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"Dear in-law—" Mother Su's face turned pale, "You're also a mother. Tell me, what should I do at a time like this?"

Wei Pozi's voice was calm: "Isn’t the solution obvious? ... Since Su Chengzong dared to owe a hundred taels of silver, let him repay it himself. If he can't, then let him work like an ox or horse for those gambling den thugs to pay it off. If even that fails, isn’t his life still worth something?"

Her tone was icy, making Su's Father and Mother Su gasp in shock.

"Spoken like someone who isn’t his mother!" Mother Su's eyes burned with fury as she raised her voice. "If it were your own son, would you still be so heartless?!"

Wei Pozi raised her voice even louder, drowning out Mother Su's, and declared firmly: "If it were my son, I wouldn’t have let him reach this point! If he couldn’t control his hands and kept gambling, I’d cut them off myself! Without hands, how could he gamble?—Su Chengzong has only himself—and your coddling—to blame!"

Su's Father and Mother Su were stunned speechless, their lips trembling, unable to speak.

After Wei Pozi played the harsh role, Yu Laotou stepped in and played the kind role.

He turned and went into the inner room, bringing out a strongbox.

Su's Father and Mother Su’s eyes lit up with hope again!

Yu Laotou sighed: "In-laws, you know our family’s situation. Though we were lucky enough to earn some silver from herbs and pearls before, our third son is away on business, and all four of our boys are in school. There’s hardly any money left."

With a click, he unlocked the strongbox and poured out its contents—some loose silver and coppers.

Yu Laotou scooped a few dozen coins back into the box, then pushed the remaining coins and silver toward Su's Father and Mother Su.

"In-laws, this is all we have left. To be honest, whether your Su Chengzong lives or dies has nothing to do with us. But since you raised our daughter-in-law, we can’t just turn a blind eye—" Yu Laotou said politely. "But let me be clear: giving you this money is already the utmost we can do. Don’t pressure our daughter-in-law anymore."

Normally, most people would take the money and leave at this point.

But Su's Father and Mother Su thought, *If you can give us this much, you can surely borrow more from your relatives.*

Su's Father coughed and didn’t take the money, saying instead: "In-law, this is a paltry few taels—how could it be enough? Why don’t you go borrow some more?"

Mother Su quickly added: "...Yes, Mother-in-law, since your nephew works as gambling den muscle, his family must have some extra money. Could you borrow from them?... Please, save our Chengzong’s life!"

Yu Laotou and Wei Pozi were stunned speechless!

After the initial shock, Su Rouer burned with humiliation!

Her father and mother truly, truly had no shame left!

Her eyes red, teeth clenched, Su Rouer gathered up all the coins and silver from the table into her skirt and ran into the inner room, dumping them onto the heated bed (kang).

She stomped back, eyes red-rimmed: "Father, Mother, just leave! If you think this money isn’t enough, then don’t take it! It won’t save Su Chengzong anyway—don’t throw it away!"

Chapter 88: "Go Make Trouble at Our Gambling Den—See If You Dare!"

Now Su's Father and Mother Su were flying into a rage!

Su's Father trembled with anger: "You—you!"

Mother Su shook all over, raising her hand to hit Su Rouer.

Wei Pozi’s face darkened as she stepped forward: "In-laws, this is still the Yu family’s home. Striking our daughter-in-law under our roof is unacceptable."

Mother Su snapped: "She’s my flesh and blood—I’ll discipline her as I see fit!"

Su Rouer was shaking with sobs but still tilted her chin up, defiant: "Now you claim I’m your daughter?! When you were begging my in-laws for money, did you care about my standing here?!"

Old Man Su flew into a rage and picked up the water bowl on the table, slammed it to the ground!

Old Madam Wei's eyebrow gave a violent twitch!

Did the Su family really think they could push the Yu family around like putty?!

The argument in the main room was reaching a fever pitch, and the two sisters-in-law eavesdropping in the side room were practically chewing their nails with worry.

Just then, someone started pounding on the gate.

Li Chunhua almost jumped out of her skin!

She rushed out to open the door and widened her eyes at the visitor: "You?!"

...

Back in the main room, Old Man Su and Old Lady Su were going at each other's throats with Wei Pozi and Yu Laotou.

Neither Yu Laotou nor Wei Pozi had expected Old Man Su and Old Lady Su to lose their damn minds like this.

Earlier, Wei Pozi had bit her tongue for Su Rouer’s sake, avoiding overly harsh words toward Old Man Su and Old Lady Su. But now that Old Man Su was smashing bowls and having a meltdown in her home, she wasn’t about to tolerate it.

What, did they think they could take a dump on the Yu family just because they were in-laws?!

Wei Pozi sneered and offered a blunt suggestion: "If I were you, I’d pack up and leave right now to hide somewhere. As for Su Chengzong—just leave that worthless piece of shit to the gambling den and let them teach him a proper lesson!"

Old Man Su and Old Lady Su were livid: "You’re signing Chengzong's death warrant!"

Wei Pozi let out a mocking laugh: "Or your whole damn family can join him in the grave if you prefer!"

"You evil bitch!" Old Lady Su, seeing red, hurled insults at Wei Pozi without restraint. "I bet our Chengzong was set up by you people!"

"Set up how?"

A voice came from outside as a lanky figure barged into the room.

Behind him was followed by a fidgeting Li Chunhua.

"Mother, Cousin Feng is here—"

Even though Wei Feng had already entered, Li Chunhua still blurted out the announcement.

The moment Old Man Su and Old Lady Su heard it was Wei Feng, their eyes practically popped out of their heads!