With both arms wrapped around Lin Yuyi’s neck, she said, “Hurry and carry me up Mom is calling us.”
“Yes, as you command, my lady wife.”
Lin Yuyi carried Su Mo down from the bed and didn’t even set her down while opening the door.
The moment the door opened, Zhang Lanhua was so startled she stepped back several paces, her face darkening.
She grabbed Su Mo’s hand and hurriedly said, “Mo Mo, come down quickly, come down. Yuyi is tired today if you’re like this, he won’t be able to handle it.”
Su Mo: “…”
For the first time, she truly understood what people meant by before marriage and after marriage.
Zhao Xiaoxiao was right a mother-in-law is a second mother, but definitely not a real one. More like a stepmother!
In the living room
Zhang Lanhua sat in the main seat while Lin Yuyi took out the seventy thousand from earlier.
“Mom, this is the seventy thousand we agreed on beforehand. It’s for you.”
Zhang Lanhua didn’t refuse at all and immediately took the money.
Leaning half against Lin Yuyi, Su Mo felt drowsy.
After all the commotion of the day, she was exhausted.
“You must be very sleepy, Mo Mo. After I finish talking, you two can go to sleep.”
“About that travel wedding you mentioned…”
“I thought about it. In our village, the wedding banquet must be held, and you two still need to go through the formalities. Mo Mo, can you accept that?”
Su Mo turned to Lin Yuyi. “Will it be held in a hotel?”
Lin Yuyi’s gaze shifted awkwardly. Their place didn’t have the custom of holding banquets in hotels.
“Mo Mo… no. It’ll be at our own home.”
Su Mo was puzzled. “How do you hold it at home? Just invite relatives for a meal?”
Lin Yuyi couldn’t really explain, but Zhang Lanhua was firm.
“Yuyi, your father passed away early and didn’t get to see you marry. Even if young people have their own wishes, the proper steps still need to be done.”
“We can’t let outsiders say the Lin family secretly married in a daughter-in-law, right?”
This time, Su Mo understood.
“Mom, you’re right. Yuyi, I agree.”
Surprise flickered in Lin Yuyi’s eyes. “You agree?”
“Mo Mo, you’re not lying to me, are you?”
“Of course not. We can travel anytime. After the banquet, we’ll go on our honeymoon. What do you think?”
Lin Yuyi had felt troubled before, but seeing Su Mo accommodate him like this made him feel even more that he had found a wonderful wife.
“Mo Mo, marrying you is the greatest blessing of my life.”
“Of course. If I don’t treat you well, who will? We’re going to spend a lifetime together.”
When Su Mo said this, she had no idea that the “banquet” she imagined would be completely different from the reality Zhang Lanhua meant.
She thought only of Lin Yuyi’s filial devotion but the Lin family had never thought of her.
Zhang Lanhua herself hadn’t expected Su Mo to agree so quickly. She had prepared many arguments that now remained unsaid.
Su Mo pulled Lin Yuyi to stand. “Mom, can we go sleep now? I’m so tired.”
“Yuyi, I want you to carry me back to the room!”
“Alright, little sleepyhead.”
Lin Yuyi carried her in a princess carry back to the bedroom, not noticing Zhang Lanhua’s slightly jealous expression behind them.
“This Mo Mo is too inconsiderate. Yuyi carries her like this every day can’t she walk?”
Zhang Lanhua sat in the living room, feeling increasingly uneasy.
Soon, she walked to the bedroom door again and knocked.
“Mo Mo, Mo Mo.”
Lin Yuyi had just planned to “punish” Su Mo a little when he heard the doorknob turning.
Startled, Su Mo’s pupils shrank as she clung to Lin Yuyi, who wasn’t wearing any clothes.
“Did you lock the door just now?”
Lin Yuyi shook his head. “No.”
As soon as he said it, Zhang Lanhua had already walked in.
Both pairs of eyes turned toward her. Su Mo reacted first, grabbing a nearby blanket to cover Lin Yuyi’s bare upper body.
Embarrassed, Zhang Lanhua turned away.
“Oh my, what are you two fussing about so late at night? The downstairs neighbor even came up to knock, asking you to keep the noise down.”
Su Mo: “…”
When Qin Hui bought this house for Su Mo, it was a standalone home there were no downstairs neighbors at all.
How could they have disturbed anyone?
She instantly felt unhappy.
Did this mother-in-law have to pick trouble in the middle of the night?
And Lin Yuyi was still naked even if she was his own mother, that wasn’t appropriate.
“Mom, it’s so late. What is it that can’t wait until tomorrow?”
Having already dressed under the blanket, Lin Yuyi was also irritated.
“Yeah, Mom, do you really have to make a fuss at night?”
Zhang Lanhua was left speechless by the couple’s retort.
Not daring to scold Su Mo directly, she pointed at Lin Yuyi instead.
“You really are my good son. Is this how you talk to your mother now?”
“I raised you with such hardship was it just so you’d forget your mother once you had a wife?”
Zhang Lanhua began wiping tears, recounting how hard her life had been.
Su Mo had never seen such a scene. She immediately pulled Lin Yuyi out to the living room.
“Go stay with your mom. Maybe she has something to tell you. After she’s done, you can come back to sleep.”
Zhang Lanhua had never seen much of the world; this was her first time living in a city like this.
Perhaps she simply wasn’t used to it on the first day.
Lin Yuyi could only patiently sit with her in the living room watching TV.
10 p.m.
Lying in the bedroom, Su Mo could still hear the television.
She was sleepy and angry, her temper rising.
Especially when she saw Lin Yuyi’s message from the living room:
“My mom is old and hard of hearing. Please be understanding. She’ll sleep soon.”
Su Mo sent several punching-face emojis back, still not satisfied.
She called Zhao Xiaoxiao.
“Come out. I’m treating!”
After getting dressed and passing the living room, both Zhang Lanhua and Lin Yuyi looked at her.
“Wife, where are you going?”
“Mo Mo, where are you going so late?”
Su Mo pulled her bag forward.
“To eat barbecue!”
Lin Yuyi: “…”
Zhang Lanhua: “…”
When the door finally shut, Zhang Lanhua pointed toward the exit.
“Yuyi, see that? Mo Mo goes out in the middle of the night like this and even eats barbecue.”
“You can’t just ignore it!”
Lin Yuyi didn’t answer.
He immediately chased after her.
But Su Mo had already gone far and gotten into Zhao Xiaoxiao’s car.
Inside the car, she hung up Lin Yuyi’s call and vented furiously to Zhao Xiaoxiao.
“I’m so mad so mad!”
“Xiaoxiao, tell me has anyone in our circle ever had their mother-in-law checking on them all night on their wedding day?”
Zhao Xiaoxiao found it rather amusing.
“Didn’t expect it, huh? You dug your own hole and buried yourself in it!”