Switched Marriage The Coddled Little Wife novel Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Her Sisters Made a Fortune This Time

For twenty years, she lived at home, involved in only household chores, never mingled in family financial matters, much less knew where money was stashed.

This place was only revealed to her in her last life when her younger brother stole money to please his girlfriend, and her mother summoned her to fill the financial gap.

In her previous life, when she married into the Li Family, her mother demanded a dowry of 300 yuan, claiming that the poor conditions of the Li Family made it necessary to ask for more, to provide her with some leverage for the future.

It was supposed to be her leverage, but not a single cent reached her hands. Instead, the 300 yuan dowry became a source of nagging from her mother-in-law after she got married.

Li Guangyuan was foolishly filial, totally dedicated to the idea that his mother had not had it easy raising him, and the dowry dispute only made him more pious towards his mother.

Whenever his mother lost her temper, made sarcastic remarks, or hurled covert insults, Li Guangyuan not only refrained from stopping her but also insisted that she respect her elders.

Pushed to the brink once, she ran back to her family hoping to get the money back, only to hear her mother say that the money was saved for her brother's wedding, and a married daughter is like spilled water - not to come back without necessity.

She was turned away without even a drink of water.

Reborn, no matter how the Qin Family might have felt, she would not let her mother get a hold of the money again.

Without hesitation, she collected the money into her space, folded the now-empty cloth bag and placed it back, then meticulously restored everything to its original state, and moved the kang cabinet back in place.

Before leaving the room, she also pocketed all the candy from the tea tray.

The Lin Family valued appearances; although frugal on a day-to-day basis, they went all out for special occasions, providing cigarettes and fruit candies, albeit in limited amounts.

Back in her room, she gave most of the candy to Sun Lanlan.

Sun Lanlan unwrapped a piece of candy, put it in her mouth, and then unwrapped another for Lin Chuxia.

"You never know what Qin Yang looks like. Actually, Li Guangyuan isn't too bad. They say clothes make the man and a saddle makes the horse—today, he's dressed in new clothes and shoes and looks quite smart."

She didn't have the heart to say that anyone who could make Lin Jiayi jilt her wedding was probably not as good-looking as Li Guangyuan. Otherwise, a working man would certainly be better than a farmer, wouldn't he?

Word is that Qin Yang is already twenty-five or twenty-six but still without a partner, he must be exceptionally ugly.

As they chatted, tractor noises announced its arrival, halting at the front gate of the Lin Family.

Sun Lanlan abruptly stood up, her face turning pale, when she saw people entering through the glass.

"Qin... Why has the Qin Family come so early? What do we do, Chuxia? Your parents haven't returned yet, how... how should we handle this..."

She was frantically pacing, looking worriedly at Lin Chuxia.

"Should I go and call my parents and my elder brother and sister-in-law over?" Someone had to do the hosting.

The Sun Family and the Lin Family were only village acquaintances, and the Sun Family's duty ended with the dowry contribution yesterday.

Today's visitors were close relatives of the Lin Family. Seeing Mr. Lin and Mother Lin gone with the eldest daughter to the Li Family, everyone had gone back to their own homes.

"It's too late," Lin Chuxia calmly checked her belongings, "Lanlan, my parents probably won't be back until noon. Go tell them that in the absence of the elders, I'll follow the pre-arranged schedule and go with them."

"Me... go tell them?"

Lin Chuxia nodded. "Lanlan, whether I have a grand wedding depends on you now."

Sun Lanlan understood by now; if everything had been agreed upon with both families, could the Qin Family have come to fetch the bride at this time?

It's quite possible that Lin Jiayi and those partial parents of the Lin Family, who never took their younger daughter seriously, forgot to arrange things.

If they could arrange a switch in marriage, what else couldn't they do?