Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 2725: Chapter 2661: Hitting Where It Hurts

This definitely stabbed right into Old Master Jiang’s heart!

After Fifth Master Jiang barked that out, he seemed like he still wanted to say more, but he couldn’t hold back and started coughing hard, completely unable to get another word out.

His eldest daughter-in-law, Song Wanyu, let out a soft, wordless snort, then made a show of smoothing a few stray strands at her temples. Without much sincerity, she said to Old Master Jiang, "Uncle, I speak a bit bluntly, I don’t think much before I talk, don’t hold it against me. I’m just worried about the household’s livelihood and got anxious for a moment."

"What, have we been treating you poorly all this time? All your food, drink, and clothing, hasn’t it always been covered by the public funds?"

Hearing that spiel from Song Wanyu, Old Master Jiang only felt his heart go icy cold.

He had always treated them all as one Jiang Family. All these mouths were fed by the public account. Although it was called "public," in reality, most of that money was originally earned by his own branch.

All these years, his branch had only him and a few helpers in the courtyard, while the other branches really were three generations, four generations of grandparents to grandkids, a huge crowd of people.

How much did they eat?

How much did the rest of the Jiang Family eat?

It basically meant he was earning the money to support this whole big clan.

Never mind that they also chipped in to make money—what they cared about was that little slice of business where the profits belonged entirely to them. The big business, the broader matters, were still all in his hands.

So he works himself to this age, raising such a large family, and they still want to whine to him, afraid there’ll be no food on the table?

It was enough to make a man die laughing!

Old Master Jiang’s face was dark as he looked at Song Wanyu and said, "Since you know the words coming out of your mouth don’t pass through your brain, then talk less in the future. Otherwise, make that brain of yours actually work!"

Although Song Wanyu was his cousin’s daughter-in-law, she was no longer young either. A woman in her fifties or sixties being criticized like that in public—her face instantly burned, as if someone had slapped her.

She snorted, "Uncle..."

"Enough! How could Uncle ever let our business lose money?" Her husband, Jiang Jiting, snapped, "Stop nagging here! If you’ve got nothing to do, take the two grandsons out for a walk!"

"Uncle, you don’t need to be angry either," Fourth Master Jiang’s fourth son smiled and said, "Wanyu probably just thought wrong for a moment. Right now we only have some misunderstandings with the Lu Family, it’s not like we’re little kids quarrelling and then shouting we’ll never speak again. That’d be too childish, wouldn’t it, Uncle?"

Jiang Shiheng had kept quiet the whole time, just listening to them all talking at once. Every attitude from the Jiang Family, he was taking it all in.

"We’re in business, so we value harmony above all. We also need to keep expanding outward. I think we can’t give up Pingzhou, and we can’t give up other places either. I think we could first invite Old Master Lu to sit down and have a proper talk. Didn’t they say before that they’d be our escort, watch our backs? Let’s not bring up this whole Lu Shuangshuang matter, but the Lu Family still has..."

"What are you trying to say?"

Old Master Jiang shot him a cold glance.

At a time like this, he’s still calling it a mere misunderstanding with the Lu Family?

Still wants to sit down and have a nice talk?

Are the people of the Jiang Family all this spineless?

This Jiang Jiwu was Jiang Yunqing and Jiang Yuncun’s biological grandfather. In the past he had always been the one backing this pair of grandchildren in getting close to Lu Shuangshuang, and he had been the one fanning the flames to have Jiang Yuncun adopted into Jiang Shiheng’s household—

No, it should be said, adopted under the name of Lu Shuangshuang, the Sixth Young Master’s wife.