"Dad, Grandpa's money is my money anyway, why are you hitting me?" Jiang Yi said defiantly. "Grandma already said that the money she and Grandpa saved is mine, not yours."
Jiang Yi's words just now made Jiang's father even more excited to beat him.
"You unfilial son! Isn't all the money your mother and I give you every month enough?" Jiang's father became increasingly angry as he spoke. "How much do other people's children spend on living expenses in college? How much do you get every month? It's almost ten times more than others! You're such a spendthrift! Tell me, what have you done with all that money?"
"Uncle Jiang, stop hitting him!" Su Xiaonuan stepped forward and pulled him away. "Jiang Yi booked a week's worth of meals at our restaurant. How about I refund you the money?"
"Xiao Nuan, don't pull me." Jiang's father yelled at her. "How much can a week's worth of meals cost? He took away all of Grandpa and Grandma's life savings. If he doesn't give me a reason, I'm really not going to let him off today."
"Dad, I didn't use that money; it's in the bank." Jiang Yi didn't dare tell the truth now. If he did, Xiao Nuan would find out that he owned the three franchise stores in the university town.
"Let me see the passbook!" Jiang's father held out his hand.
"Dad, how could you possibly keep the bankbook on your person?" Jiang Yi gave a wry smile. "Of course it's at home."
The passbook is indeed at home. I only withdrew 20,000 yuan from it; the rest is still in the bank.
"Let's go home!" Jiang's father shook his head.
"I'm injured like this, how can I walk?"
As expected of a soldier, Jiang's father picked up Jiang Yi and carried him away, just like Xiao Moran had done earlier.
Jiang's mother had no choice but to take her leave.
Out of courtesy, Xiao Moran still accompanied everyone to see them off.
……
"What? You're saying Xiao Moran is the owner of Warmth brand mattresses?" Lan Yin exclaimed in surprise.
“Yinzi, it’s true.” Li Chunxiang nodded. “At first, I didn’t believe it either, but after asking around, it really is true.”
"Xiao Moran can actually be a boss..."
Lan Yin paced back and forth in the room. She now felt that she had really made a huge mistake by marrying Xie Zhi, that pig-headed man. If she had married Xiao Moran instead, it wouldn't have been so bad. At least Xiao Moran was good-looking, a thousand times better than Xie Zhi, that fat, big-eared man.
"And that's not all. Xiao Moran bought the best building in our complex, the legendary Building 88. Now, they're so smug about it," Li Chunxiang said jealously. "I used to have a good reputation and made a lot of good friends, but now, the Xiao family has surpassed them all."
"Mom, please stop talking and let me have some peace and quiet!"
“I haven’t finished yet.” Li Chunxiang pouted. “This family is incredibly lucky. That bitch Su Xiaonuan opened a restaurant, and I heard it’s the most popular restaurant in the whole city. Business is booming.”
"Is it Jiuya Restaurant?" Lan Yin heard her classmates in the university town talking about this restaurant. They were all making plans to eat there, and they said that three branches would be opening outside the school soon.
“Yes, yes, that’s the name.” Li Chunxiang couldn’t recall the shop’s name for a moment. “This is the shop they’re talking about.”
"Why? Why?" Lan Yin angrily smashed the mirror on the dressing table onto the ground.
With a loud bang, the mirror shattered into pieces.
The two children watching TV in the living room trembled with fright.
Xiao Tian and Xiao Li rushed into Aunt Chen's arms at the same time. They knew that nothing good would happen whenever that old witch Li Chunxiang came.
These past few days, after Li Chunxiang moved out, they enjoyed a few quiet days.
Although Lan Yin also glared at them angrily, without the old witch adding fuel to the fire, the beating of the siblings did not occur.
Judging from this situation, Lan Yin might rush out and attack them.
Aunt Chen was also scared, so she quickly got up to turn off the TV and quietly took the two children into her room.
"Chen Suqin, Chen Suqin..." Li Chunxiang called out from the stairwell.
Aunt Chen told the two children not to come out, no matter what happened, because she was afraid they would be beaten.
The children are too young to withstand a beating.
She was thick-skinned and tough, so being hit a few times by the old witch and her daughter didn't bother her much.
"Uh, I'm here." Aunt Chen mustered up her courage and ran upstairs.
"I've been calling you for ages and you haven't said a word." Li Chunxiang had been mistreated outside, so she took it out on Aunt Chen, slapping her across the face. "A servant, yet she acts all high and mighty."
"Is there something wrong?" Aunt Chen asked humbly, rubbing her aching face.
She had no choice but to confront Li Chunxiang directly.
Who told her she was just a lowly servant?
"Go and clean up the broken glass on the floor."
Aunt Chen craned her neck to take a look; the mirror frame was intact, but the mirror itself was shattered and scattered all over the floor.
This is the mirror that wicked woman looks in at herself dozens of times every day, how could it have been smashed like this?
While Aunt Chen was still stunned, Li Chunxiang kicked her in the buttocks. "What are you looking at? Hurry up and go inside to clean up."
Aunt Chen lunged forward, and as she fell, the momentum carried her forward, causing her to land face-first on the shards of glass scattered on the ground.
To avoid smashing her face directly against the glass, she had to brace herself with her hands. Excruciating pain shot through her as her palms were covered in shards of glass, bleeding profusely.
Hearing Aunt Chen's screams, Xiao Tian and Xiao Li both ran out.
Aunt Chen, who was not a relative but was closer than a relative, cried out so pitifully that their hearts ached as if they were being torn apart.
In Xiaotian and Xiaoli's hearts, Aunt Chen is their family.
They didn't dare go upstairs to see Aunt Chen; instead, they ran out hand in hand.
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