Aunt and uncle looked at each other and asked the children to sit down.
There are two children in my uncle's family, a boy and a girl, and there are two children in my aunt's family, also a boy and a girl.
The four young people are older than Xiao Yingchun and are all working.
People on my grandfather's side think that only Xiao Yingchun's mother has not given birth to a son, and they look down on her a little.
This is also one of the reasons why Xiao Yingchun's mother has obviously paid the most, but they always think she "should".
They think: Xiao Yingchun is a girl who is destined to get married, and her parents don't need to leave her a lot of money.
It is better to support her family more.
Aunt obviously couldn't wait until the meal was over to talk, and she took the initiative to say: "Yingchun, why don't you clarify the matter first? Otherwise, I will feel uneasy."
Xiao Yingchun looked at her smug look, and suddenly felt funny in her heart: she is not the kind of person who can't afford to waste a table of food.
Since she has to be so anxious, then say it on the spot.
So Xiao Yingchun smiled and nodded: "Okay, aunt, how about you tell me the situation first?"
Ge Chunyu raised an eyebrow: "Okay."
"Before my younger sister left, I thought it would be a pity for their supermarket to close like this, so I said I would help look after the store. Who knew that after a year, I didn't make a penny and even lost money!"
"I brought this up myself. I won't ask Yingchun to pay me anymore, but I can't ask me to pay for the lost goods, Yingchun."
"Brother, sister-in-law, parents, don't you agree?"
As Ge Chunyu finished speaking, everyone looked at Xiao Yingchun with a strange expression, and they all looked at Xiao Yingchun.
Xiao Yingchun smiled, as if what she had said just now had not made her angry at all.
"Aunt has finished speaking, so let me add something."
"I said at the beginning that I didn't want to open the shop anymore and there was no one to look after it
. It was my aunt who took the initiative and said she wanted to open it and bear the profits and losses herself." "When I handed it to my aunt, I counted the accounts and the items in the supermarket. There was not a penny owed for goods outside."
"My aunt and I signed a contract. Whether my aunt made a profit or a loss this year is all my aunt's business. My aunt signed it at the time."
"But after I came back to take over the supermarket a few days ago, my aunt said that she didn't make any money and asked me to pay her salary.
If I didn't get paid, she would quit." "That doesn't make sense. Besides, I came back because I couldn't get my salary outside. How can I afford to pay my aunt?
" "My aunt said forget it, and she left. She counted the items in the supermarket at that time, but didn't count the accounts."
"The supermarket has about 20,000 yuan less worth of goods than when my aunt took over. I didn't make a fuss."
"But a few days ago, suddenly several new wholesalers who had never worked with me before came to collect debts."
"They said: 'My Yingchun Grocery Store owed them over 120,000 yuan worth of goods on credit last year and they haven't paid. They're asking me to pay them.'"
"I've never dealt with them, and I've never asked them for anything, so I refuse to acknowledge the debt and tell them to go back to whoever owes me."
"So they found my aunt. And I heard they've taken her to court to sue her."
"Aunt, is that so?"
Xiao Yingchun said these words with a smile, her voice steady and unhurried, as if she were just chatting casually.
My uncle and aunt's expressions changed: They didn't know about this beforehand!
If they had known, they wouldn't have come tonight.
My grandparents' expressions changed too: they'd heard a little bit, but only from Ge Chunyu, not Xiao Yingchun's version.
Ge Chunyu's version distorted right and wrong, and was completely unfair.
My grandparents still felt their eldest daughter was being wronged.
But when Xiao Yingchun explained it, everyone realized it wasn't the case.
Ge Chunyu's face looked grim. "I did buy on credit, but I can't pay it back. Isn't that because I didn't make any money? If I could pay it back, I would have done it long ago!"
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Xiao Yingchun remained unhurried. "Even if you sold those hundreds of thousands of yuan worth of goods at wholesale price, you still wouldn't be able to pay them back. You'd have to throw them all into the Wei River!"
"But I don't think Auntie would do such a thing."
Ge Chunyu fretted. "Don't I want a salary? I work from morning till night, so ten thousand yuan a month isn't too much, right?"
Xiao Yingchun smiled. "So, Auntie, it's not that you can't pay them back, but that I think I should pay you ten thousand yuan a month to man that small shop of a few dozen square meters."
"I refused to pay you, so you took hundreds of thousands of yuan worth of goods from the supplier yourself, which covered a year's salary. Is that right?"
Ge Chunyu: "So what?"
Xiao Yingchun didn't respond, just looking from one to the other.
Ge Chunyu was also embarrassed. She looked at her parents, her younger siblings, who all had complicated expressions, and her nephew and niece, who were stunned and dumbfounded.
Ge Chunyu's children and husband all bowed their heads and pretended to be dead. Clearly, they knew about the situation and, judging by their sense of right and wrong, knew their wife (and mother) was wrong.
But whoever was taking advantage was playing dumb, so they kept silent.
Xiao Yingchun looked at her grandparents and her uncle and aunt. "Last night, my aunt asked me to pay it back. I felt it was unreasonable for me to do it, and she felt very wronged."
"So I thought about it and decided to invite all the elders here tonight so we can talk it over in person, so they don't think I owed my aunt anything."
"I want to ask my grandparents and my uncle and aunt, do you also think I should help pay this debt?"
Her grandparents exchanged glances, then looked at Ge Chunyu with a grim expression.
Grandma: "You have signed a contract with Yingchun, that's your business, why don't you pay back the money? Let them go to Yingchun? It's your problem even if you go to court."
Ge Chunyu's face fell, and she started to play tricks: "I don't have money! Your two grandsons now earn two or three thousand a month, and your grandson has no house and can't even get a wife..."
"I heard that Yingchun has been doing big business recently, making hundreds of thousands on a single order!"
"She can pay for it..."
Xiao Yingchun's expression did not change: "I don't know where you heard the rumor that I'm making hundreds of thousands on a single order."
"But I do make tens of millions on a single order, and that's what I earned, and it has nothing to do with this money."
"There's no reason for me to pay you back."
Xiao Yingchun pointed at her uncle. "My uncle is a government employee, making seven or eight thousand a month. My aunt is a mid-level manager at a state-owned enterprise, making over ten thousand. Ask my uncle if he should give you the money."
Her uncle and aunt's faces paled with fear, and her aunt quickly smiled, "Why are you bringing us into this... You should discuss and resolve your issues between yourselves."
This was clearly a gesture of staying out of the way, of playing the game of smoothing things over.
Ge Chunyu suddenly sneered, "You keep mentioning the court. Your parents passed away, and according to the law, your grandparents deserve a share of the estate, too!"
"Your parents were in a car accident, and the court awarded them nearly a million in compensation!"
"Your grandparents haven't received a penny!"
"A year has passed, and you mention it?"
"I only took a few hundred thousand in payment for goods. You just need to pay it back, and everyone should know. Why are you still hounding me for money? Why do you have to make me tell you?"
Xiao Yingchun felt her heart sink: So, this was the reason Ge Chunyu was acting this way!