Chapter 246: Cousin’s Wedding

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Chapter 246: Chapter 246: Cousin’s Wedding"Fang Bai, if there’s anything you can do to help your aunt’s family, just help out!" Fang Gang knew his son was now capable and knew quite a few important people, so he spoke up on their behalf. "No problem, I’ve got Tiger Brother’s job covered!" Fang Bai patted his chest, readily agreeing, and seeing that Li Hu was tall and strong, he added, "I have a friend in Zhongzhou who runs a beauty salon company. I’ll talk to her about letting Tiger Brother join her security team as a deputy captain. The job is easy, and the salary isn’t bad either... Auntie, Tiger Brother, what do you think?" When Li Hu heard the words "deputy captain," he felt quite imposing and nodded vigorously with a goofy smile on his face. "Fang Bai, as a deputy captain, can you make one or two thousand a month?" Li Ying didn’t care what kind of job her son had, she was most concerned about the salary. Sёarᴄh the NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. "Five thousand a month, he should be able to get that much!" Fang Bai answered with a smile, thinking Xia Chenyu wouldn’t offer Li Hu too low a salary for his sake. "Five... five thousand? They pay that much?" Fang Ying was taken aback, thinking she had misheard. In her mind, it would be good enough if her son had a stable job that paid a couple of thousand a month. "The five thousand I mentioned is just the base salary. If Tiger Brother does well, he should get a bonus by the end of the year!" Fang Bai added with a smile, thinking that since he had profit-sharing at Beauty Company, he could just give up a part of his end-of-year profits so Xia Chenyu could award it to Li Hu as a bonus, helping his aunt’s family to get out of poverty sooner. "Fang Bai, what’s the name of the beauty salon company your friend owns?" Fang Xiaojuan, who was working at the town government and earning around two or three thousand a month—a high income in the town—scoffed at the idea of a deputy security chief earning five thousand, disbelieving Fang Bai and thinking he was bragging. Fang Xiaojuan had spent a few years studying in Zhongzhou and was somewhat familiar with the more famous companies there. She believed that any company willing to pay five thousand to a security guard must be a major company. If the company Fang Bai mentioned was one she had never heard of, she was ready to mock him thoroughly. "Zhongzhou Beauty Company Limited... What’s the problem?" Fang Bai glanced at Fang Xiaojuan indifferently, his tone neither warm nor cold. "Beauty Company? Impossible!" Fang Xiaojuan almost jumped up in shock. Beauty Company originally wasn’t very well-known in Zhongzhou, but recently their three new skincare products had been hugely successful and warmly received by consumers, nearly selling out. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that almost every woman who cared about beauty knew of Beauty Company. Even in the small Fang Temple Town, there were two stores dedicated to selling Beauty Company’s products. Fang Xiaojuan herself used several of Beauty Company’s skincare products and had become a loyal fan of the brand. It was said that Beauty Company’s CEO was an incredibly beautiful woman of charm and grace. How could such a beautiful and wealthy woman be friends with Fang Bai? Fang Xiaojuan, looking at the plainly dressed Fang Bai in front of her, simply didn’t believe him. Fang Bai saw Fang Xiaojuan’s dismissive and scornful attitude and knew she didn’t believe him, but he was also too lazy to explain. Although Fang Ying was also skeptical, since Fang Bai had already said so, she still held onto a glimmer of hope. "Big brother, what were you discussing in the yard just now?" After everyone returned to the yard, Fang Gang remembered the scene when his family had arrived earlier: his older brother Fang Qiang with a worried frown, his nephew Fang Wu looking furious, and he couldn’t help but ask. "We had already agreed with the Jiang Family on the details, with Fang Wu and Jiang Han’s wedding set for tomorrow. But early this morning, the Jiang Family suddenly changed their tune, making all sorts of unreasonable demands, and even said that if we don’t agree, they will call off the marriage... Can you believe it? The Jiang Family is blatantly bullying us," Fang Bai’s grandaunt Liu Caifeng was quick to speak and hurried to explain the situation upon hearing Fang Gang’s question. By the end, tears were streaming down her face. "Ah..." Fang Qiang shook his head in distress from the side and heaved a long sigh. "Nephew, I remember that you and that girl from the Jiang Family had a good relationship. How could such a thing have happened all of a sudden?" Yang Mei furrowed her brows and asked Fang Wu. "I have no idea what’s going on! I just went to see Jiang Han, but she refused to meet with me!" Fang Wu clenched his fists, his expression filled with sadness and pain. "What unreasonable demands did the girl’s family make?" Fang Bai asked, suspecting that the requests made by the Jiang Family must have been beyond his uncle’s family’s capacity to meet, otherwise they would not be so depressed. "In addition to the dowry they’ve already taken, the Jiang Family wants my brother to come up with another hundred thousand in cash. What’s more, they want Fang Wu to buy an apartment in the city, get a car, and transfer to a school in the city for work... The Jiang Family is so greedy! If Fang Wu had such good conditions, he could be selective about finding a wife in the city, so why would he settle for their daughter?" Fang Ying, having talked with his brother and his family earlier, knew the details and began to take up the injustice for his uncle’s family. Fang Gang and his wife Yang Mei also repeatedly denounced the Jiang Family after hearing this. But after the denunciation, the group fell into a comparative silence. Now that the Jiang Family had laid out their terms, if their demands weren’t met, the wedding would be off. The marriage of their son was set for tomorrow, and Fang Qiang and his wife had already notified all their relatives and friends; everything was ready except for the bride to be brought home the next day. But now, with this turn of events, Fang Qiang’s family didn’t know what to do. Considering the demands made by the Jiang Family, putting aside everything else, just an apartment in Zhongzhou City would cost at least five to six hundred thousand at the cheapest. Even if Fang Qiang sold everything he owned, he could not afford it. Furthermore, Fang Wu is currently a primary school teacher in the town. With no connections or path, moving to a school in the city isn’t such an easy matter. But if they refuse the Jiang Family’s demands, the son’s marriage would fall through. Fang Qiang’s biggest concern now was that his son Fang Wu was so infatuated with Jiang Han that a rejected marriage would be the greatest blow to him. Fang Qiang could sense that his son was very emotional today and worried that he might lose control and do something foolish. "You should be able to come up with the hundred thousand cash dowry and the money for the car, sister-in-law. But a house in the city is too expensive; it’s beyond your means. Besides, transferring to a school in the city is even harder than buying a house... Hmph, I think the Jiang Family is just looking for an excuse to back out of the marriage!" Yang Mei said indignantly to Liu Caifeng. Liu Caifeng sighed and said, "Actually, Fang Wu and Jiang Han always had a good relationship, and her parents originally liked Fang Wu a lot too. Them suddenly making these demands today really took me by surprise!" (PS: Keep your spirits and body healthy by reading and voting every day!)

Chapter 246: Cousin’s Wedding

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