“Zhou Yuan was so lucky to marry in the county.”

“You don’t need to tell me that. At first I thought that if they wanted to marry Zhou Yuan, the son of the Wei family would definitely look ugly. Who knows, not only was he not ugly, but he was also very good-looking. I was dumbfounded that day.”

“I don’t think it’s necessarily good. The betrothal gifts from the Wei family don’t show how good the Wei family was.”

“The dowry was for the Zhou family. The Wei family may think that marrying a ger was not worth giving more dowry, so they just gave less dowry.”

The Wei family’s dowry was spread by Aunt Wu’s big mouth, and it was spread out on the same day it was given.

Everyone in the village sighed when they heard it. Everyone had a different opinion on the fact that the Wei family did not give much. Some people said that the Wei family was stingy. Some people said that when marrying a ger, that was enough because it was not like they were marrying a girl- the topic had become a pastime for the villagers to chat about after dinner.

These five girls also gathered together to chat, and Zhou Lanlan was among them. They were at the home of a girl in light-colored green clothes. This girl was called Li Zhiqing, and her family was also a wealthy family in the village.

Li Zhiqing’s family now has more than 20 mu of land, and the family was also lucky. They earned a lot of silver in the past five or six years and increased their land by more than ten mu before becoming a wealthy household in the village.

Zhou Lanlan chatted with these girls and had a very good relationship with Li Zhiqing, while the other three had mediocre relationships with her, and even had some disagreements.

“Speaking of Wei Cheng, Lanlan, didn’t this Wei Cheng have a blind date with you before? Wei Cheng was from the county, so why didn’t you match?” A girl asked curiously; inside, she wanted to see Zhou Lanlan look like a joke.

“Yeah, what about it?” Zhou Lanlan’s tone was a little impatient. “So what if the person was from the county? I don’t like Wei Cheng.” The tone was even a little aggressive in the latter part of the sentence.

They didn’t care about Zhou Lanlan’s tone, because most times Zhou Lanlan spoke very proudly and looked down on others. After all, her family was a wealthy family in the village; her brother was studying in the county, and her father was doing some small business outside. The girls who got along with her would not care too much about her attitude.

But there were also people who didn’t like her; this included Zhou Qiaoyin.

“Zhou Lanlan, Wei Cheng chose a ger but he didn’t choose you. It’s clear that Wei Cheng didn’t like you.” Zhou Qiaoyin covered her mouth and smiled; her eyes flashed a hint of sarcasm.

Usually, Zhou Lanlan would definitely fight back with cynicism, but today Zhou Lanlan seemed to be in a bad mood and was instantly irritated, shouting loudly, “With Wei Cheng’s shabby appearance- poor, ugly, and hunchbacked- who would care about it!”

Zhou Lanlan shook her head, still angry, and went home angrily.

Innocently being yelled at, the girls didn’t know what kind of nerve she had; why was she mad at them!

Since Zhou Lanlan was not there, except for Li Zhiqing, the other girls were more or less dissatisfied with Zhou Lanlan’s temper.

“Look at Zhou Lanlan’s usual high-spirited appearance. She was not as good as a ger, and yet, she has the nerve to get angry at us.”

“That’s right, it’s not that we told Wei Cheng not to want her.”

“Which man could stand her arrogant temper?”

“Okay, everyone was good friends; Lanlan was just that temperamental, but she has no malicious intentions.” Li Zhiqing smoothed things over for Zhou Lanlan.

“Zhiqing, don’t speak well for her; we all know you like her brother.” Zhou Qiaoyin said.

“Yes, Zhiqing!”

Li Zhiqing’s intentions were clearly said to her, so her face turned red.

Li Zhiqing likes Zhou Lanlan’s eldest brother and, to some extent, pleases Zhou Lanlan, which is why she tolerates Zhou Lanlan’s temper.

“Okay, let’s not talk about this. I invited you to drink tea and cakes today; let’s talk about some interesting things.” Li Zhiqing was generous and often invited a few little sisters to come to her home for tea and snacks.

After Li Zhiqing said this, everyone changed the topic.

Aunt Wu was not at home and went to the county seat early in the morning.

Zhou Lanlan returned home angrily.

Zhou Lanlan sulked at the mirror alone.

Zhou Lanlan didn’t like mentioning Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan very much. She felt very conflicted. If she hadn’t had a blind date with Wei Cheng, it wouldn’t be her business. But she had a blind date with Wei Cheng, and Wei Cheng didn’t like her. But the very next week, he met Zhou Yuan and liked him- did he think she was inferior to that Zhou Yuan?

Ever since she was a child, Zhou Lanlan has surpassed Zhou Yuan a hundred times in everything.

Wei Cheng wore rags to their blind date, but they all said that Wei Cheng looked down on her, so she couldn’t look down on Wei Cheng’s poverty.

She didn’t like Wei Cheng when they were on a blind date before. His clothes were dirty and old; he was hunched over, so dull that he couldn’t even speak, and he lowered his head like a mute. She thought that the person was someone sent by the Wei Family who came to displease her.

Later, they went back to inquire and found that Wei Cheng was indeed from the Wei family, but he was not valued by the Wei family, and he was only assigned to a house in the suburbs, but it was dilapidated and old. He was only allocated three acres of land and a dilapidated house, while the tile-roofed houses and half of the fields in the countryside belonged to Wei Cheng’s elder brother, and what Wei Cheng was allocated was not even as good as her family’s.

Since they didn’t believe it, Zhou Lanlan decided to tell others about the Wei family, and also told about the dilapidated and old house in the suburbs of the county, and the fact that there were only two acres of land under his name.

Let’s see who would still secretly say that Wei Cheng didn’t like her.

Who would dare say that it would be good for Zhou Yuan to marry in the county?!

Marrying into the county, even if just in the suburbs of the county, was still not a poor marriage, but not a rich one either.

As soon as the news came out, the villagers gossiped again after dinner.

This was the real reason for the lack of dowry gifts and dowry silver.

Fortunately, there were a lot of sensible people in the countryside, and Wei Cheng was half a county citizen; no matter how bad it was, he was much better than the country people. Besides, Zhou-ger could marry someone, which was already a good result. Of course, a few people mocked him behind his back.

The weather was sunny, the summer was thriving, and the greenery was lush.

There was a breeze on the mountain, and the winds coming from the small river were extremely cool.

Zhou Qiu, Zhou Yuan, and Zhou Muzi went to the mountain to pick up branches with their baskets on their backs, and dried leaves to be used as firewood.

The three of them found a shady place at the foot of the mountain, sat on the ground, and rested for a while.

“Yuan Yuan, did you know about Wei Cheng’s separation from his family?”

The news about Wei Cheng spread throughout the village, and Zhou Qiu and Zhou Muzi also knew about it. Zhou Qiu couldn’t keep her questions in her heart, so she couldn’t help but ask.

Zhou Yuan didn’t care, as there was nothing to hide. “I know. Brother Wei told me that the day they came to bring the dowry.”

“That’s good. I thought Wei Cheng was hiding it from you.”

Separating the family was not a big deal; as long as you don’t hide it beforehand, it’s not intentional deception. Some people even said that the Zhou family was deceived by the Wei family.

They also said that Wei Cheng was separated out and became a broke household, and he had to marry a ger because he had no money. Otherwise, how could the Wei family agree to their son marrying a ger?

“I don’t know who told this story. They also said that Wei Cheng was shabby and poor, and he only married a ger because he had no money, and that was why the dowry was so small.” Zhou Qiu laughed, “If Wei Cheng looks like that but was so shabby, then how about the men in the village? They are all ugly.”

When spreading rumors, they should also spread the truth.

“People in the village really think of Brother Wei that way?”

“Well, I just heard it.” Zhou Muzi said.

Zhou Yuan frowned; he was not good at gossip, and no one told him what the rumors were all about. He was afraid that his friends might misunderstand Wei Cheng, so after thinking about it, he decided to tell his friends what Wei Cheng had given privately.

“Brother Wei didn’t just give so many betrothal gifts.” For the first time, Zhou Yuan didn’t like the wild speculations of the villagers.

“Yuan Yuan, did Wei Cheng give something else back?”

Zhou Qiu and Zhou Muzi looked forward to staring at Zhou Yuan, waiting for his answer.

“Yes.” Zhou Yuan whispered, “There was a gold bracelet and a jade hairpin.”

Gold bracelets and jade hairpins cost a lot of silver taels.

Zhou Qiu and Zhou Muzi’s eyes lit up.

In other words, Wei Cheng was so considerate to Yuan Yuan; how could he give such a small betrothal gift?

“Yuan Yuan, show me when you get back.” Zhou Qiu was excited; she had never seen a gold bracelet in her life.

“Yuan Yuan, I’ll go see it too.” Zhou Muzi also expressed his desire to see it.

“Ok.”

At Zhou Yuan’s house, Mother Zhou explained.

“I know about the separation of the Wei family.”

Father Zhou looked at his wife in surprise. “Why didn’t you tell me?” And here he was still worried.

“I got busy; I forgot.” Mother Zhou had been busy for the past few days. Her ger was going to get married, and the dowry had to be prepared. There were also two tables for the wedding banquet. There was no time to mention it.

It’s just the family being separated, and it’s not that life couldn’t go on; it’s not a big deal.

“Okay, I get it.” Father Zhou nodded and said that Wei Cheng didn’t hide this matter, so he had no other ideas.

Hearing about this incident, Father Zhou was still worried that Wei Cheng was concealing it on purpose. If he kept it a secret, he was afraid that people would be the same as the rascal who once tried to marry his ger. If he was being good to his ger, it may have been superficial and not sincere.

Father Zhou and Zhou Yuan’s three elder brothers all agreed that it didn’t matter if Wei Cheng was separated from the Wei family; it didn’t matter if he was poor, as long as Wei Cheng treated their ger well.

Zhou Yuan’s three sisters-in-law didn’t think so.

Wei Cheng was separated from the Wei family, and the things he got were few and not worth much. A dilapidated house and three acres of land. Things in the county town were expensive, and the expenses were high. Maybe the three acres of land would not be enough for them to eat and drink.

They still wanted to go and curry favor, and if they went to their door once in a while, maybe they could bring back some good things. Now they heard that Wei Cheng was poor, and they felt disgusted in their hearts.

The only consolation was that Zhou Yuan was finally getting married and no longer stayed at home for free!

The villagers in Qinghe Village were spreading rumors that the other person was poor and down and out, but Wei Cheng didn’t know about it, and even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.

He was poor now.

This was true.

He was busy getting married now, and his elder brother asked him to go home temporarily.

It was for the arrangement at the wedding reception.

Mother Zhou told him, “Eight tables are reserved for the banquet. I will discuss with your father about the silver taels for the banquet, and we will pay for it. You don’t need to receive the guests. Your sister-in-law and I would be responsible. As for the wedding ceremony, you have to prepare it yourself. You could figure out how to arrange your home, and there was nothing else. My second son, if you have other opinions, you could talk about it; this was your happy event. “

Mother Zhou said this while Wei Cheng didn’t even lift his eyelids and just took charge of listening. After Mother Zhou finished speaking, Wei Cheng said, “We need to add another table, and that table would be reserved for those who would go with me to pick up the bride.”

He invited Uncle Zhao and the people who were going to pick up his relatives. He also needed them to come and help on the day of the road. There was also a table of eleven people for a table in the country.

Mother Zhou had no objection and agreed.

Wei Cheng thought she would refuse, and planned to pay for an extra table by himself, but now it could be saved.

“If there was nothing else, it’s all up to your mother to arrange!”

Mother Zhou and Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law were satisfied, and it was rare for them to ask Wei Cheng to stay and let him go back after dinner, but Wei Cheng refused.

Regardless of Mother Zhou’s attitude or his sister-in-law’s, he did not object to Mother Zhou helping him with the banquet; anyway, someone offered the silver, and Wei Cheng raised his hands and feet to agree.

Wei Cheng didn’t know what Mother Zhou and his sister-in-law were planning.

Some of the relatives of the Wei family lived in the county town, and some lived outside the county town. No matter which family, they were richer than this branch of the Wei family; his younger sister was even married in the inner county. The gift money of these relatives would not be too little. Mother Wei got the idea with his sister-in-law to collect gift money openly.

Wei Cheng didn’t care that they were pretending to be petty,

There were some things that he would rather give them.

He really did not care.

If he didn’t have this kind of IQ, he wouldn’t have gone from being an ordinary person to working and starting a company step by step to the position of president, with a net worth of over 100 million.

He had only been killed once, which did not count as a failure on his part, but the two parties before his death were talking about feelings, and they had not reached the point of marriage. Then he also got into a car accident, so there was no need to think about that too much.

It was very simple for Wei Cheng to get a lot of money. Just proposing a few ideas to powerful people, directly hooking up with some big shots, and he could get a lot of wealth.

It’s just that it would be too attractive and too high-profile.

In a country with imperial power, he must also know how to seek benefits and avoid risks, know how to assess the situation and follow the trend; that was the rule of life.

Wherever he was now, he could start from that position, and the best way was to play steadily.

Step by step, Wei Cheng didn’t believe that he couldn’t earn his own wealth.

The Wei family arranged a banquet.

With the lessons learned from the betrothal gift, Wei Cheng didn’t have much hope, and the banquet prepared by Mother Zhou was not something he expected to be good.

Wei Yuan and Wei Lei came to help repair the house. Wei Cheng prepared the house repair materials as needed. Wei Cheng also specially bought paint to repaint the second-hand tables and chairs he had just bought.

They repaired the ventilation and broken walls and repaired the kitchen as well. The wooden storage cabinets in the kitchen were dilapidated and could be used as firewood, so they had to be replaced. The moss stains on the walls and the stove were removed. In this way, it took two days to finish repairing their home.

Before Wei Yuan went home, Wei Cheng asked him to go back to Aunt Lu to help with something.

There were horseshoe crabs in the country, which were worth little, but took a lot of work to peel them off. Wei Cheng wanted to trouble Aunt Lu and give Aunt Lu a day’s worth of wages in the name of hiring her, and asked her to help buy twenty catties of horseshoe crabs, then peel them and send them back.

Wei Yuan refused to take the money, but Wei Cheng said that if he didn’t take it, he would find someone else, and Wei Yuan had no choice but to take it.

Horseshoe crabs were to be made into powder. Since there was none sold in this place, he had to make it himself. He also needed to buy red dates and white sugar and planned to make a thousand layer red date cake.

The thousand-layer red date cake would be placed on each table.

He had never seen the thousand-layer red date cake in Baixiang Zhai. The taste of the thousand-layer red date cake was definitely better than the cakes in Baixiang Zhai. With the cake as the finishing touch of the banquet, no matter how bad the banquet was, it would not be too bad.

The thousand-layer red date cake was going to be saved until the end!