"He's thinking quite far ahead." Shen Jiaze smiled faintly, but he was a person who took crooked paths. In fact, the more he wanted to have a legitimate identity, the more he thought about it.

The person who helped him investigate said cautiously, "Jia Ze, if you really want to help, don't show up yourself. I can just pass on a message for you. I promise that I can handle this matter thoroughly."

Shen Jiaze thought for a moment and said, "Don't move for now. I'll wait and see what she means."

Perhaps she still wanted to teach her grandfather and aunt a lesson.

Li Yutong didn't know that Shen Jiaze had done so many things behind her back. She was relatively quiet at school and had already thought about where to open a hot pot restaurant. She wanted a self-service hot pot restaurant where it would be relaxing and comfortable and she could get whatever she wanted.

She has been doing business for almost two years. She splits the profits with her grandmother in half, and has saved some money.

She can open a store like this, but if it goes bankrupt, all her savings will be gone and she will have to start all over again. Without money, if she wants to start over, she will miss many other opportunities.

Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying's casserole dish business is really good, and most of the profits come from casserole dishes. Think about it, when there is a banquet in the village, why do everyone like to eat big pot dishes?

That's because it has a unique taste and is loved by everyone, young and old.

The hot pot ingredients made by Li Yutong are so magical that everyone loves it. She even tried to cook a big pot of the dish early in the morning, thinking that if she couldn't sell it all, she would just forget about it.

As a result, there were more people drinking it than those drinking tofu pudding and spicy soup. Almost everyone came with a bowl of the big pot dish and a steamed bun. Some old men, as there were no seats left, were willing to sit on the steps in groups of three to eat. They would break the steamed buns into pieces and soak them in the soup and eat them all up.

Business is booming every day.

Chen Xiaoying hired another two hourly workers.

In a blink of an eye, more than a month has passed and Li Yutong is about to have winter vacation.

Chen Xiaoying said to Li Yutong: "The three-month deadline has come, and I don't know when Hei Lao San will come to your grandfather to collect the debt?"

Li Yutong helped to pick vegetables: "It will probably be in the next few days. My grandfather is timid. I think if someone comes to collect the debt, he will be scared and run to us."

The grandparents and grandchildren were talking like this, but what they feared came true.

Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying suddenly saw a tricycle parked in front of the credit union across the road. Two people got out from the driver's seat. One was thin, the other had a big round face, both were in their thirties or forties. They looked like ordinary country people in terms of their clothes and appearance. They were plain and ordinary.

Chen Xiaoying felt her heart beating rapidly, and she couldn't help but call out to her granddaughter, "Xiaoyu?"

Li Yutong was puzzled for a moment, and seeing her grandmother's face change drastically, she also looked outside and saw the two men half dragging and half supporting an old man with unsteady steps out of the bed of a tricycle.

The old man looked frightened and trembling. He stood on the ground, his legs shaking so much that he couldn't even walk.

"My grandfather is here."

Li Yutong understood. She knew that this day would come, but when she faced it head on, she still felt uncomfortable.

Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying gnashed her teeth in anger: "What a shameless old man, he actually brought people here directly. What does he want to do? Let these two loan sharks force us, the old and the young, to ask for money?"

"Is he still a man?"

Li Yutong was silent for a while. When she was in elementary school, she was bullied. Her grandfather turned around and said to her: "You must have offended others first, so they beat you. You are just like your father. You don't want to suffer any loss."

She knew that her grandfather was not someone who would protect her when she was bullied.

"Uncle, hurry up and don't delay our business." The thin man urged impatiently.

Li Pingwang was shaking with fear. In the county town, people were coming and going, and everyone was looking at him. He held back his tears and said, "Okay, okay, fine."

The round-faced man lifted Li Pingwang's arm and carried him to the door of a small restaurant across the street.

"Xiao Yu, go to the back and don't come out." Chen Xiaoying was so scared that she hurriedly told Li Yutong, fearing that she would be bullied.

Li Yutong was not afraid: "Grandma, don't panic, let's see the situation first."

While he was talking, three people came in.

Before the person could say anything, Li Pingwang was the first to get anxious: "Hurry up and give him 2,000 yuan and send him away."

Chen Xiaoying gnashed her teeth in anger: "Who are these people? Why should I give them money?"

"Besides, this is the money I earned. Why should I give it to others for free?"

Li Pingwang didn't dare to get angry with outsiders, but he was not afraid of Chen Xiaoying: "Hurry up!"

Seeing that the deal was not going to be done, Li Yutong pushed her grandfather to sit down, and then politely said to the thin man and the big round-faced man: "Uncles, you two should sit down too, let's sit down and talk."

The thin guy and the big round-faced guy have been doing this kind of work for a long time and have seen all kinds of people. The little girl in front of them was not afraid of them at all. The two men felt strange, but did not say anything and sat down aside first.

As for debt collection, there are rules for it. If you come to the debtor's house for the first time and don't come empty-handed, you can give them another month's leave and continue next month.

The store is here, and the old and the young are all here, so I can feel at ease.

Everyone was seated, so it didn't affect business, but the diners were curious and took a few more glances.

Li Pingwang quickly told Chen Xiaoying, "When they came to collect the debt, I immediately took them to my old house. Hongwei and his wife were not at home. I asked people to look for them in the fields, but they were not there either. I don't know if they saw them coming and ran away."

At this point, he was filled with sadness and almost cried: "I have worked hard all my life to raise several sons, and now that I am old and something has happened, there is no one I can rely on."

"If I had known this earlier, I would have strangled them one by one when they were born."

Chen Xiaoying's face was extremely ugly: "You beast!"

Zhao Xueyan and Hao Cailing, who were busy in the kitchen, also came out and looked at the debt collectors with worried looks on their faces.

The two people we hired recently are both hourly workers, and they leave work at three in the afternoon.

Chen Xiaoying said to Hao Cailing: "I don't think we can do business later this evening. Come back tomorrow."

Hao Cailing was also timid, otherwise she would not have been controlled by her mother-in-law and would have just cried, so she said, "Okay, then I'll come back to work tomorrow."

Having said that, she went out and hurried back to find her son He Mingliang.

As soon as Hao Cailing left, Chen Xiaoying stepped forward and pulled the rolling shutter door halfway down. When the people who came to eat there saw this, they knew that the owner was not doing business today and would not come to disturb them.

Zhao Xueyan wanted to hide, but she also wanted to know whether her mother-in-law would pay for her elder sister Li Hongyan's debt this time, so she sat down in a corner.

With no outsiders in the store, Chen Xiaoying felt relieved and boldly told the two debt collectors, "Earlier, I had already paid Zhao Bangzi from Zhaojia Village to call Hei Laosan. We haven't seen a dime of the debt owed by my old man."

"The money was taken by her eldest daughter, Li Hongyan. Her daughter-in-law hasn't been married yet, so the money must not have been spent. You can take this old man to Zhaojia Village to find Li Hongyan. Maybe you can get the money back."