Chapter 576: This Spendthrift Daughter

The word "pregnant" made Fu Mingxue’s eye twitch.

She was completely speechless. "Mom, is that the only thing you can think of?"

Mrs. Fu: ...?

’What’s wrong with thinking that?’

"—You’re the one who said you had good news. I just assumed it was this."

Fortunately, Qin Wenhao didn’t read too much into it.

After all, he knew what "good news" his wife was referring to.

However, he didn’t say anything.

This was something best left for his wife to say.

Fu Mingxue stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "Mom, I bought a house. The one right next door."

When Mrs. Fu heard this, she nearly exploded.

"What? You bought another house?"

"Yes, the house next door was selling for cheap—even cheaper than this one—so I bought it. Mom, from now on, both of these courtyard houses will be ours."

"You crazy girl, isn’t the house we’re living in enough? Why did you have to buy another one?"

Mrs. Fu felt like her daughter was going to be the death of her.

’Is making money that easy?’

’What’s the point of buying so many houses?’

’Can we even live in all of them?’

"Mom, houses are cheap right now. It’s a total steal. In the future, you won’t be able to find a house this cheap ever again. You have to trust your daughter’s eye for these things. I guarantee this house will go up in value."

Mrs. Fu scoffed. "Go up in value? Even if it does, is the price going to shoot through the roof?"

"Mom, we have two kids now. If we have one more, that’ll be three, right? In our family, I’ll treat them all equally, whether they’re boys or girls, and I’ll get a house ready for each of them. So, I haven’t just bought these two; I’ll need to buy two more later on. After all, that’s one for each of the three kids, plus one for us to live in."

Mrs. Fu: ?...?

’That actually made a lot of sense.’

’But she’d better stop talking.’

’Her two kids are still so young! The third one isn’t even on the horizon—not even conceived—and she’s already got the housing situation figured out.’

However, with her daughter putting it that way, she couldn’t really argue.

’Could she really say that they didn’t need to prepare a house for a daughter?’

"—Fine, suit yourself. If you can earn the money, you can buy a hundred or a thousand of them for all I care. I won’t say another word."

Fu Mingxue immediately grinned. "Mom, your daughter doesn’t have that kind of power right now, but if I do in the future, I’ll be sure to make that wish of yours come true."

Mrs. Fu: ?...

’Can’t this silly girl take a hint?’

’How did that suddenly become *my* wish?’

’A hundred or a thousand of them... Hah! In her dreams!’

She rolled her eyes.

Just then, Qin Wenhao spoke up. "Mom, the house Mingxue bought is great. She already told me about it. Besides, we have the money on hand with nothing else to spend it on, so buying a house is a great idea."

Mrs. Fu didn’t want to talk about the house anymore.

’It was a done deal, so what could she do about it?’

Still, she couldn’t help but ask, holding on to a sliver of hope, "Have you paid for the house yet?" If they hadn’t, she would make her daughter go and cancel the deal.

"Paid for. And the paperwork is all finished." Fu Mingxue reached into her bag and pulled out the deed to the house.

Mrs. Fu: ...?

’So fast? They even have the deed already?’

"How much did you buy it for?"

Fu Mingxue was about to say 25,000, but then she suddenly remembered she had told her mother they bought their current courtyard house for 8,000.

So she just pulled a number out of thin air. "Seven thousand. It was a real bargain. We had just enough, so we paid for it all at once."

When Qin Wenhao heard his wife say "seven thousand," he couldn’t help but glance at her.

He immediately realized she was lying to her mother.

’That made sense. If his mother-in-law heard the house next door cost 25,000, she’d probably have a fit.’

When Mrs. Fu heard the price was seven thousand, she realized that was a full thousand less than their current house.

"—That is pretty cheap."