The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 554 - 558: My Grandson is the Villain (5)

Chapter 554: Chapter 558: My Grandson is the Villain (5)

Luo Shun cast a curious glance and, thanks to his good eyesight, made everything written on the notebook crystal clear.

With just one look, his gaze strangely shifted towards the brothers Luo Rujiang and Luo Ruhe.

They were really generous. It’s often said that a son-in-law is half a son, but they seemed even more filial than someone’s own child.

Su Li was clueless about the essence of not airing one’s dirty laundry in public, and recited verbatim from the notebook: "New Calendar 4120, February 4th noon, the Tang family’s old lady borrowed two loads of grain, a barrel of fine flour, sugar, and an amount of dried peanuts for the New Year. The promise was to return it after the New Year, either in the same value of goods or deducted from money."

"New Calendar 4120, February 8th afternoon, Yuan Family’s eldest nephew borrowed ten dollars, promising to return it after the New Year."

"New Calendar 4120, May....."

"New Calendar 4121, January....."

Every time Su Li read an entry, the First Family and the Second Family’s expressions grew uglier.

Luo Rujiang and Luo Ruhe were dumbfounded, having no idea that their wives had taken away so many things from home.

And all these were just from the first two years; it was already New Calendar 4125 now.

Tang Yilan and Yuan Ling were also taken aback, as they hadn’t tallied up just how much they had subsidized their natal family.

Luo Shun looked at Su Li with sympathy, then sat in silence, not uttering a word.

For a daughter-in-law like this, Aunt Luo’s restraint from kicking her out of the house was already a great kindness.

Which family could tolerate such a duplicitous daughter-in-law... Not beating her was already merciful, let alone giving her a share of the household possessions.

In Luo Shun’s eyes, the two wives were at fault, but the most incompetent were still the brothers Luo Rujiang and Luo Ruhe.

These two men must be fools, living a hard life with their own children while supporting someone else’s in comfort.

When they were young, these two brothers also seemed quite shrewd, but now...

Luo Rujiang’s eyes reddened as he clenched his wife’s hand, "You said it was only a few times... What about all that stuff Mom just mentioned?"

Tang Yilan shrank back a little, scared, yet stubbornly retorted, "Those are all lies..."

"So, you mean to say that Mom is lying?" Luo Rujiang asked.

Faced with Luo Shun, the young Clan Leader, Tang Yilan really dared not affirm such a thing, "Maybe, maybe Mom remembered it wrong..."

After so many years as a couple, one’s shift in posture indicated to the other exactly what was on their mind.

Luo Rujiang felt even more downcast as he looked at his wife’s demeanor; clearly, all those entries were true.

Otherwise, given her temperament, she would have caused a huge scene by now, instead of avoiding eye contact due to guilt.

All his true heart, fed to the dogs over these years.

For this woman, he had defied his mother countless times, yet she never once thought about him and their children.

Luo Rujiang was disheartened, while Luo Ruhe’s reaction was much simpler.

This was the first time Luo Ruhe had fully realized the extent of what his wife had been taking secretly to her parents’ home, and he was furious beyond belief.

He was aware his wife always tried to one-up his elder sister-in-law, holding a tit-for-tat attitude, which he had implicitly consented to by condoning his wife’s behavior.

But even he hadn’t known that the wife he thought he understood had kept so much from him.

Luo Ruhe kept a stern face and had just one thing to say to Yuan Ling, "Go back and retrieve everything your family lent us, or else you might as well go back and fend for yourself. The Luo family can’t afford to support you, this ’big Buddha’."

Yuan Ling looked at her husband with a grievance, then turned to Su Li, "Mom, please talk to Ruhe for me, the kids can’t be without a mother."

Before Su Li could open her mouth, Luo Ruhe preempted, "Mom, don’t bother..."

"Oh, I had no intention of interfering. This is all your own business, and it’s none of my concern."

"I said it already, we’re out of money and only have these debts. Whether you live well or poorly in the future will depend on how much of these debts you can recover."

Luo Ruhe: "....."

Yuan Ling: "..."

Su Li pouted her lips, thinking her second son must have believed she hadn’t seen his feigned tantrum. The eldest was all talk, but little action, always putting on a show.

The two sons were actually quite clear-eyed. Compared to their aged mother, their respective spouses were the ones who would be with them for a lifetime.

Did you really think those two boys had no idea about their wives’ actions?

No, they knew, perhaps not the details, but some of their upset today was genuine. However, in reality, they weren’t as angry as they appeared.

What was there to be angry about? After all, with the old lady around, the family would never be short of food and drink, and they could even manage to pocket some extra cash now and then.

Their lives were much more comfortable than those of other villagers.

Their mother was a skilled artisan, a capable person.

The Luo brothers were absolutely against splitting the family, let alone now, when they had nothing.

The show earlier was all for the benefit of the old lady.

Even the daughters-in-law of the original owner were well aware of her, not to mention the two sons of the Luo family.

They also thought they knew Su Li well. Whether because of the old man’s final wishes or the old lady’s own desires, she did not want her family quarreling and unable to live in peace.

But this time, they were mistaken. If one says they will be as good as their word, then they must be.

She had said she didn’t care about these lazy descendants anymore, and that was exactly what she intended to do.

"The clan elders are here."

Su Li, with her sharp eyes, noticed that several old men had been standing at her doorstep for a while, seemingly having listened in for some time.

Seeing that Su Li was impervious to persuasion and that the clan elders had indeed arrived as expected, Luo Rujiang’s heart raced, and he blurted out without thinking.

"Mom, stop making a scene... don’t you want me to take care of you in your old age..."

He whispered the latter part of his statement into Su Li’s ear.

But Su Li spared her stepson no dignity, "You’re not that old, but are your ears getting deaf... I’ve already said I don’t need any of you to take care of me in my old age."

Luo Rujiang’s action irritated Luo Shun, who pulled the clan elders aside and muttered something to them. The elders’ gaze turned back to Luo Rujiang, filled with dissatisfaction and scrutiny.

Luo Ruhai was even more perceptive, quickly seeing the determination in his mother’s eyes.

His mother was truly resolute about splitting them up. Because of their behavior just now, the clan elders also held significant dissatisfaction with them.

At this moment, the wisest choice was to keep his mouth shut.

The clan elders had no objections to the division of the family assets proposed by Su Li, but when it came to Luo Rujiang, one of the eldest and most respected clan elders said, "The First Family can recover the most debts, so it’s fair for him to have the largest share if he was to care for the elder. But now that the old lady doesn’t need him to, the newly built house originally allocated to him should be left for the old lady."