“This is it, this is the day,” Amobi told his father, “I shall ask her and hope all goes well.”

“You’re a good man, she would be silly to say no,” his father said.

They walked up to the girl’s house and greeted the father of the bride to be.

“My son here is a great man, he wishes to marry your daughter,” Okorie said.

He looked at Amobi before nodding and called his daughter over.

“My dear this man wishes to marry you, do you know him?” He asked his daughter, a lovely girl named Chichima.

“I know him very well,” she answered while smiling brightly.

“Don’t get too excited yet,” Okorie warned, “A price for your bride still must be negotiated.”

“Yes I know father, but Chichima’s father, Maduka, is a reasonable man. I’m positive you will find a price within moments. Anyway the price is mostly symbolic,” Amobi pointed out.

The night came, Amobi and his father visited Maduka. They brought wine and kola nuts.

“What’s your offer?” Maduka asked.

“Besides our family standing strong next to yours? 3 goats, 10 chickens, and 4 barrels of wine,” Okorie offered.

Maduka laughed, “You offer more than I was going to ask for. All I wanted was you to pay for half the wedding.”

The deal was made, allegiance, wine, goats, chickens, and half a wedding all to gain a bride.