Chapter 98 Impossible, you can’t possibly have that much money?!
Li Feng stared at Li Youquan, Goudaner and Ergouzi from a distance, then put on a smile and said to the crowd:
"Uncles, let's talk in the yard. Don't stand outside and let others watch the fun."
The words were very polite.
"No, just pay the money back here and don't try to get rid of us!"
"Yes! Get the money right now. Your dad doesn't have cash, but you must have Alipay, right? Transfer the money to me using Alipay!"
"What a good idea! Alipay transfers are great! You don't have to go to the bank to withdraw money. You can apply for an Alipay account for your dad, bind the card, and transfer the money directly!"
The crowd refused to give in, apparently moved by Li Youquan's words just now.
More and more people gathered around, blocking the streets and alleys, and came to see the joke of Old Li's family.
"Uncles, don't listen to the instigation of those with ulterior motives," Li Feng simply stepped on the pedal of the car and shouted loudly from a high position.
"I brought all the money! It's in the box, a total of 600,000! Today, not only do I have to pay back the money I lent to all the uncles, I also have to pay the interest! 20% interest for three years!"
"My dear uncles and aunts, you generously donated money to save my life when I was in the hospital. You are my adopted parents. How could I, Li Feng, let you down? I will definitely not do something like borrowing money to buy a car!"
As he spoke, Li Feng took out a huge trolley case from the car. The red trolley case was 24 inches in size and was quite difficult to drag.
Everyone looked on, shocked.
"Really? Holy shit, how did Li Feng make such a fortune? Buying a car and paying off debts, at least 600,000 or 700,000!"
"More than that, look at how heavy that suitcase is, it must be filled with at least a million!"
"Oh, what did I say? Jiang keeps his word! He paid me back when he said he would, and he even gave me 20% interest. What a great character!"
"I guess it's all Li Youquan's doing. That old fellow doesn't do his job all day. He's either stealing or gambling with Gou Danzi and his friends. Didn't you see it just now? Li Youquan was lying on the wall, constantly giving Gou Danzi signs, and then he just started to stir up trouble..."
The people who were just making a fuss only felt a burning pain on their faces, but they didn't expect that Li Feng actually brought the cash.
Li Feng pulled the suitcase into the yard and said politely to Uncle Zhang:
"Uncle Zhang, could you please take a little more trouble and organize everyone to go into the house one by one so that we can get the money one by one?"
When Uncle Zhang saw the suitcase Li Feng brought out, he immediately felt relieved and said,
"Everyone, please pay attention. Let Xiaofeng go in first. Let's line up according to the order of the production team. One team first..."
Uncle Zhang was highly respected, and everyone agreed after hearing what he said.
Li Youquan stared at the suitcase that Li Feng was carrying, and said fiercely, "Don't believe it!"
"Don't believe his nonsense. Who knows what's inside. He's trying to fool everyone! Don't be fooled!"
Goudan'er and Ergouzi mixed in with the crowd and echoed from a distance: "Yes, it's probably filled with luggage, maybe even bricks!"
"Yes, bricks!"
"Bricks?!" Li Feng laughed, then turned around and said, "Dad, move a table over here. I'll show everyone now whether there's money or bricks in the box!"
Under the burning gazes of the crowd, Li Youjiang and Wang Xiurong moved a wooden table out of the house.
Li Feng pulled the trolley case, put it upwards, and opened the buckle.
"Click—"
The suitcase opened, revealing densely packed and neatly arranged RMB. At a glance, it was probably hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Everyone looked at it and their breath was held. In the whole yard, and even in the streets outside the yard, you could hear a pin drop.
An ordinary farmer could never earn so much money in his entire life, let alone see or imagine it.
Li Youquan's pupils shrank in disbelief, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Impossible!"
"impossible!"
"Li Feng can't possibly have so much money! It's fake money! It must be fake money!"
Goudaner and Ergouzi showed expressions of disbelief on their faces. They did not expect that Li Feng really took out the money, and it was a trolley case.
The crowd couldn't help but look at Li Youquan, Gou'er and Ergouzi who had been making a fuss. They were so embarrassed that their faces turned as red as the sunset clouds.
Goudanzi and Ergouzi left in disgrace. Li Youquan was embarrassed and climbed down the ladder.
Li Feng ignored them for the time being and asked Uncle Zhang:
"Uncle Zhang, how much do you want?"
"Ahem, five thousand yuan," Uncle Zhang coughed and took out the IOU, feeling a little embarrassed, ashamed of his previous hesitation and disbelief, and a little guilty.
"Uncle, here, this is five thousand yuan, and this is one thousand yuan in interest. Do you think it's correct?" Li Feng pointed out six thousand yuan and handed it over.
"right."
Old Uncle Zhang nodded.
"But, some people say it's fake money, Uncle Zhang, you have to keep an eye on it--" Li Feng said to the figure on the ladder.
"Fake money? Hey, your Uncle Zhang has a very good eye. He can tell the real from the fake with just a pinch of his hands. Who said it's fake? Please give me a few hundred and I'll thank him!"
After hearing this, Li Youquan was so angry that he slipped and almost fell off the ladder.
Li Youquan's wife, Chu Dongmei, was startled. She angrily said with her almond-shaped eyes, "Why didn't you tell me before you dropped it? Don't hit me... I'm not someone you can easily mess with..."
"You—" Li Youquan became even more angry after hearing this, feeling neither superior nor inferior.
Chu Dongmei looked at Li Feng handing out RMB in bundles, her eyes turning red. She couldn't help but curse at Li Youquan:
"Look at Li Feng. He made 600,000 in three years. What about you? You didn't even make 60,000 in three years! You're a loser. You made me suffer with you..."
"You spend all day either eating, drinking, or gambling. You don't do anything serious. Can't you try to be more proud?"
"Aren't you the same? Don't call your elder brother talk about your second brother..." Li Youquan muttered in a low voice.
Chu Dongmei's face darkened when she heard this and she cursed, "I married you because I think highly of you. It's your turn to speak. If you can't speak, don't speak!"
After a while, she pondered again:
"Oh, how can he be so capable? Hey, you bastard, don't be silent like a mute. Say something. How did Li Feng make his fortune?!"
"Didn't you tell me not to speak?" Li Youquan muttered.
"I told you not to speak, so you won't speak? Are you born in the Year of the Pig? Don't you understand what people say?"
"Uh, this."
Li Youquan was choked and speechless. After a few breaths, he rolled his eyes and said, "This kid, could he have made his money from stock trading? The last time I lent him 100,000 yuan, he made his money from stock trading. I heard there was a big bull market this year, so he must have made a killing."
"Yes, I must have made money from stock trading."
The more Li Youquan spoke, the more certain he became, and his guess was almost right.
Chu Dongmei heard this, her eyes turned, her eyes lit up, and she licked her lips and said:
"Your nephew has become rich, so he should at least show some respect to you as his uncle. He borrowed 100,000 yuan last time, so he should at least borrow 200,000 yuan this time."
"Go kill a chicken now and take it with you in the evening. It will be bad if you are late."
Li Youquan thought of Li Feng's eyes and immediately backed off. He said, "Dongmei, this is not good. We haven't paid back the 100,000 yuan we borrowed last time. Now we have to borrow money again..."
"Bah, I told you to borrow money, so go and borrow it. Just wait and see, who knows how many people will come to borrow money at night. Instead of lending it to those outsiders, I might as well lend it to you. You are brothers after all, even if your bones are broken, your tendons are still connected. Go and kill the chicken, what are you doing standing there!" Chu Dongmei roared.
When Li Youquan heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "Right, it's better to let it benefit me than to let outsiders benefit from it."
He didn't go to watch the fun, and hurried down the ladder, trotted to the chicken coop, looked at the eight old hens, and made up his mind. He grabbed the thinnest one, bled it, plucked its feathers, and took out its heart, and started tinkering with it.
Three quarters of an hour later, Li Youquan had finished tinkering with it. Several farm vehicles drove in outside the door. They were creditors from several nearby villages who had heard the news.
Li Youjiang and Li Feng naturally treated him kindly and paid off the debt with interest.
Waves of praise drifted over the wall and into Li Youquan's ears, making him feel uncomfortable. He raised his hand and slapped the chicken in the basin, saying, "I'll let you be so proud, I'll let you be so proud. Sooner or later, you'll fall into my hands!"
Chu Dongmei heard it and cursed:
"You're such a loser, you can only get angry at a chicken. Stew the chicken and when you deliver it to me tonight, tear off the two chicken legs. I want to eat them."
Li Youquan had no choice but to build a fire and stew the chicken.
After much anticipation, night fell.
Wang Xiurong brought the table into the house, lifted the pot and took out the steaming buns, and set out a table full of dishes: salad cucumber, fried peanuts, scrambled eggs with hot peppers, braised beef, and stewed cabbage with tofu and vermicelli. She said, "We're short on time, so let's just make do with what we have."
"That's enough, that's enough, Mom, stop busying yourself and sit down to eat." Li Feng advised.
"You guys eat first, I'll bring the porridge over..." After saying that, Wang Xiurong went to the kitchen again.
Li Youjiang was delighted and took out a bottle of Little Confused Fairy from under the cabinet and said:
"Well, after three years, our family is finally together. Let's have a drink. Oh, and pour one for your mother too."
Li Feng first took out two wine glasses, and after hearing this, he added another one and said, "I don't know if my mother can drink it."
"Why can't she drink? Your mother might have drunk when she was young, but she didn't drink much after she got married and had you. She must drink if she's happy today. Pour her some water, pour her some water." Li Youjiang said.
At this time, Wang Xiurong came in carrying a pot full of millet porridge. Li Feng helped to fill four bowls of porridge. The three of them and Li Feng's grandmother sat together.
Li Youjiang picked up the wine glass and said, "It's been three years, a full three years. Xiaofeng has woken up, and I'm back. Our family is finally reunited. Come, let's have a drink as a family of three."
Wang Xiurong looked at Li Youjiang's increasingly aged face, choked up, and said, "Youjiang, you've been wandering outside for the past three years, with poor food and warm clothes. You've suffered for this family."
Hearing this, Li Youjiang turned to look at Wang Xiurong. Seeing that she had a lot more white hair on her temples, he was also moved. He said, "I'm fine. But you're alone in your hometown, and you don't know how many people are gossiping about us and making fun of us. I'm really sorry for you."
As Li Feng listened, tears welled up in his eyes. He said, "Dad, Mom, I'm here. You won't have to suffer anymore."
As he spoke, Li Feng pointed to the suitcase in the inner room and said:
"There's still 200,000 yuan. Let's buy back the farmland and homestead we sold. Then I'll build a few big houses for you two to enjoy."
Wang Xiurong turned around and said kindly:
"Xiao Feng, your safety is our greatest blessing. Why take so much money? Keep it for yourself. You will have many other places to spend money in the future."
"Yes, take it," Li Youjiang said, patting his pocket. "Your father is rich now, nearly 200,000 yuan!"
"Yours is yours, that's retirement money, and mine is money to buy a homestead and land," Li Feng said. "Besides, I'm not short of money anymore. I made some money in this bull market. Otherwise, how could I dare to buy a car?"
Li Youjiang looked at the car outside the yard, then at the suitcase in the room. Suddenly his expression changed and he said:
"Alas, Xiaofeng, wealth should not be flaunted. Today we are really showing off a bit. Who knows how much trouble it will cause."
Wang Xiurong thought more deeply and said worriedly: "Now that I have made money, I am afraid someone will come to borrow money."
Li Feng heard this and said helplessly: "These days, if you don't have money, people look down on you. If you have money, you're also afraid of being coveted by others. It's really hard to be a human being."
"We'll help in emergencies, not in poverty," Li Youjiang said decisively. "If someone needs money urgently, we can lend it to them. But if they need to buy a house or a car, or even start a business, forget it. We've just recovered, and we're not wealthy. Don't worry about it."
Seeing her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson all back and reunited, and that they had paid off their debts, Lu Chunlan was even happier and said happily, "You Jiang, give me a sip too."
"Mom, you're already over seventy years old, is that okay?"
Lu Chunlan laughed and scolded, "Old Lady She is still going to war at the age of 100. How can a sip of wine like this stump me? I'm in good health, I'm about to collapse..."
"It's 38 degrees, just one sip..."
"Just one sip. Come, let's drink together..."
Three generations of grandparents and grandchildren drank it all in one gulp, and the room was filled with joy.
But Li Youquan hurriedly finished his dinner and headed back to his old house carrying the stewed chicken.
As soon as he walked out of the door, a figure suddenly rushed past and scared him.
"Who?!" Li Youquan asked.
"Oh, Youquan." The man turned around and it was the third brother Li Youhu. He was carrying a box of milk and was about to knock on the door of the old house.
"What are you going to do?" Li Youquan asked vigilantly.
"Oh? What am I going to do?" Li Youhu glanced at Li Youquan, saw the stewed chicken he was carrying, and chuckled, "Whatever you want to do, I'll do it too. First come, first served. You go home and wait for a while."
As he spoke, he knocked on the door and shouted, "Brother, brother, open the door, open the door, I'm here to see you."
"well!"
Li Youquan sighed loudly, feeling extremely regretful, and hit himself on the mouth with his right hand.
When he returned home, his wife Chu Dongmei scolded him, "Will you starve to death if you skip a bite? Now that Youhu has gone first, if he borrows all the money, what's the point of borrowing from him?!"
"This, I was wondering, isn't there anyone so fast?"
"What are you thinking about?! What are you doing back now? Go line up outside! Don't let anyone else get ahead of you and cut in line again! If you can't borrow money today, you won't be able to come into the house tonight!"
"This...ah...my mouth!" Li Youquan slapped himself on the left mouth again, then went to wait outside the old house.
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