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Chapter 1537 Good Luck Continues (26)
Li Qiuyun immediately asked her father for 500 yuan, saying it was for the bride price and wedding expenses.

In fact, she certainly wouldn't use that much. She only planned to give Cao Li a dowry of one hundred yuan. After all, she would have a son who would take Cao Li's surname in the future, so the dowry would naturally be less, one hundred yuan would be enough. Otherwise, if the child did not take Cao Li's surname, she might have to give more.

She gave Cao Li a hundred yuan dowry, took out some money for the wedding, and the rest was hers. It just so happened that the money Grandma Li had given her had been stolen, so with this money from Li's father, she would have some money to spend and could continue to shop lavishly.

If it weren't for the fact that a thousand yuan was too much, Li's father definitely wouldn't have given it to her; otherwise, Li Qiuyun would have asked her father for a thousand yuan.

For now, she could only ask for 500 yuan. She would find a way to ask for the rest of the money from Li's father later.

In her imagination, with such a high monthly salary, Li's father didn't seem to have many expenses, and could save at least 500 yuan a year. Over the years, he should have a lot of money, maybe even 5,000 yuan. Therefore, asking for 500 yuan was not too much for her, and she could continue to ask for more in the future.

In reality, Mr. Li only had 1,000 yuan on hand. Li Qiuyun asked him for half of his money, which he naturally refused. After all, his mother had asked him for 400 yuan when they divorced, and when he refused, she refused to divorce him. He had no choice but to give it to her.

Now that his daughter is getting married, does she have anything she can use to blackmail him? No, so Li's father certainly won't give her much money.

Why didn't Li's father save the five thousand yuan that Li Qiuyun had imagined? It's because Li Qiuyun, Li Zhiguo and his wife, and the elderly couple in the Li family—these three groups of people—would frequently ask Li's father for money under various pretexts. They would ask for five yuan one day and ten yuan the next. As a result, although Li's father earned a high salary, he couldn't withstand being ripped off by these three groups. In addition, Li's father only became a level six fitter in recent years. Before that, he wasn't always a level six fitter. He had also worked as a level four and five fitter, and his salary wasn't as high then. So it's normal that he only saved 1,600 yuan over the years (he still had 1,600 yuan on hand. He had previously given 100 yuan to Linlang, 400 yuan to Li's mother, and 100 yuan to Li's grandfather, totaling 1,600 yuan). This is because the rest of the money had already been divided up by Li Qiuyun and the others.

But Li Qiuyun didn't think so. She only knew that her father had a high salary, and she didn't spend her father's money. At most, she would take five or ten yuan each time. She didn't take much money from her father. In this way, her father must be able to save a lot of money every month. How could he not have five thousand yuan over the years?
But she didn't realize that while she said she didn't take much money, that five or ten yuan wasn't much, she didn't consider that if she took money this way twenty times a year, it would add up to one or two hundred yuan. So, Li Qiuyun alone would take one or two hundred yuan from her father in a year. Of course, even if Li Qiuyun did the math and realized she had taken one or two hundred yuan from her father, she might say that she had only asked her father for one or two hundred yuan at most, so was that a lot?
But she didn't know that she would ask Li's father for one or two hundred yuan a year, and Li Zhiguo and his wife, as well as the elderly couple in the Li family, would also ask for about the same amount. The elderly couple in the Li family might ask for a little less, but the three families combined would ask for four or five hundred yuan a year. So how much could Li's father save? To be honest, the fact that he could save 1,600 yuan was all thanks to Li's father's frugal living. There was no way Li Qiuyun imagined that her father had 5,000 yuan in savings.

She doesn't even consider how much money she would have to save in a year with 5,000 yuan in savings; she's just daydreaming.

She felt that since Li's father had five thousand in savings, it was reasonable for her to ask for five hundred yuan, and it was a very small amount.

As a result, Li's father only gave her two hundred yuan, telling her to give one hundred yuan as a bride price to Cao Li and one hundred yuan for the wedding, which was more than enough.

She was naturally unhappy about it and went to Li's father to complain: "How can you only give me this much! This is far too little!"

Then Li's father said, "I only gave Zhiguo this much money back then. Since I said I would split my money equally between the two of you, I should give you the same amount."

Li Qiuyun was naturally unwilling, saying, "He's been married for almost ten years. How can money from ten years ago be compared to money now? Besides, your salary was lower ten years ago, so it was normal to give you less. Now that your salary is so much, shouldn't you give me more? All that money we've saved is ultimately mine... and Li Zhiguo's. Giving it sooner or later is the same." Li's father, who only had eight hundred yuan left and not much money at all, immediately said, "Impossible. If I give you more, your brother will definitely make a scene. I don't want any trouble at home, so I can only give you this much. Take it or leave it."

She said she didn't want any trouble at home, but actually she didn't want to give Li Zhiguo any money.

Although he said that his property would be divided equally between Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo, that was after his death. While he was alive, he naturally wanted to keep the money in his own hands, lest it all be given to his children and they were unfilial and treated him badly.

Although Li's father takes care of his eldest brother's son and likes his eldest daughter, it doesn't mean he's stupid. He would hand over his savings early on and face a difficult life in the future.

No matter how much Li Qiuyun made a fuss, her father insisted on giving her only two hundred yuan. She had no choice but to stop making a scene instead of starting a fight.

The reason for the other incident was that the two hundred yuan that Li's father gave her was not all given to her. He only gave her one hundred yuan, and the remaining one hundred yuan was supposed to be for the wedding. Although it was said to be for her, it was not actually given to her. Instead, he and Ding Ping used it to pay for the wedding.

These words naturally displeased Li Qiuyun. After all, she didn't trust Ding Ping. If she let Ding Ping handle her wedding, who knew how much of that 100 yuan would actually end up in Ding Ping's pocket instead of her own?

She had known for a long time that Ding Ping was no good, but she never expected that she would be so greedy for money so soon after arriving, and that she would set her sights on her wedding money. So Li Qiuyun immediately voiced her objections.

But Li's father said, "Which family's wedding isn't arranged by the parents? Your brother's wedding was arranged by your grandparents too."

Ten years ago, when Li Zhiguo got married, Li's father was afraid that Li's mother would skimp on the money, and since he had to work and didn't have time to keep an eye on things, he asked Li's grandparents to handle the arrangements.

Li Qiuyun said, "My grandparents are handling this for me, so they definitely won't skimp on a single penny. In fact, they might even add some money on top of it..."

After all, Grandpa Li valued Li Zhiguo, his eldest grandson, the most. Even if Grandma Li didn't value him as much, with Grandpa Li watching over her, she wouldn't dare to do anything.

So Li Qiuyun continued, "If that's what you're saying, then let my grandma and grandpa handle it for me. Anyway, I don't trust Ding Ping."

Although her grandfather favored sons over daughters and would definitely cut back on her things, with her grandmother keeping an eye on things, he probably wouldn't be able to cut back on them.