984 Unable to Help You Anymore
“Tan Jing, your parents and brothers have their own families, and we also have our own family. Have you bought anything for my mother all these years? I even had to urgently borrow money to be able to give Qiao Mei a gift when we met her for the first time, because you gave all our money to the Tan family. I am aware of everything that happened, but I didn’t say anything to you. I always think that it’s fine as long as you’re happy, but what are you doing now?” Xia Wen asked.
“Your family is so rich! Your mother won’t like whatever I give her, so why should I make a fool of myself!” Tan Jing said.
Xia Wen questioned, “What about fruits? Have you ever bought anything whenever we went back? Even just once.”
Tan Jing tried to recall carefully, but she really did not have any memories of doing this. For so many years, they had always gone to Xu Lan’s house empty-handed and returned with a trunk full of things. Even then, Tan Jing still felt that Xu Lan owed her something.
As a mother-in-law, Xu Lan was already very nice. For so many years, Tan Jing did not have any children. Furthermore, Tan Jing always complained about Xu Lan. However, no matter how rude Tan Jing was to Xu Lan, Xu Lan never made things difficult for her.
For the sake of Xia Wen’s family happiness, Xu Lan did not want to criticize Tan Jing and chose to turn a blind eye to everything. She felt it was better to pretend she did not know anything. Anyway, she really did not like whatever Tan Jing bought.
“But…” Tan Jing wanted to explain herself, but Xia Wen interrupted her coldly.
Xia Wen sighed and said, “We’ve been married for so many years. Do we have any savings? How much money do we have? The two of us can be considered to be in the middle to high-income level. Our meals and accommodation are all paid by the school, so where do we spend our money? Do you need me to continue?”
Tan Jing lowered her head and did not dare to look Xia Wen in the eye. Her monthly salary would be taken away by Jiang Yi for all kinds of reasons. If she refused, Jiang Yi would go to the school to cause trouble. In fact, she and Xia Wen only had 30 dollars a month for living expenses and the rest of their money was all given to the Tan family.
After so many years, she had given them more than 10,000 dollars, and that was not including the money that the Xia family had given to the Tan family. The amount of money could get her a courtyard house like what Qiao Mei had.
“Everyone has been very busy recently. I don’t have any more time to waste on the matter regarding your family’s house. They can either do as I say and live in our two houses in the countryside, or they can all continue to live together. If they decide to pool money to rent a house, I can help them find one. Don’t even think about anything else. Tell your parents about this as soon as possible,” Xia Wen said.
“Are you… leaving us in the lurch?” Tan Jing looked at Xia Wen in disbelief.
“It’s not that I’m leaving you in the lurch, it’s that I’m unable to help you anymore. Everyone knows what you really want. There’s no need to hide it. I definitely won’t do that so you should just give up the idea,” Xia Wen said coldly.
Tan Jing finally understood what Xia Wen meant. She sat on the bed for a long time and could not come back to her senses. Xia Wen continued to clean up the house. There was still a lot of trash and miscellaneous items to be cleared.
Looking out of the window, Tan Jing suddenly had a new plan in mind. She did not need to tell Tan Bai about Xia Wen’s three options to know that Tan Bai would definitely not agree. If she went to tell them, she would only get scolded. After so many years, Tan Jing knew them very well.
She wanted to go straight to the root of the problem.
Qiao Yu waited from sunrise to sunset. Su Yang had not been here for three days. For the past three days, she had been eating steamed buns and cabbages every day. If she continued to eat like this, she would vomit. What was the difference between this and pig feed?
Just as Qiao Yu thought that she was going to die, there was suddenly the sound of the door opening. Qiao Yu turned around excitedly but soon realized that the person who entered was not Su Yang, but his brother, Su Liang.
“Su Liang! How… how do you know where I live?” Qiao Yu stood up in fear and backed away, looking for something sharp to use for self-defense.
“Why can’t I come? This is a place rented by my younger brother. I’m his biological brother, so why can’t I come?” Su Liang treated the place like his own house and swaggered into the room to sit on a stool. He casually picked up a steamed bun and started eating.