Chapter 367: Sky-High Dowry
Chapter 367: Exorbitant Dowry
In the end, the team leader wrote a letter of renunciation, and Mengyu brought out one thousand yuan, giving it to Mr. Xiao, who immediately signed and affixed his fingerprint on the letter.
The team leader also separated Xiao Hua’s household registration, just needing to go to the commune for record-keeping afterwards.
When Mrs. Xiao saw her daughter really sever ties with the family, she was deeply distressed and burst into tears.
Tian Xianhua watched as Xiao Hua proposed to sever ties with her family, and Mr. Xiao not only did not stop her, but even helped the process along and calculated everything out.
He was by no means a fool, where could he not see that Mr. Xiao was guarding against him?
But if it wasn’t for the fact that he now simply loathed his daughter, did he think by driving his daughter out, he could prevent him from proposing marriage?
Little did he know, this made things even easier for him.
Once the daughter has severed ties with the Xiao Family, naturally, when he decides to keep the girl, the Xiao Family would have even less standing to interfere.
After all, the Xiao Family originally didn’t plan to interfere.
But a mighty dragon cannot crush the local snake, coming from Fengmugen to Red Stone Village, the local Xiao Hua’s attitude had made him cautious, but now that he had expelled Xiao Hua, he didn’t have these concerns anymore.
He was set on having this girl!
After Mr. Xiao pocketed one thousand yuan, Tian Xianhua finally spoke up.
"Relatives, since Xiao Hua has severed ties with you, I will no longer demand that you marry her off to me. However, I can’t let my sister marry into the Xiao Family for nothing, so you guys can give a dowry of 600 yuan."
The crowd gasped upon hearing Tian Xianhua demand a dowry of 600 yuan.
You must understand, here when marrying off a daughter, the usual dowries were either sixty or eighty, seldom did anyone demand a hundred, but now, Tian Xianhua was asking for six hundred.
This was truly an exorbitant dowry!
"Uncle, isn’t this dowry too much?" Mr. Xiao’s face looked very unhappy.
"The dowry amount is typically decided based on how much the groom’s family values the bride. If your family doesn’t have money, I naturally wouldn’t ask for more, but now, you’ve just received one thousand yuan."
Yes, they had just received one thousand yuan, in front of everyone.
Mr. Xiao said, "But, our house is already falling apart, we were planning to build a new house before holding a wedding celebration, all these need money."
"That’s why I’m only asking for 600, not a thousand. The remaining four hundred is for you to build a house and hold the wedding."
Tian Xianhua looked at Mr. Xiao and said probing, "Or are you saying that Xiao Hua severing ties with you was a sham, you still want to keep this money for that woman?"
Mr. Xiao’s face changed.
Tian Xianhua was right, in fact, he had not planned to take so much money from his daughter, one thousand yuan, how long would his daughter have to pay it back?
Thus, although he took the money, he planned to return most of it to Mengyu after Tian Xianhua left.
Xiao Hua didn’t expect that Mr. Xiao had such thoughts, and her resentment towards her family finally lessened.
Between her and her brother, her father would definitely choose her brother first, but without comparison to her brother, his treatment towards her was still not bad.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to study until high school.
In the end, Mr. Xiao, gritting his teeth, agreed, but he set a condition: "You can never again find excuses to bother my Xiao family daughter."
He consoled himself inwardly: Anyway, this money is also given by the daughter, being able to avert disaster for her after getting married is quite good.
Tian Xianhua agreed: "Of course."