Chapter 385: Ants Riding an Elephant

Xiao Changkun asked about the villa, but in reality, he wanted to help Ye Chen out of a tight spot.

He knew his wife's temper and personality, and since she had been acting like she'd eaten gunpowder lately, he was afraid she would latch onto Ye Chen and keep mocking and belittling him.

In Xiao Changkun's eyes, this son-in-law had saved his life multiple 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 pang of sympathy 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 the villa be finished so we can move in? Once we move in, I want a separate room just for a mahjong table. That way, I can be like my friend and invite people 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, and then being unable to pay up when you lose two thousand—aren't you embarrassed?

But he certainly couldn't say that 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; it just needs furniture and appliances. If we want to move in, we can look into buying some, and then we can move."

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

Ma Lan, standing to the side, was also incredibly excited. She 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 the villa come furnished with appliances?!

Ye Chen had donated all the money to Project Hope; what was she supposed to use to buy appliances?!

Thinking of this, Ma Lan's expression immediately turned ugly. She said coldly, "That Wang Zhenggang is too much! He gave us such an expensive villa, but he won't even provide the furniture and appliances? We have to buy them ourselves?! How can he be so stingy!"

When Xiao Churan heard this, she said helplessly, "Mom, why are you like this? He 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 bought them and you didn't like them, where would we put all that stuff?"

Ma Lan argued unreasonably, "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 can go to the furniture mall tomorrow, take a look, and buy what we like. We aren't short on that bit of money; after all, we still have about two million at home. Buying some decent furniture and appliances won't cost more than a million."

Ma Lan panicked instantly and blurted out, "Buy what? No! Make Wang Zhenggang provide them!"

After saying that, she angrily said to Ye Chen, "Call Wang Zhenggang right now! What 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; he feels 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 one for me."

"What the hell?" Ma Lan was anxious and cursed, "What kind of dog is he? Can someone take back a gift they've already given?"

Ye Chen spread his hands: "After all, it's something someone else gave us. Even if they regret it and don't want to give it anymore, what can we do? Compared to the Wang family, we just can't compete!"

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

Xiao Changkun said, "Enough! Just be content. Stop chattering here. Take out our family's money, and we'll go buy furniture tomorrow! Once we buy it, we'll find a moving company to move next week!"

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

"What is there to settle?" Xiao Changkun frowned and asked, "We're buying our own furniture for our own use; what's there to talk about?"

"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? Even the money for my meals was given to me by my son-in-law!"

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

Ye Chen said, "Private savings."

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

Ma Lan was broke and crazy, obsessed with getting money. 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. After buying two BMWs, there isn't much left."

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

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

"Transfer it to me!" Ma Lan blurted out, "From now on, you aren't allowed to save a single cent!"

Xiao Churan couldn't stand it anymore and said with a cold face, "Mom, why do you always bully Ye Chen! It's not easy for him to save money, and it's only a tiny bit anyway. 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!"

"What?" Xiao Changkun was stunned and said, "Do you know how big that villa is? Three floors above ground, two below, a total area of over a thousand square meters. Our current place is only a little over a hundred. What would this bit of furniture look like in there?"

As he spoke, Xiao Changkun pointed at their fabric sofa and said, "Just this crappy sofa of ours, placed in such a huge living room at Tomson First Grade—what would that become? Wouldn't that be like an ant riding an elephant?"

Ma Lan felt guilty and argued unreasonably, "What do you know? This saves money! Otherwise, just buying furniture and appliances for that villa would cost over a million! Spending that 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 that to me?