The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 630 The New Bride is Not Easy to Handle

Jia's face froze.

She knew Wu Na had a bad temper, but she didn't expect her to be so assertive so soon after getting married.

Moreover, this occurred before marriage and before the child was born.

Grandpa Gu and Gu Youtian were also surprised when Wu Na suddenly swore.

Wu Na was very angry.

What mother-in-law starts calculating the bills as soon as she finishes drinking her daughter-in-law's tea?
They're trying to use her as a sucker to cover their losses.

But this deficit wasn't her fault. Didn't Gu Ruinian also have to spend money when he got married to someone else? Besides, she didn't ask for a dowry or a new house.

Two hundred taels of silver back? Does she think she can't do math?

What was furnishing the new house? Two red candles and a quilt—how much could that be worth? The feast was lavish, but even if you invited the whole village, it wouldn't cost two hundred taels.

Moreover, people who come to the banquet will give gifts, and the Gu family might even make a profit from her marriage to Ruinian.

Since Jia is giving her accounts, she'll have to do her due diligence.

She has to get that gift money back.

Just as Wu Na guessed, the Gu family did borrow money from the clan to prepare the wedding banquet for Gu Ruinian, but it didn't cost two hundred taels; it cost at most fifty taels.

The two hundred taels were decided by Jia and others in order to squeeze five hundred taels from Wu Na's dowry.

"Mother, are you trying to plead poverty or are you trying to settle accounts with me? Don't come to me with the money you owe for marrying off your sons. After all, it costs money to marry anyone. Where did you spend the two hundred taels you mentioned? Where's the account book? Let's settle it properly today." Wu Na preemptively struck.

Jia and the others almost coughed up blood.

How did Wu Na, that idiot, become so shrewd?
"Is this how you talk to your mother-in-law? I only said one sentence, and you have ten more to say," Jia said with dissatisfaction.

Wu Na, supporting her belly, said, "What kind of mother-in-law starts scheming to get money from her daughter-in-law the moment she marries into the family? You want to be a wicked mother-in-law and see if I'll cooperate? Since you're going to calculate my expenses, then bring me the gift list from yesterday's banquet and the bill for the banquet purchases. Let's compare them and see how much it cost. Don't try to trick me into covering this deficit for you. I didn't ask for any dowry or a new house."

Jia was speechless for a moment.

Grandpa Gu and Gu Youtian exchanged a quick glance; Wu Na was indeed not easy to fool.

Asking for gift lists and purchase lists right off the bat is just asking for trouble. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to actually produce them?
With a cold glance, Wu Na knew what Old Master Gu and the others were planning.

This group is in cahoots, but she won't take it lying down when they send her mother-in-law to challenge her.

Her father is the village head; who is she afraid of?

Wu Na said coldly, "You got a daughter-in-law and a child without going through the traditional six betrothal rites, so give me back the money you received yesterday. That's not an unreasonable request, is it? Don't think I'm spending the money on myself. I'm saving it for my postpartum period."

Grandpa Gu and the others took a breath, and Wu Na's first words were to ask them for money.

Grandma Gu's kind smile vanished, and she said sternly, "The wedding gift money isn't for you younger generation; it's all about social obligations between us older generation. Now that you're getting married, if someone gives you a wedding gift money, we have to return it if they have an emergency."

Wu Na bent down and moved the brazier to her feet, saying, "This is your business, I don't care."

Madam Jia's chest heaved with anger. Wasn't it supposed to be that the daughter-in-law who was pregnant out of wedlock was at her mother-in-law's mercy? She hadn't even asked for her daughter-in-law's dowry yet, and the daughter-in-law was already making moves.

"How dare you!" Madam Jia lost her composure.

Gu Youtian gave Jia a warning look.

He hadn't yet coaxed his daughter-in-law into handing over the money; he needed to keep her calm.

Old Master Gu thought for a moment, then slowly spoke, saying, "Since you've married into the Gu family, you're now a member of the Gu family. You've known about the family's situation for a long time. The dowry money should be saved to repay the debts incurred during the wedding. We'll use your dowry to pay off the debts first, and then repay you when we have the money. To put it bluntly, now that your eldest brother's family has moved out, this family will belong to you and Ruinian from now on." Wu Na had assumed that since Old Master Gu was an elder, he would give her some face.

Wu Na, however, retorted without any discrimination.

"You want your granddaughter-in-law's dowry to pay off your family's debts right after the wedding? I've finally seen the light! My parents gave me a dowry to help me out, not to fill your holes. I advise you to give up on your schemes to take advantage of my dowry. You make it sound so easy that the family will belong to me and Ruinian in the future, but don't you even look at what your family has? A mountain of debt?"

Grandpa Gu was so angry he wanted to disappear underground.

Grandma Gu was afraid that Grandpa Gu would get too angry, so she patted the old man's back to calm him down.

She said that Wu Ren's offspring were not good, and she could tell from Pingchuan County that Gu Ruinian had brought such a thing into the family.
With five hundred taels of silver, the whole family could only watch helplessly as they couldn't eat any of it.

It’s so frustrating.

She glared at Jia Shi fiercely. As a great-grandmother, she shouldn't scold her granddaughter-in-law. Jia Shi, you better teach her a lesson right now.

Wu Na, holding her belly, said arrogantly, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You want to use my pregnancy out of wedlock to control me? Don't you even know if you have the ability? You'd better tell me now, if you don't like this child, it can take my surname, Wu."

Jia was so angry that she fell backward.

She was trying to use her unmarried pregnancy to control her daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law went all out and even took the child's surname.

This made Grandpa Gu and Gu Youtian uneasy.

Whose new daughter-in-law is so crazy? If word gets out, how can the Gu family ever face anyone again?

For a moment, the room fell silent.

Grandpa Gu looked at Gu Ruinian, indicating that he should let Gu Ruinian control Wu Na.

Gu Ruinian sat there blankly, unresponsive, but inwardly he was overjoyed.

These so-called relatives are scheming against Wu Na's money, which is tantamount to scheming against him. He will not help them.

He wanted to go to town with Wu Na to settle down and live a simple life.

From now on, he will have no further connection with Grandpa Gu and the others.

Wu Na was satisfied with Gu Ruinian's silence; silence meant support for her.

“Since you’re planning to take my dowry after I’ve married into your family, let’s separate. Ruinian and I will live separately,” Wu Na said.

Wu Na's plan to split the family caught Grandpa Gu and the others off guard.

The newlywed bride's insistence on separating from the family is probably the first case in the entire Yanguan Town, and it has the same sensational effect as Tong Pandi's divorce.

"Separate the family? You've only just gotten married and you're already separating? Aren't you afraid of being gossiped about behind your backs?" Old Mrs. Gu was so angry she wanted to jump up and down. She pointed at Wu Na and said, "You troublemaker! You've caused chaos in the whole family on your very first day in the Gu family."

He then pointed at Gu Ruinian and scolded him, asking Gu Ruinian what he was thinking.

Gu Ruinian shrugged and said he would listen to his wife.

It infuriated the elders.

“I’m not saying this out of anger. We’re going to separate the family today. I don’t want anything else, just the wedding gifts you received yesterday. After we separate, Ruinian and I will rent a house in town. The dowry my parents gave me is enough to live on.”

Wu Na turned and went to her own house.

She was going to take stock of her dowry, hoping to move to town with Gu Ruinian before the end of the year.