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Chapter 1549 Good Luck Continues (39)
But... Grandpa Li is paralyzed right now, so he doesn't dare to get angry, for fear that the second branch of the family won't take care of him. In that case, he'll be paralyzed in bed, unable to live or die—at least he'll have to wait until Uncle Li the third comes someday so he can complain to him and hope that he can be transferred to the third branch of the family. He thinks the second branch of the family is too unfilial.

So after listening to Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo, Grandpa Li, who didn't want to spend money, made an excuse to say that he could pay to hire someone, but he was afraid that if the third branch of the family found out, it would cause a conflict.

Both Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo said they weren't afraid. Besides, if the third branch of the family really made trouble, then they would take care of their grandmother and let the third branch of the family have this opportunity to make money—hehe, then they would supervise the use of Grandpa Li's retirement pension.

After all, they wanted to use Grandpa Li's money to hire people, and the third branch of the family was unwilling. So when the third branch of the family took care of Grandpa Li, if they dared to use Grandpa Li's money to hire people or use it, then it would be their turn to speak. They weren't afraid that if Grandpa Li handed it over to the third branch of the family, Grandpa Li's money would fall into the hands of the third branch of the family.

Then, the third branch of the family will have to worry about how to take care of Grandpa Li.

When Grandpa Li heard Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo say this, he was speechless. He realized that the second branch of the family was looking down on him.

Before, both families were eager to support him because he had a pension. How come he's suddenly become someone everyone dislikes?
Grandpa Li lay in bed, not understanding what had happened in between. But he knew he would be disliked by the second wife, and he was afraid he would be disliked by the third wife as well. So he didn't dare to say anything and agreed to Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo's suggestion.

One theory is that Grandpa Li paid for someone to take care of him, and the second wife's family is in turmoil again.

Soon, Ding Ping said that several of her three sons' in-laws were capable of doing this.

Upon hearing Ding Ping's words, Li Qiuyun retorted that Cao Li's family also had people who could do this.

Needless to say, Li Zhiguo also said that Li's sister-in-law's family had someone who could do this.

To take care of Grandpa Li, we definitely need to find a middle-aged or elderly man who is unemployed, since it would be inconvenient for a woman; and a young man would definitely be working in the countryside and wouldn't be able to come.

There are quite a few unemployed people among these relatives, so it's natural that they can be found.

And this job is actually quite good.

Although he only gets twenty yuan a month, he eats and lives with the Li family, which is equivalent to having food and lodging provided. This can save the family a lot of money, since the food expenses for an adult man are actually quite high.

Taking care of Grandpa Li isn't too strenuous for a grown man—he just needs to feed him, carry him to the toilet, and help him take a bath and wash his clothes.

It's probably only during the summer that things get a bit busier; in the winter, you don't need to shower or do laundry as frequently.

The food that Grandpa Li eats doesn't need to be prepared by the other party, because that's Li's sister-in-law's responsibility.

Since it was a job with decent pay and not too strenuous, these families naturally gave it to their relatives. After all, these days, there are still quite a few people who are unemployed and can only try to find odd jobs.

Mr. Li is indecisive and always listens to his grandfather, Li Qiuyun, and Li Zhiguo. Now that Li Qiuyun, Li Zhiguo, and others have different opinions, he doesn't know who to listen to. So he simply suggested that Li Qiuyun, Li Zhiguo, and Ding Ping each send one person, and that they take turns each month. This way, they won't always use the same person and become jaded. Also, by using different people, Mr. Li can make comparisons. If there is someone he doesn't like, he won't need that person to take care of him. This way, Mr. Li can make the decision and Mr. Li will listen to him, saving him the trouble of choosing.

Since none of the three families could reach a consensus, they resorted to the method suggested by Li's father. Li Qiuyun, Li Zhiguo, and Ding Ping each contributed one person, and the order of care was determined by drawing lots, with each family providing care for one month. Needless to say, Li Qiuyun, Li Zhiguo, and Ding Ping naturally also profited from this arrangement; otherwise, they wouldn't have campaigned so diligently for their relative.

The three men each received a different cut from their relative, but in any case, they got money, which was equivalent to indirectly getting money from Grandpa Li, making them naturally happy.

Seeing how the Li family handled things, Linlang couldn't help but feel sorry for the original owner of this body and her daughter. After all, in the original world, the original owner and her daughter took such good care of Grandpa Li, yet they were still disliked by the entire Li family. In this world, however, they paid for help and were all happy together. Linlang naturally didn't want to see such a situation, so she immediately projected the original owner's situation—that of the original owner and her daughter—into the dreams of Grandpa Li, Father Li, and others. She refused to believe that after the comparison, these people could still be happy together.

They dreamt about the situation in their original world, but of course they wouldn't tell anyone about their dream. After all, who would be foolish enough to tell someone about a dream that was so starkly contrasted with their current situation? It's just that afterwards, they had very mixed feelings.

First, there's Grandpa Li.

He was initially quite satisfied with the care he had received from the people he had hired, but then he remembered how Li's mother had taken such good care of him in his dream, and how she hadn't asked for any money, leaving him with his retirement pension.

He had a pension and a lot of private savings—in that world, his several hundred dollars of private savings were not distributed among many families—which led his children and grandchildren to try very hard to please him so that he would give them more.

It can be said that in the world where Li's mother did not leave in his dream, he lived a very good life. He was always clean and refreshed. Whenever the weather was nice, Li's mother would push him outside for a walk. He was in excellent spirits.

Then there's the emotional value from his children and grandchildren, which makes him feel very good.

They could freely criticize Li's mother for not taking good care of her, and Li's mother didn't dare to say anything.

Unlike in this world, even though he paid for three people, his son said he wouldn't let anyone come if he didn't like them, but in reality, he couldn't easily get rid of any of them.

Take Ding Ping for example. It seems she hasn't been married into the Li family for long, so she probably doesn't have a high status. He could probably easily get rid of her relatives.

But it's not.

The person took care of him for a few days, but he didn't like the person, so he asked his son if they should send the person away. As a result, his son told Ding Ping not to let her relatives come, and Ding Ping immediately became unhappy. She said that if her relatives were sent away, then she should be sent away too, and Li's father should find a better wife.

How could Ding Ping possibly let Grandpa Li drive away her relatives? If he did, wouldn't she be unable to get any of Grandpa Li's profits?

Mr. Li immediately dared not do it.

So the idea was to get Grandpa Li to drive away people he didn't like. In the end, he couldn't even get rid of Ding Ping's relatives, let alone Cao Li's family or Li Dasao's family. The reason was the same as for Ding Ping: Li Qiuyun and Li Dasao had profited from the situation, so how could they let Grandpa Li drive away their relatives?

So, even though they were hired by Grandpa Li, and there were three of them, they should have been trying to please him to avoid being kicked out. However, the emotional value they provided was not as good as that of Grandpa Li's mother. Since the three of them realized that they were not afraid of Grandpa Li kicking them out, and that their jobs were secure and that everyone knew what it meant to have a job with everyone else, their care for Grandpa Li was just so-so.