This second encounter was still informal.
"I’ll step out for a bit," Zhao Xinxin still went out.
She didn’t know what Wang Jianguo’s mother wanted with her.
Mrs. Wang looked at Zhao Xinxin and it seemed that her demeanor had changed again.
"If you want me to agree to you marrying into our family, you must buy a house."
She was to buy a house?
"If you’re willing to put it in my son’s name, that’s also fine," Mrs. Wang glanced and said without enthusiasm.
A house, that would cost a significant amount of money.
Does she even think, at all?
She didn’t have the audacity to demand the wife’s family provide a house as part of the dowry.
It was just to see if this person truly liked her son.
After Mrs. Wang returned to her room yesterday, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep until she finally came up with a solution and fell asleep.
"My son also said you two would get married, and here I am asking you to buy a house, yet you’re not willing, even if it’s in your name. That shows you don’t have much feelings for my son. If that’s the case, it’s better for you to break up!"
It wasn’t that she couldn’t afford a house.
But the second brother had just borrowed money from the Third Brother, and Third Brother had said he would lend money to Brother Fang. Borrowing money from Third Brother to buy a house would be somewhat inappropriate, wouldn’t it?
Everyone was borrowing money from Third Brother to buy a house.
"Auntie, have you seen any good houses? If you have, preferably in this area, it would make commuting to and from work convenient when I buy the house."
You’re actually planning to buy a house?
I wanted you to give up because it’s difficult, not to face the difficulty head-on.
You’re playing this move on me.
"Do you have the money to buy a house?"
"With my salary from the past year and the bonus, I plan to borrow some money from my Third Brother, as long as you have information on a house."
Mrs. Wang felt as if she had lost this round.
Buying a house wasn’t as simple as ’three turns and a sound.’
"Didn’t your brother just borrow money to buy a house? Does your Third Brother even have money to lend you?"
Your certainty made Mrs. Wang even more at a loss for words.
Who exactly was this Third Brother? Wasn’t he just coming to Capital City to attend university?
How did he suddenly become a millionaire with quite a few real estate properties?
"Auntie, if you have time, could you please look out for me? I’m really busy with work during the day, taking night classes, and designing winter clothes. I’ll have to trouble you to help me find a house."
Mrs. Wang left in a huff.
She came to make the other party give up due to the difficulty, but in the end, she herself left with anger.
And she was even asked to assist with looking for a house.
This must be a dream.
Yet, watching her leave, Zhao Xinxin felt her palms sweating.
Sister-in-law had said that one should not show weakness in front of the mother-in-law, who was also once a wife and is merely not used to her son being taken away by another woman for the moment.
Not only did she not show weakness, but she also managed to get her future mother-in-law to help look for a house.
She felt somewhat remarkable.
She wondered what Jianguo would think if he knew?
Mrs. Wang was so upset she couldn’t stand it and went to find her daughter at noon, telling her all about it.
It left Sister Wang utterly astonished.
Mom, you really are something.
You make the woman’s family buy a house before your son can marry her.
Put a bit more bluntly, this seems like you’re coveting the woman’s house.
"I did tell her to buy a house that would be registered in her own name, which counts as a pre-marital house and as her dowry," Mrs. Wang said.
After explaining once, she still felt something was off.