Chapter 599: Dowry
After a few rounds of drinking, the men were starting to get tipsy, their boasting reaching grandiose levels. Tong Yao felt the timing was right. She gave Gu Hongwei a look, then asked with a laugh, "Uncle Guo, I heard you say earlier that your family has also bought a house in the city?"
At these words, Deng Qiuxia became tense. She tried to give Guo Xinpei a hint, but he was too caught up in his bragging to take notice.
Guo Xinpei boasted, "Of course! Everyone knows we own a house in the city!"
Unaware that Guo Xinpei had mortgaged the house, his elder sister nodded in agreement, "My brother does indeed own a house in the city, it’s no lie."
Fearing that Tong Yao would not believe, she even provided the location of the house without mentioning that it was bought with the money Guo Jinnian had earned.
Guo Jinnian was irritated and blurted out, "I bought that house."
Guo’s elder sister retorted, "What you buy is rightfully your parents’, isn’t it? You’re not married yet, nor have you divided the family property. The money you earn and the house you buy, aren’t they all supposed to belong to your parents? There is no precedent in our area for a daughter to give all her earnings to her husband’s family before she’s even married."
Deng Qiuxia added, "Jinnian, we’re all family. Why do you need to separate everything so clearly?"
She said this, but inside, Deng Qiuxia was very nervous. She feared that the fact the house was mortgaged would be discovered. If Tong Yao and Gu Hongwei were to learn that her husband was a gambler and he lost their house, they might look down on their family.
Hearing these words, Guo Jinnian became even angrier. He was about to retort but was stopped by a look from Tong Yao.