Although Ma Yulian said she had no money, Li Guojun and his wife didn't buy it.
Instead, they stared at her unhappily, thinking she was just unwilling to take out all the money!
The money wouldn't follow her to the grave, and Li Guojun and his wife really couldn't understand why she wouldn't share it. The money wouldn't multiply on its own.
"Mother, don't be too greedy. The money won't multiply. I'm your own son!"
Wang Xiuhua chimed in, "That's right. How could you have no money? Are you planning to take the money back to your parents' house?"
Wang Xiuhua sized up Ma Yulian, the more she thought about it, the more she suspected Ma Yulian might be taking the money back to her parents' house.
Ma Yulian still had a younger brother in her parents' house. Who knew what she might do with the money!
Regardless, even if Ma Yulian gave the money to her brother, they would have to take it back and divide it.
Li Junsheng also deliberately started calculating the accounts with Ma Yulian.
"I earn several dozen dollars a month, and the factory gives us corresponding food coupons, meat coupons, cigarette coupons, and liquor coupons. This house is ours, so we don't have to pay rent!"
"Most of our food and drink expenses come from food coupons. The rest of the expenses don't even add up to ten dollars. We can save money almost every year. The second, third, and fourth children have started their own families."
"They all have jobs and no longer need us to support them. The fourth child's salary is also handed over to you every month. How could you have no money? Where did you spend all the money?"
Li Guojun quickly chimed in, "Father is right. When the third child got married, we received a lot of dowry, which you kept for yourself!"
The third child Li Chunya's dowry was also a sore spot for Li Junsheng.
At the time, Li Chunya didn't take the dowry to her in-laws' house, and she endured their cold looks for a long time!
Faced with Li Junsheng's account calculations, Ma Yulian was in a panic.
Her eyes darted around, desperately searching for a suitable excuse.
At this point, she could only insist that she had no money!
"I don't have any money. Li Junsheng, stop calculating accounts here. Didn't we spend all the money on you and the children? Especially when your parents passed away, I spent a lot of money on their grand funerals."
"Didn't we need to spend money on family gatherings? When your aunt was sick and hospitalized a few years ago, didn't we lend her money and buy her things?"
"Can you calculate these too? How could I save money over the years? Not going back to my parents' house is already a good thing."
Ma Yulian started calculating accounts randomly, even including Wang Xiuhua.
She claimed that every time Li Guojun accompanied Wang Xiuhua back to her parents' house, they had to carry a lot of things and spend a lot of money!
Wang Xiuhua didn't expect her mother-in-law to blame her so unjustly. She just sneered and went to her room to take out a thick account book.
"Fortunately, I have the habit of keeping accounts. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to explain things clearly today. Since I married into this family, I've recorded every monthly expense in this book!"
"Even the money spent on the grandparents' funeral and the money collected from condolences, as well as other social expenses, including my childbirth and child expenses, are all recorded here."
"Looking at this, we didn't spend as much as you said every month. At least half of Father's salary is left over every month. How could you have no money!"
Seeing the account book brought out by his daughter-in-law, Li Junsheng's thoughts immediately went back to his previous life. In his previous life, when he was cheated and couldn't get his job back, Wang Xiuhua and Li Guojun demanded to split the family and money.
At that time, Wang Xiuhua also took out this account book and calculated the money with him, constantly finding trouble in the accounts.
Plus, Ma Yulian was secretly giving money to Chen Dazhu, so the accounts naturally didn't match. Because of this, he had seen plenty of Wang Xiuhua and Li Guojun's cold looks in his previous life!
He never thought that in this life, Wang Xiuhua would take out the account book to calculate money with Ma Yulian.
"Mother-in-law, are you deliberately not giving it?"
Wang Xiuhua was in a bad mood, and her look at Ma Yulian wasn't pleasant either.
With the account book in front of them, clearly recording every expense in the family over the years.
Ma Yulian was stunned, dazed for a moment. When she came to her senses, Ma Yulian immediately scolded Wang Xiuhua.
"Wang Xiuhua, are you crazy? Why are you keeping these accounts?"
Wang Xiuhua was不服气, and fiercely debated with Ma Yulian. At this moment, she didn't care about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law anymore!
"If I didn't keep these accounts, you would have put a big label on me. I didn't spend that much money. Why are you saying I spent a lot?"
Li Junsheng remained silent, watching the two women fight like dogs.
Amazing, truly amazing!
Li Guojun also impatiently questioned Ma Yulian.
"Mother, do you even see me as your son? Why do you refuse to give us money when you have it? You know Father has lost his job, and our lives will be harder!"
At this moment, Ma Yulian was in a difficult position.
She couldn't take back what she had said!
Now she had to take out some money to appease the elder son and daughter-in-law. It was impossible otherwise.
Ma Yulian sat down by herself, quickly thinking of a strategy.
What excuse could she find to deceive the elder son and daughter-in-law and make them not rush to ask her for money?
Ma Yulian knew she couldn't take out any money now!
She only had ten dollars in her hand, not enough for anything!
After thinking for a while, she simply made up a lie and slowly told Li Guojun and his wife, "Alright, I won't hide it from you. I really don't have any money. I thought it was a pity to keep the money, it won't multiply."
"Anyway, I lent it all to my parents, who would then lend it out to earn more interest. This way, wouldn't the money multiply and become more and more?"
"Who would have thought you two are so heartless, seeing money is more affectionate than seeing me as your mother. Without money, you wouldn't even give me a funeral when I die!"
Ma Yulian put on a full act, taking out a cotton handkerchief from her pocket and wiping her tears, playing the victim.
In fact, there wasn't even half a tear on that handkerchief!
Li Junsheng stared at Ma Yulian, never expecting her to come up with such an excuse.
Seeing Ma Yulian find an excuse not to take out the money, Li Junsheng wasn't anxious at all, but instead sneered.