Chapter 84: Not Holding the Moral High Ground

Wuhu could not hold back and burst out laughing. Fang Yuan came back to her senses. “Stop fooling me. I’m not our dad. Did you fool Dad?”

Wuhu said, “Nonsense. I was listening to our dad.”

Fang Yuan said, “Stop using that trick. Learn something good. Don’t spend all day learning to fool people. Just looking at you, you don’t seem like a good person.”

Wuhu said, “No, with such a big temper, who are you talking about? Who fooled people? Who did I learn from?”

If he had not understood wrongly, he learned from Brother-in-law a lot. When Brother-in-law went out and spoke, he had bearing and was respected by others. What was wrong with him learning that?

Fang Yuan opened her mouth darkly. “I just think you don’t look like a good person. In the middle of summer, wearing a vest would be fine, but why are you wearing a shirt? How uncomfortable is that for working?”

Wuhu truly had not thought much and directly retorted, “Brother-in-law wears it too. Why don’t you say that about him?”

Fang Yuan said, “I’m talking about him. What kind of rotten habit is that? It would be one thing if you didn’t say anything to him, but you’re actually wearing the same thing with him. What are you trying to do?”

Wuhu pulled Fang Yuan back. “No, you absolutely must not talk nonsense. Brother-in-law came out of school. He isn’t used to wearing our big vests and big shorts. Besides, it doesn’t delay a pen-pusher like him from working.”

Fang Yuan said, “Stinking habit.” Then she stopped speaking. She was clearly angry.

Wuhu guided Fang Yuan. “Tell me, is it because you dislike shirts for costing money? Brother-in-law earns quite a bit too. Besides, what he wears is all old.”

Fang Yuan said, “It’s because I think he looks like a kept pretty boy. The clothes we bought at the supply and marketing cooperative on the second day after our marriage, I’ve never seen him wear them.”

Wuhu remembered. It was the vest bought at the supply and marketing cooperative. He really had not seen Brother-in-law wear it before.

Wuhu said, “Just say directly that you want Brother-in-law to wear what you bought. How pretentious.”

Then Wuhu laughed. “You can even be pretentious now. Not easy.”

Fang Yuan said, “Can I be pretentious? I’m seeing that now you have a little money, you don’t learn properly and learn to be a kept pretty boy.”

Wuhu said, “Fine, later I’ll take you to the county town department store and choose an outfit for you, one that makes you look like you aren’t a good person, and matches Brother-in-law’s shirt. Is that fine?”

Fang Yuan said, “I am a good person. I don’t care for that. Is this how you dress up your younger sister?” She still had her own insistence.

Wuhu also could not say that no matter what you wore, you could not bring out that flavour of a bad woman. You were just a blockhead.

Fortunately, it seemed Brother-in-law did not dislike it and spent all day thinking of moving closer to the blockhead.

Wuhu then thought that he could learn everything else from Brother-in-law, but only in the matter of finding a wife, he could not learn from him. A university student’s brain was sometimes also paste.

As for the matter on Fang Eldest Brother’s side, they could not manage it and did not dare manage it. He was using his own brothers’ blood and sweat to raise an imperial maternal relative.

Second Brother, Xiao San, and Fourth Brother were willing to let someone harm them like this, so they deserved it.

Lu Chuan muttered with Fang Yuan, “Just watch. Sooner or later, Fourth Brother will fall out with him. Fourth Brother has never suffered this kind of loss.”

Fang Yuan said, “Otherwise, should we beat that brat up and vent anger for Fourth Brother?”

Wuhu said, “When Big Brother and your man split up, Fourth Brother made the biggest fuss. He deserves it. We won’t meddle.”

Fang Yuan said, “He really does deserve it. I’ll listen to you. But when outsiders come to bully him, you can’t be cowardly. Our dad will be hurt.”

Wuhu said, “Do I need you to say that?”

When Wuhu brought Fang Yuan to the county town, there was no need for Wuhu to take Fang Yuan to the department store. Lu Chuan had bought clothes for Fang Yuan.

Clothes of the kind that made Fang Yuan curse pretentious just by looking at them.

Lu Chuan handed them to Fang Yuan with a smile, his face carrying a little pride.

Fang Yuan opened the clothes. Wuhu felt things were not good. Before he could speak, Fang Yuan said to Lu Chuan, “What do you mean? Do you specially like this kind of pretentious thing? You dress all day like someone who doesn’t work, and you even like me wearing this kind of thing?”

Then came an angry roar. “Do you think husband and wife can do nothing and just stand here posing, and pies will fall from the sky? Lu Chuan, now that you have a little money, do you no longer know the height of the sky and the depth of the earth?”

Wuhu was sure Brother-in-law had been partly hit by transferred anger. This temper was a little strange.

Wuhu covered his eyes. “That is his thoughtfulness.”

Fang Yuan said, “Bullshit. Where did you get the money?” This final roar was the real key point.

Lu Chuan had given this thing out and was immediately scolded like this. No matter how good his temper was, he could not withstand it.

Feelings, when maintained by one person’s imagination, were truly hard to preserve. He pressed his lips together and did not say a word.

Father Lu came over with a flushed face. “Second Brother’s wife, the money was Dad’s. Dad gave it.”

Over there, Lu Chuan had already turned and left. He was angry.

Wuhu said, “That rotten temper of yours. What are you so anxious about? He has money and knows to spend it on you, yet you still aren’t satisfied.”

Fang Yuan said, “Wouldn’t it be fine if he explained it clearly? Besides, can I even look good wearing that thing?”

Then she followed with, “Dad, you too. If you had money, why didn’t you give it to my mom? Why did you give it to him to squander casually?”

Father Lu felt that his daughter-in-law’s scolding was truly very good. When his son took money from him, he had said the same thing.

It was just that now, his daughter-in-law had done the work that he, as the father, should have done. It was not suitable for her to scold his son like this.

Father Lu said, “Fang Yuan, if you don’t like this clothing, then change it. How is it squandering? We should have bought you a set of clothes in the first place.”

Over there, Fang Yuan stared at the clothes, her face full of unhappiness.

Wuhu said, “What are you looking at? Since Uncle Lu has already said this, what kind of attitude is that? Did you let Lu Chuan explain clearly?”

Fang Yuan rarely knew she was in the wrong, but she still had not been wrong either, so she did not retort. She directly went to find Lu Chuan.

Over on Lu Chuan’s side, he actually had no time to be angry. He was very busy. Project progress, project quality, safe construction, there was not one area where they could relax.

It was just like what Lu Chuan usually said. They did not have much experience, so what they relied on was caution. Moreover, they had to remember how Big Brother’s side had suffered losses, so their own side would not repeat the same mistakes.

When Fang Yuan came over, the two of them also had no time to argue.

It was not until dinner at night that Fang Yuan put several pieces of meat in Lu Chuan’s lunch box, and Lu Chuan ate silently over there.

If one said he was giving Fang Yuan face, he was. But his face was not as rosy as usual, so it could be seen that he was unhappy inside.

Wuhu and Father Lu kept far away from the two of them, hoping they could talk clearly.

Father Lu was also worried. Seeing his son lean close to his daughter-in-law was still better than seeing his son gloomy and silent.

Fang Yuan said, “You’re a grown man, so why are you still petty? Isn’t it fine once we talk it out?”

Lu Chuan finally looked toward Fang Yuan. “Do you look down on how I dress?”

Fang Yuan said, “Cough, cough. It is not very comfortable for working. Do you look down on the clothes I bought?”

Lu Chuan directly took off his shirt. Fang Yuan covered her eyes, then grabbed the lunch box in her hand. “What are you doing?”

Lu Chuan gnashed his teeth. “Showing you. I wore the clothes you bought me underneath, the new one.”

Fang Yuan put down her hand and saw Lu Chuan wearing the big vest. For the first time, she felt a little weak. It seemed she had thought wrong.

Lu Chuan said, “Look at my arms, this skin and flesh. Does it look good if I bare them? You stare all day at other people who are tall and strong. With my thin arms and thin legs, don’t I have to cover my shame? Wasn’t I afraid you would laugh at me?”

By the end of these words, even Lu Chuan himself sounded sour.

The way Fang Yuan looked at others hurt him.

Uh, Fang Yuan would not accept this, and no matter what, she had never thought Lu Chuan could say this, that this was the reason.