The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

A mother-in-law might be jealous that her daughter-in-law has taken over her son, but she won't worry that her granddaughter-in-law has taken away her grandson.

Regardless of the underlying psychology, this phenomenon is very common in East Asia.

In the battle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, if the grandmother, mother-in-law, and grandson's wife join forces, the mother-in-law caught in the middle has no chance to fight back.

Li Wanshi felt as if divine intervention had descended upon her, and her attitude towards Liu Yuxiu became even more amiable and approachable.

Li Qingshan, who was tending the fire in the outer room, heard Liu Yuxiu's words and felt a little uneasy.

Why is this grandson's wife talking in such a provocative and inflammatory way?

"Wei Jun! Wei Jun!"

Li Qingshan shouted loudly for Li Weijun.

"Hey! What's wrong, Grandpa?"

Li Weijun came out of the inner room in a few steps, squatted down by the stove, and threw three corn cobs into the firebox. The flames suddenly lit up a bit more.

Using the "whoosh-whoosh" sound of the bellows to cover his voice, Li Qingshan said in a low voice, "Our family and Liu Dagai haven't even met yet. We're supposed to sit down and discuss your marriage, and this girl just shows up at our door. Do you think your parents are happy about that? Why didn't you discuss it with your parents beforehand?"

Li Weijun felt a chill run down his spine. Discuss it beforehand? His parents would definitely disagree!

They were planning to force us to resign, but since there were so many people around, my parents couldn't easily turn against us and had to swallow their pride and admit it!

Li Weijun changed the subject, saying, "Uncle Liu already agreed."

Li Qingshan sighed.

Inside the house, Li Wanshi and Liu Yuxiu chatted warmly, with Liu Yuxiu affectionately calling her "Grandma" repeatedly.

Li Wanshi smiled. She was a girl who seemed to have eight hundred schemes in her mind, but all eight hundred schemes were empty.

"Wei Jun! Come on, I'll take you two to see your parents!"

Li Wanshi got off the kang (heated brick bed) and put on her shoes, full of energy.

Li Weijun and Liu Yuxiu were overjoyed. Li Qingshan opened his mouth, but stopped Li Wanshi when she was about to leave.

"Damn it, what did our eldest son say last time? Have you forgotten?"

Li Wanshi was taken aback for a moment, then said, "I'm not looking for trouble. I'm just taking my granddaughter-in-law over to meet everyone! The eldest daughter-in-law doesn't know anything about this, so I'll go and teach her."

Li Qingshan pleaded earnestly, "Mother, think about your younger son. What if your eldest son really goes to his workplace..."

At this moment, Li Wanshi was so confident in using Liu Yuxiu to subdue Zhao Sufang that she wouldn't listen to Li Qingshan at all.

Li Qingshan looked at Liu Yuxiu and Li Xiangdong, "Weijun, Liu family girl, let's wait until our parents have finalized the marriage before you visit!"

He emphasized the words "arranged marriage" very much. If he couldn't persuade his wife, he could persuade his future granddaughter-in-law!

As a result, Liu Yuxiu pretended not to hear at all, lowered her head, and acted as if she was completely obedient to Li Wanshi.

Li Xiangdong is even more out of the question; his true intention was to use Xiang Zhuang's sword dance against Liu Bang.

Li Qingshan watched helplessly as Li Wanshi led the two away with her head held high, and stomped his feet in anger.

At Li Jin's house, four tables were set up in the courtyard, where Li Jin and others were having dinner with the construction workers.

The other tables were for villagers who came to help, as well as neighbors who had connections with his family.

If someone in the village is building a house, families with good relationships will give them two pounds of eggs, two pounds of vermicelli, a pound of brown sugar, or something similar.

The cured meat that Luo Yonggang brought added a lot of color to the dishes on the tables. Just as everyone was about to wash their hands and sit down to eat, Li Wanshi arrived with Li Xiangdong and Liu Yuxiu.

"Boss, boss's wife! Look who's here!"

......

Li Xiangdong returned home in the evening. As soon as he got home, he heard Li Jiabao and Li Ping vividly recounting what had happened that day.

"Second brother, eldest brother is too stingy. He kept all the money that Mom gave him for himself. He even used the White Rabbit milk candy that you bought for us when he threw the beam!"

Li Jiabao followed closely behind Li Xiangdong and was the first to complain.

"Second brother, today Grandma brought eldest brother and Liu Yuxiu to our house. In front of so many people, she said that our mother treats her soon-to-be daughter-in-law like a precious guest, and she must treat her well with good food and drink!"

Li Ping said indignantly, "They were implying that our mother is unreasonable!"

Li Ping is now quite adept at discerning the good and bad aspects of the Three Yin Recitations.

Li Xiangdong never expected that Li Weijun and Liu Yuxiu could do such a thing; they really have thick skin.

What did our mother say?

Li Ping imitated Zhao Sufang's tone and mannerisms, "Our mother said that she hasn't found a wife for her son yet, so who knows where this beautiful guest has come from!"

Li Xiangdong laughed and asked, "What did Liu Yuxiu and our elder brother say?"

"Liu Yuxiu burst into tears on the spot. Her elder brother said he would marry Liu Yuxiu, and their parents had no choice but to agree!"

After finishing his sentence, Li Ping asked Li Xiangdong curiously, "Second brother, why did eldest brother say that it's no good if Father and Mother don't agree?"

Li Xiangdong: ......

In my past life, my eldest brother's nephew was born prematurely, which now seems to be due to an unmarried pregnancy.

In later generations, premarital pregnancy and cohabitation are common occurrences, but social customs remain conservative. If people knew that Liu Yuxiu and her elder brother had a child before marriage, gossip would be inevitable.

Li Xiangdong rubbed his forehead and said, "Looks like we're about to have a happy occasion in our family!"

Li Ping: ......

Li Jiabao's attention wasn't on that. He asked, "Second brother, after eldest brother took Liu Yuxiu back to Guanyutai, he went into our parents' room. The three of them haven't come out of the room yet."

Now that we've long since reached dinner time, and Fourth Sister has already prepared dinner, why aren't Father and Mother coming out yet?

He's really hungry!

Inside the room, the atmosphere was tense and ready to fight.

Li Weijun's cheeks were red and swollen, with clear finger marks. He stood stubbornly in front of Li Jin and Zhao Sufang.

Li Jin sat in a chair, panting heavily, and cursed, "You beast! How could you do something so despicable!"

Li Weijun stared with wide eyes, "We're deeply in love! If it weren't for your feudal arranged marriage, we would have been married long ago!"

At this moment, the calmest person in the room was Zhao Sufang. "Since they're already pregnant, they should get married quickly. If this gets out, neither of them will be happy."

Especially Li Weijun, if Liu Yuxiu were to go back on her word and say that Li Weijun forced her, then Li Weijun going to jail would be the least of his worries!

Li Weijun went to jail, and his whole family was implicated. Whenever anyone got out, people would say, "Isn't that the rapist's brother or sister?"

Even though Li Jin was furious, he had no other choice but to nod helplessly.

As the saying goes, "When you raise your head, you marry off your daughter; when you lower your head, you take a wife."

In typical weddings, the bride's family is usually positioned slightly higher than the groom's. This serves two purposes: firstly, to show the bride's family's attitude—"Our daughter is precious; you can't mistreat her after she marries into your family"; and secondly, to show the groom's family respect for the bride.

Although he understood this principle very well, and had already married two daughters, Li Jin never expected that it would be so painful to lower his head and take a wife.