Chapter 121
Zhang Guixiang calmed down and pinched Old Man Zhou hard.
"Now Zhou Xiao wants to find Xiaoying and her husband. Think carefully about whether they left any message at that time."
Old Man Zhou shook his head and sighed, "The situation at the Xi family was too urgent at the time. Xiaoying only had time for me to send the child to a family with a clean family background to be raised, and then she left in a hurry. There was no news from her afterwards."
At that time, many of the smuggled people were missing, and no one knew whether the Xi family and Zhou Ying were dead or alive.
"If Xiaoying and her friends are lucky enough, it's possible that they could make it across. Let Zhou Xiao go to Gangcheng to look for them and try his luck. We'll never know for sure until we go look for them," Zhang Guixiang said with a sigh.
Then he asked Old Man Zhou to write back to Zhou Xiao.
Their side gradually calmed down, but the Li family on the other side was in great turmoil.
Half a year ago, Li Changjun met a friend from his previous military unit. This friend had retired early and didn't know about Li Changjun being expelled from the army.
Seeing Li Changjun and his wife running a clothing stall, their life was not easy.
After drinking with this former teammate and reminiscing about the past, he helped Li Changjun.
The couple was provided with cheaper sources of goods and helped to open a store.
Shen Hui had finally come across this great opportunity, so she worked hard and used some of the experience she had seen in later generations to open a clothing store, adding promotional activities such as buy one get one free for recharging a certain amount and discounts.
The clothing store business was booming, and Shen Hui finally regained some of the sense of superiority of being reborn. She also thought that Li Changjun was still useful and could start his journey to becoming the richest man in the future.
But some people are just rotten. When the clothing store business was successful, Li Changjun also started to show off. He boasted outside and had the final say at home.
Shen Hui saw the benefits of Li Changjun's teammates and was willing to pay Li Changjun to get closer to those friends so that it would be easier for him to do things in the future.
After all, apart from Li Changjun who was expelled, the friends he knew in the army were assigned good jobs after retiring, or those who went into business did very well. They all have good connections.
Shen Hui felt that Li Changjun was able to become the richest man in Luzhou in his previous life thanks to these connections.
This also explains why Li Changjun’s business did not make progress when he followed her before. It was because he did not use his connections!
Shen Hui, who felt she had figured it out, saw hope of becoming the wife of the richest man and regained her confidence in Li Changjun.
She often urged Li Changjun to reconnect with his old friends, and even forgot to write to Jiang Yu to ask for money regarding Zhou Xiao's parents.
But Shen Hui's confidence was shattered when she saw Li Changjun entering and leaving the dance hall in a familiar manner.
After taking the money, Li Changjun began to really want to reconnect with his old friends. He also wanted to achieve something to prove that he was no better than Zhou Tinghuai, who relied on his sister-in-law.
But no matter how great the ideal is, it cannot compare to the fact that those friends are in contact with each other and know that Li Changjun had seriously violated discipline in the army and was expelled from the army.
A few of my friends are truly upright and are 100% disgusted by what Li Changjun did.
If Li Changjun didn't come up to them, they would just pretend that they didn't have such a teammate.
But Li Changjun actually betrayed his teammates and wanted to rely on their relationships to do business, which made them even more shameless and they couldn't help but say something.
So Li Changjun, who values face more than anything else and feels that his dignity has been insulted, no longer tries to build relationships with his former teammates.
The main character is that others look down on him, and he looks down on them even more, although I don't know where he gets the nerve to look down on others.
Feeling depressed, Li Changjun went to a food stall to drink and met some new friends.
These new friends are good at having fun. In the eyes of some people, they are just second-rate people who have no jobs and hang around all day.
Li Changjun boasted that he had made money and was a boss of some kind. He looked down on these people, but he enjoyed their flattery.
Often, with their exaggerated boasting, they would just wave their hands and pay the money.
Li Changjun was taken to a dance hall by these new friends. It was like he had seen a new world. He couldn't help but go there several times and even gained a confidante.
By the time Shen Hui discovered something was wrong, Li Changjun had been stealing money from the store for two consecutive months and was preparing to buy a house for his confidante.
Shen Hui was furious, especially when she learned that her teammates knew what Li Changjun had done and disdained to have anything to do with him. She was so angry that she started fighting with Li Changjun, who came to the store to steal money again.
When the incident got out of hand, the friend who provided the couple with goods at a low price and helped them rent a house was found.
Later, he happened to meet a retired teammate and learned that Li Changjun had been expelled from the army. He felt sorry for helping Li Changjun, but the job was already done and it was not good to end it so hastily, otherwise it would not sound good if others told about it.
When the incident of Li Changjun stealing money from the store to go to the dance hall came to light, this friend seized the opportunity and used this ready-made excuse to cut off all ties with Li Changjun's friend who had an affair with another woman.
The supply of goods was cut off very efficiently. Not long after, the landlord saw that the clothing store's business was plummeting. The parents of that confidante even came to the store and demanded that Li Changjun divorce his wife and marry their daughter, or else give them money.
She made a lot of noise all day long, and the landlord was worried that it would affect the shops next door, so he kicked her out when the lease was up.
The failure to complete the business was not the end of the matter. The confidante wanted to report Li Changjun to the public security bureau, saying that Li Changjun had a wife but was still having extramarital affairs.
Li Changjun had no choice. He didn't want to go to jail, so he could only give the family's money to Shen Hui while she was busy looking for a new store and source of goods.
Li Changjun had already stolen a lot of money from the store before, and with what he gave out this time, he lost all the money the clothing store earned.
After all these operations, half a year's business was wasted.
Shen Hui had finally found a source of goods that was a little more expensive and was just about to come back to get the money to pay for it. But when she saw the empty cash box, she felt like the sky had fallen.
The couple had a fight because they had no money. In the end, they didn’t even have money to rent a house and returned to Xiaohe Village in shame.
When she returned to the village, Shen Hui thought of Zhou Xiao when she saw Zhang Guixiang, who worked in an enamel factory, lived a comfortable life, was able to manage people, and lived a better life than all the old ladies in the village.
Zhou Xiao was unwilling to pay money to buy information about her biological parents, so she planned to write a letter to Jiang Yu.
In Shen Hui's opinion, Zhou Xiao had been poor enough, and even though he had money now, he was not willing to spend 200,000 to buy information.
But Jiang Yu is different. She is so rich that hundreds of thousands are enough for her to buy a few things. She will definitely be very willing to pay.
Moreover, Zhou Xiao’s biological parents are Jiang Yu’s future in-laws, so there is nothing wrong with them looking for her.
In the hope of getting money, Shen Hui was also willing to release the information that Zhou Xiao's father was in Gangcheng to lure Jiang Yu and make her willing to give money.
Hearing that Jiang Yu followed Zhou Xiao to Kyoto and bought a house there, Shen Hui cursed in her heart, saying that so what if Jiang Yu was rich, she was still a love-brained person.
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