Li Yurong said: "How did the farm come about? I went to the provincial capital with Qin Chuan to gamble and earned the money at the cost of my life."
"What?"
Everyone present was stunned. Qin Zicheng looked at Li Heng and said, "Brother-in-law, is this true?"
Xu Jing nodded. "Well, where would I get the money to buy the fruit seedlings? I can't think of any other way except to go out and gamble."
Nine out of ten people lose money gambling in a casino, and if they lose, they have to pawn their belongings. The Li family is naturally timid and has never been to a casino.
I didn’t expect that the first pot of gold that the most spoiled little brother in the family used to make his fortune was won from the casino.
Xu Jing looked at Qin Chuan and said, "After we won the money, a few thugs followed Qin Chuan and me and forced us into a dead end. If Qin Chuan hadn't protected me, I would have been beaten to death by them."
"Is this true?" Li Yujie pulled him over to take a closer look. "Is there anything broken?"
Qin Chuan wanted to say something, but was stopped by Xu Jing's cold gaze. He curled his lips and turned away.
"It's all true," Li Yurong said. "When I saw them, they were sorting saplings in the warehouse. They risked their lives to buy us the new life we have today. That's something you, Li Yuhe, can't do."
Li Yurong continued, tears welling in her eyes. "You know exactly how Mom died. Mom's body couldn't have survived to give birth to my little brother. If it weren't for a miracle, he wouldn't have survived. Did you ever take care of him from childhood? No. You only cared about yourself."
After I became rich, I found you and my fifth sister, asked your wishes, and then asked the county magistrate to arrange an easy job for you. Otherwise, how do you think you got your current job? It was all earned by me through hard work."
"So what?" Li Yuhe was blinded by money and had long forgotten what his original intention was.
"My job is good, but my colleagues have higher education and better jobs than me. They dress more fashionably, not to mention the food. I've worked hard for half a year, but it's not as good as a word from them. What's the point of my hard work?"
Xu Jing said: "If you don't like it, you can resign."
It's an easy job in a government agency, a job that others would fight hard to get, so it's too easy to say that I'm quitting.
Li Yuhe glared at him fiercely and said, "I don't want much either. Just give me 10,000 yuan. I can disown you as my brother afterwards, and even if you become rich in the future, it won't have anything to do with me. Will you give it to me or not?"
"Li Yuhe, are you crazy?" Li Yurong was so angry that she poked her sister on the forehead, trying to wake her up. But Li Yuhe didn't give Li Yurong this time. She slapped her hand away and said viciously: "Why do you get to live a good life while I have to suffer? I don't accept it."
"Fourth sister, do you want to get married?"
Xu Jing revealed the conspiracy behind the whole thing in one sentence. Li Yuhe's face turned red and blue, and it looked very ugly in all colors.
In front of everyone, Li Yuhe admitted it directly. "I'm in a relationship with Zhou Jie."
Others may not know who Zhou Jie is, but her fifth sister Li Pandi, who works not far from her, knows.
Li Pandi saw Li Yuhe hanging out with Zhou Jie, who was wearing a suit, several times. She didn't take it seriously at first, until she heard rumors circulating among the people in her office. She didn't realize their fourth sister and Zhou Jie were seeing each other. She hadn't expected them to discuss marriage after only two months of dating.
"Fourth sister, have you thought it through?" Li Pandi's eyes were filled with worry. She was also a straightforward person who spoke without thinking and expressed her concerns directly. "They dress differently from us. Their family is too high for us to marry. Fourth sister, you should just forget it."
"Why is it that I'm out of my league? As long as I have money, who will gossip about me?"
Xu Jing treated him coldly. "I've only ever heard that the higher the bride price, the more your husband's family values you. I've never heard that the higher the dowry, the more your husband's family values you."
"Have you become stupid from studying?" Li Yuhe said angrily, "How can our family compare with that boss? If you want me to marry into a wealthy family, then you have to provide high-quality conditions. If I marry someone with nothing, they will gossip about me behind my back."
"Is it so easy to marry into a wealthy family? Even if we prepare a large dowry, they will still look down on you. Fourth sister, how can you not understand that your husband's family values your ability, not your family background?"
Xu Jing sighed and continued, "If he was attracted by your family background, why didn't he find someone of equal status instead of coming to you?"
“I’m prettier than them.”
"Looking good can be eaten or worn as clothes, right? Who wasn't a pretty girl back then? Now you're almost a yellow-faced woman. How can you be sure that people will still love you when you become a yellow-faced woman?" Li Yurong sighed heavily, patted Li Yuhe on the back, and said, "Listen to my advice, you and that guy named Zhou Jie are not suitable at all. We are just ordinary farmers. Can't we marry someone of equal status?"
"No!" Li Yuhe said with red eyes, "I don't want to marry a farmer. Not only do I have to work during the day, but I also have to take care of the children, clean the house, and even take care of my parents-in-law. I'll be busy every day and not get any understanding from my husband or tolerance from my mother-in-law. I'll live a miserable life day after day. When my children grow up, they will look down on me, a filthy old woman with my back to the sky and my face to the ground. Is it wrong for me to want to live a decent life?"
Li Yuhe used to work in a factory, earning only 400 yuan a month, toiling away, and enduring the cold stares and verbal abuse of her team leader. Since her new job, her daily routine has become much easier, and her colleagues are polite to her. How could she, having entered a new world, lower herself and jump into a bottomless pit?
"Little brother, I know you look down on me for trying to curry favor with someone powerful, but I have no other choice."
Li Yuhe wiped her tears and said, "My colleague Zhang Lei got married a while ago. She married a well-known nouveau riche in the county. I can't even pronounce the name of the wedding candy she gave her. After the wedding, she dressed very differently. She used to be even less pretty than me, but now she dresses like a colorful peacock."
She stretched out her fingers, gesturing with her ring finger. "She's wearing a gleaming gold ring. Do you know what a gold ring is? When our eldest sister got married, she had nothing. Even her decent clothes had to be borrowed from a relative. Do I have to live the same life as my eldest and second sisters?"
She talked for a long time, but no one in the family responded. Anxiously, Li Yuhe grabbed Li Heng's hand and said, "Little brother, Fourth Sister is begging you. Fourth Sister has never asked you for anything in her life. Can you just agree to Fourth Sister's request this time? Fourth Sister wants to marry in style and not be looked down upon by others."
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