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Chapter 544: Chapter 544: You Don’t Mind Her Being Dirty?
"That 500,000 was earned by me; without me, where would you get this 500,000 from?" Lu Youzhen fumed, "And now, without even asking me, you just decide to use it to buy a house for my brother?"
"Do you all even consider who I am? The child I bore with great difficulty, I can’t even have any more kids in the future, and I don’t get a cent?"
"How is it that you don’t get a cent? Don’t you still have 50,000 a month? It’s just 500,000, you can get that in 10 months. Think about it, how many times 500,000 can you receive in the future?" Lu Youbang said. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝓬ℴ𝓶
"When the time comes, not to mention buying one house, you can buy as many as you want for yourself," Lu Youbang continued, "I’m not asking for much, just this one house, with my name on it."
"Moreover, the place you’re living in now, that one’s worth even more," said Lu Youbang, "When the time comes, we’ll have the Lin family transfer it to you. Are you still short of one house?"
Lu Youzhen’s expression lightened a bit but she was still unable to swallow her anger.
They looked for her when it was time to make money.
But when it came to reaping the benefits, Ge Guifen only thought of Lu Youbang!
"But no matter what, this 500,000 is mine!" Lu Youzhen said sternly, "Mom, transfer the 500,000 to me."
Ge Guifen subconsciously gripped the bank card tighter.
She felt that as long as the money was in her card, it was hers.
Asking her to cough up 500,000 again was more painful than killing her.
"Lu Youzhen!" shouted Lu Youbang, "Are we still a family?"
"Begrudging me buying a house, why are you so unwilling!" bellowed Lu Youbang.
"Why should it be me working hard, and you enjoy the fruits of my labor? I just don’t want to be willing!" Lu Youzhen stretched out her hand toward Ge Guifen, "Give me the card, I’ll transfer the money!"
Ge Guifen clutched it tightly, unwilling to hand it over.
Lu Youzhen sneered, "I knew it; you always favor sons over daughters, you only ever have my brother in your heart. Despite all the sweet talk you usually give me, when it comes to benefits, it’s always Lu Youbang!"
"Youzhen...," Ge Guifen tried to persuade her, "We are all family, there is no division of yours and mine."
"If one of us does well, the whole family benefits. Didn’t we agree on this?" Ge Guifen said, "Now that you’re doing well, buying a house for your brother gives him a foundation, how great is that?"
"I’m not doing well! I’m not doing well at all!" Lu Youzhen shouted, "At such a young age, I had a child, and now I’m tied down. I can’t bear children anymore; who could I possibly marry?"
"At my age, people are studying or hanging out, enjoying life, but I’m raising a child! And I’ve lost the ability to continue being a mother. After all my sacrifices, this money is mine. Why should I give it to Lu Youbang? What has he done?"
"What do you mean I haven’t done anything?" protested Lu Youbang, "Wasn’t it me who came up with the idea? When you came to the Imperial Capital with nowhere to live, wasn’t it me who found you a place?"
"When you came to the Lin Family with a big belly, wasn’t it me who worried about you and stood guard outside their home all night?" Lu Youbang argued back, "Don’t act like you’re the only one who has sacrificed."
"That little bit you call sacrifice? You’ve sacrificed as much as I have, Mom?" Lu Youzhen said angrily, "Otherwise, you go get yourself castrated first! Then I’ll use the 500,000 to buy you a house!"
"Stop fighting, stop fighting!" Ge Guifen yelled.
Lu Youzhen sneered and reached for the card, "Either give me the money, or both of you get out! Don’t stay at my place!"
"This house, I also live in as a result of having a child!" Lu Youzhen said bluntly.
Ge Guifen looked hurt, "Youzhen, how can you treat me like this? I’m your mother!"
"You are my mother, that’s why I don’t argue with you, I provide money to support you, let you live in a big house. But you think about using my money to benefit Lu Youbang, that’s impossible!"
Seeing that the argument was getting nowhere and that Lu Youzhen was even going to drive her away, Ge Guifen hesitantly changed her tune, "Why don’t you and Youbang each take a step back?"
Then Ge Guifen turned to Lu Youbang and said, "Youbang, let’s not buy such a big house to start, and even if we do, we still won’t have enough money to furnish such a big house, right?"
"How about, while the housing prices in the Imperial Capital haven’t risen too much, we buy two smaller apartments?" Ge Guifen suggested, "We could get two 100 square meter apartments."
"Mom, with this money, if you want to buy two 100 square meter apartments, they’d have to be average-location second-hand apartments, and housing prices in the Imperial Capital are already starting to rise, especially the new developments in good locations, you can’t get them at all."
"Anyway, it’s just this 500,000, you can’t expect too much," Ge Guifen said with a shrug, "We take it slowly. In the future, when we make more money, we sell this house and then switch to a bigger one. By then, the value of your house will have increased too, and you could sell for more money."
"House prices are going to go up," Lu Youbang sneered dismissively, annoyed, "By then, the old house might be worth more, but a new, bigger house will be even pricier."
"You said it so nicely before, that once Lu Youzhen had money, she would support me in doing business," Lu Youbang said with a derisive laugh, "Ha! Now you can’t even bear to buy a house."
Lu Youzhen took a step back, "I’ll give you 250,000, you see what kind of house you can buy for yourself."
"This money was originally all mine, I don’t have to give you any of it," Lu Youzhen said coldly, "I sacrificed so much to get this, why should you take it all?"
"I’m giving you half because I acknowledge you as my brother," Lu Youzhen said coldly, "Don’t be too excessive."
"Take the money or leave it," Lu Youzhen said.
Lu Youbang, grinding his teeth in anger, still had no choice but to agree, "Fine! I’ll take it!"
And so, Ge Guifen happily took the 500,000 with Lu Youbang and Lu Youzhen to look for a house.
They still didn’t really want to buy a second-hand house, so they looked at some new developments on sale, surely some were at the right price.
*
That evening, at the Lin family’s dining table.
Mrs. Lin was still grinding her teeth in anger, "That family of lowlifes!"
"Take it easy; they’ll move in by next month at the latest," Lin Zhenghao said coldly, "When the time comes, they’ll have to spit out every cent they’ve received from us."
"By then, I’ll get someone from our housekeeping company to go to Shanglin Garden and disinfect the house from the inside out. Three bumpkins lived there, they must have dirtied the place to death."
As she spoke, Mrs. Lin once again blamed Lin Jingshen, "You too, why would you go for Lu Youzhen of all people, aren’t you put off by her dirtiness? Doesn’t she reek of mud, of the stench of chickens, ducks, pigs, geese, and those animals?"
Lin Jingshen said helplessly, "She’s been in the Imperial Capital for a while now, she doesn’t smell like that anymore."
"Ha! Well now, the engagement with the Jiang family is off. Now everyone in the circle knows that while engaged to Jiang Zilin, you fathered a child out of wedlock. Everyone thinks you’re unreliable; nobody wants to step in and be a stepmom straight away, running the risk of having a love child competing with their own future children for the inheritance."
