"Sigh! Don't even mention it. My aunt called me over to listen to the family's division of property, and it left my head buzzing. After all, it will affect me when I get married!"
Hao Caiyun and Zhuang Xingzhou exchanged a puzzled look. They hadn't heard Sister Shi mention anything about splitting up the family during dinner yesterday.
Hao Caiyun pulled down Zhuang Zhimeng's hand that was rubbing her temples.
"Yaya, what's going on? Why did the family suddenly split up? Tell us the details!"
Zhuang Zhimeng then recounted the story once.
Then she looked at her parents and smiled.
"Mom and Dad, isn't it hilarious? Qingbai and his wife actually think we need to borrow money from her!"
Hao Caiyun scoffed.
"Ha! Second Sister-in-law Xiao An has quite the imagination. Is it really necessary to borrow money from her?"
Zhuang Zhimeng echoed.
"Exactly! They're so good at making connections!"
Zhuang Xingzhou was amused.
"So, Xiao An's second sister-in-law has a lot of money? Hey! You've fallen to the point where you need to borrow money? Tell Dad how much you need, and I'll give it to you!"
Zhuang Zhimeng pouted and looked at Zhuang Xingzhou.
"Who knows what's wrong with his second sister-in-law, that she thinks Qingbai and I are short of money. You can keep your money for yourself, I have plenty of money!"
Zhuang Xingzhou was teasing her on purpose.
"Yaya, how much money do you have? Can you share some with me?"
Zhuang Zhimeng agreed without even thinking about it.
"Name your price, how many do you want?"
Zhuang Xingzhou saw that Zhuang Zhimeng didn't seem to be faking it, so he turned to Hao Caiyun and teased her.
"Caiyun, look at our girl, she's really something, so generous! Quickly name a price and make her pay!"
Hao Caiyun smiled and patted Zhuang Xingzhou on the shoulder.
"Alright, stop teasing her. She'll come crying to you later and tell you she has no money!"
Zhuang Zhimeng laughed.
"Haha, Dad, why don't you give it a try and see if I'll cry about not having money like Mom said!"
Zhuang Xingzhou decisively chose not to try. He didn't know if he could get Ya Ya's money, but it was highly likely that his money would be taken away!
Zhuang Xingzhou shook his head repeatedly.
"No, I won't try. I believe you have the money!"
Zhuang Zhimeng was quite disappointed; Old Zhuang had improved and she couldn't trick him anymore.
Zhuang Zhimeng guessed that her aunt was probably not in a good mood, so she suggested it to her parents.
"Mom and Dad, tomorrow you and Auntie should discuss the dishes for the engagement banquet, so that she doesn't overthink things and feel uncomfortable. I guess she's still quite upset about separating from the family under these circumstances!"
Hao Caiyun and Zhuang Xingzhou both agreed.
"Let's go over and discuss it tomorrow!"
"Don't worry! Leave it to us!"
Zhuang Zhimeng was right; Shi Meiling was indeed unhappy, or rather, extremely upset!
She had considered separating the family property, but she never imagined it would happen so soon.
After returning to her room, she sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed) with a sense of loss, looking at An Tanxiao.
"Tan Xiao, tell me, should I have agreed to the second son's idea of marrying whomever he wanted? That Wu Pandi is such a troublemaker, there hasn't been a single day of peace since she entered the family!"
An Tanxiao sighed.
"Sigh! What can we do? We've already married her, there's no use regretting it now! We've separated our households now, so there will be less bickering, and we'll be much more at ease!"
This was the only thing that brought Shi Meiling any comfort.
"Yes, Tan Xiao, you're right. At least we'll feel more at ease from now on!"
Shi Meiling's expression suddenly turned sarcastic as she patted An Tanxiao's arm.
"Tan Xiao, do you think there's still a chance for the second brother and Yue Lan?"
An Tanxiao shook his head.
"It's hard to say, and since the second son and Wu Pandi are not divorced yet, there's no way the second son and Yuelan could have anything going on!"
Shi Meiling knew it was impossible; it was all Wu Pandi's fault for interfering. She got very angry whenever Wu Pandi was mentioned.
"Tomorrow, have the second son send Wu Pandi back to her parents' home. Let her stay there! She can come back whenever we get the money back. If we don't get the money back, let her stay at her parents' home forever!"
An Tanxiao also agreed.
"Alright, we should really take good care of them. Since they like their parents' home, let's send them back!"
Shi Meiling suddenly remembered that she still had children!
"Then what about the younger brother, what about the younger brother?"
Ugh! What kind of name is Lai Di? Waiting for Di? It sounds awful! We told her not to name Wu Pan Di like that, but she actually said that if we didn't name her that, she would blame us for not letting her name her daughter if she didn't have a son!
Send her back and we'll change the child's name!
An Tanxiao considered it for a moment.
"The child probably won't cry for his mother, Wu Pandi isn't very good with children!"
Shi Meiling thought about it and realized that Wu Pandi was the kind of person she usually was, so it was no wonder the child would look for her!
Inside An Qingsong's room.
After returning to the house, Wu Pandi started arguing with An Qingsong as usual.
An Qingsong didn't say a word, but just glanced at her coldly, colder than ever before, colder than if he were looking at a stranger.
"An Qingsong, what's wrong with you? Do you think anyone else would want you besides me? Yuelan wouldn't even consider you!"
When An Qingsong heard her mention Yuelan again, he couldn't bear it any longer and slapped her across the face.
Snap!
"You are not worthy to mention Yuelan!"
Wu Pandi covered her face, looking incredulous.
"An Qingsong, you still hit me? Are you still thinking about Yuelan?"
An Qingsong lifted his eyelids, gave no response, and turned to leave the room.
He knocked on his parents' bedroom door.
An Tanxiao opened the door and saw that it was his second brother. He wasn't surprised, as his second brother had made quite a noise when he slapped someone earlier, and they had all heard it in the room.
"Second brother, come in!"
An Qingsong entered the room and looked at his parents before speaking.
"Father, Mother, I want to send Wu Pandi back to her parents' home. I don't want to live with her anymore!"
Shi Meiling knew in her heart that her second son was heartbroken.
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