Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Although it was difficult to find someone to rely on, it didn't stop Li Zhiguo's son from getting 100 yuan from his grateful father for travel expenses, and then headed south.

Needless to say, Li Zhiguo's son arrived in S City completely clueless and had no idea where to find anyone.

It is said that Linlang is doing very well in S City, or more precisely, in the stock market.

She has both foresight into which technologies will explode in the future and IT expertise, enabling her to access insider information that others cannot, making stock trading naturally easy for her.

Since there had never been a stock market before, everyone was doing this for the first time. So even though Linlang showed talent in the stock market, Li's mother didn't suspect anything, wondering how her daughter could know these things.

Of course, Linlang was also good at talking. She said that she used to work in an electronics factory and was exposed to high technology, so she knew which things would develop well in the future, so that Li's mother would not doubt her.

The most crucial point is that everyone is a novice venturing into the stock market. It's normal for some to lose and some to win. Li's mother felt that the stock market was like a casino. In any case, she wouldn't dare to invest in stocks. So, seeing that Linlang quickly made a lot of money and even bought a house in S City surprised Li's mother, who asked, "You withdrew the money to buy a house, are you not going to continue investing in stocks?"

Linlang said, "The market might be about to adjust, so I withdrew the money first and used some of it to buy a house. There's no place as comfortable as living in your own home when you're renting."

Li's mother thought it made sense. Back in Beijing, Linlang had spent all her savings to buy her a house—this was, of course, Linlang's way of avoiding Li's mother's suspicions. In reality, it was money Linlang had received from a land expropriation; otherwise, the money she had saved from her ordinary salary wouldn't have been enough to buy that house. She really loved that beautiful apartment in that neighborhood; after all, it was her own home, and it felt different. If Linlang hadn't said that Li's father had divorced Ding Ping and was planning to remarry her, and that they should avoid him to avoid any trouble, Li's mother wouldn't have left her warm home in Beijing and come to the south with her daughter and son-in-law.

Of course, the main reason was that Li's mother was unemployed, while she wanted to work. So Linlang brought her to S City, where there were plenty of job opportunities. If Li's mother wanted to work, there were plenty of jobs available. Of course, she didn't have to work either, since she had plenty of money and Li's mother didn't need to work at all.

However, Li's mother was clearly not one to stay idle, so as soon as she arrived in the South, she saw job opportunities everywhere and found a job to start working.

Linlang went to work with her and only had one request for her: she could go to work, but not one that was too strenuous. She said that she earned enough money for the family, so she didn't need to work a hard job, lest she get sick and that would be worse.

Li's mother naturally didn't want to get sick and burden Linlang, so she listened to Linlang's advice and found a job that wasn't too strenuous to do for the time being.

Linlang's husband, like Li's mother, also found a job.

Linlang's husband had the same job as hers; it hadn't gone bankrupt yet, but the business wasn't doing very well. However, he was interested in going south to make his fortune, so when Linlang said she was going to quit her job and go south to make money, he agreed and also quit his job and went south.

Some people don't have the courage to leave the comfort zone of state-owned factories and go to the south, but seeing that their wives have that courage, they naturally develop the courage as well.

Sure enough, the salary in the south was ten times his original salary. Aside from being a bit more tiring than his previous job, there were no downsides. If he knew how to find work, he could become a millionaire in a year, much to Linlang's husband's delight. He thought it was the right decision to come here. Otherwise, continuing to work in his poorly performing factory, he would only earn enough to cover expenses each year, making it difficult to save any money. Here, he could save money quickly and then buy another house—he had been persuaded by Linlang and was also planning to buy a house as soon as he had some, saying it would be a better investment. He thought that with prices rising so rapidly recently, buying a house would be a good way to preserve value. However, while Linlang was making a fortune, things weren't going well for the Li family.

Since Li's father was much older than Li's mother, he would fall ill and be hospitalized every now and then. On this day, Li's father fell ill again. Since Ding Ping had left and Li's mother had not returned, the task of taking care of Li's father fell to Li Zhiguo and Li Qiuyun.

As a result, Li Zhiguo decided not to take care of him anymore. The reason was simple: he said that his family had no money and that Li's father should pay for his treatment himself. Also, they would not take care of him anymore because he had to go to work, and his wife, Li Dasao, was a woman, so it was inconvenient for her to take care of Li's father, who was a distant relative.

Seeing that Li Zhiguo wasn't taking care of her, Li Qiuyun naturally objected and started arguing with Li Zhiguo and his wife. During the argument, Li Zhiguo and his wife blurted out, "Uncle Li is just my uncle, not my biological father. Why should I take care of him? If he didn't have any children, it would make sense for his nephew to take care of him. He has two daughters. Why should I, as his nephew, take care of them?"

These were his true feelings, he just hadn't said them before.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he keeps taking money from Li Zhiguo. He feels it's his due, thinking that since Li's father had a daughter, all the money should be his. Because he is the male heir of the Li family, he has no qualms about it. Even though Li Qiuyun has married into the family and Li's father has a grandson, he can still use the fact that Li's father had a daughter to numb himself, just to take advantage of his status as the male heir to make money from Li's father.

He wanted the money, but as for the care, Li's father had two daughters, so he let them take care of them.

Seeing Li Zhiguo's shamelessness, having taken so much money from Li's father over the years, and realizing that his father's pension was almost depleted after deducting daily expenses and medical costs, Li Qiuyun was naturally angry and began arguing with him.

Li Zhiguo was actually a little guilty, after all, his father had indeed taken care of him from childhood to adulthood and spent a lot of money on him. Logically, he should support him in his old age.

But doesn't this mean that Li's father's money is becoming less and less top-tier compared to the ever-increasing wages outside?

In addition, Li's father would fall ill from time to time, which would cost a lot of money. Although Li Qiuyun and Li Zhiguo paid for his treatment, Li's father would usually make up for the money they spent afterward. In other words, Li's father was actually paying for his treatment with his own money.

The cost of treatment meant that Li's father's meager retirement savings were dwindling, which was the real reason Li Zhiguo was unwilling to continue caring for him. He was receiving less and less money from his father, and his own salary was meager, while his expenses were increasing daily. Therefore, Li Zhiguo planned to reclaim his status as the first wife and no longer be affiliated with the second wife's family, to avoid having to care for his father. He not only wouldn't earn money, but he might even lose money, which was certainly not what Li Zhiguo wanted. So, he wanted to sever ties with his father and reclaim his status as the first wife.

He will be a descendant of the first wife, so what relationship does he have with the second wife? Why should he have to serve his second uncle?

Thinking this to himself, Li Zhiguo blurted it out during their argument. (End of Chapter)