That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1288 What's the use of having a son like you?

After Li Ye left the coffee shop, Fu Guiru told him to come to the wedding venue on Thursday to "attend the ceremony".

Li Ye asked, puzzled, "What would I go there for? I don't really get along with that mother and son."

Fu Guiru kicked Li Ye in the shin, angrily saying, "Didn't you hear her bragging to me? I may never have worn a wedding dress, but I have a good son!"
For so many years, they've always bullied me and Xiaoruo because we're women. If you don't stand up for me now, what use are you to me?

"Hiss, no... hiss."

Li Ye rubbed his calves while inhaling deeply.

That old lady really kicked me!

Just now, when Fu Guiyin was showing off her "wedding dress" to Fu Guiru, Fu Guiru's expression was calm and her demeanor was normal. Who knew that she was actually holding back such a lot of anger?

It is said that the two things women like to show off the most are their husbands' abilities and their children's success.

Li Kaijian was definitely out of luck, so Li Ye and Fu Yiruo were the only two people he could show off to. Moreover, in the 1990s, when men were favored over women, Li Ye was even more important than Fu Yiruo.

Decades later, a woman like Fu Yiruo, a graduate of a prestigious university and shrewd and capable, would definitely be able to quell the gossip of a group of relatives. But in 1991, Fu Yiruo was still a little bit short of that.

Li Ye took a long breath before weakly saying, "Mother, I'll go if you want me to save face, but you should consider my sister's feelings when you say things like that in the future. There was Hua Mulan in ancient times who was no less capable than men, and Xiao Ruoke is in no way inferior to any man."

Fu Yiruo immediately said with a grin, "Brother, I'm not Mulan. I'd rather hide behind you and eat what's readily available, hehehehehe."

"Go away, kids shouldn't interrupt when adults are talking!"

"Hehehehehehe~"

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Li Ye had arranged a time with Fu Guiru, so he returned to his residence and saw the BMW 850 parked outside the hotel.

Li Ye glanced around and saw that only Tang Zhiyu was in the car, not Fu Guiyin.

Tang Zhiyu seemed to be in a daze until Li Ye walked up to him, at which point he hurriedly got out of the car.

Li Ye asked casually, "How did you find this place?"

Tang Zhiyu said with a complicated expression, "After we met at the exhibition that day, I visited your company's booth, and your factory's employees said you were here."

People are very enthusiastic these days. If someone goes to the factory's exhibition area to discuss business, the sales staff will leave them their contact address. So it wasn't difficult for Tang Zhiyu to find out where Li Ye lived.

Li Ye said coldly, "Then what are you doing here looking for me now?"

Tang Zhiyu smiled bitterly and then said, "I have no hostility. I just want to explain some things."

Li Ye said with amusement, "What are you explaining to me? Shouldn't you be explaining to Fu Guiyin?"

Tang Zhiyu looked embarrassed and said in a low voice, "Can we find a quiet place to talk?"

"A quiet place? Let's talk in the car!"

Li Ye casually opened the BMW door and sat in the driver's seat.

He dared not let Tang Zhiyu sit in the driver's seat, because he was afraid that the guy would go crazy and drag him down with him.

However, after Tang Zhiyu got into the car, he said something heartbreaking.

“My father died when I was very young. My mother remarried, and I grew up with my grandmother. She died when I was fourteen, and I became an orphan.”

"I am grateful to this society for giving me the opportunity to study, for allowing me to grow up smoothly, and for letting me meet my wife."

“My wife is very good to me, but her family looks down on me and has always been prejudiced against me. Of course, I can't entirely blame them.”

Tang Zhiyu laughed self-deprecatingly, "I've been living at my wife's house all these years, relying on her for support. The only thing I can do is cook her a boxed lunch."
But my wife didn't look down on me; she always supported my dreams. She supported me in learning foreign languages ​​and writing novels.
But ten years have passed, a full ten years, and I've accomplished nothing. Until today, I sold myself for a good price.

"."

Tang Zhiyu opened a leather bag in the car and took out a large bundle of hundred-yuan bills.

"One hundred thousand yuan, a full one hundred thousand yuan."

Tang Zhiyu laughed somewhat nervously, "Just six months ago, nobody believed I was worth 100,000 yuan. They all said I was a pile of stinking dog poop, and whoever stepped on me would be unlucky."

Seeing Tang Zhiyu laughing until tears streamed down his face, Li Ye felt a pang of sympathy for him. After all, wasn't he just a spineless "son-in-law" who had been living in poverty for ten years?

Ten years of humiliation, finally wiped away in one day – this is a classic comeback story!
Li Ye asked casually, "So, how do you plan to allocate this 100,000 yuan?"

Tang Zhiyu immediately replied, "Give it all to my wife, buy her an apartment. Her family has seven people, living in one and a half rooms. They have to cook in the alleyway, and when it's cloudy or rainy, hahaha~"

Li Ye was genuinely surprised. Even with his extraordinary observational skills, he couldn't quite tell whether Tang Zhiyu's words were true or false.

Tang Zhiyu said, "You don't believe me, do you? Then do you dare to come with me? It's not far from here, less than a ten-minute drive."

Li Ye rolled his eyes and started the BMW: "Then lead the way."

"Okay, turn left up ahead."

Tang Zhiyu actually led Li Ye to that alley.

He took the 100,000 yuan and headed straight for his home, only to be met with a scathing scolding from an old woman as soon as he reached his doorstep.

"Where the hell have you been? Don't you know how to cook dinner? Why are you only coming back at this hour? Where have you been gallivanting off to this time?"

I'm going out to discuss work.

"Oh dear, going to discuss work again? I bet Xiaoling will have to pay for your coffee too? You're always idling around and daydreaming, and you even try to cheat when you're just cooking. How could my Xiaoling have been so blind to marry you?"

"."

The old woman launched into a tirade, which attracted the attention of all the neighbors.

Seeing that his neighbors were all laughing and pointing, Li Ye knew that Tang Zhiyu had been living the same kind of life as the "Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King" all these years.

To be honest, Li Ye wouldn't survive in that kind of environment.

He would have broken his mother-in-law's ribs long ago and then gone to jail.

A real man earns his living through his own abilities; even your dog won't eat rice from it.

Tang Zhiyu slowly took out the stack of money.

"I've finally found a job! It's with a trading company in Hong Kong Island. They have a position that requires travel between Hong Kong Island and Shanghai, and they're looking for Shanghai residents who can speak Cantonese and English. The signing bonus is 100,000."

"."

Silence fell over the once bustling alleyway.

That's 100,000 yuan!
Tang Zhiyu's mother-in-law was stunned for a moment, then reached out to take the 100,000 yuan.

But Tang Zhiyu took it back and said firmly, "I won't give this money to anyone but Xiaoling."
If it weren't for Xiaoling all these years, I would have committed suicide long ago. Besides, she wouldn't need this money. Tomorrow I'm going with her to buy a house in Xujiahui. I've already found one, a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment of 68 square meters, which can be bought for 90,000 yuan."

"Oh my, a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment of 68 square meters, that's 90,000 yuan. So there's 10,000 yuan left."

"This is a signing fee; you'll definitely receive a salary later."

"People in Hong Kong are talking about salaries now. Xiaoling's suffering is finally over, truly over."

"."

Li Ye watched as Tang Zhiyu was surrounded by relatives and neighbors, who were asking him all sorts of questions, and he really didn't know what to say.

The longer a person is suppressed, the more likely they are to go to extremes. He said he "sold for 100,000 yuan," perhaps because he felt that from the moment he received the money, he should consider his former self dead!

After Tang Zhiyu finally managed to shake off the crowd, he looked back but couldn't find Li Ye anywhere.

Tang Zhiyu didn't believe Fu Zhiman when he first heard Li Ye say that "Li Ye is not to be trifled with," but after seeing another side of Li Ye and Fu Guiru today, he was really scared.

So when he confessed to Li Ye this time, he didn't know if what he had done would be exposed.

Nowadays, Tang Zhiyu no longer cares about shame; perhaps the only person he cares about is Xiaoling.

Will he let me go?

Will he keep my secret?

(End of this chapter)