"You—"

Meng Yunhan was speechless. She knew that Han Ruochen’s temper was no longer the same as before, but wasn’t she becoming more and more uncontrollable? This was something that she could not accept easily. She swallowed hard and snapped, "Why do you keep harping on the old matters? Aren’t you doing well now? You have caught a treasure this time around; surely, the money it might have fetched must be good as well. Hand it over to me now. You are an unmarried daughter; what are you doing hiding your salary from your mother?"

"Go around and ask in the village. What kind of good girl would do such a thing? Even Tong Zhaodi hands over her entire salary to her mother, unlike you, who guards her money like there are robbers living in the house." When she thought about how Mother Tong had mocked her for being useless and not being able to take care of her daughter, she felt so nauseated that Meng Yunhan wanted to hit someone.

Han Ruochen rolled her eyes. She sneered and said, "Mom, before saying these words, you should go around and ask in the village if someone’s daughter-in-law or wife has spent ten thousand yuan on her maternal family? And what treasure? I did not find anything good in the sea; if I did, I would have gone to the county to sell it. Why would I be at home?"

Meng Yunhan wanted to scold, but all of her words were blocked by Han Ruochen. Indeed, if she had something good in her hands, why would she still be at home? She would have gone to the county to sell it by now. However, what about the rumours? She narrowed her eyes at Han Ruochen. Compared to this rascal, she would rather trust the people outside. After all, they were not on guard against her.

Han Ruochen, on the other hand, was like a clam. Every time she asked for money, this girl would start acting as if she were a thousand-year-old pixiu. She said to her, "Even if you did not find any treasure, you must have caught something good, right? With your luck, it must have been sold off for a thousand yuan."

"Hahaha!" When Han Ruochen heard her mother’s remark, she could not help but laugh. She sneered and said, "Mom, how can I earn so much? The sea is unpredictable. Sometimes we can earn a lot of money, and sometimes we do not get a penny. Today was just like that."

She wanted her to take the money out? Never. Yun Xinye can now forget about living like a gigolo. Did they think that she was an easy person to deal with?

"Han Ruochen!"

Meng Yunhan roared so loud that Han Beijiang jumped in the air and hugged his sister tightly. He was scared that their mother would beat his sister like the last time; because of this reason, he raised his head and looked at his mother vigilantly. Maybe that gaze alone provoked Meng Yunhan, who was feeling like she had been treated like an outsider these past few days and raised her hand angrily.

Seeing this, Han Ruochen hurriedly hugged Han Beijiang. She couldn’t slap her mother back, as that would give this woman the opportunity to spread the word that she was unfilial, but she would remember every hit that Meng Yunhan had given her. This woman could forget about sending even a penny to her lover.

However, before Meng Yunhan could slap Han Ruochen, there was a burst of footsteps, and Old Madam Han came running inside. When she heard the rumours, she knew that there would be trouble at her eldest son’s home, and sure enough, her eldest daughter-in-law was bent on causing trouble. She reached out and caught the hand that was raised in the air and slapped the woman on the back of her hand.

"You! You really know how to cause trouble, don’t you?" Old Madam Han was so angry that she wished she could turn back time and stop her son from marrying this woman. This time around she would really hang herself on the beam of the house if it meant that her eldest son would listen to her.

"M—mom? What are you doing here?" Earlier, Meng Yunhan was like a fierce lioness because Han Ruochen was alone at home. As someone who bullied the weak and feared the strong, Meng Yunhan was scared silly when she saw her mother-in-law. She never expected that her mother-in-law would come looking for her.

"What? Do I need an invitation to be invited into the house of my own son?" Old Madam Han sneered. She was glad that she listened to her second son and came to look for Han Ruochen, or else who knows how this woman might have bullied Han Ruochen?

Meng Yunhan shook her head. She was scared of Old Madam Han the most. If not, why would she try all the schemes that she knew to kick this woman out of the house when she married into the house? All these years she had lived like a little lady without worrying about anything, but now? She was once again being suppressed by her mother-in-law. It was just too much.

Old Madam Han saw that her eldest daughter-in-law had turned quiet and sneered coldly. She said to her, "Tell me, what were you doing just now?" Did Meng Yunhan think that there was no one to take care of Han Ruochen when her eldest son was not at home?

"No...nothing, Mom. I was just asking Ruochen to take her money and give it to me. She is an unmarried woman; what if someone cheats her out of her money? It is better for me as her mother to keep it for her."

Listen to this: if Han Ruochen did not know how capable and shameless her mother was, she would have been moved to tears!

"Heh, you really know how to plaster gold on your face, don’t you?" Old Madam Han scoffed, not even saving the littlest face for her daughter-in-law.