Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chen Ersao was quite good-looking, and Chen Sen, the second son of the Chen family, was determined to marry her.

As for Chen Ersao's family, they favored boys over girls, so they would only marry their daughter to the family that offered the highest gift. However, there was a family that was willing to pay 300 yuan to marry Chen Ersao, and Chen Sen insisted on marrying her. Chen's parents had no choice but to give the same gift as that family. Chen Ersao chose Chen Sen and married him because he was good-looking.

——When Chen Ersao got married, the three-turn-and-one-ring gift was already popular, but it cost almost five hundred yuan. City people could afford it, but rural people couldn’t, so they paid in cash. At that time, three hundred yuan was considered a lot of dowry in rural areas.

However, Mrs. Chen and the eldest son of the Chen family, Chen Xin, were not pushovers. When they heard that their second brother asked the family to pay 300 yuan for the bride price, they naturally followed suit and asked for more. After all, Chen's father and mother are in charge of the family now and do not allow them to divide the family. The marriage of their three sons is actually equivalent to dividing the family in disguise. If they don't ask for more now, when will they ask for more?
They gave 300 yuan each to their eldest son and second son, which almost emptied their savings. When the original son came into the family, they could not afford such a large dowry, so they only gave 100 yuan.

The original body didn't know about it at first. Although she found out later, she felt embarrassed to let the Chen family give birth to two daughters, so she let it go.

But in fact, not only did the original body feel uncomfortable knowing this, her husband was also not happy about it. Sometimes when Chen Lei quarreled with his parents, he would bring up this matter, saying that they were biased, giving 300 yuan in betrothal gifts to the eldest and second brothers and only giving him 100 yuan. He was at a disadvantage because of the eldest brother, and yet he was asked to do things. It was impossible.

It was not until several years later that Chen's parents could no longer bear Chen Lei's constant mention of this matter and gave him two hundred yuan in compensation.

But that was several years ago, and the money has become even less valuable.

Linlang naturally would not wait until then and was ready to do it now. After all, money was still valuable and she could still do something with it, such as buying a house. Her original home was in the suburbs of the provincial capital, and as the capital of a province, Linlang felt that real estate transactions should have occurred by now and she could buy a house.

If you can't buy it, then see if you can buy gold. In any case, it is better than letting the money depreciate in your hands.

When Chen's mother heard Linlang asking for a dowry, she couldn't help but scold her, "You gave birth to two girls, and you still have the nerve to ask for a dowry?!"

Then, just as Linlang had thought, she started to curse Chen Ersao, thinking that it was all because of Chen Ersao's family's big appetite that they asked for so much money, causing them to give more money to their other two sons. If the second son's family had not asked for so much money, they would not have spent all their savings by now.

Chen Lei heard Linlang mention the betrothal gift, and then his parents felt that since Linlang had given birth to two girls, they didn't deserve the 300 yuan betrothal gift. Without waiting for Linlang to retort, they spoke up and said, "Why can't we have it? The first and second wives both have 300 yuan betrothal gifts, why can't I have any? At the beginning, you said that you were short of money, so you gave me 100 yuan first and the remaining 200 yuan later. Now my wife and I have been married for four or five years, why haven't you made up for it? My wife asked you for it, and you are still trying to find a reason not to give it? What, was what you said to me at the beginning a lie? You just don't plan to give me 300 yuan betrothal gift? Then how can you be so biased? If you continue to be so biased, our first wife will stop working in the future. I want to get back the lost betrothal money with my wife."

When Chen's father and mother saw that the third son and his wife were clamoring for it, they knew that both of them had objections to the issue of the bride price.

If only the daughter-in-law had objections, it would be fine. But if the son also had objections, they would have a headache and dare not not give it. After all, the youngest son is also a laborer. If he does not work and cannot create income for the family, and then the family still has expenses, the money for the betrothal gift will probably be offset in a year with the back and forth. Even if it cannot be offset in one year, it will definitely be offset in two years, and they will suffer a big loss in the future.

Moreover, if they really have a falling out with their youngest son, he will no longer care about them. When they are old, they will have to rely on the eldest and second oldest sons for support, which is not good either. The eldest and second oldest sons will definitely have objections.

Thinking of this, in order to let his youngest son continue to work for the family and to prevent him from having an excuse not to support his parents in the future, Father Chen could only ask Mother Chen to take out the two hundred yuan she had saved in the past few years and give it to Linlang. Mother Chen was so distressed, and the eyes of Brother Chen, Sister-in-law, Second Brother Chen and Sister-in-law were also flickering. Obviously, they were not at peace.

When they took the money, they felt it was their due. But now that it is Linlang and his wife's turn to take the money, they feel they have suffered a loss.

Why do they feel that they are losing out when they get the same amount? It’s because they think that their family is large—the first wife has four children and six people, and the second wife has three children and five people—and if they divide 300 yuan, then on average, each person will get less than the third wife, so they are losing out.

They didn't think that the three families had exactly the same betrothal gifts. They just felt that they were losing out since the per capita amount was less.

——In fact, the second family suffered the most, because Chen Ersao’s family favored boys over girls, and they sold their daughter. Of the 300 yuan betrothal gift, only 30 yuan was given to Chen Ersao to take back, and the rest was all greedy by her family. The eldest family was better off, at least the money was still in their hands.

Although they felt they had suffered a loss, they did not dare to say anything at the moment. After all, on the surface, the betrothal gifts from the three families were exactly the same, and they had nothing to say.

Don't say that Zhao Linlang, the third wife, doesn't deserve it because she hasn't given birth to a son. The betrothal gift should have been given before the marriage. It was just that in order to give 300 yuan each to the first and second wives, the third wife didn't get enough. Just because she didn't give it then, she can't make additional conditions now. That doesn't make sense no matter how you say it. So even though they feel that they are at a disadvantage because of the large number of their family members, they don't dare to say anything.

Linlang received the two hundred yuan, plus the one hundred yuan given by the Chen family before, and put them all into the space. After all, in this era, there is no surveillance, so she would keep it in the room. If someone from the first or second room took it, and they didn't admit it, she would have no place to cry.

After collecting the money, Linlang said to Chen Lei in the evening: "Accompany me to my mother's house tomorrow."

Chen Lei asked, "Why are you going to your mother's house?"

The original body and Chen Lei were from the same village, but this village was not small, and the two homes were about two kilometers apart.

Linlang said, "Today, when I was collecting firewood in the mountains, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that I was at a disadvantage. Not to mention your family, which lost 200 yuan, my mother's family also lost 200 yuan. My sister got married last year, and my parents gave her 200 yuan dowry. Why did she get it and I didn't? I plan to go back tomorrow to ask for it."

Chen Lei was naturally willing to make money for their small family, but he hesitated and said, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law may not give it to me."

Unlike their family, they had agreed to give 300 yuan as a betrothal gift to the eldest and second brothers, and also gave him 300 yuan, and now they can get it back.

His wife's family didn't agree to give her 200 yuan as a dowry. (End of this chapter)