Siheyuan: The Comparison System, and Marrying Shen Youchu, a Wife Who Brings Prosperity

Director Wang from the neighborhood office had barely left when good news spread through the Chen family. The street punk who had just slipped a cigarette to a bandit chief at the execution grounds was actually getting married! Everyone in the courtyard expected a joke, but the girl he chose turned out to be blessed with a fortune that would bring her husband success. Yi Zhonghai tried to trip him up and prop up the Jia family, only to have Chen Shi leave him squirming with a few words. When the Qin family heard that Jia Dongxu's master earned seven or eight hundred thousand a month, they immediately changed their tune and demanded a sewing machine and a huge bride price.

Chen Shi took Shen Youchu to register their marriage, with only twenty yuan's worth of wedding candy in his pocket. His father came charging after him with his cane, cursing him as a troublemaker. Chen Shi darted behind his new bride and grinned. "Dad, if you hit me with that cane, the whole courtyard will know you beat your daughter-in-law!"

Meanwhile, Jia Dongxu was still begging his mother to give her consent, while Yi Zhonghai sat there with a stony face, summoned inside to discuss the bride price. Everyone in the courtyard was waiting to see how the Jia family would scrape together the money. Chen Shi tucked his introduction letter away and whisked Shen Youchu out of the alley. Silly Zhu cursed behind them, and Xu Damao sneered that he was broke. Chen Shi didn't even look back, tossing out just one line: "I'm broke, but I can hold my head high. That must really eat you up." Anyway, it was anyone's guess who would get their marriage certificate first today.

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