Chapter 293 Extra 9 (Lin Li and Liu Xiang)
Lin Qiu heard that Liu Xiang was seriously ill and Xiao Yueliang was going to attend summer camp, so he went back to his hometown with Wang Xiuren.
Liu Xiang actually has no physical problems, her main problem is her heart.
When Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren came to visit the patient in the afternoon, they happened to run into Lin Min comforting Liu Xiang, "It's a loss, it's a loss, just relax, just think of it as a loss to avoid disaster!"
Liu Xiang pounded the bed angrily, "You want me to be so relieved? One hundred thousand yuan! I can't sleep when I think of it."
"Then just keep being angry!" Lin Min spread out her hands. "If you get sick from being angry, you'll have to pay the hospital for money!"
"You..." Liu Xiang felt that she was in the wrong, so she could only turn her face away and face the wall without saying anything.
Lin Min didn't tolerate her and walked out directly.
After asking Lin Min, Lin Qiu found out that Liu Xiang had followed some old men and women in the village to buy that underground Mark Six lottery.
She bought it secretly and no one knew.
I started by buying them in batches of five or ten yuan. After a few times, I tasted the sweetness and started to become bolder.
As a result, she lost a lot of money, but she was unwilling to give up. She always wanted to win the money back and stop buying. Who knew that she would get deeper and deeper into trouble.
If Liu Li hadn't discovered something was wrong, the losses would have been even greater.
Liu Xiang is three years younger than Lin Qiu and is over 60 years old. However, she is not as keen on exercising as Lin Qiu and taking care of her body. When Lin Li discovered that she was losing money, she could not bear it for a while and fell ill.
The aunt and nephew sat in the main room talking in low voices, while Wang Xiuren stood in the front yard listening to Lin Li's complaints.
"Your mother is quite brave. The country has strictly prohibited participation in the underground Mark Six lottery. How dare she get involved?" Lin Qiu lowered his voice.
"Who said it wasn't? Sigh... she really pissed off my dad this time." Lin Min couldn't help but sigh, "It's because she was greedy. Thinking about the high odds, she knew it was illegal. Besides, if it was really that easy to make money, how could she get it? The dealer is not a sucker."
"Did your mother really lose a hundred thousand?" Lin Qiu asked quietly.
Lin Min shook her head. "It should be more than that. There's something wrong with the 100,000 yuan in the family's bankbook alone. I guess she lost a lot of her private savings."
"No wonder." Lin Qiu could understand the blow Liu Xiang suffered. "No wonder your mother got sick from worry."
Based on Lin Qiu's understanding of Liu Xiang in his two lives, he can be summed up in three words: "stingy". Even though her family conditions improved in this life, she was still very stingy with money.
Even if her sisters from her natal family asked her to borrow money, she was worried that they would not pay her back, so she made all kinds of excuses, not to mention that she had lost more than 100,000 yuan in one go.
I guess I'll be so angry that I'll slap my thigh when I think about this in the future.
Although Lin Li and Liu Xiang are not as kind as his elder brother and sister-in-law, they have gotten along well over the years, and Lin Qiu still sympathizes with Liu Xiang.
Lin Min and Lin Rui, brother and sister, both have to go to work. Lin Min is fine, he works within the system and is not very busy. Lin Rui is a very busy man and may not be available even on holidays, so he only came back and stayed for half an hour.
Liu Xiang was afraid of delaying her children's work, and she also felt ashamed to be lectured by her children, so she simply didn't ask her siblings to come back, and she lay in bed all day, claiming that she was recuperating.
Lin Qiu had nothing to do when he returned to his hometown, so he would come over to visit during the day.
In the morning, Lin Qiu went to the fish pond to watch Wang Xiuren and Lin Li fishing. She asked Lin Li, "How did you find out that Liu Xiang was losing money?"
"She chatters with that group of old men and women every day, and she is afraid of being heard. She also always uses her mobile phone to check some messy websites. She doesn't even know that the query history can be displayed on the mobile phone." Lin Li said while shaking his head.
"Why don't you stop her?"
"It was my carelessness." Lin Li sighed. "I thought that with her personality, she would only buy five or ten yuan at most. I didn't expect her to be so bold. If I hadn't thought about converting the current account into a fixed deposit that day, I might still be in the dark!"
"Brother, losing money is a small matter. The key is that buying or selling underground Mark Six lottery tickets is illegal. You can't do it!" Only then did Lin Qiu realize that they and their spouses had very weak legal awareness.
"Isn't it illegal even if Liu Xiang bought it from someone else?" Lin Li was so scared that he couldn't hold the fishing rod steadily.
"Why else would Minmin be so angry?" Lin Qiu took out his phone and searched for relevant laws and showed them to him. "You two are really careless. Minmin is in the system. If you two don't know what to do, you might even implicate her."
Now Lin Li could no longer sit still.
He threw the fishing rod aside and ran home briskly.
"I said, you still have the mind to lie on the bed and sleep!" Lin Li pushed open the door and yelled at Liu Xiang anxiously.
"Why are you making such a loud noise? Didn't you go fishing with your brother-in-law?" Liu Xiang rubbed his head and sat up. "You knew I was not feeling well, but you still went out fishing. I didn't see you bring back any fish."
"It's already this late, and you're still here talking nonsense." Lin Li held her back, "Hurry up and explain clearly what happened to the underground lottery ticket purchase."
"What are you explaining? Didn't I tell you everything?" Liu Xiang shook Lin Li's hand away and turned her head away. "It's just a loss of money. You can't let this go, right?"
"This is not about money. Do you know that you might end up harming Minmin?" Lin Li slammed the bedside table in anger.
"How did I harm her?" Liu Xiang looked confused. "I bought it with my own money and didn't ask her for money."
Lin Li took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. "You bought the lottery ticket, it's illegal, you know that? Minmin works in a government agency, if someone reports her, she will lose her job!"
When Liu Xiang heard this, she panicked, "What...what should I do? I didn't think too much about it at the time..."
"What's the point of saying this now?" Lin Li shook his head helplessly, "Hurry up and explain this to Minmin and see if there is any way to solve it."
Liu Xiang nervously called Lin Min and told her everything that had happened.
After listening to this, Lin Min roughly guessed that it was her aunt and father who mentioned the dangers of this matter.
In fact, she called the police immediately after learning about this and explained the situation to them.
The police did not visit Liu Xiang because they took into consideration that she was old and had fallen ill due to losing money.
However, the underground Mark Six lottery sales den near my home was cleared out by the police station a few days ago.
Liu Xiang stayed at home during this period and didn't notice that the old men and women in the village no longer dared to get together to discuss buying underground Mark Six lottery tickets.
But she was afraid that Liu Xiang would do something illegal again because of greed, so she deliberately said in a serious tone: "Mom, when you recover, go to the police station and explain the situation. I will also report the situation to the higher-ups. Alas..."
"Minmin, Mom really didn't know. I didn't mean to hurt you!" Liu Xiang cried anxiously, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"
"Mom, it's okay, stop crying. I shouldn't be in any serious trouble. I guess my supervisor will give me a lighter sentence because I wasn't involved. But if you do something similar again in the future, I might lose my job." Lin Min was worried that she might get sick from being scared, so she comforted her directly.
"I promise I will never do this again. If I don't understand something, I will ask you first." Liu Xiang raised his right hand and was almost swearing to the sky.
"Okay, okay, I'm going to work. Remember to go to the police station and explain the situation after you recover!" Lin Min reminded.
"I'll ask your dad to take me there on his motorcycle." Liu Xiang jumped up from the bed. "I definitely can't let this get you involved."
"Okay, okay, take care of yourself. I'm going to hang up first and I'll call you later."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Liu Xiang didn't even bother to change her clothes. She urged Lin Li to take her to the police station in her home clothes.
Lin Li was also afraid of affecting his daughter, so he rushed to the police station without stopping.
When she arrived at the police station, Liu Xiang took the initiative to admit her mistake to the police, accepted the legal education from the police, and finally confirmed again and again that her daughter would not be implicated this time. Finally, she made repeated assurances in front of the police before going home.
After returning home, Liu Xiang was really sick.
After the doctor came to see her, he said it was just a case of anger and told her to just relax.
After taking the medicine for two days, and with Lin Min coming back to tell her that she was fine, she slowly got better.
However, she was still depressed and had no appetite, and couldn't eat anything for several days.
Lin Li followed her and ate white porridge for a few days, but he couldn't bear it anymore. He went straight to the street and bought two pounds of pork belly. Seeing that the fish was quite fresh, he bought another fish and asked Lin Qiu to help him cook it.
Since Lin Li requested, Lin Qiu started to get busy in the kitchen.
The pork belly was made into fragrant braised pork, the fish was sliced into fish fillets, and a head of sauerkraut was cut and cooked into a pot of sauerkraut fish. Add in fresh water spinach from their own vegetable garden, and two meat dishes and one vegetable were quickly ready.
Lin Qiu brought the food to the table and invited everyone to eat.
Liu Xiang looked at the delicious food on the table, but still couldn't muster any interest.
Lin Li picked up a piece of fish and put it in her bowl, and persuaded her: "We can earn money again if we lose it. Your health is more important. You should eat something."
Liu Xiang sighed, "I'm not heartbroken about the money, but I feel bad that I'm causing trouble for my children at my age."
Lin Qiu quickly comforted him, "Don't blame yourself too much. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Fortunately, it was discovered in time this time and it didn't cause too much impact. Let's learn from this lesson and don't do those illegal things again."
Liu Xiang nodded, "I understand. I've really learned my lesson this time."
The family sat together, eating and chatting, and the atmosphere gradually became harmonious.
Liu Xiang's mood also improved a little. She finished eating the fish and drank a bowl of thick rice porridge.
At night, Liu Xiang couldn't help asking, "Do you think your sister will laugh at me secretly?"
"Why do you think so? My sister is not that kind of person." Lin Li comforted her, "Besides, everyone makes mistakes in their life. Don't let your imagination run wild."
Liu Xiang was still a little worried. "I still feel a little embarrassed. I can't hold my head up in front of her anymore."
"Don't think like that. It's over now. Don't mention it again." Lin Li said, "Besides, what does this have to do with her?"
"But she seems to always look down on me, and is much kinder to my elder brother and his wife than to us." Liu Xiang mentioned what she had kept in her heart for a long time.
Liu Xiang has always felt that neither her parents-in-law nor Lin Li’s sisters have a deep relationship with their family.
"Not really." Lin Li felt that Liu Xiang was overthinking.
"Why not?" Liu Xiang retorted, "Your sister took your brother and sister to buy a house in Pengcheng and forgot about you. Every time she came back, she would bring a lot of bags to your brother's place. If there was anything, she would inform your eldest brother first."
The more Liu Xiang spoke, the more she felt that it was true.
If Liu Xiang had said this to Lin Li a few years ago, he might have thought so too.
But over the years Lin Li has already understood the reason. He held Liu Xiang's hand and patiently explained, "The three of them bought a house in Pengcheng because they were all working hard in Pengcheng. You only saw my sister carrying things to my eldest brother's house, so why didn't you tell me how much stuff my eldest sister-in-law sent to Pengcheng? They live close to each other, so wouldn't they discuss everything together?"
Liu Xiang was still a little unconvinced, "Then why didn't you think of us when you had good things?"
Lin Li smiled and said, "We have our lives, and they have theirs. There's no need to worry about so much. A safe and peaceful family is better than anything else."
"If my eldest sister had also led us to buy a house in Pengcheng, wouldn't we be able to do the same as my eldest brother and sell the house in Pengcheng and buy a house in the provincial capital for Minmin and Ruirui?" Liu Xiang confessed the biggest regret in her heart.
“Even if you told us at that time, regardless of whether we had money or not, would you have listened to me then?” Lin Li patted her hands.
He sighed softly and continued, "I had similar ideas to you in the early years. I always wanted to get more benefits from my parents and brothers and sisters. But it was because we only thought about gaining without giving anything that our father ignored us for so many years."
"Although Daddy, Mommy and Big Sister didn't pay much attention to us, they treated Minmin and Ruirui equally. Didn't we go to Gan Province to repair the dam at that time? The two children were taken care of every winter and summer vacation. Either they went to Pengcheng or Daddy and Mommy came back to take care of them personally. They never asked us for a penny. Although your mother took care of their food and accommodation on weekdays, Huanhuan helped supervise their studies. Now the two children can have what they have now, thanks to Big Sister and others."
Lin Li said with emotion, "We should not be too selfish and only think about ourselves. We should also learn to be grateful and not always care about gains and losses."
Liu Xiang didn't say anything else, she knew that what Lin Li said made sense. I also know that I am too greedy and always want more.
Lin Li Lin Li continued, "And think about it, our elderly don't want us to be a burden, Minmin and Ruirui don't need us to worry about their jobs, and the money we have is more than enough to help the two children pay the down payment. Isn't this a good life?"
Liu Xiang's knot in her heart was finally resolved.
She nodded and said, "I'll listen to you from now on. I just want to live my life well and not cause any trouble for the children."
From then on, she learned to cherish the happiness in front of her and no longer covet things that did not belong to her.
The family's life became more harmonious and happy.
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