Chen Qin chimed in, "Yeah, they earn so much money a month, but they're unwilling to send any home. No wonder they get ripped off!"
With innocent eyes wide open, Shen Qianqian asked, "Mom, didn't we bring any money home?"
"I took it..." Old Mrs. Li suddenly lost her confidence and said weakly, "It was just to expand the business, so I gave the money back to them."
"So this is all the money we have at home right now."
"What?" The first wife and the second wife were on the same side once again.
"No way! We have to make them return the money they owe us!" Qi Ran gritted her teeth. She hated nothing more than being taken advantage of, especially since this "other person" was none other than the Fifth Branch of the family, whom she hated the most!
"Sister-in-law, do you mean that all the money we took from our home after the family division has to be returned?" Shen Qianqian asked softly.
"Of course!" Qi Ran said with certainty.
Since the division of the Lu family is an irreversible fact, she must make the fifth branch bleed heavily before the division!
“Okay.” Shen Qianqian nodded to Lu Yunzhi. Everyone saw Lu Yunzhi go back to his room and take out a thick notebook.
Lu Yunzhi had just come out with his notebook when the people from both the first and second wives craned their necks to look inside.
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"How come I didn't know you had the habit of taking notes? Aren't you just good at doing heavy work every day?" Lu Yuncheng's tone was laced with mockery. In his eyes, his fifth son was just a roughneck who had no interest in taking notes every day.
Lu Yunzhi certainly didn't have the habit of taking notes, so he simply ignored Lu Yuncheng's sarcastic remarks and truthfully replied, "It wasn't me who took notes, it was Qianqian who did."
This notebook is what Shen Qianqian started keeping every day after she married Lu Yunzhi and learned about the Lu family's situation.
Shen Qianqian took the notebook and said, "Since my sister-in-law just said that the money we took from the family before the division of property should be returned to the family and divided equally in the end, why don't we calculate how much money everyone has taken from the family over the years?"
She opened her notebook and read through the events she had recorded one by one: "In the first month after I married Yunzhi, my sister-in-law sprained her ankle while working and took 30 yuan home to see a doctor. In the same month, she also took out 20 yuan under the pretext of buying eggs from a neighbor, but the eggs she actually bought were eggs that the neighbor couldn't sell and were selling cheaply. My sister-in-law secretly pocketed at least 15 yuan."
"Later on, my sister-in-law would take out nearly six or seven hundred yuan into the house every time, whether it was for medical treatment, grocery shopping, or some other reason."
After hearing what Shen Qianqian said, Chen Qin immediately jumped to the opposite side of Qi Ran: "Well, so it turns out that sister-in-law is the same kind of person as fifth brother's wife. I trusted sister-in-law so much!"
"Don't rush," Shen Qianqian called out to Chen Qin, "What about you?"
She flipped to the back and began reading about what the second wife had been doing recently: "As for you, second sister-in-law, you haven't taken much money, but your second brother has taken quite a bit. For example, he would often use the excuse of calling Yunzhi to ask you to send money to Mom to ask for money. In the end, all the money went into his own pocket, and Yunzhi didn't receive a single penny. Instead, he was blamed and Mom asked him several times why he needed so much money while in the army!"
"All of these add up to about two or three hundred yuan."
As soon as Shen Qianqian finished speaking, Old Lady Li's sharp gaze swept over Lu Yunfeng: "Well, you've been lying to me all this time!"
Old Mrs. Li is now extremely disappointed with both the first and second wives.
The money given to the fifth wife's family was used for good, helping the family to develop in a better direction. However, the money swindled by the first and second wives was entirely spent on eating, drinking, and entertainment, not helping the family at all, but instead indirectly increasing the family's burden!
"Separate the family! Separate the family immediately!" Ever since Old Lady Li exposed this large family's false prosperity...
Her desire to separate the family could no longer be suppressed: "Old man, go find the brigade leader right now and let him witness with his own eyes that our Lu family will be completely separated starting today, and from now on, the five branches will have no further connection!"
Old Mrs. Li had just finished speaking when Old Mr. Lu immediately set off to fetch the brigade leader.
Qi Ran was still holding a grudge. Although she had swindled a lot of money from her family before, it was still less than what Shen Qianqian and the others had given out.
How could she possibly let that family off the hook!
The brigade leader had already heard about the Lu family's situation from Old Man Lu on the way. When families in the village were dividing their property, they would ask the brigade leader to come and witness the division.
He had barely arrived at the Lu family home when Qi Ran eagerly stepped forward and said, "Captain, I disagree with Mom and Dad's decision to separate the family!"
The captain already disliked Qi Ran because of Gao Lin's situation, and now that he saw that she was the one who disagreed, his patience was immediately worn down.
But since he was the captain, he had to at least maintain a proper public image, so he patiently asked, "Why?"
"Because the fifth son's family took several thousand yuan from the family and has not returned it to the family yet!" Qi Ran said righteously.
Before Shen Qianqian could retort, the captain spoke up impatiently, "Alright, when we're a family, no matter how much money each branch of the family spends, it's all considered money spent by the family! Besides, even when your Lu family only had Lu Yunzhi as the main source of income, you didn't separate your money from mine so clearly!"
"Now divide the 295 yuan in the house equally among the five families. As for the two elders of the Lu family, they should theoretically stay with the eldest family. But I see that the eldest family is not someone I can entrust with anything. Just choose any family to stay with, and let me know when you come back!"
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