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Chapter 1561 Good Luck Continues (51)
However, Li's father's situation is different from that of Li's grandfather. At that time, Li's grandfather had no one to take care of him, but Li's father had just retired and could take care of him. Now, Li's father needs someone to take care of him. Li Qiuyun has retired, but Li Zhiguo has not yet retired. Naturally, Li Qiuyun will not take care of Li's father alone and wants Li Zhiguo to take care of him as well. Li Zhiguo said that he has to go to work and does not have time, so the two of them will quarrel every now and then and there is never a peaceful time.

Later, Li Zhiguo's food station went out of business and he lost his job. He had time to take care of his father, but Li Zhiguo said that he had to find a job to earn money to support his family and still didn't have time to take care of his father. The two still argued from time to time.

Just as Linlang had imagined, the Li family's courtyard house was a protected cultural relic and had never been demolished.

The Li family didn't realize they should seize the opportunity to buy a house. They all thought that if other places could be demolished, their house could too, but little did they know that it couldn't be demolished.

Later, when housing prices skyrocketed, the Li family naturally couldn't afford to buy a house with their wages alone. So they continued to live in that cramped courtyard house, leading a very stifling life. Seeing other people's houses being demolished and their families becoming rich overnight, while their houses couldn't be demolished and their families became rich overnight, the Li family was extremely depressed.

But the worst was yet to come.

As the new century began, Li's father passed away. Logically, with no one left to take care of, they could finally stop arguing and their lives could settle down. Then they heard that Linlang's family had returned and were currently living in a high-end villa area. They were told that they had made a fortune in the south and were now rich. They were speechless with astonishment.

The reason they heard this news was naturally because Li's father had passed away. They no longer needed to worry about Li Qiuyun and the others using Li's father as leverage to cause trouble for them. Therefore, Linlang deliberately leaked the news to them to provoke them.

Sure enough, it really angered them. They heard that Linlang's family lived in a high-end villa area, and a villa there was worth tens of millions—at that time, villas in Beijing had not yet risen to hundreds of millions—which really angered them.

After all, their own family was not doing well. Li Linlang and her mother, who were the ones they could bully however they wanted back in the Li family, were now living so well. How could they not be furious?

Thinking about how this could be, how could they live such a bad life while Li Linlang and the others were living so well, God was just too unfair!

They never considered that Li's father's salary was so high in the 1960s and 70s. In addition to their own salaries, they could receive a lot of money from Li's father every month and live a much better life than most people. Why didn't they say it was unfair back then?

They got that money for free from Li's father, and they spent it without a care in the world. But Linlang earned it herself, and they still felt it was unfair. That's what selfish people are like.

After feeling that it was unfair, their second thought was to ask Linlang for money to buy a house.

They thought with righteous indignation that if Linlang could afford a villa worth tens of millions, she must have enough money for over a million—at that time, the price of housing in Beijing was still around 10,000 yuan per square meter, and a 100-square-meter house only cost over a million yuan.

Since we're already close, it's not like I should be able to borrow some money from her, right? It's not like I'm asking her for it, just borrowing.

—He said that he wasn't asking Linlang for the money, but just borrowing it, but in reality he planned not to pay it back.

Unfortunately, their wishful thinking was futile; they couldn't even see the dazzling array of faces.

The villa complex where Linlang bought her property had very tight security, so they couldn't get in or find her at all. They could only hear from others every now and then that Linlang had bought a large apartment or a shop somewhere else. They were furious, but there was nothing they could do about Linlang, and they couldn't get anything out of her.

Seeing Linlang get rich is more painful for them than seeing them living a difficult life.

Linlang's good fortune has now spread among those she knew before, for several reasons that have led people to think this way.

It is said that the section chief Wang from the electronics factory wanted Linlang to join the publicity department, but Linlang didn't. As a result, she didn't suffer any bad luck. Isn't that good luck?
Later, Section Chief Wang returned. He retaliated against everyone who had cut ties with him before. Linlang, however, hadn't followed his advice to join the propaganda department, so she naturally didn't need to sever ties with him. When Section Chief Wang returned, he didn't retaliate against her; at most, he just didn't like her. She was lucky—everyone said Linlang had good judgment and was lucky not to join the propaganda department. This reached Section Chief Wang's ears, and he was naturally unhappy. What did this mean? Did he think he had misjudged someone? And it had become their good fortune? Section Chief Wang was naturally displeased.

Because Section Chief Wang was unhappy, Linlang's treatment at the electronics factory became mediocre. Whenever there was an award for advanced worker, Section Chief Wang would always interfere and prevent Linlang from being selected.

Originally, everyone thought that Linlang hadn't pleased Section Chief Wang, and now that he was back and unhappy with her, things were going to be tough for her at the electronics factory. It seemed that Li Linlang's luck was just so-so—Section Chief Wang liked to hear this and was a little happier.

As a result, the gold rush in the south intensified, and some people even quit their jobs to start their own businesses.

At first, everyone thought Linlang was just being reckless. A secure job was so great, why would she quit and go into business? How terrible! What if she couldn't make money in the south and lost her job? How would she survive?

As a result, the shareholding reform of the electronics factory failed within a few days, the factory went bankrupt, and was sold to a private individual at a low price.

Those who had secure "iron rice bowls" naturally lost their jobs when the electronics factories went bankrupt, and their "iron rice bowls" were no longer secure.

By then, it was already the 1990s, and many of them were getting old. They didn't have the courage to go to the south to find work. Many of them just did odd jobs locally, and they were grateful if they could find any work at all. After all, they had spent too much time in state-owned factories, which had spoiled them and made them too incompetent to find work.

Some people are even too proud to admit it, feeling that they are government employees and it would be shameful to work in a private company, or they think that working in a private company is not as easy as working in a state-owned factory where they can slack off, so they are unwilling to go out to work and just stay at home and be depressed all day.

Even Section Chief Wang didn't fare well. Too many people came back to seek revenge, and too many people were offended. Now that the electronics factory has gone bankrupt, he doesn't have many good connections, so like everyone else, he was laid off and went home.

At around fifty years old, he dared not go to the south to work, and as a result, his family's life became difficult due to the loss of his job.

He was the kind of person who felt ashamed to work for a private company, so not only did he not want to work in the south, but he also didn't want to work locally. He just stayed at home all day cursing the heavens and the earth.

On the other hand, Li Linlang, whom they had been watching closely, is said to be doing better and better in the south. After entering the new century, they heard that she bought a big villa in Beijing.

So they thought once again that Linlang was incredibly lucky. They thought that if it weren't for Section Chief Wang's cold treatment of her, she would have been working well at the electronics factory and probably wouldn't have resigned to start her own business. But because Section Chief Wang treated her coldly, she found it boring to stay at the electronics factory, so she had no choice but to resign and start her own business, which ironically made her rich.