Chapter 352 - Chapter 352: Chapter 339 Its all over (asking for monthly ticket) (1/2)

Chapter 352: Chapter 339 It’s all over (asking for monthly ticket)

Looking at the silent crowd at the entrance, Mrs. Song assumed she had won the argument. Her pride vitally inflated as she raised her chin, revealing the several layers of fat hiding underneath. She laughed with a hint of mockery in her eyes, “Some of you arc just sore losers who cannot stand to see others do well because your own daughters are failures and your families are full of misfortune. You invent unwarranted accusations out of jealousy.”

“People like you deserve to remain poor and your daughters deserve to lack such good fortune!”

“We don’t want this ‘good fortune’ that sends our daughters to their graves. I guess your family is capable of such, as other families don’t have hearts as dark as yours,” a tall, skinny middle-aged woman named Mrs. Zhao retorted with a sardonic smirk.

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“Mrs. Zhao, do you know something we don’t?”

Mrs. Zhao’s statement was like a pebble thrown into a pond, causing ripples of readers amidst the crowd. Even those who had been loudly condemning Mrs. Song now all turned to Mrs. Zhao with questioning eyes.

Even Mrs. Song was taken aback, “What do you mean by that? My daughter, Qinghe, is set to marry into the Kong family. Don’t you know about the Kong family? They are wealthy and influential, home to dozens of maids and extensive fertile lands. Once there, Qinghe will enjoy a life of rich food and luxury, with people waiting on her every need!”

“Yes, they will be ‘attending’ to her. But who can say just what that entails?”

Mrs. Zhao sneered, “You said it yourself – the Kong family is affluent enough to wed the daughters of high-ranking officials. Why on earth would they want to marry your Qinghe? Have you even looked at her properly? She’s plain, ill-mannered, illiterate. Why would the Kong family choose to marry a village girl like her?”

“Are they blind? Or has their judgment been impaired? Instead of all those young ladies from rich families, they want your misshapen tree?”

“Now that you mention it, it is indeed strange that the Kong family, who are so rich, would be interested in Qinghe. It doesn’t make sense,” someone from the crowd chimed in agreeing with Mrs. Zhao.

“Didn’t Zhuang Ruman say that Qinghe has a prosperous birth chart? He said that it would bring wealth and luck to the husband. That’s why the Kong family rejected all those other potential brides and chose Qinghe instead,” chimed another one in defense.

“But why would that prosperity and luck only benefit Qinghe and not others? Plus, birth charts can be manipulated, and one needs to understand the degree of prosperity. If it’s true that Qinghc’s birth chart is highly prosperous, wouldn’t her family already be thriving?”

“Isn’t it weird that they’re taking this marriage so seriously based on a birth chart?”

Mrs. Zhao, who was on a roll, noticed the crowd and even Mrs. Song were dazzled by her theories. She continued confidently, “Do you know why it’s strange?”

“It’s because the Kong family’s only descendant has been long dead. They kept it a secret. He’s still in his ice coffin!”

“Why would they want to marry Qinghe? It’s because her birth chart is particularly suited for a posthumous marriage. That’s why the Kongs arc going out of their way to marry Qinghe.”

A posthumous marriage?

The crowd gasped audibly, their jaws hanging open for a long time from the shock.

They had only heard of such things before: families would combine the burials of unmarried daughters and sons if their birth charts were compatible. They would perform a marriage ceremony in the underworld.

However, this was the first time they had heard of a living girl being used for a posthumous marriage!

Moreover, it was happening right here in their village, in Zhuang Ruman’s household!

“Ah, should have known it. That explains the size of the betrothal gift. They’re buying a life!”

“Zhuang Ruman must have a heart of stone to do this!”

“To orchestrate a living person’s death in such a wicked scheme, only Zhuang Ruman and Mrs. Song could think of something like this!”