Chapter 5 Lu Yang, why don’t you go and rob?
"Lu Yang, why don't you go and rob it?"

"5000 yuan, how dare you say that? You are just a lousy carpenter. I only give you 150 yuan a month working for my father, and that's because you are my father's apprentice. Other carpenters only get 100 yuan a month. Even if you work for my father for two years and don't eat or drink, you can only save about 3000 yuan at most."

"But now you're asking for 5000 yuan. Do you think I don't dare to report you to the police and sue you for extortion?"

Yin Mingzhu's reaction was much more dramatic than her mother's.

Even before Master's Wife Ma Xiulan could say anything, she was already screaming loudly and impatiently.

The spit sprayed directly on Lu Yang's face.

He frowned and his face turned gloomy. He asked sarcastically, "Why, Yin Mingzhu, are you the head of this family now? My master and his mistress are still here, and even they haven't spoken yet. When will it be your turn to speak?"

"You Lu Yang you are shameless."

Yin Mingzhu was furious.

She was a good prospective college student, but now she looks like a shrew.

This time, Lu Yang finally let go of his little sister Yin Mingyue's hand, which was warm in his palm, and stood up with a sarcastic expression on his face. As a 1-meter-tall man, he seemed very oppressive in this world where most of the little potatoes in the south were only 81 to 1 meters tall. Even if Yin Mingzhu was more aggressive, she couldn't control herself and stepped back.

"What do you want to do?"

Lu Yang said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? Do you think I will hit you? Don't worry, I won't hit women. Even if you are a cultured female hooligan, I can't be an uncultured male hooligan! Wouldn't that make me the same as you?"

Yin Mingzhu's lips turned purple from anger, but she was afraid of the pressure of Lu Yang's male hormones and turned her face away: "I won't argue with you."

"Humph!"

Lu Yang smiled contemptuously: "You don't want to argue with me, but I want to argue with you. You say I am shameless. Well, I will show you how shameless I am. The current situation is that the old Yin family is looking for a son-in-law, and you voluntarily withdraw, but I am still willing to marry the daughter of the Yin family, so it is natural for me to take over."

Lu Yang held Yin Mingyue's hand beside him with a little more force.

"In the future, when Master and his wife are gone, the family business left by my father-in-law and mother-in-law will naturally be inherited by me and my sister Mingyue. Now I just want some money to save for my wedding, but you, the elder sister-in-law, jumped out impatiently. What does it have to do with you, an outsider?"

Yin Mingzhu's face turned pale and she felt so frustrated that she almost vomited blood.

But Lu Yang was not satisfied with killing people and destroying their hearts, and he then pretended to be surprised and exaggerated: "Did I guess wrong?

"Eldest sister, it's not that you don't want to take in a son-in-law, you just don't want to take me in. One day, even if I'm already the son-in-law of the old Yin family, and Master and Master's wife have successors, you'll still be willing to take in another son-in-law. You're determined to take over the old Yin family's wealth. You'll want at least half of it in the future, right?"

The voice just fell.

Yin Mingzhu was stunned even herself: Really? Have I really thought about it?

Even the mistress began to look at her with suspicion, as if to say, "Big girl, do you really think so?"

5000 is a lot, a very large sum of money.

Just now, Lu Yang proposed that such a large sum of money be paid as compensation before he would agree to change the marriage from the elder sister to the younger sister, so as to save the face of the Yin family and not delay the wedding date tomorrow.

The master's wife was indeed frightened.

When has anyone in the countryside ever spent 5000 yuan to marry a wife? Even if you are looking for a son-in-law, there is no need to spend so much, right?

Even a millionaire cannot afford such waste.

However, when Lu Yang raised his doubts, the eldest girl was speechless again, and Ma Xiulan was immediately confused.

Right? 5000 isn’t really too much.
Outside the house, Old Man Yin, who was hiding at the door and eavesdropping, had a bunch of wrinkles on his face trembling all over, and he almost got caught by a mosquito leg flying past his face. At this moment, his heart was in turmoil and he also wanted to know.

What is the eldest girl in the room thinking?

If the family is not peaceful, the livestock will not thrive. Only when the family members can live in harmony can the family business be revitalized.

Old Man Yin understood this simple truth passed down by his ancestors, but he was afraid that the eldest girl didn't understand. With the current drama, even if there is no trouble now, if there is a trouble in the future, it will be because the ancestors of the Yin family did not do good deeds, and he, Old Man Yin, is destined to lose face in front of the villagers.

Yin Mingzhu's voice came from inside the house: "When did I say such a thing? Don't try to sow discord. I am my parents' daughter, how can I be an outsider?
Besides, whether a married woman or a housewife, she is still her parents' daughter. Only someone like you, Lu Yang, who has not received much education, would cling to these feudal dregs. Sooner or later, my parents will understand that as long as their daughter is filial, it doesn't matter where she lives."

Otherwise, why should he read more? With Yin Mingzhu's eloquence, after the initial panic, he spoke more and more fluently, and seemed more and more justified, as if it was Lu Yang who was wrong and was being unreasonable.

But there is one thing she never mentions: whether she wants the Yin family's property or not.

"Tsk tsk tsk"

Lu Yang clapped: "Pa pa pa pa. Well said."

He turned around again and looked towards the door. The sunlight outside the house cast an obvious shadow on the hiding old man Yin.

"Master, I think this marriage can be concluded, but let's forget about the live-in son-in-law, right?
If I really become the son-in-law of the old Yin family, my sister Mingyue and I will naturally be filial to you two elders, but if sister Mingzhu is not happy, I am afraid that she will cause unrest in the family in the future. What do you think, Master?"

"cough cough, cough cough"

Old Man Yin knew that he had no choice but to come out.

The golden afternoon sunlight shone on the doorway of this farmhouse, stretching the old man's shadow longer and longer, until his entire sun-burnt face was revealed.

Old Man Yin had a complicated expression. He knocked the pipe in his hand on the threshold, and his eyes passed over his wife, the stubborn girl, and the little girl who was sitting on the edge of the bed with a slightly nervous expression. He stayed on the little girl for about a breath, and then fell directly on Lu Yang, who was looking at him without any nervousness, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Kid, are you really not going to think about it anymore?"

Now it is no longer the big girl who has ideas in her mind.

But Lu Yang, the young man who had grown up in front of him, looked at him with a look that was no longer as cowardly as before, and there was no trace of fear at all. If it was yesterday, he would be very happy that the child had grown up, but now, the other person's eyes told him that the child had not only grown up, but also alienated from him. If he forced him today, he was afraid.
Not only did they fail to form a marriage, but they also created an enemy!

Of course, Lu Yang had no intention of pondering his master's mental journey at the moment. He just wanted to make things clear quickly so that he could implement the plan he had already made in his mind.

"Master, you just heard what happened outside. It's not that I don't want to be a live-in son-in-law, but Yin Mingzhu is not prepared at all. She doesn't want to marry me, and she doesn't want my younger sister to marry me. Master, you are a millionaire in the village, and the furniture factory business has been booming in recent years. If it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be willing to hand over this family business to an outsider."

After saying that, Lu Yang laughed at himself.

But what is not known is that he is actually very nervous inside.

It is difficult to convince the master, because the master is not only old-fashioned, but also stubborn. Recruiting a son-in-law is like the national policy of the Yin family. If I oppose it alone, it will be useless. With the help of my younger sister Yin Mingyue, it will not work. Even the master's wife can only be an outsider. Only Yin Mingzhu, another descendant of the Yin family who has direct interests in this matter, can arouse her desire and make her stand up to oppose. Then the master will have to consider it carefully.

It's a forced marriage to a son-in-law.

He offended all his descendants and made the family home completely ruined.

It's better to settle for the second best and follow Lu Yang's advice to turn the son-in-law into a good son-in-law, and from now on everyone can still be a loving family.

Lu Yang's plan is blatant.

A millionaire is nothing in later generations, but now it is 1988, less than ten years after the reform and opening up. Yin Mingzhu is not the domineering female CEO of later generations, but a country girl student who has just been admitted to Peking University. Even she herself does not know where her future will lie. She can talk big, but that is limited to expressing her ideals. She is still confused about her dream, but in this countryside, there really is a throne that can be inherited.

It would have been better if Lu Yang didn’t mention it.

She might not be able to imagine this, after all, this is something that will only happen decades in the future. Even if Lu Yang marries into the old Yin family, it is still a long way for him to inherit the family business.

However, once it was mentioned, Yin Mingzhu would unconsciously follow Lu Yang's train of thought: "If I leave, leaving only my silly little sister and this son-in-law, then if I want to ask my parents for more living expenses in the future, I have to look at his face?
Also, if my parents had passed away a few years earlier, would there be no place for me, Yin Mingzhu, to stay in this family anymore?"

This is also very realistic.

It's not possible that I would ask my brother-in-law, who is someone I don't get along with, to pay for my future studies, right?
So it is not surprising that Yin Mingzhu is greedy. As long as she is not sure that she will be able to make a name for herself soon after she arrives at the foot of the imperial city, she will not have to be so fussy. In her eyes, she cannot completely ignore the small workshop worth only tens of thousands of yuan in this ignorant country family.

(End of this chapter)