Chapter 609 Just You Wait
Lin Jiefang glanced at her, a half-smile on his face, "Mom, have you thought about this? You've been to prison, you're over fifty, neither pretty nor young. Do you think it's possible for you to marry a normal person like Su Youfu who's willing to spend all his retirement money on you?"
“Impossible, and no one would be willing.” He shook his head.
He Taohua was somewhat hurt. She felt that her son was looking at her strangely. She thought that her son was her own flesh and blood and would never harm her. However, she really did not want to marry Su Youfu. She struggled with this and reiterated her reasons.
“But… he’s paralyzed. Mom doesn’t want to sleep with someone who’s paralyzed in bed. Just thinking about it makes her feel disgusted and uncomfortable.”
A hint of sarcasm flashed in Lin Jiefang's eyes, but he smiled and said, "That's easy. Just find an excuse to sleep in a separate bed from him. Who says that getting a marriage certificate means you have to sleep together? The important thing is to get the money. Mom, you don't want to live a hard life with me, do you?"
He Taohua shook her head.
“That’s it. We’ll get Su Youfu’s retirement money, save it for a year or two, and when we have the money, if you want a divorce, we’ll figure out a way to coax Su Youfu into it. Then I’ll take you to the south, away from the Su brothers’ territory. With my brains, we can start a small business and make a fortune in no time, right?” Lin Jiefang tempted.
He Taohua's eyes lit up as she listened, nodding repeatedly in agreement, "Yes, my son is smart. Even the director's daughter would give herself to marry you. You can succeed at anything! If the director and his wife hadn't taken your wife and my grandson somewhere, we wouldn't have suffered like this..."
When Zheng Huaixin's niece was mentioned, Lin Jiefang subconsciously thought of Xu Ying, the woman he used to call his aunt, who had now become Su Lao Er's backer!
If he had known that woman was so easy to seduce, he should have just targeted Xu Ying from the start!
“Son, should I go back and tell him I’m willing?” He Taohua nudged Lin Jiefang.
Lin Jiefang snapped out of his daze, looked at her, and hummed in response.
He Taohua walked back happily, quietly calculating how much Su Youfu's monthly pension was, how much they spent and how much they saved.
Lin Jiefang chuckled lightly. With Su Youfu's physical condition, if he is well cared for, he might live for four or five years; if he is not well cared for, he might die in two or three years.
The three brothers were willing to listen to Su Youfu and let his mother and son come back, probably because they wanted his mother to take care of Su Youfu.
At first, they pretended to be serious, disagreeing with his proposal and asking the police to take them away.
To put it bluntly, they just want to use this incident to suppress him and kick him while he's down!
Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river.
He will have his day to rise again.
Just you wait!
When they arrived at the hospital building, Lin Jiefang stopped He Taohua and whispered a few words to her.
He Taohua nodded.
Back in the ward, He Taohua rushed to the bedside with a beaming smile, her eyes red and her expression tender. "Brother Youfu, I misunderstood before. I've been to prison and am a criminal. You have a pension and several capable sons. I was afraid your sons would look down on me and think I only married you for your money. Jiefang said we were childhood sweethearts and it took us decades to finally get married. We shouldn't be influenced by them. Brother Youfu, let's get our marriage certificate as soon as you're discharged from the hospital."
"What? You two are getting married?"
Before Su Youfu could even speak, Old Mrs. Su, as if she had swallowed a fly, felt utterly disgusted and loudly objected, "I disagree!"
"Mom, Jiefang finally managed to persuade Taohua, don't cause trouble!"
Su Youfu glared at Old Madam Su, "You wouldn't let me marry Taohua before, and now you're still stopping me! Let me tell you, I'm determined to marry Taohua. If you can't stand it, go find Su Guotai, Su Min'an, and Su Feng and ask your three grandsons to come!"
"...I'm not going."
Grandma Su spat and shook her head in refusal.
She had already made a promise to Sanxiaozi that she would help him keep an eye on Lin Jiefang and He Taohua, the mother and son, so she couldn't leave.
"Shut up if you're not going," Su Youfu said.
Old Mrs. Su spat on the ground, "Those who don't listen to their elders will suffer the consequences. Just you wait, this mother and daughter won't be truly good to you..."
Seeing her son's murderous glare, Old Mrs. Su's voice gradually faded away.
While the three were chatting intimately, Grandma Su sneaked out and ran to the nurses' station to call Su Laosan.
As soon as Su Laosan got off the bus, he was told by the message that Su Laotai had relayed back, and he felt so nauseous that he wanted to vomit.
“…Third son, I overheard your heartless dad saying he wants He Taohua to collect his retirement money. Lin Jiefang said his mother can't collect it because she doesn't have an identity card, so he wants her to get a marriage certificate with your dad. I could tell He Taohua wasn't very willing. I don't know what Lin Jiefang said to her, but she wants to get a marriage certificate with your dad as soon as she gets back…I only recognize your mother as my daughter-in-law. I don't recognize that slut He Taohua. They're planning to get the certificate as soon as your dad is discharged from the hospital. What am I going to do now?”
Su Laosan frowned deeply, looking utterly disgusted.
"Ignore them, let them go get their marriage certificate. You can still collect Su Youfu's retirement money. I'll have my second brother put in a good word for them. They won't get a single penny. Su Youfu will be in their care. You can just stand by and give them pointers..."
At this point, Su Laosan suddenly thought of something and chuckled.
He instructed the old lady, "He Taohua and Su Youfu got their marriage certificate, so she's your daughter-in-law in name only. Grandma, use all the tricks you learned to torment your daughter-in-law when you were young in the village, and give He Taohua a good beating!"
Grandma Su's eyes lit up, and she covered the microphone and chuckled twice.
"That's good, I've got it. Wait for my good news..."
After hanging up the old lady's phone, Su Laosan raised his eyebrows high, feeling incredibly happy. He hummed softly, "Oh, Mother, Mother in the candlelight, your black hair is streaked with frost... Oh, Mother, Mother in the candlelight, your cheeks are etched with so much worry..."
When the eldest and second eldest brothers of the Su family returned with their wives and children, and the family had dinner, the third eldest brother of the Su family couldn't wait to call the two brothers to the study and tell them about the contents of the old lady's phone call and the idea he had come up with.
Without hesitation, Su Lao Er immediately agreed, "I'll go find someone after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. With me here, they won't be able to take a single penny from Su Youfu."
Boss Su nodded in agreement from the side.
Su Youfu stayed in the hospital until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, when Lin Jiefang borrowed a cart from him and took him back to the auto parts factory.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Su Lao Er found someone to ensure that no one except Su Lao Tai could collect the money.
A middle-aged couple in their forties soon arrived in the auto parts factory's residential area. They worked odd jobs at a nearby small restaurant. It seemed that the couple took turns working day and night shifts, and one of them stayed at home every day.
They lived next to Su Youfu's courtyard.
After the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the cook that Boss Su had hired started working.
She only cooked three meals a day for Grandma Su and Su Youfu. She was also a big mouth, and whenever she left the courtyard, she liked to chat with the employees of the auto parts factory, praising the three Su brothers and scolding He Taohua and her son.
"...These guys invited me here, for what? To cook for their bedridden dad. Oh my, you guys don't know, Old Su's wife...it's unbearable to look at. She just sits there with her hands in her pockets, waiting to be fed, drunk, and waited on hand and foot!"
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