Chapter 2 The Dowry
Xu Momo proposed marriage to her partner is Pan Jinfeng, who is his elementary and junior high school classmates.
After graduating from junior high school, Xu Momo studied at Wuyuan County No. 1 High School, and then studied at Yongzhou University. After graduating from junior high school, Pan Jinfeng went to Yongzhou to study in a technical secondary school.
The village where Pan Jinfeng is located is called Litian Village, which is very close to Xujia Village. You will be there after walking along the Yangtze River Avenue five kilometers away from the city.
Xu Momo drove a Wuling van and arrived at the Pan family in ten minutes.
Parked the car and took the gift from the car: two chickens, two cigarettes, two bottles of wine, two boxes of fruit, two pickled tea leaves, two pieces of sugar, two pieces of biscuits, and two boxes of milk.
Modern proposals do not have as many rules as before. After all, both parties have reached an agreement to make a family in-laws. Just the man needs to bring gifts (the gifts are usually six, eight or ten, and the number of each gift is two) to the woman's house for a visit, and the man and woman discuss the number of bride gifts and determine the time for engagement.
After the greetings, the parents of Xu and Pan family sat around the coffee table in the living room and began to communicate and negotiate the dowry.
When it comes to bride gifts and money, it is best for both parents to communicate. The men and women involved should avoid it. If there is a dirty communication, it will be bad if it affects the relationship after marriage.
Xu Momo and Pan Jinfeng moved two chairs and went to the yard to chat.
"Jinfeng, do you think we haven't seen each other for many years?" Xu Momo said casually.
Pan Jinfeng thought for a while and said, "It's been more than eight years since I graduated from junior high school."
"I haven't heard from you in these years. Do you rarely come back?" Xu Momo asked uncertainly.
"You know I'm in nursing and the nurse is very busy. I haven't been back in five years."
Xu Momo was shocked. Haven’t returned home for five years?
Did you go to Africa?
"Where do you work?"
"I went to Yizhou after graduating from technical secondary school."
Yizhou - the capital of Bashu Province. It is more than 1,300 kilometers away from Yongzhou. It takes more than ten hours to drive and three hours to fly.
This is the distance that can you not go home for five years?
Maybe that busy?
He looked at the old classmate who looked beautiful, with a little makeup on his face and smiled with his eyes. He thought to himself: I am worthy of being the school beauties at the time, and he is still so beautiful. But do I really want to marry her? I haven't seen her for eight years and I don't know anything about it! Besides, can she be "busy" in her job until she doesn't go home for five years? Is such a person suitable for me?
Xu Momo thought again: "In the past 429 days, he has lived so decadent, and his parents are so worried. What's the difference between so many women in this world except her? Just think of it as fulfilling his wish for his parents, so he married Pan Jinfeng and lived his life."
After making up my mind, I thought about getting to know more about the other party.
"Jinfeng, what do you think?"
Pan Jinfeng looked at Xu Momo, her eyes were sometimes dazed and sometimes bright. She changed many times, and finally became firm and her voice began to soften: "Brother Mo, we can be regarded as childhood sweethearts, so I won't hide it from you. I have had a boyfriend over the years and I have had sex with him. If you mind, then we won't get married. If you are willing to marry me, I will definitely take good care of my husband and children in the future."
The phrase "childhood girl" reminded Xu Momo of the past. Pan Jinfeng was beautiful and cute since childhood. She was also very beautiful when she was a child, and she had good academic performance. Neighbors often play with them.
Laughing, saying that he was born with a couple.
Could it be that the jokes from many years ago are really going to work?
"Jinfeng, I also had a girlfriend in college, and I don't have the right to mind you in this regard." Xu Momo said, then turned his head and looked at Pan Jinfeng, and asked in confusion: "But, Jinfeng, we haven't seen each other for so many years, why did you suddenly want to marry me?"
"Brother Mo, I don't want to go back to work when I come back this time. I just want to be a housewife honestly. I heard that you have been at home for more than a year, so... so my mother asked someone to go to your house to ask."
When Pan Jinfeng spoke, she was very gentle and very small. But Xu Momo felt that Pan Jinfeng seemed to have some secrets.
"Pan Renyi, you've passed this, right?"
Xu Momo's contemplation was interrupted by Xu Zhiyong's sudden increase in voice.
"Why did it pass? I'll show it to you." Pan Jinfeng's father Pan Renyi also raised the volume.
"The first solution is: give 100,000 yuan cash, buy a car worth about 150,000 yuan, and pay a down payment of about 100 square meters in Yongzhou. The house price in Yongzhou is about 15,000 yuan, and at a down payment of 30%, it is only 450,000 yuan. Together, a total of 700,000 yuan. I will pay a dowry of 150,000 yuan. You are actually only 550,000 yuan!"
"The second solution is: give 300,000 yuan in cash, buy a car worth about 150,000 yuan, and then buy a dowry of 100,000 yuan. You will also pay a total of 550,000 yuan."
"Old Xu, don't say you can't even get 550,000?"
"Just this month, did Xu Ajiao in your village receive a bride price of 880,000 yuan when she got married? Xu Ajiao didn't even graduate from junior high school and was just a small salesperson. Old Xu, please tell me, is Xu Ajiao's education, figure, and appearance a little better than my Jinfeng?"
"Old Xu, it's not that I'm going to brag about you, but there are only 13 towns and 198 villages in Wuyuan County. No more than one hand is more beautiful than my Jinfeng."
"Do I want you to have more than 500,000 yuan? Let me tell you, if my Jinfeng didn't like your boy, if she didn't have one million, you wouldn't want to enter my door."
Most villagers in Xujia Village make a living by planting, either bananas, longans, lychees, passion fruits, or vegetables such as melons, beans, leaves. In addition, Wuyuan County is only 40 kilometers away from Yongzhou City, the capital of Baiyue Province, with convenient transportation, and basically every family in the village has reached a well-off level.
Xu Momo's family sells longan and lychees for more than 100,000 yuan a year. In addition, Xu Zhiyong usually helps people with some water and electricity, and the village also distributes dividends every year. All the income is more than 300,000 yuan a year.
To be honest, judging from the current rural wedding gift, Pan Renyi’s request for 550,000 is not very high. But Xu Momo couldn’t stand his tone.
"According to the rules, you usually match the dowry of how much we pay, but you only accept the dowry but don't have the dowry." Wei Yongfang said.
Xu Zhiyong took over the conversation, "You only saw Xu Ajiao accepting a dowry of 880,000 yuan, but she didn't see her family giving her one million yuan in dowry. In addition, Lao Pan, more than 500,000 yuan, no problem. What I am not satisfied with is why did the name of Jinlong in the car and house?"
Jinlong’s full name is Pan Jinlong, and he is Pan Jinfeng’s younger brother. He is now in his junior college in Yongzhou.
Xu Momo understands what his parents don’t want. Modern marriages all focus on coming and going. I will get as much dowry as you give. Some people who don’t want a dowry will ask the man to buy a house and a car, and the car and house must be written on the woman’s name.
Chapter completed!