We have discussed many times about getting married.

I kept telling her that I had no money and that if I got married, I could only use the house in her Jinchang community to build a new house.

Zhang Hongxia agreed.

Yes, I did borrow fifty thousand yuan from her.

That's what I pretended to be.

I told her: I had a lot of expenses outside, so I had no choice but to borrow a loan shark from XBai. In order to make her believe that I had indeed used mobile phone loans, I also showed her the loan records.

This is my test for her, and I really need the money.

I have taken a fancy to a house in the city, more than 90 square meters, with a down payment of 360,000. I plan to go through the house purchase procedures quietly without telling her. I will repay the provident fund loan more than 4,000 per month. I will bear this money independently.

On the day when I went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get the marriage certificate, I told her again to give her a surprise.

The next week, Zhang Hongchao came to see me at work.

He asked me to hand over the 50,000 yuan, saying that this was the money Zhang Hongxia was preparing to buy a house for him.

I was stunned for a moment.

I called Zhang Hongxia and made an appointment with them for an interview. She then told me that her parents had discussed it and the house the old couple lived in now had a higher price because it was located in the city center. They planned to sell it and use the money.

She used the money to buy a large house in Xincheng District and left it to her brother Zhang Hongchao as a wedding room, and then the old couple lived with them so that it would be convenient for them to take care of their children in the future.

I was skeptical of this statement at the time: although the houses in the old and new urban areas are very different, they are not to the extent that you can buy a new house of hundreds of square meters after selling an old house of several dozen square meters.

Zhang Hongxia said that she would make up the difference in price.

I said how could this be possible? The difference between the two was hundreds of thousands, and she had no savings.

Zhang Hongchao shouted from the side: If I want to marry his sister, I have to spend at least 300,000 yuan as a bride price. This is still in addition to 50,000 yuan.

bride price?

Zhang Hongxia has never mentioned these things before.

I became angry at that time and took my sister and brother to find the old couple and confirm it in person.

Zhang Hongxia and her mother turned against each other and directly gave me two conditions.

First: marry into their family, live with them after marriage, and free up the house in Jinchang Community for Zhang Hongchao. If you accept this condition, the bride price will only be 100,000 yuan.

Second: You don’t have to marry into the bride, but you need a bride price of 300,000 yuan. When you get married, you have to give another 18,000 yuan in red envelopes.

I asked at that time: "Why?"

But her mother told me: I have been with her daughter for so long, and now that we are talking about getting married, there are rules for everything, and the bride price must not be less.

Her father didn't express his position at the side, only saying that "the gift is for your own good."

Things have changed so fast. Less than a week has passed since then, and I feel like a completely different person.

I rushed to the old couple’s home, but I was also very angry. After listening to the two requests made by Zhang Hongxia’s mother, I calmed down and asked Zhang Hongxia: “Do you know these things? What do you want to do?”

Zhang Hongchao said coldly from the side: "Sister, show your cards to him and let him make his own choice."

Zhang Hongxia knew my temper, so she asked her parents and brother to go out first, leaving us alone, and explained everything clearly.

More than two months ago, due to business dealings, Zhang Hongxia's unit came into contact with a new client. She was responsible for copywriting and negotiation, and later discovered that an important member of the other party's negotiation team turned out to be her boyfriend who broke up many years ago.

The man was quite wealthy now. He was very excited after meeting and made an appointment with Zhang Hongxia for dinner.

After Zhang Hongxia met me, she deleted all previous messages on her phone and blacklisted many people's phone numbers.

She was really determined to live with me and decided to give up on the past and start over.

Her ex-boyfriend couldn't get through to her on the phone, and he went out of town for work reasons. After a long time, she just let it go.

This chance encounter made him decide to pursue it again and start over.

Zhang Hongxia did not agree, nor did she give him her phone number, nor added her WeChat account.

The ex-boyfriend refused to give up. While the two parties were negotiating, he sent flowers every day and made private appointments for dinner.

Neither of them said anything.

The ex-boyfriend did it out of negotiation to avoid misunderstandings when the company knew about it.

Zhang Hongxia deliberately refused, but she was also afraid that the news would reach my ears.

One night, the man made an appointment for dinner in the name of "business." When she went there, she found that he was alone. She wanted to leave, but the food had already been served. She didn't want to give face to her ex-boyfriend, so she sat down to eat and drink.

Some wine. Zhang Hongxia felt guilty and didn't call me or send me a message that night. Later, the man kept trying to persuade me to drink. She drank too much and said he would take her home, but the two of them went to the hotel.

She has rekindled her old relationship, but it hasn't reached the point where she can completely abandon me.

The problem is that her ex-boyfriend has been stalking her ever since. He took advantage of those few days of negotiations to propose to her, and even knelt down and said: It was a mistake to leave back then, and he asked her for forgiveness.

The man is very rich and has several houses to his name.

This alone is enough to throw me off several streets.

Zhang Hongxia never agreed.

Her ex-boyfriend found Zhang Hongchao.

They knew each other back then. The man told Zhang Hongchao these things and said bluntly: As long as Zhang Hongchao helps get Zhang Hongxia, he will give him a house to get married.

I believe that the man really wants to marry Zhang Hongxia, after all, they have had a relationship. In comparison, I am just an outsider... But after so many years, my attitude towards Zhang Hongxia has changed from rejection to

I want to accept it. Now I plan to get married, but he interferes. What kind of thing is this?

Zhang Hongxia dotes on her younger brother Zhang Hongchao. She gives him some money every month, and the amount is quite large. In fact, Zhang Hongchao has always been hostile to me. He thinks that after Zhang Hongxia got to know me, she reduced the amount of money she gave him every month.

The money is because I spend too much money on me. And this money may be gone after we get married. After all, we have our own family and children to take care of, and we can't continue to support him, an idler.

Zhang Hongchao pulled the old couple in.

He has a lot of weight in what he says at home. After all, he is the son of the Zhang family, and his status in the heart of the old man is far greater than that of Zhang Hongxia, his sister. Although the old couple had promised our marriage before, they couldn't defeat Zhang Hongchao, and they were more or less greedy for money.

The idea came to my mind, so I called Zhang Hongxia every day during that time to go home for dinner. The three people took turns to persuade her, and Zhang Hongxia gradually changed her mind.

I was completely in the dark, like a fool, knowing nothing.

They made a plan: in the name of a bride price, they would force me to submit. This was one of them.

I have been hiding this from Zhang Hongxia. She does not know that I have this deposit. Three hundred thousand is already a large amount. Any more will not be justified and will have the opposite effect.

If I borrowed money from everywhere and took out this amount, Zhang Hongxia would threaten me with the child in my belly: aborting the child as a bargaining chip for breaking up.

Although the pregnancy was short, she saw all my behaviors. She knew that I valued the child very much. If I was willing to break up, she would give birth to the child to me and then marry that man.

Haha, it’s weird, isn’t it?

When I heard what she said, I was stunned. To be honest, I have read and heard many love stories. But her ex-boyfriend doesn’t care about the process as long as the result. Even if she is pregnant with someone else’s child and gives it away,

This is the first time I have seen her determined to marry her.

I once thought that Zhang Hongxia was lying to cover up some shady purpose.

Later events told me that I was still too naive.

There is no ridiculous story about letting her give birth to a child for the sake of love and giving it to me.

She made everything up.

The reason why I said those words was just to make me die and completely stop having any thoughts about her.

If you don’t have money or a house, just break up.

As long as I fool her, she will turn around and go to the hospital for abortion.

The reason why she did not have the surgery as early as possible was because she was in the negotiation period and she did not want this to affect her work.

In short, no matter how you say it, it is all to make me give up and leave forever.

Neither the Zhang family nor Zhang Hongxia herself publicized it to the outside world.

After all, this is not a good thing. Zhang Hongxia and I have been friends for so many years, and all the colleagues in her workplace know that we are talking about marriage. At this time, the groom suddenly changed... Haha, people need a face to live, this is

Bottom line.

She needs time to deal with it coldly and gradually let her ex-boyfriend come into her life. If it is not handled well, it will only bring negative consequences to her.

She is no longer the little girl who acted recklessly many years ago.

After listening to what she said that day, I asked: "Have you already thought about it?"

She was silent for a long time and nodded.

that's enough.

When I left, the two old bastards from the Zhang family kept laughing. Her mother was very arrogant, with mockery in her eyes. Her father's face was slightly apologetic, but his expression was relieved.

Her younger brother Zhang Hongchao is the most hateful. What he said: "If you don't have money, don't think about marrying my sister. Just take a piss and take good care of yourself. You are dozens of years old and you don't even have a house. What woman is blind?"

I will live with you."

At that moment, I wanted to rush into the kitchen, pick up a kitchen knife and hack their whole family to death.

I knew that murder was illegal, so I said nothing and turned around to leave.
To be continued...