Seeing Liu Meili give in, Su Shizhong nodded in satisfaction and said firmly, "I don't care whether you lost my money or spent it, you're going to take all my money out today. If you and Su Yongxin had put even a little effort into taking care of my daughter, I wouldn't have come here today."
"But you shouldn't have done this once and for all. You took my money and treated my daughter like a servant from the old society. All the new clothes I bought for her, you, Liu Meili, gave to Su Xiaomei. My daughter could only wear what you didn't want."
As he spoke, his eyes were filled with anger and heartache.
"And I risked my life to get my daughter a bad marriage, and you, Liu Meili, helped Su Xiaomei snatch it away. I won't go into that, anyway, what you took away was trash."
His tone was full of disdain and sarcasm.
Tang Jianguo, Liu Meili, and Su Yongxin: "..."
Su Shizhong impatiently urged, "Hurry up and pay me back. I'm too lazy to argue with you and waste my time building the house."
Liu Meili looked at Tang Jianguo with a pitiful expression, hoping he would speak up for her. "Village Secretary, I'm not lying. The money really is gone. If I take the money now, it'll be a waste of money. Wouldn't that be incredibly unfair?"
Tang Jianguo asked seriously, "More than ten years ago, after Shizhong fell into the water and disappeared, did you take his money?"
Liu Meili didn't understand why Tang Jianguo would ask that question. She looked blank and answered in a daze, "I did take it, but..." She wanted to say that she didn't spend any money.
Tang Jianguo interrupted her, saying, "If you take it, you have to return it. Now that he's back, the money should rightfully be returned to its rightful owner."
Liu Meili stood there, looking unwilling, and muttering to herself, "Why should I pay out of my own pocket when I didn't use a single penny of Su Shizhong's money?"
Seeing this, Su Shizhong coldly said, "I won't take it. I'll go in and find it myself. Whatever money I find is mine."
As she spoke, she was about to step over the threshold with a fierce air, but Liu Meili hurriedly ran in to stop her.
Su Shizhong sneered and said sarcastically, "It should have been done this way a long time ago, wouldn't that have been better?"
Tang Jianguo shook his head helplessly. His brother, even after retiring from the army for so many years, still retained the same fearless and roguish nature he had when he was in the military.
Liu Meili reluctantly handed the money to Su Shizhong, saying irritably, "This is the amount of money you left behind back then."
After saying that, she stepped aside and muttered to herself, her face full of heartache: "This is compensation from Jiang Huaidong to Xiaomei. She is reluctant to spend it, but she didn't expect to spend so much of it all at once. It breaks her heart."
Su Shizhong then stuffed all the money into Tang Jianguo's hand and said generously, "Here's the money. Help me get a plot of land approved."
Tang Jianguo glanced at the money and asked in confusion, "Building a house doesn't require this much money. How big of a house do you want to build?"
Su Shizhong chuckled: "It's definitely big enough for people to live in."
Tang Jianguo nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll handle it. I'll return the remaining money to you later."
When Su Yue saw her father return with a big smile on his face, she hurriedly asked, "Dad, did you get the money?"
Su Shizhong said smugly, "I got it. I gave all the money to your Uncle Tang and asked him to help arrange the land and other miscellaneous things."
Su Yue was somewhat incredulous and asked in confusion, "Why would Liu Meili agree?"
Su Shizhong: "She was initially unwilling, saying that I had gone back to get it before..."
Su Yue and Fu Shen, who knew where Liu Meili's money had gone, were speechless.
Su Yue pursed her lips, a look of relief on her face, and said softly, "It's good that you gave it to me, it's good that you gave it to me."
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