Chapter 102

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Li Yunxia has been running the Village Entrance Convenience Store for the past half year, and she must have made a lot of money; if she were willing to lend it to Li Xiulan, she would definitely be able to come up with this sum.

But when Li Yunxia heard Li Xiulan open her mouth and ask for eight hundred yuan, her expression flickered with a slight start.

She knew Li Xiulan's current economic situation was bad; her mother's illness had cost a lot of money, to the point that the half-built building was now a stalled project.

Under such circumstances, lending money to Li Xiulan was tantamount to throwing money into water; there was a high probability it would be gone for good, very difficult to get back.

However, they were all from the same village, and before, when making sugar rings and dumplings, she and Li Xiulan had helped each other; if she didn't lend a single cent, that wouldn't be justifiable either.

So Li Yunxia finally said:

"I just took in a batch of goods recently, and the cash on hand has been used up almost entirely; how about this, let me see how much I can scrape together, however much I can come up with I'll give to you……"

Li Xiulan didn't detect anything amiss, just kept hurriedly expressing thanks:

"Thank you, Yunxia!"

Li Yunxia went to rummage through the cash cabinet, scraping together two hundred yuan in scattered bills:

"Sister-in-law Xiulan, what I can lend you on hand right now is about two hundred yuan; I still need to keep some change……"

Li Xiulan took those scattered, wrinkled two hundred yuan, her heart full of gratitude:

"Thank you, Yunxia; when I have money, I will definitely return it to you at the first opportunity!"

Li Yunxia smiled faintly; this money she lent out, she hadn't planned on being able to get back, after all she knew Li Xiulan's family situation, so she said:

"No need for politeness, we're friends; help if you can. You don't have to rush to pay me back; you hurry and think of other ways, hurry and scrape together eight hundred yuan, go to Dongguan and redeem Brother Changgen."

Li Xiulan nodded; up to now she still felt full of gratitude toward Li Yunxia.

But she absolutely shouldn't have, at this moment her gaze unintentionally swept a glance at Li Yunxia's cash cabinet that wasn't shut tight.

She clearly saw, inside the cash cabinet there was a thick stack of hundred-yuan bills, estimated at one or two thousand yuan!

Li Xiulan's heart couldn't help but tremble violently.

In that instant she felt a thread of anger, but the next second she quickly suppressed the angry emotion, only feeling a bleak sadness in her heart, feeling rather bedraggled herself.

The money belongs to Li Yunxia herself; willing to lend to you is sentiment, unwilling to lend is also reasonable; what can you go blame?

Li Yunxia could lend her two hundred yuan, she should be grateful, not inexplicably furious.

"Yunxia, thank you, I'm leaving; I'll go borrow from other people in the village, I must scrape together eight hundred yuan by tomorrow……"

Li Xiulan pretended not to have seen that money, said goodbye to Li Yunxia, then hurriedly left.

She could no longer afford to indulge in wild thoughts; still short six hundred yuan of the redemption money, for this six hundred yuan, on New Year's Eve night she walked through the village lanes, everywhere seeking people who could lend money.

She arrived at Pork Rong's doorstep; from afar she saw Pork Rong and He Xiaoling, father and daughter, watching TV inside the house. At that time, households with televisions in the rural area were not many; relying on selling pork, Pork Rong not only bought a motorcycle but also bought a TV; his economic situation in Shangou Village counted as top-tier.

If she went to borrow from him, she would definitely be able to borrow.

But, as soon as she thought of He Xiaoling's hostility toward her, it made Li Xiulan like a snail whose antennae had been touched, unable to help shrinking back.

In the end she silently passed by Pork Rong's doorstep and did not go borrow money from Pork Rong.

She walked toward the Village Committee, wanting to go borrow money from Zhang Zhongtian.

Zhang Zhongtian was still a decent person; before he had even helped her handle the conflict between her and Yang Xiaocai.

However, when she came before Zhang Zhongtian and explained the situation, Zhang Zhongtian could only express sympathy for her plight; the moment borrowing money was mentioned, Zhang Zhongtian said his own family was poor as a church mouse, at most he could only lend Li Xiulan fifty yuan.

"Xiulan, why don't you go to town tomorrow and find Niu Chunsheng to borrow? His business is good, recently he even opened a restaurant; you go borrow from him, you'll definitely be able to borrow!"

Although Zhang Zhongtian was unwilling to lend too much money to Li Xiulan, he did give Li Xiulan a very good suggestion.

Li Xiulan felt Zhang Zhongtian's suggestion was good, but she also hesitated:

"Tomorrow is the First Day of the Lunar New Year; going door-to-door to borrow money on the First Day, I'm afraid that's not too good……"

She knew as long as she opened her mouth, Niu Chunsheng would definitely lend her money, but she feared Niu Chunsheng's wife, and Niu Chunsheng's family, would all be not too willing.

After all, going door-to-door to borrow money on the First Day of the Lunar New Year is unlucky! Inauspicious!

"Don't worry about that much; saving a person is urgent. If you're embarrassed, have Lao Liang accompany you; Lao Liang and Niu Chunsheng have a very good relationship!"

Zhang Zhongtian gave Li Xiulan another idea.

Li Xiulan still hesitated:

"Having him accompany me, that's not too good either……"

Actually she was afraid Liang Yuanchao would be unwilling to help.

After all, before because of the demolition compensation matter, she and Liang Yuanchao had fallen out so badly, and even caused Liang Yuanchao to resign from his Village Committee Secretary job.

Now she goes to beg Liang Yuanchao; who knows, Liang Yuanchao might not only refuse to help her, but might even take the opportunity to humiliate her.

"You're unwilling for this, unwilling for that; do you still want to save your husband or not?"

Zhang Zhongtian's eyes revealed a trace of contempt.

Li Xiulan fell silent.

Zhang Zhongtian said at this time:

"There's still one person who might also be willing to help you, but this person you probably are even more unwilling to go beg!"

"Who?" Li Xiulan hurriedly asked.

"He Dazhu!" Zhang Zhongtian's answer made Li Xiulan involuntarily startle.

Zhang Zhongtian then said:

"He Dazhu came back a few days ago; you didn't know, right? In the city he became a Big Boss, made a lot of money; now he not only bought a small sedan, but also brought back a young, pretty girl of about twenty! Yesterday he came to my house for a visit and even told me to my face that after the New Year he plans to build a three-story Western-style building in the village!"

Hearing this, Li Xiulan's face was full of shock.

She never would have imagined that after He Dazhu went out to work for a few years, he actually became a Big Boss, earned big money, bought a car, and even married a beautiful young girl!

You have to understand, back then He Dazhu was nothing but a weak and incompetent useless waste!

And he was malicious and extremely despicable, actually at the village committee identification scene, for his own selfish gain, in front of the whole village he distorted facts, slandered her, defamed her, saying it was she, Li Xiulan, who took the initiative to seduce him!

A man with no moral character like that, how could he be doing so well?

What has this world come to? Is there still any heavenly principle?

Li Xiulan's simple values made her unable to accept this world's cruel truth.

This world's rules are actually survival of the fittest, so the more fiercely competitive the Big City, the more people without bottom lines, the more they can earn big money.

Wang Changgen was merely a bit scummy in relationships, but he still had bottom lines; what could be done and what could not be done, he strictly abided by moral bottom lines, so these years, not only did he fail to earn big money, but his entrepreneurship with friends even lost everything.

Going to Dongguan to work, he didn't even know to get a fake Temporary Residence Permit, foolishly, resulting in him now being locked up in the Zhangmutou Shelter.

If it were He Dazhu instead, this situation definitely wouldn't have happened; he would either get a fake Temporary Residence Permit to muddle through, or spend a little money to bribe the Lianfang Law Enforcement Team people on the spot, absolutely would not let those people lock him inside the Zhangmutou Shelter.