Chapter 345 - 43: The Doomed Sister-in-law in the Group-Pampered Novel

Recently, Lv Cuiping and Liu Yan have been getting closer, and everyone in the village can see it clearly. Such things can’t be hidden from others’ eyes, especially with how frequently the two families are visiting each other.

So, rumors started spreading in the village that Lv Cuiping and Liu Yan are planning to become in-laws; otherwise, why would they bring their daughters over every day?

However, the most curious thing for everyone was how these two women could reach a consensus and get along, considering how they had a fight at the Xie Family’s doorstep not long ago, leaving them both bloodied. Forget about making up after that; it’s rare enough if they don’t become enemies.

Xie Yumian heard the rumors, so angry that she wanted to tear apart the mouths of those spreading nonsense, but she couldn’t just ignore it, afraid that Liu Yan might be plotting something behind her back.

Jiang Jinbao found an opportunity to get close to her, shamelessly sidling up to chat with her. In his small eyes, squeezed into slits by fat, there always gleamed a lascivious and sinister light, which made Xie Yumian want to vomit just looking at him.

Jiang Jinbao knew Xie Yumian didn’t care for him, but he liked her very much. Her fair skinned, beautiful appearance, like a freshly peeled egg, smooth and tender, emitting an alluring fragrance, made him unable to resist getting closer, wanting to hug her and take a sniff.

So he pressured Liu Yan to matchmake him and Xie Yumian, using his usual tactic, fasting.

Typically eating five meals a day, Jiang Jinbao’s mother, Liu Yan, would feel heartache as if cutting her own flesh if he missed even one meal. Now Jiang Jinbao staunchly refused to eat anything for a whole day, from morning till night, which worried Li Liu Yan terribly, almost willing to cut her flesh to feed her son.

The whole family was anxious about it.

"Oh dear, what do you want your mother to do? The Xie Family isn’t good for anything. If you marry her, your mother won’t be around, and you’ll surely suffer. I’m doing this for your own good."

"I don’t care. I just want Xie Yumian. If I can’t marry her, I won’t eat, and I’ll starve myself to death."

"Soon we’ll have money, over ten thousand! Whatever kind of wife you want, your mother will buy! One isn’t enough, we’ll buy eight! All prettier than Xie Yumian! Okay? Be good, and your mother will get you a beautiful wife right away."

With money, isn’t it easy to find a wife?

But Jiang Jinbao was stubborn, and not getting what he wanted before made him both filled with hate and anxiety, fixated on wanting Xie Yumian.

Besides, what is money?

He’s never lacked anything to eat or wear since birth, so why would he care for such things?

"Mom, if I can’t marry Xie Yumian, I won’t live. Let the Jiang Family’s lineage end with me! I only want her in this lifetime, nothing else matters to me if I can’t marry her!"

As he spoke, Jiang Jinbao threw a bowl and slammed his head against the wall, constantly shouting "I want to die! I want to die!"

Hearing the word "death" frightened Liu Yan, making her legs weak, afraid that something really might happen to her only son, so she repeatedly nodded in agreement.

"Okay, okay, we’ll listen to you. We’ll marry Xie Yumian, we’ll marry Xie Yumian."

"Hurry! I can’t wait! Hurry!"

"Things like this can’t be rushed. Those brothers in the Xie Family aren’t good people either, let your mother think it over again. Eat first, okay? I’ve made pork bone stew for you; let’s have rice with it, alright? I’ll make you two eggs as well!"

Jiang Jinbao almost drooled at this. When had he ever gone this long without eating? Hearing Liu Yan agree, he immediately urged her to quickly bring him food.

Jiang Jinbao almost always ate on the bed since he was born. Before he was fifteen, he had to be fed. Now, Liu Yan still had to serve and help wipe his mouth and hand him bowls.

Others might find such things surprising, but not in the Jiang Family. Everyone took it for granted that Jiang Jinbao was the family’s golden nugget, and everyone had to protect and spoil him. The ultimate goal was to marry him off to a robust, fertile girl so he could fulfill his great mission of carrying on the Jiang Family lineage.

Xie Yumian was immersed in the pain and unwillingness of half of the gold being taken away when Liu Yan suddenly approached Lv Cuiping and said that their half of the Gold wasn’t needed.

The incredible thing was that Liu Yan actually said this, making Xie Yumian feel something was off, and then she heard Liu Yan immediately follow up with,

"We don’t want the Gold, but you must marry our Jinbao."

Hearing this, Xie Yumian was almost amused in anger.

Lv Cuiping couldn’t help but immediately curse.

"Can’t you see what your son is like? Even the pigs in the pigsty are neater and cleaner than him, and you dare to think my daughter would be his wife? Go to hell!"

What a brazen thought.

The son of the village chief, who graduated high school, isn’t good enough for their daughter, but that fat pig Jiang Jinbao is? Dream on!

Liu Yan’s eyes turned cold, and instead of quarreling, she spoke chillingly.

"Our family has just this condition, half a piece of Gold as the bride price. Agree, and we’ll be good in-laws, becoming wealthy landlords in the future. Disagree, and I’ll hand the Gold to the village to deal with; neither of you will get it!"

Lv Cuiping thought Liu Yan was crazy.

She couldn’t bear to see her daughter suffer such humiliation; she would never agree to this.

Xie Yumian watched coldly from the side, not believing Liu Yan would truly give up that two thousand dollars.

But Liu Yan’s next action really frightened her.

Liu Yan directly pulled out a Gold bar from her pocket, shouting ’for the public,’ and was about to rush out of the yard!

Xie Yumian was so scared she grabbed her arm, while Lv Cuiping covered her mouth.

"Are you crazy?! This is money we’re talking about!"

"If you don’t marry, I’ll go report it, and say you’re hiding Gold, let the brigade parade you through the streets! Strip you and parade you through the streets!"

Lv Cuiping was fuming, never expecting Liu Yan to be such a bull-headed fool!

No matter how good Yumian is, could she be better than holding 10,000 dollars in hand?

With money, what kind of wife couldn’t Jiang Jinbao find?

Even if he were really a pig, he could still marry a pretty wife!

Liu Yan was just this stubborn, fixated on the idea that if her son couldn’t marry Xie Yumian, he would die, so what use is money then? She didn’t care for all the money in the world if her son were in trouble.

Xie Yumian was completely shocked, overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness and despair, like being dragged into an abyss by countless hands.

Marrying Jiang Jinbao, she might as well be dead.

But if the Gold were gone, what leverage would she have to seek out Xu Zhe’an in the city?

Seeing that Liu Yan’s shouting was actually attracting people, Xie Yumian quickly grabbed her.

"Let me think it over."

"Think about what, marry my son; he has no worries about food or clothing, and he’s giving 10,000 as a bride price. No one, not even the emperor, is better than my son."

Xie Yumian kept a tense face, her eyes dark and somber.

"Marriage is a big matter, I need a couple of days to think it over; otherwise, just go report it, and none of us will get anything."

Liu Yan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.