Chapter 110: The Mindset of a Future Tycoon

Oldest Brother Lu came out with a dark face. “My wife is pregnant. What do you people want?”

He said it with such pride, as if his wife was carrying the whole village’s child.

Fang Yuan spat, “Pah! You’re asking what we want? Shouldn’t we be asking what you want? Let me tell you, see that house over there? That’s mine—Fang Yuan’s. Don’t even think about it. Even if you do, you won’t get it.”

Li Meng got anxious, feeling slandered. “Nonsense! Why would we want your shabby house? My man’s got prospects. In the future, he’ll buy me a place in the county, maybe even the provincial capital.”

Honestly, Li Meng really didn’t care for the village house. She was proud.

Fang Yuan replied, “Well, that’s quite something. Maybe you should ask your man about that.”

Lu Feng’s face turned red with anger. “I’m the eldest. If Mom and Dad are building a house, why can’t I ask about it?”

Lu Chuan didn’t want Fang Yuan to argue with the eldest. “Well, let me tell you right now, this house has nothing to do with you. It’s mine, and it’s for the third brother. As for Mom and Dad’s money, that was saved up after the family split, when they no longer had to support you.”

Lu Feng snapped, “Lu Chuan, who are you calling a burden? Who held Mom and Dad back? I’ve been working in the fields since I was a kid, earning money for the whole family so you could go to school. And this is how you repay us?”

See, that’s how brothers are. Lu Chuan hasn’t even made it yet, and Lu Feng’s already talking like this. If Lu Chuan really does well in the future, won’t people be gossiping about him all the time?

Lu Chuan said, “Lu Feng, I don’t accept that. You dropped out of junior high because you weren’t smart enough, not because you had to. You worked in the fields to earn money for your own marriage. No one paid for my schooling.”

Lu Feng had never seen someone so shameless. “You say no one paid, so that’s that? What have you been eating and drinking all these years?”

Lu Chuan replied, “I ate my own rations, drank the same as you. Mom and Dad raised you just the same. I don’t owe you anything. My tuition was fully covered by scholarships. The family didn’t pay a cent. If you don’t believe me, you can check with the school.”

He continued, “Don’t say you earned money for the family. You didn’t even make enough to get yourself a wife. The family had to sell everything just to marry you off. Don’t deny it.”

What really infuriated the eldest was this. The brothers had argued about this plenty.

Lu Feng glared at Lu Chuan, gritting his teeth. “But the wife you married wasn’t mine.” The resentment in his words was obvious.

It was a tangled mess. After all, the bride had brought a dowry and ended up marrying Lu Chuan, even taking money from Lu Feng’s current wife.

The more Lu Feng thought about it, the angrier he got. If not for that, all the good days Lu Chuan had now would be his. “You get to play the good guy and reap the benefits. You’re no good.”

But that was Lu Feng’s own doing.

As for how things turned out, even Lu Chuan couldn’t have predicted it. And honestly, if he hadn’t met Fang Yuan, would he have been interested in the same woman Lu Feng was set up with?

It’s almost like he’s trying to play the innocent victim here.

Lu Chuan could win an argument with logic, but when things get unreasonable, he just can’t deal. Clearly, the brothers’ issues aren’t something that can be sorted out.

Fang Yuan wasn’t having it. She swung her broom over. “Shut your filthy mouth, you disgrace. Your wife came here on her own. You think this family owes you something?”

She went on, even more forcefully, “Your shameless wife broke off her first engagement. You think that didn’t cost money? What, she falls flat on her face, gets up, wipes it off, and suddenly she’s someone else? Now you want to deny it?”

“And there’s a limit to shamelessness. Don’t you know what kind of person you are?”

Lu Chuan had to admit, he couldn’t say things like that—it’d be embarrassing. But when Fang Yuan said it, it was satisfying.

Lu Feng muttered, “The money for my first marriage got taken by you, too. I’m not arguing with a woman.”

Fang Yuan shot back, “I’d be embarrassed to argue with you. With someone as immoral and unfilial as you, there’s no reasoning. Let me tell you, don’t even think about my house. You’ll never get it. And even this house isn’t yours—it belongs to Mom, Dad, and the third brother. At most, you might get half, and that’s just because we pity you. If you’re so capable, go make your own way.”

Lu Feng scowled. “Since when did you start running the Lu family?”

Lu Chuan answered, “She’s been in charge since the day she married in.”

Third Brother Lu chimed in, “That’s right. I agree.”

Father Lu added, “Mom and Dad need a place to live. When we split the family, it was written down—second brother got the old house, you and third brother split the new one.”

Mother Lu said, “Fang Yuan’s always been in charge of the family. This isn’t news to you, so what are you arguing about?”

Li Meng was furious. “Even if you gave me this dump, I wouldn’t want it. My Feng is capable—one day I’ll live in a villa. Just wait and see, I won’t even let you in.”

Fang Yuan could see Li Meng’s ambitions lay elsewhere. “All this talk is pointless. Tell your man to actually achieve something.”

Li Meng snapped, “I’m so mad, I’m moving out right now. You’ll see.”

Lu Feng stopped his wife. “Nonsense. This is my home. Who dares make me move?”

Li Meng looked back at Lu Feng, wondering, shouldn’t this be the moment he shows some backbone?

Isn’t this when a future tycoon is supposed to rise up?

Lu Feng resented Li Meng for being a spendthrift. If she hadn’t taken all his money, they wouldn’t be so broke now, getting squeezed out and even refusing the house. Wasn’t that just stupid? “Go inside. This is men’s business—what’s a woman doing talking here?”

Li Meng was stunned again, pointing at Fang Yuan. Wasn’t she a woman too?

Lu Feng sneered, “Only a useless man like the second brother would let a woman boss him around. Always relying on a woman…”

He didn’t even bother to hide the foul words that followed, but before he could finish, Fang Yuan’s broom landed right on his mouth—no mercy at all.

Fang Yuan swung the broom again and again, scolding as she went, “I knew you were no good. Nothing decent ever comes out of your mouth. Instead of learning something useful, you gossip like an old woman. I’m beating you for Mom and Dad, you disgrace.”

Lu Feng, furious and clutching his mouth, mumbled incoherently as he tried to dodge, “You arrogant woman! If second brother’s a man, he should divorce you. We don’t need your father-in-law to build a house.”

Father and Mother Lu wanted to pull their eldest away, but then heard him slandering his own brother, saying everything second brother had was thanks to a woman. Every word was a blow to the heart.

Others might not know, but Father Lu had seen how hard second brother worked outside, how he’d swallow his pride.

Second brother had earned every scholarship himself. He was nothing like what the eldest said.

Even their in-laws praised him for being humble and hardworking. The eldest’s words were truly chilling.

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End of Chapter 110."

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