Chapter 479
"Cui Li." The middle-aged man stared at Cui Li with tired eyes.
Cui Li turned around and was stunned when she saw the middle-aged man and middle-aged woman in front of her.
Her stunned expression let the middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman know that Cui Li recognized them.
The middle-aged woman snorted coldly: "I thought you had forgotten us completely and didn't even recognize us."
Cui Li calmed down after being surprised. She asked calmly, "How did you get here?"
"Looking at you, you don't want us to come here, do you?" the middle-aged man said, "You're living a good life now, but you don't even want to recognize your own biological parents?!"
Zhong Lan on the side was stunned.
It turns out that the middle-aged man and woman with unfriendly expressions in front of them are Cui Li’s parents who have not taken care of her in the past ten years!
After Cui Li thought about it carefully, she knew how her parents came here.
About half a month ago, an unfamiliar customer came to the bun shop to buy buns and sweet water.
At that time, the customer stared at her for a long time while eating buns and drinking sweet water in the shop.
Later, the customer asked her, "Are you Cui Li?"
She was puzzled at the time because regular customers all knew her name.
She said at the time: "Yes, how did you know mine?"
The customer just smiled, said nothing, and continued eating his buns.
After eating the buns and drinking the sweet water, he left.
Now Cui Li thought back, the customer seemed to be someone from their village. It must have been that person who went back to the village and told Cui's parents.
"When did you divorce Liang Nan? We went to the slum to look for Liang Nan, but he was no longer there. People in the slum said that his family had moved away a long time ago, and Liang Nan was even in jail." said Cui's father.
"Why didn't you discuss such a big thing as your divorce with Liang Nan with us?" Cui's mother asked.
Cui Li didn't want to answer their questions, but asked, "Why are you coming to see me now?"
Cui's father's face was full of displeasure: "Now that you have a good life, you don't care about your parents anymore. Why haven't you contacted your family for so many years?"
"You haven't contacted me since you asked me to marry Liang Nan." Cui Li said.
"We are your parents. We gave birth to you and raised you. You still want to put on airs in front of us? If we don't contact you, why don't you contact us? We have raised you for so many years, and you are such an ungrateful person that you don't even respect your parents?" Cui's mother glared.
Cui Li sneered, "Is that why you waited ten years to come find me, pretending to care about me? How do you expect me to be filial to you?"
Cui's parents didn't hide it. They had never taken their daughter seriously, but they hadn't expected the girl they least cared about would suddenly become so successful. Naturally, they wouldn't pretend to be anything in front of Cui Li anymore.
"I heard from the neighbors around here that you helped out here when this bun shop first opened. Over the years, you've made a lot of money and even bought a house. Your dad and I are both short of money lately, so you can give us three thousand yuan."
Cui Li smiled speechlessly.
Three thousand...
Although she could easily earn 3,000 yuan a year, that was two to three years' worth of income for most urban families. Furthermore, her parents were still in the countryside, where a family earning 1,000 yuan a year was considered quite good. Yet, her parents were asking for 3,000 yuan.
Her parents definitely didn't know her income situation, but they asked for so much money right away, clearly wanting to test how much money she had and take all the money she had.
"Where did I get so much money?" Cui Li said, "Back then, you asked me to marry Liang Nan and took a large betrothal gift from the Liang family. That betrothal gift was almost like selling me off. I don't owe you anything, and I don't have any money to give you."
"We worked so hard to raise you, you owe us your whole life! How dare you say you don't owe us anything?!" Cui's father said angrily.
"You're such an ungrateful person!" Cui's mother was also furious. "If I had known you were a hopeless child, I should have listened to your grandmother and drowned you in the piss bucket when I gave birth to you!"
"Fortunately, you didn't drown me, otherwise you wouldn't have the chance to sell me to the Liang family for so much money." Cui Li said sarcastically.
Cui's father was furious and rushed in to hit Cui Li, but was stopped by Zhong Lan.
"Uncle, this is not your home. If you take action here and affect my boss's business, we will report it to the police." Zhong Lan said.
Father Cui glared at Zhong Lan fiercely and couldn't help it.
He said to Cui Li, "Your mother and I will be sitting outside waiting for you. If you don't give us money, we won't leave!"
Cui Li said coldly, "You'd better sit further away. If you sit too close and affect the business of the bun shop, don't blame our boss for sending people to shoo you away."
Both Mr. and Mrs. Cui were furious.
"You heartless thing!" Cui's father cursed fiercely.
He and Cui's mother went across the street and sat on the side of the road, staring at the bun shop without blinking, as if they were watching a thief.
When Cui Li was busy for a while and looked across the street again, Cui's father and mother were still sitting on the side of the road, without even changing their posture.
Cui Li sighed.
Zhong Lan heard her sigh and said to her, "It seems like your parents won't leave until they get the money."
Cui Li nodded: "I think so too."
Zhong Lan asked her, "What are you going to do? Give them money? If you pay them this time, they will definitely ask you for money again in the future."
"I don't know," Cui Li said. "I don't want to give them money. But if I don't, I'm worried they'll keep pestering me."
"Whether you give them money or not, they will keep pestering you. You might as well keep fighting with them and see who can't stand it first," Zhong Lan said.
Cui Li pondered and said, "That's a solution."
She added, "I don't want them to know that the house I live in now was bought by myself."
"That's easy," Zhong Lan said, "Then we'll just say the house belongs to Fu Yue."
Cui Li nodded: "Also, when you go back, lock the door between our houses. Don't let my parents know that our houses are connected."
Zhong Lan nodded vigorously: "Okay."
In the afternoon, Laibao, Huandi and Yao Zaoer came back together after school.
Around seven o'clock in the evening, Zhong Lan and Cui Li closed the bun shop and took their three children home.
Cui's father and mother followed them at a distance.
Laibao noticed it and asked Cui Li: "Mom, it seems like those two people have been following us."
Cui Li said, "Those are Mom's parents. They came to ask Mom for money."
Laibao and Huandi were both stunned.
They have never seen their mother's parents, so they have forgotten that their mother also has a father and a mother.
"Why do they ask mom for money?" Laibao asked.
Cui Li thought about it and told Lai Bao and Huan Di the truth, including that she was not favored at home and that her father and mother had not cared about her since she married Liang Nan.
"Mom, you must not give them money." Huandi said, "They don't care about you at all, you can't give them money."
Laibao also said: "Sister is right. When mom was in such a difficult time, they didn't come to care about her. Now that our lives are good, they think of her and come to ask for money. Mom can't give it to them."
Cui Li was very pleased that Huan Di and Lai Bao understood her.
The next morning, when Cui Li and Zhong Lan went out to the bun shop together, they saw Cui's father and mother dozing off by the wall not far away.
Thinking that Cui's father and mother had been guarding her outside all night, Cui Li felt a little bad.
She pulled Zhong Lan and walked away quickly.
The bun shop is as busy as usual in the morning.
In the midst of her busy schedule, Cui Li glanced across the street but did not see Cui's father and mother.
But when they finished their work in the morning, around noon, Cui's father and mother appeared across the street again.
When they saw Cui Li looking at them, they crossed the road and came to the bun shop.
"Cui Li, you have made it big. The house you live in now was actually bought by you! You even lied to us that you couldn't come up with 3,000 yuan!" said Cui's father.
This morning they asked around and found out that the house Cui Li lives in now was bought by her, and that Cui Li lives alone in that house with her two children.
Cui's mother said, "How about this, we don't want the three thousand yuan. Just give us one thousand yuan, but you must let me, your father, and your brother and sister-in-law move into the house you're living in now."
Cui Li smiled speechlessly. "What are you dreaming about? That house is not mine at all. My boss bought it and rents it to me. I still have to pay her rent every month."
"Stop lying to us!" Cui's father said, "We've already inquired, and your neighbors all say you bought the house yourself."
"Of course they hope I bought the house myself. That way they can find me a good marriage and get more matchmaking fees," Cui Li said, using the excuse she had prepared long ago. "Otherwise, how could they find me a marriage? I'm a divorced woman with two children. But the truth is, the house isn't mine at all, and I'm too lazy to explain it so clearly to someone who has nothing to do with it."
Cui's father and mother were skeptical.
They wondered how Cui Li could possibly afford such a large house. Besides, it was common for everyone to embellish their status in order to secure a good marriage.
only……
Cui's mother said, "Your neighbors said you didn't want to get married at all. They were matchmaking for you, and you told them so yourself."
"It's not that I don't want to get married, but I don't want to marry the person they introduced to me. None of the people they introduced to me are good, so I told them that I don't want to get married." Cui Li said.
Cui's father and mother recalled that when they asked Cui Li's neighbors about Cui Li in the morning, those neighbors looked down on Cui Li and thought that women should live a good life with men and there was no need for divorce.
Cui's father and mother actually had similar ideas.
Thinking about it this way, they could understand why those people introduced such ordinary people to Cui Li.
They basically believed Cui Li's words.
Cui's father said, "Since the house is not yours, you should give us three thousand yuan. If you don't give us the money, we won't leave."
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