Chapter 114 Where Did These Rules Come From?
He stared coldly at Lu Jianguo.
"Your share, one hundred yuan, you have to pay me back today, not a penny less!"
As soon as Shen Yonglin finished speaking, his gaze was fixed on Lu Jianguo's face.
Lu Jianguo jumped up and down on the spot, his face turning bright red.
"Where would I get any money! Are you all blind? Shen Cuifen has hidden all the money in the house away, I can't even find a single penny!"
Shen Cuifen was instantly enraged and poked her finger straight at Lu Jianguo's nose.
"Lu Jianguo, stop playing the victim! What do you mean you hid it? If the money really got into your hands, you would have turned around and given it to that shameless Zhou Yangyu!"
She became more and more agitated as she spoke, and her eyes even reddened.
"You're the most selfish one! You never think about how hard your parents work, or how your children will live in the future! You only care about your own happiness, and don't care about us!"
Shen Cuifen spoke these words with great enthusiasm, and those who heard them were also deeply moved.
Even Lu Zhonghe and Lu Zhongping, who always favored their father, and Lu's matriarch Yang Juanhua, all nodded silently at this moment.
"It's only two hundred yuan! It's not worth making such a fuss!"
Shen Cuifen said through gritted teeth.
"Today, in front of your mother and my parents, I'll clearly divide this money! No one is allowed to renege on the deal!"
Lu Jianguo did not argue further, nor did he cry foul again.
His eyes darted around to the old wooden box in the room.
That was the only piggy bank in the house, and the key was hidden in the corner drawer of the cabinet.
He walked over and reached out to open the box.
There were some loose change scattered inside.
It only adds up to a little over a hundred yuan, less than a hundred and twenty.
Lu Jianguo felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.
He looked up again at the Shen family members.
Shen Yonglin's face was cold, while Shen Cuifen glared at him angrily.
Everyone else looked serious, and no one was willing to speak up for him.
He suddenly felt listless.
Arguing, defending, or playing the victim are all useless now.
He owed this money anyway; there was no way to escape it or deny it.
So he sighed lazily.
"Fine, let's split it! You can split it however you want!"
He was calculating rapidly in his mind.
Let's get those fifty yuan from Shen Cuifen first.
As long as he gets the money, he can temporarily alleviate his current predicament.
As for the money owed to Shen Xuelin, we can't worry about that right now.
Shen Cuifen saw that Lu Jianguo had finally relented.
She immediately pulled out a wad of change from another pocket, exactly fifty yuan.
She reached out and handed over the stack of money.
"Take it!"
Lu Jianguo's eyes lit up, but before he could even take the money, Shen Cuifen twisted her wrist and changed the direction.
The money wasn't handed to Lu Jianguo, but instead was given to Shen Yonglin.
Shen Yonglin, who had been smoking his pipe with his head down, only looked up when he heard the noise.
When he saw the money being handed to him, he immediately reached out and took it.
"From now on, we'll live our own lives. Let's settle our accounts before we get divorced."
Shen Cuifen's voice was calm.
“I’ll pay my dad back my hundred yuan when I have the money later. But your hundred yuan is going to be given to him anyway, so I might as well just give it to him directly, so you don’t have to keep paying it back.”
She said this with a very understanding expression.
The smile on Lu Jianguo's face gradually faded.
His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
When the fifty yuan actually landed in Shen Yonglin's hands, he froze.
The person who laughed became Shen Cuifen.
That smile was understated, yet it was enough to pierce through Lu Jianguo's last shred of dignity.
She stared at Lu Jianguo, a slight smile playing on her lips.
"You still owe my dad fifty. Give it back now."
"After you finish that bowl of porridge, we'll go to town to get a divorce."
Upon hearing this, Yang Juanhua immediately jumped up and shouted.
"Oh my God!"
She pointed directly at Shen Cuifen.
"Isn't this blatant manipulation? They talk about splitting the money, but it all ends up in your old man's hands!"
"This isn't dividing up, it's robbing us!"
Her voice rose eight octaves, almost cracking.
"Fifty dollars! Fifty dollars! They just took it like that, without even a sound!"
"Help! The Shen family is bullying us because they think we, the Lu family, are weak! Everyone, please be the judge!"
She shouted as she rushed toward the door.
She cried and shouted, hoping that the neighbors next door would hear her and come out to comfort her and give her some support.
But she forgot that the Lu family had recently been involved in that incident, and the neighbors were already avoiding them like the plague.
"What are you shouting for! Lu Jianguo did such a shameful thing, who wouldn't find it disgusting to hear about it? Who would want to meddle in your family's business!"
A cold shout came from the doorway; it was Shen Xuelin.
"Besides, paying back debts is a matter of course!"
"My dad lent you two hundred yuan back then, and he hasn't asked for it back in five or six years. That's already more than kind of him!"
"You say we're bullying you? You have a mouth, but don't we?"
Yang Juanhua was so shocked by the sudden suppression that she took half a step back.
As soon as Shen Xuelin finished speaking, Song Qiaoying immediately followed up.
"Old lady, haven't you had enough of being slapped with your mouth yet?"
Song Qiaoying put her hands on her hips and stood next to Shen Cuifen.
"You were just talking about splitting the money, and now you're throwing a tantrum before you've even gotten it? If you were so capable, you would have paid it back years ago. Why wait until today to wail like this?"
Yang Juanhua called out for a long time, but no one responded.
Aunt Wang from next door peeked out, saw that it was about the Lu family and the Shen family, and immediately shrank back.
The youngest son of the Li family was playing at the door, but when he saw this, he ran back into the house in a flash.
She kept her head down, her fingers tightly twisting the hem of her clothes.
Fifty yuan really hurts.
But what they said wasn't entirely unreasonable, since the debt did indeed exist.
"Jianguo! Say something!"
She turned around abruptly and grabbed Lu Jianguo's arm.
"You're the head of this household, you have to make the decisions!"
"You can't just stand by and watch them take the money without saying a word!"
Upon hearing the words "head of the family," Shen Cuifen almost burst out laughing.
How dare a man who only knows how to give others the cold shoulder and shift the blame to others call himself the head of the household?
They really don't know their own limitations.
"Shen Cuifen! Why can you delay paying your debts, but I have to pay mine on the spot?!"
Lu Jianguo's eyes reddened, and his voice rose.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the frustration in his heart rushed to his head.
Yang Juanhua quickly echoed her sentiment.
"Exactly! Why should I get to do this?!"
She stared intently at Shen Cuifen, as if trying to bore a hole through her.
Shen Cuifen looked at the two of them coldly, as if they were two idiots.
"Lu Jianguo, you're shameless. That's my dad, not your father. What rule makes you think I should wait and pay you back right now?"
She ruthlessly exposed his absurd logic.
Why should her father's debts be deferred?
Because his surname is Shen, and he is her biological father, it is only natural that she should bear part of the responsibility.
But what about you, Lu Jianguo?
Who do you think you are?
Lu Jianguo wouldn't listen to any of this.
If he had known this day would come, he would have hidden the money in his house the day before.
He got carried away and wouldn't listen to reason.
The more he thought about it, the more regretful he became. If he had hidden even ten or eight yuan back then, he wouldn't be in such a passive position now.
But now, my pockets are emptier than my face.
He used the few cents he had left last night to buy cigarettes.
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