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Chapter 390 I Have No Morals

The two elderly people felt they had found a way to exploit the weaknesses of Du Lianshuang's family, and they were extremely smug, appearing to the onlookers like petty people who had achieved their goals.

Du Yuxi and her sister exchanged a glance and chuckled: "I did just say that if all of an elderly person's children have passed away or lost the ability to support them, their grandchildren can take over the care. But this rule is conditional."

Du Anrao raised an eyebrow and answered in response, "What are the conditions?"

"The condition is that the grandchildren who have a duty to support their grandparents need to have a certain financial capacity. In other words, if you want them to support you, the prerequisite is that they must both be able to earn money. This money must be enough to support themselves and also be able to cover some of the expenses for supporting you. Only then will it meet the requirements. And obviously..."

Du Yuxi glanced at Du Yunni and the other person, her meaning was self-evident.

Du Anrao couldn't help but burst out laughing: "They're both still in junior high school, they haven't even finished nine years of compulsory education, and they still have to rely on others to support them. Where would they get the ability to support this burdensome family?"

The two elders of the Cui family were also stunned. They didn't actually understand the law. In their minds, Cui Jueyan was the biological father of the two children. Regardless of whether the children's parents were divorced or not, they were the children's grandparents, and the children couldn't abandon them!

This is a matter of morality. As long as Du Lianshuang cares about her reputation and face, she won't ignore them and let them do whatever they want.

However, they clearly forgot that this wasn't their village, where they were surrounded by a bunch of acquaintances with whom they had some distant connection, people they would run into every day. If their reputations were ruined, they would struggle to make ends meet and survive.

In the city, putting aside everything else, even living in the same building, if you're reclusive enough, after a few years you might not even know who lives next door. You'd barely exchange a few words, let alone have any serious arguments with them. So young people these days don't like to compromise themselves. You want to play moral blackmail with me? Sorry, I don't have morals, I only talk about the law. I unconditionally obey what the law stipulates, and I don't recognize a single word that isn't stipulated by law.

Just like Du Yunni and her partner's current situation, if the law really stipulates that they must support these two old scoundrels, then so be it. But since there is no such stipulation, then they shouldn't even think about squeezing a single penny out of them!

Du Yunni and her brother felt reassured after hearing what their two older sisters said, and chimed in, "That's right, my sister and I are still in school, and we only have some pocket money. Where would we get the spare money to support you?"

Old Mrs. Cui got anxious: "Your family is so rich, the two of you get tens of thousands of yuan in pocket money every month, how come you don't have any money for us?"

Grandpa Cui chimed in, "That's right, you two don't have money, but your mother does, right? We won't ask for much, just give us 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a month, as compensation for sending your father to jail. Otherwise, we'll come and make trouble every day, not just here, but also at your heartless mother's company. I refuse to believe we can't deal with you."

After the two said this, many parents who had previously just been watching couldn't stand it anymore and stood outside pointing and whispering at the two.

"How old are you? You're actually eyeing the kids' pocket money. You're really disrespectful to your elders."

"Exactly! These two don't look like they're too old and helpless to move. These days, as long as you still have some strength and are willing to work, you might not live a very comfortable life, but at least you won't starve. Asking money from ten-year-old kids who are only in junior high school, they really have the nerve to do that."

"The fact that they've been causing trouble at school for so many days straight shows they're in excellent health! There's a saying that if elders are unkind, the younger generation will be unfilial. A few days ago, when I heard about these two causing a scene at the school gate, I thought it was really a problem between the kids and their parents. Now it seems I was just parroting what others said and wrongly accusing good people. People who constantly demand money and threaten to cause trouble at schools and companies if they don't get it—you can imagine how domineering and difficult they must be normally. It's right for the parents to ignore them; if they gave in even once, they'd be harassed for life!"

"It's not..."

As the Du Anrao sisters listened to the crowd's discussion, they exchanged a knowing glance, a hint of a smile playing on their lips.

These two people kept talking about the two children, calling themselves elders, but to put it bluntly, they were still after their aunt's family fortune. They used to think about gradually emptying the Du family's wealth through Cui Jueyan, but now that Cui Jueyan is gone, they want to use these two children to control Du Lianshuang.

Ordinary people, unaware of the inside story, naturally think that it is only natural for juniors to be filial to their elders. But once this veneer of respect is torn off, revealing their insatiable true colors, even those who have little to do with them will probably have to think twice before helping them, wondering if their words might cause them trouble.

Old Mrs. Cui and her husband didn't notice the change in everyone's attitude. Hearing her husband say this, they became even more excited: "Yes, yes, if you don't give us the money, we'll make a scene. Anyway, we have nothing to do and we're about to starve. We have the time and energy to waste on you and see who can outlast whom."

When Old Lady Cui said this, she held her chin high, feeling that she had the upper hand.

In their subconscious, city dwellers value their reputation, and the higher one's position, the less willing they are to air their dirty laundry in public, especially for large companies and enterprises. If a scandal were to break out, the stock price would plummet, and someone who mishandled the situation could be punished or fired.

Therefore, in order to settle things peacefully, most people will choose to pay money to settle the matter, and that's exactly what they want!

However, she was destined to be disappointed. Even if Du Lianshuang threw the money down the toilet, she would not give it to those two old guys, otherwise they would definitely disgust her for the rest of her life!

"Go ahead and make a scene! I want to see if you're the better party, or if my company's legal department is the better one!"

After receiving Du Yuxi's call, Du Lianshuang rushed over with her people as quickly as possible, just in time to witness the dramatic scene of the two of them hurling threats at their own child.

"you you……"

The Cui family elders were also bullies who preyed on the weak and feared the strong. They always acted like elders in front of the children, trying to suppress them. But when they faced Du Lianshuang, their momentum immediately plummeted.

Especially when they saw the tall, well-dressed men following behind Du Lianshuang, they trembled like quails. After all, they could only talk to Du Anrao and his group, but facing Du Lianshuang, they could really get themselves beaten to death!

"Speak up, why aren't you saying anything? If you're not willing to speak, then it's my turn to do it." Du Lianshuang sneered at the two of them and threw the things she had prepared beforehand into their arms.