In this situation, Su Mingqiang can only try his best to make amends for his wife.
"Hmm, you're a kind-hearted guy. But do you know that in the five years since your wife married you, she's been sending most of her salary to her family every month? Otherwise, where do you think all that money goes—you drive a truck and earn over sixty a month, she teaches and earns over forty?"
"Let me do the math for you. You two earn a little over a hundred a month, and you give her family fifty a month. That's six hundred over twelve months, and three thousand over five years. You're really generous, giving away three thousand just like that?"
Su Jianguo, with a smile on his face, calculated the accounts for his eldest son.
Su Mingqiang stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning.
3000 yuan.
For families in this day and age, this is undoubtedly a very large sum of money.
He mechanically turned to look at Li Jinhua, his voice trembling.
"You...you...you've made so much money over the past few years!!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Jinhua suddenly started crying hysterically.
"Fine! So your Su family ganged up on me, huh? Mingqiang! You're just going to watch your father slander me? I, Li Jinhua, married into your family and have been treated like a slave, and this is how I end up?"
Su Mingfu, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke.
"Sister-in-law, last winter you said you were having financial difficulties at home, and asked Mom to alter her cotton-padded coat for your mother..."
"Shut up! What right do you, a bookworm, have to speak!"
Li Jinhua jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
Wang Xiulan stood at the kitchen doorway, twisting her apron in her hands, tears welling in her eyes.
Su Jianguo knew that his wife had always been weak and had never dared to utter a word even though she had been bullied by this eldest daughter-in-law in their previous life.
"Boss."
Su Jianguo put down his teacup.
"Do you still think I should use my retirement money to buy you a car?"
Su Mingqiang's fists clenched so tightly they cracked, and he suddenly turned around and slapped Li Jinhua across the face.
"You bitch! I work myself to the bone every day, and you're using your money to support your family?"
Li Jinhua staggered a few steps after being hit, covering her face in disbelief.
"Su Mingqiang! You dare hit me?"
"So what if I hit you?"
Su Mingqiang was furious.
"Divorce! Let's get a divorce today!"
"Fine! Let's get a divorce!"
Li Jinhua screamed hysterically.
"You think I wanted to be with you? You're a penniless wretch! If it weren't for those days..."
She suddenly realized she had let something slip and abruptly stopped.
Su Jianguo sneered.
"If you hadn't chosen me back then because I was a permanent employee at the steel mill and could get a house, you wouldn't have married into this family at all, would you?"
Li Jinhua's face turned pale, and she suddenly grabbed an empty basket from the table and threw it at Su Jianguo.
"You old bastard! You'll die a horrible death!"
Su Mingqiang stopped her, and the two began to scuffle.
Wang Xiulan was so frightened that she cried. Su Mingfu and Su Mingde wanted to break up the fight but didn't dare to step forward.
Suddenly, Li Jinhua bypassed Su Mingqiang and pounced on Su Jianguo.
"You dare!"
Su Jianguo's loud shout made the bowls and chopsticks on the table tremble.
Li Jinhua's hand, painted with red nail polish, was already out in front of him, her sharp nails about to scratch Su Jianguo's face.
Su Jianguo grabbed her wrist with such force that Li Jinhua cried out in pain.
His seventy-three years of life experience allowed him to see through this woman's true nature: greedy, selfish, and utterly devoid of filial piety.
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