Chapter 248 Mom, you forced me to do this

Seeing that things were looking promising, Zhang Lao Er's smile grew even warmer, and he moved even closer.

Fan Liangyu glared at her coldly, "What are you doing? Stay away from me, or I'll call you a pervert."

"...Okay, I'll talk from here."

Zhang Lao Er frowned, sighed, and said, "Only I can put up with your temper. If it were anyone else, they probably wouldn't even bother with you."

Fan Liangyu spat.

"Who told you to put up with this? We'll get the divorce certificate tomorrow or so, and you can go find whoever you want after that."

Seeing that she was about to get angry, Zhang Lao Er quickly raised his hand and lightly patted his mouth. "It was my fault, I said the wrong thing. I came to you to discuss moving out. If you think it's feasible, I'll go back and ask my mother for money..."

Fan Liangyu glanced at him sideways but didn't say anything.

Zhang Lao Er said "Oh," and continued, "It's just the two of us living our lives. If my mom isn't happy, let her not be. Once I get the money, we'll rent a big room or a small courtyard near your workplace and live our quiet life behind closed doors. Honey, please stop threatening to divorce me, okay?"

"Pooh!"

Fan Liangyu spat at him, "Stop making empty promises. If you can't deliver, don't come to me with your words. Do you think I'll believe you with just empty talk? Why should I? Let me tell you, Zhang Lao Er, don't try to fool me with sweet talk anymore. I won't fall for your tricks again."

She turned and left.

Zhang Lao Er sighed twice, "Wife, I can do it."

“Come find me again when you can do it, otherwise don’t show up in front of me and bother me. Seeing you reminds me of your mother pushing her pregnant daughter-in-law to the ground, almost killing both of them,” Fan Liangyu said.

Watching the person walk away, Zhang Lao Er muttered, "Just as I thought, Big Brother was right. Fan Liangyu is all because of my mom! And my mom, really, why did she have to push Su Hongying like that? She's just looking for trouble. Does she not want to see Big Brother and me having wives who dote on us?"

He muttered to himself, "No, I have to get the money I paid back and use it to rent a courtyard."

Anyway, his mother told him to get out, and he obediently left. If she wanted him to come back, sorry, he'd already gone too far to return.

When Zhang Lao Er went back to ask for the money, Zheng Xiulan naturally refused.

Not only did she refuse to give it to him, she also pointed her finger at his nose and cursed, "Your older brother has gone mad, and you've gone mad too! You two are ungrateful wretches who have forgotten your mother after getting married. Now you're all going against me. You don't want your own mother anymore, do you?"

"Mom, what are you saying?"

Zhang Lao Er was speechless. "My wife is the one who will spend the rest of her life with me. She will give birth to my children, raise them, and take care of the whole family. How could I possibly order her around? Since you dislike my wife so much, wouldn't it be just what you want if we moved out?"

"Whose wishes are you following?"

Zheng Xiulan was furious. "I think it was Su Hongying and Fan Liangyu who corrupted you and your older brother. Your father and I are not dead yet, and no one is allowed to divide this family!"

Zhang Lao Er rolled his eyes.

"Fine, fine, you say we won't break up, then we'll move out. You give me back my salary from the past two years, and I'll rent a place. My wife can't live under the same roof with you anymore..."

These words are tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.

Zheng Xiulan was furious and shouted, "No, we don't have any. If you want to move out, figure it out yourself. The money you handed over was for supporting the family. It's all gone now."

"I don't believe it!"

Zhang Lao Er couldn't believe it. He looked at Zheng Xiulan suspiciously and said, "You bought a job for Lao San and spent five thousand yuan. How come my thousand or so yuan is gone? I don't care. This money is what I earned through hard work. Why don't you give it to me?"

"On what grounds?"

Enraged by the commotion, Zheng Xiulan slapped him, saying, "I'm your mother, I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you. If I say I don't have you, then I don't!"

"mom!"

Zhang Lao Er also roared angrily, "How could you do this? Is Lao San your son and I'm not? You won't give me money to move out, and my wife is about to die! If you want to marry a daughter-in-law again, will she marry you for less than a thousand?"

He took a breath and said indignantly, "Besides, what did Fan Liangyu do wrong? If she hadn't stopped them from taking her to the hospital, Su Hongying would be dead by now. You and my brother would be murderers, and you should go to jail..."

Zheng Xiulan, "..."

She looked at Zhang Lao Er with disbelief in her eyes. "Fine, I knew it was her who was instigating you behind the scenes. It was true! You divorce her, divorce her now, divorce her right now. After you divorce her, Mom will find you a better one. Our Zhang family doesn't need this kind of troublemaker!"

Zhang Lao Er glared at her.

"...You may not care, but I do. She's the wife I chose myself. She's a wife for me to live with, not for you. So tell me, are you going to give me the money or not?"

Knowing that further explanation would be a waste of breath, Zhang Lao Er simply asked directly.

"No way!"

Zheng Xiulan flatly refused, "All the money in the house is with me, it's for the whole family's expenses. Your older brother took that money and hasn't paid it back yet. You want to follow his example? No way! Let me tell you, if you don't want to live in this house, you can get out. I won't give you a single penny!"

"Okay, okay, okay!"

Zhang Lao Er said "okay" three times in a row, gritted his teeth, and gave Zheng Xiulan a cold look. "You forced me to do this."

He turned and stormed out of the house.

Zheng Xiulan was so angry that her vision blurred, and she felt as if a huge stone was pressing on her chest, making it hard to breathe. She sat on the sofa for a while before she calmed down and started cursing at Su Hongying and Fan Liangyu.

She blamed them for corrupting her two obedient sons.

Old Zhang sneered from the side, "Whose fault is it? You were the one who agreed to marry them both, you paid the bride price..."

Zheng Xiulan, "..."

"You can't speak unless you hit me where it hurts?!"

Zhang Laosan hid inside the house and didn't dare to come out.

My eldest and second eldest brothers have been acting like madmen these days. One wants to separate from the family, and the other wants to move out. Neither of them wants to live with their mother.

However, even he was hesitant when it came to it.

My sister-in-law almost lost her life; her mother was incredibly ruthless.

He's not worried about finding a wife, he's worried about his job. His older brother took the five thousand yuan, and if he can't get it back, will his mother give him more money to buy him a job?

The problem was solved the next day.

The next day, after everyone in the family went to work, Zhang Lao Er took leave and sneaked back home. He broke into his parents' room and found Zheng Xiulan's savings book hidden in her pillow.

"Mom, don't blame me. You were the one who started this. Even if I married a hundred more wives, you would ruin everything if I lived with you."

He muttered to himself as he casually opened his passbook to see how much money was in it.

Upon seeing the string of numbers, I paused for a moment, carefully counted how many digits there were, and then suddenly gasped.

More than ten thousand!

When did his mother accumulate so much money?!

He thought about it for a moment: his older brother took five thousand, he took five thousand, and five thousand was left...

Just then, the third brother opened the door, walked over to see what was going on, and when he saw the passbook in Zhang Lao Er's hand, his eyes widened suddenly, and he asked, "Second brother, why...why did you steal Mom's passbook?"