Countdown to Awakening

Wang Xiaohong felt that this wasn't good for Luo Xinxin. After all, it was a wedding, and every girl wanted a grand ceremony. Besides, Zhong Shanshan's wedding to Liao Bin was so grand and festive, it made all the unmarried girls envious. Luo Xinxin was definitely envious too.

If they didn't hold a grand wedding, people would think they were stingy... But if they wanted to hold a grand wedding, they would have to spend a lot of money. But their money had a big purpose... It would be too expensive to spend it all on the wedding.

They had naturally considered holding a grand wedding. But the matter of holding a wedding really depended on the family's financial situation, right? The Zhou family wasn't very wealthy, and if they had to hold a wedding like the Zhong and Liao families, it would have cost a fortune, and they simply didn't have the financial resources to do so.

And even if they did have the money, they wouldn't want to spend it on a wedding. What a waste! Besides, all the money they'd saved over the years was used to help Zhou Jianguo get married. Any remaining savings were meant for later. Once they had children, there would be plenty of other expenses to cover... there was no way they could just spend it all on a wedding.

Since this money was being saved for Zhou Jianguo's wedding, wasn't it also being saved for his future daughter-in-law? His future daughter-in-law was Luo Xinxin, so wasn't it being saved for Luo Xinxin? So why bother about whether it was spent on the wedding? Family members kept their distance, and didn't the money end up with Luo Xinxin anyway? Thinking about it this way, they were actually treating Luo Xinxin pretty well. At least they were saving money for her before she even married.

Luo Xinxin wouldn't be so ungrateful, right? Her parents-in-law have already done so much to save money for her, so they can't really mind that the wedding isn't grand, right?

To be honest, their money was not originally saved for Luo Xinxin, but for Zhong Shanshan. After all, they originally wanted to find Zhong Shanshan to arrange a marriage.

If it weren't for Zhong Shanshan's family's reluctance to marry her off, Jianguo wouldn't have married Luo Xinxin. Jianguo and Zhong Shanshan would have arranged a marriage long ago. Luo Xinxin is only a teenager now, so she doesn't know much. How can she be a good daughter-in-law? If she doesn't know anything, wouldn't she be raising a freeloader?

But her son was already 25, and it would be impossible to find a partner later. Everyone around them was concerned about their situation and unwilling to marry their daughter to him. So, there was no one else but Luo Xinxin. If there was anyone else, they could just switch. Why would they marry a 16-year-old?

It's impossible to ask her son to wait another four years, until Luo Xinxin turns 20, right? That's impossible. How can you ask someone to wait? Isn't that a waste of time?

It's okay. She'll go to the Luo family and talk to them about it later. They don't have the money for a grand wedding right now. Besides, the money will eventually go into the Luo family's pockets, so they can understand. After all, they have a son who will get married in the future. They can't afford to marry their son without money. I don't think they would do such a thing.

"Chang Jin, don't worry. The two people in the Luo family are easy to talk to. Xiaoxiao and I have a good relationship, so everything will work out naturally when the time comes. I think they can understand us. After all, they have a son who is going to get married in the future. As for us, we just have to wait to hold our grandchildren." Zhou Xiaohong said.

Zhou Changjin felt a little proud after hearing this, and thought she was right. After all, it made sense.

Although Luo Xinxin is only in her teens, the fact that she can marry him means that she can have children. Otherwise, you can't just say you're giving him a daughter, right? Is it true that a woman who can't have children will just eat for free if she marries him?

Zhou Changjin thought about it and realized that if he hadn't been poor when he was young, he would have had more children. He did have a daughter, but the medical conditions at the time were not very good. Sigh... It's a pity to talk about this...

Such a good girl, if she is still like this, she is already 20 years old and can get married. If this girl is still alive, he can receive some betrothal gifts after getting married, and he can also subsidize the family expenses and help her brother...

It's a pity that this girl is gone. Now this can only be a dream. If Xiaohong's health was better, and she had another girl, then we wouldn't have such a worry. We wouldn't have only Jianguo as a child now. If we had another child, he would probably be fifteen or sixteen years old, and older enough to get married. Wouldn't the betrothal gifts received all belong to them? Alas, it was such a pity back then...

Zhou Changjin always felt it was a pity.

He glanced at Wang Xiaohong beside him, remembering that Zhou Xiaohong wasn't in good health. She'd already had a difficult birth with the girl, and now she was even less likely to have another. Although he felt regretful, he didn't blame Wang Xiaohong. After all, raising a child was expensive enough. But he definitely wasn't celebrating his daughter's death. He felt it was a pity. Such a wonderful girl. Just gone like that... She'd be worth a fortune when she grew up.

Alas... But life is so long, accidents may happen every day.

I hope his son and daughter-in-law will have children for their family in the future. Living in harmony and happiness is the best. But it would be even better if they could have more children...

Although their marriage was not recognized by everyone, and even met with opposition and contempt, it was not important. What was important was that their children, his son and daughter-in-law could live happily together in the future.

They were already being criticized, and they couldn't let their sons and grandchildren be criticized as well. Therefore, Jianguo had to have more children. This would prove that their family was large and strong, and no one would dare to speak ill of them anymore.

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Luo's mother cleaned up her and Luo's father's room and rummaged through the old camphorwood box she had brought as a dowry.

"Huh? Why can't I find it? I remember it was right here... Tsk, did I remember it wrong?" Luo's mother said to herself.

Then she rummaged through the camphorwood box again and again, and finally took out a similar folded bright red dress, and looked at it again and again with joy.

"Oh, I found it. I told you it must be here." Luo's mother was delighted again.

Luo's mother looked at the clothes in her hands with great joy, smiling again and again. Then she carefully unfolded them, hung them on the hanger, and looked at them again.

The bright red dress had a large red flower at the neckline, trimmed with gold silk. The hem of the skirt was layered, overlapping each other, also trimmed with gold silk...

She remembered that it was also one summer when she wore this dress to marry Luo's father...

Yes, this is the dress she wore when she got married, but now, there is no point in keeping it, she can only give it to her daughter.

Then she called her eldest daughter Luo Xinxin, who was about to get married.