Chapter 519 Let's Get a Divorce
The couple's marriage was a big event, especially after learning that the Xu family had invited the head of the household to the wedding banquet, and that the head of the household had agreed. When Li Banxia was writing the guest list, she carefully considered it again and again, and invited people who had a very good relationship with her in the past and whose character she could trust.
The auto parts factory only gave the parts to Aunt Liu and another sister-in-law who had helped her before. As for Liu Mingcui, she arranged a time to deliver them herself.
The two chatted for a while, but Liu Mingcui didn't say much because she still had to take care of her apprentices.
When she got home from get off work that evening, she put the invitation on the bedside table. Her husband saw it and asked, "Who gave you the invitation? Getting married at Jufu Hotel, that's quite a lot..."
"Banxia, her second son, is finally getting married."
Liu Mingcui washed her face, changed into some casual clothes, and stood by the bed, habitually combing her hair while complaining about her husband, "Back then, when Banxia asked me to open a health spa together, you, your mother, and your older brother's family insisted that investing in it would be a waste of money, and they wouldn't let me join. As a result, I had to lend that money to Banxia as a loan. If I had been determined to quit my job and work with Banxia back then, our family would have been financially independent by now..."
"It's her."
The man put down the invitation, glanced at her, and said, "That means we're not destined for windfall gains. The health center relies on Li Banxia and her father. If you go there, you'll just be managing the medicinal herbs, just like the job you did at the hospital. Hospitals give you a pension when you retire, but will you get a pension if you work at her health center until you're old? It's called gains and losses. Don't covet what doesn't belong to us..."
Liu Mingcui turned her head and glared at the man.
He spat lightly, "Pension money is nothing. Banxia's daily turnover is almost equivalent to my salary for ten years..."
As he spoke, he let out a long, regretful sigh.
She glared at the man again.
It's all that jerk's fault; he's made her quite distant from Banxia now.
After expressing his feelings, he sighed again.
This can't be entirely blamed on her husband; she herself didn't persist either.
“Banxia has helped me a lot in the past, so we can’t be too stingy with the gift money. Let’s give her five hundred,” Liu Mingcui said.
The man sat up straight and looked at her. "Liu Mingcui, you only make a little over two thousand a year. You're giving away a quarter of it all at once? Are we all going to starve? Does Li Banxia look like someone who needs your five hundred yuan?"
What do you mean by that?
Liu Mingcui frowned. "Whether she needs it or not is her business, whether I give it to her or not is my business. Am I the only one in the family who receives a salary? Are you not going to take it? Does your older brother and sister-in-law want to get something for nothing? If you don't want to give five hundred, how much do you want to give?"
Why do you need to be so clear and understanding about being family?
The man's expression darkened when she brought up her older brother and sister-in-law. "You know my brother and sister-in-law only do temporary jobs, and their wages are low. The whole family depends on our salaries..."
Liu Mingcui was most annoyed by his words, so she threw the comb on the bedside table with a 'bang'.
"Second brother, what's wrong?"
The old lady's voice came from outside, and the man quickly coughed, "Mom, it's nothing, the comb just fell on the floor."
"Alright, talk things out properly, but don't you dare disturb Xiao Cui," the old lady said.
The man sighed and looked up to meet Liu Mingcui's gaze.
Liu Mingcui closed her eyes.
If the old lady in their family were any kind-hearted person, she would have quit long ago. But the old lady is a good one. She knows how to protect and love her daughter-in-law. She takes good care of the children and manages the house very well.
My elder brother and sister-in-law are also sensible people; they try not to ask for help unless it's too much trouble for them.
But Liu Mingcui felt a tightness in her chest and a feeling of suffocation because she was always using her own money to support the family and couldn't even give money as a gift to her friend's son. She didn't know how to vent her anger.
Knowing he was in the wrong, the man sighed, "Wife, I'm sorry. It's our fault for being so incompetent, making you and your wife suffer with us. Ronghui from my eldest brother's family needs surgery soon, and we're already short on money. Please talk to Li Banxia about it; she'll understand our predicament..."
Liu Mingcui knew that Banxia would understand.
But after filling such a bottomless pit for so many years, the children can't buy many new clothes all year round, and they have to calculate the money even for a good meal, not to mention the adults. Everyone is living a tight life, and Liu Mingcui really feels very tired.
She looked at the man and asked, "So, how much are you planning to make me give?"
"How about fifty? That's a quarter of your monthly salary, not bad at all." The man forced a smile.
Looking at his smiling face, Liu Mingcui felt a deep sorrow welling up in her heart. She took a deep breath and called out the man's name, "Let's get a divorce after Ronghui's surgery is over."
Call her inhuman or heartless, she doesn't want to sink any further into this quagmire.
She didn't want her son, who was about to graduate, and her daughter, who had just started working as a teacher, to get stuck in this quagmire.
"Liu Mingcui, have you gone mad?"
The man frowned, about to say something more, but noticing the sadness in Liu Mingcui's eyes, he paused and tried to salvage the situation, saying, "It's not that I don't want you to give it to me, it's just that you've seen our family's current situation. Ronghui's surgery alone will cost tens of thousands, and there are still the follow-up rehabilitation expenses..."
Speaking of Kang Fu, he suddenly thought of Li Banxia's health center. His eyes lit up, and he moved closer to the bed, calling out to Liu Mingcui, "Hey, let Ronghui go to your friend's for treatment later. With your long-standing working relationship, she shouldn't ask us for money, right?"
Liu Mingcui glanced at him, saw the calculation in his eyes, and sneered.
"You dare to scheme against Banxia? We're getting a divorce tomorrow."
The man's expression changed, and he became somewhat exasperated. "What are you doing? I was just trying to save some money for the family. Ronghui's recovery will cost a lot of money too. You wouldn't let me borrow money from her for the surgery, and you don't want the child to go to her health center for treatment. Liu Mingcui, Ronghui is your own nephew. Do you know that you're just letting him die?"
"I've spent all my salary over the past twenty years on him. I even have to be careful with money when buying clothes for my own child. You call that being heartless and unwilling to help someone in distress?"
Liu Mingcui's pupils widened in disbelief that her husband, with whom she had shared a bed for so many years, could say such a thing.
The man opened his mouth, "I...I...I didn't mean to, you said something you shouldn't have first, and what I said just went too far..."
"When I entered the hospital's medicine warehouse, Banxia personally guided me out. When I got married, she gave me a month's salary as a wedding gift. When my two children were born, she made two sets of clothes for them by hand. When Ronghui fell ill for the first time, she lent me two months' salary. Do you know how we got through that month?"
Liu Mingcui gritted her teeth and glared at the man, "Banxia treated me like a sister, and she extended that kindness to your family as well, helping whenever she could! She never complained to me about having too many children and not having enough money, or pressured me to pay back the money! If you had even a shred of conscience, you wouldn't have said such a thing! You didn't just say it in the heat of the moment..."
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