Thinking of his youngest son Yanxi, especially since he is still suffering from amnesia, Mr. Li felt a little worried.

He knew his youngest son's personality. Before he was injured and fell into a coma, he was rather indifferent.

There is a reason for all this. Because my son has an extremely special pair of eyes, different from those of ordinary people, he is often treated as a monster by people around him.

After being pointed at for a long time, the younger son started fighting with others under the insults of the monster.

A group of people thought they could win the fight and wanted to suppress him with their numbers, but they never expected that the man they regarded as a monster had a bad temper and was extremely strong.

Whenever someone said something, his youngest son would beat them. Gradually, people became afraid and cursed him as a monster in secret, but did not dare to say it to his face.

The younger son also knew that those people were even more afraid of him, so they became more and more silent and spoke less and less.

As a result, my temperament was affected and I gradually became cold and indifferent.

Even to them, his closest family members, his son rarely speaks, let alone outsiders.

Even though the youngest son did not like outsiders and did not want to get married at the time, he had to marry and have children according to the regulations because he reached the age requirement of the government.

After all, the population of the predecessor of Dongxia Kingdom dropped sharply due to wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters.

In order to increase the labor force quickly, the higher authorities came up with a solution.

It also issued a requirement that all men who have reached the age of marriage and the birth of children should fulfill their responsibilities of having children within one year.

Those who fail to fulfill their obligations will also have their parents affected. Their parents will be arrested by the government and taken to the local government office for ideological education.

In serious cases, the parents would be whipped, and the person involved would not only have to pay double the population tax, but would also be forced to serve in the government.

Forced military service, mostly to resist foreign enemies and die on the battlefield, is also the situation many people fear most.

Because of this strange regulation of the government, many families are very troubled and try every means to deal with it and find suitable people for their children in advance.

The youngest son was less than 20 years old at the time. In order to protect himself and his wife from physical pain, the old couple agreed to the plan in advance.

He planned to get engaged and marry the girl from the Chen family whom they favored.

But later, Qingyu's incident happened, and the younger son's affairs became known to many people, and the story was exaggerated and spread. The Chen family took this as an opportunity to demand more silver as compensation.

It was only after his son came back and a few days later that he and his wife found out about it.

As Mr. Li frowned and thought about these things, he saw Old Man Chen respond confidently.

"Old Li, look at what you said. Of course our Chen family will be honest. Is there any need to say that? You must abide by it, otherwise you will be taken to the government office and beaten with a stick."

Mr. Chen said this without hesitation and with such righteousness that those who didn't know him would think he was a reasonable person.

Old Master Chen is very confident about the marriage of his fifth daughter.

At that time, they proposed to increase the betrothal gift as compensation, hoping to take advantage of the pressure from everyone pointing fingers at the Li family and give them some compensation to make some profits.

Unexpectedly, Li Yanxi directly refused and chose on the spot not to pay extra money as they said.

They said that either the engagement should be cancelled or more money should be paid to continue the engagement. Otherwise, they would ask the government to investigate the scandal that had been spread before the engagement.

But Li Yanxi was just a child after all, unlike these old men, who knew about the government’s management of marriage contracts.

If you want to cancel the marriage arranged by your parents, it is very easy to tear up the marriage certificate.

Many young people who don’t know about this will ignore a very important process.

One of the most crucial points is that the cancellation of the engagement requires not only the agreement of both parents but also the presence of a third party, the matchmaker.

The matchmaker will write the certificate of annulment of the engagement, and only after receiving this certificate can the engagement be truly annulled.

At that time, when Li Yanxi heard them talking about adding silver, he tore up the marriage certificate.

He left on the spot, probably because he didn't know about the matchmaker's testimony.

Because of this, Mr. Chen's smile gradually became brighter, "If you still don't believe it, you can let Yanxi come out and confront us face to face."

Even if Li Yanxi came out, Mr. Chen was not afraid and felt that he could stand his ground.

Between being shameless and being shameless, he chose to be shameless since it was related to his daughter's marriage after all.

You can’t eat your face, money is the most important thing.

What's more, this matter happened too suddenly, and there was no third party such as a matchmaker to testify.

Even if Li Yanxi knew about this, it would be of no avail. After all, each person has his own reasons.

They felt more and more that God was blessing them. The wrinkles on Mr. Chen's face were squeezed together like a blooming black chrysanthemum.

Without paying attention to Old Man Chen's expression, Old Man Li thought for a moment and spoke again, "This matter was proposed by your Chen family, and my son agreed to it. Since this engagement is annulled, it means that the two children are not destined to be together."

Mr. Chen thought about what his sons said, and did not give up his plan, and continued to respond to Mr. Li.

"Hey, Old Li, don't say that. You also know that the children's marriage is decided by their parents."

They had always hoped that their daughter could marry into a wealthy family. What happened at that time was too sudden, and they also hoped to cut their losses in time.

Last night, his son came back from the market and told him what he saw on the street. He and his wife decided immediately to arrange the marriage.

Even if I have to be thick-skinned, I can't give up this relative.

Their family still has the marriage certificate, and the matchmaker was not present at the time. As long as they insist and do not acknowledge the increase in the betrothal gift, outsiders will stand on their side.

"You all know my daughter and her husband, so they wanted to become relatives with us." As he spoke, Mr. Chen reached out his hand and patted Mr. Lin on the shoulder, "The engagement with Yanxi has always been valid."

After hearing this, Mr. Li was speechless. This old man Chen was so shameless.

It was because they didn't know the family well enough that they hired a matchmaker to find this family for their youngest son.

However, the Chen family listened to rumors spread by others and simply raised the price and added to the bride price.

Fortunately, they did not become relatives with such a family, and through this, they also saw clearly what this family was thinking.

While thinking about what to say, Old Man Chen laughed and said, "Old Li, that was just a joke from the kids. Yanxi might have heard it wrong and just left. We as parents don't know about it."

Then, Old Master Chen added, "Besides, you know that the marriages of Wawa and his friends are decided by us as parents. What Wawa and his friends say has no say. These are just minor quarrels."

Anyway, no matter what, as long as they don't agree, the marriage will still count.

The reason why they are so confident is that they rely on the laws of the Dongxia Kingdom.

There are regulations regarding marriage contracts. Once a man and a woman sign a marriage contract, they cannot easily go back on their word, otherwise they will be punished.

The man who initiates the termination will be taken to the government office, beaten with seventy sticks, and will not be allowed to ask for the betrothal gift back.

If the woman takes the initiative to propose, she will be beaten with 70 sticks, and she will still have to fulfill the marriage contract after that.

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