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Chapter 1542 Good Luck Continues (32)
When Grandpa Li saw Li Qiuyun running over to argue, he didn't know how the matter had reached her ears. He wondered if Li Zhiguo and his wife had just blurted it out, but it didn't matter. He just ignored Li Qiuyun. So he put on a stern face and said, "Don't you know how old your grandmother is? How can she take care of a baby!"

Li Qiuyun retorted, "You're just sexist and biased! Aren't you helping your older cousin's family take care of their kids?!"

Grandpa Li said, "His child is already seven or eight years old, so taking care of him is no problem. When your child is seven or eight years old, we can take care of him too."

But that's almost ten years from now, and he might not even be around by then, so he can make promises he doesn't really keep anyway.

Seeing that Grandpa Li was unyielding, Li Qiuyun knew that trying to reason with him wouldn't work, so she went to find Grandma Li.

Grandma Li always pitied her for not having a mother, so she would definitely help her if she cried like this.

Li Qiuyun was right. Although Grandpa Li had already told Grandma Li not to help Li Qiuyun take care of the child so that the child would make noise at night and disturb his rest, Grandma Li felt sorry for Li Qiuyun when she saw her crying and immediately agreed.

Li Qiuyun was happy to see that Grandma Li had agreed, and she didn't care about anything else. In any case, how Grandma Li persuaded Grandpa Li was Grandma Li's business, and she didn't need to worry about it.

When Grandpa Li heard Grandma Li say she wanted to help Li Qiuyun take care of the child, he said that it wasn't easy for her, since she didn't have a mother to help with the child, and Ding Ping was definitely unreliable. If Grandpa Li didn't help her, who would? He couldn't help but scold her, "It'll be so noisy at night, I won't be able to sleep, are you trying to torture me to death?"

Grandma Li said, "There are still a few months left, right? Hurry up and find Linlang a marriage partner so she can get married. Once her house is vacated, I can take the children and move into that house, right?"

That's a good idea. So Grandpa Li immediately asked Grandma Li to ask someone to find a marriage for Linlang.

However, given the previous failures of Li Zhiguo and his wife, as well as Li Qiuyun, how could Grandpa and Grandma Li possibly succeed?

After Linlang rejected two or three offers, Grandpa Li became unhappy and immediately scolded her: "These conditions are all good, why are you being so picky?!"

Linlang wasn't the original owner of this body, and she wouldn't just accept things passively. When she heard Grandpa Li scolding her, she said, "I'm still young, and I don't plan to get married within three years, is that not allowed? Why are you talking so rudely?"

She said that on purpose, probably because Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo, the couple, were getting anxious when they heard that she didn't plan to get married within three years.

When Grandpa Li heard her say that, he immediately scolded her, saying, "How can a girl this age not be married? In our time, a girl your age would already have several children! You must get married within six months!"

He didn't dare say that if Linlang didn't marry, there wouldn't be enough space in the house to accommodate the children. After all, it would be too much to kick Linlang out just to accommodate the rest of the family. So he only told Linlang to get married as soon as possible. When Linlang heard Grandpa Li say this, she immediately turned hostile and said, "I respect you as an elder, and even if you said something unpleasant before, I still spoke to you politely. I didn't expect you to take advantage of me like that. Mind your own business, why are you meddling in whether your grandchildren get married? You're really meddling too much."

Grandpa Li was furious. He had been the head of the family his whole life, especially when he had a job, everyone in the family had to listen to him. Even now that he was unemployed, his sons were filial, at least Li's father was. When had he ever been talked back to like this? He looked at Li's father and said, "Look at the good daughter you've raised!"

Li's father then scolded Linlang, saying, "How dare you speak to your grandfather like that?"

Linlang said, "He insulted me first. So what? He can insult me, but I can't fight back? Get this straight, feudal society is gone. This is a new society. If elders are unreasonable and insult people, juniors don't have to listen. It's the old society where you can't talk back."

Grandpa Li said, "How did I scold you? Is telling you to get married within six months considered scolding you?"

"Oh, when I get married is none of your business. What right do you have to interfere? What, are you trying to force me to get married? This is a new society now, and this kind of thing doesn't work anymore. Besides, the country also advocates late marriage and late childbirth. Can't I respond to the country's call?"

That's right, it's the 1970s now. Because the country is having more and more children, although there is no family planning policy, people are already promoting late marriage and late childbirth.

Grandpa Li didn't dare to go against the country, after all, the current atmosphere is serious, and he didn't dare to speak carelessly. However, if Linlang didn't get married and move out, her house wouldn't be empty, and there was no time to wait three years!
So Grandpa Li immediately stated his purpose—he had no choice but to state it, hoping that Li Linlang would have a conscience—saying, “Your sister-in-law and your sister are both pregnant, especially your sister, who is carrying twins. If you don’t get married within six months, there won’t be enough room for your grandmother to take care of the children. So you have to have a conscience. Even for your sister’s sake, you have to get married within six months.”

"Whether she has a baby or not is none of my business. Why should I be kicked out just because she has a baby? Fine, I'll leave if she returns the 600-plus yuan and dozens of tickets she stole from me. Otherwise, she's stolen so much from me before, at least 700 yuan worth of stuff and all sorts of tickets. And I'm supposed to give up my room for her just because she's having a baby? If I'm supposed to have a conscience, I should give up my room for her. She's stolen so much from me, where's her conscience? If you really want to talk about conscience, go talk to her first."

Linlang's rebuke made Grandpa Li's face turn red and then pale.

Well, Grandpa Li has long forgotten about the lawsuit between Linlang and Li Qiuyun involving more than six hundred yuan. He only wants Linlang to have a conscience, but he has forgotten that Li Qiuyun stole money from Linlang before. It is obviously unrealistic to expect Linlang to have a conscience now.

Thinking of the lawsuit involving over six hundred yuan—although Li Qiuyun had consistently denied taking Linlang's money, Grandpa Li believed she definitely had; otherwise, where had Li Linlang's money gone? The reason Grandpa Li believed Linlang's words but not Li Qiuyun's was precisely the advantage of the original owner's honesty. Although Grandpa Li favored sons over daughters and didn't particularly like his granddaughter, he clearly believed Linlang's words more than Li Qiuyun's, because Li Qiuyun had never been honest—Grandpa Li then asked Linlang, "What exactly do you want for you to leave?"

Linlang said innocently, "This is my home. I'm perfectly fine here. Why would I leave? Of course, it's not entirely impossible. Like I said before, I'll leave unless you return the six hundred yuan that's missing."

It would be strange if Grandpa Li agreed to Linlang's request, since he wouldn't have six hundred yuan to repay her. As for Li Qiuyun, it was even more impossible for her to give Linlang six hundred yuan.