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"Motherfucker," Chang Fu couldn't help but blurt out.
"Last year, a woman who was already married once and had a child got a dowry of 180,000 yuan which was shocking enough, but this year it's gone up to 300,000 yuan! Doesn't anyone in the village have anything to say about this?"
"What can they say? Don't you see the situation here? The gender imbalance is completely out of whack."
Chen Pingsheng said, "With a ratio of three men to one woman, if women don't remarry several times, the number of bachelors will just keep increasing. As for the dowry, I reckon it will continue to rise in the future, it might even become more exaggerated than housing prices."
"So if this keeps up, where's the way out for the countryside?"
Yeah, that's true.
The older generation dreams of their sons achieving great success. After all the hard work of raising them, they find out.
Even getting a wife has become difficult.