Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside

Yang’s father came along just to deliver this opening line, this matter of breaking off the engagement required his presence as an elder to make it official.

As for what follows, the entire matter was entrusted to their fourth son, who said on the way that he would handle it and that they just needed to watch.

Yang Dong didn’t give Lan Hua a chance to speak and opened his mouth first.

”Your daughter Yang Xiaocui pretended to faint and then fake a tree collision, forcing me to marry her. This is a deception.”

As soon as this was mentioned, Lan Hua quickly retorted, ”Who said our Xiaocui pretended to faint? You stop spouting nonsense here. Besides, did you or did you not carry our Xiaocui on your back? So many people saw it, are you going to deny it?”

Lan Hua thought to herself that she could not admit to this pretending to faint, otherwise the betrothal gifts might not be safe.

Yang Dong did not respond to Lan Hua’s words. Instead, he continued, ”We had already engaged, yet she still went up the mountain with Yang Daniu and indulged in illicit acts, completely disregarding me and giving me a cuckold.”

”That’s not true. Clearly, it was you and that Li Family girl caught doing illicit things by our Xiaocui.”

Hearing Lan Hua mention his affair with Li Chuntao again, Yang Dong was utterly furious. Regardless of whether he was a junior, he stepped forward and grabbed Lan Hua by the collar, ”I told you, if you mention me and Miss Li again, I’ll tear your mouth apart.”

The look in his eyes seemed to carry murderous intent, making Lan Hua involuntarily recall the moment today at the Yang Family house when she almost got hit by a bucket. The words she wanted to rebut just got swallowed.

Yang Dong then released Lan Hua and continued, ”After I discovered the affair, they attempted to silence me with a knife. Such a vicious woman, I must break the engagement, and not just that, I demand compensation.”

At the mention of compensation, Lan Hua forgot about Yang Dong’s fierce gaze and immediately said, ”You can break the engagement, but the betrothal gifts won’t be returned, and there’s no compensation either.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Dong glared at her fiercely again, ”It’s not up to you!”

Lan Hua shivered in fear.

Then they heard Yang Dong continue, ”The betrothal gift is six taels of silver. What I bought from Ma Sui’s things was one tael of silver. The medical fee and medicine for Yang Xiaocui’s treatment were altogether five taels of silver. The silver hairpin was three taels of silver. A basket of eggs, ducks, fish, and that pot of food. Our family’s ox cart and horse cart that you used for so many days, plus the work I did for you, all this adds up to one tael of silver. Besides these, I also need compensation for the damage to my reputation. I was cuckolded, so in total, it adds up to thirty taels of silver.”

Listening to Yang Dong’s calculation, demanding a total of thirty taels of silver, more than her entire fortune, Lan Hua jumped, ”What? Why don’t you just rob us then? The medical fee and medicine were only two taels, how did it become five? And what eggs? I’ve never heard of them. What silver hairpin? That never happened, you are just bullying us too much! And don’t even think about getting back the betrothal gift.”

Hearing this, Yang Dong glanced at Yang Xiaocui behind Lan Hua. When Yang Xiaocui saw Yang Dong’s gaze, she was so frightened that she backed up a few steps.

Seeing Yang Xiaocui like this, Yang Dong knew immediately that she had kept this secret from Lan Hua. His lips curled slightly in contempt as he said, ”You should ask your good daughter what she took from me to give to that Yang Daniu.”