This posture exudes an aura of unyielding strength, like a woman guarding a pass against ten thousand men.
Gu Zhixing was the first to respond: "You're right! Why should my mom support a bunch of ungrateful wretches! We have to get the money back! Sister-in-law, I'll go get you some paper, pen, and abacus!"
He then gestured to his brother, "Brother, come over here and keep Gu Lao Er under control, don't let him escape!"
Gu Zhiyuan walked over silently and stepped on Gu Da Kui's waist. Gu Zhixing scrambled up and went upstairs, running up and down to get a stack of letters and a pen, which he respectfully placed in front of Xu Ningyan.
Xu Ningyan sat down at the dining table with an air of authority and began to ask, "Aunt Jiang, how much savings did you have at home before Gu Dajun and the others were brought back?"
Jiang Yuan didn't expect Xu Ningyan to really come to settle accounts. She hesitated for a moment, looking at her youngest son's wholehearted support, and then at her eldest son, who, although he hadn't explicitly stated his opinion, was also indulging her.
Thinking back to what Xu Ningyan had said earlier, she came to her senses. Even if she was eager to divorce Gu Yong, she couldn't let Gu Yong and the others have what was rightfully hers!
After thinking for a moment, he gestured for Xu Ningyan to wait a moment, went upstairs and searched for a while, then brought down a bankbook and a notebook.
After looking through it, he said, "The deposit at that time was two thousand two hundred and thirty-four yuan and eighty-five cents."
Xu Ningyan wrote down this number on a piece of paper, with a note in front of it: the family's savings before Gu Dajun came.
Then he asked, "How many years has it been since Gu Dajun and his men came to Beijing? How much has Commander Gu's salary been all these years? Since when have you been supporting this family's living expenses? How long has it been now?"
"How much did it cost for the brothers Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui to get married? How much did it cost to have their children?"
As Jiang Yuan recalled, she recited the numbers: "It has been sixteen years and seven months since we brought them to Beijing. During these years, Gu Yong's salary was 185 yuan for more than three years, 195 yuan for five years, and 205 yuan per month for more than eight years until now."
“Gu Yong used to pay for the family’s expenses. Eight years ago, there were a few months when he was subsidizing his subordinates too much and his salary was not enough. He asked me to pay for a few months’ living expenses in advance, saying that he would pay me back when he had the money. Then he forgot about it and just said that we are all family and there are many people in the family with big expenses, so I should share some of the burden.”
"Later on, I took over the household expenses! At first, it was eighty yuan a month for living expenses. Three years later, Dajun and his family got married and had children. The living expenses increased every year and are now one hundred and ten yuan a month."
As Xu Ningyan muttered the numbers Jiang Yuan had mentioned, she wrote them down on a piece of paper. When she finally calculated the number, she was shocked.
Gu Zhixing, who was watching from the side, was also stunned.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Yuan got up and went over to take a look, then froze in shock.
Gu Yong and his team felt a sense of unease. Just hearing these numbers made them feel sweaty.
Sure enough, Xu Ningyan sneered, held up the paper, flicked it with her fingernail, and looked at Gu Yong's family with a half-smile: "Come on, let me read this account to Commander Gu and your family!"
"Commander Gu, even if it's three years and seven months, at 185 yuan per month, that's 7955 yuan. For five years, at 195 yuan per month, that's 11700 yuan. And for the remaining eight years, at 205 yuan per month, that's 19680 yuan. That's a total of 39335 yuan. Is that alright?"
Gu Yong remained silent, and Gu Dajun and the others couldn't find any fault with him, so they tacitly agreed that there was no problem.
"Aunt Jiang has been supporting the Gu family's daily expenses for eight years, at 80 yuan a month for three years, totaling 2,880 yuan. For the remaining five years, she paid 110 yuan a month, totaling 6,600 yuan. In total, Aunt Jiang paid 9,480 yuan for living expenses over eight years. Is there no problem with that?"
Gu Yong finally understood the meaning behind Gu Zhixing and Jiang Yuan's expressions.
Unbeknownst to her, Jiang Yuan had actually spent so much money.
"How much did Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui spend on their wedding?" Xu Ningyan asked, picking up her pen.
Jiang Yuan opened the notebook, which turned out to be a yellowed ledger. She pushed it to Xu Ningyan: "This is where Gu Yong asked me to purchase things. I was afraid of missing anything, or that there would be something unclear, or that I would be accused of favoring someone, so I simply wrote everything down. Da Kui's wedding was the same as Da Jun's, with the same decorations and expenses. It's all here."
Flipping through the ledger, one finds densely packed records of purchases, including large items like bicycles, radios, and sewing machines, as well as the cost of clothing fabrics, shoes, cigarettes, alcohol, and banquet expenses.
Finally, there was a total figure: Gu Dajun's wedding cost 2,315.7 yuan, and Gu Daikui's cost was the same.
The accounts also included expenses for Gu Dajun and Gu Da Kui having children, such as the wedding banquet. With five or six children, it cost nearly two thousand yuan.
After writing and drawing for a while, Xu Ningyan finally came to a conclusion. He first consulted Jiang Yuan and her two children: "There are two options now. One is simple: let Commander Gu return all the living expenses you have given to the Gu family over the years, and then give the same amount of wedding funds to Brother Gu and his two children. Also, the expenses for having children later can be barely counted as two thousand yuan, and that will also be subsidized!"
"Make sure the compensation is paid out in one lump sum! After all, it probably won't be easy to get money from Commander Gu after the divorce and division of assets!"
"Another option is to calculate, in addition to these, how much money did Commander Gu secretly subsidize the Gu brothers, and how much did he subsidize Fang Dani? This is more troublesome and not easy to calculate!"
"My suggestion is to stick with the first option—it's simple, direct, and effective! What do you think?"
Jiang Yuan truly hadn't expected that she would have spent so much money subsidizing things over the years.
Looking at that string of numbers made her blood pressure spike!
Looking at Gu Yong again, she only felt that his face was ferocious, and she really didn't want to get entangled with him any longer.
Moreover, she knew that pushing Gu Yong too hard wouldn't be good either.
He immediately made the decision: "Let's go with this plan. You calculate the total cost."
Xu Ningyan scribbled a couple more times with his pen and finally announced: "Aunt Jiang, your living expenses subsidy is 9480 yuan. The wedding fund for the two brothers is a total of 4631.4 mao, let's round it up to 4700. And the future children's fund will also be rounded up to 2000, for a total of 16180 yuan. In addition, before the Gu family came to the capital, you had a total of 2234.85 yuan, let's call it 2300 yuan. The couple plus the two brothers Gu will split it equally among the four of you, so each person will get 575 yuan. Aunt Jiang, there are three of you, so it should be 1725 yuan."
"So in the end, Commander Gu should compensate you 17,905 yuan, rounded up to 18,000 yuan!"
"What?"
"So many? Are you kidding me?"
The Gu family members barely jumped up.
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