Chapter 170: Many People Have the Same Idea

"Alas... this money is for your sister's wedding dowry..." Mrs. Lai couldn't get the money but was looking for an excuse to take it back.

"Older brother..." Ye Shuzhen began to believe her mother somewhat after hearing her words.

"Mom, Sis, haven't I told you to let me handle the dowry? Don't you trust me to do things properly?"

Hongji certainly knew his mother's temperament. Once money entered her hands, it would never come out again. To say something utterly unfilial, they should have saved enough for their coffins over these years.

In the South, unlike other places, they wouldn't buy good coffins to store at home as they considered it inauspicious and never did such a thing.

Mrs. Lai wanted to say something more, but she was stopped by the words of Hongji's father!

"Hongji, we still need to take money to buy land, so stop causing trouble..."

Hongji's father's words, heard by the guests in the living room, prompted the father-in-law to slap his thigh and say: