Tao Laosan spent the fifty taels until there was nothing left.
Aunt Tao was angry and anxious. She turned around and went into the house, took a mallet and swung it at him, "You are a person who fails to succeed but fails to succeed. I'm going to beat you to death today!"
Tao Laosan immediately stood up and hid behind, "Mom, what's wrong with you? Wasn't that money just for me?! How could you hit me?!"
Aunt Tao trembled, took a few deep breaths, raised her mallet and pointed it at him and said, "That silver was given to us by Master He to keep our concubines!"
Tao Laosan hid behind the wall of his house, stuck his head out and said, "I know, it's the money from selling my eldest sister."
Aunt Tao said angrily: "But your eldest sister is not at home now, so we can only refund the money to the He family!"
Tao Laosan touched the back of his head and said in confusion: "Mom, can't you just find the eldest sister and send it to Mr. He?"
Aunt Tao threw the mallet in her hand on the ground, "If I can get her back, do I still need to give back the money?!"
Tao Laosan said seriously: "What do you mean by not being able to find her back? She is your daughter. Can't you just bring her back?"
Tao Meiyu walked out of the house, crying and said: "The Zhou family knows that we beat the eldest sister, and we are not allowed to take the Zhou family away."
"And the eldest sister has already arranged a marriage with the Zhou family before, and will not let us send it to the He family again!"
Tao Laosan understood what he heard. He stood up and patted his chest and said: "I went to the Zhou family to ask for someone. No matter what, she is still my eldest sister. They haven't even gotten married yet. How could they just keep my eldest sister at home? And even if If we are getting married, we should give us a betrothal gift first!"
Aunt Tao gradually calmed down when she heard the word betrothal gift, "Yes, betrothal gift. If the Zhou family wants to marry my daughter, they must give me a betrothal gift."
Her face suddenly burst into laughter.
At this time, the second son of the Tao family came from the house, "Mom, I have given you a dowry, and you have to give me a dowry. How much dowry have you left for my eldest sister over the years?"
Aunt Tao snorted coldly, "Dowry? She has eaten and worn me for so many years and still wants a dowry! Delusion!"
The Tao family's second son's face darkened.
Aunt Tao turned around and entered the house with a smile. While looking for clothes, she said with a smile: "I will go to the Zhou family to talk about the betrothal gift. I can't marry my daughter off in vain."
Tao Meiyu said pitifully: "Mom, is this really the marriage between eldest sister and the Zhou family? Do I really have no chance to marry into the Zhou family?"
Aunt Tao sighed and said, "Meiyu, you and Mr. Zhou are not destined to be together, so stop thinking about it. I will find a good marriage for you in the future."
As she spoke, she picked up a maroon dress and hurriedly put it on.
Aunt Tao is not only shrewd, but also very thick-skinned. She was making a big fuss at the Zhou family a few days ago, but now she is planning to go to the Zhou family to ask for a betrothal gift.
However, Aunt Tao had just gone out when someone from the Zhou family came.
The person who came was Du Wanchun. She was here to hire someone, and she also brought a letter of divorce.
Aunt Tao was startled at first, then greeted her with a smile, "Shopkeeper Du, what are you doing?"
Du Wanchun asked the person behind him to carry a red box in, "I'm here to hire someone for my fifth brother."
Aunt Tao looked at the big red box and was very happy, "I'll hire you, I'll hire you."
Du Wanchun then took out a letter of divorce from his arms and placed it on the box, "Mrs. Tao, you have to sign this before accepting the betrothal gift."
Aunt Tao looked at the piece of paper with confusion on her face.
She didn't know much about reading, so she only recognized the calligraphy.
"What kind of book is this?"
"Yes, the divorce letter." The second son of the Tao family slowly walked out of it.
He took the divorce letter in his hand and signed his parents' names on it before Aunt Tao could react.
Aunt Tao stretched out her hand to grab it, "What kind of divorce letter?"
The second eldest son of the Tao family said solemnly: "If you accept this betrothal gift and sign this dissolution of marriage today, my eldest sister will have nothing to do with you, your father, or our entire family."
"What do you mean there is no relationship anymore?" Aunt Tao asked with wide eyes.
The second eldest son of the Tao family handed the signed divorce letter to Du Wanchun, "Whether the eldest sister is poor or rich in the future, it has nothing to do with our family, and whether our family is alive or dead, it has nothing to do with our eldest sister."
Aunt Tao frowned and complained to the second son of the Tao family: "How could you just sign like this? What if your eldest sister really gets rich in the future?!"
The second son of the Tao family said slowly: "Mom, if you can sell her for fifty taels of silver, don't think about her coming back to fulfill your filial piety!"
Aunt Tao was unconvinced and said: "She was born to me, and I gave her life. Why can't I come to fulfill my filial piety?!"
The second son of the Tao family gave his mother a sarcastic smile: "Mom, although you gave her a life, you almost beat her to death. Now her life was saved by the Zhou family, so naturally she has nothing to do with you anymore. .”
Aunt Tao was speechless for a moment and wanted to refute, but Tao Laosan came over and said, "Mom, forget it, if the eldest sister can exchange for such a betrothal gift, we have already made money. If we don't have anything to do with each other in the future, we will have nothing to do with her. Let's just pretend that she doesn't exist." People, otherwise you would have to give her a sum of money as a dowry after accepting the betrothal gift."
Aunt Tao fell silent. After thinking about it in her mind, she gritted her teeth and said, "Shopkeeper Du, please keep the divorce letter. We will never have contact with Tao Yaofang again in the future! Nor will we marry your Zhou family."
