The kang (heated brick bed) for left-behind women

Chapter 152 Proposal

"I don't care about that. She's my daughter. I only care about whether my family line can continue," Sun Jun said unreasonably.

"Besides, Lin Dachun, aren't you meddling a bit too much in my family's affairs? After all, this is my Sun family's internal matter, and it has nothing to do with anyone else. Stop lecturing me," Sun Jun added.

"That's right, you live and sleep with Ruoxue, how dare you interfere in my family's affairs?" Wu Xin also said.

"you."

Lin Dachun was immediately silenced; the villagers were indeed gossiping about his relationship with Li Ruoxue.

But looking at Sun Taohua, Lin Dachun couldn't bear to just abandon her like that. If he did, Sun Taohua's life would be truly over. He wanted to save as many as he could.

He pointed to the bruises on Sun Taohua's arm that hadn't faded yet: "You can't hit her! Look at all these injuries on her body!"

"So what if I hit her?" Old Sun said matter-of-factly. "She won't learn her lesson if I don't hit her! She's my own daughter, I can hit her whenever I want!"

"You—" Lin Dachun was so angry that he couldn't speak again.

Looking at the parents in front of him, at the self-righteous gleam in their eyes that seemed to be treating their daughter like a commodity, he felt a wave of nausea.

"Father, Mother..." Sun Taohua suddenly raised her head, tears streaming down her face. "I won't marry... I'd rather die than marry that cripple... If you force me, I'll... I'll kill myself!"

"Die?" Wu Xin screamed. "You dare! Let me tell you, Sun Taohua, we've already received the bride price! The date is set! The eighth of next month! Even if you die, you'll die in the Ma family!"

"Old Sun!" Lin Dachun roared, his voice so loud it sent the chickens in the yard scattering in all directions. "You're driving your daughter to her death!"

"Forcing her?" Old Sun roared as well. "Lin Dachun! Let me tell you, this is a matter for the Sun family! It's none of your business, an outsider, to interfere! Get out of here right now!"

He pointed at the courtyard gate, his eyes wide like copper bells, and spat all over Lin Dachun's face.

Lin Dachun stood there, looking at Sun Laoshuan's face, which was twisted with anger, at Wu Xin, who was crying and cursing like a shrew, and then at Sun Taohua, who was trembling like a leaf beside him.

All the reasoning, strategies, and soft words he had prepared in his heart for the purpose of "making peace" turned into anger, powerlessness, and deep sorrow for the world and for people's hearts at this moment.

Yes, how could he forget?

On this loess slope, in these impoverished days, some parents really do sell their daughters like commodities.

For three hundred yuan, he could push his twenty-three-year-old daughter into the fire pit of a fifty-year-old cripple.

They still think it's perfectly normal.

They even thought it was "for her own good."

The commotion has attracted the attention of many neighbors and villagers.

Everyone's watching this good show.

The villagers had different opinions.

"Peach blossoms are second-hand goods; they can't get married now, so this is their current value."

"Three hundred yuan is a lot of money for a dowry, more than the average family."

"If I were Peach Blossom's mother, I would also be willing to let my daughter marry into that family."

"That crippled Ma doesn't even know where this money came from. His family is poor, old and poor, and I heard he's violent. Marrying into that family would definitely ruin your life."

"Poor? Poor enough to come up with three hundred dollars? That cripple Ma is just pretending to be poor. He's saving that money for decades to get married."

The villagers were talking about it.

"Alright," Lin Dachun finally said, his voice as cold as ice in the dead of winter, "How about this, you tell me, what can we do to prevent Taohua from marrying that cripple Ma?"

"What does that mean??"

Sun Jun asked Sun Laoshuan.

"All you want is money, right? Dowry? I'll pay the 300 yuan, I, Lin Dachun, will pay it!! But there's only one condition: Sun Taohua can't marry Ma the Cripple. Consider it me proposing marriage on behalf of my nephew Lin Liang, how about it?" Lin Dachun finally couldn't help but say.

These words stunned everyone.