Chapter 1408 Broken Engagement 57
Chapter 1408 Breaking off the Engagement 57
"Girl, this price is not expensive. If we weren't leaving in a few days, I would have bought it for 2,000 yuan."
The old woman looked reluctantly at the old hen in the wooden pen, the well, and the stone table and bench under the pear tree.
Yuanchun was very satisfied and could accept the price.
After all, she got 50,000 yuan from Hong Shanshan's family. She could afford not only one house, but even ten or twenty.
Immediately, Yuanchun took Taohua and followed the old woman to the Housing Authority to transfer the ownership of the house. Taohua's name was signed. Yuanchun wanted to register the house under Taohua's name, but Taohua disagreed and insisted on signing Shen Yuandong's name.
Coming out of the Housing Authority, Taohua whispered to her, "Yuandong is the head of the family, so it's only legitimate and reasonable to register the house under his name. If it's registered under my name, then Yuandong would become a live-in son-in-law."
Yuanchun was shocked by her thinking.
However, people of this era think that men are the backbone of the family, and that all family property must be registered under the name of men.
Anyway, no matter whose name it is under, my good brother finally has a wedding house.
The old woman and her family were not going to move out until six days later. They agreed to come and take over the house on the morning of six days later. Then Yuanchun took Taohua to the department store and bought her two sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes.
Taohua pulled her away, not wanting her to buy it, but Yuanchun smiled and said, "This is the betrothal gift, it's written in the marriage certificate, you have to buy it."
Taohua had no choice but to accept it shyly.
Yuanchun had taken a thick stack of tickets from the Hong family. There were several hundred feet of cloth tickets, some of which had dates on them and would expire if not used.
She took out the dated cloth coupons and bought a whole twenty-meter-long piece of dark blue cloth, and asked Taohua to take it back to make a set of clothes for each person in her family.
Taohua was surprised by her generosity.
At noon, Yuanchun bought some vegetables and took Taohua to her dowry room to cook and eat.
This house was bought by Yuanchun before, and was originally intended for Shen Yuandong to use for his wedding, but Shen Yuandong said he didn't want anything. On Yuanchun's wedding day, he even proposed that this house be her dowry.
Well, it’s a dowry. She has enough money anyway, so she can just buy some for her good brother.
Yuanchun didn't refuse either.
Yuanchun led Taohua in, and Taohua looked at her in amazement, "Yuanchun, is this the dowry house that Yuandong mentioned?"
Yuanchun smiled and nodded, "I bought it after Yuandong started working. It was originally for him to marry a wife, but he didn't want it and insisted on giving it to me. This house is a little smaller than yours, but it has a backyard."
"It's not far away, so it will be convenient for us to visit each other in the future."
Taohua then noticed that the location of this house seemed to be very close to the house she had just bought, and it was only seven or eight minutes' walk away.
"I'll do the dishes."
After Taohua finished touring the house, she helped to cook with great swiftness. Halfway through, Huo Min came back with a pound of braised meat.
Yuanchun asked him to light a fire. Huo Min put down the braised meat and went to the yard to get firewood.
Around noon, Shen Yuandong and Guo Wenzhong came back.
Shen Yuandong has a fiancée, and he said he brought Guo Wenzhong to his home to visit his sister, brother-in-law and fiancée.
Guo Wenzhong is also a simple and honest person. He is down-to-earth, steady and hardworking. He has a similar temperament to Shen Yuandong and they can get along well together. However, there are many children in the Guo family, and Guo Wenzhong is the second child. He is the least favored one in the family, so he is often bullied by his family.
But the boy was honest and simple-minded. He never said a word even though he knew his parents treated him unfairly.
He was bullied by his brothers and sisters and suffered all kinds of injustice, but he endured it silently and never complained.