“She has parents and grandparents. You don’t love her, and she doesn’t care. But even so, you still can’t stand it.”
"I'd love for our whole family to go without food or drink, and even save my parents' share for your youngest son's family, otherwise we'd be heartless."
"Why don't you go out and ask everyone on the street to make money to help your youngest son? It's because you know no one will pay attention to you."
"You dare to cause trouble because you think you're an elder. Don't you feel guilty saying those words? Now you're even blatantly saying that my family should help your family."
"Why should I? Because you're shameless? You're an elder, and my parents are elders too. Why don't you ask your youngest son to help out our family?"
Guo Xuqing was never one to back down. He kept quiet until Su's father came out, otherwise he would have continued to berate them.
"You...you, boss, look at your wife. I say one thing and she has ten things to say in return. Did I say something wrong?"
“Your family is doing well, but you can’t just abandon your younger brother’s family. They say that fathers and sons fight side by side. Your father is gone, and now you only have this one younger brother.”
"I don't expect your younger brother's family to have a very good life. At the very least, I hope they can keep a job and be able to support the family, right?"
"Otherwise, you'll lose face, and you'll have to help them, which will be tiring for you. I'm only thinking of you."
"I didn't mean to make a scene. Your father-in-law's family is so capable that helping him through this difficult time is no problem at all. How can you be so heartless?"
"Eldest son, give your mother a straight answer. Are you going to help or not? If you have no conscience, your father will never forgive you in the afterlife."
These days, Grandma Su has been so overwhelmed by her youngest son's family affairs that she's completely disoriented. Now, she's clinging to life and just wants her eldest son to give her a straight answer.
She still has her eldest son; he wouldn't be so heartless.
"Mom, why don't you take a look at this first? I told you at Nannan's wedding that if you keep causing trouble, I'll either send you back to your hometown or I'll marry into the Guo family."
"After thinking about it, I realized there was no point in sending you back. I'd rather marry into the Guo family, since I can't get anything from the Su family anyway."
“My son and daughter are about the same age, maybe my daughter is a little better, since neither of them needs to support us in our old age. I had a sudden inspiration, this is a good thing.”
"It will not only get rid of you shameless people, but also solidify my position. After all, compared to the Guo family, even a fool would know what to do."
Su's father's smug look left everyone dumbfounded.
“It just so happens that I made the promise when my daughter got married. I’m a person of my word, and I always do what I say. I’ve had this good quality since I was a child.”
"Later I took action and moved my household registration out, changing my surname to Guo. It looks much better now."
“Mother, you won’t have an eldest son anymore, only an eldest daughter. I’m a dutiful daughter. I paid for Father’s funeral expenses when he died.”
“When Dad was sick and hospitalized, I paid for his medical expenses. You all stayed at my younger brother's house, and I paid for your retirement.”
“I even got my younger brother a job. Where else can you find a young lady like me?”
"But you're not satisfied. My younger brother actually dared to sell off the factory's assets, but in the end he only paid a fine and was dismissed from his post. The fact that he wasn't arrested is only because I, his eldest daughter, have some influence over him."
“But you still think it’s not enough, and you’re making a fuss about me, your eldest daughter, finding a better job for your youngest son.”
“I’m just the eldest daughter who got married. After all, you didn’t give me anything when I got married, but now you expect me to do everything. That doesn’t make sense anywhere.”
"Which factory would hire someone who steals like this? And the news about your dear granddaughter in the countryside has even reached here."
"You have neither a reputation nor the ability, so what makes you worth the risk that the factory would take?"
"Now they're coming to cause trouble for their daughter's family. Where can we find justice?" Mr. Su's repeated references to his eldest daughter made the Su family members on the other side unsteady on their feet.
They didn't know that Su Xiaodi's situation was orchestrated by Su's father, who had been preparing to take action against them ever since his daughter's incident.
His daughter married into the Li family, and now the Guo family is taking every step very carefully, with the whole family striving to climb the social ladder.
He wouldn't allow any trouble to happen, and he didn't understand why he had tolerated them before.
He won't tolerate any more now; he's done enough, and they'll never be satisfied.
He didn't take any drastic measures; he just told them to go back to their hometowns and stay put, and not cause any trouble.
His younger brother has saved up some money over the years, and with the money his mother occasionally asks for from him, it's enough for them to live comfortably in the countryside.
As long as they are not lazy and work hard to earn work points, they will definitely not starve.
Their disturbance was within his expectations; as long as he was a member of the Su family, he would keep an eye on them for life.
When a filial son is brought down, even the highest-ranking official will suffer greatly, so he did not stop them from making trouble.
He even spread rumors that the Su family had driven him to a dead end, and that he had deliberately made him a pitiful person in the eyes of others.
The younger brother made a big mistake, but instead of learning from it, the family only pressured him, the eldest brother.
Even when Su Xiaodi's incident occurred, they used all sorts of connections to minimize his guilt.
Even so, they still wouldn't let it go, insisting that he find another job and that he support them.
He caused trouble at the family compound, at his workplace, and now he's even causing trouble at the military compound. In the end, he had no choice but to marry into the Guo family.
Outsiders will only think he has had a hard time and that the Guo family is kind; otherwise, they would have plenty of ways to deal with them.
He could have just severed ties, but he didn't.
Su's father didn't deal with them immediately, letting them make a scene, because he wanted to leverage public opinion.
Now, everyone takes whatever he does for granted.
When the Su family returned to the countryside, everyone would just think that they were too soft-hearted to be ruthless.
Su's father's reputation will not be bad, and the Guo family will not be affected in any way. Su's father is now exceptionally clear-headed.
He didn't know why he had let those people bother him for so long, but now it seemed like the fog had lifted.
Looking back, he realized he had been out of his mind before.
If it were me now, I wouldn't have let them come to Shanghai in the first place. He has to deal with the messes he made in the past.
"Boss, what... what do you mean? How could you marry into the family? How can you face our ancestors?"
Grandma Su was breathless for a long time. Looking at the household registration book with the changed name in her hand, she suddenly felt dizzy.
Although the eldest brother kept threatening her by saying he would marry into her family, she never took it seriously.
How could a grown man do something so pathetic? Her youngest son was right; he was just trying to scare her.
But what's going on now? Grandma Su couldn't believe it. Was her eldest son really going to do this?
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