CHAPTER 112: CHAPTER 112: TRADING A JOB FOR MARRIAGE

Sun Ailan thought about this and straightened her back, striding boldly into the courtyard.

In the room, Liu Cuilan was tidying the table and didn’t even raise her eyelids upon seeing her: "Something up?"

Sun Ailan put on a smile and leaned forward: "Cuilan sis, I’m here to discuss the marriage arrangement between our kids."

Upon hearing this, Liu Cuilan raised her eyebrows: "Didn’t your family disagree with the marriage? If you don’t agree, let’s just leave it, we won’t force it."

While speaking, she was just wiping the table near Sun Ailan and said bluntly: "Excuse me."

Sun Ailan’s smile froze for a moment, feeling like Liu Cuilan seemed to dislike her.

But remembering her purpose, she forced herself to smile again.

"Ah, it’s all because of that deadbeat at my home, always aiming for higher status. Actually, I’ve always liked your Wenbing, he’s good-looking, considerate, and diligent. My Chunyan thinks the same, but the girl is shy and asked me to come and mediate." Seeing Liu Cuilan not responding, Sun Ailan continued with a smile, "My Chunyan has been fasting at home these days, saying she won’t marry anyone but your Wenbing. That’s why I came here thick-skinned. Look at this mess, why don’t we sit down and discuss this again."

You don’t hit someone with a smiling face, even though Liu Cuilan felt annoyed, since Sun Ailan was speaking nicely to her, she didn’t want to dismiss her, so she threw aside the cloth and pulled a stool over to sit down.

Sun Ailan stared at her, wasn’t she a guest here? Standing the whole time without being offered a seat?

Just sat down herself without a care?

Should she sit or not?

"Cuilan sis, how about lowering the dowry by a hundred and adding the Three Turns and One Sound?"

Sun Ailan bent slightly to speak to Liu Cuilan, feeling something odd.

Liu Cuilan sat on the stool, calmly sipping from an enamel mug.

She finally realized the posture between the two, a sitting and standing position, wasn’t it just like in the drama between the empress dowager and the...ugh, personal nanny?

Thinking of this, she twitched her mouth, regardless of Liu Cuilan’s reaction, she pulled over a stool to sit down.

Seeing Liu Cuilan leisurely sipping from the enamel mug, she planned to mimic but unfortunately found there wasn’t an extra mug on the table, so she gave up.

She could only cough lightly twice, straightening her back.

No way, can’t lose the stance.

Liu Cuilan put down the enamel mug: "Ailan sis, I think let’s just forget about this matter."

Sun Ailan gritted her teeth, this family is truly stingy, she has reduced the dowry from three hundred to a hundred and they are still not satisfied.

After an inner struggle, she spoke again: "Cuilan sis, let’s see about the dowry and the Three Turns and One Sound, whatever you can provide, we won’t be too particular, as long as the two kids can live well."

Liu Cuilan was surprised as she looked at her, previously insisting there would be no marriage without the Three Turns and One Sound and a three hundred dowry, how did Sun Ailan become so agreeable all of a sudden?

No ulterior motives, just theft or fraud.

This thought just sunk in her mind, when Sun Ailan spoke with a smile: "I think like this, if there’s no dowry, we can do without it. However, my Chunyan has been pampered, can’t do farm work, so can you find her a city job?"

Indeed, she came for a job, all three of her kids work outside, but the eldest and second are in labor jobs, unsuitable for a girl, the only position to covet is the third one.

One must know that sales clerk at the department store is extremely popular these days.

Liu Cuilan refused without thinking: "Sorry, Ailan sis, my husband died early, I’m a widow without much capability, let’s just leave it, let’s say Wenbing can’t afford to aim high."

"Don’t say that, Cuilan sis, think about it, isn’t this also for your family’s benefit? If my Chunyan has a proper job, you could enjoy a good life too, can’t you?"

After a pause, she continued, "As for the job, how about you giving your family’s third child’s job to my Chunyan, eventually she will marry, once out, she belongs to someone else, a daughter can never be as close as a daughter-in-law?"

Liu Cuilan coldly laughed inside, she thinks so beautifully, no matter how far the daughter marries, she is forever her daughter, but a daughter-in-law may not be.

Seeing she’s silent, Sun Ailan assumed she was tempted and moved closer: "By the time Chunyan and Wenbing are married, they both work and earn money, you can help with the child, is there a better life?"

"According to you, I would rather keep my third child’s job for my fourth and fifth children in the future, a son is ultimately family, a daughter-in-law is uncertain."

Liu Cuilan spoke leisurely.

After hearing this, Sun Ailan’s expression changed immediately: "Ailan sis, how can you say that, a young man working in a department store, is it more convenient than a girl?"

Liu Cuilan sneered: "Nowadays, men and women are equal, even department store clerks can be men, why not?"

Sun Ailan was stumped, scratching her head, trying to figure out how to persuade, she suddenly heard Liu Cuilan speak.

"Ailan sis, it’s impossible for my third child’s job to be given to someone else, as for the marriage, let’s go back to what we originally discussed. After all, my shrine is too small to support your Chunyan, a big Buddha."

Once Liu Cuilan finished speaking, she took up the cloth to continue wiping the table, a gesture of wanting to send her away.

This woman really doesn’t know how to accept kindness! With her family’s condition, if not her daughter having a good job, who would be interested in her son?

Sun Ailan stood up with a dark face: "Sis, think it over, I’m leaving."

Leaving a sentence, she angrily got up, preparing to leave, but her eyes unconsciously landed on the black-and-white TV on the table.

The Su Family girl has only been working at the department store for a few months, and the family already bought a TV. How proud would she be if this job belonged to her daughter?

Thinking about this, she felt slightly unwilling, no way, she can’t miss such a good opportunity.

No need to mention the other benefits of being a department store clerk, even the TV is the first of its kind, spread across the village these days.

Since Liu Cuilan couldn’t be convinced, she’ll approach Su Wenbing instead.

The boy seemed to really like her Chunyan, by then let her Chunyan mention marriage to Su Wenbing, surely the foolish boy will happily agree.

As the saying goes, once married, the man forgets his mother, by then, with a little pillow talk, that Su Family boy will surely obey her Chunyan, not to mention the TV, even the job will surely belong to her daughter.