80s: The cold-faced tough guy was controlled by the beautiful woman

Is Chapter 387 a way of addressing one's maternal grandfather?

“Back then, fewer people went to school, which gave me the opportunity. Let’s stop here; it’s too cold,” Jia Yan said.

"Okay." Li Yingtang stopped.

After watching the two leave, I bolted the door and went back to my room to relax.
Jia Yan returned home.

He dug out his long-forgotten contacts and dialed the Lin family's number.

"Hello, who is it?"

Jia Yan introduced himself and tentatively asked, "Are you Lin Ye?"

"I'm his brother, wait a minute." Lin Yu went out to call out, "Big brother, someone named Jia Yan is looking for you."

"Jia Yan?" Lin Ye asked, puzzled. "Why would he call me?"

"Not familiar."

"No, not really. Back in Yanjing, he gave me some shooting lessons, so you could call him my teacher." Lin Ye stepped forward to answer the phone: "Hello, Brother Jia. Is there something you need?"

"Hello." Jia Yan paused for a moment before saying, "I saw your photo at my daughter-in-law's house today, and I was thinking of asking if you two are related. My daughter-in-law's name is Li Yingtang."

Lin Ye was surprised. Wasn't that Xiao Qin an orphan?

She wandered around Yanjing, getting to know only people he knew.

How is she doing lately?

It's been about two weeks since I last received a letter from her.

In your last letter, you mentioned that Qin Xian had been granted a place to study abroad.

Last Sunday, and this morning, Tianju called her shop, but no one answered.

Jia Yan: "That's good."

Lin Ye: "That's good. Please take good care of her. I'll visit her when I have time. If there's nothing else, that's all for now."

"Hey." Jia Yan finished speaking and put down the phone. He paused for a moment and said, "They didn't say whether we're relatives or not."

Jia Qingfeng: "It may be inconvenient to talk about, but Li Yingtang is a very mysterious person. I heard from Ding Ying that part of the money she used to start her factory came from Li Tang, and a large part of the money she used to buy the house was also given by Li Tang. If you want to say that the relationship between the two is abnormal, Li Yingtang and Li Tang's son look exactly alike. No man would look for his son as a crook."

"Ding Ying, investigate her." Jia Yan was somewhat displeased.

Jia Qingfeng: "Ding Ying said he was tricked by Li Yingtang into becoming a guarantor and helping her get a loan of two million from the bank. He was scared when he thought about it and felt it was not safe, so he went to investigate their relationship. He found nothing. Li Yingtang's current identity is fake. It was arranged by someone through his younger brother, and it was done very secretly. It took him a lot of effort to figure it out."

Li Yingtang seems to have appeared out of nowhere. You can't confront Ding Ying about this; he said he only told me.

Jia Yan sighed softly; his son was no match for Ding Ying.

Ding Ying is telling you this, it's obvious he wants you to tell me about it.

Two million.

When his daughter-in-law started earning money, Ding Ying followed suit.

My daughter-in-law lost the game, and Ding Ying didn't want to bear the debt alone. He wanted to use the relationship between me and Xiao Xian to take the initiative to assume my daughter-in-law's debt.

Or perhaps, it's used to curry favor with someone.

Jia Qingfeng added, "Li Yingtang is heavily in debt but acts like nothing's wrong. His mental fortitude is incredible. I guess he doesn't know. I was going to tell him, but I was afraid it would affect his mood and delay his studies abroad."

Jia Yan snapped out of his thoughts: "It's right not to tell him. Xiao Xian knows Ying Tang's background better than you or I do. If you tell him, he'll immediately know you've been investigating his wife, and his misunderstanding of us will only deepen."

"But Li Yingtang."

Jia Yan interrupted softly: "She's not an impulsive person. Her decisions must have been made after careful consideration. Ding Ying is so shrewd, yet he claims to have been deceived by her but hasn't sought revenge. You should think about why yourself."

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It snowed heavily all night.

When Li Yingtang went out in the morning, the two aunties who returned early had already cleared the snow from the yard and the street.

She wrapped the scarf around her neck tighter and rode her bike to the cabinet store.

There weren't many people in the market.

Meng Qin and Zhao Xue were wiping the cabinets in the store.

"Good morning," Li Yingtang greeted them.

"It's 9:30, that's getting late," Meng Qin said. Li Yingtang replied, "The weather is so bad, we probably won't have any guests today. Don't bother, it's not dirty."

Meng Qin: "I have to find something to do."

"Do whatever you want," Li Yingtang said with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, someone called you earlier, saying their surname was Lin." Meng Qin handed the number to Li Yingtang.

Li Yingtang took it and glanced at it.

The Lin family's phone number.

My mom's at school, how can I find time to call her?
She called back.

When the call connected, she recognized Lin Ye's voice.

She said, "It's you. You were looking for me?"

Lin Ye thought for a long time and came up with this sentence: "I heard from the weather forecast that it snowed heavily where you are. Does it affect travel?"

“Getting up early might have an impact. I got up quite late, and when I went out, the snow on the streets had already been cleared,” Li Yingtang said.

"Has Qin Xian gone abroad?"

Li Yingtang: "Hmm! It's been half a month. Aren't you going to work today?"

"Not urgent."

Li Yingtang continued, "Either you take leave and bring your wife and Lin Tianju here to see the snow scenery. The clouds stretch for miles and the snow-covered mountains are breathtaking. You can stay at my house here. I gave Lin Tianju the address in my letter. Or, you can come anytime and I'll charter a car to pick you up from the station."

Lin Ye smiled and said, "I won't go for now."

Li Yingtang said dejectedly, "Okay."

"Qin Xian went abroad, and you lived alone. Did anyone bully you? Tianju asked me to ask you before he went to school." Lin Ye added this sentence at the end.

“No one is bullying me, and I’m not alone. Ah Xian has a father. He even came to eat dumplings with me yesterday.” Li Yingtang shared her life and told him about how Qin Xian got a father. She had wanted to tell him for a while but hadn’t found the right opportunity.

Lin Ye sighed, "Qin Xian has really had a tough time."

"Yes, his grandma is so mean."

"His father wasn't a good person either," Lin Ye commented.

Li Yingtang doesn't deny that her grandfather was love-struck; if it were him, he would rather fight against the whole world than wrong his wife.

To him, breaking up with his wife, with whom he had already slept, was utterly unbelievable.

"Does his grandmother approve of you?" Lin Ye asked, being a bit too nosy.

“She looked down on me and made things difficult for me a lot. Later…” Li Yingtang recounted the feud between her and Old Madam Jia, as well as the circumstances of her passing.

Lin Ye listened attentively and said, "You did the right thing."

Li Yingtang laughed and said, "Really? Looking back now, I realize I was too impulsive. He's an old man, after all. Slapping and kicking him like that was really inappropriate." Fortunately, the three Jia brothers were reasonable; otherwise, she would have been in trouble if they had held a grudge.

Lin Ye continued to affirm her: "There's no need to reflect on what you've done. At the time, the best way you could think of was just that."

“Um, outside,” Li Yingtang paused, her gaze drifting to the doorway and landing on the snow in the corner of the wall. “The snow outside is thick, I have to go shovel it. That’s all. Please give my regards to Lin Tianju.”

Lin Ye's eyebrows twitched. Was he referring to his maternal grandfather? "Yes."

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Li Yingtang hung up the phone and led Meng Qin and the other person to pile up the snow at the door and make a snowman.

It attracts passersby to stop and look.

Meng Qin took the opportunity to find potential customers and led them into the store for a tour.

Before the afternoon, three orders were actually placed.

Ding Wei's shop had no customers, so she came over to drop by out of boredom.

Seeing Li Yingtang sorting through the orders, he widened his eyes and said, "In such terrible weather, you actually have orders."

Meng Qin interjected, "The snowman at the door deserves a lot of credit."

"It looks really bad. Your boss has good fortune, it has nothing to do with snowmen," Ding Wei said.

"When I came here early this morning, there was no one at all. Customers only come after the snow is piled up. And I've only been here for a long time today. Usually, only Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhao are in the shop, and they're the ones who take all the orders," Li Yingtang said, disclaiming any credit for her work.