Chapter 120 (Two in One)
The champion of "Singing With You" will receive a reward of 100,000 yuan.
When she went on stage to receive the award, Zeng Xiaoyi cried very sadly. The show "Singing with You" has been running since last year. The new champion of each season will receive a prize of 100,000 yuan, but after receiving the prize, she will have to defend the title in the following season as long as there is no new champion. When defending the title, no matter you win or lose, you will not get any prize money.
One hundred thousand yuan is undoubtedly a huge sum of money for Zeng Xiaoyi, who is seventeen and about to turn eighteen.
The host obviously knew how to create a topic. When accepting the award, he asked Zeng Xiaoyi: "How should you spend this money?"
Zeng Xiaoyi cried and said, "To my godmother and god sister. Without them, I wouldn't be who I am today."
During the few months living in Lin Shuyue's house, Zeng Xiaoyi felt a lot of pressure. She had not received much good treatment since she was a child. Ever since she could remember, her father and mother had always told her that she was a child that no one liked, and that she should be grateful if they were nice to her!
Under such long-term brainwashing, Zeng Xiaoyi developed a mentality that if others are good to you, you have to return the favor double.
No matter how anxious she was before, there was nothing she could do because she was still a high school student. Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing supported her studies, and Lou Fengqin and Bai Wenhua provided her with food and drink. They had no other purpose but to hope that she would study hard, so Zeng Xiaoyi never even thought of going out to work. She couldn't put the cart before the horse.
The few months Zeng Xiaoyi lived in Lou Fengqin's home were the most comfortable time in his life since he was 17 years old. In this family, she doesn't have to be scolded every day, doesn't have to do countless housework as soon as she opens her eyes, and doesn't have to hide under the dim street light at the door to do her homework.
Her room in Lin Shuyue's house was not particularly big, but it was very warm. It was too hot this autumn, so her room was equipped with an air conditioner. Lou Fengqin took her to buy and select bedding, and they were all in her favorite styles and colors. She gets two sets of clothes every month, all brand new, not leftovers from others, and they look really good. Her room is brightly lit, and she has a delicious breakfast when she wakes up in the morning. Even if she does nothing, no one will say anything about her. But if she does well in the exam, a group of people will praise her to the sky.
She had been unable to repay before, but now she could. With all the worries gone, Zeng Xiaoyi felt relaxed all over. That night, she slept very soundly and had a very good dream. On the second day after the competition, Zeng Xiaoyi received the money from the director of the program. After deducting 20% income tax, there was a total of 80,000 yuan left.
After responding to the reporters who came to interview her, she met up with Lou Fengqin and others. As soon as they got in the car, she handed the bank card to Lou Fengqin like she was presenting a treasure.
Lou Fengqin pushed the card back to her: "You take it yourself, we don't want it."
Neither Lin Shuxing nor Lin Shuyue wanted Zeng Xiaoyi's money. Lou Fengqin raised Zeng Xiaoyi just as a matter of having an extra pair of chopsticks. Her tuition and textbook fees were all funded by Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing. She was very hardworking and always ranked among the top five in every exam after going to school. Lin Shuxing was very happy. As for Lin Shuyue, Zeng Xiaoyi was one of the first people she rescued, and Lin Shuyue was already very relieved that Zeng Xiaoyi was able to escape her original fate.
Zeng Xiaoyi insisted on giving it to me, and her reason was very simple: "My parents must have known that I won the championship. If I had the money, they would not let me go."
Zeng Xiaoyi would rather throw the money into the water to hear the sound than give the money to her parents. From May till now, her parents have ignored her. The only time they contacted her was to marry her to a man whose wife had died and who had two children about her age. Zeng Xiaoyi was heartbroken by what they had done over the years.
This is indeed a problem. Bai Wenhua thought about it for a while and said, "Why don't you take it, Ah Feng, and buy some real estate for Xiaoyi, and write her name on it when she comes of age."
Bai Wenhua is a very traditional person. As soon as he had money, he started buying all kinds of value-preserving things. Last month, he bought gold jewelry for all the women in the family. Zeng Xiaoyi also got a pair of earrings, which were very small, but this was Zeng Xiaoyi's first real jewelry, and she cherished it very much.
He now has a lot of spare money and is studying where to buy a house. Zeng Xiaoyi's 80,000 yuan after tax is really a lot. The shop that Lin Shuxing bought in Xiasha Village only cost 80,000 yuan.
Lou Fengqin took a look at Zeng Xiaoyi and thought that this method was indeed a good one. Zeng Xiaoyi had a house, so she would have a way out in the future and her life would not be so difficult.
"Okay." Lou Fengqin was going to go back and ask around to see who was selling a house. It didn't matter if it was small. When the time came, she would have enough money to renovate the house and could build it higher. Lou Fengqin felt that, judging from the current development of Pengcheng, this house would definitely become more and more valuable.
Zeng Xiaoyi directly put the card in her arms: "This is my gift to you, you don't have to buy me anything."
Zeng Xiaoyi didn't want it, but once the money was in Lou Fengqin's hands, it was no longer something she could control. ≡
Lou Fengqin put the money away. This money was earned by Zeng Xiaoyi, and she was a little afraid that Zeng Xiaoyi's parents would take it away. Rather than letting them take it away, it would be better for her to keep it. At least she wouldn't have swallowed Zeng Xiaoyi's money.
On the afternoon of the second day after the competition, the family set off back to Pengcheng. Lin Shuyue was still sleeping when she got in the car. At around eleven o'clock yesterday, Lin Shuyue received a call from Qian Miaomiao who wanted to invite her to dinner. It was hard to refuse the invitation, and since she had already promised it, she had no choice but to get up in the middle of the night to keep the appointment.
The midnight snack lasted from twelve o'clock to three in the morning. Lin Shuyue drank a little too much and slept until noon. She was still sick when she got up to eat and got in the car.
Lin Shuyue felt that she had definitely drunk fake wine. She drank more during the Mid-Autumn Festival than this time, but she sobered up so quickly that time and didn't even have a headache when she woke up.
After returning home from Yangcheng, Lin Shuyue slept for a night and a morning, and only then did she feel that she was finally alive.
At this time, some people were at work, some were at school, and Lin Shuxing followed Lou Fengqin to the store to work. After Lin Shuyue finished washing up leisurely, she took out an apple from the refrigerator and ate it. As soon as the cold apple entered her mouth, her somewhat confused brain instantly became clear. Just after she took two bites, there was a knock on her door. The knocks were very urgent, one after another.
Lin Shuyue frowned, biting an apple and went to open the door. There was a couple standing outside the door, they looked to be in their thirties. While knocking on the door, they kept looking around Lin Shuyue's house.
After seeing Lin Shuyue, the woman's eyes looked at Lin Shuyue back and forth like a searchlight.
"Who are you looking for?" Lin Shuyue's tone was not very good. Lin Shuyue had never met Zeng Xiaoyi's parents, but judging from their aggressive expressions, it was clear that they were the ones.
Lin Shuyue took a closer look and found that just as Zeng Xiaoyi had said, she did not look like them.
"I'm looking for Zeng Xiaoyi." The woman spoke in a very loud voice, and it sounded like she was yelling.
Lin Shuyue uttered an "oh" and her mind wandered uncontrollably. It was almost half past eleven. Lou Fengqin insisted on cooking and eating at home. It was estimated that she would be home in a few minutes.
Speak of the devil, here he appears. Lin Shuyue was just thinking about it when Lou Fengqin came back with Lin Shuxing, carrying a bag of vegetables. Lin Shuxing was also holding a bag of fruits in his hand, and judging from the outline, they should be bananas. As they walked, they talked to Feng Suqing. Ever since the two husbands who practiced Dajing □□ and the mother-in-law joined the bureau, Feng Suqing has been raising the children alone, working on a construction site to earn money while taking care of the children. Although life is hard, there is hope.
She has a very good relationship with Lin Shuyue's family. Whenever she has something good, she will send a portion to Lin Shuyue's family. Seeing how hard she works, Lou Fengqin will bring Chaochao home to play when she is free.
At this moment, Lou Fengqin was preparing to bring Chaochao to her home to eat fruit. When she looked up, she saw the two people standing in front of her second son. The man was wearing a short-sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes, and the woman was wearing a light pink short-sleeved shirt. They were looking at her second son with a critical look. Lou Fengqin frowned and strode over.
As I got closer, I just happened to hear the woman speak: "You are the reporter named Lin Shuyue, right? I am Zeng Xiaoyi's mother, and I am here to take her back."
Zeng Xiaoyi's mother is called Lv Ercai. She said she came to take Zeng Xiaoyi home with confidence, as if they were not the ones who had ignored Zeng Xiaoyi since May.
Zeng Guozhu next to Lv Ercai
He pulled Lv Ercai's sleeve, and Lv Ercai turned around and looked at him, saying, "Hurry up and pack up Zeng Xiaoyi's things and send them out, otherwise, I will go to the police station and sue you for kidnapping a girl!"
Lu Ercai was not interested in any of the programs on TV. She never watched the TV at home. She just thought the TV was noisy. It was also yesterday that her son brought back the evening paper from the day before yesterday. She went to find out and found out that the prize money for the champion of the program Zeng Xiaoyi participated in was 100,000 yuan. What does 100,000 mean?
Lu Ercai and her husband can’t earn that much even if they work in the clothing wholesale market for a whole year! Zeng Xiaoyi can get it just by singing a few songs? This made Lu Ercai's heart change all of a sudden, especially this morning, when she received a call from Hong Kong. Someone actually said that Zeng Xiaoyi could be made into a singer, a singer! Lu Ercai never dreamed that a singer would appear in her home! What's more, the person who called her said that he could give her 200,000 yuan a year.
Lu Ercai couldn't sit still at all. She came here yesterday, but there was no one at Lin Shuyue's house. This morning, she and Zeng Guozhu looked at several real estate projects, just waiting for Zeng Xiaoyi to take her back so that she could get her 100,000 yuan. Then, in the name of guardianship, she would help Zeng Xiaoyi sign a contract to become a singer, and she would have 300,000 yuan in her account.
With the money she has saved over the years, she can buy a big house in a better community in Pengcheng. Next year or the year after, after saving for another two years, she will be able to buy another house. By then, when her family has more houses, she won't have to worry about finding a daughter-in-law. If the family property is large by then, she can also give a decent dowry to her third son!
When Lu Ercai thought about the wonderful life in the future, her heart warmed up. Although the future is bright, Lu Ercai does not want to give up the current benefits. She has inquired about it and found that Zeng Xiaoyi is living a good life in her so-called godmother's home, and she has the best things to use, wear and eat. Lu Ercai didn't want to spend a penny on Zeng Xiaoyi, and she planned to take all these things away.
Lin Shuyue took a bite of the apple in her hand. The apple had been in the refrigerator for a long time, so it was icy cold and very sweet. She leaned against the door frame beside her, ready to watch the show.
"Want to sue us for kidnapping a young girl? Sure, go ahead and sue us, and sue us quickly." Lou Fengqin was not a person without plans. After Zeng Xiaoyi came to her house, she went to investigate near Zeng Xiaoyi's home. Zeng Xiaoyi's life was not going well.
After Zeng Xiaoyi refused to marry a man in his thirties and become a stepmother, Zeng Guozhu and Lu Ercai spread the word that there was no such person as Zeng Xiaoyi in her family. They also said that Zeng Xiaoyi had the nerve to run away, and that whether she lived a good or bad life outside had nothing to do with her family, and she would just treat her as a dead person.
Zeng Xiaoyi's reputation in the village was extremely bad. There were rumors that she seduced men at such a young age, eloped with a man when she was only sixteen or seventeen, and now her child was about to be born. There were even rumors that she was taking drugs and being a prostitute. Lou Fengqin had inquired about it and found that most of these rumors were made up by Lu Ercai.
As mothers, Lou Fengqin really couldn't understand why there was a mother like Lu Ercai. It was as if Zeng Xiaoyi was not her daughter but her enemy! Zeng Xiaoyi was sent to an Internet addiction school because of a particularly ridiculous little thing!
Speaking of this, it is very contradictory. According to her understanding, Zeng Xiaoyi has never been liked by Lu Ercai and his wife, and she doesn't even have pocket money. How come now, she is so willing to let Zeng Xiaoyi go to the Internet addiction school? You know, the tuition fee for the Internet addiction school is not cheap. The price for three months is not low. Can Lu Ercai be willing to spend this money on her?
Lou Fengqin had already whispered to Bai Wenhua that there was an 80% chance that Zeng Xiaoyi was not her parents' biological daughter. Either he was sent to Lu Ercai's home for adoption, or he was fostered in her home. There is another possibility, that he was taken away by mistake. But the third possibility was quickly rejected by Lou Fengqin, because when they went to find Zeng Xiaoyi to transfer to another school, they found that Zeng Xiaoyi's household registration was not under the name of Lu Ercai and Zeng Guozhu, but in the collective household in the village.
It is precisely because of this that Lou Fengqin agreed with Bai Wenhua's suggestion to buy real estate for Zeng Xiaoyi. After all, the money is in the bank card, and it is easy for Lu Ercai to get it. All she needs to do is to have the password or coerce Zeng Xiaoyi. But it is different with real estate. No one can take away her house without Zeng Xiaoyi's consent. There are numerous procedures required for transferring ownership, and Zeng Xiaoyi can seek help from the outside world at any stage.
Upon hearing this, Lu Ercai and his wife turned around and saw Lou Fengqin at a glance. They were not afraid at all. They had asked before, and in Zeng Xiaoyi's case, it was abduction of a girl, because this girl came to live in Lin Shuyue's home without the explicit consent of her guardian.
"When the police come, don't be afraid." Lu Ercai winked at Zeng Guozhu, and Zeng Guozhu took out his cell phone and called 110. They had already discussed it when they came. In order to prevent future troubles, they didn't need to be polite to Lou Fengqin's family, but to break off relations directly. It would be best to make Lin Shuyue's family dislike Zeng Xiaoyi and hate Zeng Xiaoyi. In this way, Zeng Xiaoyi would have no backing and no way to retreat.
By then, Zeng Xiaoyi won’t have to go to school anymore. Since singing is so profitable, she should just sing. After all, there is no point for her to graduate from university. She studies for herself, and once she gets married, the knowledge she has learned cannot be left at home. It would be better for her to drop out of school and become a singer. At least she can earn some money for her family.
Lu Ercai felt that she had raised Zeng Xiaoyi for seventeen years and it was time for her to repay her. It cost one or two thousand yuan to send her to some internet addiction school in the first half of the year. Now when Lu Ercai thinks about it, she still feels the pain as if her flesh was cut. Zeng Xiaoyi is a sensible child. She loves her so much, so shouldn’t Zeng Xiaoyi return her a hundredfold or a thousandfold? So to sum up, Lu Ercai is really not afraid of Lin Shuyue's family at all.
She even called a reporter, who arrived shortly afterwards. The purpose of the beating was to coerce Lin Shuyue's family. The reporter she found told her that once the news was exposed, Lin Shuyue's family would have to send Zeng Xiaoyi back to their home even if they didn't want to, otherwise the public opinion would overwhelm their family.
It was noon at this time. Whether they were natives of Pingsha Village or people who rented houses here, they had all heard of Lin Shuyue's family. Those who had not eaten yet did not plan to eat, and those who were eating came to watch the fun with their bowls in hand.
In just a few minutes, a lot of people gathered at the door of Lin Shuyue's house.
When they saw Zeng Guozhu really called the police, they were immediately shocked. Aunt Wang, who had a good relationship with Lou Fengqin, said directly: "Ah Feng, I told you a long time ago that you can't raise so many children at home, why bother raising other people's children? It's hard work and thankless. You didn't listen to me, now you're in trouble!"
Everyone in Pingsha Village loves Zeng Xiaoyi. She is pretty, well-behaved and sensible. She always rushes to do any work in Lin Shuyue's family.
But even though they like her, they are unwilling to support Zeng Xiaoyi. Even for someone like Lou Fengqin, there are still many people who say that she is doing a thankless job. Some families who are not satisfied with taking advantage of others even want to send their own children to Lin Shuyue's house to be raised by Lou Fengqin.
For people like this, Lou Fengqin would send them back directly.
Lou Fengqin smiled at Aunt Wang, then turned around and turned cold: "You said you are Zeng Xiaoyi's parents, do you have any evidence to prove it?"
As soon as Lou Fengqin said this, not only Lu Ercai and Zeng Guozhu, but even the people around her started looking at her in a strange way. In this world, who would ask others to prove that they are the parents of a child? Isn't this hooliganism?
When Lin Shuyue heard what Lou Fengqin said, she felt that it was similar to those remarks about proving that my father is my father and being asked to come in person to withdraw money from a deceased old man at the bank.
Lu Ercai laughed directly: "You are such an interesting person. Zeng Xiaoyi is my daughter. You can go to our village to ask around. Who doesn't know this? And you have evidence to prove it? Do you think you are a police officer from the Public Security Bureau? How dare you ask me to prove it?"
"You are so powerful, why don't you prove that your two daughters are your daughters?"
Lou Fengqin changed the dish she was carrying to another hand and said calmly, "You are quite funny. You came to my house without any evidence and said that my goddaughter is your daughter. I asked you to provide evidence but you couldn't stand it and started to curse."
"Let me tell you, I've seen a lot of liars like you. Many human traffickers use the same excuse as you when they abduct and sell children!" Lou Fengqin can be said to be the person in Pingsha Village who is most familiar with human traffickers. As soon as she said this, she immediately gained the approval of the onlookers.
"What Ah Feng said makes sense. Look at their faces. They don't look like Zeng Xiaoyi. And they said they were here to pick Zeng Xiaoyi up, but they didn't even go to school. They came directly to Ah Feng's house to pick her up. Don't they know which school Xiaoyi attends?"
"It's possible. You say, these two scammers, could it be that they saw in the newspapers these past two days that Zeng Xiaoyi didn't live with her parents, but instead lived with her godmother Ah Feng, and that there was a lot of bonus money, so they thought of coming here to take the child away?" one person speculated boldly.
At this moment, everyone looked at Lu Ercai and his wife with alertness. After all, what he said made sense. Otherwise, why did they come just because Zeng Xiaoyi became famous, instead of coming earlier or later?
If they were really Zeng Xiaoyi's parents, why didn't they come before? You have to know that Zeng Xiaoyi’s tuition and miscellaneous fees for one semester in high school are about fifteen or sixteen thousand yuan, not including her food and drink!
Lu Ercai felt a little embarrassed by such looks and was about to lose his temper and curse when a middle-aged bald man wearing glasses and with a huge beer belly squeezed into the crowd, followed by a man carrying a camera.
He looked around, his eyes lingered on Lin Shuyue for a moment, then he walked directly to Lv Ercai and held up the microphone high: "Hello, ma'am, are you the mother of Zeng Xiaoyi, the fourth champion of 'Singing With You'?"
Lu Ercai swallowed the curse words that were about to come out of her mouth. She glanced at the camera, pinched herself, and burst into tears in pain. She cried, "Yes, I am. Reporter friends, I have a hard life. I worked hard to raise Zeng Xiaoyi, and provided her with food and drink, and let her study. But once she became famous, she didn't recognize her parents."
Seeing that more and more people were gathering, Lou Fengqin handed the dishes to Lin Shuxing and asked her to go home first. There were so many people around and she couldn't let them run into Lin Shuxing.
Lin Shuxing took the things and went back.
Lin Shuyue had already recognized the reporter who came to interview her and distorted the truth. She took out her cell phone and called reporter Zhang from Pengcheng Entertainment News. Reporter Zhang was waiting in the hospital for the news that Yu Xiangwan was discharged. When he heard what Lin Shuyue said, his head became bigger.
Everyone in the journalist circle knows that Lin Shuyue’s family sponsored a girl who was sent by her parents to an internet addiction school to help her quit her addiction, and after she graduated from the school, her parents wanted her to marry a divorced man. Pang Hui is now helping Zeng Xiaoyi's parents to confuse right and wrong. They will get traffic tomorrow and make money, but after everything is reversed, the reputation of their newspaper will definitely decline!
Reporter Zhang didn't bother to wait and called the editor-in-chief directly.
Pang Hui saw Lin Shuyue making a phone call, but he was not afraid at all. They were an entertainment newspaper, not a serious newspaper, so it was easy for them to report on things in the entertainment industry. Pang Hui could imagine how much of a sensation this report would cause. After all, the provincial TV station has a huge influence in Guangdong Province.
Pang Hui didn’t care at all why Zeng Xiaoyi ran away from home, nor did he care whether what Lu Ercai said was true or false. All he wanted was traffic!
Lin Shuyue just watched Pang Hui and Lu Ercai singing the same tune, saying how difficult it was for Lu Ercai to raise a child over the years, and how disobedient her daughter Zeng Xiaoyi was. In her mouth, it seemed that all the vicious words in the world could be attributed to Zeng Xiaoyi.
Just as Lv Ercai was getting emotional, a beautifully dressed woman with a suitcase squeezed in from the crowd. She looked around first, then looked at Lv Ercai. When Lv Ercai saw her, her expression changed instantly: "You said that you have worked hard to raise Xiaoyi over the years, providing her with food, drink and clothes, and have never treated her unfairly?"
"You said you were especially nice to her? You said you liked her the most?"
"That's not right, Lu Ercai. I've given you a lot of money over the years, right? According to Xiaoyi's living standard, you can't spend all the money I gave you, right?"
Following her words
As he spoke, Lu Ercai's face turned pale.
The exquisite woman took off her sunglasses and looked at Lin Shuyue and Lou Fengqin: "Hello, I am Zeng Xiaoyi's biological mother, Lv Yinglan."
As she finished speaking, the Good and Evil System issued a prompt: [Ding~ The key figure 'Lv Yinglan' has been detected. The limited-time task 'The person who is dead but still alive' has been started. The time limit is 30 days. Please investigate carefully and clear up the doubts in this case. 】
Lin Shuyue opened the system and found that Lu Yinglan, a key figure, had a good and evil value of only 5%. Lu Ercai and Zeng Guozhu's good and evil values are higher than hers.
So the question is, what does this person who is dead but still alive mean?
Lin Shuyue was a little confused. You know, before this, she didn't notice anything unusual.
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