"Dad, Mom, I'm here to marry Wan'er." Mo Qingshan's face was filled with joy.
The joyous music of the wedding procession was deafening. The Zhangs looked at each other in panic.
Mu Qingshan was confused as to why his father-in-law and mother-in-law looked like this on such a happy day.
The matchmaker came forward with a smile on her face and said: On this happy day, the groom is here to pick up the bride.
The in-laws must be so happy!
"The groom is welcoming the bride into the bridal sedan!" The brothers who were welcoming the bride shouted loudly towards the door.
Some curious guests put down their bowls and chopsticks and came out to investigate.
Her aunt, what's going on! Didn't the wedding procession just leave? Why are they back again?
And this doesn’t look like the same team as before!
Yes! What's going on with her aunt?
The guests who had just sat down were also curious about what was going on and came out to look.
Everyone is talking a lot, you say something and I say something.
Everyone is curious about why there is a wedding procession coming?
Everyone was discussing whether the wedding procession had gone through the wrong gate.
Even though Mo Qingshan was slow, he noticed something was wrong.
Most of the people who came to welcome the bride were Mo Qingshan's brothers from the same clan. Now everyone also realized that something was wrong.
From the fragmentary words of these people, they learned that there was another wedding procession ahead of them. It should be the same procession they encountered just now.
Someone whispered, "Could it be that the Zhang family has two daughters getting married?"
I don’t know. I haven’t heard that he has two daughters.
What's going on? Is this a marriage scam? Even if it were, it wouldn't be so blatant!
I don’t know, let’s see what the Zhang family says first.
Yes, yes, yes. Let's see what the Zhang family says first.
Mo Gu signaled the matchmaker to come forward and find out more about the situation. After all, this marriage was arranged by the matchmaker.
If there are any other situations, it will naturally be up to the matchmaker to find out the situation.
Matchmaker Lai also had a bad feeling.
Matchmaker Lai had a smile on her face and said in a pinched voice: Oh, my dear relatives, the groom has been here for such a long time, why hasn't the bride come out yet?
Our groom has come with great sincerity. We can't keep him waiting for too long.
As he spoke, the men carrying the betrothal gifts came up. There were six boxes in total. The Mo family wanted to keep a low profile, so the gifts were standard. One box contained rice. One box contained flour. One box contained cloth. One box contained wine. One box contained sugar. And one box contained five taels of silver, a betrothal gift.
The box was opened. Everyone was stunned. This betrothal gift was definitely generous.
No family gave a betrothal gift of rice, flour or cloth.
Just like the betrothal gifts the Cheng family brought when they came to pick up the bride: 20 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of flour, a piece of cloth, two jars of wine, and ten taels of silver. The box itself was just a symbolic gift.
In the feudal ancient times, most betrothal gifts were deducted from the bride's family. Very few families would give the bride money away, so the groom's family would try to reduce the betrothal gift as much as possible.
The Mo family's betrothal gift was substantial: 100 jin of rice, 100 jin of flour, five bolts of cloth, six jars of wine, 20 jin of sugar, and five taels of silver.
Although the Mo family's betrothal gift was only five taels of silver, the price of these items plus the five taels of betrothal gift would start at at least thirty taels.
The cloth was fine cotton and satin, all of the best quality, and the wine was also of the finest quality.
The Cheng family’s betrothal gifts totaled only twelve or thirteen taels at most.
When the Zhangs saw the betrothal gift box opened, they almost lost their balance. They supported each other, feeling extremely regretful. They had never imagined that the Mo family could actually come up with such a betrothal gift.
After the gifts were dried in the sun, the men carrying them packed them up in boxes and waited for the bride to come out before carrying them back inside.
Matchmaker Lai pinched her throat and said with a smile: Aunt Zhang, this betrothal gift is real, please let the bride come out quickly, it will be bad if we miss the auspicious time for the wedding.
The couple now wished they had a daughter at home. Now that it had come to this, how could they hide it?
Both of them had panicked expressions on their faces.
The panicked expressions of the couple and the words of the woman's guests made it easy to guess the true situation.
Now that it had come to this, the Zhangs also knew about it. At this point, the matter could no longer be concealed. They could only stammer and tell the story.
Really, we didn’t know your family would come to pick up the bride!
It was your father who came to your house and said that your family didn't have the money to pick up the bride.
Your family has no money to welcome the bride. I thought you would come over to cancel the engagement in a few days.
Our Wan'er can't wait for you forever!
Mo Qingshan said with a sullen face: "Regardless of whether our family comes to pick up the bride or not, as long as our two families do not cancel the engagement, Zhang Wan'er cannot marry anyone else."
Although our families didn't exchange engagement letters in time for some reason, we were still engaged. The village chief and clan elders were present. You're committing marriage fraud. I can file a lawsuit against you at the government office.
Mo Qingshan felt deeply insulted. The Zhang family had gone too far. If they hadn't wanted to, they could have called off the engagement.
Now that this has happened, isn't this just stomping on their faces?
When the Zhangs heard they were going to report the matter to the authorities, they turned pale with fear. If they did, their family would definitely be in trouble, as they were in the wrong in the first place.
I apologize here. It's also our fault for not visiting your home these past two days to understand the situation clearly.
Yes, I apologize to you, too. Qingshan, I know you're a good kid. It's our family that's sorry.
This is the one or two taels of silver we paid for the engagement. Now we will return it to you. As he spoke, he took out one or two taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to Mo Qingshan.
Mo Qingshan looked at the silver in his hand and felt very ironic. The Zhang family had brought such great shame to his family. How could he let it go?
The guests at home were still waiting for them to take the bride back. Now that she was in this state, the whole family of the second house would laugh at them. How could he afford to lose face like this?
The Mo family members who came to welcome the bride were all furious. This Zhang family was really bullying.
At this moment, Mo Qingshan noticed a girl coming out of a straw hut not far away.
Although the girl was wearing tattered clothes, she was still neatly dressed.
He knew this girl. He had met her by chance when he first came to Zhangjia Village for a blind date. The matchmaker had mentioned her name as Zhang Lanlan. Zhang Lanlan and the Zhang family were related.
Zhang Lanlan's father died of illness, leaving the family saddled with debt. Her mother also died during childbirth of twins, a boy and a girl.
Zhang Lanlan began to take on the responsibility of supporting the family when she was ten years old.
A girl raises two younger brothers and a younger sister.
Zhang Lanlan's requirement for marrying her husband was to pay off her debts and support her younger brothers and sisters.
As soon as this request came out, no one dared to propose marriage.
Zhang Lanlan is now 18 years old and has passed the marriage age.
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