Chapter 446 The truth of coincidence
Li Suizhi's sudden outburst of hatred startled Ning Anquan, and also gave a jolt to Zou Hanming and the others who were enjoying a juicy piece of gossip.
Zou Hanming and Xiang Linsheng, as Ning Anquan's good friends, had both met Ning's father.
Although I knew that some of the things he did were worth criticizing, I also secretly felt that he was not the kind of person Li Suizhi described.
They thought Ning Anquan would react strongly and refute Li Suizhi's words, but to their surprise, he was the calmest of them all.
"A little favor? I'm rather curious, how 'small' is a little favor in your eyes?"
Upon hearing Ning Anquan's question, Li Suizhi's face turned green.
Those who can make their fortune through real estate are usually from well-off families, and Ning Anquan's father was one such example.
When Ning Anquan's grandfather was in charge, their family, though not a prominent clan, was still considered quite wealthy.
So when the two were in college, only Ning Anquan's father had extra money in his dormitory. He started his own small company before graduation, leaving his peers far behind in terms of material wealth.
In contrast, Li Suizhi's parents were just ordinary workers in a small factory.
A young person's self-esteem is more fragile than paper; it can be easily punctured.
Li Suizhi was like that back then; Ning Anquan's father's family background and appearance once made him feel very inferior.
His first love's choice dealt him a heavy blow, but the real reason he completely broke with Ning Anquan's father was the huge change in his family during his junior year of college.
"Back then, my father was deceived and unwittingly became a guarantor for someone, which forced him to incur a debt of 500,000 yuan that he could not repay."
Thirty years ago, 500,000 yuan was enough to buy several houses today, without exaggeration.
Even for the Ning family, this was a considerable sum; for the Li family at the time, it was an astronomical figure.
“I begged your father, I knelt down and begged him. I knew that 500,000 was not a small amount for him, so I didn’t dare to borrow that much from him. I only asked him to lend me 100,000 first, just 100,000, to solve my father’s urgent problem. But he refused.”
Years later, Li Suizhi still couldn't help but get teary-eyed and lose control of his emotions when he talked about this: "This amount of money was nothing to him, but he just wouldn't lend it. He watched helplessly as my father was driven to the point of jumping off a building by those debt collectors. My mother also fell ill because of this and passed away not long after."
Li Suizhi could never forget that his father left a will, hoping to relieve his family's burden by dying, but little did he know that those debt collectors didn't care whether the debtor was alive or dead.
The debts of one's father must be repaid by one's son. His father died, and the huge sum of 500,000 yuan fell into his hands. He and his mother were besieged at home every day by debt collectors.
They banged on the door and windows, threatening and cursing the mother and son from outside. The mother was already very sad because of her father's death, and because of these people's harassment, she was constantly worried and soon passed away in depression.
Although Zou Hanming and the others sympathized with Li Sui's family after hearing about their situation, they could not accept that he would take his anger out on Ning Anquan's father because of it.
"It's true that your parents' situation is regrettable, but if anyone is to blame, it's the person who deceived your father into acting as a guarantor and then absconded with the money, as well as those who were chasing after debts and vandalizing the place. Your anger towards A-Quan's father is completely misplaced. Even if you are good friends and brothers, he had no obligation to help you. Haven't you ever heard the saying, 'Helping is a favor, not helping is one's right'? He doesn't owe you anything."
"Hanming is right. You keep saying that this is a small matter, that 100,000 yuan is just a small amount of money for Aquan's father, but is that really the case? Only Aquan's father can judge whether 100,000 yuan is a small amount of money for him, not just based on your own assumptions."
Xiang Linsheng looked at Li Suizhi and said bluntly, "To put it bluntly, you are simply taking your anger out on your uncle. If you had any sense, you would know that you should hate and seek revenge on those who harmed your parents, not your uncle who did nothing at the time."
People are more critical of those they are closest to. If Li Suizhi had borrowed money from an ordinary classmate with whom he had no close relationship, he might have only felt frustrated instead of harboring resentment if the classmate had refused.
Because Ning Anquan's father had a good relationship with him, Li Suizhi felt that they had a bond, and because of this bond, Li Suizhi naturally felt that the other party should lend him the money, and should lend it to him.
In the end, however, he gained nothing, and this disappointment fueled Li Suizhi's resentment and indignation.
The proverb "a small favor is appreciated, but a large one breeds resentment" is roughly like this.
Hearing their accusations, Li Suizhi suddenly chuckled softly: "How do you know I haven't contacted them?"
As the two of them said, the culprit was the swindler who cheated his father and caused him to be burdened with huge debts, followed by the debt collectors who drove his father to jump off the building, and finally, his father, whom he had taken his anger out on.
Li Suizhi spent more than a decade climbing from a poor boy whose family was destroyed to a position of social elite.
After achieving success in his career, the first thing he did was to send people to find the bastard who had absconded with the money and the people who had been chasing him for debts back then.
Unfortunately, those debt collectors are prone to offending people, and many are gone before they can take revenge.
On the contrary, the culprit who caused his family's ruin is living a pretty decent life with the 500,000 yuan he swindled. He is not only married, but also has children and a happy family.
This outcome deeply stung Li Suizhi's eyes, so he didn't hesitate to take revenge, driving him to the point of family ruin and death, and forcing him to jump off a building, just like his father who had been driven to desperation years before.
The two men felt a chill run down their spines as they looked at the smile on Li Suizhi's face. It was Ning Anquan who finally broke the silence.
Was the year your father passed away the year before you were about to graduate?
"How do you know?"
With his suspicions confirmed, Ning Anquan's face grew even more somber: "Then do you know that not only did your father die that year, but my grandfather also passed away?"
Li Suizhi's heart skipped a beat, and his gaze toward Ning Anquan was filled with hostility: "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that my dad really couldn't lend you the money back then because what you consider a small matter was a huge deal to him. Ten thousand yuan was a lifeline for him at the time."
Ning Anquan met Li Suizhi's eyes: "That year, my grandfather suddenly suffered a heart attack. His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he almost needed surgery immediately. Surgery requires a lot of money. To treat my grandfather, my father almost emptied our savings, and even sold his company at one point. Under such circumstances, do you still think that the 100,000 yuan you asked for is not excessive?"
(End of this chapter)
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