“She dares!”
Shu Guobing glared with his swollen eyes.
"I'm going to call Wen Dongrong and ask him how he raised his daughter to become such a sharp-tongued girl!"
Neither Shu Lu nor Wen Hongyan stopped her.
Shu Lu thought, although she had to pay back the money, she couldn't let Wen Ying be too happy.
Wen Ying made her lose face at the school gate and threatened her, so she deserved a good beating from her second uncle Wen Dongrong.
When Shu Guobing made the call, Wen Dongrong was still in a meeting.
Wen Dongrong thought Shu Guobing was calling to apologize, but as soon as the call was connected, Shu Guobing scolded him.
"Even if I die of starvation or poverty, I won't ask you to borrow a dime. Make a list of the money you spent on Shulu and I'll pay it back. Wen, you've got to wait for me. That girl of yours can't let go of her elders, and she'll get a lesson sooner or later! What's so great about you? You just have a few dirty bucks, and maybe you're corrupt and taking bribes—"
Pop.
Wen Dongrong hung up the phone, turned off the sound of his phone, and placed it upside down on the table, then told everyone to continue the meeting as if nothing had happened.
Shu Guobing's voice was so loud that other people heard some of his insults to Wen Dongrong, but they all pretended not to hear.
Everyone still had their own guesses in their minds. They didn't know who made the call and why he was so rude to Wen Dongrong.
Also, can corruption and bribery be talked about casually?
Wen Dongrong held his breath and finished the meeting. When he returned home, he found Chen Ru sitting at the dining table with an open notebook in front of her, calculating something with a pen.
Chen Ru, who works in a bank, has the habit of keeping accounts of her living expenses.
Every amount of money donated to support someone in a certain year and month is recorded.
Of course, this treatment is not unique to the Shu family. When it comes to bookkeeping, Chen Ru is not partial to one over the other. Wen Ying, as Chen Ru's only daughter, is fortunate to have a separate record book, which records every expense of Wen Ying in study and life since she started kindergarten.
Chen Ru has already transcribed the records related to Wen Hongyan's family.
It can be traced back to when Shu Lu was in primary school.
Wen Dongrong took the trouble to arrange jobs for Wen Hongyan and Shu Guobing. Shu Lu transferred from the countryside to a school in the city, and Chen Ru personally helped pay the tuition.
Earlier, when the Shu family of three was still living in the countryside, Chen Ru and Wen Dongrong did not record the annual subsidy money.
Even so, Chen Ru calculated a number that surprised herself.
The amount of money she subsidized to the Shu family over the past eight years amounted to 20,000 yuan, which averaged out to about 2,500 yuan a year.
Giving the Shu family 2,500 yuan a year may not sound like a lot. Now Chen Ru's monthly salary is more than 2,500 yuan, but eight years ago, in 1996, Chen Ru's monthly salary was only a few hundred yuan!
These 20,000 yuan were only given out through Chen Ru. Adding the money that Wen Dongrong gave out without going through Chen Ru, it is more than 20,000 yuan.
Just take last summer vacation as an example, the huge summer camp registration fee was a full three thousand yuan!
Over the years, expenses like summer camp registration fees have occurred countless times.
This is why Wen Hongyan is the only one working in the Shu family, and after Shu Guobing lost money in business several times, Shu Lu can still study without worries - with people like herself and Wen Dongrong supporting them, why should Shu Guobing and Wen Hongyan work hard? People will give them money even if they just do nothing.
The more Chen Ru counted the accounts, the more frightened she became. When she saw Wen Dongrong coming back, she naturally didn't give him a good face.
Just as I was about to tell Wen Dongrong what happened at the school gate today, Wen Dongrong got angry first:
"You went to Rongcheng today to accompany Wenying to take the exam. What did you two say to Hongyan and the others? Did you force them to pay back the money? When you gave them the money, you said it was a subsidy for their family, not a loan. How would you force them to pay it back now? If it gets out, won't people stab me in the back?"
Wen Dongrong is a man of strong patriarchal character. As he is the most promising of the Wen family, it is natural that he should support his brothers and sisters who are not as well off as him.
After giving out the money, Wen Dongrong didn't expect Wen Hongyan to pay it back.
The money was not spent on outsiders. Wen Hongyan was his sister and Shu Lu was his niece.
Moreover, the money spent does not affect her family's life, but can change Shulu's life.
If Shu Lu only relied on Wen Hongyan and Shu Guobing, would she be as successful as she is now? With such unreliable parents, Shu Lu would probably be forced to drop out of school and work after graduating from junior high school.
Wen Dongrong could see through Shu Lu's little thoughts.
If a child from a poor family wants to make a name for himself, how can he do that without being naive?
They say nephews resemble their uncles. Wen Dongrong really likes Shu Lu's agility. Just like when he was young, when he compared Shu Lu and Wen Ying, Shu Lu looked more like his daughter... Wen Dongrong saw that Chen Ru's neck was red with anger, so he softened his voice:
"Besides, you agreed to give me the money. We've said before that we couldn't support my eldest brother, my younger brother, and Hongyan's family for their entire lives by bringing them into the city. My eldest brother and my younger brother have now settled down in the city through their own efforts. They both asked to pay back the money we gave them years ago, but you refused. I know you're generous and magnanimous. I don't know how much I must have burned in my previous life to marry you!"
Wen Dongrong was handsome and had charmed Chen Ru to death when he was young.
When she reaches middle age, she doesn't have a big belly and her temperament is better. Compared with men of the same age, she is still very attractive.
In the past, whenever the couple had a dispute, Wen Dongrong would say a few words to soften the situation, and Chen Ru would just climb up the ladder and put an end to the dispute.
Today, Wen Dongrong used his old trick, but it added fuel to the fire - the fire was lit by Wen Ying herself. Wen Dongrong hid two things from Chen Ru: one was that Shu Guobing went to Qingshiqiao Seafood Market to challenge Deng Shangwei, and the other was that Shu Guobing went to seize the store that Wen Ying had her eyes on.
No matter how bad Deng Shangwei is, as long as he has not divorced Chen Li, he is Chen Ru's brother-in-law and a member of her family.
No matter how stubborn Wen Ying is, she is still Chen Ru's daughter.
Wen Dongrong knew about these two things, but kept it a secret. Now he came back to get angry with Chen Ru because of Shu Guobing's family. Chen Ru's temper was not something she could easily suppress.
"I agree?"
Chen Ru sneered, "I agreed to support your sister's family, but I didn't agree to her spending my money while scolding my daughter for being uneducated! I also didn't agree to her using my earnings to educate my daughter and then stepping on her. Wen Dongrong, swear on your conscience that you didn't secretly give money to your sister last year to send Shulu to summer camp!"
Why are we talking about summer camp again?
Wen Dongrong frowned, feeling that Chen Ru was unusually angry today.
He wanted to open his mouth to defend himself, but before he could finish his long speech, Chen Ru grabbed the hardcover notebook on the table and smashed it on Wen Dongrong's face.
"Without me, could you have brought all the Wen family members to the city on your own? Open your eyes and see how much money we've spent on your family members over the years. Not to mention the others, none of them are as hateful as Wen Hongyan. Let me put it this way, whether Wen Hongyan and her husband are rich now or not, I won't take advantage of her. But if she dares not pay me back, this matter will not end!"
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