Chapter 590

Hearing Yang Tao say that, I thought to myself, now you're speaking tough—just seeing Liu Xian like that earlier, I bet you almost pissed yourself.

I then took out the 500,000 IOU.

"Yang Tao, look what this is."

"An IOU. How could it be in your hand?" Yang Tao asked urgently.

"It was Liu Xian who gave it to me; don't think of Liu Xian as so bad. Why did I take so long? mainly because Liu Xian pulled me aside and we chatted a while."

"He wants this 500,000 dollars, but that's not his purpose at all." I laughed.

"Then what is his purpose?" Yang Tao asked.

"His purpose is still you; he can't forget you." I said.

"Oh god, disgusting, a lousy old man. Forget it, don't mention him, otherwise I won't be able to eat today." Yang Tao made a face like she was going to vomit.

"Now it's disgusting; back then when you were with him, you were so glorious—first lady of Lanling County, owner of the big hotel of the admissions office. Not inferior to today's nobility, right?" I said mockingly.

"What? Don't mention the past. I don't want to either. That old bastard—fine if he doesn't want the 500,000; I don't even want to give it."

"What a dump, as soon as we arrive we encounter a ghost." Yang Tao cursed.

"Brother, don't provoke Yang Tao. She's feeling bad inside." Li Ming said while driving.

This Li Ming is overly concerned about Yang Tao.

Listening to this, I felt uneasy.

Li Ming, the more you don't let me bring it up, the more I will bring it up.

I'll deliberately disgust this Yang Tao—foreigners, nobility,

are all his mother's trash.

I cursed in my heart.

Holding the 500,000 IOU, I muttered to myself: "Ah, Liu Xian is someone who cherishes the past; he and I talked about many past things."

He really wishes to go back and start over.

He still brought up Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan is a very good woman.

"Yang Tao, do you still remember Xia Yuan?"

"You once competed with Xia Yuan for Liu Xian."

Yang Tao furrowed her brow.

"Jianqiang, Xia Yuan has been dead for how many years? Why bring her up? It's scary in the dark of night."

"What's there to fear? If there's no ghost in your heart, you fear nothing."

Sigh, Liu Xian keeps crying,

constantly recalling the happy days of the past.

remembering Xia Yuan's kindness to him, remembering the days he spent with you, Yang Tao.

He hit you, then regretted it,

he hopes you can return to his side.

"Yang Tao, you two are a legally protected married couple."

"Jianqiang, are you old? Your nagging is annoying." Yang Tao was about to get angry.

I chuckled,

"Yang Tao, I'm just talking about Liu Xian's affairs; why are you in a hurry? If you're able, don't come back—stay abroad, then none of this would happen, and you wouldn't meet someone like Liu Xian."

Yang Tao remained silent.

"Yang Tao, I know what you're thinking." I then said.

"In Lanling, you've been hit twice; you know why Liu Xian and Xia Yuan hit you, right?"

"Xia Yuan hit you because you competed with him for a husband, destroying her family and causing her life to plummet."

"Liu Xian hit you because you certainly didn't recall the old feelings."

"And you even took all his retirement money, then when you met you didn't recognize or acknowledge him—anyone would be upset. As the old saying goes, 'One day as husband and wife brings a hundred days of kindness,' let alone you two have been together so long. There's nothing left between you but no memories."

"Yang Tao, I remember, we were in the hotel and I told you before—our traditional culture is benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and fidelity,"

"Do you recall that?"

"Your own actions,"

"whether they have benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and fidelity."

"You, you've lived your whole life just for yourself."

"Living to this age yet having nothing,"

"not only having nothing, but also having signed an IOU."

"That's fate."

Yang Tao listened, covering her face,

After a while, she spat out a vicious sentence from her mouth,

"I won't let myself end up with nothing. Wait and see. I will definitely rise to glory again in Zaocheng."

Yang Tao saying that shows she certainly has no intention of doing good.

To advise someone to do good, you must first see what kind of person they are.

If a person has no good thoughts in their heart, advising them won't be heard at all; it will have the opposite effect.

She has always lived in her past mindset, believing everything she does is right.

For someone like that, only a harsh beating will make them understand much.

I didn't speak anymore, holding the IOU in my hand.

Looking at Yang Tao's crooked handwriting shows that her education level is not high.

She has always lived at the bottom of society, and among the lower classes, the life experience one learns is how to exploit others for maximum personal gain; selfishness is her tradition.

I thought to myself, find a suitable opportunity and ask Yang Tao and Ya Ya for their contact details.

Let Liu Xian have a conversation with Ya Ya once, which would also put Liu Xian's mind at ease.

At this moment we must not mention it; if we do, Yang Tao will immediately become alert and will never allow Ya Ya to contact Liu Xian.

The car soon arrived at the Zaocheng Grand Hotel.

After I had Li Ming park the car,

Then I asked Yang Tao: 'Yang Tao, will you eat at a street stall or inside the hotel?'

Yang Tao then raised her head and looked.

'Let's eat at the street stall; it's very interesting, just like foreign street cafés and bars.'

Truly base. I cursed in my heart.

Everything is compared to foreign countries.

At this moment I said to Li Ming: 'Li Ming, call He Qing over; let's eat together. She has been living in the hotel and hasn't seen you for some days.'

I wanted to remind Li Ming to first return to the hotel to check on his wife He Qing.

I didn't expect Li Ming to say: 'At this time, He Qing should have finished eating; let's go eat.'

'If He Qing comes, it won't be convenient for us to chat.'

Li Ming has really changed.

I looked at Li Ming,

A man, after being confined inside and then coming out, should first see his mother and lover, who are constantly worried about him.

But, after Li Ming saw Yang Tao,

he forgot everything.

He chatted with Yang Tao very attentively.

I said nothing more and walked toward the street stall beside the hotel.

The three of us found a place to sit down.

I ordered barbecue,

Li Ming ordered three glasses of beer.

I don't like drinking beer; drinking too much fills the stomach.

I also asked the restaurant boss for a bottle of white liquor to drink myself.

Li Ming and Yang Tao drank beer.

Yang Tao poured a glass of beer and took a sip,

'This beer is not tasty; compared to German beer, which has a rich flavor.'

'Yang Tao, can you not mention foreign countries?'

'One region's water and soil nurtures its people; different places produce different wines.'

'The water here can only produce this kind of wine.'

'We like to drink this kind of wine.'

'If you don't like drinking it, then don't drink it.'

'Don't compare everything to foreign countries.'

'What we have, they may not necessarily have.'

'Every country and nation has its own strengths,'

'Some people only see our shortcomings and not our strengths,'

'always regarding foreign things as superior and thinking everything they have is good.'

'As the old saying goes, a dog does not mind a poor home, a child does not mind an ugly mother,'

'naturally, being born here entails the duty to love and protect everything here.'

'Uphold dignity well.'

'Yang Tao, do you understand what I mean?'

'There's nothing special about foreign countries,'

'they also have dirty places. Look at the moon above your head,'

'isn't what you see abroad different?'

'Actually, the moon looks beautiful from afar, but up close it also has various pits and spots.'

'People and countries are the same.'

'I don't want you to keep saying how great those foreign things are.'

'I don't want to listen, and I don't like listening.'

'Yang Tao has come back, and she should live according to the way of life here.' I said angrily.