20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3799 Don't make it so difficult anymore
Zhao Chang'an silently took Ai Qiuqiu's small, soft, boneless hand and walked down the stairs with her. He was a person who despised bad habits and morals, but he was not a beast without any bottom line. He knew what to do and what not to do.

If he really wanted to deal with Sui Xuemeng, he had a hundred ways to make her disappear. He could send her to Southeast Asia, Africa, Siberia, or the Sahara, just like Ying Shijun, who took advantage of Qi Xiaoqin's vulnerability to pursue and coerce her. Qi Xinghu could take her to a mine in Siberia to pan for gold, where she would do manual labor and be teased by those vodka-fueled Russians at night.

However, he couldn't bring himself to do it to Sui Xuemeng, an innocent girl who was actually a little cunning.

Therefore, Zhao Chang'an also felt helpless. He could only tell Ai Qiuqiu about the matter. As for whether Sui Xuemeng would be as Ai Qiuqiu guessed after she came out, there was nothing that could be done.

It's true that Lao Liu and I are brothers, but I can't use the excuse of "I'm doing this for your own good" to interfere with his feelings and sexual happiness.

Sui Xuemeng's biggest problem is that although her parents didn't embezzle much money, only a little over one million but less than two million, the average monthly wage for workers was only five or six hundred a few years ago, and a 100-square-meter cooperative housing unit cost only thirty or forty thousand. It can be said that a little over one million is an astronomical figure for most people.

Initially, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the government significantly raised bank deposit and loan interest rates in order to curb inflation and economic overheating. Preserving value through savings and reducing lending were the most important aspects of this contractionary monetary policy.

In that year, the annual interest rate for deposits of five years or more was 13.68%, and the loan interest rate was 19.26%.

The percentages for the first three to five years were 11.88% and 14.4%, respectively, while those for the first one to three years were 10.08% and 12.78%.

Fixed deposits of less than one year yield 6.3% for three to six months, 7.74% for six months to one year, and 2.88% for demand deposits.

The loan rate is uniformly 11.34%.

This combination of measures effectively curbed blind and overheated investment.

From this point on, some people with connections would borrow money from various places or temporarily misappropriate some of the company's funds to make short-term fixed deposits in banks within one year and earn the interest difference.

Before this, Sui Xuemeng's parents were relatively clean and honest people, but they couldn't resist the temptation of others making money this way, and as a result, the whole family did it one after another. However, they basically made fixed deposits of less than one year to earn 7.74% interest, so that they could return the funds the day before the end of the year and avoid investigation.

By 97, the interest rate on bank deposits for six months to a year had dropped to 4.14%. Having grown accustomed to a life of wealth, even though they could still make a considerable profit from the interest rate difference, their desires had been aroused, and they had become greedy.

They started by creating false accounts to provide short-term relief. By 99, when the interest rate for six-month to one-year fixed deposits at banks had dropped to 2.16%, they stopped earning interest in that way and instead used false accounts to embezzle large sums of company money.

Ultimately, they reaped what they sowed and were brought to justice.

Furthermore, Sui Xuemeng's father used his power of approval to repeatedly have sexual relations with her against her will.

This kind of embezzlement is so heinous that it is far more infuriating than ordinary embezzlement and bribery. It is no exaggeration to say that it is an outrage against both gods and men. If Liu Yihui had such a father-in-law, he would definitely carry this stain for the rest of his life.

Also, how did he get past his mother, Jiao Fengyue?
Regardless of what people say about Jiao Fengyue, Zhao Chang'an knew at least one thing: she was extremely proud and concerned about her reputation. If Old Liu dared to bring Sui Xuemeng into the house, the sky would fall; Jiao Fengyue severing her mother-son relationship with him would be the least of her worries.

Based on Sui Xuemeng's father's case, a sentence of more than ten years is basically inevitable. Her mother's current focus is on how deep the case is involved and how much money she embezzled.

If the matter isn't too serious or widespread, and you actively report and expose it, it should only take a year or so. But if it's more serious, it's hard to say whether it will take three to five years or even eight to ten years.

Zhao Chang'an wasn't paying much attention to this matter, but he did know a little about it. As it stands, whether it's true or not, Sui Xuemeng's father has taken on almost all the responsibility. Since they were able to put the storage device in Sui Xuemeng's down jacket, it's clear that they had a premonition and made the worst-case scenario plan, at least to save one of them.

Of course, the people in charge of the review are all very discerning, and the final determination of this matter has not yet been made.

"Do whatever you want. I don't mind breaking up with Lao Liu at all. In fact, ever since he came all the way from 2,000 miles away to comfort Sui Xuemeng, Lao Liu and I slept separately during the Spring Festival. I don't mind sleeping on the floor, but he insists on it. Actually, as his girlfriend, I don't mind sleeping in the same bed with him and letting him exercise his rights. But I feel that he only has Sui Xuemeng in his heart now and has no feelings for me."

Zhao Chang'an was stunned when he heard Ai Qiuqiu say that. If they were to make Lao Liu, as a normal man, stop exercising his sexual rights, then there was really no need to force him like this anymore.

"You could have said that to me sooner, and you shouldn't have said that I should sleep with Sui Xuemeng."

Zhao Chang'an was somewhat annoyed. Regardless of whether Jiao Fengyue's situation was dire or not, Lao Liu, as an adult man, should at least have the most basic sexual rights.

"It's his own choice, and even without Sui Xuemeng, he doesn't sleep with me anymore. There are plenty of women who like him now. Old Liu actually has a unique masculine charm. I think that nurse treats Aunt Jiao better than her own mother. And there's a girl from the Quality Supervision Bureau in the logistics park in Lin'an who's quite nice. She just graduated from Lin'an University of Finance and Economics last year. She's no less beautiful than Sui Xuemeng, and definitely prettier than me. She's just not very tall, only 1.5 meters, but she's a good match for Old Liu. Her father is the director of the Lin'an Information Management Center (at the division level). Her family background is much more noble than my small merchant family. You can almost see the love in Old Liu's eyes. Believe it or not, if it weren't for Sui Xuemeng, after a few years, he would change. He wouldn't stop playing with women, and he wouldn't lack women."

Zhao Chang'an didn't argue with Ai Qiuqiu's statement. The previous Liu Yihui was short, dark and thin, insecure and lacking confidence. He was timid and had a very obvious people-pleasing personality.

Just like in his previous life, Old Liu later became rich, put on gold-rimmed glasses, bought the Four Treasures of the Study (brush, ink, paper, and inkstone) and started practicing calligraphy to pretend to be a cultured person. He also had more women than the Hundred-Man Slayer Master Wen.

However, Master Wen only likes to seduce married men; he has no interest in unmarried or divorced single women, no matter how beautiful they are.

Liu Yihui, however, preferred to visit brothels to find women, and he never gave respectable, clean girls a second glance.

This includes Wu Yue, who drove away his wife Jing Yuehong due to alcoholism; Song Yunqin, whom Zheng Chi in this life described as "greasy and disgusting at first glance"; Zhong Lianwei, who ventured to Shenzhen alone at sixteen and eventually reconciled with his immoral father Zhong Yuanqiang, bringing him to Changsha to live out his retirement; Fan Chao, with whom he later had a good relationship, marrying a primary school teacher in the Airport District who was ten years younger and looked a lot like Li Yanqiu; and Li Shiya, whom he clearly loved, yet had to diligently practice the Five Animal Frolics.

As Zhao Chang'an and Ai Qiuqiu walked out of the hotel's back door, Zhao thought to himself, "I and my brothers and friends, and even more unrelated people, were all pure and kind when we were young and full of vigor. But later we became prostitutes, marriage destroyers, and alcoholics—licking our wounds in the dark like stray dogs, each in our own way."

I hope that this life won't be so difficult.