Chapter 87: Divine Skill Across the World

Five Tigers said, “Why don’t you two discuss it first?”

Fang Yuan said, “He listens to me.”

Lu Chuan said, “Fang Yuan said it, so I make the decisions at home.”

Five Tigers sucked in a breath of cold air. There was such a thing? His younger sister could be so reasonable and considerate.

Fang Yuan twisted Lu Chuan’s arm. “Exactly, you listen to me. With such wasteful spending, why should I listen to you?”

Lu Chuan pulled Fang Yuan into the room to communicate. “It is not appropriate to accept Fifth Brother’s money, and I also cannot bear to give it away so wastefully. Let us keep it for now.”

Fang Yuan said, “We cannot give it away for nothing, that is right, but why is it not appropriate?”

Lu Chuan said, “This is the first time in my life I have spent money to buy clothes.”

Then he just looked at Fang Yuan, his gaze steady and unflinching. Something seemed hidden in those eyes, something you could not pull your attention away from once you looked into it.

Fine, Fang Yuan did not know what happened, but she just, just handed the clothes back to Lu Chuan.

Afterwards Fang Yuan even felt her brain had not been working properly at that moment. It was like she had been possessed.

What shocked Five Tigers the most was that when the two came back out, Fang Yuan was no longer insisting on exchanging the shoes for money. It was really the brother-in-law making the decisions. That should not be possible.

When asked, Fang Yuan said, “Do not ask me. I do not understand how it became like this either.”

Five Tigers’ eyes flickered with something. His guess was slightly off track, and he thought, my sister has fallen for Lu Chuan. “What are you saying? You, you…”

He then heard Fang Yuan say to him in a tone of discussion, “Do you think I have run into a vixen? Have I been bewitched?”

Five Tigers felt his brain could not process this. What kind of wild statement was that? His eyes widened again. “What did my brother-in-law do to you?”

His eyes were burning with gossip.

Then he thought about his brother-in-law and felt it was not appropriate to ask directly, but if he did not ask, he was too curious.

Fang Yuan said, “I feel like he knows something. When I look into his eyes, I unconsciously fall under his influence.”

Five Tigers eagerly followed up, “And then you just listened to him.”

Fang Yuan thought about it and nodded.

Five Tigers sneered. So it really was a vixen. “Be careful, do not let him…”

He almost said something inappropriate about cultivating yin to nourish yang, but as a brother-in-law it was not proper, so he changed it. “Do not get tricked.”

Fang Yuan solemnly nodded. “Although it is unlikely, I should still be careful.”

Five Tigers felt he might have led the conversation in the wrong direction, but he did not want to clean it up. Still, was his brother-in-law really this skilled?

Fang Yuan said, “I will let it go for now. I will talk to him later and tell him not to use that kind of technique on other people.”

Five Tigers felt like cutting ties with both of them on the spot. He felt like he was being bullied because there was no one suitable beside him.

Although they kept the clothes and shoes, Lu Chuan took the shoes and exchanged them for a pair of flat leather shoes.

Fang Yuan said, “Since it can be exchanged, why not return it?”

Lu Chuan said directly, “Only exchange, no return.”

Afraid Fang Yuan would insist on changing them into rubber shoes, Lu Chuan added, “Only choose between these two pairs.”

Fine, Fang Yuan stopped talking completely, and she did not give him face either. She did not wear the shoes again.

She only said, “Do not let me see these things again. They are annoying.”

Lu Chuan said nothing and packed both the shoes and the dress away.

From then on, no one else saw those things again except Lu Chuan.

Five Tigers could see the pattern. Although his sister spoke harshly and acted tough, everything was actually going according to her brother-in-law’s intentions.

The conclusion was that his sister had been firmly controlled.

Yet Father Lu kept saying, our family listens to Fang Yuan.

The problem was that Father Lu meant it sincerely. Everything really required Fang Yuan’s approval.

So what exactly was going on here? Five Tigers sucked in a breath of cold air.

Fang Yuan returned the money to Father Lu, but Father Lu refused no matter what. “Since you got married, we should have bought you a set of clothes anyway.”

Fang Yuan said, “Even if we buy them, Lu Chuan should be the one buying them. Now that he has a wife, if he still spends his parents’ money, does he have no shame? I would feel embarrassed for him.”

Fine, Father Lu no longer insisted on taking the money, otherwise it would make his son lose face.

Lu Chuan just smiled as he watched. Based on his understanding of Fang Yuan, she would always ask about money whenever she saw something, so this money would definitely be returned to his father anyway.

But if he let Fang Yuan spend money herself, she definitely would not agree, so they could only handle it this way. Thinking about it, it was not easy.

Five Tigers even patted his brother-in-law’s shoulder. “A man still has to earn money and keep his backbone strong. If you really cannot earn much and still spend like this, with Fang Yuan making a fuss, how can you keep such a good mentality?”

Lu Chuan replied steadily, “When I had no money before, when Fang Yuan bought me clothes, my mentality was the same.”

Five Tigers scoffed. Nonsense. Men understand men best.

Fang Yuan was figuring out her mixer business. Five Tigers was handling all kinds of construction tasks. Lu Chuan was not idle either, constantly calculating in a small notebook.

Even Father Lu was resting now, while these three were still busy at times.

Father Lu often sighed, money really is hard to earn.

Especially when he saw his son and Five Tigers spinning like tops every day. Anything missing on the construction site had to be communicated with the client in advance, otherwise the workers would be idle.

Sometimes Lu Chuan was still at the site late at night watching workers unload materials.

Fang Yuan also carried a small notebook, writing and recording. Even though she was not responsible for materials, she had to know what came in, how much came in, how much was used, and what was left. Everything had to be accounted for.

Five Tigers could not handle these tasks, but he coordinated the workers, which was not easy either. One day this person had something to do, the next day someone did not show up, and to avoid delaying work the next morning he sometimes had to go out in the middle of the night to find people.

Even Father Lu said, I could not earn this money even if you gave it to me, I do not have this ability.

Turning to Fang Yuan, Father Lu said, “Second daughter-in-law, do not worry. I will keep an eye on this for you. Focus on your own work. I will not let you be troubled.”

He even started learning how to handle electrical wiring. He was afraid other people might connect it improperly and damage their machines.

Lu Chuan personally taught him this, with emphasis on safety measures.

So now Father Lu not only watched the mixer, he also watched the electrical switch box.

Ever since he learned how dangerous it was, his eyes rarely left it, afraid someone might touch it and cause trouble for his son and daughter-in-law.

Because of this, being very frugal by nature, Father Lu even bought a lock and built a wooden box to secure it. Whenever not in use, he locked it.

When working, he carried the key with him. He did not find it troublesome at all, carrying it out with complete dedication and voluntary responsibility.

Five Tigers, out of respect for his uncle, did not have the heart to say that this was too troublesome.

There were quite a lot of electrical points on the construction site, and each time they needed power they had to wait for him to open the box, which slowed things down.