Chapter 9 - 8: The Not-So-Bad Dad
As more guests started to arrive, Zhao Haiyang no longer had time to fish for information from Ye Qiu.
Ye Fang was also showing off to her classmates and fellow villagers with her husband, saying that even though she didn't mix well in the village, the marriage was truly enviable.
Listening to the praise from the people around her, Ye Fang felt elated and even more proud. The only regret now was that her elder brother was unwilling to give her more dowry money, which unavoidably rekindled her resentment towards the couple...
After the meal, since they had already split the family, Ye Qiu gave five hundred yuan as a gift.
In this rural area, where ten to twenty yuan was the norm, this was an astronomical sum, yet there were still those who were unsatisfied.
But what could dissatisfaction do? Who could actually point out a fault?
Ye Qiu chuckled secretly, with just this five hundred yuan, he guessed that after they left, there would be quite a fuss between the second brother's family, Granny Ye, and Ye Fang!
When the time came in the evening to give the dowry money, there was another round of disputes.
Ye Qiu's stance was very clear; according to the previous agreement, he would match whatever the second brother gave.
However, upon hearing of her elder brother's wealth, Ye Fang was even less impressed with the couple hundred yuan, thinking that if her second brother could give five thousand, the elder brother should also give five thousand, then she would have ten thousand.
If each person gave ten thousand, then she would have twenty thousand! The thought alone got her blood boiling!