Huang Xing and his wife knew what had happened, and although they were angry with the Lu family for proposing to withdraw the marriage at this time, they knew that their daughter’s reputation had been tarnished and it would be difficult for her to marry again.
The uncle was also angry, but when he heard his sister say this, his expression was relieved.
The woman saw it in her eyes and her heart, which had been sinking downwards, returned to its original position. She lowered her posture and apologised repeatedly, and Lu Ziyu also knelt on the ground without getting up.
“Yu, Yu’er insists on retreating.”
The aunt’s voice was small, but it froze the suddenly eased atmosphere in the room for a moment.
The Huang Xing couple froze again.
The aunt told them about her going back to ask Huang Yu, and the woman’s face sank as she listened. A maid who had lost her reputation, if it wasn’t for the people behind their family, she wouldn’t even want his son for nothing, and dared to insist on withdrawing her marriage, but still with a smile, “Jade is angry with me, Ziyu and I will personally go over to make amends to her.”
Footsteps sounded in the courtyard and a neighbour ran in first, “Huang Xing, you, your family ……”
The words were not finished when the footsteps came again and Song Wangyue walked into the house.
The woman’s intuition was not good when she saw her appear.
Sweeping a glance at Lu Ziyu, who was kneeling on the ground, she looked at Huang Xing and his wife, “Miss Huang Yu asked me to pick up the two of you and go to the county town to sue later.”
Go to the county town to sue?
The woman snapped her head up to look at Song Wangyue, a brilliant light flashed in her eyes, “We’ll follow along.”
Song Wan Yue looked at her, the corners of her mouth slightly hooked, “Thank you very much, but Miss Huang Yu said she didn’t want to involve unrelated people, so you two should take the gengtong and your things and leave quickly.”
Hearing the sarcasm in her words, the woman’s face changed expressions, but always with a smile, “What are you saying, Miss, how are we irrelevant people, we ……”
“I’m not interested in knowing who you are ……”
Song Wan Yue interrupted them directly and looked at Huang Xing and his wife, “Miss Yu’er is suffering from this great calamity, her heart is very hard, I think it is better for you to follow her wishes so that she can have the thought of living, otherwise ……”
The Huang Xing couple are also in business, their brains are naturally not stupid, they heard the meaning of her words. Huang Yu was their daughter, the one they had spoiled since childhood, they naturally wanted their daughter to live and nothing could happen to her, nodding at the same time, “Okay, okay, okay, listen to Yu’er, let’s withdraw from the marriage.”
After saying this, Huang Yu Niang opened the kang cabinet behind her and took out a box from it and opened it, inside were the bride price list of the Lu family and Lu Ziyu’s geng invitation, she took it out and gave it to her uncle.
Seeing that they were really going to withdraw the marriage, the woman’s face changed a few times, the smile on her face could not be maintained, trying to make a last attempt to save the day, “The in-laws ……”
“Uncle, aunt ……”
Lu Ziyu shouted back.
“Back off, we don’t want to lose our daughter.”
Huang Xing said.
Seeing that they were determined, the woman pulled up Lu Ziyu as soon as she could, “Well then, you guys get your things ready and we’ll invite the matchmaker over.”
There was a matchmaker present when the marriage was first arranged, and naturally a matchmaker should also be present when the marriage was withdrawn, this was the rule, and the Huang family did not stop it.
Song Wangyue naturally knew their intentions and reached out to stop the two, “I don’t know where the matchmaker is, I’ll send someone to call her over.”
The woman originally wanted to find an excuse to go home first and then think about it properly, but when she heard Song Wangyue’s words, her eyes jumped and her words rushed out, “Aunt, girl, it’s not good for you to meddle like this, is it?”
Song Wan Yue raised her eyebrows, “What do you mean? Is it possible that you didn’t want to withdraw from the marriage at all, but just wanted to find an excuse to leave?”
The woman’s face reddened as she directly pointed it out.
The Huang family also reacted, and the uncle immediately said, “I know where the matchmaker is, I’ll lead someone to call him.”
The Lu family’s conditions were good, and Lu Ziyu was also a good-looking man, but they felt sorry for Huang Yu and trusted Song Wangyue even more.
“Dear, dear, dear family uncle ……”
Before the woman finished her sentence, her uncle was already walking towards the outside.
Two quarters of an hour later, the matchmaker was called over and returned all the things given by the Lu family in front of her. The woman saw that there was no room for reprieve and was somewhat upset, it was never others who were up to the Lu family, there had never been a time when the Lu family was treated in such a way.
She put a smile on her face again, “This is not the right thing ……”
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“You ……”
Huang Xing was furious.
The woman glanced at him obliquely, since she couldn’t be an in-law anymore, there was nothing more to say.
The matchmaker naturally turned towards the Lu family, “Yes there is this rule, if it is the man who proposes to withdraw from the marriage, not a single penny can be taken back, if it is the woman, then all the things have to be returned, all those food and drinks you have used, just convert them into silver.”
“Good.”
The uncle stiffened and agreed.
Huang Xing was a bit panicked, the family had saved up some silver over the years, but the couple had spent most of it in the past few days when they were injured, in case the Lu family asked for more ……
The woman said, “Then it will be discounted to two hundred taels.”
“What?”
The few people in the room could not believe it, the Lu family had given something for the New Year festival, but it was just a food, pastries and some cloths, how could it be worth so much money?
Song Wan Yue laughed a little and said to her uncle, “Two hundred taels is not much, but someone has to testify, you go and call the neighbours here.”
The uncle was still in a state of anger and did not hear the meaning of Song Wangyue’s words, he stared at Lu Ziyu with anger and hatred, “Ziyu, you cover your conscience and say, are those things worth so much silver?”
Lu Ziyu had a cold look on her face, a different person from when she was on her knees just now, “Naturally, they are worth it, the things my family sent me were the best ones that I had someone go to the capital to buy.”
“You ……”
Uncle’s blood rushed upwards.
The aunt, however, had already understood Song Wangyue’s meaning and quickly went out, calling the surrounding neighbours over, as many as twenty to thirty people.
The uncle also reacted with hindsight and went out instead of Huang Xing to tell him about Huang Yu’s withdrawal, adding, “We returned everything on the bride price list, but the Lu family said they had also sent us gifts for the New Year and the holidays, so they ate them all and asked us to convert them into two hundred taels of silver.”
As soon as he said this, a sigh of relief rang out in the courtyard.
Their village was next to a small town and was a little richer than the average village, some of which had only twenty taels to marry a daughter-in-law. Now the Lu family had converted some food into two hundred taels, this was blackmail, right?
“I said ……”
Someone couldn’t help but open his mouth, “Your Lu family can’t afford to be poor anymore and is pointing to the withdrawal of the marriage to get rich?”