My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 167: We’re not asking for much, just fifty thousand!

Chapter 167: Chapter 167: We’re not asking for much, just fifty thousand!

Lu Zhenguo sighed heavily, still holding a broom in his hand, and said helplessly, "Dad, Mom, what are you going to do now?"

"We’re here to ask you for living expenses!" Old Madam Lu said, extending her hand.

Lu Zhenguo paused unexpectedly, "Didn’t I just give you money this month?"

"What you gave this month wasn’t enough!" Old Madam Lu shouted loudly, "We were considerate before because you didn’t earn much, so we asked for little. But now that the elder daughter is making good money, can you still give so little? You’re enjoying good food and drink while letting us eat chaff?"

"That’s right! You don’t want to provide for the elderly, so letting us parents stay with you is no problem." Ge Guifen spoke, "But now that my husband is not at home, I’m the only one managing everything. Since you’re not taking care of the elderly, shouldn’t you give more money?"

"Where would we get that money!" Lu Zhenguo said loudly, not knowing where these people heard such rumors; his family didn’t have any money!

"How can you have no money! If you have no money, how could you afford to take them to the Imperial Capital and let them live there?" Old Madam Lu kept shouting relentlessly.

"We moved to the Imperial Capital because we needed to let Youxue go to school. Both kids are there, so of course, we needed to go take care of them." Lu Zhenguo still tried to reason with them, "Youxi’s tuition fees, Youxue’s living expenses for school, various expenses of living in the Imperial Capital, plus rent—it’s all a hefty sum of money. We don’t live better there than here. How could we possibly have more money to give you?"

Lu Zhenguo said earnestly, "We have always managed to give you the living expenses we promised, even if we had to scrape it together, and we never fall behind. But we really don’t have extra."

"You’re lying!" Ge Guifen waved her arms forcefully, "The elder daughter made a lot of money from stock trading, we all know! How can you not have money?"

"You have no money, yet you brought so many gifts for others?" Ge Guifen shouted, "Speaking of gifts, big brother, I need to talk to you! You give to neighbors, the village chief, Aunt Xu, but have you ever thought about giving something to your own parents? Do you even consider them as your parents? Everyone else got something, but your own parents got nothing! I’m here alone, taking care of the elderly; haven’t you thought how hard it is? You can’t think to help out a bit, not giving money nor gifts!"

Old Madam Lu, prompted by Ge Guifen, said, "Lu Zhenguo, you heartless beast!"

"Did Youxi make money from stock trading? Where did you hear that?" Liu Yushu asked, coming out from the kitchen when she heard the commotion.

"The whole Jing University knows, the elder daughter didn’t just make money herself; she even helped her classmates make money," Ge Guifen stretched her neck, her voice particularly loud, almost wanting to make the whole neighborhood aware that Lu Youxi made money via stocks, attracting people to take advantage of her.

Liu Yushu responded in sudden realization, "It was Youbang who told you that, wasn’t it?"

Liu Yushu scoffed, saying, "Youbang lied to his girlfriend, told all sorts of lies at Jing University, and when his lies were exposed, his reputation soured. Now, he’s spreading rumors about Youxi. He’s really something, such a ’good’ brother!"

Youxi certainly didn’t cover for Youbang; in the Imperial Capital she had already told Lu Zhenguo and Liu Yushu how Youbang at school claimed their family was from the city, living in Fengnan City.

And how he slandered that Lu Zhenguo was a conniving, petty person, jealous of Youbang’s family.

So that later when Lu Zhenguo and Liu Yushu settled in the Imperial Capital, eloquent Youbang wouldn’t deceive Lu Zhenguo again.

In this aspect, Youbang truly inherited from the Lu family, they were all especially persuasive and deceptive.

"Now you deny it!" Old Master Lu, holding a smoking pipe, said in a deep voice, "Zhenguo, I didn’t expect you to be such a person. I thought you were filial, but now, even hiding things from your parents, do you really resent seeing us live well?"

"You are living well in the Imperial Capital but leave us suffering here in poverty," Old Master Lu sighed, "If this were to get out, wouldn’t you be ashamed?"

"From Zhenguo’s family, you said that it was Youbang who spread rumors about the elder daughter. But what about her classmates? What about the other students at the school? They have no grudges against the elder daughter; they surely wouldn’t make up such rumors about her, would they?" Old Master Lu questioned relentlessly.

Old Madam Lu and Ge Guifen finally realized.

Exactly!

Earlier, Liu Yushu said it was Youbang spreading rumors, but they had no evidence to refute or prove that Youxi made money.

Suddenly they were at a loss for words.

Old Master Lu had immediately hit the crux of the matter with just a few sentences.

If people wouldn’t believe what Youbang said, then surely, they would believe what Youxi’s classmates with no grudges against her reported.

"The elder daughter made money, which is known by her classmates!" Old Madam Lu quickly said, "Don’t think you can hide it from us!"

Ge Guifen ran to the courtyard gate and shouted, "Everyone should come and judge! The Lu Zhenguo family has money now, and they don’t want to provide for the elderly! They just leave to the Imperial Capital and don’t come back, saying they provide living expenses, yet we don’t even know where they reside there; if they don’t give us living expenses in the future, where will we go to find them?"

Old Madam Lu’s eyes raced around, saying, "Before, you mentioned we had a hard time so you gave us just two hundred a month for living expenses. But now that life is better, the living expenses should increase too! Plus, you need to make up for what was lacking before!"

"You city folks, go ask any city person, whose family gives only two hundred for their parents’ living expenses? Especially when you won’t care for the elderly or look after us, is just two hundred enough?" Old Madam Lu raised her voice.

"Who ever does back payments?" Liu Yushu trembled with anger.

Old Madam Lu seized on Liu Yushu’s slip of the tongue, laughing triumphantly, "Slipped up, did you? That’s practically admitting you have money now!"

Old Madam Lu extended one hand, her fingers wrinkled and stretched out straight, "We’re not asking for much, fifty thousand! Just this month, and it covers the past several decades of living expenses too."

Not just Liu Yushu, even Lu Zhenguo widened his eyes.

"No!" Liu Yushu trembled with rage, "Don’t say we don’t have that kind of money, even if we did, that money was earned by Youxi herself, and has nothing to do with you!"

"When Youxi lived at home, she never received a cent of your care!" Liu Yushu shouted, "Youxi grew up in this house, never even had an egg, a pack of milk, or a piece of fat meat! How stingy could you be toward Youxi? Even when there was surplus fat from pork belly after cooking, the leftover oil dregs you’d rather use for cooking and eat yourselves instead of letting Youxi have even a bit!"

"Not to mention eggs and milk. Youxi’s schooling was through nine years of compulsory education that didn’t cost the family any money. In university, she took out student loans herself, also not spending any family money. Youxi’s future success and the money she earns have nothing to do with you!"