Chapter 259 Li Zhan is suspicious
When I came back from there, Li Jie and Zhou Qiuhe came over and wanted to talk about recent events.
Xia Juanjuan also secretly told Lin Yuru about this matter. Because she was afraid that Xiaowen and the others would be sad after hearing it, she asked Lin Yuru to stay in Xia Village for another night before returning.
Li Jie was a little reserved.
After all, Li Zhan is not his biological brother anymore. Moreover, the Li family has done so many immoral things. Liu Lan actually stole the jade and refused to give it back, and also kept Li Zhan's life experience a secret. Moreover, the jade has been sold and has not been found yet. He... is really too ashamed to face Li Zhan.
Li Zhan smiled and said, "Third brother, you think too much. After all, the Li family raised me and we grew up together. Unless you don't recognize me as your younger brother, you will always be my third brother."
Li Jie was deeply moved, but he still said with guilt: "But... the jade that can find your parents has not been found yet..."
Li Zhan had already heard what Xia Juanjuan said, so he smiled and said, "Third brother is here, don't worry about this. My comrades in Beijing are helping to look for him, and they said that they have found some clues. Don't feel guilty about this anymore."
Regarding the matter of Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei, Li Zhan also insisted on raising the children himself, for the same reason: as long as the Li family did not make excuses, he would always be the fourth son of the Li family.
Moreover, he also guaranteed that even if he found his biological parents and changed their surname, Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei would still have the surname Lie and it would not change.
They are always the children of Big Brother's army.
Li Jie also knew that his family's conditions were not as good as his fourth brother's, so after hearing what Li Zhan said, he had no choice but to give up.
The last thing I want to talk about is Liu Lan’s retirement issue.
In the past, Li Jie was given 100 work points per month, and Li Zhan was given 5 yuan per month. However, Li Qiang, the biological son, said nothing and even tried to take advantage of Liu Lan.
Li Jie was the most angry: "Humph! I didn't know before, I thought she was biased, but she is my own mother. She should have given me all the old-age support points! Now I know she is a stepmother, she doesn't even support her own son, how can we support her?"
I have already told her that I don't plan to give her the 100 work points per month anymore!
Lizhan, you shouldn't have given it to her! Look at what she and her son did. The jade pendant was a token of your parents' return, but she kept it without any conscience. It's really bad!
I have already explained this to Secretary Zhao. Secretary Zhao and the entire commune have nothing to say. You don't have to worry about her going to the commune to sue you - let alone going to the commune, even if she goes to the county, she will not win!"
This matter is settled.
Li Zhan's feelings for Liu Lan had been gone for more than ten years since he heard Liu Lan suggest sending him, who was not even old enough, to the army in exchange for twenty yuan.
Over the past ten years, I have sent all the allowance back home just to repay my parents for their kindness in raising me.
Now, these things have happened again. If Xia Juanjuan hadn't found Yu, he might never be able to find his biological parents in this life.
He must be crazy to still pay five dollars a month for the retirement benefits of such a person?
The two brothers reached a consensus and dispersed without specifically notifying Liu Lan and Li Qiang.
Li Zhan's heart suddenly moved and he became a little confused. How did Xia Juanjuan find the jade back?
Li Qiang said that he sold it in Beijing. Although Xia Juanjuan explained that she listened to what the other children said and secretly followed Li Qiang to Beijing to buy the jade.
But... I always feel it's a little strange.
To go to Beijing, you must have a letter of introduction to buy a ticket. But what was the reason for his wife to go to Beijing?
Li Zhan thought about it and went to find Secretary Zhao. He first told Secretary Zhao about Liu Lan.
Secretary Zhao also felt that it was unethical for Liu Lan to marry Yu Mei, and he did not try to dissuade Li Zhan from stopping Liu Lan's pension.
Li Zhan smiled again and said, "Also, Secretary Zhao, my wife went to Beijing to visit relatives a few years ago. Thank you for the letter of introduction you wrote."
Secretary Zhao was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Before the New Year? Your wife didn't come to open the letter of introduction to Beijing? Did you remember the time wrong?"
Li Zhan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Oh... I guess I got the time wrong. Secretary Zhao, can you please not mention this to my wife? If she gets the time wrong when she went to Beijing to visit my relatives, she will definitely be angry with me."
Secretary Zhao laughed and said, "You two seem to be getting along so well every day, how can you quarrel?"
Li Zhan said: "Fight at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed. When a couple lives together, there will always be bumps and bruises."
Secretary Zhao nodded and said, "That's true. However, you are a man, you can't be unfaithful to your wife! If you make a good wife like Juanjuan angry and drive her away, you will never be able to find her again in the future!"
Secretary Zhao then asked, "By the way, is there any progress on your biological parents? Alas... if the jade was still there, I could ask. Now all the clues are gone... Liu Lan and her son really have nothing to do with us!"
After Lizhan came out of the commune, he couldn't help but frown.
If his wife had never been to Beijing before, how did she get the dragon pendant? Could it be that she asked the Fu family for help but was too embarrassed to tell them?
Lizhan decided to ask Brother Fu San after returning to the team.
Somehow, he always felt that his wife seemed to be hiding a lot of secrets.
But he is her husband, what kind of secrets is it that she cannot tell herself?
Thinking of this, Li Zhan felt inexplicably depressed.
He was struggling over whether to ask Xia Juanjuan directly.
However, before they had time to sort things out, a postman from the county telegraph office rode into the village on a bicycle and gave Li Zhan a telegram with an urgent mission. After receiving the telegram, Li Zhan only had time to hurried home to say goodbye to Xia Juanjuan before leaving.
Xia Juanjuan didn't even have time to prepare some dry food for him to eat on the road. She gritted her teeth and took out a few large steamed buns and meat buns from the space and gave them to him.
Li Zhan looked at the steaming steamed buns in his hands and didn't say much. He just hugged Xia Juanjuan tightly before leaving.
He would wait until he came back to clarify the doubts in his heart.
The two of them will be separated for a while again. If they tell it now, it will only become a thorn in Xia Juanjuan's heart. Because she cannot explain it in time, it will become a thorn between the couple.
He doesn't want this.
No matter what his wife hid from him, she had been helping him from the beginning to the end. If she hadn't found the jade, how many years would it have taken him to find his biological parents?
No matter what kind of secret it is, don't try to destroy the relationship between him and his wife!
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Xia Juanjuan had not yet noticed the suspicion in Lizhan's heart.
After Lizhan left, Lin Yuru came back with Xiaowen and the others, and said with regret: "Alas... Lizhan came back in a hurry again this time and left in a hurry. The time was really too short..."
Xia Juanjuan also felt very uncomfortable.
I never really thought about it that much, but once I came back and left again after a few days, I felt really sad.
"Alas... He also needs to do this for the mission. There's nothing we can do about it."
As Xia Juanjuan spoke, she began to seriously consider the matter of accompanying the army that Lizhan had mentioned before.
However, this matter has to wait, as distant water cannot quench immediate thirst, and I can only bear the longing.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye a month has passed and it is the end of February.
The postman came to deliver the letter, and someone from the village came over to tell Xia Juanjuan to come and get the letter and remittance slip.
The letter and remittance slip were naturally sent by Lizhan.
The remittance slip was for fifty-five dollars, five dollars more than usual.
Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment.
Lizhan's current allowance is 65 yuan per month. She asked him to keep 10 yuan for pocket money every month. If he encountered other things, such as giving gifts to his brothers, he could keep more so that he wouldn't have to worry about not having enough at home.
Minus the five yuan I sent to Liu Lan every month, the total amount I sent her was fifty yuan every month.
This month, it's five more...
Just as I was wondering, I heard Liu Lan, who came over later, ask, "Comrade, do you have my remittance slip?"
The postman checked for a long time and said, "Liu Lan, right? No."
Liu Lan was anxious: "How could it be gone? Check again! My son should have given me the foster care money a few days ago, five dollars a month! Did you lose it?"
The postman, whose professional ethics were questioned, was very angry: "How can you talk like that? I've checked twice for you, and it's not there! What do you mean I lost it? I've been a postman for many years, and I've never lost a letter or a remittance slip! If you have nothing to do, just let it go and don't delay others!"
After hearing this, Xia Juanjuan understood. It seemed that Li Zhan added the five yuan that was originally sent to Liu Lan to the money he sent to her.
Liu Lan also saw Xia Juanjuan looking at her, and couldn't help but glare at Xia Juanjuan fiercely.
It's all because of that vixen Xia Juanjuan. If she hadn't married into the family, how could she have been so unlucky and now be abandoned by everyone?
Seeing that Liu Lan was not giving up, the others who came to get the letter laughed sarcastically:
"Liu Lan, you are so shameless! You stole the jade that concerns Li Zhan's life experience, and now that the truth has been revealed, do you still have the nerve to ask Li Zhan to send you an allowance?"
"That's right! If I fight you, not only will I not send it to you, but you will have to give it all back to me, even if it's what I sent you before!"
"Huh! What kind of thing is that? The keepsake left by the biological parents was sold to Beijing by the mother and son! Lizhan must have been very unlucky. If he can't find the keepsake, he might never recognize his biological parents again in his lifetime!"