Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

In the blink of an eye, it was the twelfth lunar month and the school was on holiday.

He Yushui went out almost every day these days, and after coming back, he went to Lin Baoyan's house to talk to her about the progress.

"Matchmaker Liu introduced three to me. Two of them are about the same level as Sister Jia, and one is very beautiful, far more beautiful than her. However, this beautiful girl's family is not as good as the other two. She has a paralyzed father, an older brother who married into the family, a lame second brother, and a ten-year-old brother. The whole family relies on her mother and her to make a living. Life is very hard, so the bride price is also very high, a full two hundred yuan."

As for the dowry, needless to say, it is impossible to have any.

Lin Baoyan frowned. Such a miserable family would cause trouble in the future. It would be fine if the girl was more independent, but if it was Voldemort, it would really be a bottomless pit.

"Where are the other two?"

He Yushui sighed: "It's just that her family is better off and she has no disabilities. In one family, there are five sisters and she is the fourth child. The bride price is 800 yuan. In another family, there are six sisters and one brother and she is the third child. The bride price is 100 yuan." All of them asked for high bride prices.

Lin Baoyan was speechless. Both of them had a bunch of girls in their families, and one of them didn't even have a brother. Obviously, neither of them asked for as ridiculously high a bride price as the former, but neither of them wanted to mention it. So, continuing the family line was the most important thing?

There is still a long way to go for women to awaken.

Although she knew that it was not good to interfere in other people's affairs, as it was easy to turn a good friend into a sworn enemy, the idea was hers, and she couldn't just watch someone make the wrong choice.

"You know, some families instill a certain idea in girls from the moment they are born: all good things should belong to their brothers and sisters. Even after they get married, they have to give all the things from their husband's family to their brothers and sisters, because only their brothers and sisters and their nephews and nieces are their relatives. Others, including her own children, are from other families and are not close to her. Only when her parents' family is doing well can she stand up straight in her husband's family, and only when her brothers and sisters are doing well can they be her support."

He Yushui agreed and disagreed: "How can nephews and nieces be closer than one's own children? Only a fool would treat nephews and nieces better than one's own children."

Seeing the sarcastic smile on Lin Baoyan's face, she was surprised: "Is there really such a stupid woman?"

"If you cultivate this kind of thinking from a young age, it will really happen." Lin Baoyan said: "Some people deliberately train their daughters to be like this in order to make their sons live a good life. After all, she is a daughter, so they don't feel sorry for her. When the daughter gets married, the most important thing is that she can bring benefits to the family. As for the life or death of the daughter, they don't care. In the final analysis, this is a group of incompetent people using women to grab wealth. Women are just tools in their eyes."

"So, you are worried that the most beautiful one will have problems in this regard?" He Yushui understood.

"Well, a betrothal gift of 200 yuan is 20 times the betrothal gift in our city. If this betrothal gift is really paid, will the girl still have status in her husband's family? From this point of view, the girl's family does not care about her future life at all. Such families have low bottom lines and can do anything, especially when there are old, young, sick and disabled people in the family, there may be countless troubles in the future."

He Yushui was silent. Before she could say anything, in addition to the two hundred yuan, she also ordered chicken, duck, fish, meat, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, tea, and even rented clothes to prepare the banquet, which added up to more than a hundred yuan.

More than three hundred yuan is enough for a person's annual salary. Is it worth spending so much money to marry a wife who may cause a lot of trouble?

However, the way her brother looked at Qin Huairu that day made her feel uncomfortable.

The other two were indeed pretty, but they were only similar to Qin Huairu in looks, and were far inferior in feeling.

This is also one of the reasons why she wanted to choose the most beautiful one.

Lin Baoyan was just reminding them that the real decision was made by them, the siblings.

"Or let the matchmaker look for someone more suitable?" Lin Baoyan said something that had no chance. It had been more than half a month, and only three were found. It was obvious that beauty was a scarce resource, and it was hard to find it. You couldn't find it just because you wanted it.

Even if there is, it is impossible for a person to be beautiful and within the reach of ordinary people without this or that defect. The only difference is the size of the defect.

He Yushui went home with a heavy heart. Lin Baoyan did not try to persuade her anymore. This kind of matter should be decided by the person involved.

In fact, it was only 56 and He Yuzhu was just 21 years old. His feelings for Qin Huairu were just the natural reaction of a LSP seeing a beautiful young lady. Although she was indeed notorious and it seemed that she could not find a partner, the situation was better than when she was older, unattractive and had a bad reputation. He did not have to stick to these not-so-suitable choices.

Lin Baoyan didn't know what He Yushui was worried about. If she knew, she could only curse He Daqing, who was far away in Baocheng, for causing so much harm to others. Look at the harm he did to Yushui. How serious the psychological trauma is. Seeing her silly brother drooling at the sister-in-law next door, she was worried that he would follow in his father's footsteps.

But, Yu Shui's worries were true. If there were no other interference, her silly brother would have followed in her father's footsteps. Not only that, he was even worse than her father. At least her father had her brother to support him in his old age. But her brother, hehe, with Bang Geng's temper, could he support Sha Zhu in his old age?

On the 24th, matchmaker Liu brought a girl with patches all over her body who kept her head down to the courtyard. He Yushui and his sister warmly welcomed them.

I don’t know who the brother and sister chose after discussing it.

Lin Baoyan stood in front of the Moon Gate, observing the movements in the east and west wing rooms.

Qin Huairu stretched her head to look at the main room for a while, then took the basin and went home. Then Jia Zhang's vague shouting and cursing sounded, and soon Jia Dongxu went out and went to the east wing.

Lin Baoyan wondered, could the Jia family have started to target Sha Zhu now? Or was it that Jia Dongxu was addicted to eating Sha Zhu's food and was trying to mess up his own meals?

After a while, Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu both left the east wing, one went home and the other went to the main room.

Lin Baoyan pondered, maybe it was because during the last conflict, Yi Zhonghai found that he could not control the people in the front and back yards, and was too weak in the middle yard, so he wanted to recruit Sha Zhu as his thugs, but saw that the thugs were about to fly away before he could recruit them, so he had to take action.

After knowing what was happening in these two families, Lin Baoyan didn't care.

This matter is the He family's own business. If the two siblings can solve it, they can solve it. If they can't solve it, she can't run over and interfere.

It is inappropriate to interfere in other people's affairs, no matter whether the results are good or bad. All she can do is to nudge Yu Shui in the ear and give her some advice.

Soon, wisps of green smoke rose from the roof of the main house, and the aroma of food drifted out slowly. Lin Baoyan did not continue to observe and went home to eat. Anyway, He Yushui would tell her what the result was.

She didn't know whether Sha Zhu would succeed or not this time, but no matter what, today, Yu Shui would show more clearly what kind of monsters were in the Central Courtyard. Although her opinion could not change Sha Zhu, it could always bring some help.

After all, what Lin Baoyan wanted was for Yi Zhonghai to be unable to take action when something big happened.