Looking at the Wang family's messy courtyard filled with waste paper and glass bottles, the matchmaker's eyes flashed with contempt, and she pinched her throat to teach Wang Pozi a lesson -

"Times have changed. Do you think marrying a wife now is the same as it was in our time, with just a watch and a bicycle?"

"I tell you three thousand is still a small amount. It has to be a rural family waiting for the money. Let me be frank with you. The three thousand yuan has to be cash. You can't use bottles and jars to make up the number."

"You from the Wang family, don't look down on them for being so greedy. If they weren't from the countryside, and if they were a girl from our city, would you want to marry her for 3,000 yuan? That amount of money is only enough to buy a motorcycle."

Mrs. Wang’s eyes went dark and she almost fainted.

When did it become so expensive to marry a wife?

She thought it was the same as before. When Wang Weiguo married Kuai Yonglan, the most expensive gift was a watch. The rest of the things only cost more than 200 yuan. The bicycle used to pick up the bride was also a new one borrowed from relatives, and the in-laws didn't say anything.

It's only been a few years, and you can't even find a wife with 600 yuan?

Wang Weiguo hesitated and asked, "If it's a free love relationship, can the gift be less?"

The matchmaker was so angry that she laughed.

Where does Wang Weiguo get the confidence to think he can marry a wife through free love?

She doesn’t look good, but she has beautiful thoughts.

If Wang Weiguo was still a handsome teenager, he could rely on his good looks to trick a silly girl into living with him even if she didn't want anything.

But look at Wang Weiguo now, he has rosacea, a beer belly, his family is extremely poor, and he himself was laid off.

Who in this area doesn’t know that Wang Weiguo has been relying on his previous wife for support during these years since he was laid off?

Now people are not willing to support this useless piece of shit. He divorced and ran away with his daughter. Even his own wife is unwilling to continue living with him. Where does Wang Weiguo get the confidence to think he can still find a young girl in her teens?

What does the girl want from him?

Is it because he is old, because he doesn’t take a shower, or because he will be unemployed and laid off in middle age?

If Mrs. Wang hadn't told everyone that she was willing to pay fifty yuan as a matchmaking fee after the deal was done, she wouldn't have made this trip.

Now it seems that this trip to Wang Pozi's house was a wasted trip~

The matchmaker came quickly and left even faster, and was not even willing to introduce a suitable partner to their family.

This made Mrs. Wang very angry.

Unexpectedly, after the matchmaker left, Wang Weiguo said that he had a lover outside and was willing to get married to him without asking for any dowry.

Mrs. Wang was overjoyed.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier, kid? Such a good girl..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard his son stammering:

"Not a girl anymore."

"She was cheated before. She worked in a hair salon under the bridge for a few years and her reputation was ruined."

"Later, she started dating someone, but he was not a human being. He cheated her out of her money and ran away, leaving her alone and a widow. She then went back to work in the hair salon."

"Hair salon? Working? That's a dark job..." Mrs. Wang rolled her eyes, fell off the bench with a thud.

After being helped to bed by her son, Mrs. Wang lay in bed for three days. Her son waited by her bedside for a whole night and disappeared the next day.

He probably went to see that hair salon girl.

A little light shines through the windows covered with tattered plastic sheeting and old newspapers.

Mrs. Wang was lying alone on the wooden plank bed, covered with a quilt that had not been washed or dried for more than a month.

In the past, when Sister Kuai was at home, no matter how busy she was at the factory, she would clean the house inside and outside on Sundays, take out all the beddings for the whole family, dry them in the sun until they were soft, and feel warm when used at night, and you can even smell the scent of the sunshine.

But now, her son doesn't care about anything at home. She has to cook, do housework, and go out to collect waste to sell for money. Where does she find the time to take apart and wash the quilt?

Thinking of the three thousand yuan the matchmaker mentioned and then thinking about her family's current situation, after much thought, Mrs. Wang finally bowed to reality and accepted the new daughter-in-law who "worked" in a hair salon.

The new daughter-in-law is quite pretty, with a slightly dark skin and long wavy hair. She sleeps until noon every day.

After getting up, I don’t work or cook, just wait for ready-made food.

After dinner, she drew her eyebrows and eyes and dressed up beautifully to go to work.

The boy she brought with her was eleven years old this year, tall and thin, with cold eyes. On several occasions, Mrs. Wang took advantage of the new daughter-in-law going to work to make sarcastic remarks to him at home. Unexpectedly, the little wolf cub smashed the thermos at home to the ground without saying a word.

After he finished smashing the things, he said to Wang Po with a smile that if she heard her saying bad things about him and his mother behind their backs again, he would smash something for every time he heard it. If Wang Po felt that she had too much money to spend, she could just tell him so that he could smash things to his heart's content.

He likes to smash things and listen to the noise.

Mrs. Wang was angry and resentful, but she never dared to say a bad word about the mother and son behind their backs again.

There is no other way. Who made the family rely entirely on the new daughter-in-law to earn money to support the family?

After marrying this hair salon girl, Wang Weiguo continued to live a life of being a parasite with everything provided for him. When he ran out of money, he would ask his wife for it. If she refused to give him any, he would ask his biological mother, Wang Pozi, for it.

If neither of them gave him the money, Wang Weiguo would buy things on credit everywhere, including cigarettes and alcohol, and even going to the bathhouse to take a bath would require credit.

Anyway, the debt is so large that the boss will definitely go to Mrs. Wang to collect it.

His mother still had 600 yuan in her hand, enough for him to enjoy for a while.

Unfortunately, the good days did not last long before Wang Weiguo suddenly found that he seemed to have a "dirty disease". Many cauliflower-like bumps grew down there, and they were so itchy that he couldn't even wear pants.

On the way back from the hospital, Wang Weiguo hid a switchblade in his pocket, ran to the hair salon, and told people he was looking for his wife.

I didn't expect my wife was still receiving customers in there.

Thinking of his internal illness and the doctor's warning that it might not be cured, Wang Weiguo's head buzzed. He kicked open the thin door, took out a switchblade, and stabbed the two men so hard that their bodies were covered with blood...

Wang Weiguo was arrested for intentional homicide.

When she heard that her son had killed someone, Mrs. Wang rolled her eyes, and fainted again with a gulp.

However, this time, her son did not take her to the hospital.

In the evening, Mrs. Wang got up from the cold ground and limped back to the house.

A moment later, a shrill scream suddenly came from the house.

It turned out that after Mrs. Wang fainted in the yard, the son brought by the new daughter-in-law rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and took away all the money in the house. Even the new clothes that the stepfather usually wore when visiting relatives and the two new quilts bought for the family to marry the daughter-in-law were stolen by the little wolf cub!

Mrs. Wang was so angry that she was shaking all over. With a thud, she fainted on the ground again.

However, this time, she could never open her eyes again...