Chapter 435: Chapter 226: Making Spring Pancakes_1
In the dead of night, I’m asking for some pink. Starting from the 28th, the pink will double. One vote will count as two, oh. Ahem, you all know what I mean.
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Lian Shouyi looked at Zhao Wencai’s flushed face, and instead of letting it go, he kicked him further when he was down.
"Without your Zhao Family’s girl, our Erlang could still marry a virtuous maiden. If your Zhao Xiue divorces our Erlang, then she’ll really be worthless. We’ll just need to publicize what she’s been doing at our house these past few days, hitting men, cursing her mother-in-law, always dressing seductively, leaving her husband, running away from home. She thinks she can find someone else? Who would be brave enough to take her!" Lian Shouyi said, shaking his leg smugly, "It’s only because we’re so honest at Old Lian Family that you got to step through this door today."
Zhao Wencai’s face had turned the color of a pig’s liver. Zhao Xiue, Lady Wu, and Zhao Xiue’s sister-in-law all had flushed faces too.
"My dear in-laws, you can’t say such things. This is bullying, leaving us no way out. After all, Xiue was your daughter-in-law for a few days, calling you father and mother. You can’t treat this matter like this." Zhao Wencai’s mother started crying.
"Dad, Mom, let’s go. I’d rather go out and die than suffer this humiliation," Zhao Xiue suddenly stood up and said, pointing at Lian Shouyi, "You have the nerve to criticize me when you should look at what you yourselves are like. You’re not well-intentioned, thinking our Old Zhao Family is easy to bully, I..."
Zhao Wencai hastily coughed to silence his daughter-in-law and gave her a meaningful look. If Zhao Xiue made a scene and left now, all his previous forbearance would have been for nothing.
Zhao Xiue’s sister-in-law quickly pulled her to sit back down, stopping her from speaking further.
"Xiue is young and impulsive. Our distinguished in-laws, please be generous and don’t hold this against her. We will have her kowtow and apologize to you shortly." Zhao Wencai said.
Lian Shouyi let out a cold, mocking laugh.
"See, this is your daughter. She dares to scold anyone, nearly slapping us in the face. And we should still want her? Old Zhao, I finally understand why you were willing to provide a dowry. Heh, now, even if you brought us a mountain of gold, we wouldn’t dare to marry such a daughter-in-law." Lian Shouyi said.
Zhao Wencai could only force a smile, again glaring at Zhao Xiue. Among the Lian Family, Old Master Lian was reasonable and considerate of people’s feelings, but Lian Shouyi was not. Zhao Xiue’s outburst had given Lian Shouyi even more leverage to extort a large sum from them.
"Young people do have tempers. Don’t they need time to be cultivated? Today, we’ll leave Xiue here. As for the household rules, in-laws, you can educate her however you see fit; we won’t interfere." Zhao Wencai said.
Lady Wu, Zhao Xiue’s mother, became anxious, signaling Zhao Wencai with her eyes. How could he say such things, not caring about his own daughter?
Zhao Wencai, while wiping sweat from his brow, also gave Lady Wu a look: If he didn’t say it this way, they would suffer a major financial loss.
Lian Shouyi, seeing the Zhao family members exchanging glances, curled his lips in disapproval and was about to say more when he caught a warning glance from Old Master Lian.
"So, you all have no objections to what I just proposed, right?" Old Master Lian said.
"No objections, what objections could we have? Whatever you say, uncle, we’ll agree." Zhao Wencai hastily responded.
"Dad, what did we say when we came here?" Lady Wu could no longer keep silent and turned to address Zhao Wencai.
Zhao Wencai looked back, seeing both his wife and daughter-in-law with red eyes, filled with hope and looking at him expectantly.
"...Yes, that’s right." Zhao Wencai coughed twice and spoke again, "Actually, we have a plan we hadn’t had the chance to discuss with you. Why we wanted Xiue to live in town, and we were going to add a bit more money to Xiue’s dowry. Let Erlang and Xiue open a shop in town. The money they make would be enough for the couple’s expenses, isn’t that better than Erlang having to toil in the fields? This is our way of doting on our daughter and showing sincerity to our son-in-law."
Lian Shouyi’s eyes brightened slightly as he straightened up, looking at Zhao Wencai.
"As for the betrothal gifts we initially agreed on, you promised to bring them back to us. To this day, we haven’t seen that money. As for Xiue’s dowry, it’s ours now that she’s married into our family. With just these two sums, it’s more than enough to set up a shop. You mentioned adding more money, but who has seen this? Aren’t these just empty words? In the end, your Old Zhao Family would have another complaint, as if Erlang is living off you. Old Zhao, don’t play tricks with me." Lian Shouyi said.
