Chapter 21: The Marriage is Off

“We can’t afford a daughter-in-law like you.” Zhao Mu sneered, “If you insist on calling the police, then we’ll call them. Let them investigate who wrote the note.”

Zhao Qi secretly tugged at his mother’s sleeve, but Zhao Mu coldly slapped his hand away. At a critical moment, she couldn’t falter, if she scared Liu Hongying, this matter could be solved with a little money.

Because Lin Xiangnan hadn’t given Liu Hongying much time, Liu Hongying’s plan was actually very crude.

Hu Meili had directly locked her in, and the gossipy people in the courtyard had guessed it was her.

Otherwise, last night, no one would have spoken for Liu Hongying. She grew up in the courtyard, everyone knew her, there shouldn’t be no compassion.

But what did it matter if they guessed? Liu Hongying had used some tactics, but didn’t you, Zhao Qi, lose control?

A girl throws herself at you, and you actually dare to accept?

You deserve to be stuck with her.

Liu Hongying stopped crying and looked at Zhao Mu calmly, “Okay. Go call the police, go investigate who wrote the note. Also, let the police investigate if Zhao Qi took advantage of me last night.”

Zhao Qi also knew he was in the wrong, otherwise he wouldn’t have admitted it so easily last night, seeing Zhao Mu and Liu Hongying clashing, he was sweating cold sweat.

Although he didn’t want to marry Liu Hongying, he didn’t want to go to a labor camp either.

He was about to plead, but his mother slapped him in the face.

Zhao Mu said sarcastically, “You useless bastard, I’ve raised you for nothing. If you want to marry this woman, fine, I won’t give you a penny, you pay the dowry yourself, find your own place to get married, I won’t help.”

Zhao Fu also kicked him, saying, “You’ve been working for so many years, your monthly salary isn’t even enough. If you get married later, don’t expect us old folks to support you, that’s impossible.”

Zhao Qi was an only child, he had been spoiled for so many years, when had he ever been beaten? He was stunned.

Last night, his parents still felt sorry for him and stood up for him, but today, he was met with a combined attack from his parents.

The Zhao family’s attitude made Liu Laohei feel embarrassed.

At this time, he didn’t feel sorry for Liu Hongying anymore.

Liu Laohei got really angry, he said with a sullen face, “Fine. Since you don’t want to get married, then send your son to a labor camp. Anyway, our Hongying can’t suffer this loss.”

“I’ll marry her. I’ll marry her.” Zhao Qi was the first to back down.

Zhao Mu glared at her son angrily, then put on a smile again, softened her attitude and said, “I know, Brother Liu, you feel sorry for your daughter. This kid of mine is blind, he accidentally scared Hongying last night, how about this, our family will pay 100 yuan as compensation, okay?”

After listening to the divorce gossip for a whole morning, Zhao Mu actually saw that Liu Laohei didn’t really love Liu Hongying, otherwise he wouldn’t have hit her, so after intimidation failed, she changed her strategy to bribery.

“This apology is from us old folks. But as for the dowry, we agreed before that Zhao Qi would earn it himself. But Zhao Qi has been working for so many years, he hasn’t saved any money, if he gets married now, he can’t afford the dowry. If he wants to prepare everything for the wedding, Zhao Qi might have to save for two years.”

There’s no dowry for marrying a daughter, but there’s compensation to cover this matter, it’s more profitable to take the money directly.

“Young people are fickle. After a long time, they might not like each other anymore, then they’ll break up or divorce, it’s so embarrassing.”

When she mentioned divorce, she looked at Liu Hongying coldly.

The meaning was clear, she didn’t like this marriage, she wouldn’t help at all.

If Liu Hongying dared to marry, then go ahead, she wouldn’t have a good life in the Zhao family, and when the time was right, the Zhao family would ask for a divorce.

This inspiration came just now, otherwise Zhao Mu wouldn’t have thought of it.

Liu Hongying didn’t expect Zhao Mu to be so ruthless, she looked at Hu Meili in shock.

When Hu Meili was coaxing Lin Xiangnan, she was full of praise, saying that Zhao’s parents were kind people, there were few people in their family, they all had jobs, they could eat meat every now and then, their family was an only child for three generations, if they had children, they would definitely be pampered by the family…

She thought the Zhao family were honest people, even if they didn’t like her, they would have to accept it, who knew that reality was like this.

Hu Meili was rarely guilty, she slightly turned her head, not daring to look at Liu Hongying’s expression.

She didn’t expect Zhao Mu to be so powerful, she almost tricked her own child.

Lin Xiangnan didn’t know Hu Meili’s little thoughts, she was just watching the show, she looked at Liu Hongying curiously, expecting her choice.

Liu Hongying nervously clenched her hands, countless thoughts flashed through her mind.

She didn’t have a job, even if she married into the Zhao family, she would have to watch their faces, if the Zhao family was ruthless, they wouldn’t give her money or food, she wouldn’t be able to survive, she would have to ask for a divorce.

The only thing she could gamble on was whether she could get pregnant with Zhao Qi’s child quickly. No matter how ruthless the Zhao family was, they wouldn’t be ruthless to an unborn child.

But Zhao Qi’s appearance-obsessed nature was obvious, he only liked beautiful girls. It was uncertain if she could catch his eye. She wouldn’t even be able to get into bed, let alone have children.

If she married Zhao Qi and then divorced, her situation would only be more difficult.

After pondering for a while, Liu Hongying finally said, “Two hundred yuan. This incident has affected my reputation, I won’t be able to get married properly for a year or two. Zhao Qi has to compensate me two hundred.”

It was good that she didn’t want to fight to the death, Zhao Mu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, “My family only has one hundred in savings, we brought it with us, we don’t have more.”

Actually, this money could also be used as a dowry, marrying Liu Hongying back home. It would be simpler to handle it this way.

But Zhao Mu really didn’t dare to let her son marry a woman with a bad heart, if their home became like the Liu family, chaotic and noisy, she, the old lady, would suffer.

Zhao Mu took the money out of her pocket and put it on the table, “If Hongying doesn’t bother about last night anymore, you can take this money.”

Money is more convincing when it’s in front of you.

Before Liu Hongying could say anything, Liu Laohei immediately decided, “Okay. That’s the end of it.”

“But you have to write a guarantee, in case you want to bring it up again.”

“Okay.”

Now Hu Meili, who was watching the show, was unhappy, she was annoyed, she should have let the Zhao family talk first, then maybe she would have a share of the money.

She was about to stand up and say something, but Hu Laodie coughed heavily and said, “Liu Hongying’s matter is settled. You’ve also signed and sealed the divorce agreement with Liu Laohei, just go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get the divorce certificate, it’s not too early.”

If they offended them now, it would be difficult to negotiate when dividing the property.