Chapter 112: Heartbroken
The boy tried to negotiate, “What if I give you 100,000? I’ll buy a house with her name on it before we get married.”
“No, 200,000 less won’t do. It has to be cash. Bring the 200,000 in cash, and you can take her. Otherwise, forget about it!”
Back then, if a family got married, the usual betrothal gifts were around 66,000, 88,000, or at most around 100,000. Where would they get this price?
Let’s say the girl’s family was from the countryside, they raised a few pigs, and the girl’s father was a cook. He wasn’t some big shopkeeper; he said these words just to make things difficult for the boy.
How could the boy at that time get so much money all of a sudden? And it had to be cash. Wasn’t this clearly intentional pressure on the boy using this incident?
The boy’s fiery temper was extinguished by the girl’s father in this manner.
Because the boy was foolish, sincere, and reasonable. He didn’t say no, he just asked for 200,000 in cash.
On the other side, the girl, seeing her parents making things so difficult for the boy, was already crying hysterically. She desperately tried to break free from her mother’s hold, not wanting her father to bully the boy any further.
Who knew that the girl’s mother, seeing she couldn’t hold her daughter back, reached out and slapped the girl hard across the face.
The boy instantly calmed down. He was dead set, truly dead inside.
On one hand, he didn’t want to see the girl fall out with her family because of him. On the other hand, he especially didn’t want to see the girl get hit.
He compromised on the spot, saying, “Don’t hit her, I’ll leave, I’ll leave, alright?”
The girl cried heartbrokenly, not wanting the boy to leave, but the boy’s heart was truly dead. The boy didn’t want to see the girl treated like this by her family because of him.
Hearing the boy say he would leave, the girl’s father’s tone softened, “Actually, by rights, you’re a good kid, sincere. But you two really aren’t suitable. You’ve seen it yourself, my daughter has deceived us at this age, so what about the future? If she does something outrageous in the future, and your temper is still this stubborn, will it be good?”
The boy didn’t speak, but he was extremely angry in his heart, thinking; my temper is big and stubborn, but I don’t lose my temper with her, it’s truly speechless.
Of course, the boy didn’t say this.
Because it was already around one in the morning, at the girl’s pleading, her parents didn’t let the boy leave that night.
That night, the girl held the boy, and the boy didn’t sleep.
The next morning at five o’clock, the girl’s mother made instant noodles for the girl and the boy to eat. The boy didn’t eat.
To appease them, the girl’s parents told them they agreed to them seeing each other, but only through online chats. Afterwards, they left the girl.
The girl took off one of her earrings and secretly gave it to the boy, and also gave him the few hundred yuan she had.
The boy accepted the earring and pushed the money back. The boy had over two thousand yuan in his pocket. At this moment, what difference did it make if he had no money? He knew he had essentially lost the girl.
The girl forcefully put the money into the boy’s pocket. Then, the girl’s father draped an overcoat on the boy. He rode a motorcycle and took him to the train station, saying to the boy, “Uncle is telling you the truth, you two definitely won’t work out. Do I not know my daughter? She’s still not settled, always changing her mind. She’s only a little over ten, not even twenty, and she can deceive you and the family. What about the future? Won’t she screw you over later?
If you two could truly make it work, Uncle wouldn’t say anything. But you two definitely can’t. Do you hear me?”
The boy’s eyes were red from crying, and he let out a “hmm” without speaking.
When he got home, the boy cried his eyes out, as if he had suffered an immense grievance outside. This was the first time the boy had experienced such a grievance.
It was his first romance, the first time he had sincerely liked someone. They had chatted online for a year and a half, almost two years, before meeting in person. They had only been together for half a month before experiencing all this.
Knowing that the girl was bullied, that the girl had lied to him about everything, and then being treated like that by the girl’s parents at her home, with all the blame placed on him.
The boy felt that even TV dramas couldn’t film such melodramatic plots. He had experienced it all in just two days.
The boy’s mother comforted him a couple of times, but she couldn’t alleviate his pain at that moment.
Because the boy knew his family truly couldn’t come up with 200,000 in cash. Although his family wasn’t living in extreme poverty, they didn’t have much money. His father didn’t earn much in a year, and his mother stayed home, farming a bit and playing mahjong when she had free time.
Moreover, even if they could afford it, they wouldn’t give it to the boy for this purpose. Because the boy’s mother thought, if the girl hadn’t lied to her son, why would they have reached this point? She was so deceptive at such a young age; they were only dating, so what would happen if they got married?
Afterwards, the boy was dejected. Although he still had contact with the girl, no one could understand how sad he was at that moment.
The girl was then watched by her family, who didn’t let her go out randomly.
A few days later, the girl asked the boy for some money and secretly ran out to find the boy’s home.
When the boy saw the girl, he didn’t say anything. He just hugged her and gave a bitter smile.
The boy’s mother didn’t know that the girl had been bullied before. The boy hadn’t told anyone about this.
However, because the girl had deceived the boy, and the boy had suffered such grievances at the girl’s home, he no longer looked at the girl the same way as before. But he didn’t get angry; instead, he calmly persuaded the girl to go back.
Seeing this, the girl also felt the boy’s helplessness and was at a loss. She stayed at the boy’s house for half a day, and they just sat together silently, not saying much. In the afternoon, the boy took the girl to the train station. The girl wanted the boy to go with her to rent a place secretly near her home to live.
The boy thought about it and decided against it, because what would be the use of doing so?
Before getting on the bus, the girl smiled at the boy, and the boy smiled back.
But as soon as the girl got on the bus, the boy’s tears couldn’t stop flowing. He stood there foolishly watching the bus drive further and further away.
An aunt sweeping the street by the roadside came over and asked the boy, “What’s wrong, child?”
At this moment, the boy snapped back to reality, wiped the tears from his face, and smiled, “I’m fine, thank you, Auntie.”
After returning home, the boy’s mother told the boy, “If you really like her and her family doesn’t agree, then take her and go. If you need money, Mom will give it to you.”
The boy shook his head. He thought, where could he go? Now they check ID cards to travel, and he would be found wherever he went.
That day, the boy drank a lot of alcohol and secretly wrote a suicide note. He felt that living was truly unbearable and wanted to find a time to see the girl one last time before saying goodbye to this world.
Who knew that a few days later, things took a turn. The boy accidentally met one of the girl’s older sisters. When the girl’s sister learned about the boy’s situation, she felt immense sympathy for the boy and would talk to him and counsel him whenever she had the chance.
At the same time, the boy also learned from the girl’s sister that during the period when the girl was bullied, it was the girl herself who went to play with those two people every day. One time, the girl’s sister even saw the girl secretly carrying cigarettes.
Hearing this, the boy was bewildered again. It was so melodramatic, it was incredibly absurd. However, the boy didn’t ask the girl about this matter. Because when he went to the girl’s home before, the girl chose to leave with the boy, not her family, and that was true.
Besides, at this point, what would be the use of arguing about those things anymore?
