Getting Rich is Hard? My Supermarket Connects Time! - Chapter 043

Getting Rich is Hard? My Supermarket Connects Time!
Chapter 043 – Sixty thousand to sever family ties (1)

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Xiao Yingchun didn’t speak for a long while. She just looked at her uncle and aunt, then at her maternal grandparents. Now, no one dared meet her eyes.

When she finally spoke again, her voice was choked. “My parents were in a car accident. Uncle was involved from beginning to end in dealing with the aftermath. The truck driver had no money to compensate us—he ended up in prison.”

“The court awarded ninety-five thousand yuan, but I didn’t receive a single cent of it. Uncle, you knew about this, didn’t you?”

Her uncle nodded. “I knew.”

In fact, he not only knew—over the past year, he had even used his own connections to look into the driver’s family situation.

The truck they drove was bought on loan, and after the accident it was seized.

Their home was still tied up in a loan. The wife was ill, the son barely made any money, only two or three thousand a month—just enough to scrape by.

A family like that… what could they possibly use to pay compensation?

According to the Civil Code*, her grandparents were also first-in-line heirs and were entitled to inherit part of the compensation.

*Civil Code: a big rulebook that explains people’s rights and obligations in everyday life.

Her uncle’s family and her aunt’s family naturally hoped that the compensation would eventually be paid, so they could then ask the grandparents for a share of the money.

Knowing that Xiao Yingchun hadn’t received a single cent, her uncle had never brought up inheritance.

“At the time, trying to save my parents, we used up all the family’s savings. I went around borrowing money—everyone knows that, right?”

This time her aunt also nodded. “Yes. We all know.”

Xiao Yingchun spread her hands. “So what inheritance is left to divide? Their ashes?”

But Ge Chunyu stiffened her neck and retorted, “Don’t you still have that building? Doesn’t that count as inheritance?”

This time, Xiao Yingchun actually let out a laugh of anger. “Thanks to Auntie, when my grandparents were rehoused after demolition, Uncle received three apartments, Aunt received two, and they kept one for themselves.”

“When it came to my mother, all she got was that piece of land.”

“The house my dad built was paid for with borrowed money—it’s a little over a hundred square meters, and it’s in an urban village on the outskirts of the city. I’m more than twenty years old now. Do you think it could even sell for three hundred thousand?”

“Even if the court ruled that five people—me, my maternal grandparents, and my paternal grandparents—are first-line heirs, and it’s divided among the five of us, my maternal grandparents would at most get a hundred and twenty thousand.”

“Then once my grandparents pass their share on to your family, Uncle’s family, and mine… would you, personally, even get more than a hundred and twenty-thousand?”

At this, her uncle and aunt’s faces grew even unsightly—as if, in the end, they were the ones losing out?

Xiao Yingchun gave a cold laugh. “There’s something else you may not know. When the house was registered, I was already a year old. My dad said it’d be better to put it under my name to avoid future taxes.”

“So this house is under my name. It’s not part of the estate. It has nothing to do with Aunt.”

Ge Chunyu was unwilling to accept it. “But the land was given by your grandparents! How is that not related?”

Xiao Yingchun looked toward her grandparents. “When it comes to inheritance, the ones with the most say are the grandparents. How did you decide this matter?”

The elderly pair exchanged an awkward glance before her grandfather spoke. “Your parents’ things were left to you. We won’t take anything.”

“As for the cost of the goods, talk it over with your aunt. Your aunt’s situation isn’t easy…”

Even at this point, her grandfather was still defending her aunt.

Another chill spread through Xiao Yingchun’s heart. So favoritism really never had any reason behind it.

She turned to Ge Chunyu. “Grandpa and Grandma say they don’t want anything. Yet you think you deserve more than a hundred and twenty thousand? What logic is that?”

Realizing she couldn’t win by talking sense, Ge Chunyu began to play rogue. “Well, I don’t have money! If they sue me, I’ll just go to jail!”

“Mom! If you really go to jail, I’ll kill someone and burn something down!” her cousin Xie Yulin snarled at Xiao Yingchun, looking ready to murder her if she didn’t comply.

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