Seeing that Lu Shan and Damai disagreed with the adoption and Lu Yun was determined to divorce, Peng Xiangye hanged herself at home in anger. Fortunately, Xiaoqiu found her and rescued her and sent her to the hospital.

Lu Shan felt very heavy-hearted when he heard this. He thought Peng Xiangye said she was going to die just to scare them, but he didn't expect that she really wanted to commit suicide.

"Wife, what should we do now?"

Da Mai sneered, "If she really wanted to die, how could she hang herself at home when Mom and Xiao Qiu were at home? If she really wanted to die, she should jump into the river in the dead of night, or buy a bottle of pesticide and drink it."

She didn't believe Peng Xiangye was willing to die, and she was just trying to force them to compromise. If it was other things, she would be willing to tolerate them, and she had suffered a lot before without arguing with them. But the child was her flesh and blood, and she couldn't give it to others.

Afraid that Lu Shan would give in out of pity, Da Mai said, "Even if she is really dead, it is Lu Yun's fault. It has nothing to do with us. If Gou Sheng wants to adopt me, he has to step over my dead body."

Lu Shan said: "No, I won't agree to it."

In the afternoon, Lu Jiazong came to find Lu Shan and talked about the adoption again: "If it weren't for Xiangye's father, I would have died long ago and would not have had you. Shanzi, if Xiangye really had any accident, I would not be able to explain to his father."

When he was young, Lu Jiazong went to the mountains to cut firewood and encountered a wild boar. It was Xiangye's father who saved him. As a result, Xiangye's father was injured and lay in bed for three months.

Shanzi was tongue-tied and didn't know how to refute, but an honest man also had his own way. He lowered his head and said, "Dad, Damai said that if Gousheng was adopted out, she would die. Dad, you can't let my wife and children be separated because of my second brother!"

Lu Jiazong paused and said, "She was just trying to scare us. She can't really die. Shanzi, Dad really has no other choice, otherwise he wouldn't have come to find you."

Shanzi said he had no other options: "Dad, if my second brother is short of money, I will definitely lend him some, but I can't adopt him. He can't support the child or teach him well. If I adopt him, it will harm Gousheng."

Lu Yun loved to be lazy since he was young, but he would finish all the work he was asked to do before marriage. But after marriage, the couple would try to avoid and push the work away, and finally all the work was pushed to him, his wife and his parents. If Gou Sheng was adopted by them, what if he learned all their bad habits? That child would be useless.

Seeing that he couldn't convince them no matter what he did, Lu Jiazong became a little annoyed: "If you don't agree, I will treat you as an irrelevant son from now on."

Lu Shan was shocked: "Dad, what are you talking about?"

Lu Jiazong said this in anger, and he couldn't help but regret it when he saw his son's expression: "Shanzi, Dad is begging you, okay? If Xiangye really dies in our house, I won't be able to explain to his father!"

Lu Shan refused to be persuaded this time: "Dad, it's true that Uncle Peng saved you, but Grandpa helped his mother get easy jobs in the team, and used his connections to get his second son to join the army. You also let Lu Yun marry his sister-in-law who didn't like to work. We have already repaid this favor."

Seeing that he just wouldn't give in, Lu Jiazong left in a rage.

Lu Yun knew that Peng Xiangye had hanged herself. Although he thought she was faking it, he still went to the hospital to visit her. Unexpectedly, the two of them started arguing after a few words and even started fighting.

After being pulled apart by others, Lu Yun said that he must divorce. He only wanted to raise his own child and absolutely did not want to adopt one.

Peng Xiangye cried so much that she fainted.

Because Peng Xiangye was plotting against her son, Da Mai was reluctant to visit her in the hospital, but due to social conventions, she went anyway.

Peng Xiangye begged her again, saying that as long as the couple were willing to adopt Gousheng to them, Lu Yun would not divorce.

Seeing that Da Mai refused to listen despite all her sweet words, Peng Xiangye angrily scolded her for being cruel and cold-blooded, saying that her sister-in-law of many years had the heart to watch her die.

Barley was so angry that he took back all the canned food and chicken soup he had brought.

Three days later, Shanzi received a call from Lu Jiazong, saying that Peng's mother and Peng Xiangye's eldest brother and sister-in-law had come. They came this time to discuss Lu Yun and Peng Xiangye's divorce.

Da Mai didn't stop him from going to Guangming Road, but just said, "You can go there, but the adoption is non-negotiable. If you dare to agree, I won't live with you anymore."

"Don't worry, I won't agree to it."

He went there at 3pm and didn't come back until after 7pm. As soon as he got home, Lu Shan poured himself some water to drink, gulping down a bowl of water before sitting down.

Da Mai asked, "What is the purpose of the Peng family coming to Sijiu City this time?"

It's a thousand miles from my hometown to Sijiu City, and the fare for three people is two hundred yuan. It's impossible that they came all the way here just to seek justice for Peng Xiangye.

Lu Shan sighed and said, "The Peng family said that we can get a divorce, but we have to compensate Xiang Ye."

It was right to give Peng Xiangye compensation after the divorce, but I was afraid that they would be greedy. However, the things in the hands of the in-laws had nothing to do with me, so Da Mai asked with a relaxed look, "What compensation do you want?"

Lu Shan said disdainfully, "Aunt Peng said she wanted to give the house on Guangming Road to Peng Xiangye so that she would have a place to live in the future and not end up living on the streets. She also moved out of Uncle Wu, saying that when Uncle Wu divorced, he left the house to Aunt Wu."

They really dared to think so. Da Mai thought, "Uncle Wu left the house to Aunt Wu because he could make money and could buy a house at any time. Lu Yun never handed over a penny. Besides, the house on Guangming Road belongs to Aunt Wu and is only rented to my parents. How can they have the nerve to ask for the house?"

Lu Shan hummed and said, "Mom said the house belonged to my aunt and they were just renting it out. Then Aunt Peng asked my parents to give the noodle shop to Peng Xiangye."

"Our noodle shop is worth tens of thousands, and they actually dared to ask for it. Their faces were so ugly." Lu Shan said with some emotion.

My parents worked hard to buy the noodle shop, and their livelihood will depend on it in the future, so how could they possibly give it to Peng Xiangye?

Damai understood after hearing this: "Xiangye has lived in Guangming Road for so long, it's impossible for her not to know that the house belongs to my aunt. She will definitely tell the Peng family when she returns home."

"They knew the house belonged to my aunt but they still asked for it. They knew the noodle shop was the foundation of our family and it was impossible for us to give it to them but they still opened their mouths. Shanzi, they did it on purpose to get more money."

It's impossible to compare a house with a noodle shop, so I have to give more money! If you compare a house with a noodle shop, my parents-in-law will definitely be willing to pay more. And my parents-in-law can't stand it if they make trouble every day, and the business will be greatly affected.

"Is that so?"

Da Mai said, "The girl my mother chose for my second brother was from my uncle's village. It was Xiangye's father who deliberately got her father-in-law drunk and made the engagement over the wine table. My mother disagreed at the time, but it was my grandfather who said that men are always good at keeping their promises, and that's why the marriage was successful. The Peng family is so calculating. They knew that Lu Yun was determined to divorce, so they must have persuaded Xiangye to divorce and get more compensation."

(End of this chapter)