Chapter 1411 Broken Engagement 60
Chapter 1411 Breaking off the Engagement 60
On the fifth day after Yuanchun moved to the county town, Huo Min drove out of town. That night, she took a flying vehicle to Xiangqian Village and sneaked into the Shen family's old house.
The next day, just as the sky was getting light, Li Chunlan wanted to get up to cook, but when she struggled, she found that her legs had lost feeling and she could not stand up.
Li Chunlan was startled and pinched her thigh hard, but she didn't feel any pain.
Li Chunlan was so scared that she howled, "Boss, please wake up, Boss, I can't get up, please wake up, please look at my legs."
Li Chunlan was disabled. The Shen family's father and son woke up early in the morning and sent her to the village clinic. After examining her, old man Zhang confirmed that her leg was disabled.
Li Chunlan became disabled.
This made the Shen family, father and son, feel as if the sky had fallen.
Normally, Shen Jianlin said that he disliked Li Chunlan and San Gouzi hugging each other, but Li Chunlan was indispensable in the lives of the Shen family.
There is only one woman in the family. All the washing and cleaning inside and outside the house have to be done by her. The father and his two sons of the Shen family only know how to work in the fields. When they come home, they act like big shots and ask for food.
Now that Li Chunlan is disabled, there is no one to do the housework, and she has to have someone stay at home to take care of her. Shen Jianlin was immediately very dissatisfied with her.
Moreover, there is a paralyzed mother-in-law in the family. The Shen Yuanpeng brothers, who already had difficulty finding marriage, now had even fewer girls willing to marry into the Shen family.
Therefore, Shen Yuanpeng and his brothers also hated Li Chunlan.
My mother is disabled, it would be better if she died.
Without my mother, the Shen family’s bad reputation will disappear along with her.
It is also easier for them to find a wife. After all, there is no woman in the family. The wife can become the hostess as soon as she comes home. She only needs to do some cleaning chores at home and does not have to go to the fields to earn work points.
But now, after marrying into the family, one has to do housework and serve a disabled mother-in-law with a bad reputation. Which daughter from a good family would marry into the family?
Shen Jianlin was getting angry.
He asked a matchmaker to find a wife for Shen Yuanpeng to do housework and serve Li Chunlan.
But the old Shen family had long been notorious. People from several nearby villages knew that the old Shen family had a daughter who would seduce old bachelors in the wild, and a mother-in-law who would roll around with her son-in-law.
The news that the Shen family bullied the orphan girl from a martyr's family spread, and better families would not marry their daughters to the Shen family.
Even families who favor boys over girls were unwilling to sell their daughters to the Shen family.
The matchmaker could only find a young widow for Shen Yuanpeng from a farther place, with a five-year-old child.
The widow is three years older than Shen Yuanpeng.
The matchmaker said with saliva flying, "A woman who is three years older than you is a treasure. If Li Yulian marries you, she will definitely give your Shen family two grandchildren in three years. If your eldest son really marries Li Yulian, you can just wait to enjoy the happiness."
"Although we are a different family, her appearance is no worse than that of a young girl. She was the most beautiful girl in the village back then."
"And the little girl is already five years old. She can help with housework as soon as she gets home. She is also a small laborer. If we raise her for a few more years, she can even get some money for the bride price."
"If you hadn't given the matchmaker a lot of money, such a good marriage wouldn't have been your Shen family's turn."
"You know how bad the Shen family's reputation is. Apart from a widow, who would be willing to give their daughter to your family?"
"Think about it carefully. If you agree, I will bring him here tomorrow so you can take a look."
"However, although it's a second marriage and they offer a one-get-one-free deal, the betrothal gift is not cheap. The other party said it would be at least 60 yuan, and they also want two new sets of clothes."
Shen Jianlin's eyebrows were relaxed when he heard this, but when he heard the price, he frowned and said, "Sixty yuan is enough to marry two virgin girls. She is a widow with a burden, and she wants so much betrothal money. That's not okay."
"Oh, Shen Jianlin, you don't even look at the situation of your family. I have been running around for your eldest son for several days, but except for Li Yulian, no other woman is willing to marry into your Shen family."
The matchmaker disagreed, so forget it, "Since you are reluctant to spend the money, I will go back to the family and show them other men. There are many men with better conditions than your Shen family."
"If we were not from the same village, I would not have wanted to bring Li Yulian to your house."
"Which young woman would be willing to wait on a mother-in-law who eats, drinks, defecates, urinates and sleeps on the kang when she enters the house?"
The matchmaker said this and was about to get up and leave.
Shen Jianlin stuttered, "Isn't there anyone else, those remote mountain families who value sons over daughters, looking for a virgin girl for my eldest son?"
The matchmaker said disdainfully, "Oh my, a family like this would ask for a higher gift money, around two or three hundred. If you're willing to spend that much money, I'll go find one for you."
You are unwilling to spend money, but you still want your son to marry off an old girl. There is no such good thing in the world.
Don't even look at your own situation.
Do you really think there is such a fool who is sent to your house to work like a slave for nothing?
The matchmaker complained a lot in his heart, took a few eggs given by Shen Jianlin, pouted, complained again about the stingy guy, and left.
After Li Chunlan became disabled, her two sons went to work and Shen Jianlin stayed behind to do housework and take care of Li Chunlan. However, as a grown man, he had never done housework, cooked, or washed clothes. At the end of the day, the meals he cooked were undercooked and tasted bad.
The food is too salty, it's enough to make you choke.
The clothes were also washed.
I even forgot to feed the old hens at home.
Li Chunlan fell into his trouser pocket. Shen Jianlin pinched his nose to get it out, and he vomited the overnight meal in disgust.
At the end of the day, Shen Jianlin felt more tired than when he went to work to earn work points.
What he is looking forward to most now is to quickly marry a daughter-in-law to take over his responsibility.
But the Shen family had a very bad reputation. After ten days or so, the matchmaker could not find any woman willing to marry into the Shen family except Li Yulian.
In order to get rid of these tasks as soon as possible, Shen Jianlin had to agree to let Shen Yuanpeng go to see Li Yulian.
When Shen Yuanpeng heard that the other party was a widow with a child, he was unwilling. However, he was getting older and older, and his family was in this situation. If he didn't get married, he would become a bachelor.
Shen Yuanpeng, who was reluctant at first, became very satisfied after seeing Li Yulian. He didn't mind that she was a second marriage and had a burden.
He eagerly asked the matchmaker if they could get married earlier.
The matchmaker was happy, "As long as the betrothal money is paid, you can hold the wedding banquet any day you want."
The old Shen family had no money, so Shen Jianlin had to go to the brigade and borrow 80 yuan and 50 kilograms of grain, and gave 60 yuan as a betrothal gift. Because he had no cloth coupons, Shen Jianlin could only secretly go to the black market and bought two sets of clothes for eight yuan.
I spent another two dollars and bought two pounds of meat.
Two tables were set up for the wedding banquet, and the two were considered married.