Chapter 97: Just a Guilty Conscience
"Okay," Fu Mingxue nodded.
After washing up, she went to eat breakfast first.
She found that her mom had made wontons.
When she went to check on the children, she found the two little ones were already awake with their eyes open.
"Sweethearts, come on, let’s get up."
She dressed the two children, then washed their faces and hands.
"Mommy’s going to make you some mini wontons to eat."
The two children looked well today, so they should be able to eat the mini wontons.
Besides, her mom had clearly made extra just for the two kids.
After she cooked them and fed them to the children, she found they quite enjoyed them.
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That morning, Mrs. Fu returned, pulling another flatbed cart.
This time, it held a color TV and an electric fan.
"Mom, you’re really something else."
"I bought some red paper. In a bit, you can cut out some ’double happiness’ symbols for me to put up. Also, write some festive couplets—I bought the brush and ink for you. Cut the paper nicely and think of some auspicious things to write."
Mrs. Fu knew her daughter’s handwriting was excellent.
So she didn’t bother finding someone else to write them.
Besides, she had been here for less than two days. Who would she even know?
"Alright!"
Fu Mingxue realized her mother placed a lot of importance on a sense of ceremony.
Mrs. Fu organized the items, taking inventory of what was missing.
If they were short on anything, she could go out and buy more in the afternoon.
It was a pity time was so short. Otherwise, she could have gotten everything completely sorted out.
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When Mother Lan saw her daughter, who had returned to her maternal home, she was a bit puzzled. "Why are you here? Isn’t this the busiest time for your in-laws?"
Lan Qingman’s expression was grim. "They can be busy all they want, what does it have to do with me? I’m just the eldest brother’s wife."
Mother Lan now noticed her daughter’s expression was off.
"What’s wrong? Who upset you?"
"My mother-in-law is so biased. It wasn’t enough that she gave Qin Wenhao so much money for the bride price. She even prepared an exquisite courtyard home for them—a two-courtyard compound, no less! That’s worth a fortune!"
Hearing this, Mother Lan’s brow furrowed as well. "Why give them a house too? Didn’t you say last time that the money already included the house?"
She had also been very unhappy when she learned about the bride price.
At the time, she had stormed over to question them, but their explanation left her speechless.
The Qin family had simply stated that the house they lived in would go to the eldest son, and that the ten thousand yuan bride price already included the cost of a house.
In other words, since Qin Wenhao wouldn’t be living with the Qin family in the future, the family home would have nothing to do with him.
"Hah! They even lied and told me that mother and daughter from the Fu family bought the house themselves. It was so absurd I had to laugh! They’re from the poor countryside; where would they get that much money to buy a house? They’ve never even been to Beijing City, so how could they have bought one? They’re just treating me like a complete idiot."
The more Lan Qingman spoke, the angrier she became.
Mother Lan was also furious upon hearing this.
"If that’s really the case, then the Qin family has gone too far. I’ll have your brother go over later and ask what’s going on."
Lan Qingman’s face was dark. "Don’t bother. I already asked last night. They denied it and told me to mind my own business."
This infuriated Mother Lan as well.
"How outrageous! They do something so excessive and then won’t even let anyone talk about it. Where is that mother and daughter’s house?"
"I don’t know. I wanted to go see it yesterday, but they specifically wouldn’t let me."
If she hadn’t found out from her mother-in-law yesterday afternoon, she never would have known just how nice the house was.
But unfortunately, when she pressed for the address, her mother-in-law simply wouldn’t say.
’Why wouldn’t she say? It’s because there’s something to hide, because she has a guilty conscience!’