She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Sure enough, the police officers came again the next day. Everyone tried to stop Old Chen from reconciling, but he wouldn't listen. Under his cursing and strong demands, the police had no choice but to release him.

After being released, Yang Su immediately went to the hospital to visit Old Chen.

In the ward, the children had all left in anger, leaving the old man all alone. When Yang Su arrived, he was staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Brother Chen." Yang Su walked in slowly, her face haggard. She never imagined that what was just a family squabble would actually lead to her being arrested.

She spent a day and a night at the police station and was only released today. She almost thought she was going to be taken away for reform through labor.

Fortunately... fortunately she was released quickly, otherwise her life would have been ruined.

Old Chen beckoned to her, and Yang Su sat down gently on the edge of his bed, beginning to talk about how she felt sorry for him and how afraid she was of being arrested and taken to the police station.

Old Chen touched her hand reassuringly, then said, "I believe you didn't take the money. Even if you had money, you couldn't buy a job, so why steal it? I'll find out who stole the money, but it's true that the money is gone. Right now, the most important thing is Wang Ming's job."

"I...I already made an agreement with him that the job would be his. Now that the money is gone, I'll talk to him again and he'll pay me back from my salary until it's all paid off. I know you're under a lot of pressure. From now on, let's talk things over and try to make things work. I've said it before, your problems are my problems, and I'll definitely help you resolve them."

Yang Su touched his face and said, "Okay, from now on we'll live a good life together. Brother Chen, you'll be my pillar of support from now on, and I'll listen to whatever you say."

Old Chen was satisfied. The two old men chatted sweetly for a while longer, completely unaware that Chen Xiangdong and Wang De were standing at the door.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiangdong was furious. His father was truly out of his mind. He used to give money to his brothers, then to Widow Huang, and now to this Yang Su. Thinking back on the past, Chen Xiangdong's resentment towards his father deepened.

When the family still lived together, Old Chen only spent about a third of his monthly salary on the household. It wasn't enough for so many people, and his mother contributed most of the money. The rest of his money was either given to outsiders or used for himself. If his children asked him for money, he would tell them to ask their mother.

In the end, all the children assumed they wouldn't get much money from him, and almost every time they needed money later on, they would go to their mother.

When Mom's salary ran out, she had no choice but to ask Dad for help.

But now, Yang Su just says a few words, and his father is willing to pay for his son's job, spending both money and effort. Anyone who didn't know better would think that Wang Ming was his son.

Chen Xiangdong wanted to go over and point his finger at Old Chen and yell at him. He'd already been ruined by this old hag, and yet he still had to spend money on her. Even if the money was gone, he was going to use his next year or two's salary to buy her son a job. Wasn't he just a complete sucker?

But he was stopped by Wang De.

Chen Xiangdong and Wang De had only met a handful of times, and they had barely exchanged a few words. It was quite a coincidence that they bumped into each other outside the ward.

He was about to point at Wang De and yell at him, since he and Yang Su were family, so it didn't matter whether he yelled at the son or the mother.

However, Wang De's expression was even worse than Chen Xiangdong's, as if the one whose home had been robbed was not him, Chen Xiangdong, but the man in front of him.

"Why are you acting like this? Your family is the one who benefited, so why are you looking like you've been let down?" Chen Xiangdong's voice rose as he spoke, but Wang De covered his mouth.

Wang De said, "Keep your voice down. Even if you go in now and scold Uncle Chen, it won't do any good. He'll probably scold you back, and then my mom will go around saying bad things about you. You won't get any benefit from that."

Chen Xiangdong was puzzled. This person was strange; why wasn't he helping his own mother? "What's your purpose?"

Wang De: "I don't have any ulterior motives. I just think Uncle Chen is right. Wouldn't it be better for us to live a good life as a family? We won't harm you, and you shouldn't harm us either. Even if we can't be a family in our hearts, it's okay to look like one on the surface."

Chen Xiangdong: "Are you out of your mind? Even though I moved out, the house you're living in now is the one I used to live in, and the house your brother lives in is the one my own brother lives in. The fact that you moved in has already affected us. And you're still telling me we're family? You're getting the benefits and then acting innocent?"

Wang De: "Didn't your brother also swindle my mother out of her money? Four hundred yuan could have bought two of your rooms."

Chen Xiangdong exclaimed in a low voice, "When did you lie to me? How come I didn't know?"

Now it was Wang De's turn to be puzzled. How come the relationship between the Chen brothers was not so good? They had cooperated well when they were fighting before, and they didn't even share the four hundred yuan.

"Go back and ask Chen Xiangnan, he knows."

Chen Xiangdong hurled a lot of insults, cursing Old Chen, Yang Su, Chen Xiangnan, and Chen Xiangbei, but Wang De remained silent and then left on his own.

Chen Xiangdong was completely baffled. Sometimes he wondered if his mind had changed since he moved out. He used to be able to join in his brothers' conversations, but now he not only didn't know anything about money, but he also had no idea what Wang De was up to.

What's going on? I feel like the whole world has abandoned me.

Forget it, never mind. Chen Xiangdong thought to himself that he still needed to tell his third brother about the situation here. His third brother was about to graduate, and if he didn't have a job, he would really have to go to the countryside. Their "good" father was now going to be someone else's good father. The one who should be the angrier wasn't him, but his third brother.

As Wang De walked out of the hospital, he grew angrier the more he thought about it.

Just now in the ward, when his mother was talking to Uncle Chen, she kept talking about his two younger brothers. One minute she said that Wang Ming was pitiful because the rural affairs office was urging him to go to the countryside every day, and the next minute she said that Wang Xian was pitiful because the school was a mess and he could only stay at home, afraid that he would get sick from being bored at home.

Wang De really wanted to go in and talk to his mother, asking her to let his brother do some work or take on some odd jobs. Even Chen Xiangbei, the least sensible member of the Chen family, knew how to find a way out. Wang Xian was about the same age as him, only a few months younger, so why was he just lying at home eating a big apple every day?

No wonder Chen Xiangnan and Chen Xiangbei disliked them, and even his own brother was extremely unhappy. He worked himself to the bone at the factory, and all his money went to his mother. But it was his two younger brothers who lived a carefree life with the money he earned. His mother didn't even think about how hard he was working; all she could think about was that Wang Ming's job should be easy and that he should have a good future.

She only cares about Wang Ming and Wang Xian, and doesn't care about his life or death at all.