After Song Tingshen and Ruan Xia had breezily left, his great-auntâs family went back inside. One after another, they expressed how dissatisfied they were with her behavior.
âMom, why did you give him a hundred thousand yuan? Our family doesnât have money. If you have this money, why didnât you give it to me for my business?â
âExactly! I donât believe that Song Tingshen doesnât have money. His wifeâs purse was at least a hundred thousand yuan! Heâs just worried that weâll ask him for money if we know heâs rich, so he pretended to be poor. Heâs certainly good at scheming. No wonder he can grow his business to such a big size. That man is too treacherous!â
âGrandma, whatâs wrong with you? Why did you give him money? I want to travel abroad. If you have money, you should sponsor my trip.â
Song Tingshenâs great-aunt had been suppressing her temper. She waited until she was sure that Song Tingshen was gone before exploding in anger. With a cold expression, she said, âShut up! Itâs my money. I can use it however I want and give it to whoever I want. Itâs none of your business!â
âMom...â Her eldest daughter-in-law came over to support her. âWeâre not saying that you canât use your money. No one has their eye on your money either. Everyone just thinks that itâs not a small sum of money. Theyâre just distressed that you gave it away to an outsider for nothing.â
âDo you think Iâm not feeling bad about losing that money?â Song Tingshenâs great-aunt looked around at her children and their offspring. âOldest son, do you not know where the money for buying your delivery car came from back then? Second son, have you forgotten where the money to buy a home when you got married came from? And third son, have you forgotten about the one hundred thousand yuan that I gave you when you want to leave here to start a business? Do you think that Song Tingshen doesnât know what happened? Back then, I sold his parentsâ two properties without permission. Have I not used the money from his parentsâ accident and insurance payout on you guys? Our family was so poor back then. Have you guys forgotten why our family is able to live a good life now?!â
Once the old woman said these words, everyone fell silent.
Although they had said that the money was used on Song Tingshen, they knew what kind of life he had lived in their home back then.
It could be said that Song Tingshenâs living expenses while living here had only cost about 1/30th of the money left behind by his parents.
After Song Tingshen had gone to college, they hadnât spent a single dime on him. He had worked to pay his tuition and living expenses.
Song Tingshenâs great-aunt continued, âI can see that heâs rich now, but heâs not the same person he was back then. We donât know what heâs like in the capital city, but I know that all of you combined arenât as good at scheming and as powerful as him. Also... We canât afford to offend him. We can only avoid him. Just pretend that we donât have this relative. No matter how well heâs doing, we shouldnât go see him.â
This family werenât total idiots. At the very least, they understood what she was saying.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
They werenât stupid. They could see that Song Tingshen was just pretending to be poor. Over ten years had passed since he lived with them, and he was no longer the poor boy who had gone to study in the capital city. They all knew that he was doing very well for himself in the capital city, but as for the exact details, they werenât sure.
However, anyone that could do well in the capital and smoothly at that couldnât be simple. Song Tingshen wasnât a pushover. It was already obvious why he had come here today. Did he care about a hundred thousand yuan? Unlikely.