896: Going to the South to Earn Dowry Money (3 More)

At this time, Yang Yonghong didn't care about her distressed telegraph fee. After she was admitted to Huaqing University, she was also very important in her speech at home. The Yang family was not stupid, and she had to discuss with Yang Yonghong, the capable eldest daughter, if anything happened.

The same is true of Yang Yonghong's younger brother's marriage. Writing to Yang Yonghong is not to force her to pay, but to clarify the situation at home and ask Yang Yonghong what to do with this marriage.

Yang Yonghong's younger brother is Yang Jie.

Hearing the name, you can tell how much the Yang family expects from him.

There are many rural areas where there is a preference for sons over daughters, but the Yang family is very different. Yang Yonghong has been at the top of his studies since he was a child. He has to go to Huaqing University for three years of repeated studies. excellent.

There are many children in the Yang family, in addition to Yang Yonghong and Yang Jie, there are three more below.

The third is in the first year of high school, and the remaining two years are younger. It is very difficult for a peasant family to send all their children to school.

Last year, when the grades came out, Yang Jie asked her eldest sister to go to university, packed her luggage and refused to repeat her studies, and went back to the countryside to help her parents with farm work. He said that he didn’t miss it, and it was boring to study. The Yang family knew that he was thinking that his sister had a great future and must continue to study. The younger siblings could not drop out of school because of their young age.

No matter how Yang Yonghong persuaded him, Yang Jie would not repeat his studies after being killed. Father Yang hung Yang Jie up and gave him a feast, but Yang Jie refused to go back to school.

Yang Yonghong was very frugal in school, and all the scholarships were sent home, but the Yang family was still very poor.

The family thinks that they are sorry for Yang Jie, but they still want to keep this marriage to Yang Jie... The woman is Yang Jie's junior high school classmate. After graduating from junior high school, she went to secondary school and taught in the town after graduation. She has liked Yang Jie for several years. .

However, the teacher's salary was not high. The girl herself was willing to marry Yang Jie, but the wife's family did not agree, and she also counted on the second daughter's dowry money to give her son a wife.

This is the case not only in Hebei Province, but also in many places.

Rural families are willing to ask their daughters to read so many books, and it is not uncommon for them to not treat their daughters as straw.

But if you don't receive the dowry, how will the family's son get married!

The woman is a teacher, and to marry Yang Jie, an unemployed rural young man, is unable to let go of her previous affection.

Yang Jie also likes girls.

If you like it, you can't bear the embarrassment of the girl, and she won't say anything eloquent to persuade the woman not to follow him with the dowry. Yang Jie never thought about the trick of cooking cooked rice with raw rice!

But he didn't want his parents to be embarrassed either.

Yang Jie knew what the family conditions were. Although his sister saved the scholarship and sent it back to her family, she didn't even have enough to pay off the debt she owed before. His parents wanted to borrow money to buy the four major items. Yang Jie didn’t want his family to continue to be in debt. He thought about going out to find a job after the autumn harvest. He heard from a classmate who graduated from junior high school and became a truck driver. .

Yang Jie came to discuss with his partner today to see if the engagement could be delayed for a few months.

His subject smiled wryly:

"Yang Jie, we can do our business anytime, but my brother's age can't wait."

When you get married is secondary.

The woman's family needs the Yang family's dowry money to arrange their son's marriage.

Yang Jie's partner is also under a lot of pressure. She has been working for less than a year. The salary of the new teacher is not high, and she is not married yet. The salary is all paid to the family, and she has no savings.

"Otherwise, I'll ask the principal to pay half a year's salary in advance, and you can take it back and add it to the dowry..."

Yang Jie's target was thinking for him, but Yang Jie knew the situation of the middle school in the town, so it would be good if he didn't owe his salary, how could he possibly advance his salary!

The words of breaking up rolled in his throat a few times, but he couldn't say it.

Yang Jie rejected a better marriage for the sake of his hometown after graduating from Teachers College, and he could only say that he would think of a solution.

Yang Yonghong's telegram arrived at this time.

Yang Yonghong said in the telegram that he asked Yang Jie to open a letter of introduction, buy a ticket to go to Yangcheng, and the sister and brother would meet in Yangcheng.

"Sister and brother earn dowry together."

Yang Jie read this sentence on Yang Yonghong's telegram again and again, carefully put the telegram in his pocket, and strode home - this is a family, regardless of each other, the eldest sister has to go to the south to work odd jobs for his marriage and summer vacation. He has nothing to regret if he doesn't go to college. Men are always stronger than women. He stays in his hometown to farm, which is better than his eldest sister, Yang Yonghong.

When Yang Jie went home and told the situation, the Yang family and his wife breathed a sigh of relief.

The big girl has an idea.

"Tell your daughter, we will take the dowry money and let her wait."

Yang Jie nodded, "I told her to wait until the National Day, when I haven't earned the dowry money, so I won't delay her."

The Yang family's husband and wife were very bitter.

Yang Jie said this, and they also listened. I hope Yang Yonghong's idea is right, and he can really collect enough money for the wedding gift before the National Day. When the time comes, they will not be able to get together enough, and they will definitely not be able to watch the marriage go awry. Those who are smashing pots and selling iron, and borrowing to sell blood, must try their best to get together... They don't think they are great, most of the parents in China are like this, they can't be for their sons Marrying a daughter-in-law is their failure.

According to the local custom, it is to marry Yang Yonghong in exchange for the dowry money.

Yang Yonghong has great prospects in the future, how could the Yang family treat her like this.

It's even more impossible to ask Yang Jie's sister to go. The 15-year-old girl is only in the first year of high school!

Outsiders say that the Yang family has a problem, and the children in the family are sent to study, especially Yang Yonghong who has been repeating for three years.

Now some people are complaining that the Yang family is stupid, the daughter is sent to college, and the son goes home to farm.

Yang Jie's grades, after two years of repeating, will definitely be able to enter a serious university!

Fortunately, Yang Yonghong was really good at it, and he sent money to his family in his freshman year, saying it was a scholarship. The Yang family can only pin their hopes on Yang Yonghong, who is a big girl for her son. Yang Jie wanted to say that he would go out to work, but the Yang family and his wife were worried. The rural people had never traveled far, and they didn't know what the outside world was like.

Yang Yonghong sent a telegram asking Yang Jie to go, and the family had no opinion.

Yang Jie opened a letter of introduction, bought a train ticket, brought two pieces of clothes, left a letter for his partner, and left.

"I didn't come back on National Day, you found someone else to marry, I don't blame you!"

The Yang family is poor, Yang Jie bought a station ticket, put a few big cakes in his pocket, and his mother boiled a few salted duck eggs and put them in his pocket, Yang Jie just got on the train to Yangcheng.

Anyway, when he arrived in Yangcheng, he didn't even have 10 yuan on him. If he couldn't find his sister, he wouldn't be able to buy a ticket back.

Fortunately, his sister was reliable. Yang Jie followed the address on the telegram and asked about the hostel that his sister said.

Tell the front desk of the guest house to find someone. After a while, there are two people upstairs and downstairs. One is his sister, and the other is so beautiful that it would be rude to look at others too much.

His sister pointed to the very beautiful girl and said:

"This is my classmate Xiaolan, and you are also called Sister Sheng. You, Sister Xiaolan, told you to earn enough betrothal money in two months!"