: Not taking advantage

Author: Qing Xiyuan

Zhou Lan is not a vain woman. She doesn't ask for a nice house, as long as her family of three can have a place to live.

And she listened to her man, her man’s biological mother wanted to collect the down payment for the house?

Nowadays, the houses bought with down payment are all large-scale residential houses. The unit price of a square meter of houses in such places is three to four times more expensive than ordinary second-hand small private houses!

Zhou Lan couldn't even think about developing new houses in the community.

But her husband's biological mother wants to buy that kind of new house, how can she take out the money?

Fortunately, Meng Dabao is a person who listens to advice. After Zhou Lan told Meng Dabao about his plan to buy a house, the current progress of saving money, and the lack of money, Meng Dabao lowered his head.

My wife is right, they do need a house.

Their son is seven years old this year and still sleeps in the same room as the couple.

As my son grows up, he must have a separate room.

So they have to have their own house!

Meng Dabao decided to find time to go to his mother's clothing store again recently.

There was nothing he could do to help his biological mother buy a house.

As for the biological mother who wants to see her daughter-in-law and grandson...

After Meng Dabao talked to his wife, Zhou Lan agreed.

But what she promised was to go see her mother-in-law by herself.

She didn't want anything to do with her son and her man's biological mother.

…

Zhou Lan only found time to go to her mother-in-law's clothes shop three days later.

She asked Meng Dabao about the location of the store in advance and came here alone.

Lan Xinya didn't know Zhou Lan, but it was Zhou Lan who revealed her identity, and Lan Xinya knew that she was her daughter-in-law.

Lan Xinya had heard someone say before that her daughter-in-law came from a small place.

She originally thought that her daughter-in-law was just a little woman with no vision, no ideas, and just let things happen.

After meeting her daughter-in-law, Lan Xinya suddenly realized that her perception was biased when she looked at her daughter-in-law's neat and professional attire -

Zhou Lan is usually very busy, so she didn't waste any time and went straight to the topic.

"Meng Dabao said that you want to buy a house and want to borrow money from us. I'm sorry about this. We are also powerless and can't help you."

She didn't agree with Zhou Lan's meaning of 'borrowing money', not to mention that Lan Xinya's original words were to ask her son to give her the money directly.

You don’t have to pay back the money you took!

When Lan Xinya heard Zhou Lan's words, she originally wanted to put on a close smile with her daughter-in-law, but her expression suddenly froze.

But even so, she still didn't want to completely break up with the daughter-in-law in front of her!

She tried her best to smile and said to Zhou Lan, "Daughter-in-law, Dabao probably didn't make it clear to you. He is my only son, and everything I have from now on will be his."

"Now I want to buy a house. I'll give you 10,000 yuan, and I'll put in even more! When I'm gone, the house will be yours. This is a good thing!"

Lan Xinya's words indeed sounded like a good thing, and there was nothing wrong with it.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhou Lan would be really short-sighted if he didn't agree.

But because Zhou Lanzheng came from a small place, she was sincere and believed that nothing would fall into the sky.

There is nothing wrong with living a life by working hard on your own. She thinks that there are not so many good things waiting for her if she fantasizes about things that are unrealistic and thinks about other people's little property.

So Zhou Lan shook her head, "It's not that I won't help you, it's because our family's capabilities are limited."

"Actually, we want to buy a house, but we are tens of thousands of dollars short. I came here this time thinking that since you are Dabao's biological mother, your son can buy a house, so the mother can always support it, right?"

When Zhou Lan spoke, her tone slowed down, as if she was short of money and looking for money.

"Don't worry, we won't take your money for nothing. It's Dabao who borrowed it from you. We will pay it back to you in a few years."

Zhou Lan's tone was sincere and she did not take advantage of others at all.

Seeing Zhou Lan say this, Lan Xinya was stunned!

She still wanted to ask for money from her son, but now her daughter-in-law is asking her for it in turn!?

Money has been wasted countless times in the past ten years or so!

If she really lent her daughter-in-law tens of thousands of dollars now, it would be the same tens of thousands in a few years, and it would no longer be worth as much as it is now!

If she lends it out, she would be a fool!

And Zhou Lan didn't really want to borrow money. She just used borrowing money to keep Meng Dabao's biological mother from getting involved with them.

She wants to follow Lan Xinya's path, leaving Lan Xinya with nowhere to go!

Zhou Lan's behavior really made Lan Xinya stop thinking about taking money from her son.

Lan Xinya also saw that her daughter-in-law was not easy to handle!

It is almost impossible for you to take advantage of your daughter-in-law.

Lan Xinya suddenly became unhappy with Zhou Lan as her daughter-in-law——

But now that Zhou Lan is here, she really doesn’t intend to leave easily.

She stayed in the store for a while, using the excuse of small talk to ask various questions about her husband, her biological mother.

Ask her whether her store is doing well, how much money she makes, and how much money she saves.

He also tried to persuade him, "You are already this old, why should you buy a house? If you have money, you should buy a house for your son~!"

Zhou Lan did this deliberately, but Lan Xinya was disgusted.

Seeing that her daughter-in-law was thinking about her money, Lan Xinya couldn't help but avoid her——

In the end, in order to keep this daughter-in-law away from her, Lan Xinya even went so far as to post two sets of clothes and said that she would give them to her daughter-in-law before sending Zhou Lan away.

Although it was the first time for Zhou Lan to meet her own mother, her husband, she knew very well about her mother-in-law’s calculations~!

She grew up in the village and saw many similar women since she was a child.

She felt that her move today could make her mother-in-law stop thinking about taking money from her son for a while, right?

As for the two sets of clothes given by her mother-in-law, Zhou Lan would not take them for free.

The money her husband had been defrauded by his own mother was more than enough to buy ten sets of clothes!

Zhou Lan decided that as long as she is here from now on, she will never let her man suffer at any time!

…

On the other side, Yuncheng Prison.

After twenty years, Gu Cheng went in again.

Although the prison this time is not the same as the last time, it does not change the fact that he is in prison.

The climate in Yuncheng is relatively warm, the air is humid, the prison is dark and humid, and most of the iron fences are rusty.

There were four or five other people in the same cell as Gu Cheng, all of whom were habitual criminals who had done all kinds of things outside.

Usually when a new person comes to their place, they will teach the new person a lesson no matter what they say.

But less than a week after Gu Cheng came in, he tamed several people into submission——

Gu Cheng is very prosperous among the shady forces outside, so he naturally has many ways to deal with these little minions.

But even if he can guarantee that he will not be bullied in prison, he still can't get out of here.
Chapter completed!