Chapter 576: Coming Like Rain, Going Like Wind

That's right, she actually had another purpose in signing her parents-in-law up for the tour group.

The luxury world tour lasted for one month, and Shi Youxuan prepared to use this month to help Sheng Zichen develop good habits.

Grandparents dote on their grandson, and while the love is genuine, their methods have no limits.

If Sheng Zichen wants the stars, they won't give him the moon, and if he makes a mistake, they don't reprimand him; they just praise him.

They praise him excessively.

No matter what Sheng Zichen does, it's right; even if it's wrong, it's still right... no, it's that in the eyes of his grandparents, they simply cannot see their grandson's mistakes.

When Shi Youxuan disciplines the child, her mother-in-law is unhappy even if she doesn't say anything.

But now, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have smoothed things over; it's not like at the beginning when they were at loggerheads, neither willing to yield to the other.

However, although they won't clash head-on, it doesn't mean the differences have disappeared.

There are still some concepts that cannot be communicated or reconciled.

Jian Yixin sighed: "Xuanxuan, before you said these things, I thought you were a superman who could do anything. It turns out you have troubles too; truly, every family has its own difficult scriptures to recite..."

The two were drinking afternoon tea and chatting when the doorbell suddenly rang incessantly.

Lady Jian shouted from outside: "Shi Youxuan, open the door, open the door!"

"My god! Why is she here again?" Jian Yixin was flustered and panicked, standing up and spinning in circles, not knowing where to hide for a moment.

But she had to hide; if her mother discovered she was here, it would be all over.

"Take Moli and hide in the guest room. Don't panic; I estimate she hasn't discovered you are here."

Although Shi Youxuan didn't know why she had turned back again, she shouldn't have discovered Jian Yixin was here.

The reason is simple: if she had discovered her, she wouldn't just be ringing the doorbell and shouting "Shi Youxuan's" name.

Watching Jian Yixin take Moli to hide in the guest room, Shi Youxuan then had someone open the main gate to let Lady Jian in.

"Shi Youxuan, sell the property management company to me; you can name your price." She took a blank check out of her bag and slapped it on the coffee table, acting wealthy and overbearing.

"Not for sale!" she said concisely.

Lady Jian emphasized: "I will give you more money, you can fill in any price you want. It's just a small property management company, why not sell it?"

Shi Youxuan still hit the nail on the head: "I'm not short on money, and I don't want to sell."

Lady Jian:...

This sentence was the truth; that's right, Shi Youxuan's net worth is higher than hers now.

Recently, Sheng Hanyu's speed of expansion has been extremely fast, and many of those old-established merchants in Jiangzhou have been swallowed up by him!

The reason the Jian Family is fine is because her own son and daughter have a good relationship with Sheng Hanyu and Shi Youxuan.

She suddenly had an epiphany.

She sadly discovered that Shi Youxuan hadn't taken action against her not because she was afraid of her, but out of consideration for her own children.

Shi Youxuan hadn't even treated her as an opponent, because they simply weren't on the same level!

Lady Jian grabbed the check from the coffee table and turned to leave.

She came inexplicably, and she left in a hurry.

"Bang!"

The main door was slammed shut, and Shi Youxuan hadn't even reacted yet.

What was that about?

Fearing a trick, she had the butler go out to take a look.

After confirming that Lady Jian had indeed left, she then had someone call Jian Yixin out from the guest room.

"She left?" Jian Yixin came out sneakily, holding her child.

It was as if she were afraid her mother would suddenly pop out from somewhere.

"She left."

Shi Youxuan described in detail to Jian Yixin what Lady Jian had said and how she had acted just now.

After describing it, she asked her: "Yixin, what is going on with your mother? Has she had a follow-up checkup recently?" She suspected Lady Jian had mental issues, but in front of her daughter, it wasn't easy to say it directly.

Jian Yixin said: "It's nothing, she just feels that clashing head-on with you doesn't seem to yield any advantage, so she just gave up."

No one knows a mother like her daughter.

Shi Youxuan doesn't know Lady Jian's temperament very well, but Jian Yixin does.

Quit while you're ahead; sometimes, even if you can't see any benefit, you still have to quit.

Jian Yixin was certain her mother wouldn't come to trouble Shi Youxuan again, at least not in the short term.

Since her parents-in-law weren't at home, Shi Youxuan suggested having a barbecue at home that evening and inviting Yun Zhehao and his wife over so everyone could get together.

Shi Youxuan had the butler go out to buy ingredients for the barbecue, and before long, he came back with a whole sheep!

The sheep didn't seem to adapt to the strange environment and kept "baaing" incessantly.

The two people sitting in the living room drinking tea heard what sounded like a sheep bleating outside and were wondering if they had misheard when Zhang Ma came in: "Madam, I bought a sheep, a live one."

Shi Youxuan:...

Zhang Ma said: "Freshly slaughtered lamb is best for roasting; the meat is tender and fresh."

That sounded very reasonable, but the problem was, who would slaughter it?

Zhang Ma said: "I can. When I was young, my family lived on the grasslands; killing a sheep is nothing."

Since killing a sheep wasn't a problem, then for the people eating the mutton, there was no problem at all.

But a hitch still occurred.

Just as Zhang Ma tied up the Xiaoyang and prepared to kill it, Shi Ran got out of school.

The Xiaoyang was "baaing," as if it were calling for its mother.

Furthermore, tears were streaming from the lamb's eyes, and it bleated pitifully at Zhang Ma.

She remained unmoved and was just about to take action when Shi Ran suddenly shouted, "Stop, you cannot kill it."

"Young Miss, we are having roast lamb for dinner tonight, your favorite."

Shi Ran would not move aside, hugging the neck of Xiaoyang and refusing to let go: "There is so much lamb meat, you can go to the market and buy some that is already prepared; please don't kill it, it is too pitiful."

With her blocking the way, the lamb could not be slaughtered.

Shi Youxuan came out and said to her daughter: "Ranran, this lamb was bought by Zhang Ma as an ingredient for tonight's barbecue."

Tears welled up in Shi Ran's eyes as she hugged the lamb tightly, refusing to let go: "Mom, can we not eat it? It is so pitiful, I want to raise it."

The lamb seemed to understand what Shi Ran was saying, knowing that the little mistress of the house was pleading for it, so it kept rubbing its head against Shi Ran's face, bleating "baa-baa" incessantly.

In truth, Shi Youxuan was also moved, but she still kept a straight face and said: "No, if we don't eat it, what will we eat tonight? Just roast vegetables?"

She was not hard-hearted, but rather wanted to test her daughter's ability to solve problems.

Simply raising objections without offering a solution is the lowest form of kindness.

Upon hearing her mother pose the problem, Shi Ran immediately provided a solution: "Mom, we can do this: we can go to the market now to buy ready-made lamb meat or pre-skewered ingredients; we don't have to kill the lamb, it's too cruel."

Shi Youxuan was very satisfied with her daughter's words, but that did not mean she would lower the difficulty.

So she shook her head: "No, the lamb meat at the market is all slaughtered in the morning; how could it be as fresh as one slaughtered on the spot? Besides, your father and the uncles will be back soon, and there isn't enough time to go to the market now."

Jian Yixin stood by her side and poked her in the lower back.

She felt this woman was going too far and was being too harsh on Ranran.

Shi Ran's eyes darted around as a plan came to mind: "Mom, we have always been eating meat from the market; if you say it isn't fresh, should I tell Grandma about this?"

Shi Youxuan:...

This brat, she was actually threatening her?

"You may keep the lamb, but from now on, you must be responsible for feeding it yourself; you are not allowed to cause trouble for others. Can you do that?" This was her agreement.

Shi Ran was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly: "I can do it, I can do it."

"What if you can't?"

"If I can't, then you can eat it."