Chapter 965: Fighting for Benefits

After the second daughter-in-law said this, the air pressure in the room suddenly dropped. After a while, the old man looked at his second son.

"Second son, what do you think?"

"Click!"

The second son took a lighter and lit a cigarette, then with a clatter, threw the lighter onto the coffee table.

"Dad, you say I'm a civil servant and have a good life, but have you ever thought about it? I also earn a fixed salary. I only make that much money a month. Fine, how good can it be?

Eldest brother has two grandsons for you, but I don't. I only have one granddaughter for you. But girls need to be raised too. It's nothing now, but we have to look at the long term.

Now that universities have started charging tuition, who knows what it will be like when your granddaughter goes to college? You say I only have this fixed salary, don't I have to consider the future?

Eldest brother's life is bitter, I understand you want to help him, but you can't just burn the kang from one side. You have to warm my side too. The Santana is worth 200,000 yuan. I won't earn that in my lifetime. You gave it all to eldest brother, how can you expect Xiaomei and me to be balanced?"

The eldest daughter-in-law was not yet forty, but because of years of wind and sun, her skin was dull and the corners of her eyes were full of wrinkles, making her look much older than her actual age.

Hearing the words of the second son and his wife, she opened her mouth to say something, but in the end, she didn't say it and just slowly lowered her head.

The eldest brother held a plastic bag, twisting tobacco leaves with his fingers, then took the homework book his child had finished, tore off a strip, and used it as rolling paper.

"Dad, since second brother..."

"Shut your mouth!" The old man said with dissatisfaction. The eldest brother immediately shut his mouth and continued rolling the cigarette.

The old man looked at his youngest daughter: "Xiaomin, what do you think?"

Xiaomin didn't answer, but looked at the second son: "Second brother, how do you plan to distribute this car?"

The second son smiled. He knew Xiaomei would support him. After all, the car was worth 200,000 yuan; only a fool wouldn't want it.

"Sell the car. It might not sell for 200,000, but 180,000 is definitely no problem. Eldest brother and I will take 70,000 each, give you 30,000, and the remaining 10,000 will be for Mom and Dad's retirement."

Xiaomin raised her eyebrows: "Why do you and eldest brother get 70,000, and I only get 30,000?"

"A married daughter is like spilled water." The second daughter-in-law spoke up, "Xiaomei, giving you 30,000 is already because your second brother is thinking of family ties. If it were up to me, I wouldn't give you a single cent."

"A married daughter is like spilled water?" Xiaomin sneered: "Originally, I didn't want to say anything, but since you said that, we have to talk about it properly."

The second sister-in-law raised her head ostentatiously: "Fine, say whatever you want."

Xiaomin looked at her second sister-in-law: "All these years, let's not talk about daily life, but during the New Year and holidays, have you and second brother ever bought a bottle of wine for Dad or a piece of biscuit for Mom?"

"Not only have you never bought anything, but you've also scraped clean everything the old man collected. Those four 80-edition monkey stamps are now worth seven or eight hundred, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Hearing Xiaomin mention the stamps, the second sister-in-law jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: "The old man's stamps, second brother and I didn't take them. Don't you go around slandering people."

Xiaomin smiled: "Second sister-in-law, do you think eldest brother and I are fools?"

"What do you mean?" The second sister-in-law's eyebrows stood up, her eyes wide as copper bells, like a female demon, as if she wanted to devour someone.

"You don't need to look at me like that. Don't think that just because Dad doesn't say anything, I don't know." Xiaomin snorted coldly: "Let's talk about last year when Mom was hospitalized for surgery, it cost over a thousand. Eldest brother and I each paid half."

"What about you guys? You cry poor whenever money is mentioned, and you didn't pay a single cent. Now you know how to divide the money? Where's your face? Saying I'm a married daughter, spilled water, and only giving me 30,000."

"I'm telling you, Zhang Huijun, even if the car is sold, I, Dou Xiaomin, a married daughter, have the right to share the money, but you guys have no right at all."

The second brother said with some shame and anger, "Dou Xiaomin, stop being unreasonable. It's not like you don't know that I had just bought a motorcycle at that time; how could I possibly have any money left?"

"Fine!" Dou Xiaomin waved her hand: "Even if you didn't have money then, couldn't you have taken care of Mom when she was hospitalized? But except for the day of the surgery, you only showed up once when she was discharged, and couldn't be found for half a month."

"You talk so well usually. How filial you are, how you'll take care of Mom and Dad in the future. Is this how you're filial? With this kind of bear-like behavior, you still expect to take care of Mom and Dad?"

The second brother's face turned blue and red. The second sister-in-law sneered: "After all that talk, you just want half, right? I'm telling you, Dou Xiaomin, no way."

Dou Xiaomin picked up the bottle cap and shook it in front of the second sister-in-law: "I'm not taking it, and you won't get it either. This belongs to eldest brother."

"Why?" The second sister-in-law shrieked.

And the eldest brother, eldest sister-in-law, and the old man and old woman all looked at Dou Xiaomin, because they knew this youngest sister and daughter very well—she had always been sharp since she was a child and never suffered a loss.

Just now, when she was going head-to-head with her second brother and sister-in-law, everyone thought she was fighting for her own interests, but no one expected she was fighting for eldest brother.

"No reason." Dou Xiaomin grabbed the bottle cap and said with a smile: "Not convinced? No problem, I'll go to second brother's workplace tomorrow and chat with his leader."

"Chat about how he, as a son, has been filial to his parents all these years, especially what he did while his mother was hospitalized."

"You!" The second brother was so angry his face turned blue: "Dad, you've decided to give the car to eldest brother, right?"

"Sigh!" The old woman, who had been silent, sighed long: "Second son, how did I give birth to such an ungrateful thing who doesn't know how to be thankful."

The old woman became angrier the more she spoke, slapping the coffee table with her hands, "When you were young, your eldest brother would rather go hungry than let you go hungry, making sure you were full. Now, is this how you treat your eldest brother?"

Although the second son was very angry, he also knew he was in the wrong and didn't dare to refute.

"Mom, don't you feel guilty saying that?" The second daughter-in-law wouldn't have it: "In these two years, have we helped eldest brother's family less?"

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

Dou Xiaomin mocked: "Just now you said you helped eldest brother, I couldn't be bothered to pay attention to you, why are you still saying it? Come, tell me what you've helped with."

"What have I helped with?" The second daughter-in-law shouted: "The year before last, I gave eldest brother..."

Halfway through her sentence, her voice suddenly became smaller. No one heard clearly, and her aggressive momentum also subsided.

"Ha!" Dou Xiaomin laughed: "Why did you stop? Do you feel ashamed to say it yourself? It's okay, you're too embarrassed to say it, I'll help you say it. The year before last, during the New Year, you gave eldest brother five jin of rice, and last year during the New Year, you gave three jin of soybean oil, right?"

After saying this, she stopped paying attention to the second brother and sister-in-law, and waved her hand holding the bottle cap: "Eldest brother, tomorrow morning at eight, we'll go to Ditan together to redeem the prize. Remember to bring your ID cards."

"You stand right there." The second brother gave a roar.

Dou Xiaomin acted as if she hadn't heard, pulled her husband: "Haven't stayed long enough? Let's go."

"Dou Xiaomin!" The second brother gave another roar.

"What are you shouting for?" Dou Xiaomin looked back at the second brother with contempt: "Does it make your voice sound louder?"

Then she looked at the old man and old woman: "In the future, don't count on your second son and second daughter-in-law to take care of you in your old age. You'd better think more about your eldest son and your youngest daughter. Your retirement will still depend on me and eldest brother." ===== CHAPTER 966 =====