Chapter 617 The Little Things That Were Overlooked
As the saying goes, mediocre people are never envied.
Even in a small, isolated place, some people will go to great lengths for petty gains, harming others to benefit themselves.
People like Ning Anquan's father and Li Weiming's father are considered successful by many, and their interests in all aspects are naturally much greater than those of ordinary people.
When interests are intertwined, it is inevitable to make enemies and endanger family and friends.
However, most of the time, people like them have a certain ability to protect themselves and the people around them.
But once you get involved in things that are hard to understand by common sense, it’s easy to fall into a trap.
Watching helplessly as family members suffer misfortune one by one, and as public opinion around them gradually turns sour, the individual's fortune is affected from the specific incident to the broader situation.
Once the rumors about Mr. Li being a jinx to his wife and children spread widely and became established, the person hiding behind the scenes who was causing the upheaval would naturally step into the limelight and use the fortunes of Mr. Li and the entire Li family for their own purposes.
After hearing Ye Wanxi's words, Mr. Li's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot: "So, when it comes down to it, I'm the one who dragged my two children into this mess?"
"Dad!" Li Juexing, who was initially surprised by this unexpected outcome, immediately came to his senses upon hearing this and said with a look of disapproval, "There's no such thing as implicating or not implicating. If someone really wants to harm us, isn't harming you the same as harming us?"
"Just as Miss Ye just said, family is one, we are all connected and rely on each other. There is no question of who is implicated in whom. What is important now is to find out who wants to harm us and who is behind this. Otherwise, this kind of thing will definitely happen again in the future."
There are only thieves who can steal for a thousand days, but no one can guard against thieves for a thousand days.
If it were just bad luck, that would be one thing, but if it's obvious that someone is pulling strings behind the scenes and using dirty tricks to harm them, they absolutely cannot be careless.
If they fail the first time, they will definitely try a second time, a third time, until they succeed.
Thinking of this, the Li family members felt a chill run down their spines.
“Ah Xing is right. It’s too distant for family to talk about being implicated. Since someone wants to harm us, we should retaliate. What kind of behavior is it to be timid and hesitant? At our age, we can’t even see things as clearly as children.”
Despite her soft-spoken and gentle demeanor, seemingly like a tender little rabbit, Li Weiming's mother is actually quite strong-willed at heart.
The reason she was able to quickly integrate into the family and be accepted by Li Juexing as an outsider was twofold. Firstly, her years of teaching experience and love for children allowed her to better understand children's feelings and difficulties from their perspective. Secondly, it was because of her sensibility, her ability to handle situations clearly and maintain composure, which naturally earned her the respect of others.
After being scolded by his wife, Mr. Li was not angry at all. Instead, he chuckled twice and said embarrassedly, "My wife is right. I was wrong. Miss Ye, after you've said so much, can you tell me who is behind all this trouble, causing my family members to get into trouble one by one?"
Ye Wanxi did not answer immediately, but pondered for a moment and asked in return, "Besides what happened to your two children this time, has anything else strange happened in your family? It may not be anything major, but it may be some minor things that you have not noticed before. Think about it carefully."
The four members of the Li family exchanged glances, all looking somewhat bewildered.
But since Ye Wanxi had asked, they tried their best to recall.
"Ah!" Madam Li's exclamation startled the three people who were deep in thought, causing them to widen their similar eyes in unison.
"What's wrong? Did something come to mind?"
"I suddenly remembered something. Once, when Wang's wife had a stomachache and got up in the middle of the night, she said that when she passed by the backyard, she saw that the window of Old Li's study was wide open and the curtains were flying out. In the middle of the night, with the night wind blowing, it looked quite frightening. It scared Wang's wife quite a bit. She was already feeling unwell with a stomachache, and she almost lay down in the backyard to call an ambulance."
"Later, she hurriedly ran away and stayed overnight. When she came back the next day, she felt better and realized that what had frightened her was just the curtain that had been blown out of the window by the evening breeze."
Madam Li paused at this point, her expression becoming somewhat grave.
Wang Sao is their family's cook. Although she is responsible for their three meals a day, she does not live in the same building as them.
She rarely comes to the front, and what happened that night, in her words, was purely accidental.
When Mrs. Li heard about this, she thought it was an accident. She assumed that the cleaning lady had forgotten to close the window after cleaning the study, or that Mr. Li had opened the window for ventilation while doing something in the study and then forgot to close it afterwards.
But now that Ye Wanxi brought it up, she felt that the whole thing was strange.
Their study has two windows, but the one facing the backyard is almost always sealed off because it faces the bookshelves.
With so many books on the shelf, if it rains and I forget to close the window, it would be a disaster.
Therefore, whether it's Mr. Li or the hourly worker, they would open another window instead of that one if they needed ventilation.
As soon as Madam Li finished speaking, Li Weiming also exclaimed softly, "I just remembered something too."
"What?"
“Once, I got up in the middle of the night hungry and went to find something to eat. I had just stepped out of my room and reached the stairwell when I heard something running around in the hallway. I thought it was a mouse that had gotten into the house, so I didn’t pay much attention. I went downstairs and found something to eat. The next morning, I asked Wang’s wife and the others to buy some rat poison to get rid of the mice in the house. It’s too rampant for them to be running around like that in the middle of the night.”
Li Weiming said somewhat embarrassedly, "Thinking back now, the sound that night was really loud; it didn't seem like a rat."
After Li Weiming finished speaking, everyone's hair stood on end.
Making such a commotion in the middle of the night, what else could it be but a rat? And considering the window that opened inexplicably and the curtains fluttering, it definitely smells like that!
With the two of them starting this, Li's father and elder brother also began to recall some strange things that had happened in their home before.
Upon further discussion, everyone realized that quite a few strange and unusual things had indeed happened in the family recently.
It was just a minor matter, and they hadn't taken it seriously before, nor had they ever made such a general assessment.
Now that Ye Wanxi has asked, their chattering and summarizing have led to a rather unsettling thought!
When did all these things start happening?
"Let me think, it seems like it was about two months ago?"
"Mine seems to have come a little earlier."
Listening to their discussion, Ye Wanxi quickly came to a conclusion: these strange and fragmented events in the Li family probably happened two or three months ago.
Li Juexing saw that webpage after that.
It's worth mentioning that these incidents seem to mostly occur near their home study.
(End of this chapter)
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