Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 157

Chapter 157: Chapter 122: The Inside Story (2)

Lin Liyin heard this and felt a headache, "Mom, have you thought about it? You don’t have money yourself, and you’re using Brother-in-law’s money to support Second Brother, does that make sense? If Big Sister finds out, she’ll definitely make a fuss. Her temper isn’t good. You better figure out how much you owe her besides those two thousand bucks? Let’s just leave that previous confusion for now. But you must explain her salary to her, right? If there’s really no money to pay back, can’t you secretly discuss returning some of it with her?

And about Second Brother, Victory’s brothers are about to start their families. Where’s the money? Second Sister-in-law has no money and just turns to you. Where will you have money in the future? If Big Sister-in-law finds out you’ve been secretly subsidizing Second Brother, what would she think? She’s always giving you food money."

Mrs. Lin frowned with worry, "Your Big Sister hasn’t collected her salary since she started resting. Back then, she earned about one silver dollar a month, then they issued paper money, followed by the people’s currency, her salary increased yearly, and she often went on business trips so her monthly allowance wasn’t small. Aside from what she’d send to Zhou Jiao every month, all of it was with me. At first, I was saving it too, and I even opened an account at the same bank, depositing whenever I thought of it, and withdrawing when there was no money. How could I still remember after all these years?

Originally, I thought Zhou Xiaozheng was gone, Zhou Jiao is still a girl and would eventually get married. There’s such a large sum of money in her name, and later your Big Sister wouldn’t have to worry about money, wasn’t there also two courtyard houses? Unlike your Second Brother’s family, which had a heavy burden, this amount of money wouldn’t affect them.

I planned to privately arrange with your sister to return the two courtyard houses and the nine thousand US dollars back to Zhou Jiao. Anyway, Zhou Jiao doesn’t know the exact amount. But I won’t give her salary, after all, she’s my daughter, it’s easier to talk about. If your sister disagrees, I will make up some jewelry and gold.

But who knew Zhou Xiaozheng would come back alive? That makes the situation different. He knows exactly how much money his family has. We didn’t even raise his daughter, and there’s no sense of obligation left. Besides, he never asked for their family’s money to be left with me.

Lin Liyin counted on her fingers, silently calculating for a while, then looked up at Mrs. Lin in shock, "Mom, that’s a lot of money, almost 20,000 yuan, yet Big Sister buys gifts for us and often gets dowry for Jiao Jiao. Where does she get the money?"

Mrs. Lin patted her, "17 years of salary is nothing much, I plan to deposit two thousand in the bank as her salary. Actually, I can’t remember exactly how much salary your Big Sister had, but I have an idea. Her salary was about the same as mine, didn’t you forget I have a salary slip and keep accounts. I can’t take it out anymore, her allowance alone was a third of her salary, her basic expenses were all covered by the army. A few times when she came back from abroad, she additionally gave me money to save for her to give Jiao Jiao later. Haha, just two thousand, take it or leave it.

Your Big Sister once privately said to let her know when there’s fifty thousand. Listen to her, she’s confused but not so foolish as to forget her money. Your Big Sister would take things for people everywhere to earn extra money during business trips, she’d buy gifts for you when she earned more. As for the dowry, she bought it cheap locally, it looks like a lot, didn’t cost much, and some were exchanged for military coats.