Chapter 51

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Chapter 51: Lu Tong is Getting Married

Lu Tong's marriage had settled down not long after Lu Cheng Yu was betrothed with the Secretary General's sister-in-law.

Lu Lin was astonished when he heard who Lu Tong was going to marry.

"Li Ji? Widower Li from Big Wind Village?! Didn't Tang and Matchmaker Wang have a fight about this, this Li Ji is a widower, and he has a five-year-old son! How come Tang is willing to let Lu Tong be someone's stepmother? The situation must be really bad for Lu Tong."

Chen Xiao Mi nodded, "Most boys of marriageable age already got married last year, 3 taels of tax is no small amount, Lu Cheng Yu is an exception. Plus Tang asks for 20 taels as betrothal present, therefore, Lu Tong only has a limited number of options."

Li Ji was a widower with a son, but his family was pretty well-off.

With that being said, Lu Lin was still surprised that Lu Tong who was determined to marry an official in town, was willing to become someone's stepmother.

Chen Xiao Mi continued, "I don't think Lu Tong really have a say in this. In our village, wedding ceremony can be simple, you can just borrow an ox cart to pick the bride up, but Li Fang Yue seems to be very demanding on their wedding ceremony. I heard the Lus are throwing a grand wedding ceremony to fawn upon on Li Fang Yue and the Secretary General, they are even thinking about renting sedan chairs in town. And they need to prepare a wide variety of betrothal presents, the village girls' family would only ask for some daily necessities, but the girls in town would ask for jewelries and nice fabric."

The Lus had a lot of farmland, but they were not as well-off as the villagers thought. Chances were they needed to sell some farmland to cover the cost of the wedding ceremony, no villager would sell farmland unless they were driven desperate. Farmland was easy to sell, but it was almost impossible to buy them back.

So the perfect solution was use Lu Tong's betrothal present money to pay for Lu Cheng Yu's wedding ceremony.

Lu Lin showed a dry smile, "People in my hometown do the same thing, they are obsessed with big weddings and they are willing to borrow money to cover the cost, it looks like the obsession with big weddings is timeless."

"Yeah, I agree, I don't get it either. And I also heard Li Ji's mother is not that easygoing."

Lu Lin nodded, he couldn't help but feel sorry for Lu Tong. Lu Tong was someone who picked easy jobs and shirked hard ones, Lu Lin didn't think Lu Tong could do well as a daughter-in-law and a stepmother.

But on a second thought, Lu Lin felt like this didn't concern him. Even Tang, Lu Tong's own mother had no problem marrying her into such a family, he shouldn't feel so sad. Plus that Lu Tong wasn't a nice person in the first place.

Lu Tong always accused the host Lu Lin of something that he hadn't down when they were young, she would even blatantly make Lu Lin the scapegoat for something she had done, like she would steal an egg in the kitchen and say it was Lu Lin who did it.

Lu Tong sat in her room, feeling devastated about her fate.

She used to imagine her grand wedding ceremony all the time, in her imagination, she would marry well, she would sit in a sedan chair and become an official's wife, but the cold hard reality was she was going to become a five-year-old boy's stepmother, and her future husband was nothing but a villager... ...

But on the plus side, Li Ji's family seemed to be wealthy enough, they didn't even try to negotiate with Tang when they heard the betrothal present was 20 taels.

Lu Tong had also heard about Li Ji's tough mother, she couldn't help but think she had to have a son, otherwise that Li Ji would give everything to Li Ji and his first wife's son!

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