"If you’re willing, we can pick a date to get together and finalize the marriage. If you have any other requests, just let me know. Anything we can do, we certainly will, but don't hold us to things we can't manage. You know the situation at Fifth Aunt’s home; they truly can’t scrape together much more than that."
"When the young men in our village take a bride, the dowry is usually between twenty and forty. Sixty yuan is already on the high end. Fifth Aunt is even buying you a wristwatch on top of that—that’s something no other daughter-in-law in the whole village has. You’d be the first."
"Fifth Aunt is just worried that a city girl like you might feel wronged marrying into a small town. She wanted to take the savings she’s built up over decades to buy you that watch, just to help you save face."
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