Originally, he wanted to bring a shockingly expensive bottle of liquor as a gift for his father-in-law, but his wife warned him that her father had high blood pressure and that the pricey liquor might give him a stroke like Fan Jin’s excitent upon passing the imperial examination when seeing the liquor.
Gu’s dad estimated conservatively, "Three thousand?"
Thinking since the young man wanted to move into his in-law’s house to help with the kids, he, a young man without much money, would tighten his belt and try to show off in front of his father-in-law by scraping together three thousand to buy him a bottle of liquor to win favor. The logic made sense. Gu’s dad nodded internally.
Honest Da Bai shook his head, "Three hundred thousand."
What?!
Gu’s dad jumped up, almost dropping the liquor bottle in his excitent. He fumbled hastily, freeing both hands to secure the bottle worth three hundred thousand.
"Three hundred thousand? You think this fifty-year-old liquor doesn’t know it’s worth tens of thousands a bottle in the market nowadays? What three hundred thousand?"
Da Bai looked at his father-in-law’s excited face in surprise, thinking, his wife was indeed right—a three hundred thousand bottle could nearly give his father-in-law a stroke, let alone a three million one, which would surely send his father-in-law to his grave due to the liquor he gifted.
Um—
It seed that winning over his father-in-law was not a simple task that money could bulldoze through.
Da Bai reflected on this earnestly.
That said, whether the son-in-law was conned by soone or not, he was definitely wealthy. Three hundred thousand for a bottle of liquor to please his father-in-law? He wasn’t racking up debt to make himself look richer than he was, was he?
Holding the bottle, Gu’s dad began to regret it and started lecturing Da Bai: "I don’t care how much money you have; do you understand? As long as you treat Nuannuan well, the amount doesn’t matter. That’s how common folk live. Lacking money isn’t the issue, surviving is all that matters, no need to compete. Our family hates being indebted to others the most."
"Dad, I’m not in debt; it’s others who owe ," Da Bai hurriedly clarified to his father-in-law.
"Then tell , where did the money for this liquor co from?"
"My own money."
Gu’s dad rolled his eyes and extended a hand, tapping Da Bai’s head like he would his own son, "You think I believe such a lie? Do you think your face is that big? Who do you think you are fooling? Young man! When you call ’dad’, you should know your dad is smarter than you!"
Da Bai nodded repeatedly as his father-in-law tapped on his head, "Yes, dad is right."
Gu’s dad stopped lecturing and, holding the Moutai, said, "I’ll find soone to ask how much this liquor is really worth. Then, get the appraisal from the expert. Talk to them later and return this liquor, don’t get conned. Save this money, do you understand? You’ll need it to support your family in the future. If you don’t save now, do you expect your wife and child to live on air? My daughter won’t follow you to live like that."
Da Bai could only agree with his father-in-law wholeheartedly. anwhile, he smirked secretly. Clearly, Gu’s dad had forgotten he was already treating him like a son-in-law.
With both his father-in-law and mother-in-law being so endearing, Da Bai didn’t know what to do except wholly adore them.
As Da Bai went downstairs to find Gu’s dad, those left upstairs were, undeniably, sowhat worried, particularly Gu’s mom and Gu Nuan.
Seeing the two ladies visibly worried, the gentlemanly Zhang Sanfeng reassured them, "Don’t worry, no one can charm like this brother of mine."
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