Mrs. Li failed to meet Li Ke.
She was angry, but she couldn't do anything about Li Ke.
In the past, when she was the head of the family, Li Ke dared to go against her and did not take her as her stepmother seriously. All she could do was to withhold the sisters' pocket money. After Li Ke became an adult, she told Li Yongtai that Li Ke was already an adult and did not need to be given pocket money anymore.
At that time, Li Yongtai was so flattered by Mrs. Li that he thought his eldest daughter could find some part-time job to earn pocket money after she became an adult. So he listened to Mrs. Li and stopped giving Li Ke pocket money.
At that time, Li Ke had just been admitted to university.
Fortunately, Li Yongtai saw that his daughter had grown up to be quite pretty, and wanted to help her marry into a wealthy family. During the winter and summer vacations, whenever there was an opportunity to attend a banquet, he would ask his second wife to buy some expensive dresses and jewelry for his eldest daughter, and take Li Ke to various banquets.
Only Li Ke could own those luxury goods, and when the Li family fell into decline, he was able to sell them for money to pay for the tuition of his younger siblings.
Now that Li Ke has relied on the Jun family, Mrs. Li is at a loss as to what to do with Li Ke.
Because she was so angry with Li Ke, Mrs. Li did not save money when she returned home. She called a taxi online to pick her up and went straight to the hospital.
When she saw Li Yongtai, she mocked him: "Your daughter is now clinging to the Jun family's powerful thigh. Not only will she not help us pay off our debts, I can't even see her once. She knew you were in the hospital but she refused to bring me a penny to help pay for your medical expenses."
"Why didn't you strangle such an unfilial daughter to death when she was just born?"
Li Yongtai glared at her and said angrily, "No matter how unfilial you are, you are still my daughter. Li Ke won't even see me, your biological father, let alone you, her stepmother. You know she has always hated you. I told you not to go to her, but you didn't listen and went to her to get angry. Who can you blame?"
After lying quietly in the hospital for two days, Li Yongtai was able to calm down and think about his failures. He realized that it was after he divorced his ex-wife and made his mistress his legal wife that his luck began to decline quietly, which he had never noticed before.
Also, he didn't like gambling before, but after he married his second wife, she led him to gamble and he lost all his huge fortune.
When he was still prosperous, his wife's family made a fortune thanks to him. Now that he is in trouble, his wife's family has stopped associating with him. Even her stepmother can't borrow some money from her parents' home because she was driven out by his two brothers-in-law.
Thinking of his ex-wife and his former in-laws, over the years, his former in-laws had taken care of Li Ke and her two siblings in private. Although his former in-laws were farmers, whenever they came to the city, they would give Li Ke and her two siblings some farm specialties, and would also give them some money in private.
When he first started his business, his ex-wife and his ex-wife's family helped him with all they had. After he became rich, he gave his ex-wife's family a large sum of money, which made their lives much better. But later on, he became much less supportive of them.
After being able to calm down and think about the past and make a comparison, Li Yongtai came to realize that he had started to fail since he betrayed his first wife who had accompanied him in starting his business from scratch.
The fact that he and his ex-wife were able to struggle for ten years before going bankrupt was a blessing they had accumulated.
When I think about when Yongtai Carton Co., Ltd. was still managed by my ex-wife, the company was united and the employees who had worked there for many years were reluctant to resign.
After he got divorced, his current wife, Mrs. Li, helped him run the company and kept placing people from her family in the company. Mrs. Li was also stingy with her employees. Not only did she not give them salary increases, she also often found excuses to deduct their wages. Within half a year, all the old employees had left.
The employees we recruited later also don’t stay long. How can we guarantee the quality of our products if we keep changing workers like this?
Mrs. Li also changed the raw materials. The materials used were not good, so the quality of the cartons produced was poor. Then, customers kept complaining or returning the cartons for redoing, which resulted in losses. Some customers saw that Yongtai's cartons were getting worse and worse, so they simply stopped cooperating.
It was this woman who caused Li Yongtai to go bankrupt.
Li Yongtai came to his senses, but it was too late to regret. Now, he had lost his virtuous wife, and his three children had separated from him after being instigated by his second wife. His two daughters hated him so much that they wanted to sell them to pay off their debts.
When Li Yongtai heard Mrs. Li say bad things about Li Ke again, he couldn't help but refute Mrs. Li.
"Brother Qiang lent us 5,000 yuan, which is enough to cover my medical expenses and leave a little money for living expenses. I will be discharged in two more days and then go find a job."
As long as Brother Qiang and the others stopped beating him, Li Yongtai felt that as long as he worked hard, he would definitely be able to make a comeback.
When he first went bankrupt, he was disheartened and drank all day long. He didn't want to look for a job. He felt that he had been a boss for 20 or 30 years and had worked with many companies. If he went to look for a company and met acquaintances, where would he put his face?
In addition, Brother Qiang's people were very strict in collecting debts and beat him up every few days, which scared him. Brother Qiang and his people asked him to sell his two daughters to pay off half of the debt, and he agreed in a moment of temptation.
As a result, his two daughters now hate him very much.
"What kind of job can you find? You can't be a gigolo. You won't make any money being a gigolo at your age."
Li Yongtai's face darkened. "As long as I want to find a job, I don't believe I'll starve to death. If I really can't find a good job, can't I support myself by working as a bricklayer at a construction site? Instead of asking Li Ke for money at Fengchen Villa, you might as well go back to your mother's house and tell your eldest and second brothers that they each borrowed 500,000 yuan from me when they built their villas. They also wrote IOUs. Tell them to pay me back as soon as possible."
Mrs. Li: "...That happened more than ten years ago."
"What happened more than ten years ago? They borrowed money from me, and they have to pay it back. I was blinded by you in the beginning, so I fattened up your family. Now look at how they repay you?"
Li Yongtai also lay quietly for two days before he remembered that more than ten years ago, when he and Mrs. Li were still secretly together, in order to please his two future brothers-in-law, he openly lent 500,000 yuan each to Mrs. Li's two brothers to build houses.
In fact, the money spent by her two brothers on the two self-built villas in the countryside was all paid by Li Yongtai.
Li Yongtai was glad that Mrs. Li's brother had hypocritically written an IOU. Although he gave more than he borrowed, if he could get one million back now, it would help him get through the difficult times. He could even use that one million yuan to resume the cardboard box business and make a comeback.
As long as Brother Qiang gives him a chance, he will definitely be able to make money to pay off his debts.
Li Yongtai remembered that the two IOUs were given to his ex-wife for safekeeping. After the divorce, his ex-wife gave many things to Li Ke. He wondered if his eldest daughter could still find the two IOUs?
If Mrs. Li's two brothers did not pay back the money, he would directly tell Brother Qiang to let Brother Qiang's people go to them to ask for the money and make sure that they would pay it back obediently.
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