As soon as Yun Tangyin opened her eyes, she heard Jiang Jianhua's shrill voice pierce through the window paper: "I'm not going! Mom! You have to stand up for me! It was Fu Yuanshan who did it, why should I go to confront him?"
Interspersed among them was Fu Yuanshan's deliberately lowered voice: "You dare to do it but don't dare to admit it? Isn't that your handwriting on the ledger?"
Then came Song Yushuang's low shout: "Enough!"
Fu Yucheng sat up abruptly, his brows furrowed: "What time is it? Why are you making a scene?"
Yun Tangyin pressed down on his hand as he tried to get up, smoothing his slightly disheveled clothes with her fingertips: "What's the rush? Let Mom see the true colors of this couple with her own eyes."
The two had just finished getting dressed when the door was banged on loudly.
Song Yushuang's voice was mixed in: "Yinyin, Acheng, open the door."
Fu Yucheng opened the door and saw Jiang Jianhua sitting on the threshold wiping away tears. Fu Yuanshan stood to the side with a sullen face, and Song Yushuang was wearing a violet long cheongsam with her brows tightly furrowed.
"Mom." Yun Tangyin greeted her with a smile, glancing at Jiang Jianhua out of the corner of her eye: "What's wrong? Second sister-in-law is crying like this so early in the morning. Anyone who doesn't know better would think I've bullied her."
"You're bullying me!" Jiang Jianhua jumped up suddenly: "I went to three different supply and marketing cooperatives to choose that radio, how can you say it's a defective product?"
"The ledger is here." Yun Tangyin turned around, picked up the ledger from the corner of the table, and slowly opened it.
"If you've forgotten, Second Sister-in-law, let me read it to you again. The coal was bought on November 30th, and the date on the invoice is wrong!"
"And this page, they received the industrial vouchers but didn't register them, instead they exchanged them for Dacron fabric to make a shirt for your sister."
With each sentence she read aloud, Jiang Jianhua's face paled a little more, until finally his lips trembled: "Yes, Fu Yuanshan told me to remember it this way!"
"You're spouting nonsense!" Fu Yuanshan interrupted sharply, "It's clearly your own greed that's causing this. I warned you long ago not to falsify the accounts!"
"When have I ever been greedy?" Jiang Jianhua lunged at him, ready to tear him apart. "You were the one who suggested I hide those industrial coupons in the radio! I see now that you've been scheming against me, Fu Yuanshan. You're heartless and treacherous; you've been planning this all along, haven't you!"
Her own son had just consummated their marriage last night, and this commotion had occurred the very next day. Song Yushuang's face darkened considerably upon hearing this, and she twisted the handkerchief in her hand into a distorted shape: "Yuanshan! Explain yourself clearly, what exactly happened?"
But I don't know why...
Yun Tangyin always felt that there was a hint of expectation in Song Yushuang's eyes.
Fu Yuanshan's eyes flickered. After pushing Jiang Jianhua away, he stood there with his hands in his pockets and explained, "Mom, it was Jiang Jianhua who wanted to save money for her cousin. I couldn't persuade her otherwise..."
"I didn't!" Jiang Jianhua frantically grabbed at Fu Yuanshan's pocket, as if trying to prove something: "You took the money I got from selling scrap metal at the factory yesterday! If you don't believe me, have Mom search you!"
Fu Yuanshan instinctively clutched his pocket, frowned, and pushed her hand away: "What nonsense are you spouting?!"
But this action only confirmed Jiang Jianhua's words.
Song Yushuang didn't look at Jiang Jianhua who had fallen to the ground. Instead, she looked so angry that she slapped Fu Yuanshan across the face: "I trusted you to manage the accounts, but you and your wife have conspired to falsify the accounts!"
"Mom!" Fu Yuanshan glared at Jiang Jianhua: "It's all her fault! If she hadn't hidden the industrial vouchers and hadn't been greedy, how could this have happened? I've been by your side for so long, don't you know how I do things?"
Yun Tangyin chimed in, "Second brother, you're wrong. The stamp on the radio base is clearly visible. Last week, the supply and marketing cooperative listed it at 19.5 yuan to sell defective products, but Second sister-in-law paid 35.8 yuan for reimbursement. That difference of more than 10 yuan is not a small amount."
Song Yushuang suddenly looked at Jiang Jianhua: "You really are hiding something?"
Jiang Jianhua collapsed to the ground, crying, "I didn't cheat you out of money! Fu Yuanshan said... said he wasn't afraid to do it, that Yun Tangyin had just married into the family and definitely wouldn't dare to investigate! I believed him... really!"
"You dare to implicate me?" Fu Yuanshan trembled with rage, raising his foot to kick me. "You were the one who said household expenses were high and told me to put more money in the accounts! Now you're slandering me. Whose surname is Fu? Divorce! We must get a divorce!"
The two of them kept shifting blame back and forth, leaving Song Yushuang, Fu Yucheng, and Yun Tangyin watching like spectators.
Song Yushuang felt dizzy from listening to this, and leaned against the door frame, closing her eyes briefly: "That's enough!"
Fu Yucheng immediately held Fu Yuanshan down, and no one had time to pay attention to Jiang Jianhua, who was lying on the ground covering his face and crying.
She turned to Yun Tangyin, her tone softening slightly: "Yinyin, what are you planning to do with these accounts?"
Yun Tangyin lowered her eyes.
The situation is now quite clear.
Fu Yuanshan probably anticipated this day would come, so he sacrificed a pawn to save the king, letting Jiang Jianhua bear the stigma of falsifying accounts. With this divorce, Fu Yuanshan was able to protect himself; even if he lost his control of the household, he could at least shamelessly remain in the Fu family...
Although Yun Tangyin saw through his thoughts, she couldn't really do anything to Fu Yuanshan with just a few words from Jiang Jianhua.
After all, he was entrusted with the care of a comrade-in-arms, and apart from Jiang Jianhua's few words, there was no more concrete evidence to prove Fu Yuanshan's problems.
If we were to simply kick him out, it would be unreasonable and would easily lead to gossip.
"Let's follow the rules." Yun Tangyin handed over the ledger.
“Make them make up for the overpaid amount, return the industrial vouchers to the factory, and change the invoice date. As for the radio, I’ll take it to the supply and marketing cooperative to return it today. If Second Sister-in-law feels she’s been cheated, Second Brother can make up the difference.”
Upon hearing that he needed to pay more money, Fu Yuanshan knew that Yun Tangyin had admitted to Jiang Jianhua's falsification of accounts, and immediately retorted, "I have no money! This money was embezzled by Jiang Jianhua, she should pay it!"
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