Chapter 385

Xiao Changkun asked about the villa, but he was actually trying to help Ye Chen out of a tight spot.

He knew his wife's temperament and personality, and since she had been acting like she'd eaten gunpowder lately, Xiao Changkun was afraid she would keep harping on Ye Chen and relentlessly mock and ridicule him.

In Xiao Changkun's eyes, his son-in-law had saved his life several times, so he now truly regarded Ye Chen as a proper son-in-law.

Plus, as the saying goes, a son-in-law is half a son, so seeing Ye Chen being scolded, he even felt a bit of heartache for him.

However, as soon as he asked about the villa, Ma Lan's attention was instantly drawn to it!

She looked at Ye Chen and blurted out, "That's right, when exactly will that villa be finished so we can move in? Once we move in, I want to keep a separate room for a mahjong machine so that, just like my friend, I can call friends over to our own villa to play mahjong!"

Ye Chen thought to himself, play mahjong? Do you even have the money to lose? Living in a villa worth over a hundred million, inviting others over to play mahjong, and then being unable to pay up two thousand yuan—aren't you embarrassed?

But he certainly couldn't say this directly to his mother-in-law; he just kept the mockery to himself.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen couldn't be bothered to argue with her and said indifferently, "I saw Wang Zhenggang today. He said the villa is basically finished, just missing furniture and appliances. If we want to move in, we can look into buying some to put in, and then we can move."

"That's great!" Xiao Changkun was very happy to hear that the villa was ready to live in.

Ma Lan, on the side, was also incredibly excited and laughed, "Good, good, good! Finally, we can get rid of this dump of a house!"

As she spoke, she suddenly came to her senses.

Buy furniture and appliances?!

What the hell!

Didn't that villa come with furniture and appliances?!

All the money was donated by Ye Chen to Project Hope, so what is she supposed to use to buy appliances?!

Thinking of this, Ma Lan's expression immediately turned ugly, and she said coldly, "That Wang Zhenggang is too much. He gave away such an expensive villa, yet he won't even provide furniture and appliances, making us buy them ourselves?! Why is he so stingy!"

When Xiao Churan heard this, she said helplessly, "Mom, why are you like this? Someone gave us a villa worth over a hundred million, aren't you satisfied yet?"

Ye Chen saw Ma Lan's exasperated look and immediately understood.

His mother-in-law must be afraid that Xiao Churan and Xiao Changkun would find out she had squandered all the money!

So, Ye Chen deliberately said, "Mom, Wang Zhenggang gave us the villa, not the furniture and appliances. Besides, furniture and appliances should be chosen according to personal preference. If he gave them to you and you didn't like them, where would you put all that furniture?"

Ma Lan argued irrationally, "Why wouldn't I like what he gives? As long as it doesn't cost money, I like it!"

Xiao Changkun chimed in, "Oh, it's fine for us to buy the furniture we like ourselves. We'll go to the furniture mall tomorrow to look around. If there's anything we like, we'll buy it. We're not short on money; after all, we still have about two million at home. Buying some decent furniture and appliances won't cost more than a million at most."

Ma Lan panicked and blurted out, "Buy what? Don't buy! Make that Wang Zhenggang give them to us!"

After finishing, she said angrily to Ye Chen, "Call that Wang Zhenggang immediately. What the hell is this? He gave us a car but didn't even add a tank of gas; how am I supposed to drive it? Tell him to provide everything before we move in!"

Ye Chen deliberately said, "Mom, that won't work. Mr. Wang is already regretting it a bit, feeling he shouldn't have given such an expensive villa. He even told me these past two days that he wants to swap it for a smaller, more remote villa for me."

"What the hell?" Ma Lan panicked and cursed, "What kind of dog is he? Can he take back a gift he's already given?"

Ye Chen spread his hands, "It was his gift after all. Even if he regrets it and doesn't want to give it anymore, what can we do? Compared to the Wang family, we're no match!"

Ma Lan said angrily, "How can he be like this! Giving a villa without furniture, he's a total bastard!"

Xiao Changkun said, "Alright! Just be content, stop chirping here. Take out our family's money, and we'll go buy furniture tomorrow! After buying the furniture, we'll find a moving company to move next week!"

Ma Lan panicked and said, "No! If the furniture issue isn't settled, we can't move!"

"Settled what?" Xiao Changkun asked with a frown, "We're buying the furniture we'll use ourselves, what's there to settle?"

"I... I..." Ma Lan said in a panic, "I'm not buying! If you want to buy it, go buy it yourself!"

Xiao Changkun blurted out, "What nonsense are you talking about? Where would I get the money to buy furniture? The money I used to treat people to dinner was given to me by my son-in-law!"

"What?!" Ma Lan exploded and blurted out, "Ye Chen, where did you get twenty thousand yuan?!"

Ye Chen said, "Private savings."

"Private savings?" Ma Lan said angrily, "Eating our food, living in our house, using our things, and you still dare to hide private savings?! Tell me, how much more private savings do you have? Hand it all over to me for safekeeping!"

Ma Lan was now crazy for money and obsessed with getting her hands on it. Hearing that Ye Chen had private savings, she immediately became greedy!

Ye Chen said indifferently, "Mom, I haven't saved much. I just occasionally look at feng shui for people and earned a little money. After buying those two BMWs, there isn't much left."

Ma Lan hurriedly asked, "How much is 'not much left' exactly?"

Ye Chen shrugged, "Maybe less than ten thousand yuan, seven or eight thousand!"

"Transfer it to me!" Ma Lan blurted out, "From now on, you are not allowed to save a single cent of private money!"

Xiao Churan really couldn't stand it anymore and said with a cold face, "Mom, why do you keep bullying Ye Chen! It's not easy for him to save a little money, and it's only such a tiny amount, yet you're still eyeing it. Don't you have over two million yourself?!"

Ma Lan was suddenly speechless.

Where would I have over two million?

So she could only say sullenly, "How about this, when we move, let's just take our old furniture and make do with it for now!"

"What?" Xiao Changkun was stunned and said, "Do you know how big that villa is? It has three floors above ground and two underground, a total area of over a thousand square meters. Our house is only a little over a hundred. If we put this little bit of furniture in, what will it look like?"

As he spoke, Xiao Changkun pointed at their fabric sofa and said, "Just this dumpy sofa of ours, put in a living room as big as the one at Tang Chen Yi Pin, what would that become? Wouldn't that be an ant riding an elephant?"

Ma Lan felt guilty and argued irrationally, "What do you know? This saves money! Otherwise, for that villa, just buying some furniture and appliances would cost over a million! Spending so much money just for vanity? You really don't know how to live!"

Xiao Changkun was stunned...

I'm doing it for vanity? I don't know how to live? Ma Lan, what face do you have to say such things to me?