Chapter 2060: Spoiled
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
If he lost this lawsuit, he would change his job and pick up rubbish in the future!
Ding Jiayi was stunned when she heard what Qiao Nan’s lawyer presented as evidence. Then, she saw her own lawyer giving her accusatory looks. Ding Jiayi hadn’t forgotten what her lawyer had said earlier. They had a slight chance of winning this lawsuit only if they could prove that Qiao Nan never gave any money to the Qiao family after she left back then.
The lawyer confirmed this point with her again and again. Even if Ding Jiayi was a fool, she understood how important this point was. At this moment, she suddenly knew that Qiao Nan had been transferring two thousand yuan monthly to the family. What was shocking to Ding Jiayi wasn’t that Qiao Nan had given the family two thousand yuan. In the past, there were plenty of times Qiao Nan had given the family twenty thousand yuan monthly. But if what the lawyer said was true and Qiao Nan had been giving money to the family, then where did all the money go? She couldn’t accept it…
That was two thousand yuan each month! She had never received it before, let alone spend it!
There were three people in the Qiao family. If she neither received it nor spent it, only her husband and elder daughter were left. No matter who took the money, Ding Jiayi couldn’t accept it. Also, if Qiao Nan had really been transferring two thousand yuan monthly, could she still win this lawsuit?
“Judge, I need to take a five-minute adjournment to confirm the situation with my client again.” Ding Jiayi’s lawyer couldn’t hold it back anymore. There was such a big loophole in terms of evidence now. He regretted not retreating before the court session when he found out that Ding Jiayi’s temper was exactly the same as how it had been in the news.
Ding Jiayi stated repeatedly to the lawyers and judge that she didn’t know about the existence of this two thousand yuan and didn’t receive a single cent.
The judge didn’t care if she knew of the evidence or not. They only looked at the evidence. Furthermore, everyone had a bad impression of Ding Jiayi and sympathized with Qiao Nan, who didn’t attend the session. Everyone was wondering why Qiao Nan didn’t show up.
It must be very hurtful to be sued by her own birth mother for not supporting her parents. Moreover, they had to face each other in court. Not to mention that Qiao Nan was obviously the one who had sacrificed the most for the Qiao family and her parents. Not only were her efforts not recognized, but she was even accused of not supporting her parents and sued.
Whoever encountered this would definitely be angry.
Two thousand in the face of an unreasonable mother like Ding Jiayi? Two thousand yuan was too much! It was more satisfying to let Ding Jiayi have a taste of what it was like being unsupported.
It was a pity that such behavior was disallowed legally and morally. As such, when the judge made the judgment, he indicated that the two thousand yuan Qiao Nan provided monthly was very consistent with Ping Cheng’s standard of living. It was up to Qiao Nan if she wanted to provide more money. The court wouldn’t partic.i.p.ate in such opinions or enforce any strong judgments.
As there was direct evidence from Qiao Nan that Ding Jiayi’s accusation was a false accusation, Ding Jiayi couldn’t stop the court’s fast judgment even if she wanted to. Furthermore, the lawyer Ding Jiayi hired didn’t want to stop it. She was full of lies on TV, and now, she even dared to lie in front of a lawyer.
The lawyer was really curious. Could it be that Ding Jiayi had been deceiving herself all this while and she really felt that the judge would give her a win if she could deceive one person and even the whole world? Even a three-year-old child might not have such naive thoughts. “The court has already pa.s.sed its judgment. Madam Ding, if you want to file a lawsuit in the future, it’s better to resolve all the conflicts and situations within the family. A situation like this would only waste your time and money the most. I’m sorry but I have something on. I’ll make a move first.”
Ding Jiayi lost money and time. The lawyer knew that he had lost face. If people knew that he had accepted such an unreliable case, he would most probably be considered as a joke for a while.
The lawyer made a silent decision. If anyone from the Qiao family came to him for a lawsuit, he would definitely not accept the case. He was afraid that there would be problems once again.
As the court had pa.s.sed its judgment at lightning speed, Ding Jiayi didn’t even have a chance to recover anything. As such, she rushed back home angrily and wanted to find out whose pocket the two thousand yuan Qiao Nan had been transferring monthly had landed in. One had to know that this had already taken place for about a year.
This meant that in this year, there was someone in the family who had swallowed more than twenty thousand yuan alone!
Ding Jiayi kept guessing in the car who it might be. Actually, she suspected Qiao Zijin. It was no surprise that the daughter she gave birth to was like herself. Furthermore, who in this world didn’t love money and didn’t want money?
The problem was that Qiao Zijin knew that she was filing this lawsuit. She even encouraged her. If that twenty thousand yuan really fell into Qiao Zijin’s pockets, she wouldn’t have supported her in this lawsuit. After all, for matters like bank transfer, the evidence would be produced once one went to the bank to check.
Also, the relations.h.i.+p between Qiao Nan and Qiao Zijin was never good, regardless if it was when they were young and the former had to give up studying, or when there was Chen Jun coming between them when they had grown up, or now that Qiao Zijin wanted to become a civil servant. As such, if Qiao Nan were to transfer money to the family, she shouldn’t have transferred it to Qiao Zijin’s account.
Compared to Qiao Zijin, it was undoubtedly more likely that the person who had been ‘swallowing’ this twenty thousand yuan alone was Qiao Dongliang. After reaching home, Ding Jiayi rushed toward Qiao Dongliang. “Old Qiao, Qiao Nan has been transferring two thousand yuan monthly for about a year now. Did you swallow the money alone?!”
It was as if Qiao Dongliang had expected Ding Jiayi to be asking him this when she returned this time. He said calmly, “I took this two thousand yuan. It can’t be considered that I’ve swallowed it.” His daughter had given him money. How could this be called swallowing? Old Ding seemed to have taught him these words before, right?
Ding Jiayi was so angry that her body s.h.i.+vered. “Why didn’t you tell me that that wretched girl has been giving the family two thousand yuan monthly? Why didn’t you give the money to me?” Two thousand yuan a month wasn’t a lot. However, in a year, that was twenty thousand yuan. Since when did Old Qiao dare to hide from her and swallow this twenty thousand yuan alone?!
When they were young, Qiao Dongliang even had to let her know if he had two yuan in his pocket.. Now, Qiao Dongliang dared to hide an amount as big as twenty thousand yuan from her. Ding Jiayi could only say that she had spoiled this man rotten!