Chapter 208 - Chapter 208: Chapter Two-Hundred and Eight: Taking A wife (1/2)

Chapter 208: Chapter Two-Hundred and Eight: Taking A wife

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation      Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Zhang Tao’s voice was sharp and high-pitched, and her daughter-in-law subconsciously trembled. She quickly stopped what she was doing and went to the kitchen.

“Cook some dumplings for him! Ones with celery filling!” Zhang Tao shouted after her. Looking at her daughter-in-law’s receding figure, Zhang Tao resentfully commented, “Tsk, she just went off without a single word of reply! I Imow she heard me! That woman’s so quiet she might as well be a mute. She’s such a wimp; she’d probably be bullied to death if she gets a daughter-in-law in the future.”

Zhang Xian had already brazenly sat on Zhang Tao’s rocking chair and lazily replied, “Granny, what daughter-in-law? How can I get a wife with this shabby house of ours?”

Zhang Tao disagreed. “Sweetie, how can you say that about yourself? You’re so good-looking, so—so… What was it again? Ah, yes, dashing and debonair! My grandson is a handsome, dashing, and debonair man. There’s no way you won’t be able to get a wife!”

Zhang Xian rolled his eyes at his grandmother. “Oh, come on, get real. Young women these days are all so realistic. You would need real money to get married! You can’t trick women into marriage nowadays like how you tricked my mother. ”

Zhang Tao retorted, ‘What do you mean ‘trick?! I spent 300 dollars to buy your mother! Hmph! That woman cost me 300 dollars!” So saying, she couldn’t help but look toward the kitchen again. She felt that the 300 dollars she spent wasn’t worth it. If that wretched girl, Xiao He, hadn’t run away, she wouldn’t have had to sDend that extra ROO dollars.

Zhang Xian sighed as he rocked in his rocking chair, “That was way back when. Besides, 300 dollars to buy someone like my mother is already a pretty good deal. You won’t be able to buy such a wife even if you spend 30,000 dollars now.”

“30,000 dollars? What kind of woman would cost so much? That’s more expensive than the pigs in my pen! I’m telling you, Little Xian, a wife’s duty is to work and bear children! You don’t buy a wife so they can sit there and look pretty! Don’t follow Old Li and Old Liu’s families’ examples; those idiots put their wives on a pedestal and dress them to the nines. Those fools dote on their wives so much that those women couldn’t lift or carry anything, let alone do any labor work, and they couldn’t beat or scold them. Our family doesn’t raise idle people! Do you hear me, Little Xian?” Zhang Tao earnestly instructed her grandson.

Zhang Xian disagreed. “Granny! That kind of thinking is old history!”

Zhang Tao glared at him. Zhang Xian suddenly leaned close to Zhang Tao and said ingratiatingly, “Granny, there’s this girl I like.”

Zhang Tao was delighted and asked, “Who is it? Granny will go and propose marriage for you!”

Zhang Xian’s face immediately fell. “The bride price she’s asking for is a little too high. We can’t afford it. Why don’t we just forget about it?”

Zhang Tao raised her eyebrows. “What? Does she think you’re poor? Is she looking down on you?