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Chapter 1546 Good Luck Continues (36)
Ding Ping now had Li's father's weakness in her grasp—he dared not divorce her again—so she wasn't afraid of Li Qiuyun's suggestion that her father kick her out. She rolled her eyes and said irritably, "I'm just repeating what you did, and you call me malicious? Didn't your grandparents go through a lot of trouble arranging your wedding? Didn't your grandfather suffer a stroke and become paralyzed shortly after your marriage?"

"That's true, but is there any connection between the two? Why do you say that I wore my grandfather out?"

Ding Ping categorically denied it, saying, "I didn't say that. I just said I had a doubt. What, can't I even have a doubt?"

As for her suspicions, to those with ulterior motives, like Aunt Li, they were certain and, if they didn't want to pay for treatment, then it was none of her business.

If the third wife really doesn't want to pay for the treatment, then so be it. It's fine if Li's father spends more money. Anyway, she doesn't get a share of Li's father's property. All the money Li's father saves goes to those two little brats, Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo. She'd rather they get less.

Ding Ping denied it, and Li Qiuyun couldn't do anything about it; in any case, it was impossible for her to pay for the third wife's expenses.

In the end, the third wife did not contribute any money; it was all paid for by Li's father alone.

In this way, even if Li Qiuyun doesn't pay for it, it's the same if Li's father does.

Furthermore, since Li's father paid for it, it was equivalent to Li Qiuyun paying for half of it. After all, the second wife's family had said that Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo would each pay half of Li's father's money.

In this way, even though Li Qiuyun didn't directly contribute money, it was still equivalent to indirectly contributing money, which naturally infuriated her.

Li Zhiguo was equally furious. After all, the third branch of the family had previously promised to pay for the care, but now that his father hadn't accepted the care money and was also paying for the treatment, how could Li Zhiguo be happy? Since his father was paying, it was as if he was paying too, since half of his father's money belonged to him. No wonder he couldn't accept that.

While cursing Ding Ping in her heart for being vicious and talking nonsense outside, causing the third wife to refuse to pay and the second wife to suffer a loss, she went to Li Qiuyun to discuss the matter.

Although Ding Ping said that Li Qiuyun's stroke was caused by Li's grandparents arranging the wedding, Li Zhiguo and his wife also felt that this was somewhat true, but this was still an internal conflict, and they could deal with it later. The key was to get the third wife to pay for the medical expenses.

Grandpa and Grandma Li are getting older. If the third branch of the family keeps making excuses and refusing to pay once or twice, leaving all the money to Li's father, what will become of them in the future? He cannot accept the third branch taking advantage of the second branch like this.

He originally wanted to talk to Li's father and the third branch about this matter, but given Li's father's personality, he didn't have any hope, so he didn't plan to talk about it. He only discussed with Li Qiuyun how to handle this matter in the future.

He hadn't even considered consulting Linlang, since Li's father wouldn't give Linlang any money, and she certainly wouldn't offer any advice, so why bother consulting her?

“We definitely have to make them pay. If they don’t pay this time, they won’t pay again if something like this happens in the future. Are we going to let my dad pay all the time? That would be too unfair to my dad.”

"But they just won't pay, what can we do?"

“What else can we do? If they don’t pay, I suggest we go to Uncle’s workplace and make a scene. I don’t believe he’s not afraid. Even if he isn’t afraid, his workplace will still talk to him. After all, I don’t believe the workplace won’t handle someone who abandons his parents.”

Like the second wife, only Uncle Li from the third wife's family had a job; Aunt Li from the third wife did not. This is quite normal; these days, not everyone has a job.

So the only person they can cause trouble for is Uncle Li.

Li Qiuyun was right, so Li Zhiguo and Cao Li went to talk to the third branch of the family.

Li Qiuyun was supposed to go, but she was heavily pregnant with twins and it was inconvenient for her to go out, so her husband Cao Li went instead, since it was the same thing anyway.

With the threat concocted by Li Zhiguo and Li Qiuyun, the third branch of the family complained of bad luck. In the end, Uncle Li obediently paid the money. Fortunately, it wasn't much this time, so they gave it to him.

Actually, it was their fault in the first place. They were unwilling to share the small amount of medical expenses. If the medical expenses were large, wouldn't we be even less able to rely on them?
In the original world, because Grandma Li gave all her property to Li Qiuyun, the third branch of the family abandoned the relationship halfway through. The second branch of the family had no objections, since in this era, the rule was that whoever took the money should take care of the elderly. The second branch of the family took all of Grandma Li's money, so it was naturally their responsibility to take care of the elderly.

In this world, it was revealed that Grandma Li had given all her property to Li Qiuyun. Grandpa Li redistributed the money, which made it impossible for the third branch of the family to use the fact that all the property had been given to Li Qiuyun as an excuse not to support them in their old age. So they had no choice but to share the burden.

After finally getting things settled, Li Zhiguo hadn't even finished arguing with Li Qiuyun about how it was all her fault for insisting on having her elderly grandparents handle the wedding arrangements. This caused Grandpa Li to suffer a stroke, and right after the New Year, before the first month of the lunar calendar was even over, Grandma Li suffered a stroke and became paralyzed.

Ding Ping naturally started spreading rumors about them again, after all, she still remembered the bad things they said about her to Li's father.

This time, Ding Ping not only talked about Li Qiuyun, but also about Li Zhiguo.

The reasons why Grandma Li suffered a stroke are said to be: first, she was exhausted from taking care of Grandpa Li; second, she was exhausted from arranging Li Qiuyun's wedding; and third, she was exhausted from taking care of Li Zhiguo's daughter. There are all sorts of reasons, otherwise she wouldn't have suffered a stroke for no reason.

Seeing that Ding Ping had also pinned the blame for Grandma Li's stroke on herself, Li Zhiguo felt it was inappropriate to tell Li Qiuyun that Grandpa Li's stroke was due to Li Qiuyun's fault for letting Grandpa Li handle the wedding arrangements, lest Li Qiuyun retaliate by saying that Grandma Li had collapsed from exhaustion while helping him take care of the children.

In fact, they don't have time to argue about these things now, because after Grandpa Li and Grandma Li both suffered strokes and became paralyzed, a huge disagreement arose among them about who would take care of them.

However, the initial plot was similar to the original world: the second and third wives drew lots, and whoever was drawn would take care of one of the elderly people. After all, both of them were paralyzed, and it was impossible for Li's father to take care of them alone. The third wife was definitely going to take care of them, and anyone who didn't take care of the second wife would definitely cause trouble at Li's third uncle's workplace.

Don't say that the three-bedroom house is too small and there's no place to put it; that's the three-bedroom family's problem. Anyway, the elderly can't be supported by the two-bedroom family alone.

This is the same as in the original world, except that in the original world, the fact that Grandma Li gave all her property to Li Qiuyun was later exposed, and the third branch of the family simply threw her back.

The reason for the lottery was naturally because both families wanted Grandpa Li and not Grandma Li. The reason they wanted Grandpa Li was because he had a pension, while Grandma Li had nothing. Whoever took care of her would have to pay out of their own pocket. But if they took care of Grandpa Li, he would have a pension and could also subsidize the family that took care of him. Even if on the surface Grandpa Li's assets were to be treated equally by both families, the family that took care of Grandpa Li would definitely be able to make some extra money in private.