Urban Medical Immortal Dad
Chapter 754: Say and Do_1

Chapter 754: Chapter 754: Say and Do_1

He Xiaohui’s home was in room 402 of building five, Huayuan Community.

Luo Ning, accompanied by Mo Han and their daughter, arrived beneath the unit building of building five, but didn’t see any sign of the festive atmosphere that should accompany a wedding.

Logically, whether in the city or the countryside, if there’s a happy occasion at home, especially a son getting married or a daughter being wed, the hallway would typically be decorated with some balloons or festive characters.

However, the entrance to building five and the stairwell were barren, not to mention festive decorations or balloons, there wasn’t even a thread.

"Sigh."

Luo Ning let out a sigh. She had heard from Xiao Hui that her family didn’t fully approve of the marriage, but she didn’t expect that with the wedding day being tomorrow, Xiao Hui’s parents hadn’t prepared at all. It seemed they were deliberately making things difficult for Xiao Hui.

Upon climbing the stairs and almost reaching the fourth floor, Mo Han and Luo Ning suddenly heard a quarrel coming from above.

"Mom, what do you mean by this? Didn’t you agree to a dowry of three hundred thousand? Why are you asking for another hundred thousand now?"

The voice was that of a young girl, and it seemed to carry a sobbing tone.

"It’s Xiao Hui!"

Luo Ning recognized the voice instantly and hurried to go upstairs, but was held back by Mo Han beside her.

"Wait!"

Mo Han shook his head and said, "Ning’er, it’s not appropriate for us to barge in rashly right now. Let’s first listen to what Xiao Hui’s parents have to say."

He Xiaohui’s home was right in room 402, and since it was an old building with poor soundproofing, loud voices could easily be heard even from the corridor.

"An extra hundred thousand?"

The speaker was a middle-aged woman, who let out a cold laugh and said, "I’ve inquired about that Peng family; they own a toy factory with a fortune of several million. I’m only asking them for four hundred thousand, is that a lot?"

"That little bastard Peng Ye, he’s no good! He got my daughter pregnant, damn it, if he doesn’t cough up another hundred thousand today, Hong Mei, you take Xiao Hui and get the child aborted!"

The room carried the voice of a middle-aged man, who by the way he referred to Xiao Hui, seemed to be her father He Gang.

"Dad, from what I see, the Peng Family would be only too happy for my sister to get an abortion!"

A young man’s voice came out, "You don’t know, when I accompanied sis to the Peng Family last time, their parents, especially his mother, you should have seen how they looked at me and sis, filled with so much disdain."

"As soon as we left, that woman ordered the servants to disinfect all the chairs we had sat on, and she muttered about how ominous and cursed it was."

"The Peng Family doesn’t care about us at all! They look down on my sis!"

Luo Ning frowned in the hallway and whispered to Mo Han, "The one speaking is Xiao Hui’s brother He Yunke, I heard from Xiao Hui that he graduated from a junior college last year, and because he didn’t have a house, several girlfriends have broken up with him."

"The main reason Xiao Hui’s parents are demanding such a high dowry is that they are hoping to buy a commercial apartment for He Yunke in Lu County."

Mo Han, who had seen plenty of such cases on television and news reports, was astounded to encounter such an incident unfolding before him in real life.

He softly shushed Luo Ning, gesturing for her to keep listening.

Luo Ning nodded and pricked up her ears to eavesdrop.

Their daughter, Mo Xiaochen, found it amusing and, following her parents’ lead, also perked up her ears to listen in on the conversation inside the room.

Inside the room, He Xiaohui’s brother He Yunke was sitting on the couch with his legs crossed, tapping his left palm with the back of his right hand, "Sis, I’m not criticizing you, but you’re attractive, well-educated, and you work as a teacher at an elementary school. Your qualifications are definitely not lacking."

"With your qualifications, you could find a rich man with your eyes closed. There’s really no need to put up with the Peng Family’s nonsense."

"Peng Ye is no good either. If he truly loved you, he wouldn’t be haggling over forty thousand, let alone four hundred thousand. He’d have brought the money to our family without a second thought. Don’t believe his nonsense about severing ties with his parents. They just don’t want to fork out any more money!"

Listening to her parents and younger brother, He Xiaohui broke down in tears.

Today, she should have been picking out her wedding dress in town and then going home to put on her beautiful makeup, waiting for the groom to welcome her into his home tomorrow.

But now, her parents were keeping her at home, urging her to extract another hundred thousand yuan of betrothal money from Peng Ye.

A hundred thousand yuan? Where could she come up with so much money?

In the first place, Peng Ye’s family wasn’t willing to provide the three hundred thousand yuan of betrothal payment, and it was only by borrowing from various people and scraping together bits and pieces that they had reluctantly managed to gather two hundred and eighty thousand in the past few days.

If it wasn’t for her best friend Luo Ning’s kind gesture of lending her twenty thousand, she couldn’t have come up with the three hundred thousand yuan at all.

Thinking back on how she had worked her days in school and nights delivering takeout while pregnant, sometimes even recognized by the students’ parents, she felt an ache in her heart.

Most crucially, she couldn’t let her parents find out about any of this; it had to fester inside her.

"Dad, Mom, can you please consider how I feel?"

He Xiaohui, with a somewhat pale face and nearly sobbing, said, "This is my first pregnancy. I’m preparing to be a mother. How can you ask me to abort my child?"

"Peng Ye is serious about me too. In order to be with me, he has already had a big fallout with his family. The three hundred thousand he has come up with is the limit of what he can afford. He truly can’t provide any more..."

"Can’t come up with more? What a bunch of nonsense!"

He Xiaohui’s mother scoffed, "The Peng Family’s toy factory is so large, with annual sales of over twenty million yuan. Peng Ye is an only child; how can he possibly be unable to get the money!"

"Xiao Hui, Xiao Hui, you can’t abandon your own family like this!"

"Even if you don’t think for yourself, at least consider your younger brother. He had three girlfriends last year, and everything was going well until they found out he didn’t have a house in the county. They all dumped him."

"Mom isn’t asking for much, just an extra hundred thousand yuan for a total betrothal gift of four hundred thousand. I’ve worked hard raising you all these years. Four hundred thousand isn’t too much to ask for!"

Her brother He Yunke chimed in, "Yeah, sis, four hundred thousand really isn’t a lot. One of my friends, his sister got married last year, and just the betrothal gift was eight hundred and eighty thousand. They even got him a BMW 3 Series. It was incredible."

"I’ve seen your sister-in-law, and in terms of looks, body, or temperament, she wasn’t half as good as you. Sis, why don’t you just dump that Peng guy and I’ll find you a rich second-generation guy in my circle, I guarantee he’ll be wealthier and more powerful than the Peng Family..."

Seeing her brother pushing her to break up, He Xiaohui’s expression turned grim. Biting her lip, she retorted, "Xiao Ke! You keep saying you want what’s best for me, but isn’t it just that you want to use my betrothal money to buy a house in the city?"

"You can’t ruin my happiness just because you’re selfish!"

"Happiness?"

He Yunke scoffed, unconvinced, "I fail to see what’s so happy about your situation. When others marry off their daughters, it’s a grand affair. At the very least, they’d use eight Audi A4s or BMW 3 Series cars for the wedding procession, right?"

"But look at the Peng Family. They don’t respect us at all, putting on airs, setting all these ridiculous rules, insisting on us providing luxury cars for the procession."

"Isn’t that just ludicrous?"

"Sis, I won’t say more. Today, if that Peng guy brings another hundred thousand yuan to our house, I promise Dad, Mom, and I won’t make things difficult for you. And tomorrow morning, I’ll even rent a Passat myself to personally take you to the Peng Family’s home for your wedding!"

"But if he doesn’t come up with that money, I’ll drag you to the hospital to get the abortion, even if I have to pull you myself!"

"What I, He Yunke, say, I do!"

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