Chapter 245

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"A while back, Dingsheng wasn't struck by a thunderbolt, was it......."

The female cousin was satisfied, leaned forward, and said mysteriously: "Guben used the pretext to fix Wang Fan quite badly; I heard the two had a huge fight. Although it was resolved in the end, that large shopping mall in Qingdao also changed hands, and even thirty percent of Dingsheng's equity all ended up in Li Jing's hands."

"I know about this matter......."

Lin Xiyu felt it necessary to speak a couple of sentences in Guben's defense: "Actually, this matter can't be said to be him deliberately fixing Wang Fan; Wang Fan also had his faults. Before the thunderbolt, he was already financially strained and threatened to sell off Xingyao's shares. After the thunderbolt, he nearly dragged down the Xingyao Building, which had 300 million yuan invested in it, to go down the drain as well."

"Guben stepping in to help him coordinate and resolve his urgent crisis, letting him avoid a prison disaster, already counts as very righteous. Besides, Li Qing's natal family invested 3 billion yuan; it certainly wasn't a free donation. Asking for a mall and thirty percent of shares in return is perfectly reasonable."

"So that's how it is......"

The female cousin suddenly realized: "The trouble those two stirred up really is endless entanglement; there are too many twists and turns inside, already impossible to tell who's right and who's wrong."

Lin Xiyu thought of a line she had seen in a book: "In business, there are only interests, no right or wrong."

The female cousin's mood was complex: "Former brothers turning out like this is also quite regrettable."

"Don't talk about this anymore......"

Lin Xiyu didn't want to chat about such a heavy topic: "Didn't you still have something to say? Hurry up and say it."

"Where did I get to just now?"

The female cousin couldn't keep up with her train of thought, first froze, then immediately slapped her forehead and spoke with an embarrassed laugh: "Oh, right, remembered it. I was interrupted by you just now, and the most important thing wasn't said....."

"What matter is it?"

Lin Xiyu teased jokingly: "One look at your eyes and I know it's not proper business."

"Hehe, you still understand me best."

The female cousin indeed got more spirited chatting gossip as she said, her eyes lighting up: "I just wanted to tell you, because of the equity matter, Wang Fan harbors a grudge against Li Qing and deliberately opposed her, parading around openly with his pregnant little mistress, publicly proclaiming that the mistress's child would inherit his family property."

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"No wonder......"

Lin Xiyu had a flash of insight and suddenly understood: "Li Qing would suddenly run to my house, using the pretext of easing relations to win us over......"

"Those two are about to hold their wedding."

The female cousin laughed jokingly: "Based on my years of experience watching romance dramas, I estimate it won't go very smoothly. With Wang Fan's temperament, who knows, he might pull some shenanigans, like a runaway groom at the scene."

"It wouldn't be that melodramatic, would it."

Lin Xiyu didn't believe it: "Real life isn't the same as novels. No matter how muddleheaded Wang Fan is, he'll have some concerns. He's tight on cash right now; if he pushes Li Qing too far and she pulls her investment, wouldn't that be shooting himself in the foot?"

"That's true......"

The female cousin sighed faintly: "Having a wealthy natal family is still best. Getting married gives you confidence, unlike us people, penniless, having to struggle for everything ourselves."

"You can do it now too......"

Lin Xiyu said with a smile: "You have at least tens of millions in hand, right? Among our generation, you're the most promising, and that counts as giving Maternal Grandmother a face. She didn't dote on you for nothing."

"What does my little money count for? In the eyes of real big shots, it can't even compare to a scallion."

The female cousin didn't agree: "Not to mention far away, compared to your family, I'm far behind....."

"That's money Guben earned......"

Lin Xiyu picked up a still-unripe sour grape from the fruit plate, put it in her mouth, and chewed with relish.

"You're husband and wife; his is yours......"

Seeing her eat with such enjoyment, the female cousin also took a grain and put it in her own mouth.

"Peh peh peh."

The next second, she was so sour she couldn't take it and spat it all out.

"Hahaha."

Lin Xiyu found it funny and couldn't hold back a laugh.

"Damn....."

The female cousin's mouth overflowed with sour juice: "What the hell is this, so sour. How can you even eat it?"

"Isn't this the grape vine transplanted from Maternal Grandmother's old Siheyuan......"

Lin Xiyu smiled until her eyes narrowed: "You used to eat it often when you were little. Forgot?"

"Uh, really?"

The female cousin's ear roots reddened, finding her own excuse: "How come the taste isn't the same? Not as good as when I was little."

"It's not that the grape's taste changed; it's that your own palate changed."

Lin Xiyu had a different realization: "Current living standards are much better than before. Not to mention a few grapes, even delicacies are almost eaten to boredom. Naturally you can't taste the flavor of childhood anymore."

"Childhood was still better......"

The female cousin sighed deeply: "Eating a few sour grapes could satisfy you immensely. That kind of simple, pure joy — once grown up, you'll never have it again."

"Childhood is very happy......"

Lin Xiyu fell silent for a few seconds, then smiled leisurely: "Comparatively, I still prefer my current life. Well-fed and well-clothed, no longer having to bow for five pecks of rice......"

"You're the blessed one......"

The female cousin's eyes revealed envy: "Having Guben as such a good husband."

"The money he earns is his......"

The sisters returned to the topic from just now: "I still hope to have the ability to earn money myself. Spending my own money gives confidence, lets me spend peacefully and freely."

"Didn't you and Wu Meng open a training institution? How's business?"

Cousin talked about business experience with exceptional spirit.

"Not bad......"

Lin Xiyu was very content: "Earning ten thousand or so a month is enough to support the family."

"Do you two each make ten thousand, or ten thousand total?"

"Ten thousand total."

"That little?"

Cousin frowned, clearly not taking this bit of money seriously.

"Not little."

Lin Xiyu knew perfectly well: "Cousin works at the Power Bureau, has worked ten years, only makes forty-five hundred a month. Us earning five thousand already counts as middle-to-upper level in JN City."

"Five thousand isn't enough to raise four kids......"

Cousin couldn't stand her being content with modest wealth, unambitious.

"There's still their dad, isn't there."

Lin Xiyu was righteous and confident.

"Aren't you still relying on Guben?"

Cousin laughed, teasing her: "Who was it just now speaking so righteously about how spending her own money feels best?"

"Put that way, it is a bit affected......"

Hearing Cousin's teasing, Lin Xiyu also laughed embarrassedly.

"Xiyu, listen to one piece of advice from Sister."

Cousin chatted happily, also in the mood to tease her: "From now on think things through more, don't keep getting twisted up with Guben. That washboard of yours absolutely cannot be made to kneel again. Such a good husband, if you don't cherish him properly, he really will be snatched away."

"I didn't really make him kneel......"

Lin Xiyu's hand pinching the grape paused, ear roots burning: "Just saying."

"Don't even think such thoughts in the future."

Cousin sincerely for her sake: "Don't forget you're a mother of four kids. For the kids, you must coax the husband well. You get muddleheaded, push him out, benefit others."

"If a man wants to be fickle, can't stop him......"

Lin Xiyu thought of Wang Fan, helplessly sighed.

"Say it like that, still depends on the individual......"

Cousin teased laughing: "From my heart I don't believe Guben would cheat. If there really is an accident, it's one hundred percent your fault."

"Sister, who is your real younger sister?"

Lin Xiyu puffed her cheeks, feigned unhappiness: "Your heart is so biased, it's practically biased all the way to the East China Sea."

"I'm kindly reminding you......"

Cousin joked laughing: "Hurry up and throw out your family's washboard, don't keep it around annoying people."

"Our family doesn't have a washboard, laundry all uses washing machine."

Lin Xiyu coquettishly scolded: "You didn't figure out clearly, what the origin of this allusion actually is."

"Regardless of washboard or not, I'm just giving you a heads-up."

Cousin found it funny, added: "With kids you can't be willful like before. Whatever decision, must consider clearly, think more for the children."

"So tiring......"

Lin Xiyu's small face fell, a bit depressed: "Feel like having kids tied me down, not as free as before."

"Tiring when young, different when grown."

Cousin knew how to persuade, hit the key point at once: "Think about it, four kids backing you, you as this birth mother, how imposing. Who dares bully you? Even if there's a mistress three, mistress four, no need to fear. Four against one, numbers alone can crush them......"

"Wow, Sister, what you say makes so much sense!"

Lin Xiyu listened amused, deliberately clapped cheering.

"Don't laugh, I'm telling the truth."

Cousin spoke more and more energetically, chatterbox trend unstoppable: "I also heard a thing, you can't imagine how absurd."

"Tell it, let's hear."

Lin Xiyu very face-givingly played along.

"A woman young and spirited, husband cheats, in a huff divorces, takes son lives outside alone. Later guess what?"

Cousin told vividly: "After divorce she found several more, all felt not as good as ex-husband, regretted again."

"Ah?!"

Lin Xiyu exclaimed: "Then her ex-husband? Remarried?"

"Married."

Cousin disdainfully curled lip: "To that mistress."

"Sigh."

Lin Xiyu very speechlessly sighed.

"Story not over yet, guess what happens next?"

Cousin like doing stand-up comedy, spoke and gestured very excited.

"Can't guess."

Lin Xiyu shook head.

"Can't blame you for not guessing......"

Cousin very satisfied with her cooperation: "Not just you, even me hearing it found it damn dog-blood."

"What happened to that woman?"

Lin Xiyu secretly speculated: "Could it be that she got back together with her ex-husband again?"

"Get back together what..."

Female Cousin sneered: "Her ex-husband has already remarried, the mistress even has a son, how could he divorce and marry her again?"

"Then what else could she do?"

Lin Xiyu was truly a bit baffled this time.

"She got together with her ex-husband again."

Female Cousin was very satisfied with this effect, very comfortably dropped the bomb: "Swapped identities with the mistress, the mistress became the wife, she became the mistress."

"Holy crap, what kind of thing is this..."

Lin Xiyu felt very uncomfortable inside after hearing this.

"Sister telling you this, no other meaning."

Female Cousin spoke earnestly: "Just want you to take it as a warning, don't be like that woman, ruin a good hand yourself, mess around blindly."

"That person's experience is indeed quite sympathetic..."

Lin Xiyu thought back and forth, always felt something was off: "But then again, husband cheats, how many women can bear it? It's not like every woman after divorce thinks her ex-husband is good, wants to get back together with her ex-husband again."

"What you say is also right..."

Female Cousin nodded in agreement: "But this matter, if it were someone else, divorce is divorce, at worst find another, you're different..."

"Why am I different?"

Lin Xiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Silly Younger sister, I understand you too well."

Female Cousin looked at her faintly, smiled meaningfully: "With that stubborn personality of yours, you definitely won't find anyone suitable, deep down you'll still feel Guben is the best."

"What are you saying?"

Lin Xiyu pretended to be dissatisfied and glared at her: "Am I that stupid? That woman you spoke of wouldn't be made up, right? Are you alluding to me?"

"No such thing..."

Female Cousin denied: "I really heard it from others, described in vivid detail, eighty percent it's true."

Lin Xiyu looked at her suspiciously: "These words coming from your mouth, why do I feel so unbelievable?"

"Don't believe then forget it, still eat grapes."

Female Cousin hehe laughed, changed the subject herself, picked up another grape and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Ptoo ptoo ptoo."

The next second, it was too sour, she spat it all out again.

"Hahaha."

Lin Xiyu found it funny, laughed very heartily.

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The quadruplets' charm is unmatched, even Sixth Grandpa couldn't sit still upon hearing the news, accompanied by Qu Peng, personally took a plane from BJ and flew over.

"Sixth Brother, you're a rare guest..."

Grandma Gu saw her younger brother-in-law and felt very gratified, laughed very happily: "Rare to come once, this time must stay a few more days, let Xiao Bin accompany you to tour Jinan properly."

"Jinan has developed well these two years, the environment has changed completely."

Sixth Grandpa didn't decline, conveniently flattered a few sentences: "Your family courtyard outside also painted red-top white-wall, this old city district renovation, more beautiful than before."

"Ours is an old house."

Grandma Gu listened very happily: "When your Second Brother was still alive it was this appearance, several decades haven't changed."

"Time passes really fast, in a blink Second Brother has been gone ten years already."

Sixth Grandpa sighed faintly: "I'm also old, almost can't walk, these two years obviously feel body not good, always forgetting things, who knows which day I'll have to go report to Yanluo Ye, and reunite with Second Brother."

"You're several years younger than me, what ominous words are you saying?"

Grandma Gu pretended to scold: "I never feel myself old, 80 years old counts as what, now living conditions good, average lifespan extended, our old city district many elderly people, all heading for hundred years old, those morning exercising by the Moat, a grab a big handful older than me."

"Second Sister-in-law your mindset is really good."

Sixth Grandpa admired and raised his thumb: "No matter when see you, always this energetic, spirit better than young people."

"I must live well."

Grandma Gu smiled until eyes narrowed: "Personally watch my precious great-grandchildren grow up, quadruplets ah, thinking about it is beautiful."