Chapter 507

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

As soon as he sat down, Gu Hongyuan pulled out his mobile phone, his fingers flying across the screen as he sent message after message without stopping.

His brow was furrowed into a knot, his face full of anger he couldn't suppress, and he didn't even spare a glance at the steaming dishes on the table.

"Hongyuan, what's wrong with you today?"

Seeing his appearance, Liu Jie asked somewhat curiously, "When I called you last night, I heard you speaking with anger; did you have a quarrel with someone?"

"Who else could it be? Someone in my family!"

Gu Hongyuan sighed heavily, tossed his mobile phone onto the table, his tone full of vexation.

"You quarreled with your wife?"

Liu Jie was stunned for a moment, then asked with a puzzled expression, "I remember you and your wife have always had a good relationship? Back in university, you two were the famous golden couple of our school; so many people envied your relationship! Your wife has a gentle temper too, how could she quarrel with you? What's the matter?"

"Just some trivial little things."

Gu Hongyuan sighed, his tone full of complaint: "It's almost our wedding anniversary, these days she's been at home, constantly nagging me; today she said some colleague bought a new piece of clothing, tomorrow she said some female friend bought a set of cosmetics; she says these aren't just to get me to buy them for her? Saying it day after day, I'm about to be annoyed to death!"

"That's your fault, Hongyuan."

Liu Jie said with a serious expression: "A wedding anniversary, buying a gift for your wife, that's not a big deal; if she likes it, just buy it for her; why quarrel?"

"I'm quarreling with her not because she wants gifts!"

Gu Hongyuan raised his voice a few degrees, looking like he had a lot of resentment: "What I'm angry about is that she can't control herself and buys things indiscriminately! I just don't understand; every few days she's buying this or that online, cosmetics one moment and clothes the next; many things she buys back she doesn't wear or use, she just knows how to spend money buying buying buying! She doesn't consider the family's financial situation at all! Tell me, with her like this, who could stand it?"

Liu Jie listened, his face showing a bit of an awkward expression.

As an outsider, he couldn't comment too much on other people's family trivialities, so he could only give a dry laugh to smooth things over: "Indeed, buying things should depend on the family's financial situation; one can't be too willful, but... women, by nature like buying things; I think as long as it's not too excessive it's fine; before the New Year, when your sister-in-law had her birthday, she even asked me to buy her a cashmere coat, costing several thousand yuan, which made me feel heartache for a long time."

"Liu Jie, you're now a department manager at the company with a high salary; you can afford it."

Gu Hongyuan shook his head, then leaned closer to Liu Jie, lowering his voice: "Guess how much your sister-in-law spent just on buying things online this year? If I tell you, I bet you wouldn't believe it!"

"How much did she spend?"

Liu Jie asked while eating a mouthful of stir-fried pork with chili from the plate in front of him.

The reason he brought Gu Hongyuan out to eat today was because he received Gu Hongyuan's call after getting off work.

Gu Hongyuan's voice sounded very angry on the phone, so he brought Gu Hongyuan to Lu Feng's shop.

On one hand, he came to check on his former subordinate's current situation; on the other hand, it was also to comfort this old university classmate with whom he still had a decent relationship.

"She spent that much!"

Gu Hongyuan extended five fingers and waved them in front of Liu Jie, then said with an indignant expression: "The salary I earn with hard work, she's all spent on buying things! Do you think I should be angry or not?"

Fifty thousand?

Seeing the number Gu Hongyuan gestured, Liu Jie instantly understood why his old classmate was so angry.

As far as he knew, although Gu Hongyuan now worked at a state-owned enterprise, he knew a bit about the salary and benefits there; the benefits were decent, but the salary wasn't high.

Liu Jie was just about to say a few words of comfort to Gu Hongyuan, but who knew he heard Gu Hongyuan continue: "Five thousand yuan! A full five thousand yuan! It's only half the year, and she's already spent so much money! I really can't stand her anymore!"

Five thousand yuan?

Spending five thousand yuan in half a year; is that a lot?

The comforting words on Liu Jie's lips got stuck in his throat, and then he was stunned for a long time.

Even during the period when he delivered takeout and his family's financial situation wasn't good, he didn't think spending five thousand yuan in half a year was a very extravagant level of spending.

Seeing Liu Jie stunned in place for a long time without speaking, Gu Hongyuan immediately started complaining: "How is it? Do you also think she spends too much? Do you know? Yesterday she secretly bought a pair of high heels online behind my back, spending over five hundred yuan!"

He curled his lips, his face showing an indignant expression: "I just don't understand; it's just a pair of shoes; aren't the ones outside costing over a hundred yuan fine? As long as they can be worn, why insist on buying such expensive ones; she really doesn't know how to live a frugal life!"

"That... Hongyuan, I heard you say before that your sister-in-law is now a supervisor at a listed company, right?"

Liu Jie opened his mouth, hesitating for a long time before asking a question.

"What listed company; in the end, isn't it just a private company?"

Gu Hongyuan curled his lips, saying with a disdainful expression: "Her supervisor position isn't anything good; working overtime all day, her monthly salary isn't much; purely busy for nothing; I've long advised her to quit, but she won't listen."

"Then... how much is your sister-in-law's monthly salary?"

Liu Jie asked cautiously.

"Just over twenty thousand or so."

Gu Hongyuan said lightly.

As soon as he said this, not only Liu Jie, but even the diners at several surrounding tables couldn't help but cast strange glances at him.

Gu Hongyuan's voice just now wasn't low; the customers at several surrounding tables couldn't help but hear it even if they didn't want to.

Someone quietly exchanged a glance, with a hint of thought-provoking smile at the corner of their mouth.

Others shook their heads and continued to lower their heads to eat, but the expression on their faces was somewhat contemptuous.

Liu Jie only felt his head buzzing a bit.

Monthly salary over twenty thousand, spending only five thousand yuan in half a year; is this called spending too much?

He really couldn't understand Gu Hongyuan's logic.

"That... Hongyuan, what's your monthly salary now?"

Liu Jie asked, frowning.

"Me? My monthly salary is five thousand."

Gu Hongyuan showed a somewhat smug expression: "But I'm not like her private company; I work at a state-owned enterprise! The job is stable; like her kind of private company, don't look at the high salary now; who knows one day it might go bankrupt and close; if she loses her job, won't she have to rely on me to support her? So her problem of spending money recklessly, I really can't stand it anymore."