Reincarnation in the 60s: My Spatial Supermarket Brings Forth Wealth-Chapter 368 - 366: Exchanging Five Hundred Yuan for a Wife
Grandpa Wang was sent to the county hospital for hospitalization and began treatment.
Only then did Wang Yongsheng find out that his dad had a stroke. He was anxious to visit him and almost fell to the ground.
"Uncle, don’t worry! Grandpa has already started treatment! Take care of your leg injury!" Lin Shan held him steady.
"How did you happen to come back?" Wang Yongsheng, unaware of the circumstances, asked puzzled, "Did you come back for something?"
Lin Daliang was always with his father-in-law and had not come to see Wang Yongsheng, so he didn’t know who else had returned.
"Grandpa had a stroke a few days ago. Grandma called us, so we came over..." Lin Shan started explaining what he knew briefly.
After listening, Wang Yongsheng’s face turned gloomy. He angrily hit the bed, hating himself for being useless with a broken leg.
"Alright! You didn’t want this either, did you? I just went to see him; Dad is still conscious! It will be okay!" Niu Yingying comforted him.
Lin Shan didn’t stay in the ward long; it felt too oppressive. With his dad by Grandpa’s side, he left and walked slowly outside.
It was already dark, and he didn’t intend to go far, just to get some air in the hospital yard.
Suddenly, a sobbing sound startled him. Who would cry in the dark and try to scare someone?
Lin Shan walked slowly towards the sound. The closer he got, the clearer it became. He clearly heard a girl’s voice, crying very sadly.
Being an atheist, he initially didn’t think of supernatural things.
Afraid of suddenly scaring the girl, Lin Shan lightly coughed.
The crying stopped abruptly. Soon, a girl walked out from behind the bushes in the corner of the hospital yard. Although her eyes were swollen from crying, she wasn’t disheveled as Lin Shan had imagined; rather, she was neatly dressed.
When the girl stepped out of the darkness, Lin Shan widened his eyes in surprise: "Is it you?"
"You... are Lin Shan?" The girl recognized him too.
The two went inside the hospital and talked in the corridor.
"I heard you already went to Capital City. How come you’re here?" The girl, named Shen Xiaoran, was a classmate of Lin Shan.
Lin Shan had a rather good impression of this girl at that time. She was petite, with a gentle demeanor, clean and tidy, unlike other female classmates, who were either runny-nosed or slovenly.
"My Grandpa is hospitalized! Came to pick him up!" Lin Shan answered simply.
Shen Xiaoran nodded with some disappointment; he was just here to visit family.
"What about you? Just now... why were you crying there?" Lin Shan, straightforward, didn’t consider how asking such things would make the girl feel.
Shen Xiaoran hesitated for a moment before speaking, "My dad is sick..."
After speaking, she looked up at Lin Shan. She could tell the boy in front of her was no longer the simple boy he once was; now, he was a Capital City resident. Telling him too much would only trample her dignity.
They both fell silent. Shen Xiaoran lowered her head, and Lin Shan didn’t know what to say next but felt reluctant to just say goodbye.
Just as they were in an awkward situation, a woman ran over from the ward area, saw Shen Xiaoran, and shouted, "Xiao Ran, you wretched girl, what are you dawdling here for? Hurry home and get ready! We don’t even have enough for your dad’s medical expenses! If you don’t marry over there, do you want your dad to die?"
Shen Xiaoran looked up with a pale face, "Mom... don’t shout here!"
The woman was indifferent, "What’s wrong with here? Hurry and prepare! The Huang Family has already urged me several times! You’ll go over tomorrow! They said if you don’t go, they won’t give the bride price!"
Lin Shan understood; she was crying because of this. To treat her dad, she was marrying herself off to exchange for the bride price to pay medical bills?
So she had to marry someone she didn’t like; no wonder she cried.
"How much is the bride price?" Lin Shan asked Shen Xiaoran’s mom solemnly.
Shen Xiaoran’s mom looked at Lin Shan, and after that glance, she pondered. The young man chatting with her daughter must know each other, and judging by his attire, he seemed wealthy, wearing a nice watch on his wrist.
Blame her for a lack of knowledge; she couldn’t tell what brand of watch he wore.
"Young man, why are you asking about the bride price? Do you plan to offer?" Shen Xiaoran’s mom had a calculating look.
If her daughter could marry this young man, it would be better than letting her beautiful daughter be spoiled.
Marrying that old man with a deceased wife; it was only because he offered a lot of money that she decided to marry her daughter to him.
After all, they needed the money for the old man’s medical treatment. Her son and daughter-in-law weren’t wealthy either; they could only sell this young daughter for the bride price to treat the old man.
"How much is the bride price?" Lin Shan asked again.
Shen Xiaoran lowered her head. She couldn’t control what her mom said, so she remained hidden, not speaking.
"They’re giving us a full two hundred yuan bride price to marry our Xiao Ran! They want her as a rich wife..."
"Five hundred yuan!" Lin Shan interrupted Shen Xiaoran’s mom, offering instead.
"Huh? Five hundred yuan? What do you mean?" Shen Xiaoran’s mom was a bit dumbfounded. Why was this young man so sparing with words?
"I give you five hundred yuan! Cancel her marriage!" Lin Shan added, then directly pulled out a stack of fifty ten-yuan bills from his pocket and handed it over.
"This...this, fine! No problem! No problem at all!" Shen Xiaoran’s mom quickly took the money, repeatedly saying ’no problem’.
Shen Xiaoran suddenly looked up at Lin Shan in surprise.
She had liked him since school. Other classmates often couldn’t tell the two brothers apart, but she could distinguish them at a glance.
Back in school, they had similar grades and often liked to study together. However, she couldn’t continue and dropped out before graduating middle school due to family constraints, with a brother still in school.
Lin Shan went to Capital City, and they lost contact.
"Five hundred yuan... five hundred yuan... Now, your dad’s sickness is saved! Xiao Ran! Mom will go tell Huang Youwei! We won’t marry him! We have a boyfriend!" Shen Xiaoran’s mom was overjoyed, "Young man! Xiao Ran is in your hands now!"
Just like that, she handed her daughter over to a stranger met for the first time. Although Lin Shan was pleasing in appearance, in and out, at least she should have gotten to know him first? Just gave her daughter to him?
"I didn’t mean it like that; I’m not trying to buy your daughter..." Lin Shan’s straightforwardness acted up again, insisting on clarifying.
"Okay, okay, I know you like our Xiao Ran. We’re not particular about anything! Now that Xiao Ran’s dad is ill, the wedding can’t happen, just bring her back directly! I’m off to find Huang Youwei! Won’t speak to you more now!" She hurriedly ran off without a backward glance.
"Well... I really didn’t mean that. I just wanted to help you!" Lin Shan explained to Shen Xiaoran.
What is this? Went out to get air, brought back a wife?
