Opening wedding night: the delicate heroine is pregnant

Chapter 133 Borrowing Money

Gu Wan remembered that when they first got married, she was a rich girl who knew nothing and all the housework was done by him and his mother.

So when his mother and sister said that it was all Shen Xingran who did it, he never doubted it.

"Of course it was my mother and I who did it." Gu Wan answered quickly, holding a broom, without any discomfort about lying.

Shen Xingran sneered: "Then you should hang the clothes in the washing machine to dry later."

"Why should I show off?" Gu Wan retorted subconsciously.

Shen Xingran looked at Gu Shi jokingly, and the meaning was self-evident.

Gu Shi lowered his head and dared not look at her, feeling extremely ashamed.

"They said downstairs that your sister-in-law buys meals outside every day, packs them up and brings them to you to eat?" He looked at Gu Wan and asked.

Gu Wan said confidently, "She is my sister-in-law, so what's wrong with her taking care of me? She also packed it up from the restaurant next door and sent it to me, so she didn't get tired."

"She also said that you asked her children to come up here every day to eat and drink for free, and also asked your sister-in-law to give you pocket money, ten or twenty yuan at a time..."

Gu Wan was irritated. She stretched out her hand to push Gu Shi away and yelled at the top of her voice, "Why do you believe everything others say? Are you still my brother? You only know how to believe others and not me!"

As she spoke, she ran into the small room and slammed the door.

The room fell completely silent, and Shen Xingran was still looking at him teasingly.

"How do I compensate for this TV?"

Gu Shi adjusted his expression, took a deep breath and forced himself to put on a flattering smile: "Let's pay the hotel for the TV ourselves."

"We?" Shen Xingran looked at him with amusement: "Your sister broke the TV, why should we pay for it?"

Gu Shi was a little embarrassed: "She is unmarried, still young, still a child, and has no source of income. Shouldn't we take better care of her..."

Shen Xingran laughed angrily: "Don't count me in. She is your sister. What does it have to do with me if she gets into trouble? If you want to help her pay for it, just do it."

Seeing that she agreed, Gu Shi breathed a sigh of relief. He felt relieved to see that his wife was still so easy to talk to.

And Shen Xingran did sneer. In order not to wrong herself, she stayed in the most expensive and best room. It could be seen from the living room and guest room that the TV inside was naturally the best in the entire hotel.

It was China’s first color TV in the 70s and the only one in this hotel.

I guess he didn't ask how much this thing cost.

“Do you know how much this TV costs?”

Gu Shi didn't know much about these things, but he knew this: "How much? It must be expensive, right?"

Shen Xingran had no expression on his face: "One thousand and five hundred."

Gu Shi's pupils trembled. He didn't expect it to be so expensive. But with his salary, he could barely afford it. He just had to live a tight life in the days ahead.

Shen Xingran guessed his thoughts and poured cold water on him: "Gu Shi, do you have any money? If I remember correctly, you sent all your salary before you got married to your mother, right?"

Gu Shi thought of something and the smile on his face froze. He nodded slightly and said "yes" to Shen Xingran.

"Then you married me, and your salary wasn't that high, only 60 yuan. You had to send 40 yuan to your mother every month, and spend the rest on yourself. Do you remember how much you gave me?"

Gu Shi didn't say anything, he didn't remember.

"I know you won't remember the hours, but I remember them all. One hundred and fifty bucks in total."

"It's all recorded in the account book at home, which is in the bedside table, but you've never looked at it, right?"

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Shen Xingran continued, "Later, your salary increased from 60 to 70, and then to 130 now. Every time your salary increases, the money you send to your mother also increases."

She took out a piece of paper and wrote on it: "After all these years, you have only given me 800 yuan in total since we got married."

"I won't settle the living expenses for your mother and sister over the years. Your mother said that her brothers from her mother's family were not doing well, so she borrowed more than 4,000 yuan in cash and items from me. I'll round off the number and call it 4,000."

Gu Shi clenched his fist again after just loosening it. So many...

"It's true that I earn more than the average person, but it's limited. During the time I've been in Kyoto, I have to give your sister pocket money every day. If I don't give it, she'll make a fuss and want to buy this and that. I only have a few dozen dollars in my pocket."

"Anyway, I don't plan to fill this bottomless pit of yours, and I can't afford to fill it."

"Your mother had agreed to borrow the money and appliances from you. Even brothers should settle accounts clearly. She even wrote me an IOU, saying she would definitely pay it back."

"After that happened many times, she stopped mentioning the IOU. I thought about our family, so I didn't think much about it. I wasn't afraid that she would default on the debt, so I didn't ask her to pay it back."

"Remember to pay me back the four thousand dollars on behalf of your mother. Put the bill on the bedside table. The IOU is also inside."

Gu Shi's face suddenly looked like a color palette, black, red and blue.

Everyone kept silent after hearing this.

Shen Xing continued, "But your mother may not admit it now, but it doesn't matter. Just go back to your uncle's house and take a look at his three-story brick house. Ask him where the money came from to buy the appliances and you'll know."

"By the way, how much compensation do the people downstairs want?" Shen Xingran asked.

Gu Shi: "Ten dollars, I've already paid."

Shen Xingran took out a handful of change from his pocket and said, "That's all I have. I'm going to cancel the room today. Pack up and go home. I'll leave your sister to you. If you want to stay here any longer, go to the front desk yourself."

"Let me make it clear first, your sister definitely can't live in my house, she..."

Before he could finish his words, the door of the small room next to him was pushed open. Gu Wan walked out, pointed at Shen Xingran and shouted, "You are lying! When I came here, I clearly saw that you had several thousand yuan in your bag!"

As she spoke, she walked straight to Shen Xingran's room, turned out her bag, took it to the living room and poured out the contents on the floor. When she saw the purse, she threw the bag aside, but she didn't see the money inside.

She didn't believe it and went back to her room to look through the cabinet beside her bed.

Shen Xingran looked at Gu Shi: "Did you see that? Your sister always looks at my things as if they were her own."

"I did bring a few thousand dollars when I came here, but after I got here I was two hundred dollars short."

Gu Shi’s face was burning hot, but he had lost face so much today that he could no longer feel the heat on his face. He shouted inside, “Come out!”

"I haven't found the money yet. She must have hidden it! That's all our family's money. I must find it today!" Gu Wan shouted and continued to search.

Shen Xingran didn't say anything. She only had that little knowledge, so she wasn't afraid of being turned over. She just raised the corners of her mouth in a mocking smile.

Gu Wan's words undoubtedly stung Gu Shi's heart. In this era, no man would be proud of a woman making money.

If outsiders knew about this, they would look down on him and say behind his back that he was useless and had to rely on his wife to earn money to support the family.

"Come out!" Gu Shi yelled again.

Only then did Gu Wan come out of the room reluctantly.