"Difficult times?"
Su Ruo asked, "When is it? Can you tell me the main destination?"
His expression and tone were very calm, as if he was just discussing the matter at hand, and I couldn't tell what he meant by that.
Su Jianzhou opened his mouth, but as soon as the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
An awkward and uncomfortable look slowly appeared on his face.
"Um?"
Su Ruo waited for a while and seeing that he didn't say anything, she asked again with a very faint smile.
But it didn't seem like a smile. It had a clear, indescribable meaning that made people feel even more uncomfortable.
Why did Su Jianzhou suddenly swallow his words?
Because he remembered that the first time he used the money was when he married Lin Wanhua.
Later, there was an opportunity to buy a house for his parents, and then when his parents passed away.
Then there was the time when Su Zhen was seriously ill and first went to the provincial capital and then to the capital for surgery.
There was also a time when Lin Wanhua's parents' family encountered trouble and urgently needed money.
Then, last year, when I was trying to get Su Zhenyun a university recommendation for him...
There are many more times.
Su Jianzhou had never thought about these things in detail before, but when Su Ruo asked him about it, he really thought about it and realized that the money spent seemed to have nothing to do with Su Ruo, and most of it was because of Lin Wanhua or his son Su Zhen.
His salary at school was not high to begin with, and he had to support a large family. Lin Wanhua used to work in her early years, but she has been living a pampered life in recent years.
But she has very high requirements for the quality of life. His monthly salary is not enough for the family to spend... This is mainly because their family has always had a high quality of life. When she was with Xia Lan, she was used to it and didn't think it was a big deal. After Lin Wanhua married him, she gradually became more extravagant.
His salary was not low, but it was not enough to support a decent life for his family. His clothes and shoes were all the best from department stores and they had to be replaced with new ones all year round. There were always snacks at home, and every meal on the table had to have fish, meat and vegetables...
He didn't think too much about these things. He gave most of his salary to Lin Wanhua. Whenever he had an urgent need for money, he would use the gold that Xia Lan had left behind... They knew some channels to secretly exchange money and tickets.
Xia Lan left a lot of money, and he only spent a very small portion of it, so he didn't care too much.
This is how Xia Lan spent money when he was alive.
He has always considered himself a very good father.
The family usually spends a lot of money and this is how Su Ruo was raised since she was a child. He can't treat his daughter harshly just because Xia Lan passed away.
He remarried and married Lin Wanhua, who brought Su Jia with her and later gave birth to Su Zhen. There was no reason for Su Ruo's food and clothing to be different from Su Jia and Su Zhen, so the expenses for the whole family went up.
He felt very guilty about Su Ruo going to the countryside, but it was also forced by the situation.
There are many couples, fathers and sons, and fathers and daughters around us who have drawn a line in the sand and severed their ties.
If he had not chosen to do so at that time, these things would definitely not be preserved. Not only would the things in this house be lost, but they might even be dug out in his hometown.
So he could only make that choice painfully.
He silently endured the greatest pain.
He felt guilty towards Su Ruo.
But he also felt that she was too spoiled and always faced him with a confrontational mentality and could not sympathize with him... He had such a mentality, of course, because of Lin Wanhua's long-term silent pillow talk.
So he always thought he had done his best.
It was not until what Lin Wanhua and her daughter had done was revealed that he was shocked and a little confused... Only then did he realize that he may have done many things that were unfair to his daughter over the years.
Obviously, he always thought that his favorite was actually Su Ruo...
Su Ruoke didn't care why Su Jianzhou's expression changed from time to time.
She just let him think about it.
She smiled and said, "It's okay. If Principal Su can't remember, or didn't keep accounts before, I'll just count them. Principal Su can write me a receipt for the missing part and return it to me slowly. As for the money that my mother didn't record in the list before, forget it."
As she spoke, she took the list and began to count the gold bars and coins carefully.
He even asked Su Jianzhou to bring a scale to weigh it.
Su Jianzhou:......? ?
His eyes were almost dazed, watching Su Ruo in disbelief as he carefully counted the things, making a note from time to time. Finally, he used an abacus to calculate and wrote down the missing part. Then he wrote an IOU stroke by stroke, handed it to him, asked him to sign it, and asked him to pay him back slowly in the future.
His face darkened when he saw the IOU.
But Su Ruo remained indifferent.
She said seriously, "If you can carefully calculate all the money you owe, I can deduct the money that was used on grandpa and grandma, me, or even you... Just think of it as me being filial to grandpa and grandma. But Lin Wanhua and her daughter have a mortal feud with me, and they even have a feud with my mother for killing her daughter. I can't give them my mother's money, so I must make them pay me back for the money that they and Su Zhen used."
Seeing Su Jianzhou's extremely ugly face, Su Ruo said seriously, "Well, actually I don't mind if you carefully calculate the living expenses I have spent over the years. If you don't know, you can even ask Lin Wanhua to help calculate it... Anyway, she probably doesn't dare to calculate too much, because when I was young, she wanted to show that she treated me and Su Jia and Su Zhen equally. Didn't she buy triplicates for everything she ate and used? Principal Su's salary is there, and the extra money she spends is my mother's money."
Su Jianzhou: ...
"Principal Su, don't think I'm unreasonable... I think you must think so, but the fact is, they are your wife, stepdaughter and son. It's your business how they use your money, but this money was left to me by my mother on a list. They use the money my mother left for me to eat the best and wear the best... They used to have the nerve to keep saying to others that I was stingy and couldn't afford to let others do what they wanted. She was generous and bought me whatever she bought for Su Jia... using my mother's money. No matter how you look at this matter, I don't think I'm in the wrong."
"If Principal Su thinks that what I said is wrong, Uncle Yuan and Aunt Shu are outside anyway, and we can ask them to be witnesses. If Principal Su still thinks that what I did is wrong, there are uncles and aunts from Dad's school living upstairs and downstairs, right? We can ask them to be witnesses and mediate a fair and reasonable plan."
Su Ruo looked serious, with clear eyes, as if she was just stating what she believed to be a pure fact.
Su Jianzhou just felt his face burning.
My chest felt stuffy and I almost vomited blood.
He thought she was too... mean.
But he really didn't dare to expose these things in public.
Forced to this point, he could only dejectedly take out a pen and paper and sign his name on the IOU.
But after signing, he was unwilling to give up. He sighed and murmured, "Aru, decades of father-daughter love, are you simply going to calculate it with money?"
"Decades of father-daughter love?"
Su Ruo paused as she received the IOU, and the gentleness and indifference on her face slowly faded away.
The clear innocence in his eyes was also replaced by indifference.
She chuckled, her voice was very light, but her tone was cold, "Principal Su, when you threw me to that farm for reform, and let Lin Wanhua manipulate me, drew a line, severed ties, and embraced your step-wife, step-daughter, and son, and used my mother's money to eat and drink, did you ever think about the relationship between father and daughter?"
"Do you know what kind of farm I went to? It was carefully selected by Lin Zhihe, and it held many rogue prisoners. If you had a little bit of conscience, you wouldn't let them set up a trap... If I hadn't met Brother Han, I'm afraid I wouldn't have died a clean death. How can you still talk to me about the relationship between father and daughter?"
Su Jianzhou's face suddenly turned pale.
He wanted to explain...the situation was chaotic at that time, and he thought Lin Zhihe and Lin Wanhua were sincere to her, so he asked them to help her...but this time he couldn't explain a word.
Su Ruo snorted again, her tone regaining some innocence, and said, "But you really did protect these things my mother left behind. If I died on the farm, I'm sure you and your step-wife and son would be able to continue using my mother's money and live a rich life with peace of mind..."
Su Jianzhou: ...
When he brought these things back from his hometown and thought about giving them to Su Ruo, he thought she would be touched.
Originally, he was thinking that after handing over all these things, he could talk to her about her mother.
For her, he has divorced Lin Wanhua.
He thought he could always mend the relationship between father and daughter...but all of that was shattered by Su Ruo's IOU and sharp words.
But Su Ruo still felt that the blow she dealt him was not enough.
After she got the IOU, she said to Su Jianzhou, "Principal Su, in addition to these things my mother specified to be given to me before she died, there are also some of her relics, such as her calligraphy and paintings. Can they also be returned to me?"
Su Jianzhou's face darkened again.
He said, "Aruo, those are the memories your mother left for me."
Su Ruo sighed and said, "Principal Su, but those things have been kept in my hometown for the past 20 years. Have you ever visited them once?"
You are busy taking care of your wife, children and your home.
"...But it's a good thing that it is like this, otherwise those things would have been gone long ago...Principal Su, my mother is dead, you will have a second wife, a new son, and maybe a third wife, but I only have one mother."
"I don't want your widow to auction off my mother's things after you pass away, or even use them to slander her, and I can't do anything about it... These things happen all the time."
Su Jianzhou was so angry that his face turned blue.
However, although he had been a teacher all his life, he could not defeat Su Ruo's crooked logic. In the end, he was forced to agree to find a time for everyone to go back to her hometown together. The two of them would look through her mother's things together and decide where to put those things.
All the work has finally been handed over.
Su Jianzhou seemed to have lost half of his life and spirit.
He watched Su Ruo use cardboard to seal the five wooden boxes, and his heart was filled with great loss.
It was as if Xia Lan had gone away from her, and all the precious and beautiful things in the world had also gone away from him, leaving only debris and emptiness on the ground.
He once again said, "Ruoruo, can't you really forgive Dad?"
Su Ruo did not give the paper box to Han Zecheng.
She was holding it in her hands and walking out.
When she heard Su Jianzhou's words, she turned her head and looked at him for a long time, and it was unclear whether her eyes were filled with sadness or melancholy.
She said slowly: "Principal Su, you can't have your cake and eat it too. In fact, I don't blame you that much. If you hadn't forced me, I wouldn't have said some things so bluntly."
She seemed very mean.
She shook her head and said, "After my mother passed away, between loneliness and having someone's real company, you chose someone's real company. After I was reported, between having a daughter and having a comfortable and decent life, you chose a comfortable and decent life... These are not big mistakes. It's just human nature."
"But there is no regret in making a move. Since you have made your choice, you have to bear the consequences of it. You can't just wait for me to come back in a glamorous way and then want to take advantage of the comfort and benefits I bring you after I come back... If I don't come back, you can still enjoy the huge wealth my mother left behind. No one in this world can get all the benefits without having to bear any of the risks and disadvantages that come with it."
"You did those things. If you still had a little bit of responsibility, you wouldn't be able to ask me to forgive you. Also, you can forgive Lin Wanhua, give her a monthly living allowance, and carefully arrange a place for her to live... If you really treat me as your daughter, you won't do these things."
How could a real father, knowing that his daughter had been treated so badly, listen to the murderers' cries, be soft-hearted, and carefully arrange a way out for her?
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