"mom!"

"Shut up!"

Zhang Guiying interrupted him, berating him harshly, "Your two sons are always complaining about the heavy burden, but I gave birth to seven children, and your grandparents didn't help at all, yet you didn't all starve to death!"

"You take advantage of others with such self-righteousness, demanding things outright and snatching them if you don't give them to you! The two of you are more cunning than sieves combined. I must have had eight lifetimes of bad luck to have given birth to such an unfilial son like you!"

"..."

The neighbors were talking about it.

Some said Zhang Guiying was too fierce, but most criticized Zhao Chengxin and Zhang Xia as an outrageous couple.

Zhao Chengxin's face flushed red. "How am I unfilial? Zhang Xia went to the department store early this morning to buy clothes for you and Dad. You said you wanted braised pork and malted milk powder, and Zhang Xia bought them all."

"The money I spent on you and Dad today is a whole month's salary for me! We, as a couple, are reluctant to buy clothes from department stores for ourselves, and we are reluctant to give our own child malted milk powder. Aren't we filial enough?"

Zhao Chengxin looked like he wanted to eat someone alive.

Fearing that he might impulsively hit Zhang Guiying, Zhao Binghe and Zhao Xueyi ran over and stood on either side of Zhang Guiying, glaring at Zhao Chengxin warily.

Zhang Guiying wasn't afraid at all.

If Zhao Chengxin dared to hit her, she dared to report him to the police and send this unfilial son to work as a sewing machine.

Zhang Guiying stood with her hands on her hips, spitting as she cursed, "Pah! I wouldn't have bothered cursing you if you hadn't brought this up! Don't you have any self-awareness about why you bought things for me and your dad?"

"In the six years since we returned to the city, your father and I have never seen anything from you two as a filial son or daughter. Now that your children are no longer allowed to take over your jobs, you're willing to go to such lengths for your mother's sake."

"They heard I sold my job and immediately turned their backs on me!"

"I've raised you for over twenty years, and you spend a month's salary on something and you have the nerve to call yourself filial? How much money and gifts have I given you over the years? Have I ever mentioned it to you every day?!"

Zhang Guiying pressed on relentlessly.

Zhao Chengxin retreated step by step; when it came to verbal skills, he was no match for his mother.

Seeing how useless Zhao Chengxin was.

Zhang Xia pushed him away forcefully, and now she realized what had happened. "You did this on purpose! You sold your job the day before yesterday when the policy came out, and you deliberately didn't tell us. You just wanted to swindle our money. You even cheated your own son out of his hard-earned money! Zhang Guiying, you have no conscience!"

"Bullshit!"

With all the neighbors present, how could Zhang Guiying possibly admit it? Not only did she deny it, she also turned the tables, saying, "I sell my work openly and honestly, and I've never tried to hide it from anyone. Quite a few people in our village know about it. The fact that you two don't know shows that you don't care about family matters at all, and you still have the nerve to say that!"

Zhang Xia was so angry that she trembled.

She stared intently at Zhang Guiying, having never hated anyone so much before.

"Splitting up the family!"

Zhang Xia shouted, "I want to separate from the family!"

She never wanted to live under the same roof as that old hag Zhang Guiying again.

She'd had enough!

"OK!"

Zhang Guiying readily agreed. From the moment she was reborn, she was determined to kick out the ungrateful third son's family. "Divide it! Anyone who doesn't is a coward!"

In the past, Zhang Xia would never have wanted to separate from the family.

But now.

Zhang Guiying went mad. She stopped giving the money to support the children, stopped doing housework, and even demanded that the family pay forty yuan a month for living expenses.

She can no longer gain anything from this family.

in contrast.

They had to stay to serve Zhang Guiying her food and drink.

Zhang Xia had originally planned to move out of her home with Zhao Chengxin after she got Zhang Guiying's job. Now that she's lost her job, Zhang Xia is even less afraid of a complete falling out.

Zhang Xia immediately made a demand: "There are six rooms in the house, plus a kitchen and a main room, making a total of eight rooms. Each of our four sons will have two rooms. Zhao Chengxin and I don't want this house. You two should give us a quarter of the market price."

Fearing that Zhang Guiying was trying to fool her, she added, "I've inquired about the price of this house; it can sell for 10,000 yuan, and a quarter of that is 2500 yuan."

"And your job? How much did you sell that job for? Let's say you sold it for 6000, then Zhao Chengxin and I should split 1500."

"And then there's your savings, you two. You're both working, so you must have saved quite a bit of money over the years. I won't go into too much detail, but even if you've saved 10,000 yuan, Zhao Chengxin and I should each get 2500!"

"And the 4000 yuan you took from the eldest brother and the 1470 yuan you took from Song Mingyu's family a while ago—if you hadn't secretly subsidized the eldest and fourth brothers, would they have been able to save so much money? These two sums of money should also be divided up."

Although Zhang Xia never went to school, she loved money and was quick at accounting.

She was rattling off a string of numbers when she had already calculated the money she and Zhao Chengxin should split: "It's 7867.5 yuan in total."

She held out her hand to Zhang Guiying, saying, "Take the money!"

This statement came out.

The entire room fell silent.

Are the Zhao family really that rich?

Zhao Binghe was so angry he wanted to curse, but he held back because Zhang Xia was his daughter-in-law.

Zhao Xueyi stared at Zhang Xia for a long time, his mouth agape, then stiffly turned to Zhang Guiying. "Mom, can we really get this much money when we split the family property? If we can, then I..."

Zhang Guiying gave him a cold look. "What's wrong with you?"

"..."

Zhao Xueyi immediately backed down, waving his hand awkwardly, "Haha, I was just asking, just asking."

Zhang Guiying ignored Zhao Xueyi.

She forcefully slapped Zhang Xia's hand away. "Your skin is thick enough to build the Great Wall! Even Meng Jiangnu couldn't cry it down! 7867 yuan? Your arrogance is bigger than my athlete's foot!"

Zhang Xia retorted, "Every penny I'm asking for is rightfully ours, the third branch of the family. The division of assets should be clear and transparent. You must give us what's rightfully ours. If you two dare to be biased, Zhao Chengxin and I will refuse to support you in your old age!"

Zhang Guiying sneered, "Fine! Then I'll have a proper division with you!"

Zhang Guiying pointed to the house behind her, "This house was bought for me by my parents before I got married. The property certificate only has my name on it. Even your father doesn't dare to say he has a share in this house. You, a bat with chicken feathers on your head, what kind of bird are you? You dare to ask for a share of my house!"

"As for my job, it was assigned to me by the state and the organization, and the money I make is my own. I can distribute it however I want! I'm not dead yet, it's not your place to inherit my estate!"

"You're even eyeing our savings now? How much we have, whether we want to spend it or divide it, is none of your business!"

"The same goes for those two sums of money from Zhao Limin and Zhao Jinzhong. I got the money back to save for my retirement, not to give to you ungrateful wretches!"

Zhang Xia stomped her foot in anger, "What do you mean? According to you, you're not planning to give us anything? No way! I don't agree! This isn't how you divide the family property!"

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