Chapter 276 You really dare to dream!
"Hey, where do you think the boss hid this money?"
Zheng Xiulan turned over in the room, even lifting the bed board to look inside, but there wasn't a single penny to be found.
She locked the door and came out, pushing Old Zhang on the sofa. "I'm asking you a question! Where else can the eldest son hide his money if not at home? He can't carry it with him all the time, can he? With so much money, isn't he afraid of being robbed like the second son?"
Old Zhang glanced at her sideways but ignored her.
Zheng Xiulan: "...Are you deaf? Can't you even say something?"
What do you want me to say?
Old Zhang retorted irritably, "He's in his mid-twenties and a father himself. You don't leave him a single penny, and you make him hand over his entire salary. He doesn't even have money for socializing, and he has to support his wife and kids. It's no wonder he'd hide money under your nose!"
Zheng Xiulan glared at him.
He said, "I think it was that bitch Su Hongying who did this. She's been a completely different person ever since she came back from her postpartum period. She's always trying to bewitch the eldest son. Look at how she's got him, he listens to everything she says. She said she'd move out, and he moved out with her. I went through so much trouble to finally convince him to stay at home, but after two days of this, she still managed to get him to move out with her!"
Thinking of this, Zheng Xiulan gritted her teeth and spat angrily.
"Next time she might cause trouble and try to split the family business, no way, we can't let her get away with it!"
Zheng Xiulan then pushed Old Man Zhang, "You need to think of a way to get the eldest son to divorce that slut Su Hongying."
Old Zhang, "..."
He looked speechless. "What can I do? I have no idea."
"You old hag, is this child mine alone? You never use your brain when I ask you anything, you rely on me for everything! You might as well just be lazy to death!"
Zheng Xiulan scolded Old Zhang a couple of times, pondering for a moment, when suddenly she thought of something and exclaimed, "Your colleague, Old Xing, doesn't he have a daughter graduating from university this year? His family is well-off, why don't you talk to the eldest brother about it?"
"...You really dare to dream!"
Old Zhang sat up straight in surprise, glaring at Zheng Xiulan. "Old Xing's daughter isn't a college graduate, she's a postgraduate. She's going to work in a research institute; she's a government employee. You're going to give your divorced son, who's still married and has a son, to his daughter? Are you out of your mind?!"
You can't even dream of such a wild idea.
What kind of family and what kind of people are they?
Zheng Xiulan glanced at him and said, "Why are you so agitated? I didn't say that his daughter should marry the eldest son right now. We're just looking at them first. Once Su Hongying and the eldest son get divorced, they can get married, right? Our son has thick eyebrows and big eyes and looks very handsome. What if his daughter likes that kind of guy?"
She clung to Old Zhang's arm, her eyes brightening, "...His dad, could you go and talk to him?"
Old Zhang wanted to drown Zheng Xiulan with a single spit.
"Get out of my way."
Old Zhang slapped Zheng Xiulan's hand away and spat at her, "Stop dreaming of eating swan meat like a toad. I've met Old Xing's daughter. She's fair-skinned and beautiful, and a highly educated intellectual. She has so many outstanding young men in the organization to choose from. Who does your son think he is? You want to go and talk to her? I can't afford to lose face like that!"
“Hey Zhang, the Navy is your son. How can you boost others’ morale while belittling your own?” Zheng Xiulan glared at him.
Is this a matter of boosting someone's morale and diminishing their prestige?
Old Zhang waved his hand, too lazy to argue with this crazy woman anymore. "Su Hongying has done nothing wrong to your son. Whether or not to divorce her is not up to you. You should stop worrying about it."
Zheng Xiulan persisted, "Then tell the second son?"
Old Zhang, "..."
"Look, it's a done deal that the second son will divorce Fan Liangyu..."
Old Zhang looked up at the light on in his second son's room, annoyed by Zheng Xiulan's face—she was determined to break up her son and daughter-in-law while pretending it was for their own good—and stood up to go back inside.
"I can't be bothered with you, I'm going to sleep."
"You, as a father, don't care about the children at all. All you do is eat and sleep. I'm not raising a husband, I'm raising four sons!" Zheng Xiulan spat and cursed.
Old Zhang said he wouldn't talk to her anymore, and that was it. Zheng Xiulan smacked her lips a few times and sighed.
It's her own fault for being blind, marrying two unvirtuous wives to her eldest and second sons.
The next day, Su Hongying took her child to find Fan Liangyu, and they had lunch together at a small restaurant near her workplace.
Fan Liangyu ordered one meat dish and one vegetable dish, along with two bowls of dumplings.
Su Hongying ate slowly while holding the child. Fan Liangyu finished eating first, took the child from her, and only then could Su Hongying breathe a sigh of relief and eat properly.
After the meal, Su Hongying gave the money to Fan Liangyu and said, "Thirty percent was deducted, and the rest is in there."
Fan Liangyu opened the newspaper package, glanced at it, then took out ten hundred-yuan bills, crumpled them up, and stuffed them into the baby's swaddling clothes. Su Hongying looked at her, puzzled.
Fan Liangyu said, "These two-tenths are for the people who help out; I'll take half."
"Really?" Su Hongying raised an eyebrow. "That's a thousand."
Fan Liangyu laughed, "Really."
Su Hongying said, "Okay, then I won't stand on ceremony with you. I'll transfer the money to the other party."
Fan Liangyu hummed in agreement, glanced at Su Hongying, and then looked down at the child.
She sighed softly and said, "This child's features are quite similar to yours."
Su Hongying looked up and saw the child smiling at that moment.
Su Hongying's eyes softened slightly, but she quickly regained her composure, looked at Fan Liangyu calmly, and said, "It's time to move on to the next step. You're like this..."
She beckoned with her finger, and Fan Liangyu leaned close to her ear.
Hearing Su Hongying's words, he nodded repeatedly. When he straightened up, the surprise in his eyes had not yet faded. He said, "Okay, if Zhang Lao Er comes to me later, I will do it. On your side... will Zhang Haijun agree?"
"Of course he wouldn't agree."
Su Hongying smiled sarcastically, "He's the eldest son in the family. I always thought he would take care of his parents in their old age and see them off when they died. I also always assumed that everything that belonged to his parents was his. He's always been very angry about Zheng Xiulan's ten thousand yuan being divided up by his two younger brothers. How could he possibly give it to Zhang Lao Er when he comes to ask him for the money again?"
Fan Liangyu nodded.
“If they don’t get it, they’ll argue and it will ignite the evil in their hearts. The rift between the brothers will naturally widen further. When Zhang Lao Er has nowhere to turn to ask for it and still can’t get it, he can’t help but steal his five thousand. He didn’t buy a house, and instead lost it. Guess what will happen to the two brothers when Zhang Haijun finds out?”
Fan Liangyu was silent for a moment, then raised an eyebrow. "Zhang Haijun will definitely kill his own brother, Zhang Lao Er."
"Um?"
Su Hongying narrowed her eyes, a chilling glint in them, and said with a smile, "That's a good idea."
Fan Liangyu's heart skipped a beat.
Staring at Su Hongying, he asked, "What do you want to do?"
What are you afraid of?
Su Hongying laughed, "Many brothers turn against each other over money, so one more couple won't make a difference, right?"
Fan Liangyu nodded, and the two parted ways.
She always felt that Su Hongying's gaze was a bit off, and after work, Zhang Lao Er surprisingly didn't come to see her.
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