Chapter 203 Luo Wanhe becomes a homeless man, Huang Xianya and the old man
Luo Wanhe woke up slowly and saw Huang Xianya's worried face.
"What happened? You scared me to death?"
Huang Xianya kept wiping her tears. She didn't go to the opera or play mahjong today. She didn't have any thoughts at all.
Luo Wanhe stared at her blankly without saying a word, which made Huang Xianya feel uneasy and the bad feeling grew deeper and deeper.
"It doesn't matter if the house was stolen. Didn't you say that your father-in-law gave you a lot of money? Let's buy another one!" she comforted.
"It's all gone, the money is gone, the house is gone, the treasure is gone, everything is gone..."
Luo Wanhe looked like a wandering soul, with a numb expression and staring eyes.
"What's all gone? Explain clearly."
"It's all gone. We're all paupers. We can't live in this house anymore. Xiaohong and Xiaoyi can't pay their tuition for next semester. You can't go to the opera or play mahjong, and I can't play golf. Do you understand?"
Luo Wanhe roared as he described the miserable situation at home.
Huang Xianya was stunned. It took her more than ten minutes to react and she kept crying.
Luo Wanhe was also crying. Neither of the couple could handle the situation and could only cry.
Over the past three days, they have been asking friends and connections everywhere to try to figure out what is going on, but the bank procedures are completely normal, and the same goes for the house sale, so there is no problem at all.
Instead, the whole of Hong Kong Island knew that Luo Wanhe had gone bankrupt.
The friends who played golf with him no longer answered his calls, and the wives who played mahjong and watched opera with Huang Xianya no longer asked her out. The couple was completely kicked out of the circle of rich people.
Fortunately, Huang Xianya still had some jewelry, and Luo Wanhe also had a few famous watches. They took them to the pawnshop and exchanged them for a lot of money, which was enough for an ordinary family's living expenses for three to five years.
But this family was used to enjoying life. They rented a big house and hired a servant to cook and clean. Luo Wanhe found a job dispensing medicine in a pharmacy.
As a descendant of the Luo family, he had to go to the pharmacy to train since he was a child. The basic skills of picking and cutting medicines were engraved in his bones. Even if Luo Wanhe had neglected them for many years, he could still make a living.
However, the salary of this job was not high and could not cover the expenses of their family of four. Relying on the money from selling the jewelry, they barely managed to survive for two years. When they could not hold on any longer, they had to fire the maid and move to a smaller house.
Huang Xianya had no choice but to look for a job. She had never worked before and had zero work experience. Fortunately, she had some knowledge of dressing up, and she was pretty and had a good figure. Finally, she went to work as a shopping guide in a clothing store in a shopping mall.
After standing from morning to night for eight hours a day, her legs were swollen and her waist was almost broken.
Huang Xianya had never experienced such hardship before. She wanted to resign after only three days. She went home and told Luo Wanhe about it, but was scolded.
"I can't even make ends meet selling clothes, what else can you do? Don't expect me to support you, if you don't have a job, you'll be begging!"
After working for a few years, Luo Wanhe has completely lost the elegance he had when he was a rich man, and has become a mean and shabby middle-aged man. He and Huang Xianya have also changed from a loving couple to a poor couple who quarrel every other day.
As for his two sons, after going to public school, they made friends with a few gangsters and became idlers, often staying out all night. Luo Wanhe had no control over them at all.
Huang Xianya felt heartbroken. The Luo Wanhe who used to love and spoil her would never come back. Now he only forced her to go to work and make money, and even made her beg for food. He was simply not a human being!
Heartbroken Huang Xianya went to work crying the next day. Being tired was secondary. What she couldn't stand the most was meeting her former mahjong partner.
They still wear gold and silver, dress elegantly, and don't blink an eye when buying clothes worth thousands of dollars. In the past, these people had to flatter her, but now she has to serve them, and the money she earns is not even a fraction of the money they spend on a piece of clothing.
This psychological gap made Huang Xianya feel ashamed. Every time she saw an acquaintance, she wished she could crawl into the ground. Luo Wanhe could not understand her suffering at all.
Poor couples have many sorrows. After a few years of hardship, Luo Wanhe and Huang Xianya's relationship became worse and worse, and quarrels became the norm. Luo Wanhe's hobby also changed from golf to alcoholism. He could not afford good wine and could only drink low-quality wine. He was drunk every day and even beat people.
Huang Xianya, unable to bear it any longer, finally left him and followed a retired old man.
Although the old man is not a rich man, he has a high pension, a nice house, and treats her very well. It is a hundred times better than following Luo Wanhe, the loser.
His wife ran away with the old man, and his two sons became his lackeys. Luo Wanhe could not accept this fact. He got drunk every day, prescribed the wrong medicine several times, and was fired from the pharmacy.
He lost his job and could not pay the rent, so he was soon kicked out by the landlord. He became one of the many homeless people on Hong Kong Island, picking up trash during the day and sleeping in the park at night.
In less than a month, he adapted to the life of a homeless person. Now, even if acquaintances stood in front of him, they would not recognize him.
This is a story for later, let’s return to Shanghai.
Luo Xinxin and Li Rong bought a lot of things, including meat, fish, chicken, eggs, rice, flour, and oil. Most of them were bought from the mall. The two went back and forth several times and filled the Liu family's kitchen.
"That's enough. We can't eat much. Don't buy any more."
It was no use for Mrs. Liu to try to stop them. Li Rong and Luo Xinxin didn't listen and just bought what they wanted.
In the evening, the Liu family's dinner was even more sumptuous. Spring rolls, shepherd's purse wontons, scallion chicken, pickled pork with preserved vegetables, and braised pork were all Mrs. Liu's specialties. The table was full and it was even more sumptuous than during the Chinese New Year.
In comparison, the Li family’s dinner was much more humble.
Lu Qiufang ran to her husband to complain, but Li Zongping was out for a meeting and not at the factory, so she had to go back to work. She was not at ease the whole afternoon, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She didn't even buy food after get off work.
She was in charge of the finances of the Li family and usually she was the one who bought groceries. But she didn't buy anything today. As a good cook, the eldest daughter-in-law couldn't cook without rice, so she only made a few simple dishes: scrambled eggs with snow mustard greens, stir-fried vegetables, steamed dried fish, and seaweed egg soup.
"Why is there no meat?"
Li Sen, the second son of the Li family, is Li Rong's twin brother, but the two brothers do not look alike. Li Sen is not bad looking, but his eyes are dark, his complexion is pale, and he looks sloppy. The temperaments of the two brothers are very different, and they look even less alike now.
Li Sen loves meat and cannot eat without it.
"I forgot to buy vegetables. Let's just make do with this. I'll buy meat tomorrow."
The son that Lu Qiufang loved the most was Li Sen. She gave birth to three sons in total. The eldest, Li Lin, was raised by his grandmother-in-law, the third, Li Rong, was taken to the Liu family when he was young, and only the second, Li Sen, was raised by her personally.
Li Sen saw that his mother looked unhappy, so he shut up and lowered his head to eat.
Li Lin and his wife also noticed something was wrong and continued eating in silence.
Lu Qiufang had no appetite and only drank some soup. She planned to eat before complaining to her husband.
There was a knock on the door. Li Sen ran to open it. Seeing the person outside, he was very cold and said in a sarcastic tone, "The most promising officer in our family is back!"
[The third update is complete. Li Rong has no feelings for his family, so he won't be soft-hearted.]
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