Ningtang went to pick up the letter, and when she looked at the postmark, she saw that it was from Da Wa again?

She cut the envelope with a knife and read the letter paper at a glance. The more she read, the more her brows wrinkled.

Shen Lie was surprised, "Did Da Wa write this? What's that? You look like that."

Ning Tang handed him the letter and said, "Read it yourself."

Shen Lie came over and read quickly, his expression even more exaggerated than Ning Tang's, his eyes almost bursting, "What? Su Guangzong is so addicted to playing games that he can't even go to school, and he still owes his boss more than a thousand yuan?"

When Da Wa first sent the letter back, he really thought Su Guangzong was just playing around. How could he be so obsessed with it? He even owed more than a thousand yuan.

Ning Tang nodded and said, "More than that, Da Wa said that he, Er Niu and Da Hu tried to stop it, but Su Guangzong didn't listen. He could only write back and ask us to pass it on to Ning Xue and Su Junyan."

Moreover, it would take several days for the letter to be sent from Shanghai to Hailang Island. During these days, Su Guangzong was probably still in the game hall playing fruit machines.

Shen Lie walked a few steps on the spot, then suddenly stopped and asked, "Tell me, do they know about this?" He was referring to Ning Xue and Su Junyan.

"You didn't? You mean you mentioned it to Su Junyan last time?" Ning Tang asked.

"Yes, he mentioned it." Shen Lie said, "but I didn't see any reaction from him." Ning Xue didn't react either.

Either Su Junyan didn't tell Ning Xue, or the couple didn't take it seriously.

Shen Lie frowned, "So? What should we do now?"

"What can we do? Whoever made the mistake will have to clean it up." Ning Tang said, "Give the letter to Su Junyan tomorrow, and we will have nothing to do with it."

To put it bluntly, Su Guangzong was not her son, so what does it have to do with her?

Besides, she was afraid that Da Wa would tell Su Junyan and Ning Xue about this, and Su Guangzong would hate him and get him into trouble.

Shen Lie sighed and said, "It can only be like this."

In the evening, Ning Tang and Shen Lie washed up and lay down on the bed.

Shen Lie tossed over and over, but just refused to fall asleep.

Ning Tang opened his eyes and kicked him, "Where are you making pancakes? Are you going to let me sleep?"

Shen Lie turned his back and muttered something, then turned around and faced Ning Tang, "Tell me, how did Su Guangzong become like this?"

Even though the letter sent by Da Wa only gave a rough outline of the story, Shen Lie was very smart and could still figure out a little bit of it.

Su Guangzong's various behaviors do not show that he is addicted to playing video games. It is obvious that he has gone crazy from playing video games. He even eats and sleeps in the game hall. How can he not be crazy?

Ning Tang: "You ask me, how would I know?"

Shen Lie sighed again.

After all, he was the child that Shen Lie had watched grow up since he was young. Even though Su Guangzong seldom went out, he lived across the street and Shen Lie had almost watched him grow up day by day. It was impossible for Shen Lie not to have mixed feelings when he suddenly heard that he had become like this.

He glanced at Ning Tang and found that she didn't look surprised at all. "You don't seem surprised at all."

"What are you surprised about?" Ning Tang said, "In fact, I had expected Su Guangzong to behave like this."

Not to mention Su Guangzong, I'm afraid Su Yaozu is about the same.

Hearing this, Shen Lie was extremely surprised. "What? You guessed that he would be addicted to video games?"

"No, I'm not that smart." Ning Tang said, "I just guessed that something bad will happen to him in the future."

Shen Lie said, "He looked fine when he was little, how come he became crooked when he grew up?"

When the Su family twins were young, before the show-off incident happened, they were the two most popular children in the entire military compound.

He is handsome, well-behaved, has good academic performance, and is extremely obedient. He is simply the boy of my dreams.

Whenever they mentioned their two sons, especially the twins, one was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the other was admitted to Fudan University, Ning Xue and Su Junyan would stand very straight.

I didn’t expect that now…

Ning Tang: "Good bamboos can produce bad bamboo shoots, let alone bad bamboos."

Shen Lie: "Can't you be more tactful?"

Ning Tang glanced at him, and Shen Lie raised his hands in surrender, "Okay, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Ning Tang opened his eyes and closed them again, "Remember when Ning Xue and I first got married and moved to Hailang Island? At that time, Ning Xue came to me every day and asked me if I was jealous, because Su Guangzong and Su Yaozu recognized her as their mother when she had just arrived for a few days, and at that time, Da Wa and his three brothers always treated me as their stepmother. She wanted to outdo me in everything, so she asked me that. But to be honest, I was not jealous at all, but I was chilled and scared."

"Why?" Shen Lie asked.

Ning Tang: "You can calculate it yourself. It's only been a few days, and Su Guangzong and Su Yaozu have forgotten their biological mother so quickly and acknowledged Ning Xue as their mother. Just because the Su twins have forgotten their biological mother so quickly and only acknowledged Ning Xue as their stepmother, you can tell that these two are ruthless and heartless people. It's chilling to think about it."

Since he is such a heartless person, it's not surprising that he does anything.

After hearing what she said, Shen Lie fell silent, because it did make some sense.

Ning Tang looked Shen Lie in the eyes and said, "To tell you the truth, when I first came here, the eldest, second, third, and fourth children didn't recognize me and even looked at me coldly. I didn't feel unhappy, but was glad. If they had really forgotten their biological mother so quickly, I should have been scared."

Shen Lie blinked at her anxiously, "Then, how did you fall in love with the eldest, second, and third children?"

Ning Tang curled up the corners of his mouth, "They are all good kids."

If you are good to them, they will return the favor to you tenfold.

As they talked, they fell asleep.

Shen Lie had a dream. In the dream, he married Ning Xue. The two quarreled every day. The eldest, second and third children grew up in endless quarrels. The eldest was gloomy, the second was inferior, and the third was unruly. When the eldest was 18, he failed to get into college, so he walked into a game hall...

He woke up suddenly. He forgot what he dreamed about when he woke up, but he still remembered that it was a nightmare.

After getting up in the morning, Shen Lie made breakfast, which consisted of porridge with four side dishes: black cucumber with soybean sauce, sun-dried radish strips, amaranth mixed with sesame oil, and a dish of golden pork floss.

With four side dishes, the two of them drank up a large pot of porridge.

After breakfast, Shen Lie said, "Shall I go deliver the letter now?"

Ning Tang: "Go ahead."

Just as he was about to leave, he heard Ning Xue's loud shout from the Su family's yard across the street, "No way, my son can't possibly owe you so much money."

Shen Lie and Ning Tang looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

Shen Lie hasn't even gone to deliver the letter yet, what is the Su family arguing about?

The two of them hurriedly walked out of the house, and just as they reached the door, they saw Su Junyan and Ning Xue standing at the door. In front of them was a young man who was standing unkemptly, wearing loose clothes and looking sloppy.

When Su Junyan got up in the morning, he received a letter from the postman. The letter was from Su Guangzong's school. The gist of it was that Su Guangzong had not attended classes for a long time, and the cumulative absence time was as long as two months. After discussion, the school decided to expel him.

When Su Junyan saw the stamp of the letter for the first time, he thought someone was playing a joke on him. Then he took another look and saw that it was indeed postmarked from Shanghai, and the school's official seal was also stamped on the letter paper.

When such a big thing happened, Su Junyan's first reaction was to hide the letter.

But what a coincidence, isn't it? Coincidentally, when Ning Xue came back from buying groceries, she happened to run into Su Junyan hiding the letter.

She thought it was Su Guangzong or Su Yaozu who sent the letter back, so she snatched the letter away and glared at Su Junyan, "Why didn't you tell me earlier when they sent the letter back? Was it from Guangzong? Or was it from Yaozu??"

Su Junyan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He scratched his ears and cheeks, but he couldn't say the words to stop her from reading the letter.

Ning Xue opened the letter with joy in her heart, read ten lines at a glance, and then the joy froze on her face.

Before the two of them went to the grocery store to call Su Guangzong and ask him what was going on, Li Gou showed up.

Li Gou asked around and found the Su family. He knocked on the door and asked, "Hey, are Su Guangzong's parents home?"

Ning Xue and Su Junyan thought that someone from the school had come, and were preparing to plead for mercy with the principal or teacher, but when they went out, they saw that it was a complete stranger they had never seen before.

Ning Xue looked at him suspiciously, "Who are you? How do you know Guangzong? What are you doing in our house?"

Li Gou answered three questions in a row one by one.

He narrowed his small eyes, "Me? My name is Li Gou, how do I know Su Guangzong? Haha, you two don't need to know this. Why did I come to your house? I came to ask for money."

"You want money?!" Ning Xue and Su Junyan exclaimed in unison.

"Yes, I want money." Li Gou sucked his teeth, took out a stack of papers from his pocket and handed them to the two people, "Here, you can see for yourselves, Su Guangzong owes us so much money."

Ning Xue took it doubtfully and looked through the pages one by one.

On February 14, Su Guangzong owed Li Dali 300 yuan.

On March 15, Su Guangzong owed Li Dali 200 yuan.

On April 14, Su Guangzong owed Li Dali one hundred yuan.

The amount doesn't seem large if you look at it alone, but it's a thick stack of papers, with one hundred here and two hundred there. When you add up the total, it's really not a small number.

Ning Xue's heart skipped a beat every time she counted a bill. The total amount here was at least more than two thousand or nearly three thousand yuan.

What shocked her even more was that she had been tutoring the twins since they were young and knew their handwriting. The signature on the inscription was clearly written by Su Guangzong himself.

What made her feel even more nervous was that the date on one of the IOUs was clearly New Year's Eve.

OK, what did you say about working on a project with a mentor? Did you do it? Now you owe money?

Ning Xue tightly grasped the paper and gritted her teeth, "Yao Zu lied to me! They teamed up to lie to me!" She suddenly looked at Su Junyan, who was trying to evade her. She suddenly understood, "You knew it a long time ago, didn't you?"

Su Junyan stammered, "Well, this, this, actually Da Wa ran into Guangzong once in Shanghai, and he wrote a letter to Shen Lie about it. Shen Lie informed me, but I thought he was joking, so I didn't tell you."

"Heh." Ning Xue sneered, "Do you believe that?"

Su Junyan didn't dare to answer and turned the conversation to Li Gou, "Tell me, how did Guangzong owe so much money?"

Li Gou stood for a while, and felt his legs a little sore. He leaned against the gate and said lazily, "Let's play the video game."

"How can you owe so much money just by playing a few games?" Ning Xue shook the IOU.

A dark light flashed in her eyes. If she tore up all these IOUs, wouldn't there be no evidence?

Who is Li Gou? He has been working in society since he was seven years old. If he is really smart, the owner of the game hall, Li Dali, would not let him collect the bills. As soon as Ning Xue's eyes were wrong, he immediately noticed it and quickly snatched the IOU back from Ning Xue's hand, "You want to die without any evidence, right? Haha, impossible."

Ning Xue's plan failed, and she snorted coldly, "What evidence do you have to prove that this is the IOU written by Emperor Guangzong? I said it was written by someone else and owed by someone else."

Li Gou was amused, and shook the IOU in his hand, "It has his signature and his fingerprints on it. You said it wasn't written by him? Who wrote it?"

He glanced around and saw that Ning Xue had something else to say, so he continued, "Do you believe me? Let's go to the Public Security Bureau and discuss it."

"Don't!" Ning Xue said hurriedly.

If he went to the Public Security Bureau, what reputation would Su Guangzong have? And if he raised a son who didn't pay back his debts, how could he and his wife have the face to live in the military compound?

Ning Xue's face turned pale whenever she thought of this possibility. She stared at Li Gou fiercely and said, "I will pay back the money Guangzong owes you."

Li Gou grinned, "Sheng Hui, three thousand four hundred and ten fifty cents."

"Why are there so many?!" Ning Xue exclaimed.

Even though I knew that Su Guangzong owed a large amount, I didn't expect that he would owe so much.

Ning Xue couldn't help but have a question in her mind: what game was Su Guangzong playing, and how did he owe so much money?

Su Junyan pursed his lips and said, "I can give you the money, but you have to tell us exactly how Guangzong owed us so much money."

I didn't expect that it would be so easy to collect the money. Anyway, Li Gou had achieved his goal, and he was in the mood to tell the couple a story. "Oh, this is actually very simple. Su Guangzong likes to play games, so he came to our game room. The more he played, the more he liked it. Playing games also costs money. He likes to play the fruit machine the most. The minimum cost is 200 coins per play. You don't know how much a game coin is, right? It's not very expensive. One dollar can buy two..."

As she listened, Ning Xue also understood, "You are setting a trap for my son!"

Li Gou chuckled, "Auntie, how can you say that? Let me put it this way, our game hall and Su Guangzong are willing to fight and be beaten, we did not force him to take money out of his pocket to buy game coins."

Su Junyan scolded, "Okay, stop talking and go get the money for him."

Ning Xue stamped her feet, "Jun Yan!"

She looked towards Su Junyan, but for the first time she saw such a serious look on his face, and murmured, "Junyan?"

Su Junyan frowned and said, "Don't blame others for setting a trap for him. He didn't have the self-control to resist the temptation. He deserved it. I don't believe that the game hall only invited Guangzong to play games. Why can others play for fun while Guangzong owes so much money?"

In the final analysis, it is Su Guangzong's own problem.

Even though Ning Xue usually bosses Su Junyan around, when it comes to the critical moment, she still listens to Su Junyan.

As soon as Su Junyan spoke, Ning Xue obediently went into the house to get the money. Thirty-four hundred and ten and fifty cents, with both coins and decimals, was not a small number. She searched through all the drawers and cabinets for a long time before she found the three thousand yuan.

"There's only three thousand yuan left." Ning Xue begged, "Please erase the change."

Li Gou smiled, but his words were as cold as ice. "Auntie, please don't make things difficult for me. I'm just an employee. If I can't collect the money, my boss will make trouble for me."

He seemed to mutter something, but in a voice that both of them could hear, "Who asked you two to raise a good son? Hey, take this money, and we don't have to open the game hall for a while.

Ning Xue's face turned pale, but her family really couldn't afford such a large amount of money. The three thousand yuan was all the savings of the couple.

Ning Xue would not even look at a little hooligan like Li Gou when he was walking on the street normally, but now she had to beg him humbly, "Excuse me, please be less aggressive."

Li Gou still had that smiling face, but his eyes were unquestionable.

Su Junyan let out a long breath, clenched his fists, and looked tired. "There are still 410.5 yuan left, right? Let's go borrow it."

Li Gou curled his lips and said, "Well, thank you for your help. The next boat will leave in half an hour. You have to give me the money quickly. I'm in a hurry to go back."

Su Junyan hummed inaudibly, walked past Li Gou, and came to Shen Lie and Ning Tang. His face flushed red, and he stammered, "Excuse me, lend me some money."

Li Gou made quite a noise. Su Junyan had already seen Ning Tang and Shen Lie standing in the yard, looking towards their house. They had probably been looking at them for a while.

Four hundred yuan is not a small amount, and Li Gou is in a hurry for it. Apart from borrowing money from these two people, Su Junyan can't think of any other way.

Shen Lie moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something. Ning Tang stopped him and nodded to Su Junyan, "Wait a minute, I'll go in and get the money."

She went back to the house to get the money. Shen Lie followed behind Ning Tang. He finally got to say what he had been holding back. He muttered, "I never thought that Su Guangzong actually owed so much money."

Ning Tang didn't expect this either, because according to what Da Wa said, Su Guangzong clearly only owed about a thousand yuan, so how come it suddenly became more than three thousand yuan? It must be because of the letter. Something happened during this period, but they didn't know what happened.

As she counted out the money, she sighed, "A man like Su Junyan would bow his head and borrow money from us for Su Guangzong. Sigh, I don't know what to say. I can only say, pity the parents in the world."

Ning Xue was the same. She was so proud that she didn't stop Su Junyan from borrowing money from others, but borrowed money from Ning Tang and Shen Lie. That was really throwing her face on the ground. Both of them compromised for Su Guangzong to this extent...

Shen Lie nodded and said, "I hope the money can be paid back this time, and Su Guangzong won't make such a mistake again."

The 3,000-plus yuan emptied the Su family's savings and left them with foreign debts.

"Count it and see if it's this amount." Ning Tang handed the money to Su Junyan and ignored Ning Xue who was glaring at her in the Su family's yard.

Su Junyan nodded, "No need to order."

He still trusts the character of this couple.

After getting the money, Su Junyan gave it all to Li Gou.

Li Gou dipped his finger in saliva and counted the numbers, smiling happily, "That's the number. Thank you, and I wish you both well."

Su Junyan snorted coldly, "We'll be fine if you don't come again."

When Li Gou was about to leave, Ning Xue quickly held him back and said, "Wait a minute, where is our Guangzong?"

Su Guangzong? How would he know?

Li Gou pulled his arm out of Ning Xue's hand and hurried back. "I don't know. He has spent all his money. Our boss is not good at doing good deeds and letting him play the game machine for free. Who knows where he is?"

Isn't that just wandering the streets?

Ning Xue almost fainted, and quickly went into the house to pack her luggage, saying, "I'm going to Shanghai to find him."

Shen Lie saw the mess at the Su family, scratched his head, and asked Ning Tang in a low voice, "Their family is in such a mess now, are you going to return the letter that Da Wa sent?"

"Give it, why not? Give it." Ning Tang said.

Shen Lie muttered, "But now, I always feel like I've fallen into a rock."

Ning Tang: "I think what that Li Gou told Ning Xue and Su Junyan is not all. Isn't Ning Xue leaving for Shanghai soon? We should show Da Wa's letter to them, at least to have an idea in mind."

If Ning Xue and Su Junyan felt that he was adding insult to injury, that was fine, as they had a clear conscience.

Shen Lie thought what she said made sense, "So, are you going to deliver the letter or am I going to deliver it?"

"Of course you go." Ning Tang said as a matter of course, "If I have to scold someone, it's you."

Shen Lie: "Okay, I'm a grown man anyway, so I'm thick-skinned and tough, right? I'm not afraid of being scolded."

Ning Xue went into the house to pack her luggage, while Su Junyan was still standing there in a daze. Shen Lie saw the opportunity and handed him the letter, saying, "Here is a letter, you...you guys take a look."

Su Junyan was completely confused. He took the letter, which was unsealed. The letter inside fell out. He read it quickly and his face turned pale. "I know."