Chapter 971: Chapter 968: Laughing Heartily 6
The younger sister-in-law screamed, "How is that possible? My dad’s will clearly left it to the two grandsons..."
The man who’d come took out the will. "Look carefully. This is personally written and jointly signed by the two elders of the Xu Family. According to the law, if there are multiple wills, the one with the latest date prevails."
The younger brother Xu grew anxious. "I don’t believe it, this must be forged. Where’s my mom? I want to talk to my mom first..."
"Forged? Don’t you recognize your dad and mom’s own handwriting??? Besides, your mother personally entrusted this to us and wrote an authorization letter, saying she’s not convenient to handle things herself, so she’s authorizing the township government to take full charge... Look, this is the authorization letter..."
Sure enough, black on white, crystal clear.
The man waved his hand. "Anything valuable or any furniture you have, please take it away as soon as possible. This auction is a township government action; no one is allowed to interfere. And the proceeds will be made public on a regular basis; anyone can oversee it, and you’re welcome to supervise us too..."
Another man laughed. "There’s really nothing much to supervise. We’ve checked: recently there are 18 cancer patients in urgent need of help. Your mother said it’s earmarked—fifty thousand yuan for each of them, and we have to see a receipt from every one of them. Don’t worry, we couldn’t embezzle even a single cent..."
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The couple were completely dumbfounded.
The younger sister-in-law’s relatives swarmed over. They all started talking at once, but this bunch were nothing like the easily bullied Xu Xiaoya—they were the local big shots who could stir up wind and rain. They were not people you could afford to cross.
The younger sister-in-law plopped down on the floor and started wailing, "That damned Xu Xiaoya... I never thought she’d scheme against us like this... No wonder she was so quick to pay the funeral expenses herself and even took that dead old hag away... Turns out it was all to harm us... How could she come up with such a vicious plan?!"
The younger brother Xu was gradually catching on as well.
Turned out when Xu Xiaoya paid that last installment of the surgery fee, she’d forced their father to revise the will. This house—if I don’t want it, don’t think you’ll get it either.
The father, already on his last legs, had thought that by leaving everything to his son, even if Xu Xiaoya refused to contribute, the son would at least pay his share—at the very least, he should pay the portion that was his. In reality, those hundred thousand or so would’ve been enough to go ahead with the surgery.
But the son and daughter-in-law used the excuse of going back home to raise money, then vanished without a trace. They wouldn’t even pick up the phone.
After waiting more than a month and still no sign of the son coming to pay the surgery fee, the old man completely lost hope. That was when Xu Xiaoya came. She told her father she would pay for the surgery on her own—but the will had to be changed.
The old man, with no way out, finally revised the will completely under his wife’s supervision.
This money, he’d rather donate than leave to those ungrateful bastards.
Originally, according to the mother’s wishes, she would definitely have been reluctant to donate it; better to leave it to their daughter. But Xu Xiaoya knew very well that if she took the house, her brother’s family would spend the rest of their lives hounding her, and she’d never know peace.
She steeled herself and simply donated the money.
After all, she’d never done any real good deed in her life; letting the three of them do this once could be counted as accumulating some virtue.
Besides, she actually didn’t really need the money from those two apartments.
The younger brother Xu and his wife had schemed every which way, yet ended up with nothing but water in a bamboo basket. The wife rolled on the floor. "No, you can’t auction off our house, this is my son’s... it’s my son’s, you can’t encroach on our interests, I have a will..."
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