"You little brat! It's bad enough that you usually show no respect for your elders! Even if you don't care about us, your uncle and aunt, your grandmother is still here! Don't think you can leave us out of something as important as marriage!"
After saying that, she kept shooting meaningful looks at the old woman.
"Mom! Say something!"
The old woman snorted, stood up, and declared:
"Never mind anything else. When a daughter of the Zheng Family gets married, all three major appliances and a full thirty-six legs' worth of furniture are the bare minimum! And the bride price! Unless it's at least five hundred, don't even think about walking out that door!"
Zheng Chunzhi trembled with anger.
Normally, they looked at her as though she were a walking curse.
Yet now that the bride price had come up, they actually had the nerve to make such an outrageous demand.
Five hundred?!
These days, an ordinary family rarely asked for more than three hundred when marrying off a daughter. How could they have the gall to demand five hundred?!
Zheng Chunzhi was about to argue when Song Ning reached out to stop her.
"You needn't worry about any of that! When my brother marries Chunzhi, the bride price certainly won't be lacking! Whatever other people give, we'll double it! If they give three major appliances, we'll give six. Why stop at thirty-six legs' worth of furniture? We can furnish fifty-four!"
The relatives exchanged glances, barely concealing their delight.
"Song Ning-"
Zheng Chunzhi hurried to stop her.
Of course she knew what Song Ning could afford, but she had no desire to let these bloodsucking relatives profit from it.
Song Ning took her hand and added:
"But we'll hand all of it directly to Chunzhi. It has nothing to do