Chapter 85 This year, Yang, who was far away in Qingshui Village...
After some effort, Chen Aiguo finally took out the bank card from his shirt pocket.
"Grandpa, did you put all the money you borrowed this time into it?" Feeling a little guilty and a little touched, Chen Pan subconsciously confirmed.
"Well, I did put in a little bit, but not much. This time, we were lucky to have the 30,000 yuan. The 15,000 yuan in your medical expenses, and the money we used to pay for the delivery after I came back, were actually taken from that. No matter what, we should pay back the money first. Although he said that this money is not urgent, it is prepared for his mother just in case. We can't really pretend that we are not anxious." Chen Aiguo, whose complexion gradually recovered, slowly sat down at the head of Chen Pan's bed.
He looked at the furry little head that peeped out from under the quilt and wanted to say something. But when he thought about the little thing that had almost cost his granddaughter her life, he closed his eyes again, looking away.
"Do we have enough liquidity these days? If not, I'll take a break until August and work at People's Park for another month like I did last year."
Chen Pan took the opportunity to tell her grandfather that she planned to find someone to do the same thing as last year in a few days.
"No, ever since I told the media about our focus on quality, as you said, and donated some of the damaged flour, our business has been booming. Even if you go to People's Park to find some friends now, you won't find as many as last year. And your health—after all, you had brain surgery. Let's just be obedient and not dwell on it for now, okay?"
“…” Chen Pan was silent.
Grandpa Chen thought about it, then told Chen Pan that he had received a call from the police station today. Tomorrow morning, he would go to the police station to discuss reconciliation with Li Ashan.
"According to the police, even if we donate the ones we punctured for free, Li Ashan will probably give us three times the compensation to avoid being convicted. The number I reported at the time was two hundred bags. Flour costs 15 yuan per bag, so two hundred bags is 3,000 yuan. If they really pay three times the compensation, that would be nine thousand yuan. Add a little bit of lost wages and mental damages, and if all goes well, I can get about ten thousand yuan from the other party tomorrow. That way, we can make up for the money you lost this time with this compensation."
This matter had not been fully confirmed yet, and Chen Aiguo had not wanted to speak out immediately. But seeing that his granddaughter was starting to worry about the money again, he had no choice but to bring it up.
"Grandpa, do you mean that the matter of the Li family coming to our house was finally blamed on Li Ashan?" He breathed a sigh of relief, but then Chen Pan focused on the key point of the matter.
"Well, after the incident became a big deal, the Li family pushed Li Ashanding to be the culprit. They had previously brought people to our factory to find people to randomly destroy property, and there was also the incident where more than 20 people from the Li family factory came to our factory to cause trouble. In the end, all of this was blamed on him. He has been detained by the police station for several days. Later, TV stations and newspapers interviewed him, and his apology interview was later reported in the news and newspapers. But I don't know what happened, and later no one seemed to care about the outcome of this matter. So not many people knew about his arrest and the apology in the news."
Grandpa Chen, who had once enjoyed the benefits of news, scratched his head and was puzzled.
Seeing him like this, Chen Pan burst out laughing. "That's called the timeliness of news. For something like ours, everyone's enthusiasm will only last for seven or eight days at most. After those few days, most people will have lost interest in it. And he's not the main person involved in this matter. When it comes to the Li family's affairs, the person everyone is most interested in right now is probably Li Chengcai himself—"
Chen Pan was saying this when Grandma Li next door suddenly yelled, "Pan Pan, old man, come here quickly. The Li family's affairs are on the news again, and this time Li Chengcai is also on the news!!"
Almost as soon as Grandma Chen finished speaking, Chen Pan, who was in pajamas, and Grandpa Chen, who was still a little drunk, hurried to the next room together.
After they got there, they saw Li Chengcai, who was detained and had his hair shaved, on the local news broadcast that was rebroadcast at 10 o'clock.
"Hello, Mr. Li, can you tell us about your disappearance a while ago? Where did you go?"
“…”
"Student Li, why are you silent? Since you don't want to talk about this, can you tell us about how you stabbed your father and his secretary? And your brother? I heard he's confirmed dead. How could you have the heart to kill such a young child?"
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"Student Li, can you tell me how you feel now? Do you regret it now?"
“…”
No matter what the reporter asked, Li Chengcai, with his head shaved and his eyes gloomy, remained silent. With no other options, the reporter could only ask one final, routine question: "Mr. Li, do you have anything else to say to your parents?"
The female reporter who went to the detention center specifically for the interview thought that Li Chengcai would still not be able to speak behind the iron bars this time.
But surprisingly, Li Chengcai, who had been silent the entire time, slowly raised his head. Glancing at the camera, he impatiently said, "Hey, Dad, there's a deaf and dumb old beekeeper living in the woods behind the Black Spring Reservoir. I promised to give him 10,000 yuan as a thank you when I get home. Don't forget to give it to him for me, and it'd be best if you give it to him this month! Don't put it off!"
"What? Classmate Li, do you mean that you were with him during the time you were missing?" Seeing that he was finally willing to speak, the young reporter interviewing him became obviously excited.
But no matter how the reporter asked, Li Chengcai returned to his previous state, leaning back in his chair and remaining silent.
With the reporter's words, our station will continue to pay attention to this matter. This simple interview of about two minutes ended quickly.
As soon as the news was over, everyone in the room started discussing it enthusiastically.
Wu Cuicui: "This is Li Chengcai, he's quite handsome."
Xu Yanni: "No matter how good-looking he is, he can't escape the fact that he is a murderer."
Grandma Chen: "Yanni is right. He is a typical beast in human form."
Grandpa Chen: "Alas, this child used to be very well behaved. Every time he met us on the road, he would raise his little head and call us Third Grandpa and Third Grandma. He is like this because he was spoiled by his parents."
Grandma Chen Er: "After all, he's the only one in his family, and his family conditions have suddenly become so good. Everyone around him pampers him and praises him. Gradually, he has become spoiled."
Uncle Chen: "I heard that Li Decheng was injured there. I hope it's fake. I hope he can still have children. If not, his family may be extinct."
Chen Laoshi: "I don't think it's that serious yet. No matter what, his father will probably protect him."
Chen Pan: "I also feel that his father will save him. Even if he killed someone, his father should find ways to reduce his sentence."
Because of what Chen Pan and Chen Laoshi said, everyone standing in front of Chen Jiaxin's TV fell silent for a moment. But then everyone tacitly agreed that this was fine, as long as he could stay in prison for a few years, everyone could live in peace for a few years.
The next morning, after settling everything, Grandpa Chen went to the Liuping Police Station below.
Li Ashan destroyed the flour in the warehouse here, so the case was finally handled here.
In fact, no one was completely wrong about Li Ashan in this matter.
Li Decheng just asked him to take a few people to Chen Pan's company to look for the missing Li Chengcai.
But he suspected that the Li family had secretly hidden or even killed and dismembered Li Chengcai, so he took people with iron hooks and knives and cut open many flour bags in the Chen family's warehouse.
The second time the Li family sent people to Chen Pan's house to look for someone was not actually arranged by him. It was a cousin of Li Chengcai's mother's family who led the operation.
But the other party was the child of Li Chengcai's uncle after all, and in the end the matter was put on the head of Li Ashan who had already been arrested by the police.
But Li Ashan was Li Chengcai's cousin after all, and had been raised by the Li family for more than a decade. They couldn't completely ignore him, and before the Li family got into trouble, Li's father had someone take care of everything.
So during this pre-trial mediation, Li Ashan admitted his mistake very quickly.
In the end, the Li family agreed to all the requests made by Chen Aiguo.
Three times the compensation for the two hundred bags of flour, one thousand yuan for Chen Pan's family's mental damages, one thousand yuan for the Chen family's factory's lost wages, plus one thousand yuan for the medical expenses of the Chen family's employees injured that day.
Chen Aiguo felt that he had asked for enough, but even so, the Li family finally agreed.
As for Li Ashan, Chen Aiguo had no intention of sending him to jail.
I know that the other party has been raised by Li Decheng and his wife since he was a child, and that his biological mother has been ill for a long time, and now all medical expenses are paid by the Li family.
After sighing softly and taking the 12,000 yuan compensation that the other party's lawyer had prepared long ago.
Chen Aiguo didn't say much, but simply signed the agreement to mediate. Then he took the money and left the Liuping Police Station.
After this incident, he was no longer afraid of revenge from the Li family.
As soon as Chen Aiguo walked out of the police station, he saw Chen Pan waiting outside.
Looking at the short wig on his granddaughter's head, Chen Aiguo took a deep breath and strode over: "Panpan, when did you come here? Didn't I tell you to wait for me at home?"
"I've only been here for a few minutes, and they didn't let me do anything. I was a little bored, so I came out early to wait for you, Grandpa."
While speaking, Chen Pan turned around and walked down naturally.
Chen Aiguo grabbed his briefcase and followed her downstairs. "You really should rest well in your current situation. They were right not to let you work."
After saying that, Chen Aiguo moved closer to Chen Pan and quickly opened the zipper of his bag a little: "Panpan, look?"
"More than ten thousand?"
Looking at the money inside, Chen Pan smiled subconsciously.
"Yes, there are twelve thousand in total. Let's save the money first, and then we'll go downstairs to buy things and go to Qin Yang's house."
Chen Aiguo, who was speaking, quickly zipped up his bag and carefully held it tightly.
"Well, Grandpa, are we mainly buying food?"
Facing the curious and scrutinizing gazes of the surrounding villagers, Chen Pan spoke softly.
"Yes, you can also buy some supplements and some nice clothes and shoes, but you can't buy anything they have in the store."
The two discussed it together, and finally took a taxi to the city to buy something to express their gratitude.
That summer, Chen Pan finally did not continue her small business selling toys and balloons that she had done the previous year.
In that year's high school entrance examination, Chen Pan's final score was second in his grade.
Although he still didn't get first place, Chen Pan was already satisfied. After all, this result met the requirements for tuition and textbook fee reduction of No. 6 Middle School.
That year, Yang Xiaomei, who lived far away in Qingshui Village, also reportedly did very well on the exams. It was also said that the No. 4 Middle School above them had also started offering tuition and textbook waivers for the top students, and Yang Xiaomei ended up attending No. 4 Middle School for high school. It was also said that Chen Laoshi had loaned her the tuition.
When Chen Pan was injured this time, her great grandfather and second grandfather came to the hospital to visit her on behalf of all the Chen family members.
After she returned home, Cai Xiaojing, Wei Dong and others who had a good relationship with her came to visit her.
Some people, like Yang Xiaodong, whose homes are far away or who are unable to come over, finally called Chen Pan to express their condolences.
Among all the people, Yang Xiaomei, the person Chen Pan was looking forward to the most, didn’t even get a call.
So even after the start of the first year of high school, Chen Pan received a letter from the other party, but he did not reply that time.
Ever since she was suddenly hospitalized for a major surgery, Chen Pan suddenly didn't want to be so saintly anymore. She suddenly felt that she didn't have enough energy and ability to take care of so many other people's lives.
Then after Chen Pan didn't reply that time, they completely lost contact.
Li Chengcai was arrested at the end of July 1993. At the same time the following year, the court sentenced him to seven years in prison for manslaughter.
Knowing that the Li family had used every possible means to achieve this result, everyone, including Chen Pan, felt that it was as expected.
Li Chengcai kidnapped Chen Pan and caused him serious injuries.
But in this day and age, Chen Pan didn't want anyone to know that she was nearly raped, and she didn't want to worry her grandparents. Plus, she had shown absolutely no mercy that day, beating him to death with her whole heart.
At that time, seeing Li Chengcai, who was also beaten with a bloody head like a dead dog, Chen Pan pushed him into the Heiquan Reservoir without hesitation.
In order to delay the possibility of the other party being discovered, Chen Pan also pushed the other party's motorcycle into the reservoir.
To be honest, Chen Pan still doesn't know how he climbed out of the reservoir and how he got to the beekeeping area at the foot of the hillside behind the reservoir.
Anyway, Chen Pan didn't tell anyone what happened between them afterwards.
As for Li Chengcai, even when he was sentenced, Chen Pan went to the court to listen. Even though he saw Chen Pan at the time, he just glanced at Chen Pan lightly and said nothing in the end.
Anyway, since Li Chengcai was in jail and Li Decheng became more low-key and elusive than before, Chen Pan's family took care of their own business and stopped interfering in other people's affairs.
When Chen Pan was in her second year of high school, her family's business finally took off.
While her grandparents hesitated, Chen Pan persuaded them to buy a shop with real street-level access in the north of the city, along with a three-story, three-bedroom apartment near a new residential complex. The 30-square-meter shop cost twice as much as Qin Yang's. The 90-square-meter, three-bedroom apartment in the new complex cost 1,500 yuan per square meter, bringing the total price to over 135,000 yuan. Including taxes, the unfinished apartment would cost 140,000 yuan. This price was significantly higher than in 1992 or 1993.
When Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen were buying a house, they were secretly complaining about the price and were hesitating whether to buy it.
But after Chen Pan's repeated persuasion, they gritted their teeth and paid some down payment, and then bought the small shop and the small three-bedroom apartment with loans.
Because they take out loans frequently, they are no longer afraid of taking out loans.
Also because the business in the store and factory has always been good, their mortgage was approved very quickly.
When you buy a new shop and a new house, you have to be busy with the renovations and also consider what to do with the new shop.
Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen planned to continue to run the new store as the pancake shop they were familiar with. This time, Chen Pan did not try to persuade them and let them do what they wanted. No, to be more precise, she let her grandmother do what she wanted.
Soon her family opened a second pancake shop.
But this time, they set up their shop in a real breakfast shop model, making pancakes in the back and selling them in the front. They also set up a few tables and provided porridge and pickles.
To that small shop, Grandma Chen called her two nephews and nieces from her mother's side, as well as her two daughters-in-law from her great-grandmother's side.
It can be said that everyone supervises each other and the business is opened like this.
Chen Pan used to like to meddle in other people's business. She liked to give advice on everything at home, whether it was her grandmother's pancake shop or her grandfather's grain and oil company.
Her grandmother's store started using regular cash registers, and the business also increased, so Wu Qianqian was asked to come over to take care of the finances and look after the account books. It was Chen Pan who suggested it.
The grain and oil factory suggested that her grandfather clean up the backyard completely, buy his own oil press and flour mill, and build his own flour and oil press workshops. These were all suggested by Chen Pan.
Later, after I taught everyone how to use the cash register, I saw that the family's factory had actually expanded. They bought a flour mill and an oil press, and now had their own flour mill and oil press. Later, after his family moved to the city, they actually took out a loan to buy a shop and a real house.
At that time, Chen Pan no longer cared about those things.
Then, starting from her senior year of high school, Chen Pan decided that she would be a real senior student who only knew how to spend money and study every day.
Just after Chen Pan had been happily working as a millet bug for a few days, one day in early September, Chen Pan suddenly saw Qin Yang, whom he had not seen for a long time, in his school.
It was not until that time that Chen Pan learned that the older Qin Yang had returned to school.
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