Transmigration: From Dragon Princess To Pampered Granddaughter
Chapter 269 - 270: Dowry and Bridal Gift 3

Chapter 269: Chapter 270: Dowry and Bridal Gift 3

After finalizing the wedding arrangements, Ma Xiulian and Chen Dazhu didn’t stay for a meal. They went home to discuss the dowry and betrothal gifts with their families.

Hearing about the large amount set for the betrothal gifts and dowry, the sons and daughters-in-law of the Chen family were shocked, especially the daughters-in-law, who couldn’t help feeling a pang of jealousy.

Zhao Mei, a simple and obedient woman, felt nothing more than a little envy.

Zhou Zhaodi, on the other hand, while feeling sour, was rather open-minded about it.

After all, the bride was bringing a bicycle as part of her dowry!

Plus, the bride’s family was very generous. When she finally married into the family, she would need to get on their good side.

"Eighty yuan? And there’s cloth, tobacco, alcohol, sugar?"

Li Chunhua shrieked in a piercing shrill tone when she finally comprehended the situation.

That’s a whole eighty yuan!

She had never seen so much money in her life!

Ma Xiulian glared at her and barked, "What are you screaming for?!"

Li Chunhua closed her mouth in grievance, her heart imbued with sour bitterness.

Her betrothal gift had only been fifty yuan, which the Chen family considered expensive. Now, the gift for the fifth son’s wife was thirty yuan more!

Moreover, considering the cloth, tobacco, alcohol, and sugar, the total cost of the gifts to the Liu family could easily exceed a hundred yuan.

How unfair her parents-in-law were!

Ma Xiulian could see right through her thoughts, and she was utterly speechless.

This dimwit didn’t even consider that she didn’t bring a thing, not even a cotton mattress, when she married into the family. They even provided her wedding dress.

The Liu family, in comparison, had brought in a bicycle and other dowry items.

Yet there was no hope for this foolish daughter-in-law. Ma Xiulian wouldn’t waste her breath explaining things to her. She could think whatever she wanted.

So, that night, as she tossed and turned in bed, Li Chunhua felt uncomfortable with suppressed feelings.

She bolted up in bed and aggressively nudged Chen Jianye, demanding, "Stop sleeping!"

"What’s your problem in the middle of the night?!" Chen Jianye grumbled impatiently. He had been fast asleep.

With tear-filled eyes and a face filled with complaints, Li Chunhua argued, "Am I the one making a fuss? Your mom is being extremely partial! For your youngest brother’s wedding, without batting an eyelid, she fixed a betrothal gift of eighty yuan, not even including the cost of the cloth, sugar, tobacco, alcohol, and banquet! But when we got married, your parents couldn’t bear to even give fifty yuan!"

Moreover, she could have gotten twenty or thirty yuan of that money when the family assets were divided!

Now, it was all going to the fifth son!

As Li Chunhua continued thinking about it, she became angrier and more upset. "Look at our Jinbao and Xiaobao, they haven’t had anything good to eat. Your mother is using all the money on the fifth son and his wife!"

Chen Jianye didn’t feel anything initially, but her words now stirred unease within him.

He wasn’t an idiot and was aware that his parents didn’t treat him as well as they did before, nor did they like his kids very much.

It wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t work as hard as his older brothers or earn as much as the fourth and fifth brothers.

Moreover, the fifth brother had already given their parents two hundred yuan when he returned home, which essentially covered his betrothal gifts.

He couldn’t bear to think about his brother’s wedding money, so he grumbled, "Enough of this, you shouldn’t be concerning yourself with such matters! Go to sleep, we have to wake up early tomorrow."

With that, he turned over and went back to sleep.

Seeing his dismissive attitude, Li Chunhua felt even more suffocated and distressed. On impulse, she lightly kicked his back, "All you ever do is eat and sleep. You don’t even think about our sons!"

Her complaints were met only with Chen Jianye’s thunderous snoring.