"Also, Zhang Guozhen, over the years, the living allowance the ministry issued to me—I didn't spend that much. I have a ration card and receive grain every month, and I hardly ate any vegetables. In the past ten years, you haven't bought me a single new piece of clothing either; everything I wore consisted of old clothes you brought back from outside."
"Let's calculate carefully. Aside from the money for my schooling, I really didn't spend much money in this household. For ten years, the ministry mailed me twenty yuan every month: two hundred and forty a year, and twenty-four hundred for ten years. At most, I used four hundred. You must return two thousand yuan to me."
"And then there's the sixteen hundred left to me by my father—that makes three thousand six hundred in total. I know you don't have that much money, so everything in the house belonging to you and Su Lingling will be taken as secondhand goods to offset what you owe me."
Chapter 1526