Chen Li Restaurant is a restaurant that she and her granddaughter Li Yutong run with great effort. The business is good and they make a lot of money.
Chen Xiaoying didn't want to close the restaurant either, but: "If Heisan and his gang can't get the money from your dad, they will definitely come to the store to ask me for money. If they make a scene, we won't be able to open the store unless we give them the money."
But wasn't this Li Hongyan's original purpose? If she paid it back this time, she would dare to borrow more next time.
Li Hongwei was speechless and could not help but hang his head in frustration: "My elder sister is really going to kill me!"
It was a good restaurant, but she completely messed it up.
The atmosphere in the family was heavy.
"Is it really going to close?" Liu Lanxiang held back her tears. She really couldn't bear to let it go. "It took a lot of effort to get this business off the ground. There are so many people who want to start a business but can't make it work. How can they find a job in the future and make money from this restaurant?"
What do the people in the village want?
Just want to make some money. With money in hand, you won't be nervous about doing anything, and you can stand up in front of people without being afraid of being looked down upon.
But now it has become like this.
The third brother, Li Hongqiang, originally thought that his mother and his eldest brother were taking the matter too seriously. Since he had the restaurant, he could just pay the debt first, and when his eldest sister had money, he would pay them back.
But now it sounds like that is not what he meant. His eldest sister has always been short of money. She has complained to him that the house has been built, and the tuition for the second and third children is still not settled, and both of them will have to get married in the future.
By that time, she will be old, and her eldest son will definitely have children, and she will have to take care of her grandchildren, so how can she have the money?
If you can't do it, just stop going to school and go out to work.
He said that it was hard to work outside and he had paid for the tuition.
So he has been secretly saving his salary for the past few months, fearing that he would not be able to pay the tuition for his two nephews to his eldest sister, which would be embarrassing.
"Let's all go to sleep. Now we can only take one step at a time and see what happens."
It's not a good idea for a whole family to just sit there like this.
The only hope now is Heisan. He will ask for money from anyone who asks him to borrow money, and not force these innocent people.
Chen Xiaoying thought so, but she tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep. Thinking about the difficulties in her previous life and the hard work in this life, her tears soaked the pillow, and she closed her eyes in the second half of the night.
She felt like she hadn't fallen asleep yet, but the rooster in the yard crowed and woke her up.
Chen Xiaoying opened her eyes and regretted it. The restaurant owner should not have written her name at the beginning. He should have written her eldest granddaughter Li Yutong’s name.
She was filled with sadness, so she got up and prepared to go back to the county town to discuss this matter with her granddaughter Li Yutong. What should she do?
"mom?"
The third son’s wife, Zhao Xueyan, is preparing to cook.
“No need to cook, just go to the county town and buy some to eat,” said Chen Xiaoying.
It was still early, just after dawn, so I went to the county town and just happened to send Li Yujie to school.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were about to leave, but the third child, Li Hongqiang, was still in bed and shouted, "Mom, you two are leaving now, what am I going to eat?"
"Why should I care about you? Don't you have hands?" Chen Xiaoying was still angry and cursed angrily.
Li Hongqiang remained silent.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law each took a bicycle and left.
Now that conditions have improved, Chen Xiaoying bought a bicycle for Zhao Xueyan a few months ago to pick up Li Yujie from school.
Arriving in the county town, Chen Xiaoying bought breakfast, looked at the clock hanging on the wall in the store, and waited until 11:50 in the morning. Then she rode her bicycle to the No. 1 High School in the county to visit her eldest granddaughter Li Yutong.
She was at a loss of ideas, so she looked to her granddaughter to see if she had any solution.
If not, she would close the restaurant, divide the earnings, and find a job as a nanny, looking after other people's children. After studying hard, she would work as a confinement nanny for other people.
You can make money this way.
Li Yutong was at school, about to go to lunch, when she saw a classmate calling her, "Li Yutong, your grandma is waiting for you at the school gate."
Li Yutong was quite surprised. Her grandma had never come to the school to see her. At this time, the restaurant should be the busiest. Why did her grandma come?
When she got outside the classroom, her classmate said, "Your grandma said that if possible, you can ask the teacher for an hour's leave."
Not only did he look for her, he also asked her to ask for leave from the teacher.
Her grandmother attached more importance to studying than she did, and respected the teachers in the school. Even when she had a cold and needed medicine, her grandmother would come to deliver the medicine herself and would not let her take leave, as she did not want her to delay her studies.
Li Yutong's heart was lifted: "I understand, thank you."
After her classmates left, she went to the teacher to ask for half a day off, then returned to the classroom to pack her schoolbag.
"Where are you going?" my desk mate couldn't help but ask.
"I have something to do at home, so I'm asking for leave." Li Yutong smiled and left quickly.
Chen Xiaoying was waiting at the door, looking around the school. At that time, girls did not go to school, but boys went to the school, which were all bungalows. There was no such spacious school as the one now, which was five stories high.
After all, society has progressed. Good leaders know that only by educating the next generation of children well can the country make further progress.
"Grandma, did something happen at home?" Li Yutong ran out from the small door opened by the guard and asked her.
Chen Xiaoying almost burst into tears when she heard this: "I just came here to discuss this with you."
Li Yutong was stunned for a moment and held the handlebars of the bicycle tightly: "Grandma, don't worry, let's go back and talk about it."
Li Yutong rode a bicycle and took her grandmother back to the store first.
The store is still closed today, so it's a good opportunity for the grandfather and grandson to talk about something.
After Chen Xiaoying told Li Yutong about what happened at home, she was stunned for a long time.
"I was wondering why my aunt had become so quiet. My eldest cousin was getting engaged and she needed money urgently, so she could only think of ways to get money from our family. I didn't expect that she didn't come to borrow money from us, but had already planned on us a long time ago." She couldn't help but smile bitterly.
I have to say, her aunt was really cruel.
Who could have thought that she could do such a thing?
It was like stabbing them in the back, and blood was drawn immediately.
"What should we do now? The IOU is written in your grandfather Li Pingwang's name. What should we do?" Chen Xiaoying wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a tissue and said hoarsely, "Your grandfather has no money. Your aunt has already spent all the money he saved for his whole life."
"The Heisan gang is like this. If the son can't pay back the money he borrowed, he will ask his father for it. If the father can't pay back the money he borrowed, he will ask his son for it. Unless the whole family is wiped out, ordinary people can't afford to offend them."
Li Yutong's face looked heavy. No matter where you are, there are always people you can't afford to offend.
It's not that the county doesn't care, it's that those people are like fleas. They bite you and make you feel itchy, but it's hard to hit them. They haven't committed any murder, arson or theft. They are just lending money and the interest rate is negotiated.
There is currently no law that stipulates that private lending exceeds a certain amount and is considered illegal.
Even if the county wants to intervene, it cannot.
"Twenty-eight thousand for a house." She couldn't help but sigh helplessly: "This debt has fallen on my grandfather's head. Heisan and his people must have forced my father to pay back the money."
Her grandfather was an old man, and if he was pushed to the limit and got angry to death, and someone died, that would be against the law.