MTLNOVEL Chapter 380: Mother-in-law, do you want to ride in my car
Yujing District, Wei Qingxue and her parents live here.
Wei Qingxue's father, Wei Dazong, is the second son of Elder Wei. Elder Wei had a rule that apart from the eldest son, the rest of the Wei Family children must move out of the Wei Family Mansion after marriage.
Lin Fan rode his little electric scooter, carrying Wei Qingxue, and arrived at the entrance of Yujing District.
The two were stopped by the security guard.
"What are you doing?" The security guard, seeing Lin Fan's unfamiliar face, snapped impatiently.
After all, Lin Fan was riding a shabby electric scooter, clearly a poor chap, so why bother being polite to a pauper?
This was a high-end neighborhood, mostly frequented by luxury cars. The security guard had seen many, so he was used to it, as if he were superior as well.
Lin Fan chuckled and said, "I'm here visiting relatives."
He wasn't wrong. Wei Qingxue's home was inside; he was her husband, indeed visiting his in-laws.
The security guard scrutinized Lin Fan, looking incredulous: "Visiting relatives? You have relatives inside? Kid, do you know everyone living there is wealthy? How could they have a poor relative like you?"
At this moment, Wei Qingxue lifted her head and said, "He's with me."
The security guard recognized Wei Qingxue, and immediately nodded and bowed, respectfully saying, "Miss Wei! Sorry, I didn't notice you earlier, you are...?"
Wei Qingxue usually came in a car, but today, why was she on a shabby electric scooter, making him fail to notice at first?
For someone like the security guard, the first thing to look at was the car. If someone was in a luxury car, they must not be offended; if on a scooter, they must be poor, not even worth another glance.
The commotion here attracted the attention of a pair of middle-aged aunties nearby.
One of the aunties was, surprisingly, Wei Qingxue's mother, Li Xueyan, and the other was a neighbor living in the district.
Li Xueyan was out for her usual morning exercise and had been chatting with the neighbor auntie.
While talking, the neighbor auntie noticed the voices at the entrance and saw Wei Qingxue at a glance.
"Hey, isn't that Xiaoxue? Why is she on a scooter? Who's that man?" the neighbor auntie asked curiously.
Hearing this, Li Xueyan looked over and was almost livid with anger.
Sure enough, Wei Qingxue was seated on a shabby scooter, the driver being her deliveryman son-in-law, Lin Fan.
How embarrassing, Li Xueyan felt she could die from the shame.
"Heh, I don't know him," Li Xueyan said, not willing to tell the neighbor auntie that this was her son-in-law, a deliveryman pauper. Where would she place her face then!
The neighbor auntie said, "They seem to be stopped by the security guard, let's go over and see what's happening."
Saying this, the neighbor auntie moved towards the entrance.
Li Xueyan didn't want to go over but couldn't stop the neighbor auntie, so she grudgingly followed.
Just in time, the security guard, due to Wei Qingxue, had decided to let them through.
The security guard curiously asked, "Miss Wei, who is this guy, your relative?"
Miss Wei from the prestigious Yun City Wei Family having such a poor relative was indeed curious.
Wei Qingxue said mildly, "He's my husband, and this is his home now, security brother, please don't stop him in the future."
Husband?
The security guard was dumbfounded.
The neighbor auntie was also taken aback, turning to Li Xueyan: "Husband? Xiaoxue married this guy?"
Lin Fan started the scooter, drove into the district, and immediately saw Li Xueyan.
He scooted over, grinning: "Mother-in-law, good morning!"
No more doubt, this poor chap on a scooter was indeed Wei Qingxue's husband!
The neighbor auntie was stunned.
Li Xueyan was both angry and embarrassed, her face flushed red, utterly losing face in front of the neighbor!
Li Xueyan glared angrily at Lin Fan, then shot a look at Wei Qingxue: "Come home with me!"
She turned to leave, not daring to stay any longer lest she lost even more face.
Lin Fan shouted from behind, "Mother-in-law, do you want to ride with me? It might be cramped, but there's space."
People around curiously looked over.
Li Xueyan stumbled, almost falling, and hurried away even faster.
Wei Qingxue shook her head in exasperation, convinced Lin Fan did it on purpose, knowing her mother found him embarrassing, yet he seemed eager for the world to know.
Lin Fan watched Li Xueyan's awkward retreat, sneering internally.
Such were wealthy families, looking down on poor sons-in-law.
As they say, mismatched households cannot be aligned, a rich man's daughter and a delivery rural boy, completely incompatible. Wealthy family parents generally can't accept a poor son-in-law.
Li Xueyan was no exception.
In fact, even in poor families now, who would want their daughter to marry a poor man?
Many desperately poor households dreamed of marrying into wealth, while being poor to the core, they too looked down on poor prospective sons-in-law.
Mothers looking for partners for their daughters at matchmaking events had a host of strict conditions for the man: high education, good job, wealth...
Wealth was the most crucial. Wealth meant generous dowries, affluent life, a house, a car...
As long as the financial condition was met, education, age, looks could be ignored.
People nowadays are just this realistic!
Lin Fan had gone on many dates and was used to this.
He harbored a somewhat carefree attitude; since Li Xueyan felt his existence embarrassed her, he might as well embarrass her more, something he long wanted to do to such snobbish aunties.
Due to her embarrassment, Li Xueyan fled back home quickly, mortified and indignant.
In the living room, a middle-aged man was drinking tea and reading the newspaper.
This was Wei Qingxue's father, Wei Dazong.
Seeing Li Xueyan come in fuming, Wei Dazong curiously asked, "What happened?"
Li Xueyan said angrily, "Qingxue brought her husband back, riding a shabby scooter. I ran into them downstairs, all the neighbors saw, my face was utterly disgraced, I'm furious!"
Wei Dazong made an "oh" sound, his expression turning somewhat displeased.
Yesterday, he was busy with the company's affairs and didn't attend the gathering. Later learning about Wei Qingxue's situation, he was quite shocked. Originally, he planned to plead with Elder Wei today on Wei Qingxue's behalf.
"Qingxue is quite bold, daring to bring this man home, but it's just as well, I wanted to meet him." Wei Dazong said.
Li Xueyan said, "I don't care, I can't accept this son-in-law, a delivery guy as our daughter's husband, if word gets out, won't it make the whole community laugh their teeth off! You must find a way to make them divorce!"
Wei Dazong nodded: "I understand, let me meet him first and then we'll see."
As they were speaking, Lin Fan followed Wei Qingxue up, and the two pushed the door open and entered.
At the sight of Lin Fan, Li Xueyan angrily glared at him, wanting to chase this poor son-in-law out with a broom.
Wei Dazong looked at Lin Fan, frowning. Lin Fan seemed familiar, as if he'd seen him somewhere, but couldn't recall at the moment.