Chapter 681: Chapter 681: Mockery After getting ashore and putting on his shoes, he picked up two fish, each roughly about two pounds, that he had thrown into the bushes and placed them in the bamboo basket. Then he headed toward the village along the small river. Meng Family. "Who are you scowling for?" Wang Guilan sat at the back door of the main hall, enjoying the breeze to cool off. Hearing her youngest son calling for his second brother, she looked towards the front door involuntarily and saw her second son walking through the main hall, looking as if someone owed him a fortune, which made her temper flare up. "I’m not." Meng Xingsheng retorted immediately. "You know very well whether you did or not!" Wang Guilan’s expression was very unpleasant, "Spending your days not working properly, always asking for leaves and running outside. You come back with a dead man’s face after disappearing for two or three days. Are you cursing your mother to death?" "I told you I’m not!" Meng Xingsheng’s temper rose as well: "I told you before the New Year, I am determined to marry Shuicao, but you, my mother, cannot even provide a dowry to secure the engagement. Shouldn’t I find a way to make money myself?" Wang Guilan: "According to what you said, are you taking leaves just to find ways to make money? Then tell me, what great plan do you have? Speak up!" "I..." Meng Xingsheng, bitter as if he had eaten bitter melon, squatted against the wall, and after tugging at his hair, stammered, "You are my mother, can’t you... ask Big Brother of the Luo Family for some money to provide a dowry?" "So that’s your plan!" Wang Guilan gasped in anger, "Haven’t I told you? Even though he is my own child, I’ve ignored him for years. How could I have the face to ask him for money? Moreover... it’s not that if I ask, he will give, don’t you understand?" "But he is your son, as long as you sit in his house and refuse to leave, I don’t believe he wouldn’t give you the money!" Meng Xingsheng, in his desperation to marry Cui Shuicao, really didn’t care if he might infuriate his mother to death. "Where did you get the guts to say such things?" Wang Guilan stared intensely at Meng Xingsheng: "Is it that vixen from the Cui Family who gave you this idea, asking you to persuade me to disgrace myself in North City?" "Mother, Shuicao is your daughter-in-law to be, you shouldn’t speak of her that way!" Meng Xingsheng’s eyes reddened, clearly defending his beloved without considering his mother’s feelings. At this moment, Meng Xingping walked in from outside the main hall, placed the bamboo basket on the ground, and scoffed, "All this fuss over a flirtatious woman." "What did you say?" Meng Xingsheng got up, wishing he could tear his Third brother, Meng Xingping, apart: "Third brother, do you dare to repeat what you just said?" "Not just once, I can say it smoothly ten or eight times." Meng Xingping looked coldly at Meng Xingsheng: "Flirtatious! It’s only you who treasures such a woman like a gem and even forces our mother to ask Big Brother of the Luo Family for money. Meng Xingsheng, you really have some nerve!" "I’ll beat you to death!" Meng Xingsheng clenched his fists and lunged to strike Meng Xingping in the face. However, he was easily dodged by Meng Xingping, who even countered with a punch. Wang Guilan watched but did not intervene. "Mother, won’t you persuade Second brother and Third brother?" As Meng Xingping and Meng Xingsheng fought, Meng Xingguo, the eldest brother, hesitated momentarily before finally turning to their mother and speaking softly. "How can I persuade? Second brother wants to get married; do you have any money to offer?" Wang Guilan gave her eldest son an irritated look. "Mother, what money can I have?"