Chapter 12: Wei Cheng Is Poor
“Zhou Yuan is so lucky to marry in the county.”
“Don’t tell me, at first I thought that if they could marry Zhou Yuan, the son of the Wei family would definitely look ugly. Who knew, not only is he not ugly, but he is also very good-looking. I was dumbfounded that day.”
“I don’t think it’s necessarily good. The betrothal gifts from the Wei family don’t show how good the Wei family is.”
“The dowry is for the Zhou family. The Wei family may think that marrying a ger is not worth giving more dowry, so they just give less dowry.”
The Wei family’s dowry was spread by Aunt Wu’s big mouth, and it was spread out on the same day it was given.
Everyone in the village sighed when they heard it. Everyone had a different opinion on the fact that the Wei family did not give much. Some people said that the Wei family was stingy. Some people said that when marrying a ger, that is enough because it was not like they were marrying a girl- the topic has become a pastime for the villagers to chat about after dinner.
These five girls also gathered together to chat, and Zhou Lanlan was among them. They were at the home of a girl in light-colored green clothes. This girl was called Li Zhiqing, and her family was also a wealthy family in the village.
Li Zhiqing’s family now has more than 20 mu of land, and the family is also lucky. They earned a lot of silver in the past five or six years and increased their land by more than ten mu before becoming a wealthy household in the village.
Zhou Lanlan chatted with these girls, and had a very good relationship with Li Zhiqing, while the other three had mediocre relationships with her, and even had some disagreements.
“Speaking of Wei Cheng, Lanlan, didn’t this Wei Cheng have a blind date with you before? Wei Cheng is from the county, so why didn’t you match?” A girl asked curiously, on the inside she wanted to see Zhou Lanlan look like a joke.
“Yeah, what about it?” Zhou Lanlan’s tone was a little impatient, “So what if the person is from the county, I don’t like Wei Cheng.” The tone was even a little aggressive in the later part of the sentence.
They didn’t care about Zhou Lanlan’s tone, because most times Zhou Lanlan spoke very proudly and looked down on others. After all, her family was a wealthy family in the village, her brother was studying in the county, and her father was doing some small business outside. The girls who come to get along with her will not care too much about her attitude.
But there are also people who don’t like her, this includes Zhou Qiaoyin.
“Zhou Lanlan, Wei Cheng chose a ger but he didn’t choose you. It’s clear that Wei Cheng doesn’t like you.” Zhou Qiaoyin covered her mouth and smiled, her eyes flashed a hint of sarcasm.
Usually, Zhou Lanlan would definitely fight back with cynicism, but today Zhou Lanlan seemed to be in a bad mood and was instantly irritated, shouting loudly, “With Wei Cheng’s shabby appearance, poor, ugly, and hunchbacked, who would care about it!”
Zhou Lanlan shook her face, still angry, and went home angrily.
Innocently being yelled at, the girls didn’t know what kind of nerve she had, why was she mad at them!
Since Zhou Lanlan was not there, except for Li Zhiqing, the other girls were more or less dissatisfied with Zhou Lanlan’s temper.
“Look at Zhou Lanlan’s usual high-spirited appearance. She is not as good as a ger, and yet, she has the nerve to get angry at us.”
“That’s right, it’s not that we told Wei Cheng not to want her.”
“Which man can stand her arrogant temper.”
“Okay, everyone is good friends, Lanlan is just that temperamental, but she has no malicious intentions.” Li Zhiqing smoothed things over for Zhou Lanlan.
“Zhiqing, don’t speak well for her, we all know you like her brother.” Zhou Qiaoyin said.
“Yes, Zhiqing!”
Li Zhiqing’s intentions were clearly said to her so her face turned red.
Li Zhiqing likes Zhou Lanlan’s eldest brother, and to some extent pleases Zhou Lanlan, which is why she tolerates Zhou Lanlan’s temper.
“Okay, let’s not talk about this, I invited you to drink tea and cakes today, let’s talk about some interesting things.” Li Zhiqing is generous and often invites a few little sisters to come to her home for tea and snacks.
After Li Zhiqing said this, everyone changed the topic.
Aunt Wu was not at home and went to the county seat early in the morning.
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Ever since she was a child, Zhou Lanlan has surpassed Zhou Yuan a hundred times in everything.
Wei Cheng wore rags to their blind date but they all said that Wei Cheng looked down on her, so she couldn’t look even down on Wei Cheng’s poorness.
She didn’t like Wei Cheng when they were on a blind date before. His clothes were dirty and old, he was hunched over, he was so dull that she couldn’t even speak, and he lowered his head like a mute. She thought that the person was someone sent by the Wei Family who came to displease her.
Later, they went back to inquire and found that Wei Cheng was indeed from the Wei family. He was not valued by the Wei family, and he was only assigned to a house in the suburbs, but it was dilapidated and old. He was only allocated two acres of land, houses while the tile-roofed houses and half of the fields in the countryside belonged to Wei Cheng’s elder brother, and what Wei Cheng was allocated with was not even as good as her family’s.
Since they didn’t believe it, Zhou Lanlan decided to tell others about the Wei family, and also told about the dilapidated and old house in the suburbs of county, and the fact that there were only two acres of land under his name.
Let’s see who is still secretly saying that Wei Cheng doesn’t like her.
Who dares to say that it will be good for Zhou Yuan to marry in the county?!
Marrying to the county seat, even if just in the suburbs of the county seat, is still not a poor marriage but not a rich one either.
As soon as the news came out, the villagers gossiped again after dinner.
This is the real reason for the lack of dowry gifts and dowry silver.
Fortunately, there are a lot of sensible people in the countryside, and Wei Cheng is half a county citizen, no matter how bad it is, he is much better than the country people. Besides, Zhou-ger can marry, which is already a good result. Of course, a few people mocked him behind their backs.
The weather is sunny, the summer is thriving, and the greenery is lush.
There is a breeze on the mountain, and the winds coming from the small river are extremely cool.
Zhou Qiu, Zhou Qiu, and Zhou Muzi went to the mountain to pick up branches with their baskets on their backs, and the dried leaves to be used as firewood.
The three of them found a shady place at the foot of the mountain, sat on the ground, and rested for a while.
“Yuan Yuan, do you know about Wei Cheng’s separation?”
The news about Wei Cheng spread throughout the village, and Zhou Qiu and Zhou Muzi also knew about it. Zhou Qiu couldn’t keep her questions in her heart, so she couldn’t help but ask.
Zhou Yuan didn’t care, as there was nothing to hide, “I know, Brother Wei told me that the day they came to bring the dowry”
“That’s good, I thought Wei Cheng was hiding it from you.”
Separating the family is not a big deal, as long as you don’t hide it beforehand, it’s not intentional deception. Some people even said that the Zhou family was deceived by the Wei family.
They also said that Wei Cheng was separated out and became a broke household, and he had to marry a ger because he had no money. Otherwise, how could the Wei family agree to their son marrying a ger?
“I don’t know who told this story. They also said that Wei Cheng is shabby and poor, and he only married a ger when he had no money and the dowry is so few.” Zhou Qiu laughed, “If Wei Cheng looks like that but is so shabby, then how about the men in the village? Then they are all ugly.”
When spreading rumors, they should also spread the truth.
“People in the village really think of Brother Wei that way?”
“Well, I just heard it.” Zhou Muzi said.
Zhou Yuan frowned, he was not good at gossip, and no one told him what the rumors were all about. He was afraid that his friends might misunderstand Wei Cheng, so after thinking about it, he decided to tell his friends what Wei Cheng had given privately.
“Brother Wei didn’t just give so many betrothal gifts.” For the first time, Zhou Yuan didn’t like the wild speculations of the villagers.
“Yuan Yuan, did Wei Cheng give something else back?”
Zhou Qiu and Zhou Muzi looked forward to staring at Zhou Yuan, waiting for his answer.
“Yes.” Zhou Yuan whispered, “There is a gold bracelet and a jade hairpin.”
Gold bracelets and jade hairpins cost a lot of silver taels.
Zhou Qiu and Zhou Muzi’s eyes lit up.
In other words, Wei Cheng was so considerate to Yuan Yuan, how could he give such a small betrothal gift?
“Yuan Yuan, show me when you get back.” Zhou Qiu was excited, she had never seen a gold bracelet in her life.
“Yuan Yuan, I’ll go see it too.” Zhou Muzi also expressed his desire to see it.
“Ok.”
At Zhou Yuan’s house, Mother Zhou explained.
“I know about the separation of the family in Wei Cheng.”
Father Zhou looked at his wife in surprise, “Why didn’t you tell me?” And here he was still worried.
“I got busy, I forgot.” Mother Zhou has been busy for the past few days. Her ger is going to get married, and the dowry has to be prepared. There are also two tables for the wedding banquet. There was no time to mention it.
It’s just the family being separated, and it’s not that life can’t go on, it’s not a big deal.
“Okay, I get it.” Father Zhou nodded and said that Wei Cheng didn’t hide this matter, so he had no other ideas.
Hearing about this incident, Father Zhou was still worried that Wei Cheng was concealing it on purpose. If he could keep it secret, he was afraid that people would be the same as the rascal who once tried to marry his ger. If he is good to his ger, it may have been superficial and not sincere.
Father Zhou and Zhou Yuan’s three elder brothers all agreed that it doesn’t matter if Wei Cheng is separated from the Wei family, it doesn’t matter if he is poor, as long as Wei Cheng treats their ger well.
Zhou Yuan’s three sisters-in-law didn’t think so.
Wei Cheng was separated from the Wei family, and the things he got were few and not worth much. A dilapidated house and two acres of land. Things in the county town were expensive, and the expenses were high. Maybe the two acres of land would be enough for them to eat and drink.
They still want to go and curry favor, and if they go to the door once in a while, maybe they can bring back some good things. Now they hear that Wei Cheng is poor, and they feel disgusted in their hearts.
The only consolation is that Zhou Yuan is finally getting married and no longer stays at home for free!
The villagers in Qinghe Village are spreading rumors that the other person is poor and down and out, but Wei Cheng doesn’t know about it, and even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.
He is poor now.
This is true.
He is busy getting married now, and his elder brother asked him to go home temporarily.
It’s for the arrangement at the wedding reception.
Mother Zhou, “Eight tables are reserved for the banquet. I will discuss with your father about the silver taels for the banquet, and we will pay for it. You don’t need to receive the guests. Your sister-in-law and I will be responsible. As for the wedding ceremony, you have to prepare it yourself. You can figure out how to arrange your home, and there is nothing else. My second son, if you have other opinions, you can talk about it, this is your happy event. ”
Mother Zhou said this while Wei Cheng didn’t even lift his eyelids, and just took charge of listening. After Mother Zhou finished speaking, Wei Cheng said, “We need to add another table, and that table is reserved for those who will go with me to pick up the bride.”
He invited Uncle Zhao and the people who were going to pick up his relatives. He also needed them to come and help on the day of the road. There was also a table of eleven people for a table in the country.
Mother Zhou had no objection and agreed.
Wei Cheng thought she would refuse, and planned to pay for an extra table by himself, but now it can be saved.
“If there is nothing else, it’s all up to your mother to arrange!”
Mother Zhou and Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law were satisfied, and it was rare for them to ask Wei Cheng to stay and let him go back after dinner, but Wei Cheng refused.
Regardless of Mother Zhou’s attitude, or his sister-in-law did not object to Mother Zhou helping him with the banquet, anyway, someone offered the silver, and Wei Cheng raised his hands and feet to agree.
Wei Cheng didn’t know what Mother Zhou and his sister-in-law were planning.
Some of the relatives of the Wei family live in the county town, and some live outside the county town. No matter which family, they are richer than this branch of the Wei family, his younger sister is even married in the inner county. The gift money of these relatives will not be too small. Mother Wei got the idea with his sister-in-law to collect gift money openly.
Wei Cheng didn’t care that they were pretending to be petty,
There are some things that he would rather give them.
He really does not care.
If he didn’t have this kind of IQ, he wouldn’t have gone from being an ordinary person to working and starting a company step by step to the position of president, with a net worth of over 100 million.
He has only been killed once, which is not counted, but the two parties before his death were talking about feelings, and they have not reached the point of marriage. Then he also got into a car accident so there was no need to think about that too much.
It is very simple for Wei Cheng to get a lot of money. Just proposing a few ideas to powerful people, directly hooking up with some big shots, and he can get a lot of wealth.
It’s just that it’s too attractive and too high-profile.
In a country with imperial power, he must also know how to seek benefits and avoid risks, know how to assess the situation and follow the trend, that is the rule of life.
Wherever he is now, he can start from that position, and the best way is to play steadily.
Step by step, Wei Cheng doesn’t believe that he can’t earn his own wealth.
The Wei family arranged a banquet.
With the lessons learned from the betrothal gift, Wei Cheng didn’t have much hope, and the banquet prepared by Mother Zhou must not be too good.
Wei Yuan and Wei Lei came to help repair the house. Wei Cheng prepared the house repair materials as needed. Wei Cheng also specially bought paint to repaint the second-hand tables and chairs he just bought.
Repair the ventilation and broken walls, and repair the kitchen along the way. The wooden storage cabinets in the kitchen are dilapidated and can be used as firewood, so they have to be replaced. The moss stains on the walls and the stove are removed. In this way, it took two days to finish repairing their home.
Before Wei Yuan went home, Wei Cheng asked him to go back to Aunt Lu to help with something.
There are horseshoe crabs in the country, which are worth little, but takes a lot of work to peel them off. Wei Cheng wanted to trouble Aunt Lu and give Aunt Lu a day’s worth of wages in the name of hiring, and asked her to help buy twenty catties of horseshoe crabs, then peel them and send them back.
Wei Yuan refuses to take the money, but Wei Cheng said that if he didn’t take it, he would find someone else, and Wei Yuan had no choice but to take it.
Horseshoe crabs are to be made into powder. Since there is none sold in this place, he has to make it himself. He also needs to buy red dates and white sugar and planned to make a red date mille-feuille cake.
The red date mille-feuille cake made is placed on each table.
He had never seen the red date mille-feuille cake in Baixiangzhai. The taste of the red date mille-feuille cake was definitely better than the ones in Baixiangzhai. With the cake as the finishing touch of the banquet, no matter how bad the banquet was, it would not be too bad.
The red date mille-feuille cake is going to be saved until the end!
These villagers man, how can so many of them be so snobby and rude? Every day I want to punch them all in the face!! 😡
Thank You for the new chapter (๑˙❥˙๑)
Thanks for the chapter!
People are so catty
Thanks for the chapter!
These villagers, broke and haughty 🙄
This villagers are rude and judgemental but I can understand since most East Asian countries are like this more evenly when you live in provinces. 🥹
I think this whole chapter should be mather wei not mother zhou. 🙄