Chapter 521 Settling Dust (2)_1
At this moment, neither of them knew that the girl who was wholeheartedly good to Tie Tou would appear so quickly, even more so because of the girl’s identity, they were caught off guard!
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Seeing that the marriage deal, which in Mrs. Hong’s eyes was "good," was about to fall apart because Lao Mo’s House couldn’t produce a decent dowry, Mrs. Hong stepped up her efforts to pressure Tie Tou. She not only forbade him from working at the rice shop but also locked him in the house, refusing to give him food or water, hoping to coerce him into agreeing through these means.
But Tie Tou was stubborn as iron, and even though Mrs. Hong praised the kiln girl to the skies, it just wasn’t enough to coax him into signing the marriage certificate.
"Hmph, just keep being stubborn. I’ve eaten more salt than you have rice, and I refuse to believe there’s no way to cure you!" Mrs. Hong spat out in hatred, kicked the silent Tie Tou, and left the room with a face as dark as iron, going to consult with Mo Yongxi about what to do.
The kiln girl had said that as long as a marriage contract was signed and recorded with the government, she would give their family a hundred taels of silver! That was a hundred taels of silver! She had lived for most of her life and, at most, only had more than thirty taels, most of which were left by her dead husband’s deceased older brother and sister-in-law.
With those hundred taels, she could take out half to put together a decent dowry for Yongxi, buy two sets of fine clothes, and make two sets of silver jewelry, so she could marry off into the city in style and fortune.
The remaining silver could be used to build several spacious and bright brick and tile rooms. Living in brick and tile houses was far better than their thatched cottage, which almost collapsed under the snow, and in the entire village aside from that white-eyed wolf family, nobody else had the means to live in such houses!