Chapter 138: Xiao Churan's Combat Power is Exploding!

Hearing her mother always persuading her to return to the Xiao Group, Xiao Churan asked very puzzled: "Mom, what kind of ecstasy soup did grandma give you? Why do you have to let me return to the Xiao Group?"

Ma Lan was also anxious and said: "Isn't it obvious that the Xiao Group has a million annual salary? Isn't it better than starting a business yourself? What if you lose money in your business, what should I and your father do?"

Xiao Churan said firmly: "Mom, don't talk about it. I will never return to the Xiao Group. Even if I go to the street to beg for food, I won't go back! I won't fight for steamed buns, but I will fight for a breath!"

Ma Lan looked like she was hating iron for not becoming steel, and lectured Xiao Churan: "Fight for a breath? What's the use of fighting for a breath without money?"

After Ma Lan finished, she hung two lines of tears and said aggrievedly: "Now the Xiao family company is about to go bankrupt. If it really goes bankrupt, my and your father's pension will not be available! You know we all rely on this money for retirement! Moreover, even if your grandmother doesn't treat your father well, your father also has some shares in the Xiao Group. If you don't go back, this dividend will be gone! What should we do if we old couple have no one to rely on in the future?"

Xiao Churan blurted out: "Mom, this is the Xiao family's own poor management. If they really go bankrupt one day, they deserve it!"

Ma Lan was suddenly anxious: "How are you talking? We have endured humiliation in the Xiao family for so many years with so much effort. Now that we see that the bamboo basket is empty, nothing is left. Have you considered Mom?"

Xiao Churan said seriously: "I have always considered you. You said let me hand over most of my salary to you, and I have always listened to you. You said you want to manage all the money in our family, you manage the finance, and Dad and I have no opinion. I have followed you in so many places, but you also have to give me some respect. I don't want to return to the Xiao Group, I want to start a business myself, I want to do something myself, can't you support me?"

Ma Lan knew she was in the wrong and couldn't beat Xiao Churan, so she could only sit on the sofa, covering her face and crying, muttering: "Why am I so bitter! I raised a daughter with hard work, hoping she would marry a good family and be a person above others, but what happened? Your grandfather insisted on recruiting such a live-in son-in-law, and now my daughter doesn't listen to me, and I have no status in this family. What's the point of me living?"

Xiao Churan saw her mother start to sell misery and engage in moral kidnapping, and suddenly became anxious, saying: "Mom, can you not bring Ye Chen out for everything? Ye Chen is also promising now. That villa will be renovated in a while, and you can move in. Isn't this a blessing from Ye Chen?"

Ma Lan cried and said: "So what if I move in? Isn't it still trembling after moving in, for fear that the Wang family will react one day and drive our family out again?"

Xiao Churan sighed and said: "If you have to be like this, crying, making trouble, and hanging yourself, then I have no choice. Or I will rent a house outside with Ye Chen, and we will move out."

"You..." Ma Lan was anxious when she heard this: "You want me to separate from us?"

Xiao Churan nodded and said: "We have been married for several years, and it is time to move out."

"No!" Ma Lan immediately blurted out: "Absolutely not!"

Xiao Churan said seriously: "Mom, if you force me to go to the Xiao Group, then I will move out with Ye Chen; if you don't mention the Xiao Group, then I won't move. Choose one of two, you see for yourself."

Ma Lan stared at Xiao Churan's eyes, knowing that her daughter was not joking with her, and suddenly realized that she had played a bit too much.

If she really continued to force her daughter to submit by crying, making trouble, and hanging herself, she might move out with Ye Chen. By that time, it would be equivalent to breaking up with herself!

In that case, when the villa given by Wang Zhenggang to Ye Chen is renovated, where would she have the chance to move in?

Thinking of this, she suddenly admitted defeat in her heart.

So, she could only sigh and say: "Okay, Mom supports you in starting a business, and won't mention returning to the Xiao Group. Is that okay now?"

Xiao Churan was satisfied, nodded and said: "Then we won't move out."

Ye Chen watched Xiao Churan turn passive into active, and couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.

This wife of his really has some skills. She doesn't show it usually, but she is really combat-capable at critical moments.

Old father-in-law Xiao Changkun had been silent, but seeing his daughter rarely lose her temper, he also felt a bit nervous, so he hurriedly came out to round things up: "Look at you two, what's there to argue about just now? Isn't it good for a family to be harmonious like this now?"

Ma Lan glared at him and said: "Didn't hear you fart just now, and now you are talking again! Even if Ye Chen is a loser, he can cheat a villa, what about you? You only know how to mess with some strange junk all day long. The most useless person in this family is you!"

"Hey!" Xiao Changkun heard his wife vent her anger on himself and became anxious, immediately saying: "I tell you Ma Lan, don't look down on me, I am very powerful now! Last time I traded medicinal materials, I earned hundreds of thousands, have you forgotten?"

Ma Lan said disdainfully: "You just cheat and deceive, I think you will be caught for fraud sooner or later, don't count on me spending money to save you then!"

"You woman!" Xiao Changkun said angrily: "Don't look down on people, okay? I trade antiques and playthings, that's a talent!"

As he spoke, he rushed into the room, took out a pen holder, and showed off with a proud face: "Look, the good things I collected during the day, let you see! Just this thing, it will be hundreds of thousands once it's sold!"

Ma Lan said disdainfully: "Just you? Still trading antiques and playthings? Don't pee and look at your own virtue, it's not enough for people to cheat."

Xiao Changkun stomped his feet in anger: "You woman, don't look down on people if you don't understand! This pen holder is from the Qing Dynasty, I picked up a big leak for five thousand yuan. I have already sent the photos to Zhang Ermao who trades in cultural relics, and he is willing to pay three hundred thousand."

Ye Chen glanced at Xiao Changkun's pen holder and was very surprised.

If it were really a pen holder left over from the Qing Dynasty, it might really be worth hundreds of thousands. However, he could tell at a glance that Xiao Changkun's pen holder was not something from the Qing Dynasty at all. It looked obviously like modern craftsmanship made old, worth at most a hundred yuan.

Xiao Changkun spent five thousand yuan to buy this pen holder, which clearly made him look like a fool.

He couldn't help but be puzzled. His father-in-law didn't know anything, so it was normal to be fooled. But Zhang Ermao is a very cunning antique dealer. If you have something worth one hundred thousand to sell to him, he would rather spend one hundred yuan to collect it. It is impossible for him not to see that this pen holder is fake. Why is he willing to spend three hundred thousand to be fooled?