The Unfortunate Bridegroom

 

                                                                          S.M.Singru

 

                                               

A bride running away from the bridegroom after wedding has been happening. But what happened to a farmer from the Fujian province of China was singularly unfortunate. He contracted a bride to marry him after paying the conventional dowry of approximately Rs. One lac to her. Naturally when the bride ran away immediately after the wedding ceremony, he chased her into another town. On finding her, a fight ensued, and when he grappled with her, he suddenly realized that the bride was actually a man. This was too much of a shock to him, and in the resultant confusion, the bride escaped. He says his mortification was further aggravated when he went to the police, and they just laughed and laughed.