dognovel Chapter 425: You can pick up the bride, but you need to pay first
Chapter 425: You can pick up the bride, but you need to pay first
After hanging up the phone, Chen Jinnian hurried back. He really didn't expect that although it was a job to pick up the bride, he couldn't even get through the door.
"Do you have any red envelopes?" Pan Shuai asked.
"No, they all went in through the cat's eye." Fang Yifan spread his hands helplessly. It was just a red envelope, just for asking for good luck. No one prepared too much.
"Old Pan, stop talking nonsense and let's get straight to the point. Choose between brute force and technical tactics."
Chen Jinnian said angrily that wedding pranks are a bad thing, but blocking the door to ask for red envelopes is not necessarily a good tradition.
Just as he finished speaking, a voice came from the peephole of the security door, "Hey, your red envelopes are too small. They're for beggars. They have to be 200 each. Put 20 in first and we'll split it up."
"Swish." After saying that, the cat's eye was closed.
Pan Shuai knocked on the door twice and tried to chat with the other party, but he was ignored.
"Teacher Pan, I think Chen Jinnian is right. Let's get started quickly." Fang Yifan urged. The other party asked for four thousand right away, so if he wanted to take the person away, it would cost at least ten or twenty thousand.
"What a stupid idea! This is Shiya's cousin's house. We can neither break down the door nor pick the lock." Pan Shuai said anxiously.
Fang Shiya is not a local, and it is too far to go to other places to pick up the bride, so we chose to stay at Fang Shiya's relative's house. If we had known that this would happen,
They would rather book a hotel and pick up the bride at the hotel than choose this place.
"Time waits for no one. We've been here for over ten minutes, but we haven't even entered the first door. If we continue to wait, the rest of the process will be delayed."
Chen Jinnian said that he still insisted on his own idea. Since there was no way to communicate, then there would be no need to communicate. He would force his way in and take Fang Shiya away first, and deal with the rest when he had time.
"Forget it, let's pool our money and hand over the red envelope first." Pan Shun touched his pocket. He had changed into new clothes and didn't bring his wallet with him.
This is especially true for Chen Jinnian and Fang Yifan, who both use mobile payment and no longer carry cash.
After knocking on the door, Chen Jinnian shouted, "Open the door first. No one has brought any cash. We will give you the red envelopes after we pick up the bride."
"No, you have to pay with one hand and open the door with the other. No delay." A voice came from inside the door.
"We are here to welcome a bride, not to do business." Chen Jinnian shouted with a frown.
"Swish!" The cat's eye was opened.
"Why get married if you don't have money?" a shrewd woman said. "If you don't have a red envelope, then scan the code to transfer money. If you don't have money, then borrow online loans. Anyway, today's entrance fee is not less than a penny."
Pan Shuaiqi's face turned pale. In order to get married, his family and Fang Shiya's family had pooled together a small amount of money, which they had spent bit by bit until now. It was almost all gone, but the relatives still wanted money. It was a bit too much.
However, today was the most important day in his life, so he managed to control his anger and said calmly, "It's indeed too much, but what if we transfer the money and you don't acknowledge it? So, how much money do you want? Can you give me a definite amount?"
The person inside the door thought about it for a moment and felt that what Pan Shuai said made sense.
"We will discuss it, just wait."
"Swish!" The cat's eye was closed.
Fang Yifan angrily punched the wall in the corridor. "Damn it! This is too much! We are here to happily welcome the bride, not to be grandchildren."
Pan Shuai patted Fang Yifan's shoulder helplessly. He was also very angry, but he had no choice but to endure it.
"Old Pan, I don't think my sister-in-law knows that her relatives are making trouble. I say we should just leave. After my sister-in-law gets the news, she will come out on her own."
Chen Jinnian said thoughtfully that he knew Fang Shiya and knew that she was a straightforward person. If it was Fang Shiya's idea to ask for an entrance fee, she would have informed Pan Shuai in advance instead of making trouble at the last minute.
"It's not impossible. I'll talk to Shi Ya first."
Pan Shuai nodded. He didn't want to spend such money in vain.
Not long after, the peephole was opened again, and the same unruly woman from before began to pretend to report the bill.
"There are 19 of us in total. If each person gets one red envelope, that means 19 red envelopes. In addition to the door in front of you, there's also the bedroom door, so you have to pay 38 red envelopes in total, totaling 7600 yuan."
"The gift is 6666 yuan."
"Hair combing gift 1000 yuan"
"The red shoes are 400 each, so the total is 800 yuan."
"Tea fee is 20 yuan per person, totaling 380 yuan"
"You didn't pay the opening gift when you proposed, so you have to make up for it. Each immediate family member should pay 1000, for a total of 6000."
……
Listening to the other party's endless offer, Chen Jinnian was stunned. He turned around and asked the photographer to turn off the camera, then asked in a low voice, "Where is your sister-in-law's hometown from? Are the rules for staying here so strict?"
"Haha, how did you learn history? What rules are left? Back then, the Red Guards ripped open Yue Fei's tomb and pulverized the coffin and remains. What traditional rules could be left? They were wiped out long ago."
Pan Shuai rolled his eyes at him, feeling that Chen Jinnian had wasted his three years of high school.
The mess of rules for getting married nowadays were all made up in the last few years or even the past decade. Naturally, they are just whatever others say, and they make up all the pretexts and accept whatever they want.
"You're right, but after killing them for so many years, they still have their braids. This is truly a terrible crime."
Pan Shuai and Chen Jinnian stood by and chatted, while Fang Yifan told Ji Yangyang to bring the hammer with him. He believed that no matter how hard the other party's words were, they were not as hard as the hammer.
The people inside didn't know that the groom and best man were absent-minded, and didn't listen to the details she said at all, and continued to read it with a self-satisfied feeling.
"To sum up, the total is RMB. Groom, please transfer the money quickly."
She waited for Pan Shuai to agree, but no one paid any attention to him.
"Groom! Groom!"
It took two consecutive loud shouts for Pan Shuai to realize that the other party had finished speaking.
"Hey, we're here. We're collecting money. How much is it in total?"
"." The other party repeated angrily and warned: "Hurry up and get the money together, otherwise you won't get married today."
Although Pan Shuai is a teacher in a key middle school in Beijing, as a staff member within the system, his salary is actually not that high, and he also teaches Chinese, so he cannot make money by teaching in a cram school.
It is incomparable to the speed at which science teachers make extra money.
The money he asked for was already three or four months' salary for him.
"That's amazing. Just for the wedding, you have to pay 27,000. Learn from me. Old Pan's today is your tomorrow." Chen Jinnian smiled and punched Fang Yifan.
"It's none of my business. I've already broken up."
Fang Yifan said gloomily, and raised his hand to hit Chen Jinnian, returning what he had just done.
"Huh? When did it happen?" Chen Jinnian said in surprise.