"What? Pension? Li Zheng, why did you take her to get the pension?"
Mrs. An quickly wiped away her tears, stared, and asked loudly.
Leader Lao An didn't mean to stop her, but looked at Li Zheng with questioning eyes.
Although he didn't show it on the outside, he shook his head in his heart and explained, "Didn't you separate your family, so Zichen's pension has to be given to his wife and children?"
In one sentence, everyone in the room except Xia Qiyue quickly turned to look at Li Zheng, their eyes filled with disbelief, and Mrs. An even screamed.
"What? Why should I give her my son's pension? Li Zheng, you can't do this. My son is dead and his pension should be given to others. As a mother, why can't I get nothing?"
Li Zheng's face turned cold and he glanced at Lao An to see his reaction, but Lao An looked at him questioningly.
"Because our family is separated, and because Achen still left behind a son, daughter and wife, this is his responsibility and his successor. The pension should be given to his wife and children!"
Xia Qiyue's calm voice sounded powerfully, answering for Li Zheng who was being questioned.
"Bitch, do you have a role to speak here? Strictly speaking, you were bought by our Lao Xia family. How can you be called the fourth daughter-in-law? You are just a cheap maid!"
As soon as Mrs. An heard Xia Qiyue's words, she immediately pointed at Xia Qiyue with trembling hands, saying nothing that could be heard.
"Then you should bring out my deed of betrayal! It's useless to talk in vain, you have to prove everything!" Xia Qiyue stood in the middle of the ground, surrounded by Lao An's family, and she was not afraid at all.
Many times, she compromised not because of fear, but sometimes if she was too cruel and decisive, she would be criticized instead.
The same reason why the villagers can stand up for her every time she is on the weak side.
After all, they were all people who had experienced the hardships of human nature in later generations. She didn't believe that she could not defeat these people.
"Yes, brother Anbang, if the Zichen family bought it, there would be a deed of sale, but I have never heard of such a thing. Is it true?"
Li Zheng answered and said something in the angry eyes of the old couple.
"At that time, the fourth child was going to join the army. Our Lao An family paid ten taels of silver to marry her into the family. As you know, which of our young girls within a hundred miles is worth this price? What is this other than buying?"
It's not appropriate for Boss Lao An to talk about this kind of thing, so Mrs. Lao An has always been the one doing the talking.
"That's right, the price shocked the whole village at that time. Uncle Li Zheng, didn't you also persuade your parents at that time?" Liu Mei helped, "It's just that there was no sale deed, and everything else is the same as the one I bought.
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"Sister-in-law, according to what you said, you also bought it?" Xia Qiyue looked at Liu Mei and asked calmly.
"How is it possible? I am Lao An's eldest daughter-in-law, how could I buy it?" Liu Mei opened her eyes wide and raised her chin, with a look of pride on her face.
It made me feel like Lao An’s parents and daughter-in-law were so amazing.
"Why not? My sister-in-law and I were the same as when we married into Lao An's family. We were married by a matchmaker, and we accepted the betrothal gifts according to the matchmaker's words. At the big wedding, no one was left behind. We neither entered the house through the back door to become a concubine, nor did we sign a deed of sale and sell ourselves into slaves.
, to say that this gift is a lot! I can only say that I, Xia Qiyue, am worth more than you, Liu Mei! It cannot prove anything else!"
After Xia Qiyue finished quarreling with Xia Qiyue, she looked at Lao An and asked, "Dad, you are the head of the family. Do you also mean this? Do you think Achen's pension should be given to you two elders?"
It has to be said that Xia Qiyue directly put the problem in front of Mr. Lao An, leaving Mr. Lao An without any chance to avoid it and faced it directly.
Leader Lao An, however, thought about it for a moment, and then, with everyone's eyes on him, he spoke to Li Zheng, with a sense of vicissitudes in his voice.
"Li Zheng, you think we are an old couple. We are already so old. We have been traveling for most of our lives. We have experienced so many ups and downs. We have escaped from famine all the way and almost lost our lives. Now we are still faced with the consequences of being in vain."
Send people to people with black hair, let me see, I can’t survive for a few more years with my old life..." After saying that, he coughed a few times, and then looked at Xia Qiyue, "Fourth daughter-in-law, you
They said that your family is separated, and the pension of the fourth child should be given to you! I asked, did the fourth child pop out from the cracks of the rocks? We, the old couple, worked hard to bring him up, and he died without even enjoying a day of happiness.
, we, the old couple, have no share in the last bit of pension he left, isn’t it his responsibility to provide for him in old age?”
Question after question, complaint after complaint, the pale words penetrated deeply into Li Zheng's heart.
For a moment, he felt that the two old men in front of him were quite pitiful.
Xia Qiyue watched Li Zheng's expression change from anger to pity, coughed lightly, and then spoke calmly.
"Dad, think about your grandchildren. They are less than four years old. They have no father and no support. In your eyes, Achen is just one of many sons, but to us, mother and son,
, He is our heaven, our earth, our backer and our guard of honor!
You have lost Ah Chen and your eldest brother, second brother, third brother, and fifth brother, but I have lost Ah Chen. Without a husband, the children will never have a father! Even walking in the crowd, he is a dwarf.
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How did I get through the past four years? Isn't it because I have expectations, hoping that Ah Chen will come back soon? But now, all my expectations are gone. How can I raise my children? Ah Chen's
If I want to protect you in the future, have you thought about this?
You two elders are surrounded by sons, and your brothers and sisters-in-law can provide for you two elders in every possible way. But what about my children? What will be their future?"
Pitiful? Who is not pitiful? Will Lao An, the boss, complain? They have a hard life. They lost their son, and she also lost her husband. She will be a widow in the future. How difficult is it? How pitiful is the children without a father? No better than
Are they a poor old couple?
When Li Zheng heard this, he thought, yes. Although the old couple lost a son, they will still have four sons to take care of themselves in old age. There will be no shortage of pension money for the fourth son, but the fourth son's children are different. If
If we don't get the pension, what will happen to Qiyue Yatou with the children alone?
Li Zheng was confused by what the family said to each other. He never thought that Xia Qiyue was a rich man now and he would not be short of the tens of taels of pension.
Nodding, "Brother Anbang, you also have to think about the children. Xuan'er is the only root of the fourth child. The fourth child has gone like this, leaving this son behind to support the two older children in the fourth family."
It's not easy to have a child, and this pension is originally distributed to her and the children from above and below, so don't take it away. You two elders are blessed and you have four sons waiting to provide for you in old age. You just treat it like this.