After half past nine, Cui Wendong closed his stall and went home. He tidied up the house he rented, picked up a watermelon and some other snacks, and went home to wait.
When the two elders of the Cui family learned that Cui Zhiyuan had returned and would come over in the morning, the sad expressions on their faces were obviously relieved a lot, and old lady Cui even started to have beautiful daydreams in her mind.
Cui Zhiyuan arrived very punctually, arriving at Cui's house at exactly 10 o'clock. Cui Lanzhi, mother and son also came with them.
Cui Zhiyuan originally didn't want them to come with him, but after Cui Lanzhi thought about it carefully, she still accompanied him. However, after entering the house, she didn't call anyone, but just sat quietly beside him.
"Zhiyuan, you've been gone for twenty years. You're such a heartless person. Do you really not want your parents anymore?"
"Our family has been hit by such a disaster. Your eldest brother, his father, and your younger brother's husband have all been arrested. I wrote to you right away and told you about it, but you didn't even come back to see me. You're truly heartless."
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As soon as Cui Zhiyuan entered the house, he just called out "Mom and Dad", and Mrs. Cui started crying as if her son had died, and grabbed him and beat him. He stood there with a slightly indifferent expression and let her beat him.
After she had vented her complaints, Cui Zhiyuan took out three red envelopes from his briefcase and gave one each to Cui Wendong and his sister and his nephew. He then introduced Cui Siwei and said, "Siwei, say hello to Grandpa, Grandma, and Auntie."
"Grandpa, grandma, aunt, hello."
He had just stood behind Cui Lanzhi, and the two elders of the Cui family hadn't noticed him. Now they all looked at him. Seeing that he looked very much like Cui Zhiyuan, the old man Cui's eyes moved: "Zhiyuan, who is this?"
"My son Siwei is ten years old this year." Cui Zhiyuan said in a calm tone.
"It turns out to be my grandson, Siwei, come and sit down."
The two elders hadn't even prepared a greeting gift when Old Lady Cui wiped her eyes and asked, "Zhiyuan, you remarried over there, why didn't you bring your wife back?"
"In the hotel. I didn't let her come over."
Cui Zhiyuan sat down on a stool and didn't say much about Liang Yongwen. He got straight to business. "I've been back for two days. I've already inquired about the Cui family's affairs and read the news reports about my eldest brother and his family being sentenced. I know you used the news about Wan Tang and her daughter to lure me back because you wanted me to help with their case. They violated the law of the country. I'm powerless and don't have the ability to commute their sentences."
Seeing him talk about this matter right away with such a cold attitude, Mrs. Cui felt a chill in her heart: "Second Brother, how could you be like this? You haven't even tried, how do you know there's nothing you can do?"
Cui Zhiyuan's indifferent eyes fell on her, and he directly pointed out the calculation in her heart, "Mom, do you want me to ask Wan Tang and her daughter to ask their in-laws for help?"
Old Mrs. Cui did have such an idea. Given the backgrounds of the Lu, Zhou and Han families, it would be easy for their children and grandchildren to reduce their sentences if they just said a word.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Cui Zhiyuan asked in a cold tone: "Mom, let me ask you, how can I have the face to beg them?"
"You, this, no matter what, you are the father of that child. She is related to the Cui family by blood. The shame of your brother and nephew going to jail will affect her to some extent..."
Cui Zhiyuan interrupted coldly: "If it affects her, just sever this blood relationship."
Old Lady Cui's expression changed, and her voice rose: "Cui Zhiyuan."
"Mom, don't take yourself too seriously."
Cui Zhiyuan's personality has changed a lot, and his aura is much stronger than before. He no longer has the respect he once had for his parents. His expression and eyes are cold and indifferent. "Big brother and his family have come this far thanks to you. To this day, you still haven't reflected on your mistakes. Not only have you ruined three generations of the Cui family, but you are still continuing on the wrong path. You are truly hopeless."
"Cui Zhiyuan!"
His words touched the two elders' sore spot, and they both started yelling.
Cui Zhiyuan ignored their anger and remained calm. "Twenty years ago, I severed ties with my family. The alimony I left you is enough to provide you with food and clothing for the rest of your life. I had two houses in my name back then. One was the compensation I gave to Wan Tang when we divorced, but she refused. So you took the other two houses."
"I've asked my classmates to help check. These two houses are still in your hands. They have been rented out to outsiders for the past 20 years. The rent alone is quite a lot, enough for you to eat and drink well. There is no need for Wen Dong to get up early and work late every day to set up a stall to sell goods."
Cui Wendong, who was sitting at the very edge, flickered his eyes. He didn't know about these things, and had no idea that his grandparents still had a house. They had never told him a word about it.
Qian Mengping didn't know that the way her parents-in-law looked at her had changed. After the Cui family fell into decline, she was the only one supporting the family, but they still hid it from her. They didn't treat her as a family member at all.
It is impossible for the two old guys to take these properties and money to their graves. They are hiding it from her now. It is easy to guess that they want to secretly leave them to the third brother in the future.
Seeing Qian Mengping's gloomy face, Cui Lanzhi curled the corner of her mouth and said sarcastically, "Oh, it's more than just two houses and the alimony you gave me, second brother. They have a lot of assets. They have worked hard for the past ten years and must have saved a lot of money."
"Cui Lanzhi, shut up." Old Mrs. Cui yelled at her.
"What? Did it puncture your lungs?"
Cui Lanzhi looked at them with a cold and mocking look and revealed another piece of news: "Not to mention the money you painstakingly embezzled over the past ten years, just the money that my second brother mailed back then—you said it was 15,000 yuan, but it was actually over 45,000 yuan. You should have turned over at most one-third, so you should have at least 30,000 yuan in savings."
"All the money was paid back then." Old Mrs. Cui spoke louder than her.
"You and I know how much we paid, and Qian Mengping should know it too." Cui Lanzhi glanced at Qian Mengping.
Qian Mengping's face was uglier than a stinky ditch at this time. Her parents-in-law had said before that they had hidden seven or eight thousand yuan, but they couldn't use it in the next two years. They would all be given to her and the children in the future. She was very touched at the time, thinking that they were still on the side of the eldest wife after all.
Now she realized that she was totally wrong. The two elders had completely treated her as a fool and fooled her.
"Mengping, don't listen to her nonsense."
Mrs. Cui felt a little guilty. Seeing that brothers Cui Wendong and Cui Pan'er were also frowning, she hurriedly said, "Wendong, Pan'er, your aunt's words are not credible. She is deliberately making up nonsense to destroy our family relationship. Grandma and grandma really don't have much money. Your father and third uncle used to work in the revolutionary association, and we gave them a lot of money to help them run things everywhere. There are many personal relationships behind the scenes that you don't know about, and all the money was spent on these things."
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