Chapter 1603: Meeting the In-Laws, Exceptionally Lively

Flying Speed Chinese.

The little stepmother refused to be outdone; she immediately stood up, pointed at her nose, and cursed: "Who are you calling a vixen? You shameless thing, it was clearly you who cheated first. I entered the Lu Family door in a proper and decent way..."

"You bastard, you're the one who cheated! That brat isn't even Old Lu's; he doesn't look like him at all..."

"If you spout any more nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart..." When rivals in love meet, they are exceptionally jealous.

The two women immediately started brawling.

Father Lu was furious and shouted: "Stop it, all of you! If you aren't ashamed, I am. If you want to fight, go outside; this is someone else's house."

Mother Lu let go.

After all, this was the home of her daughter's future parents-in-law, and causing such a scene would do her daughter no good.

But the little stepmother didn't care about that. Seeing Mother Lu stop, she grabbed a few more times, leaving two bloody scratches on Mother Lu's face.

"You just wait, I'll finish you off once we get outside."

"Keep bragging, you old woman. It's not certain who will finish whom."

Mother Lu had the disadvantage, but for the sake of her daughter, she swallowed her anger.

The three parties finally sat down to discuss the marriage between Litian and Feifei.

Shi Youxuan spoke up: "The two children are in love and have been together for quite some time. I would like to have them get engaged first..."

The little stepmother interrupted her impatiently: "How much dowry can you offer?"

She held no hope for hundreds of millions given the Sheng Family's current state.

But even a broken ship has three thousand nails; she could still imagine a dowry of several tens of millions.

Before Shi Youxuan could speak, Mother Lu became anxious: "Bah! You want a dowry? Have some shame! My daughter is getting married, not being sold. We don't want a dowry, but we can't provide a trousseau either. As long as you can guarantee you'll treat my daughter well in the future and not bully her, that's enough..."

She hurriedly stated her position; this was the attitude of a mother. A birth mother and a stepmother are just different.

The little stepmother was anxious. This damn woman! Even if she didn't want money, she couldn't block her own path to wealth!

"You say it lightly, taking the moral high ground! Feifei was raised by us, so of course you have no face to ask for a dowry. Even if a dowry is given, it should be given to us; we would eventually use it to support our daughter anyway!"

"Bah! I don't believe a word of it. Don't think I don't know what kind of schemes you're cooking up. You just want to sell my daughter for money. I won't let you succeed..."

"If there's no dowry, I won't agree to their marriage!"

"You don't agree? Who do you think you are?"

The two women started arguing again, and this time it was a dark and stormy clash, like needles against wheat awns; neither would yield to the other.

Father Lu and the stepfather both tried to pull their wives away to persuade them, but it didn't work this time. They couldn't persuade them at all, and eventually, they both joined the fight.

They almost came to blows.

Shi Youxuan and Sheng Hanyu looked at each other helplessly, seeing the frustration in each other's eyes.

This scene... they had thought about it, but they hadn't expected it to be this chaotic!

An hour passed.

They still hadn't finished arguing, and they had escalated to physical violence.

Another hour passed.

Both sides were panting with exhaustion, slumped in their chairs, unable to fight or curse anymore. They glared at each other with hatred.

During these two hours, Lu Feifei's half-brother was looked after by Shi Youxuan.

She gave the child plenty of snacks and toys. The child was very well-behaved and, without being asked, spilled everything his parents had said at home.

What his mother said at home, how they discussed things with his father—he didn't leave a single thing out and told it all!

This child really loved to talk; children speak without taboo.

So that was the plan they were hatching. Shi Youxuan wasn't surprised; she had already guessed it.

Now that both sides were tired from arguing and fighting, Shi Youxuan said with a smile: "Our family cannot provide a dowry for the time being; we still have external debts."

"But to both sets of in-laws, and to you, Madam, please rest assured: we will pay our own debts, and it has nothing to do with the children."

"Fine, if you can't provide it, then don't. Our family is marrying off a daughter, not selling one," Mother Lu stated first.

The little stepmother shrieked in a shrill voice: "No! The daughter isn't yours alone; she was raised by my husband and me with great effort. A dowry must be given! If it's not given, she can't marry. We do not agree to this marriage!"

"Does your disagreement matter? I agree, and I make the decisions for my daughter..." Mother Lu's voice was hoarse, but she couldn't lose her momentum!

Seeing that she couldn't gain any advantage by playing hardball, the little stepmother suddenly changed her attitude. She said to Mother Lu: "Sister, don't be foolish. Their family is bankrupt and has debts. If Feifei really marries in, she'll have plenty of suffering to endure!"

"Who is your sister? Bah! Don't think I don't know what you're plotting. You just want to sell my daughter for a good price, and you wouldn't care if she lived or died. I'm telling you, it won't happen. My daughter has been independent for a long time; she has nothing to do with you..."

The little stepmother never expected that the biggest obstacle to her getting a dowry would be Lu Feifei's birth mother, not the Sheng Family.

They argued from morning until afternoon, until they had no strength left, and the matter remained unresolved!

Finally, having absolutely no energy left and having caused such an unseemly scene, the two men dragged their respective wives into their cars and took them home.

The Sheng Family.

Fang Jie cleaned up the mess in the living room, sighing as she worked: "Goodness, I've lived my whole life and never seen such bizarre people. Madam, we can't have a daughter-in-law from such a family!"

Shi Youxuan smiled: "I thought the same as you at first, but later I changed my mind. Litian has been sensible since he was a child and has basically never made me worry. I'm helping him clean up this mess now as a form of compensation."

Sheng Hanyu also smiled: "It seems they don't need your compensation. Before you could even use your skills, both sides started fighting."

Shi Youxuan said: "They will need me sooner or later. Such relatives will always be a problem eventually."

Lu Feifei's family environment was too complicated; even if it was resolved today, there would be trouble sooner or later.

However, since they had decided to accept this daughter-in-law, they were mentally prepared for it.

The Lu Family.

After arriving home, the little stepmother was still furious. With nowhere to vent her anger, she complained to her husband: "You coward, why was I so blind to marry you?"

"When that woman hit me, why didn't you help me?"

Father Lu said: "You didn't suffer any loss, so why should I help you? Besides, your behavior was too ugly. Who asks for a dowry the moment they meet?"

She grew anxious and immediately shouted, "Of course I have to demand a bride price! Haven't you seen the current situation of the Sheng Family? Their family has fallen on hard times and has no money. I was wondering how such a wealthy family could have taken a liking to your daughter; so it turns out they've gone bankrupt..."

She said many more unpleasant things.

Lu Feifei was going to marry into a destitute household, and she was happy to see such a scene.

But not a single cent of the bride price—that would not do.

His wife was relentless, blaming him for his lack of ability and for earning less and less money, saying that it was already a struggle to maintain the family's livelihood now, so how would they afford to get a wife for their son in the future?