Chapter 238 It’s Too Late
"How much compensation do you want? Just tell me directly." You Hongguo frowned. He had lost all his face in this life today.
Zhao Changying held up three fingers.
"Three hundred?" That's acceptable.
"What three hundred? It's three thousand." Wang Mei raised her voice.
Three hundred dollars, just to feed a beggar.
Hearing this, many people gasped.
They are basically ordinary workers, with a monthly salary of only more than 20 yuan, and most of that goes into household expenses. Many of them have never even seen 3,000 yuan.
"Three thousand?" Yu's mother's eyes almost popped out.
With so much money, why don’t they just rob it?
Do they know what three thousand yuan looks like? They dare to ask for three thousand.
Zhao Changying: "How come my daughter was deceived into marriage by your son, worked like a slave in your house for three years, suffered grievances, endured hardships, and had her life ruined by your son, isn't it worth three thousand yuan?"
Yu's mother wanted to speak, but Yu's father pulled her back, and she shut up in anger.
You Hongguo gritted his teeth and said, "It's worth it."
"Since you say it's worth it, then the compensation will be three thousand."
"Okay." You Hongguo agreed.
He has been the factory director for so many years and his salary has always been high. Yu's mother is the financial director and her salary is also high. They both receive pensions, so they can afford even ten thousand yuan, let alone three thousand.
He was quite straightforward. Zhao Changying looked at You Hongguo with a higher opinion.
"The compensation has been calculated. Now let's calculate the money my Hongmei spent on your family."
Mother You couldn't help but ask, "What money did your daughter spend on our family?"
Zhao Changying sneered, "After all these years of marriage, your son hasn't given my daughter Hongmei a penny. Ever since he married into your family, all the money he's spent on buying groceries and other things, including buying cloth for clothes during the New Year and other festivals, has come from my daughter Hongmei's salary, and you two old people haven't given a cent."
"All the salary I've earned over the years has been spent on your family. How dare you ask me what money my daughter has spent on your family?"
The neighbors all looked at the You family in surprise. How could they have the nerve to do this when their daughter-in-law came home and all the household expenses were paid with her salary?
In this case, doesn't that mean that this family is supported by Gu Hongmei alone?
You Hongguo glared at his son and asked, "Didn't you give your salary to Hongmei?"
You Shengxing shook his head in shame.
"Where's your salary?" Yu's mother asked, slapping her thigh.
You Shengxing glanced at You Xiaobao, and everything was said without words.
Tian Ying: "Need I say more? I'll just use it all to feed this little bastard."
Mother You looked at her grandson You Xiaobao. How much money could a child like him eat? It would be better to say that she was raising all the money to support the Zhang family rather than raising him.
You Shengxing has never handed in his salary since he started working.
After getting married, all the housework, shopping and cooking were handed over to Gu Hongmei, and they naturally thought that their son would pay her a salary.
He felt at ease letting her be responsible for the family's living expenses, and asked her to buy anything if it was missing. But he didn't expect that You Shengxing didn't give her a penny.
There are four people in the family who are paid, but all the household expenses are paid by the daughter-in-law's salary alone. It would be too embarrassing if this got out.
Zhao Changying continued, "When my daughter Hongmei married into your family, she only received a monthly salary of 25 yuan, and she received 30 yuan for more than a year. Now she doesn't even have 100 yuan on her own, and she hasn't bought anything for herself in these years. I don't think it's too much, even if she spends 20 yuan a month on your family."
"From the time we got married until now, four years and seven months, twenty dollars a month, a total of 1,100 dollars."
"Just decide whether you want to give me this money or not."
"Hongguo, your family is really..." The union chairman looked at You Hongguo and shook his head with an indescribable look.
You Hongguo's old face turned red and he wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
He had been respectable all his life, but today he had lost everything.
"Give it, give it!" You Hongguo nodded while gritting his teeth.
After the accounts were settled, the You family went upstairs to get the money and brought down paper and pen. The union chairman helped write the divorce report.
You Shengxing and Gu Hongmei signed and put their fingerprints on the document, and You Shengxing also handed 4,100 yuan to Gu Hongmei.
The divorce report was taken to the factory to get stamped. You Shengxing was the factory director, so the stamp was stamped very quickly.
Then, I went directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce certificate.
After walking out of the Civil Affairs Bureau with the divorce certificate, Gu Hongmei felt relieved.
Just as she was about to leave with her family, You Shengxing stopped her.
"Red plum."
"What?" Gu Hongmei turned around with a cold face.
"Yes, I'm sorry." You Shengxing apologized.
"I don't accept it."
After saying that, Gu Hongmei left with her family.
You Shengxing was left alone, standing dejectedly at the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau.
If he had known this, he should not have gotten a sterilization. If he had not, he would have had a child with Hongmei earlier. When the child was older, he would have adopted Xiaobao as the child of a deceased friend and would not have ended up in this situation today.
Now that she has a child, Hongmei naturally won't file for divorce so easily.
Now his plan has failed, and the fact that Xiaobao is his and Meiyuan's illegitimate child has become known to everyone, and his family can no longer hold their heads up.
It was all his fault. He had only thought about not letting the fruit of his and Meiyuan's love suffer any harm. He felt that Meiyuan had died giving birth to his child, and to be worthy of her, he couldn't have children with anyone else, so Xiaobao became his only child.
But it's too late to regret now.
With the huge sum of 4,100 yuan in their pocket, the Gu family rode a tractor back home. When they arrived in the town, Zhao Changying asked Gu Qiuyu to call Gu Huai and tell him about the situation.
Gu Huai comforted Gu Hongmei and asked her to sell her job and come up early. He then said a few words to Zhao Changying and hung up the phone.
When she got home, Gu Hongmei took out a thick stack of money and gave it to her mother.
"Mom, take this money."
When Wang Mei and Tian Ying saw their sister-in-law take out the money to give to her mother-in-law, their eyes lit up.
"This is your money, what are you going to give it to me for?" Zhao Changying said with a frown.
Gu Pingshan also smoked and said, "This is your own money, take it. This is the money you will need to make a living in your life." He sighed as he spoke.
"When it gets to your fourth brother, go to the bank and deposit it." Zhao Changying patted his daughter's hand and said.
Gu Hongmei nodded and took the money back.
Seeing this, Wang Mei and Tian Ying both looked regretful. Wang Mei wanted to say something, but before she could open her mouth, her mother-in-law glared at her.
Gu Hongmei stayed at home for two days. Zhao Changying asked Gu Qiuyu and Gu Hai to find out if anyone wanted to buy a job at the garment factory.
The accountant at the grain station wanted to buy a job for his daughter who had just graduated from junior high school. After bargaining, Gu Hongmei sold the job for 650 yuan.
On the third day, Gu Hongmei took people to the personnel department of the garment factory to complete the formalities.
Sister Huang from the Personnel Department tried to persuade her a bit, but Gu Hongmei still insisted on selling it.
You Shengxing said he was sick and had not been working at the factory for the past few days, so Gu Hongmei did not meet him.
At this point, almost everyone in the factory knew that Gu Hongmei had divorced the factory director. Some looked at her with sympathy, while others looked at her with amusement.
On the fourth day, Gu Hongmei, escorted by her second brother Gu He, boarded a train to the provincial capital with nearly 5,000 yuan in her pocket.
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