At first, Luo Honglan refrained from speaking harshly because she thought that Zhou Yunmei, like Luo Dashan, had her best interests at heart, worrying that she might be bullied if she married into a distant place, hence forcing her to marry Li Shunbai.
But the words Zhou Yunmei and Xu He just said were like a wake-up call for Luo Honglan. It turned out that Zhou Yunmei and the others merely saw her as merchandise, ready to sell her to whoever paid the most.
Initially, they thought the bride price of US$ 500 from Li Shunbai was a lot, so they insistently pushed her to marry him. But as soon as they heard that Chen Jie's family was doing better, they immediately changed their tune.
Luo Honglan, although honest and sometimes excessively so, was not a fool; she had her own temper.
Zhou Yunmei had never seen Luo Honglan speak to her like this before, and in anger, she immediately wanted to knock Luo Honglan on the head, simultaneously cursing, "You dead girl."
