Ning Tang went to pick up the letter, and when he looked at the postmark, he found out it was from Da Wa again?
She cut open the envelope with a knife, took the letter and read ten lines at a glance. The more she read, the more her brows furrowed.
Shen Lie was surprised, "Daddy wrote this? What? You look like that."
Ning Tang handed him the letter and said, "Read it yourself."
Chen Lie came over, also reading quickly. His expression was even more exaggerated than Ning Tang's, his eyes almost bloodshot. "What? Su Guangzong is so addicted to games that he's skipping school and still owes his boss over a thousand yuan?"
When Da Wa first sent the letter back, he really thought Su Guangzong was just playing around. How could he be so obsessed with it? He even owed over a thousand yuan.
Ning Tang nodded. "More than that. Da Wa said that he, Er Niu, and Da Hu tried to stop it, but Su Guangzong wouldn't listen. He had no choice but to write back and ask us to pass it on to Ning Xue and Su Junyan."
Moreover, it would take several days for the letter to be sent from Shanghai to Hailang Island. During these days, Su Guangzong was probably still in the game hall playing fruit machines.
Chen Lie took a few steps and suddenly stopped. "Do you think they know about this?" He was referring to Ning Xue and Su Junyan.
"You didn't? Didn't you say that you mentioned it to Su Junyan last time?" Ning Tang asked.
"I did mention it." Chen Lie said, "But I didn't see any reaction from him." Ning Xue didn't react either.
Either Su Junyan didn't tell Ning Xue, or the couple didn't take it seriously.
Chen Lie frowned, "So? What should we do now?"
"Can we? What can we do? Who made this mistake? Whose parents are behind this? They need to clean up the mess." Ning Tang said, "Give the letter to Su Junyan tomorrow, and we won't have any more to do with it."
To put it bluntly, Su Guangzong was not her son, so what does it have to do with her?
Besides, she was afraid that Da Wa would tell Su Junyan and Ning Xue about this, and Su Guangzong would hate him and get into trouble.
Chen Lie sighed deeply and said, "It can only be like this."
In the evening, Ning Tang and Shen Lie washed up and lay down on the bed.
Chen Lie tossed and turned, but refused to sleep.
Ning Tang opened his eyes and kicked him, "You're making pancakes, are you still letting me sleep?"
Chen Lie muttered to himself as he turned his back, then turned around to face Ning Tang. "Tell me, how did Su Guangzong become like this?"
Even though the letter sent by Da Wa only gave a general idea, Chen Lie was sharp-minded and could still figure out a little bit of it.
Su Guangzong's various behaviors do not show that he is addicted to playing video games. He is obviously crazy about playing video games. He eats and lives in the game hall. How can he not be crazy?
Ning Tang: "You ask me, how would I know?"
Shen Lie sighed again.
After all, he was the child he had watched grow up since he was young. Although Su Guangzong rarely went out, he lived across the street and Shen Lie had watched him grow up day by day. It was impossible for Shen Lie not to have mixed feelings when he suddenly heard that he had become like this.
He glanced at Ning Tang and found that she didn't look surprised at all. "You don't seem surprised at all."
"What are you surprised about?" Ning Tang said, "In fact, I expected Su Guangzong to be like this."
Not to mention Su Guangzong, I'm afraid Su Yaozu is in the same situation.
Hearing this, Shen Lie was extremely surprised. "What? You guessed that he would be addicted to video games?"
"No, I'm not that shrewd." Ning Tang said, "I just guessed that something bad would happen to him in the future."
Chen Lie said, "It looked fine when it was young, why did it become crooked when it grew up?"
When the Su family twins were young, before the show-off incident happened, they were the two most popular children in the entire military compound.
He is handsome and well-behaved, has good academic performance, and is extremely obedient. He is simply the dream boy.
Whenever they mentioned their two sons, especially the twins, one of whom was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the other to Fudan University, Ning Xue and Su Junyan would stand very straight.
I didn’t expect that now…
Ning Tang: "Good bamboos can produce bad shoots, let alone bad bamboos."
Chen Lie: "Can't you be more tactful?"
Ning Tang glanced at him, and Chen Lie raised his hands in surrender. "Fine, just pretend I didn't say anything."
Ning Tang opened his eyes and then closed them again. "Remember when Ning Xue and I first got married and moved to Hailang Island? Ning Xue came to me every day and asked me if I was envious. Su Guangzong and Su Yaozu had already acknowledged her as their mother a few days after she arrived, while Da Wa and the other two had always treated me as their stepmother. She always wanted to outdo me, and asked me that. But to be honest, I wasn't envious at all. I was just chilled and scared."
"Why?" Shen Lie asked.
Ning Tang: "Just think about it yourself. It's only been a few days, and Su Guangzong and Su Yaozu have already forgotten their biological mother so quickly and recognized Ning Xue as their mother. Just because the Su family twins forgot their biological mother so quickly and only recognized Ning Xue as their stepmother, you know these two are heartless and ruthless people. It's chilling to think about it."
Since he is such a heartless person, it's not surprising that he does anything.
After hearing what she said, Shen Lie fell silent, because it did make some sense.
Ning Tang looked directly into Chen Lie's eyes and said, "To be honest, when I first arrived, the eldest, second, and third children didn't recognize me and even treated me coldly. I didn't feel unhappy, but was relieved. If they had really forgotten their biological mother so quickly, I should have been scared."
Chen Lie winked at her mischievously. "Then, how did you fall for Da Wa, Er Niu, and San Wa?"
Ning Tang curled up the corners of his mouth, "They are all good, all three of them are good kids."
If you are good to them, they will return the favor to you tenfold.
As they talked, they fell asleep.
Chen Lie had a dream. In it, he married Ning Xue. The two argued constantly every day. Big Boy, Second Girl, and Third Girl grew up amidst endless bickering. Big Boy was gloomy, Second Girl had low self-esteem, and Third Girl was unruly. At eighteen, Big Boy failed the college entrance exam, so he ended up in a game hall...
He woke up suddenly. He forgot what he dreamed about when he woke up, but he still remembered that it was a nightmare.
When he got up in the morning, Chen Lie made breakfast, which was porridge with four side dishes: black pickled cucumbers, dried radish strips, purslane mixed with sesame oil, and a dish of golden pork floss.
With four side dishes, the two of them drank up the whole pot of porridge.
After breakfast, Shen Lie said, "Shall I go deliver the letter now?"
Ning Tang: "Go ahead."
Just as he was about to leave, he heard Ning Xue's loud shout from the Su family's courtyard across the street, "Impossible! My son can't possibly owe you so much money."
Chen Lie and Ning Tang looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.
Shen Lie hasn't even gone to deliver the letter yet, what is the Su family arguing about?
The two of them hurried out of the house. As soon as they reached the door, they saw Su Junyan and Ning Xue standing there. In front of them was a young man who looked unkempt, wore loose clothes, and looked uncouth.
When Su Junyan woke up in the morning, he received a letter from the postman. The letter was from Su Guangzong's school. The gist of it was that Su Guangzong had not attended class for a long time, and the cumulative absence time was as long as two months. After discussion, the school decided to expel him.
When Su Junyan saw the letter for the first time, he thought someone was playing a joke on him. Then he took another look and saw that it was indeed postmarked from Shanghai, and the school's official seal was also stamped on the letter paper.
When such a big thing happened, Su Junyan's first reaction was to hide the letter.
But what a coincidence, isn’t it? Ning Xue came back from buying groceries and happened to see Su Junyan hiding the letter.
She thought it was Su Guangzong or Su Yaozu who sent the letter back, so she snatched it away and glared at Su Junyan, "Why didn't they send the letter back? Tell me earlier, was it from Guangzong? Or was it from Yaozu?"
Su Junyan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, scratching his head and cheek, but he couldn't say the words to stop her from reading the letter.
Ning Xue opened the letter with joy in her heart, read ten lines at a glance, and then the joy froze on her face.
Before the two of them could go to the store to call Su Guangzong to ask what was going on, Li Gou showed up.
Li Gou asked around and found the Su family. He knocked on the door and asked, "Hello, are Su Guangzong's parents home?"
Ning Xue and Su Junyan thought it was someone from the school, and were about to plead with the principal or teacher, but when they went out, they saw it was a complete stranger they had never seen before.
Ning Xue looked at him suspiciously. "Who are you? How do you know Guangzong? Why are you coming to our house?"
Li Gou answered three questions in a row one by one.
He narrowed his small eyes and said, "Me? My name is Li Gou. How do I know Su Guangzong? Haha, you two don't need to know this. Why did I come to your house? I came to ask for money."
"Want money?!" Ning Xue and Su Junyan exclaimed in unison.
"Yes, I want money." Li Gou sucked his teeth, took out a stack of papers from his pocket and handed them to the two people, "Here, you can see for yourselves, Su Guangzong owes us so much money."
Ning Xue took it doubtfully and looked through the pages one by one.
On February 14, Su Guangzong owed Li Dali 300 yuan.
On March 15th, Su Guangzong owed Li Dali two hundred yuan.
On April 14, Su Guangzong owed Li Dali one hundred yuan.
The amount doesn't seem large if you look at it alone, but it's a thick stack of paper, with one hundred here and two hundred there, and when you add it all up, it's really not a small sum.
Ning Xue's heart skipped a beat every time she counted one. The total amount here was at least more than two thousand or nearly three thousand yuan.
What frightened her even more was that she had been tutoring the twins since they were young and knew their handwriting. The signature on it was clearly written by Su Guangzong himself.
What made her feel even more chilled was that the date on one of the IOUs was clearly New Year's Eve.
Okay, you said you would work on a project with your mentor, but did you do it? Did you end up owing money?
Ning Xue clutched the paper tightly, gritting her teeth and saying, "Yaozu lied to me! They teamed up to deceive me!" She suddenly looked at Su Junyan, and seeing that he was evasive, she suddenly understood, "You knew it a long time ago, right?"
Su Junyan stammered, "Um, well, well, actually, Da Wa ran into Guangzong once in Shanghai. He wrote to Chen Lie about it, and Chen Lie informed me. I, I thought he was joking, so I didn't tell you."
"Heh." Ning Xue sneered, "Do you believe that?"
Su Junyan didn't dare to respond and turned to Li Gou, "Tell me quickly, how did Guangzong owe so much money?"
Li Gou stood for a while, feeling his legs a bit sore, and leaned against the gate, saying lazily, "Playing video games."
"Just playing a few games? You owe so much money?" Ning Xue shook the IOU.
A dark light flashed in her eyes. If she tore up all these IOUs, there would be no evidence at all!
Who was Li Gou? He'd been working his way up the social ladder since he was seven. If he wasn't incredibly clever, the arcade owner, Li Dali, wouldn't have let him collect the debt. He immediately noticed something was amiss with Ning Xue's eyes and quickly snatched the IOU from her. "You want to die without witnesses, huh? Haha, impossible."
Ning Xue's plan was dashed, and she snorted coldly, "What evidence do you have to prove that this is the IOU written by Emperor Guangzong? I even said it was written by someone else and owed by someone else."
Li Gou was amused and shook the IOU in his hand. "It has his signature and his fingerprint on it. You said it wasn't written by him? Who wrote it?"
He glanced at Ning Xue and saw that she had something else to say, then continued, "If you don't believe me, let's go to the Public Security Bureau and have a discussion."
"Don't!" Ning Xue said hurriedly.
If he went to the Public Security Bureau, what reputation would Su Guangzong have? And having raised a son who wouldn't repay his debts, how could he and his wife still have the face to live in the military family compound?
Ning Xue's face turned pale when she thought of this possibility. She stared at Li Gou fiercely and said, "How much money does Guangzong owe you? I will pay it back."
Li Gou grinned, "Sheng Hui, three thousand four hundred and ten and fifty cents."
"Why are there so many?!" Ning Xue exclaimed.
Even though I knew that Su Guangzong owed a large amount of money, I didn't expect that he would owe so much.
Ning Xue couldn't help but have a question in her mind: what kind of game was Su Guangzong playing? How could he owe so much money?
Su Junyan pursed his lips and said, "I can give you the money, but you have to tell us exactly how Guangzong owed so much money."
I didn't expect it to be so easy to collect the money. Anyway, Li Gou had achieved his goal, and he was in the mood to tell the couple a story. "Oh, this is actually very simple. Su Guangzong likes to play games, so he came to our game hall. The more he played, the more he liked it. Playing games also costs money. He likes to play the fruit machine the most. The minimum cost is 200 coins. You don't know how much a game coin costs, right? It's not that expensive. You can buy two for one dollar..."
As she listened, Ning Xue finally understood, "You're setting a trap for my son!"
Li Gou chuckled, "Auntie, how could you? Well, our arcade and Su Guangzong are both willing to fight and suffer. We didn't force him to pay for game coins from his pocket."
Su Junyan scolded, "Okay, stop talking and go get the money for him."
Ning Xue stamped her foot, "Junyan!"
She looked at Su Junyan, but it was the first time she saw such a serious expression on his face. She murmured, "Junyan?"
Su Junyan frowned tightly and said, "Don't blame others for setting him up. He didn't have the self-control to resist the temptation. He deserves it. I don't believe that the game hall only invited Guangzong to play games. Why can others play for fun, but Guangzong owes so much money after playing?"
In the final analysis, it is Su Guangzong's own problem.
Even though Ning Xue usually bosses Su Junyan around, when it comes to the critical moment, she still listens to Su Junyan.
As soon as Su Junyan said that, Ning Xue obediently went into the house to get the money. Thirty-four hundred and ten and fifty cents, with both coins and cents, was not a small amount. She searched through all the boxes and drawers for a long time before she found the three thousand yuan.
"There's only three thousand yuan left." Ning Xue pleaded, "Please erase the change."
Li Gou smiled, but his words were as cold as ice. "Auntie, please don't make things difficult for me. I'm just an employee. If I can't collect the money, my boss will give me trouble."
He seemed to mutter something, but in a voice that both of them could hear, "Who told you two to raise such a good son? Hey, with this money, we don't have to open our game hall for a while.
Ning Xue's face turned pale, but her family really couldn't afford so much money. These three thousand yuan were all the savings of the couple.
Ning Xue wouldn't even give a second glance to a little hooligan like Li Gou if he were walking down the street normally, but now she had to beg him humbly, "Excuse me, please be less aggressive."
Li Gou still had that smiling face, but his eyes showed that there was no doubt.
Su Junyan let out a long breath, clenched his fists, and looked tired. "There are still 410.5 yuan left, right? Let's go borrow some."
Li Gou curled his lips and said, "Well, please help me. The next boat leaves in half an hour. You have to give me the money quickly. I'm in a hurry to go back."
Su Junyan hummed an almost inaudible sound, walked past Li Gou, and came to Chen Lie and Ning Tang. His face flushed crimson, and he stammered, "Please lend me some money."
Li Gou was making quite a bit of noise, and Su Junyan had already seen Ning Tang and Shen Lie standing in the yard, looking towards their house. They had probably been looking for a while.
Four hundred yuan is not a small amount of money, and Li Gou is in a hurry to get it. Apart from borrowing money from these two people, Su Junyan can't think of any other way.
Chen Lie moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but Ning Tang stopped him and nodded to Su Junyan, "Wait a minute, I'll go inside to get the money."
She went back to the house to get the money. Chen Lie followed Ning Tang and finally got to say what he had been holding back. He muttered, "I never thought Su Guangzong actually owed so much money."
Ning Tang didn't expect this either, because according to Da Wa, Su Guangzong only owed about a thousand yuan, so how could it suddenly become more than three thousand yuan? It must be because of the letter. Something happened during this period, but they didn't know what happened.
As she counted out the money, she sighed, "A man like Su Junyan would bow down to us and borrow money for Su Guangzong. Sigh, I don't know what to say. I can only say, pity the love of parents in this world."
Ning Xue was the same. She was such a proud person. She didn't stop Su Junyan from borrowing money from others, and she even borrowed money from Ning Tang Chenlie. That was already throwing her face on the ground. Both husband and wife compromised to this extent for Su Guangzong...
Chen Lie nodded and said, "I hope that the money can be paid back this time, and Su Guangzong won't make such a mistake again."
More than three thousand yuan emptied the Su family's savings and even left them with foreign debts.
"Count it and see if it's this amount." Ning Tang handed the money to Su Junyan and ignored Ning Xue who was glaring at her in the Su family yard.
Su Junyan nodded, "No need to order."
He still trusts the character of this couple.
After getting the money, Su Junyan gave it all to Li Gou.
Li Gou dipped his finger in saliva and counted the numbers, smiling happily, "That's the number. Thank you, and I wish you both well."
Su Junyan snorted coldly, "We'll be fine if you don't come again."
Li Gou started to leave, but Ning Xue quickly stopped him, "Wait a minute, where is our Guangzong?"
Su Guangzong? How would he know?
Li Gou pulled his arm out of Ning Xue's hand. He was hurrying back. "I don't know. He's spent all the money he had. Our boss doesn't do good deeds and let him play video games for free. Who knows where he is?"
Wouldn't that mean wandering the streets?
Ning Xue almost fainted. She hurried into the house, packed her luggage, and said, "I'm going to Shanghai to find him."
Chen Lie scratched his head as he looked at the mess in the Su family's house. He whispered to Ning Tang, "Their family is in such a mess now. Are you going to return that letter that Da Wa sent?"
"Give it, why not? Give it." Ning Tang said.
Chen Lie muttered, "But now, I feel like I'm falling into a rock."
Ning Tang: "I don't think what Li Gou told Ning Xue and Su Junyan was the whole story. Isn't Ning Xue about to leave for Shanghai? We should show them Da Wa's letter, so they can at least have an idea of what's going on."
If Ning Xue and Su Junyan felt that he was kicking them when they were down, that was fine with them, as they had a clear conscience.
Chen Lie felt that what she said made sense. "So, are you going to deliver the letter or should I?"
"Of course you go." Ning Tang said as a matter of course, "If I have to scold you, it's you."
Chen Lie: "Alright, I'm a grown man anyway, so I have thick skin and flesh, right? I'm not afraid of being scolded."
Ning Xue went into the house to pack her luggage. Su Junyan was still standing there in a daze. Chen Lie saw the opportunity and handed him the letter, saying, "Here is a letter. You...you can take a look."
Su Junyan was completely bewildered. He took the letter, which was unsealed. The letter paper inside spilled out. He glanced over it, his face livid. "I understand."
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