Chen Suwen was busy at Ye Yulian's house for a long time. When she returned, she saw that Fu Guixiang and her mother had been kicked out of the Wang family.
"Pah! You come here to beg for money, fine, but you expect to give me several hundred yuan? What are you dreaming of?"
"If you had any shame, you wouldn't say such annoying things to me."
Why don't you just give me several hundred yuan for no reason?
Knowing that her disliked mother-in-law had come to the Wang family's house to get the returned betrothal gifts to be given back to the Fu family, she couldn't help but get angry.
How could she possibly be willing to give money?
“My daughter married you without receiving a single penny of dowry. You can’t be so unreasonable,” Fu Guixiang’s mother said, clearly dissatisfied.
Is it reasonable for her daughter, whom she raised with such care, to marry into another family without receiving a single penny of dowry?
"Go ahead and take your daughter back if you dare. Do you think my family wants her?" Liu Lifen said bluntly.
She disliked Fu Guixiang and the Fu family from the start, so she would be more than happy to let the Fu family take Fu Guixiang away.
Fu Guixiang's mother fell silent.
How could she possibly be willing to take her daughter away?
If she takes her daughter away, she'll be remarrying. How will she find a good in-law family like the Wang family then?
Fu Guixiang, that wretched girl, is already lucky to have such good fortune. How could she bear to lose the Wang family, her in-laws?
Heaven knows how jealous she was of Fu Guilan from the eldest branch of the family being able to marry into the city. Every time she saw her sister-in-law's smug expression, she would grit her teeth in hatred and be extremely jealous.
Now that her daughter has been able to marry into the city, even though her son-in-law is the man that Fu Guilan, that wretched girl, rejected, it doesn't matter, he is still a city dweller.
Her daughter married and became a city dweller; how could she possibly take her away?
Who knows what kind of conditions Fu Guixiang will be able to find next after leaving the Wang family?
He might be an old widower or a simpleton from the countryside, or even a mentally challenged man from a poor family. She would never let Fu Guixiang marry such a person.
"If you're not taking your daughter away, then get out of here." Liu Lifen crossed her arms and looked down at Fu Guixiang. Even though the two were about the same height, she looked down on Fu Guixiang as if she were superior.
"How dare you say my family doesn't give a bride price? My family did give a bride price to your Fu family, but you didn't bring the bride you promised to marry into our family."
"In that case, why can't we get the bride price back?"
"Get lost! I can't be bothered with you."
Liu Lifen was too lazy to waste words with Fu Guixiang's mother. She rolled her eyes at her, turned around, went home, and closed the courtyard gate.
Although the wall surrounding her yard wasn't very high, only about a meter, she still made sure to give way to her guests.
"If you don't want to stay in our house, then get out with your mother. Do you think we care about you that much?"
"Look at the kind of people you've brought here! They ask for hundreds of dollars right off the bat. Do you even deserve it?"
Liu Lifen's belittling of her daughter-in-law was also somewhat of a veiled attack, and her voice was so loud that Fu Guixiang's mother and brother outside the courtyard gate could hear it.
Fu Guixiang's mother was furious. If she looked down on Fu Guixiang, fine, but how could she look down on her son?
Fu Guixiang's brother didn't react. He hadn't said much since arriving at Guangming Road, and he was only focused on looking at the surrounding houses and people.
This is what the city used to be like, and this is what the city dwellers used to live in.
And those cars on the street, and the city people are dressed like this.
If only he were a woman, he could marry into the city and become a city dweller.
As for how he lived a worse life than his sister after marrying into the city?
How could that be?
He is not someone who will be bullied.
In other words, his sister is too useless. She's completely controlled by her in-laws. She's too timid and really useless.
"Are you getting out of here or not? If you don't leave, I'll throw feces on you!"
"I won't give you a single penny—"
Liu Lifen scolded her daughter-in-law for a while, and when she saw that Fu Guixiang's mother was still standing outside the yard, she became even angrier.
She pointed outside the courtyard gate and cursed, determined to drive the people away.
What could Fu Guixiang's mother do? She could only leave in a sorry state, mainly because she couldn't beat Liu Lifen.
As for having her son beat up Liu Lifen?
It's not impossible, but this isn't their home turf. If a fight breaks out, the neighbors will definitely side with Liu Lifen.
There were only two of them, her son and herself, and the other side had so many people. They simply couldn't fight back, so they had no choice but to swallow their anger.
The Fu family mother and son left in a sorry state. When Chen Suwen returned home, she had seen enough of the commotion before leisurely picking a cucumber to eat.
"Mom, we have way too many vegetables at home." Xu Huixue looked at the vegetables in the garden and mentioned to her mother-in-law, "Why don't we give some to the neighbors?"
They definitely can't finish all this food. For example, loofah doesn't keep very well.
If you pick them and can't finish them, they'll spoil. If you don't pick them and let them continue to grow, they'll get old and won't be edible either.
Why not just pick them and give some to our neighbors?
She had already sent some vegetables to her family, but she still couldn't finish all the vegetables from her own garden.
“Pick them, dry the ones that can be dried, and pickle the ones that can’t be dried.”
Xu Huixue thought it was feasible after hearing her say that.
Most of the chayote melons had already been picked and given to Ye Yulian, so Chen Suwen didn't plan to touch them.
This time she picked cucumbers, loofahs, and green beans, as well as several eggplant plants that were growing very full, and she picked them all.
These can all be pickled and eaten.
Peel and wash the cucumbers and loofahs, wash the green beans directly, then cut them into sections, blanch them, and then dry them in the sun for a day or two before pickling.
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