Chapter 138

Hearing her mother always persuading her to go back to the Xiao Group, Xiao Churan asked very puzzled: "Mom, what kind of ecstasy soup did your grandmother pour into you? Why do you have to let me go back to the Xiao Group?"

Ma Lan was also anxious and said: "Isn't it obvious that the Xiao Group has an annual salary of one million? 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 go back to the Xiao Group again. 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 taught Xiao Churan: "Fight for a breath? What's the use of fighting for a breath without money?"

After Ma Lan finished speaking, she hung two lines of tears and said aggrievedly: "Now the Xiao family company is about to go bankrupt. If it really goes bankrupt, I and your father won't be able to get the pension! 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 are helpless 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 can you talk like that? We have endured humiliation in the Xiao family for so many years with such great effort. Now that we have nothing, have you considered me?"

Xiao Churan said seriously: "I have always considered you. You told me to 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, and you manage finance, and my father 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 go back to the Xiao Group, I want to start my own business, 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 into a good family and be a superior person, but what happened? Your grandfather insisted on recruiting such a live-in son-in-law, and now my daughter doesn't listen to me anymore, and I don't have any 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 to talk about everything? Ye Chen is also promising now. That villa will be renovated in a while, and you can live in it. Isn't this a blessing from Ye Chen?"

Ma Lan cried and said: "So what if I live in it? Living in it is still trembling, 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 cry, make trouble, and hang yourself like this, 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, stood up and said: "You want 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 blurted out immediately: "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 too much.

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

In that case, when the villa Wang Zhenggang gave to Ye Chen is renovated, where would she have the chance to live in it?

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 going back 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 indeed very combative at critical moments.

Old father-in-law Xiao Changkun hadn't spoken, but seeing his daughter rarely lose her temper, he felt a bit flustered in his heart, so he hurriedly came out to round the field: "Look at you two, what's there to argue about just now? Isn't it good for the family to be harmonious like this now?"

Ma Lan glared at him and said: "You didn't let out a fart just now, and now you are talking again! Ye Chen can cheat a villa even if he is a waste, 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 him and became anxious, immediately saying: "I tell you Ma Lan, don't look down on me, I am very powerful now! Last time I tossed medicinal materials and earned hundreds of thousands, have you forgotten?"

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

"You woman!" Xiao Changkun said angrily: "Don't look down on people! I toss antiques and cultural relics, that's a talent!"

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

Ma Lan said disdainfully: "Just you? Still tossing antiques and cultural relics? Why don't you pee and see 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 tosses cultural relics, and he is willing to pay three hundred thousand."

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

If it was 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 was clearly modern craftsmanship made to look 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. The father-in-law didn't know anything, so it was normal to be fooled. But Zhang Ermao is a ghost-refined antique dealer. If you have something worth 100,000 to sell to him, he would wish he could only spend 100 yuan to collect it. It's impossible for him not to see that this pen holder is fake. Why is he willing to spend 300,000 to be fooled?