her son might agree, but she definitely would not. Thinking about marrying this despicable woman into the family was just like dealing with Mrs. Li before, it still allowed her, as the legitimate wife, to manipulate.
Mrs. Lai always valued money as her life, and while she cursed, she hopped up, the little maid who had been bowing her head, fearing she might fall, made a great effort to support her.
As a result, Mrs. Lai took her anger out on the little maid, pinching her a few times, causing the maid a lot of pain, yet she didn’t dare to make a sound.
"Girl’s family..., you’re the junk, everyone knows what you were like back then! How dare you make a fuss here!"
"Girl..., this old hag, me, a maiden of good family, and you call me junk! Wait until I marry into your family, I’ll deal with you, this old witch is too hateful, if it weren’t for the old witch’s disagreement, she wouldn’t end up as a concubine to an old man."
"Wuu wuu wuu," the girl’s weak voice emitted at that moment.
Naturally, the girl stopped crying loudly when they were speaking spiritedly but cried loudly at critical moments to provoke pity from the man before her.
The demeanor of a damsel in distress, many men fall for it, especially those with wicked and ugly wives.
"Enough, you want more chaos?"
When she was yelled at by the man again, Mrs. Lai felt like crying at that point.
She used to always have the man’s support, but in these last two years, the man easily yelled at her, yet it wasn’t for another woman.
Now her man was yelling at her for another, for another woman, it was entirely a matter of face.
"Husband, how can you just swallow this when this despicable woman schemed against you? Do you think our family is rich now, or do you think I am too old?"
Mrs. Lai yelled furiously, Hongji’s father didn’t respond. He had such thoughts but didn’t let it slip, this silence in front of outsiders was as good as an outright admission!
"Pfft, elder sister, you know you’re old, not as young as before, just accept it!"
The others held back their laughter except for the youngest young man, who couldn’t restrain himself, surely a rebellious age, he spoke whatever was on his mind without any reservations!
"You..., you this rotten kid, I protected you guys so much before, now you ungrateful wolves!"
Mrs. Lai proceeded to curse these people, her spittle flying everywhere, everyone dodged, but being in a room, there was so little space, they all had to retreat to the doorway.
"Elder sister, when your family hires so many people, anyone can be hired, even if we had no family ties, we all earn our money with labor, it’s not like in your family, where you get money without working."
The young man spoke further:
"Speaking of which, elder sister, you’re incapable. Maybe when my sister marries into your family, she might help you out! Have more sons to take care of your old age, have more daughters to be dutiful to you! Anyway, as the eldest child, they will call you ’mother’!"
Mrs. Lai was so angry she nearly spit blood:
"Don’t even think about it..., you useless thing, usually not impressive in our household, if it weren’t for my face, they would’ve already fired you, your whole family is a bunch of debt-collectors."
Mrs. Lai carried on with the quarrel to the end, such disputes couldn’t end so quickly!
Hongji’s father... rubbed his temples, feeling a headache as he glanced at the girl’s room with closed windows, noting it was getting late.
After getting off the bed and putting on his shoes, he dared not sit on the girl’s bed anymore, nor did he stand, he sat down on a stool next to the bed.
Mrs. Lai’s obese body was unusually combative today, typically finding a place to sit after walking a few steps, but at this moment, to not show weakness, she kept standing and arguing, occasionally hopping about.
"Enough, brother, tell me, how much dowry do you want if your daughter marries into my family?"
"Husband... it can’t be ."
Mrs. Lai was about to speak when the dowry price offered by her brother suddenly made her stop talking to her husband and start, right, start scolding!
"What? 100 Silver taels! You might as well rob us, such junk, at 19 or 20 still not married off, it turns out you wanted a good price!"
"Girl..., I’m supposed to marry into a family as a young madam, heh, you’re the one selling!"
"Elder sister, I heard your younger daughter is just marrying a laborer, and she gets 100 taels of dowry, my family is marrying off a daughter, and we only have this one daughter, is 100 taels too much?"
The girl’s father wasn’t about to give in easy, they planned this maneuver just once, and the dowry might even be split with Mrs. Lai, among the brother’s own half, 100 taels seemed a lot, enough to build a large house.