Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!-Chapter 673: Reasonable and Understanding

"If that doesn’t work, then offer a large sum of money. No matter what, the safety of your own daughter is the most important."

"As long as the daughter can be safe and her whereabouts found, no amount of money is too much. Didn’t you do this at the time?"

The old lady’s question immediately left Ye Dezhang and Xu Huizhen speechless.

Xu Huizhen held back for a long time and then began to shed tears, crying over their poverty: "Old Madam, you don’t know how difficult our family’s life was back then. Our family of four lived in a two-bedroom small apartment, and it didn’t even have a living room."

"Lao Ye and I lived in one room, while Ye Fei and her sister shared the other small bedroom. Besides these two bedrooms, our house only had a bathroom, a tiny kitchen, and a corridor just wide enough for one person to walk through."

"At that time, we didn’t have spare money to find Ye Fei. And honestly, Ye Fei was always very headstrong since she was young, never listened to what we said. This kind of thing happened more than once or twice. Although we were anxious, we knew that girl had a lot of thoughts and wouldn’t get herself into trouble."

The old lady sneered, "Your words are contradictory. First, you say you worry about Ye Fei, and now you say it’s not the first time she’s done this, so there’s nothing to worry about. So are you worried or not?"

Xu Huizhen hesitated for a moment, pretended not to hear the old lady’s sarcasm, and continued: "But now our family’s conditions have improved a lot, thanks to her sister, who is capable and competent. She opened a high-end restaurant in Ye City, which improved our family’s life, and now we’re preparing to open a second restaurant in City B, so our whole family came to City B and reunited with Ye Fei."

Xu Huizhen said this with a hint of pride.

She thought her rhetoric was quite good, conveniently demonstrating to the elders that her family also had money, and they were not some poor relatives looking to take advantage.

The Zhao Family couldn’t look down on them because of this.

The old lady said indifferently, "Since Ye Fei has married into my Zhao Family, she is now part of the Zhao Family."

"Our Zhao Family has high status and strict rules," the old lady said slowly, "Any daughter-in-law who marries into our Zhao Family must follow the Zhao Family’s rules. She can only do what is permitted by the Zhao Family. Anything the Zhao Family does not allow, she must not do."

"As for matters of the maiden family..." the old lady deliberately showed a mocking expression.

"That also depends on whether the maiden family can measure up to us. The partners for marriages among the younger generation of our Zhao Family are also from prestigious families. Some are from the Eight Great Families, and even if some aren’t, they still have significant status."

"Our family doesn’t want to force the younger generation to marry someone they don’t want. Our Gu Shen likes Ye Fei, so as elders, we won’t break up their marriage."

"However, this is our bottom line. We can only accept Ye Fei alone, and as for her maiden family, in our eyes, you really don’t measure up."

"To put it this way, in our eyes, compared to the in-laws of our other juniors’ families, you really are too insignificant. So, sorry, our two families should not have further contact in the future."

"Today, your visit, in my opinion, is very impolite. Of course, if you blame Ye Fei for this, I won’t say anything. Thank you for still remembering the in-law relationship, but in the future, please don’t remember it."

"Since your family can’t bring any benefit to the Zhao Family, not to mention even giving face to the Zhao Family, what you can do is not to bring shame to the Zhao Family."

The old lady gave a cold smile: "How to ensure not bringing shame to the Zhao Family? Naturally, when you’re out in public, don’t claim to be our in-law family. Otherwise, if you annoy us, the one who suffers in our family will still be Ye Fei."

The old lady gave a cool smile: "Let me say something you may not like to hear but is indeed factual. Ye Fei being able to marry in is already our family being unprejudiced, exceptionally open-minded. Otherwise, you can go and ask around; forget families at our level, even slightly lower affluent families, who would be willing to marry a woman with no background?"

"Those female celebrities, not saying if they’re clean or not, at least they have fame and family background and still can’t enter affluent families, let alone someone ordinary like Ye Fei. Her entry is really due to our family’s reasonableness."

"She can’t bring any benefits or prestige to our family. The only achievement so far is not bringing us disgrace. But now with an added guest in-law, that’s not certain. If you bring disgrace to the Zhao Family, we cannot say anything to the in-law family. It’s just that Ye Fei will find it difficult to fit in with our family."

The old lady raised an eyebrow and said, "I see you always putting Ye Fei on a pedestal, talking about how good you are to her, how much you care for her. Then I assume you also don’t want Ye Fei to have a hard time in her husband’s family nor want her to be troubled by her husband’s family because of you?"

Xu Huizhen was taken aback by the old lady’s words and left speechless.

Because Xu Huizhen had thought it through before, that troublesome girl Ye Fei would certainly have nothing nice to say about their family.

She didn’t know what was said about them in the Zhao Family after Ye Fei joined.

Not knowing how much badmouthing had been done to the Zhao Family, so Xu Huizhen thought to express her attitude first upon arriving.

She painted herself as a particularly caring mother, while Ye Fei became a willful and selfish person who completely disregarded her family in her words.

Of course, she didn’t expect the Zhao elders to believe her words completely, but as long as they had doubts and didn’t fully believe Ye Fei, that was enough.

After all, both she and Ye Fei had different accounts, and Ye Fei couldn’t produce any evidence to prove what she said was true, right?

If the elders weren’t really senile, they would naturally know not to listen and believe entirely in the absence of evidence to determine what was true.

As for evidence, those things were lost many years ago; where could you find them? 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

What Xu Huizhen wanted wasn’t for the elders to believe her; it was for them not to fully believe Ye Fei, and that was enough.

But who knew the old lady would use this very point to directly shut her up.

Xu Huizhen kept insisting she was so good and treasured Ye Fei, while instead, it was Ye Fei who was wrong and didn’t do well.

Since Xu Huizhen was so sincere to Ye Fei, naturally, she would not want to see Ye Fei being troubled in the Zhao Family because of their family.

Ye Ning lowered her brow and her face turned cold while listening from the side.

As expected, even though the Zhao elders are aged, they cannot be underestimated, quickly leaving Xu Huizhen at a loss for words.

Ye Ning thought for a moment and secretly poked Xu Huizhen.

Receiving the pre-arranged signal, Xu Huizhen immediately changed her expression and said, "Old Madam, since you also acknowledge that we are in-laws, whether we continue to have contact in the future, let’s not talk about it for now."