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Chapter 1557 Good Luck Continues (47)
This was the first time Li's father had realized that things were different now. His status, appearance, and wealth had declined in the tide of the times and were no longer attractive. He couldn't accept this feeling and was filled with anger.

Fortunately, Li's mother had not remarried him after their divorce, which gave Li's father hope. He thought that perhaps he could remarry Li's mother. After all, he needed a companion in his old age, otherwise what would others think of him? He did not want to be a failure.

So Li's father then set his sights on Li's mother again, and went to her place, wanting to bring up the matter of remarriage once more.

To be honest, this wasn't the first time the Li family had come knocking on their door after so many years. Previously, when Li's father was sick, Ding Ping didn't intend to take care of him and asked Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo to do so. At that time, Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo came to Linlang and said that Linlang was also Li's father's child and should also take care of him. Linlang then kicked them out.

Linlang told the two that this was how things were handled in this era: whoever owned the property would take care of it. She could take care of it, but she had to give them one-third of the property that Li's father had given them over the years. Otherwise, they should stop trying to take advantage of her.

How could Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo possibly give her money? But they didn't want to take care of Li's father and still wanted Linlang to take care of him. So they planned to go to Linlang's workplace and make a scene, saying that she didn't take care of her parents, so that they could force Linlang to come back and take care of them.

They heard that the electronics factory was struggling and undergoing shareholding reform, and might go bankrupt any day. They figured that even if they went to cause trouble, the factory was too busy to pay attention to them, so they eventually gave up.

This time, Li's father came looking for Li's mother. Unlike Li Zhiguo and Li Qiuyun, who managed to find Linlang and her daughter when they came last time, he couldn't find them. It turned out that the courtyard house where Li's mother lived had been demolished, and Li Linlang and her daughter had disappeared somewhere.

This was a time of rapid development in Beijing after the reform and opening up, with the city changing every day. So it was quite normal for the courtyard house where Li's mother lived to be demolished.

In fact, this world is developing faster than the original world. This is naturally because the higher-ups have confirmed that Song Qin is a reincarnated person with superpowers. So, after extracting some policies that Song Qin knew that were definitely correct, they implemented them ahead of schedule, which accelerated development. Unlike the original world, which was like crossing a river by feeling for stones, progressing more slowly and sometimes hesitating.

Speaking of which, when Linlang bought the courtyard house, she was selective. She didn't buy the ones that were too old because she was afraid they would become protected cultural relics and wouldn't be allowed to be demolished. So she bought the ones that were built more recently.

The courtyard house belonging to the Li family was the residence of a high-ranking official in a feudal dynasty. It's from a long time ago, so it probably can't be demolished.

Mr. Li went to their workplace to inquire, but couldn't find out anything. He said that the place where his mother worked had gone out of business, and that Li Linlang had resigned from the electronics factory on her own and didn't know where she went.

—Actually, Linlang saw that Ding Ping had run away and that Li's father wanted a new partner and wanted to remarry Li's mother. So, taking advantage of the demolition of the courtyard house, she took Li's mother away. Anyway, Li's mother's workplace had closed down, and the wages at her electronics factory were not good at this time, so she was too lazy to work there and quit her job and left with Li's mother.

Seeing that Linlang and her mother had disappeared, Li's father wanted to inquire about them, but as an old man, he didn't know where to turn. In the end, it was his young grandson—Li Zhiguo's son, who was actually his grand-nephew—who told him that he could inquire at the police station, but not about Li's mother, since he had no relation to her now. He could inquire about Li Linlang, because she was his daughter. He said that if he asked and said he wanted his daughter to support him in his old age, the police station would definitely tell him.

The reason Li Zhiguo's son offered the idea was naturally because his parents had told him it was a good thing that Li's mother was coming back. They said that if Li's father fell ill, his mother could take care of him, saving them some trouble. Therefore, he wholeheartedly helped; otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered with Li's father's affairs, since he wasn't his biological grandfather, just a distant uncle. Li's father, unaware of his son's thoughts, was deeply moved by the boy's earnestness in helping him, feeling that he had done the right thing by taking care of his father back then, and even gave him a reward of over ten yuan.

Then he went to the police station to inquire about Linlang.

He was Linlang's father and said he wanted his daughter to support him in his old age, so he naturally found out where Linlang and her mother lived. He said they lived in a newly built residential area.

Li's father then went to look for him.

The newly built residential area is completely different from the cramped courtyard house where he lived. It's almost like a modern residential area, with gatekeepers and security guards. The area is beautifully constructed.

Fortunately, Mr. Li didn't know that the house belonged to Linlang; he only thought it was a place Linlang was renting. So he wasn't surprised that Linlang could afford such a nice house. However, he was still a little suspicious, thinking that this child was really extravagant with money. Couldn't she have rented a cheaper place? How much would it cost to rent such a nice place? She didn't even have a job; how could she afford to live there?

He said he was Linlang's father, and since the security in the neighborhood wasn't particularly tight, they let him in.

As a result, when they found room 302 in building 11 provided by the police, they discovered that the door was closed and they couldn't open it no matter how hard they knocked. However, they did disturb the neighbors next door. A middle-aged woman opened the door and said, "Stop knocking, no one is home."

Upon hearing this, Li's father hurriedly asked, "Where is he?"

The middle-aged woman said, "I heard she went to S City in the south. Before she left, she asked me to look after her house."

Mr. Li didn't realize the meaning behind the woman's words, which was that the house belonged to Linlang, not that she rented it. He was stunned when he heard that Linlang had gone to S City, after all, that was a place that was hundreds of thousands of miles away. What was Linlang going to do in such a far place?

She did it because there were more opportunities in the South right now, and also because the stock market was about to open, and she planned to make money by speculating on stocks to buy a house—this might be unrealistic for others, but for her, who had all sorts of means, it was not a difficult task.

Because the world is opening up at a faster pace and the market economy is developing more rapidly, the stock market is also emerging sooner than expected.

When Li's father heard that Linlang had gone to the south, he naturally couldn't look for them. After all, he was too old to travel such a long distance to find them. Even Li Zhiguo and Li Qiuyun, who were used to a leisurely life in the state-owned factory, were deeply afraid of the rapid development in the south and dared not go. Li Zhiguo's son, being young and adventurous, said he would go and take a look for them. In reality, he was just a poor student who hadn't passed the high school entrance exam and had nothing to do, so he wanted to wander around. He heard that he had an aunt in S City and planned to go and stay with her, without even considering that he didn't know her address and where he was supposed to go.