Chapter 159: Chapter 159: Even Biological Brothers Should Settle Accounts Clearly
“Eat what? Such a pricey thing, how can it be wasted on a few money-losers!” Zhang Guihua cursed as she carefully counted the biscuits again before sealing the tin.
Jiang Changhai watched his mother’s stingy actions and then gazed at the pile of gifts on the Kang bed, “Mom, I’ll take half of these things, the other half is to honor you and dad.”
Hearing this, Zhang Guihua glared at him dissatisfied,
day in and day out, thinking only about his wife and daughter, putting his own mother last!
But knowing her eldest son’s stubborn temperament, she could only watch helplessly as Jiang Changhai took a can of milk essence, a box of biscuits and fruit, and finally grabbed a handful of high-end candies.
This milk essence brought by Director Zhou looks much fancier than the ones sold at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
Don’t like the guy much, but the stuff he brings is indeed quite good.
After he finished taking his share, Zhang Guihua hurriedly moved the remaining items to her own room, then quickly came out again, “Eldest, about the money Director Zhou gave you, take it out. I’ll keep it safe for you.”
Jiang Changhai without hesitation rejected the offer, “Mom, I’m grown up now, I can manage my own money, no need to trouble yourself.”
This time, before Zhang Guihua could scold anyone, Jiang Dashan said in a deep voice, “You’ve always been bad at saving money, keep a hundred for yourself, leave the remaining four hundred to your mom to keep safe.”
That was five hundred yuan, for heaven’s sake—through years of hard labor, their family had saved up just shy of one thousand yuan.
How could they be at ease with such a large sum of money in the hands of Jiang Changhai, who spends like water flowing down a hill?
Yet Jiang Changhai was adamant, “Dad, Mom, the money Director Zhou gave me is all my hard-earned cash; I must manage it myself.”
Seeing their son refusing to hand over the money no matter what, Jiang Dashan and Zhang Guihua were at a loss with their unyielding son—after all, they couldn’t just forcibly take it from him.
After all, that money could indeed be considered the eldest’s hard-earned money.
Seeing her in-laws being rebuffed by the eldest with just one sentence, Sun Lixia couldn’t sit still, “Eldest brother, we can’t be so selfish! When your main house used to earn work points in the fields, you’d fake illness every other day to loaf around. The points you earned weren’t even enough to feed one person in your family. All these years, the grain we’re eating is what we’ve earned through hard work. Did we ever say anything then?”
“Now that you’re capable, with money in hand, you divide things so clearly! Why should only your main house get all the benefits? We must have a share of that five hundred yuan!” Sun Lixia’s voice was shrill and sharp.
After the whole room fell silent for two seconds, Jiang Changhai raised an eyebrow and looked towards Jiang Changtao, “Laosan, do you share your wife’s thoughts?”
“Eldest brother, Lixia is right, even between biological brothers, accounts must be settled clearly.”
Jiang Changtao spoke emotionlessly, “Eldest brother, when you were poor before, I didn’t say much, being the younger brother, I could suffer some losses. But now that you have money, it’s time to settle past accounts.”
Jiang Changhe, sitting next to him, looked at the eldest and then at Laosan, unsure whom to support.
He found some reason in the third brother’s wife’s words, but also felt that being too calculative could inevitably hurt the bond between them.
So he simply stayed quiet, silently observing.
Zhao Xiaojuan’s heart was somewhat biased towards the eldest and his family; first, how the eldest brother allocated that money had nothing to do with their second branch.
If the money were in the eldest brother’s hands, it would mostly be spent on his wife and San Ya.