Chapter 59 - Mate selection criteria
“Oh, that’s what I said, don’t you feel touched by the little girl who is so affectionate to you? The little girl is good-looking and capable, and has a formal job. Are you still not satisfied with such good conditions? “Aunt Lin pretended she couldn’t hear what Chen Xiabai said, and still said to herself.
“Xiaobai, you can’t be sunny. Although your conditions are also very good, you can’t take it for granted that you want to marry a girl with very good conditions. The person I just introduced to you doesn’t match your conditions very well. ?”
“Thank you Aunt Lin, but I’m still very young, I just want to have a good job and have no plans to get married.” Chen Xiabai rubbed his forehead helplessly and said, “Aunt Lin, I’m serious, I really don’t have any plans to get married now. .”
“And my sister just got married. We spent a lot of money on the wedding before, and my third brother’s work also cost money. Now the family has no money for the wedding.”
“Aunt Lin, the condition of the girl you introduced is so good, the betrothal gift should not be too low, right? We absolutely can’t get the three major items, and the money for the betrothal gift is not that much. You say that her condition is so good, her parents are willing to My family took out a little betrothal gift and married someone back home?” Chen Xiabai said directly.
Of course, their families know that they have money or not, but what he said is also true. Chen Xiahua’s work did cost money, and Chen Xiayue’s marriage also cost a lot of money, so from the outside, the Chen family must have spent a lot of money. A lot of money goes out, and now there is money and no money is not necessarily.
The Chen family has a salary and will definitely not be unable to survive, and will not be too poor to open the pot, but it is impossible to give out a generous betrothal gift.
After listening to Chen Xiabai’s words, Aunt Lin’s face froze, and she looked at Chen Xiayue who was standing behind Chen Xiabai with a curious face, smiled and said, “Xiaobai, why does a girl need so much dowry? You want to get married, You can ask your sister…”
“Aunt Lin.” Chen Xiabai interrupted Aunt Lin’s words and said with a serious expression, “I definitely don’t want my sister to give me the dowry money to marry a wife, Aunt Lin, what you said is wrong. Besides, Xia Yue was brought up by my family. The girl who is married to the countryside but can’t work in the fields, how can she get a foothold in her husband’s family if the dowry is not generous?”
“Aunt Lin, let me tell you the truth, I have no plans to get married in three to five years, so don’t bother to introduce me to someone. In three to five years, I can save enough money to get married with my work. money, but now I really have no plans to get married.”
When Aunt Lin heard this, there was nothing she could do. Chen Xiabai had always been gentle and polite, but when he put his face up, he was more attractive, and it was not easy for Aunt Lin to continue pestering her.
The most important thing is that Aunt Lin is not sure if the Chen family still has money to marry a daughter-in-law. She told Chen Xiabai that their family has a job, so now they don’t have any savings and they won’t starve to death.
But no one knows if they can take out the money for marrying a daughter-in-law. It takes a lot of money for a job, and everyone knows that the Chen family loves Chen Xiayue, their only daughter, and they don’t know that the Chen family will give Chen Xiayue. How much dowry.
What if I find a job for Chen Xiahua, marry Chen Xiayue and spend all the savings of the Chen family over the years? Do you need the money for the betrothal gift and the money for the wedding? The city people also pay attention to marrying a wife, and the bride price should not be missed.
With conditions like Chen Xiabai, of course, he would not choose those with conditions that are too much worse than him, and people with similar conditions will definitely not want less money for betrothal gifts, so it is true that for a period of time, as Chen Xiabo said, they have no money to marry a wife.
Aunt Lin also gave up. She introduced several to Chen Xiabai, but he always said that he was not thinking about getting married right now. She thought it was an excuse. But now, Aunt Lin thought about it, maybe it was really possible that the Chen family couldn’t get the money for the betrothal gift.
Chen Xiayue looked at her second brother, and then at Aunt Lin, who didn’t speak. Her dowry is indeed quite a lot, which is really a very rich dowry in this era. But what I told my second brother emptied the family’s money, that’s unlikely.
Even if you add the money to arrange work for her third brother, it is impossible to spend all the savings, at least a little less, but definitely not really running out of money.
Chen Xiabai told Aunt Lin that her family was very poor and didn’t say anything more, and took Chen Xiayue and the others back to the house.
“After shopping for so long today, how is your health, Xia Yue? Is there any discomfort?” Chen Xiabai asked with concern.
In the past, Chen Xiayue’s body was not so bad, but didn’t she get sick last time? Everyone in the Chen family was worried that her heart was getting worse because of the last illness, and they were worried that she would get sick again if she was a little careless.
“I’m fine.” Chen Xiayue smiled at her second brother and comforted him, “I’m really fine. I didn’t take anything, I just walked. The heart can still handle this amount of exercise.”
Chen Xiayue is very healthy now, but how should she explain how well she is? So don’t let other people know for a while, only she and Zhang Chengchuan know that they are healthy.
“It’s fine.” Chen Xiabai breathed a sigh of relief, his sister’s body was fine, “Then you have a good rest, second brother and Achuan chat.”
“Well.” Chen Xiayue nodded, her second brother works in a machinery factory, Zhang Chengchuan has read a lot of books on machinery recently, they should have a lot of topics to talk about.
Chen Xiayue returned to her room, because the brothers at home all had jobs, the eldest brother and his wife moved out to live in the house assigned by the school, and the second brother also lived in the single dormitory.
So now, only Chen’s father, Chen’s mother, and third brother, Chen Xiahua, live at home. Of course, Chen Xiayue’s room is reserved. Although she doesn’t go back to her parents’ house often, it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have a room to rest when she comes back.
The wheat on the farm has matured. Chen Xiayue collected it and continued to plant it, and then continued to plant wheat. When I was idle and bored, Chen Xiayue read the book again.
Chen Xiayue prefers to read novels to pass the time, but the text on the Orc Empire is too different from Chinese, and Chen Xiayue can’t understand it. And the Orc Empire is the star age, there are very few paper books, and all books are e-books.
Therefore, it is very difficult for Chen Xiayue to read novels on the Orc Empire. She can only read the Four Books and Five Classics and various collections of poetry and prose that Zhang Chengchuan retrieved for her.
Chen Xiayue was reading a book while waiting for the wheat on the farm to mature, while outside Zhang Chengchuan and Chen Xiabai chatting very speculatively about mechanical topics.
Chen Xiayue looked at her farm level, and it has now been upgraded to level 11. However, it’s about to be upgraded to level 12, and I don’t know when I can upgrade to level 15 and 20.