Chapter 55 Passbook
They couldn't understand that the separation of the family had already become a fact. Even if they didn't want to separate, there was nothing they could do. Their parents' words were useless, and their words were even less effective.
"Go do whatever you need to do, don't just stand here."
They had to tell their younger brother about the division of the family property, and the old couple left home one after another.
"To preside over the division of the family? Who wants to divide the family? Big brother and sister-in-law, do you want to divide the family?"
Not long after Shen Erzhu returned from the commune, his eldest brother and sister-in-law came to him and said that their family was going to split up. Shen Erzhu's family was quite surprised.
"Brother, are Xiangdong's kids clamoring to split the family property? Wait a minute while I go talk to them. These kids are so unfilial." Shen Erzhu thought that it was his three nephews who wanted to split the family property.
"It's not them who want to split up, it's us two old people who want to split up. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. After the family is split up, they can live the way they want, and I don't have to worry about them."
Old Mrs. Shen felt much more relaxed physically and mentally when she thought that she wouldn't have to worry about the whole family from now on.
Second Grandma Shen nodded in agreement, "Brother and sister-in-law, you are old now, it's time to enjoy your life."
It was his eldest brother and sister-in-law who wanted to divide the family property. Shen Erzhu did not say much. He did not care whether his nephews were good or bad. As long as his eldest brother and sister-in-law lived a comfortable life, it was enough.
Shen Erzhu asked, "Who do you want to live with?"
Old Lady Shen said with a smile, "With Shu Yu."
"That's fine. I know about it. I'll go there early tomorrow morning to bear witness."
Shen Erzhu had other things to do, so Old Man Shen and Old Lady Shen didn't stay at their brother's house for long.
After strolling outside, the two returned home.
The family will be divided tomorrow. Zhang Cuicui and her two sisters-in-law are surprisingly harmonious. The three sisters-in-law are muttering in the kitchen.
"Our mother is good at planning her life, so she must have saved quite a bit of money. When my fourth brother and his wife were still alive, they sent a lot of money home. They also received pensions after their deaths. So my mother must have saved at least 700 or 800 yuan." Li Caixia counted on her fingers.
"I think there should be." Zhang Cuicui also did some calculation in her mind.
Liu Pandi's eyes lit up when he heard this. "Seven or eight hundred? That's a lot. Then each of our families can get about two hundred."
She got excited when she thought that each family would get two hundred. That’s two hundred. She didn’t even know how it felt to hold two hundred in her hand.
"Shh, mother is back, stop talking." Li Caixia turned around and saw her mother-in-law coming back from outside, and immediately reminded her elder sister-in-law and younger sister-in-law.
Old Lady Shen glanced at her three daughters-in-law and knew what they were up to. She ignored them, went back to her room, got a cloth bag, and walked towards Shen Shuyu's room. Gu Jiandong was playing with a white radish in his room.
Shen Shuyu was the only one in the room. Old Lady Shen closed the door and walked to the kang and sat down with a smile.
"My dear, let me show you something."
Shen Shuyu turned over and looked at her grandmother's cloth bag, "Grandma, what do you want to show me?"
Old Lady Shen untied the knot on the cloth bag. There were several cloth bags inside the cloth bag. Old Lady Shen untied them layer by layer, and then the iron box inside was revealed.
Shen Shuyu glanced at the watch on her hand. It took her grandma three minutes to untie all the cloth bags!
The wrinkled hands opened the iron box, which contained small amounts of money, which looked like there were several hundred yuan.
Old Mrs. Shen rummaged through the iron box and took out two passbooks. "My dear, open them and take a look."
Shen Shuyu took the passbook and opened it, she couldn't believe it, "Grandma, how come there is so much money?"
There are two passbooks, one with one thousand yuan in it, and the other with more than four thousand yuan in it. The total amount of money in these two passbooks is more than five thousand yuan. In this day and age, five thousand yuan is a huge sum of money!
Seeing that Guaibao's eyes were wide open, Old Lady Shen said with a smile, "The passbook in your right hand contains one thousand yuan given to you by your grandparents.
The passbook in your left hand contains 4,240 yuan that grandma saved for you.
During the years when your parents were in the army, they sent a lot of money home, more than a thousand yuan in total, but your grandmother didn't spend much.
And every month, I don’t spend a penny of the pension you receive. I save it all for you, and when it adds up, it adds up to this much money.
When you were sent back that year, Changfeng stuffed two hundred yuan into my pocket, saying it was a gift from your father's comrades-in-arms. Grandma didn't want it at the time, so Changfeng secretly put it in your clothes pocket. After the people in the army left, grandma found it when she was washing your clothes at night.
The two hundred dollars was spent, and I used it to buy you some fine food."
Old Mrs. Shen told her eldest granddaughter how much money she had spent and saved over the years.
Shen Shuyu praised, "Grandma, it's you who have saved so much money quietly. You really know how to manage the household."
"Every family has to be frugal in their lives. This money is not earned by me, an old woman, or your uncles. It is earned by your parents with their lives." When talking about her son and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Shen's eyes were red. She rubbed her eyes and smiled.
"This money belongs to my sweetheart. With this money, my sweetheart doesn't have to do any work.
My dear, now that you have grown up, I will not keep your bankbook for you anymore. You can spend the money in it however you want, but showing off your wealth is not popular these days, so be low-key when spending money.
You can’t tell anyone how much money is in the passbook, even if you marry a man, you can’t tell your husband.” Old Mrs. Shen was afraid that her eldest granddaughter was too naive, so she warned her solemnly.
Although she and the old man will carefully select a son-in-law for their eldest granddaughter, some people are just good at pretending. She and the old man do not have a keen eye and cannot guarantee that the future son-in-law will not have any bad intentions when he knows that their eldest granddaughter has such a large sum of money.
Feeling the old lady's full concern, Shen Shuyu felt warm in her heart, "Grandma, I know, I won't tell anyone."
The old lady really loved her granddaughter. She planned everything for her and quietly saved such a large sum of money for her.
Shen Shuyu asked casually, "Grandma, there is so much money in the passbook, don't you plan to take some out to give to the three uncles?"
"What do you want to take? They didn't earn this money, so why should you give it to them? They are healthy and can earn money by themselves if they want. There is no reason to use your money to subsidize them.
They are your uncles, and I am lucky that I didn't ask them to support you. How can I use your money to subsidize them? "Speaking of her three stupid sons, Old Lady Shen was full of disdain, thinking they were all debt collectors.
She pointed to the scattered money in the iron box and said, "There are 452.30 yuan here. This is the money that the family has earned from working over the years. After dividing the food, the money we get each year is not much. After deducting the expenses, we have saved this much money. Tomorrow, each of your three uncles will get 80 yuan."
Eighty yuan per family. It seemed that her grandmother had included her in the calculation. "Grandma, do I have a share of the money from the division of the family property?"
Old Lady Shen took it for granted, "Why don't you have any? You are also a member of the family, the only child of the fourth room. The four hundred yuan is divided among the five families.
Each of your three uncles will get 80 yuan. You will get 80 yuan, and your grandfather and I will get 80 yuan."