exerpt:
Inviting the prospective marriage
partner to go have coffee, 20,000 Vietnamese Dong; Taking a taxi,
100,000 Vietnamese Dong; The first time visiting the girl’s family,
200,000 Vietnamese Dong worth of fruits; A seafood feast, 300,000
Vietnamese Dong…you need to first be clear that 1 yuan RMB is 2700 Vietnamese Dong. Which is also to say, in Vietnam, two people having coffee is only 7 yuan, and the gift given while visiting the girl’s family for the first time can be done within 100 yuan!
Like Old Dai, every person who has
gone to Vietnam must remind themselves, “I am moneybags, I am moneybags.
[I just have higher purchasing power]” Due to the underdevelopment of
their economy, many local girls have formed the idea of marrying
foreigners. “Remember, [to them] we are foreigners.” The partner Old Dai
ultimately chose is called “A-yin”, and all three sisters have married
into China. “One older sister married to Hong Kong, one older sister
married to Taiwan, and the father-in-law’s family can be said to have a
lot of face amongst the locals.”
As for how good Old Dai’s wife is,
netizens have already described her as “best quality goods”. “Not
greedy, not lazy, not too open, not arrogant, not money-worshiping, is
young, pretty, hard-working, kind-hearted, and key is obedient.” This
remarried man registered marriage in Vietnam last winter, and today his
Vietnamese wife A-yin is already living with him in Nanjing. Aside from
doing the laundry, cooking, and cleaning, Old Dai’s wife will at most go
visit him at the office and learn dance from the dance class teacher
while practicing Chinese.
The high quality life of having a “Vietnamese wife”
In addition to considering house
and career, one must also consider their family’s circumstances. What
looks like not unreasonable circumstances, makes 28-year-old Mr. Hong
very depressed. Originating from the rural countryside of Subei, he has
no house or car, but every day he gets a call from his father and no
matter how the conversation begins, it always concludes on “quickly find
a marriage partner”. Young Hong is indeed worried, because within the
country, he is a bit “powerless” on the matter of finding a bride. Not
long ago, he saw a person’s post on a Xici discussion forum, relating
his experience of “finding a wife” in Vietnam.
35,000 yuan, 15 days, the
poster Old Dai had selected one out of over 40 Vietnamese girls to bring
home to be his wife. The poster had gone to Vietnam alone, and after
publishing a personals’ advertisement in the newspaper, had attracted
one local girl after another for “interviews”. “There were several that
were truly really beautiful, who even on the big streets of Nanjing
would “not be drowned out in the crowd” [would stand out]. This was how
netizens evaluated the Vietnamese girls in Old Dai’s post.
Accustomed to going to 1912 [an
upscale shopping area in Nanjing] every day, Old Dai himself was unable
to explain just what he was busying himself with. But at the end of last
year, due to a series of 47 posts of both photographs and text, him and
his realistic “Vietnamese marriage partner journal” together became
famous. “If we want to talk about Vietnamese girls’ most positive
attribute, it would be their consideration.”
Careful/observant netizens
discovered, during the process of finding a marriage partner in Vietnam,
every girl who had eaten with Old Day had first filled his bowl with
rice, peeled the shell off the shrimp, put the meat in his bowl, and
waited for Old Dai to begin eating before being willing to pick up their
own chopsticks. Facing this kind of scene, netizens were “shocked”. “In
the past, there were only rumors, but we never though that Vietnam is
really like this!” “This kind of thing we have encountered before,
except in reverse, with us serving our wives…”
China Smack found thanks to the Expat Chronicles.
It could be a better, although more expensive, than this.
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