In this materialistic society, the bride price seems to have become a contest, a contest about family, about love, and about the future. When the amount of the bride price soars from thousands or tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, it is no longer a simple number, but has become a weight to measure the authenticity of feelings.
Contributed by netizens themselves
The lovers Xiaoling and Xiaoqiang were originally immersed in the sweetness of love, but when the issue of bride price was placed in front of the two, the originally solid relationship seemed to begin to waver.
Xiaoling: Don't go.
Xiaoqiang: I won't leave if you go, waiting for your mother to bombard me and leave? I gave your mother a gift, she thought I couldn't get on the stage, and as soon as your mother opened her mouth, the bride price was 500,000.
Xiaoling: We only have one daughter in our family, and 500,000 yuan is not much.
Xiaoqiang: It's not much my salary of 8,000 a month, after paying the rent, I eat instant noodles every day, and I save 5,000 a month. Do you know how long I have to save 500,000? 8 years and 4 months.
Xiaoling: At the age of 25, you should have saved enough 500,000, right?
Xiaoqiang: I graduated at the age of 22, and I have to save enough 500,000 yuan at the age of 25, and I have to save enough 13888 a month. My dad doesn't have the surname Ma, you don't have any money, you ask your parents if you want it, you want my grandfather to marry my grandmother with half a bucket of rice, my dad went to my mother with half a pig, and now I want to marry you, then I have to take half a life.
Xiaoling: Then you can't just turn around and leave.
Xiaoqiang: I went to the vegetable market to buy meat, I asked the master how much is a pound of meat, the master said 50, Fu said 40, okay? The master said, 45, you can take a piece. I said okay, if I come, I ask the master, how much is this meat? The master didn't raise his head, and said 500,000 more? So what am I waiting for? I turned around and left, what kind of meat, is it gilded?
Xiaoling: My mother doesn't want me to marry and suffer.
Xiaoqiang: Your mother loves you, I was born by my stepmother, and my mother will bear it. Watching me sell my body, sell my time, work hard, and live like a coolie for 500,000 bride price? Is love mutual on the list of quality authors ? Our family pays a dowry, your family pays a dowry, the dowry and the dowry are mutual, it is the help of two families to a new family, not one family to another family to help the poor, your family just wants to hollow out our family, think about the empty gloves white wolf, what kind of marriage is it, the robbery is won, get out, I hope that one day we will be old, looking back, what we think of is not that we spent 200,000, 500,000, 1 million on this marriage, but that we have walked hand in hand for 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, It's not 200,000, 50,000 or 100,000, it's 20,000, 50,000, 100,000, it's 20, 50, 100. Xiaoling: Then why don't we go back to my mother and bargain.
Xiaoqiang: No need, I won't get married this time.
Xiaoling and Xiaoqiang finally broke up because of the bride price, which is regrettable. But it also makes us think: in this materialistic society, should we re-examine our views on love and marriage? Should we cherish more those who are willing to pay for us sincerely and are willing to walk through the wind and rain with us?