Although Ma Xiuzhu felt sorry for the ten dollars that flew away, she also knew her youngest son's temper. She was afraid that if he asked more, she would lose more money, so she didn't dare to say anything.

The two men walked to the door of the small hotel. Lu Guozhi stopped and looked at his youngest son's back, thinking hard.

"Tell me the truth, is Shi Shen my biological son? We have lived together for half of our lives. Even if he is not my biological son, I accept it. I just want to know the truth."

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that his youngest son was nothing like him. A mediocre person like him could at most give birth to someone with no ambition like his eldest son.

Ma Xiuzhu was feeling sorry for the ten dollars she spent, and when she heard this, she was furious.

He yelled in a furious voice, spitting all over Lu Guozhi's face.

"Lu Guozhi, what do you mean? I, Ma Xiuzhu, have lived to such an old age, but I have never done anything to let you down. What do you mean by throwing dirty water on me?"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became. He slapped his thigh and jumped up and down. "You think my family is deserted, don't you? Let's go home now and call all the relatives and neighbors together to judge the situation. Who do you think I hooked up with? Find that person and confront him. If you can't find that person, you have to set off firecrackers, kneel down, apologize, and clear my name."

Ma Xiuzhu was so angry that she was incoherent. She had been married to Lu Guozhi for twenty or thirty years. Although she had a bad temper, she had never done anything to let Lu Guozhi down.

She never expected that, even though she was already half buried in the ground, Lu Guozhi would throw dirty water on her and even suspect that her youngest son was a bastard. How could she tolerate this?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. His chest felt stuffy and he could hardly breathe. "Let's call Shi Shen back now and let him hear if what you said is human language."

Lu Guozhi quickly grabbed her and said, "What are you yelling about? I didn't say you cheated on me. I just wondered how we could have such a promising son."

The two had lived together for most of their lives, and when Lu Guozhi saw his wife's attitude, he knew he was overthinking.

Since he was his own son, of course he was happier, as it meant that his ancestors were blessed.

Ma Xiuzhu was in the right at the moment, and cursed with full confidence.

"I think you just didn't get rid of your anger. I've never seen anyone who wants to be a cuckold as much as you do."

Lu Guozhi coaxed her in a gentle voice, "I have wronged you, calm down first and go back to the house and talk later."

The two of them entered the small hotel together, and Ma Xiuzhu started cursing Lu Guozhi. At first, Lu Guozhi felt that he was in the wrong, so he did not argue with her and just kept silent.

Ma Xiuzhu became more and more excited and started complaining about her youngest son again.

"Shi Shen is also heartless. He eats the best food and drinks in the army, and gives all the money he earns to his wife. We two have to eat coarse food in the countryside. If I hadn't asked for money today, he wouldn't have thought of taking care of us. I really raised him for nothing."

Lu Guozhi raised his eyelids and looked at her. "Don't be ungrateful. Before Shi Shen got married, didn't he send all his allowance back home? Others can raise ten sons, but it's not as good as Shi Shen raising one."

Speaking of this, Ma Xiuzhu became even angrier and gritted her teeth.

"If I had known he would become like this after marriage, I should not have arranged his marriage in the first place. He married a wife who doesn't know how to lay eggs but only knows how to spend money."

Lu Guozhi glared at her. "You are so old, but you still can't control your mouth. You just talk nonsense all day long. Nian Nian is a student at Beijing University now. She will be assigned a good job after graduation. The Lu family will depend on them in the future."

Ma Xiuzhu continued to be stubborn, "No matter how good their lives are, they are not much better for us old couple. The second son now only has his woman in his heart and eyes, as if he has never seen a woman in his life. He doesn't even have parents."

"Do you still act like a mother-in-law?" Lu Guozhi brought up the past. "Think about why Shi Shen is not close to you. How did you treat him when he was a child? Have you forgotten?"

Lu Guozhi now has great ambitions. He wants his youngest son to bring honor to the family and cannot bear to hear his wife speak ill of him.

Ma Xiuzhu felt uneasy and changed the subject to talk about Lu Ruoling.

"Since Ruoling came to Haicheng, she has been led astray by Yang Niannian and is not obedient at all. I asked her how much private money she had saved these two days and asked her to give it to me, but she said she had spent it all. You said she eats and lives at the scrap yard, how much money can she spend?"

Lu Guozhi became upset after hearing this, so he took off his shoes and fell on the pillow.

"Okay, stop nagging. If you earn all the money from the first betrothal gift, what else do you want?"

Ma Xiuzhu said confidently, "I raised her to this age, so what if I ask for a dowry? If it weren't for me, would she have lived to this age? She would have been drowned in a ditch by her own parents a long time ago."

Lu Guozhi didn't want to pay any more attention to her, so he just closed his eyes and went to sleep, but he couldn't fall asleep after lying there for a long time.

Even though this place is better than my hometown, sleeping here is not as sound as sleeping in my hometown.

…

As for Yang Niannian, after receiving Lu Shishen's call, she couldn't sleep at night. She kept wondering when Lu Shishen would be transferred to Beijing.

I finally fell asleep and even had a beautiful dream of spring flowers blooming.

In the dream, Lu Shishen's muscles were stretched as hard as a block of iron, and beads of sweat dripped onto Yang Niannian's face as he moved.

She suddenly woke up from her dream and found that it was already daybreak.

After Zheng Xinyue got up, the two prepared to go outside for breakfast. As soon as they opened the door, they were stunned.

I saw Yu Sui standing at the door, and there were more than a dozen men, women, old and young beside him.

This scene left Yang Niannian and Zheng Xinyue confused.

Zheng Xinyue asked directly, "Senior Yu, why did you bring so many people here so early in the morning?"

Yu Sui cleared his throat awkwardly and introduced.

"They all came here to take Nian Nian to see the house."

I called a relative last night and told him that his classmate wanted to buy a house. This morning, just after dawn, these people came to his door.

Zheng Xinyue opened her mouth in surprise, "So many homeowners?"

Before Yu Sui could answer, a woman in her fifties behind him spoke cheerfully.

"The house belongs to my parents-in-law. We are all heirs to the house. We all came together to sell it."

Yang Niannian finally understood that these were the children and daughter-in-law of the homeowner. They were all worried that the house would be secretly sold by someone else and the money would be kept for itself, so they came together.

She rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "Wait for me for a moment, I'll go get some things, and then we'll go look at the house."

After saying that, he turned and went into the yard, and came out after a while.

Yu Sui guessed that the two were probably preparing to have breakfast, so he asked with concern.

"You haven't had breakfast yet, right? Why don't you go have breakfast first? There's no need to rush to look at the house."

As soon as he finished speaking, the homeowner's youngest daughter-in-law responded with an impatient look on her face.

"Let's look at the house first. I have something to do at noon. If you finish looking at the house early, I can go back to work earlier."

The first woman, who was in her fifties, was worried that Yang Niannian would be angry and not buy the house, so she spoke quickly.

"How about buying some buns to eat on the way? It won't take long."

The homeowner's daughter-in-law rolled her eyes and said unhappily.

"Sister-in-law, you have a lot of time, but I don't."