"What? 3,460? You might as well rob us." Old Lady Su's face turned livid.
Liu Hong hurriedly added, "That's right. Even including the engagement gifts and presents, it would only be 1,000. That gold bracelet was 1,960, so altogether it was 2,960. How did it become 3,460?
"Does our eldest girl usually use as much as 500 yuan?"
"How could she not?"
Old Lady Liu remembered these accounts perfectly. Counting on her fingers, she went through them with her:
"Every season, we bought new clothes for your eldest girl, and each time it was two or three outfits.
"Silk scarves, little leather shoes, fountain pens, notebooks, food, and daily necessities—which of those things wasn't bought by our Weiye?
"Even the snowflake cream was always brought back from the county seat for her by our Weiye.
"Hmph, I'm already counting low with 500 yuan. If we really calculated everything, it would be more than 500 yuan."
The more Su Guofu listened, the tighter his brows knitted. He hurriedly and discreetly tugged at his mother's sleeve. "Mom, we can't call off this marriage!"
Even if they sold this dilapidated house, they still couldn't scrape together 3,460 yuan.
His two sons were still in school and both needed money. He himself had no job now and no income at all. How could they call off this marriage?
Old Lady Su naturally knew that they couldn't call off the marriage either.
Not to mention that she didn't have that much money— even if she did, she absolutely wouldn't give it away.
Hmph, once something entered her pocket, how could there be any reason to take it back out?
"Old Lady Liu, we never said we were calling off the marriage!"
Su Baozhu, who had been hiding behind the courtyard gate, panicked and hurried out,