Compared to the issue of food, the demands Yan Bugui put forward were absolutely bizarre. Before the woman had even married into the Yan family, he had already begun to calculate every detail. He had actually tallied up every cent spent on Yan Jiecheng from childhood to adulthood and demanded that once they married, the couple would have to solve their own housing problems. If they chose to continue living with the Yan family, they would not only have to pay five yuan in rent each month but also hand over ten yuan of their wages to Yan Bugui to pay off the money he had spent on Yan Jiecheng over the past twenty-two years. Only when that debt was cleared would the payments stop.
Such cold calculations would likely only attract someone who wasn't quite right in the head to marry into the Yan family. After all, no sane person would want to be saddled with a mountain of debt the moment they married, especially since Yan Jiecheng held a steady, formal job. Because of this, Yan Jiecheng had been on countless blind dates over the last four years, not one of which had succeeded. By now, the Yan family had been blacklisted by all the local matchmakers. Seeing those around him getting married one after another, Yan Jiecheng was naturally anxious. However, he faced a frustrating reality: he lacked a stable job and could only rely on odd jobs for a meager, unreliable income. He might have work today, but have to rest for the next few days.
As the saying goes, "Economic base determines …
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