Chapter 145: Returning the Bridal Gifts

 Special thanks to our patrons for supporting 

Beginner Tier $2.50/month

【 Jess 】【 BeeRusty 】

Full-level Boss Dressed As a Peasant Girl Tier $28/month

【 Hipployta 】【 Iratu 】

Thank you so much for the support ❤ ❤❤

Chapter 145: Returning the Bridal Gifts

Zhang's mother shouted, "What bridal gifts? The Lu family is so poor, where would they get any bridal gifts? It was our Zhang family that gave five taels of silver as a dowry. They should return it."

Shu Yu wasn't very clear about the marriage arrangements between the two families and could only look at the old lady for guidance.

The old lady Lu had already rushed out and pointed at Zhang's mother, scolding, "What shameless words are you spouting? The Lu family may be poor, but when Da Ya got married, we gave her everything we could. Let's not talk about anything else. Two years ago, before our second son got injured, we managed to scrape together two taels of silver as a last-minute contribution. We also had bedding and clothes, and our second son personally made the chests and dressing tables from the wood he himself chopped. They were new and of good quality. How is it that when they arrived at your house, there were no bridal gifts anymore?"

The old lady Lu reached into her bosom and pulled out a piece of paper. "This is the list of bridal gifts. You better take a good look. We didn't even want the five taels of silver dowry you offered, so we had Da Ya bring it back to your house. Are you ok saying that all this silver and these items have been greedily taken by you?"

Shu Yu leaned forward and took a look. The handwriting on the list seemed somewhat familiar.

Se couldn't help but glance at Tang Xiucan. It seemed... that he had written it too.

No wonder he was the first to suggest that the bridal gifts should be returned to their respective families. He must have been well aware of the situation.

The Zhang family couldn't say a word. Old lady Zhang's face turned red, but she remained stubborn. "Let's not talk about the chests and cabinets. As for the silver, she held it in her own hands. Who knows how much she had."

The old lady sneered, "Da Ya, you tell us. Where did your bridal gift silver go?"

Da Ya pursed her lips. "Shortly after getting married, my mother-in-law said the family was in financial difficulties. They had specially built a few rooms for Zhang Shu's marriage and incurred some debts. They asked me for two taels of silver to repay the debt."

Later on, they used various excuses to gradually extract more.

Whenever someone fell ill or there was a joyous occasion in another family where they needed to give gifts, or during festivals when they had to give red envelopes to nephews and nieces, they used her bridal gift silver.

Over the course of two years, they gradually took away one tael at a time.

The remaining four taels of silver... somehow, one morning she woke up and they were suddenly gone.

She said their house had been robbed, but her mother-in-law insisted that she must have forgotten where she put it.

Whenever she spoke up, her mother-in-law would insult her, attacking her for not being able to have children.

After a few instances, Da Ya understood. It was indeed a robbery in their house, but the thief was a family member.

However, she had no evidence and couldn't rashly accuse her in-laws of taking her silver. If the news got out, not only would she lose the silver, but her situation would become even more difficult.

So she learned to hide things. Otherwise, the piece of fabric she gave to Shu Yu would have long been secretly taken away.

It was because they realized they missed out on such a good fabric that their anger grew, and they intensified their torment towards her.

After hearing Da Ya's words, everyone looked at old lady Zhang's with disdain.

It's one thing to mistreat your daughter-in-law because she can't bear children, as such things are not uncommon. But stealing her bridal gifts? That's disgusting.

Village Chief Yan felt ashamed and pointed at old lady Zhang's. "Return the bridal gifts immediately!"

(End of this chapter)

Hello^^👋 

You can check out our 7 days free trial on patreon its free guys and all available chapters on the EPIC tier you can access to it for free for 7 days

One more thing your translator's here really needs equipment necessary for translating and editing I just realized how hard it is to do it via phone😅😅😅

So I have a fun mechanics guys to raise funds to buy a preloved laptop or surplus laptop. I don't need a brand new one I just need something that I can use and works really well.

Mechanics:

• Every time there is 1 patron join Full-level boss dressed as Peasant girl tier there is 10 additional chapters updates, on regular days I updated 10 to 15 chapters on this tier so it will be 20 to 25 Chapters with in a day

• If there are 5 patrons join Full-level boss dressed as Peasant girl tier additional 60 chapters

•  10 patrons join Full-level boss dressed as Peasant girl tier additional 150 chapters

I may not be available to translate such massive numbers of chapters within 1 day but I will work really hard on it 😊😇 at least a week all of it will be released.

This tier already have 2 patrons 3 more and the 60 chapters will be on your way

I promise you won't regret it, it will be a fast updates plus once I have a laptop it will be a time to release a patrons only novels and it will be dicided by patrons to what novel should be translated 

Note for patron only novels:

 Less than 30 chapters 

• 2 chapters a day except on Sundays 

• Patrons only

More than 30 chapters 

• 2 chapters a day except sundays

• Will be available on public website Once completed

• On public websites 2 chapters a day 5 days a week