Chapter 36 The Storm is Coming
This family had previously taken advantage of Li Tianci's difficulties and arranged a marriage for him. Now that Li Tianci has been admitted to university, they hurried over.
What they had said before was that after Li Tianci took the college entrance examination, they should get married, and Li Tianci would have to marry their daughter.
However, Li Tianci had not returned to the village since the college entrance examination, and they were getting impatient waiting. Seeing that Li Tianci was back, they hurried to his house.
The Zhou family came with only one question: When will Li Tianci marry their daughter?
They did spend money. At that time, Li Laoer was lying on the ground, his legs were about to be broken by the debt collectors. No one in the whole village was willing to pay. Even Zhao Erjie from Li Lao's family was only willing to pay a small amount. In the end, it was their Zhou family who paid the money. Their Zhou family had done a great favor to Li Laoer's family. If it weren't for them, Li Laoer might have been beaten to death!
The Zhou family has helped the Li Laoer family so much, so how could the Li Laoer family not come forward and propose marriage?
The Zhou family was unhappy, so naturally they came to the house to question him.
As soon as the Zhou family came over, the first one to run away was Li Tianfu, the second one to climb over the wall to watch the fun was Zhao Erjie, the third one to look over from the Wang family was Lin Xinran, and the one who shrank back was Wang Yulian.
Wang Yulian thought that this matter had nothing to do with her. The person who owed the money was Li Jianye, and the one who agreed to marry was Li Tianci. She had already paid back what she owed, and she didn't want to get involved in this matter, so she pretended that she understood nothing and called Li Jianye in the east room and Li Tianci in the back room out to talk to the Zhou family.
Two members of the Zhou family came, a couple from the Zhou family. They sat on chairs in the main hall. They were quite happy when they came, but as the waiting time got longer, their faces became more and more unhappy.
What exactly does the Li Laoer family want?
Li Jianye and Li Tianci whispered in the back kitchen for a long time and were unwilling to go out to meet the two people.
Of course they were unwilling because neither of them wanted to get married.
When people are in trouble, they feel that they have no hope. As long as there is a life-saving straw, they will agree to anything. But once they start to move forward and get back on track, they will hate the shameful time they had.
I definitely didn't want to fulfill the conditions I agreed to at the time.
Li Jianye and Li Tianci discussed it, and finally Li Tianci came forward and told the Zhou couple that he wanted to cancel the engagement, and said that he would return the 150 yuan in full.
The Zhou family had actually made preparations a long time ago. Their daughter had always been disliked, and most normal people were unwilling to marry her. What's more, Li Tianci had been admitted to university, so he was no ordinary person.
But this doesn't mean they will honestly cancel the engagement! Going back on their words and not keeping their promises, do they think the Zhou family is easy to bully? They also have several sons!
The Zhou couple immediately started fighting in the main hall. They picked up a chair and chased Li Jianye, beating him while shouting, "Cancel the engagement? You wish! Your son must marry our daughter! Support her for life!"
Li Jianye was beaten and ran away, shouting, "We will pay it back! One hundred and fifty yuan, in full!"
We will pay you back as much as you borrowed at that time, so you won’t suffer any loss!
"If it really doesn't work, we can just pay a little more!" Li Jianye shouted again.
The Zhou family became even angrier.
Is the 150 yuan back then the same as the 150 yuan now? Li Jianye was nearly beaten to death at the time, and they gave him 150 yuan, which was life-saving money for Li Jianye. Now that Li Jianye has become rich and has paid back the money, he doesn't acknowledge the life-saving grace. Is this human?
The Zhou family was unwilling and started fighting with Li Jianye on the spot.
There is an old saying that goes, "A peck of rice is a token of gratitude, a peck of rice is a token of grudge." It is quite appropriate here. What's more, the Zhou family didn't give the peck of rice for free. If they want it back, the grudge will be even greater.
Li Jianye was beaten, and Li Tianci could no longer sit still. He came out from the back room to persuade him, but was pointed at in the nose and scolded by the Zhou family.
I was so busy scolding Li Jianye just now that I forgot about you. Do you think you won’t be scolded?
The father and son were scolded and beaten together, and the noise was so loud that the village chief of the Li family came to mediate. After much mediation, the Zhou family finally made a huge demand, saying that the Li family had to pay ten times the price, fifteen hundred yuan, and support their daughter for life, and they could not get married.
Li Jianye thought fifteen hundred was too much and disagreed - these days, people with an annual income of ten thousand yuan were rare, and fifteen hundred was enough to make one-tenth of a ten thousand yuan household. His family was not a sucker, so at most they would compensate him with two hundred, or fifty more, and not a penny left.
Even if they didn't give it to him, what could the Zhou family do? Could they beat them to death?
The Zhou family disagreed with the price of two hundred yuan, and started arguing constantly, until the whole village came to laugh at them. In the end, they finally settled on two hundred yuan.
The Zhou family left angrily.
This incident made the already bad reputation of Li Laoer's family even worse. Li Laoer's family was almost hated by everyone in the village, but this did not stop Wang Yulian from going door to door to notify everyone about the wedding banquet.
When the villagers received the news, they asked each other whether they wanted to go or not. After thinking about it for a while, they all decided to go.
Although Li Laoer's family has a bad reputation, everyone in Li Laoer's family is capable.
Wang Yulian said some time ago that she had found a job, and her nephew had also found one, which made Zhao Erjie very happy. She started bragging when she came back. Li Tianci was admitted to university, which was the first time in the village. There were only a few people in the Li family, but they were all very capable. So even though the Li family did not have a good reputation, was not good at doing things, and had bad character, there were still people willing to praise them.
The values of rural people have always been simple and useful: you never know when you can ask others for help!
Just for such a "possibility" that they don't know whether it exists or not, they will come to support the other party even if they know that the other party is not that good. This is probably what it means to curry favor with the powerful and then be forgotten by the people. This is also what it means that sometimes good people don't get rewarded.
So Wang Yulian's notification this time went quite smoothly. Most of the people in the village were willing to come. She left the village contentedly and went back to work.
This time, Li Jianye did not go back to work with her, because Li Tianci's college entrance examination results came out, and the whole Lijia Village felt bright. This was the first time in Lijia Village, so the school that had originally dismissed Li Jianye extended an olive branch to Li Jianye again.
Oh, even though this guy's character isn't great, he's a pretty good teacher! If he could teach his son well, maybe he could teach a second student too! This time, let alone the schools around Old Li's house, even the schools in the town couldn't get him into college!
This shows that Li Jianye is still quite capable.
During this period, the Li family was in great prosperity.
When people are happy and their lives go smoothly, they will be much better to their partners. Li Jianye changed his previous dissatisfaction with Wang Yulian and even personally sent Wang Yulian and Lin Xinran out of the village to work - the two began to live apart for a short time, and then every Saturday and Sunday Li Jianye went to see Wang Yulian, or Wang Yulian came back to see Li Jianye.
Wang Yulian was in high spirits as she walked hand in hand with Li Jianye on the country road. The two of them talked sweetly, like a pair of immortal lovers.
After Li Jianye left, Wang Yulian turned around and began to educate Lin Xinran.
"That's how family is. Just bear with it and it will be fine. Look, isn't everything fine now?"
The way she and Lin Xinran left this time was filled with Wang Yulian's happiness. Lin Xinran opened her mouth but didn't say anything.
She wondered, was it really because her mother endured that she had such a good life? Wasn't it money that contributed to her good life? It was money that made life good. If she didn't have money, would Li Jianye be so kind to Wang Yulian?
She wanted to refute her mother, but when she looked at her mother's bright eyes, she thought of her father.
Mom hasn't been this happy in a long time.
Lin Xinran didn't say anything else.
The two of them left the village, returned to the garment factory, and then started working - they both asked for leave and now they have to start working again.
When they arrived at the garment factory, they heard some rumors about it. They were worried for a while - people in other towns could find other jobs, but they couldn't, so they could only continue to work and pray that the garment factory would not go bankrupt.
After Wang Yulian returned to the factory, she punched in and went out to work on contracts with others. Lin Xinran returned to the second floor and sat in the office, typing on the keyboard while listening to people chatting next to her.
A group of people were chatting, and most of them were pessimistic about the garment factory.
During this period, Manager Sun also shared a very important piece of news with Shi Meilan.
"Manager Gu is planning to transfer back to headquarters," Manager Sun sighed. "If she's moving, I have no choice but to move with her."
Manager Sun originally came with Manager Gu. Now that Manager Gu is leaving, she is leaving as well as she sees the building crumbling.
"Are you both leaving?" Shi Meilan asked, "Can headquarters still let you go back now?"
Baicheng Garment Factory has already cancelled the order, so why would they accept orders from Chunfeng Garment Factory?
"Of course," Manager Sun said, "He's hoping we can go back so Yuan Yao won't have anyone to use him."
Shi Meilan thought, so that's it.
Manager Sun added, "If we all leave, this factory will be empty. Meilan, you've been with me for so long, why don't we leave together? I'll talk to them and have you transferred too."
Shi Meilan really didn't want to be transferred, mainly because the garment factory hadn't gone bankrupt in her previous life, and it probably wouldn't go bankrupt in this one, so she didn't take it seriously and just said a few perfunctory words.
Manager Sun didn't say anything, just shook his head and talked to the other two managers. The other two managers, the manager of the design department was a local and didn't want to leave, and Zhou Dazhuang was from Baicheng Town, so he left with Manager Sun and Manager Gu.
At noon that day, the transfer application was delivered to Hu Honghua. Hu Honghua took the application given by these three people, walked all the way to the office, and knocked on Yuan Yao's door.
"Mr. Yuan." Hu Honghua didn't know what it was. She just put the three applications on the table and said, "Manager Lu just gave them to me."
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