Chapter 897

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Around ten o'clock in the morning, Wang Dashan drove back.

Li Xiulan had killed the rooster early on.

As soon as Wang Dashan returned, she put the rooster in a bamboo basket and went out the door to worship the four directional deities.

Then she offered incense to Wang Dashan's car and pasted a red paper with "Safe Journey" on it.

Wang Zhanggen was especially happy today. He told Wang Dashan that in a while he would go to the ancestral hall with Wang Dashan to worship the ancestors, asking them to bless Du Xiaojuan's pregnancy with a healthy baby boy.

After worshipping at the ancestral hall, the two of them, grandfather and grandson, returned home together.

Li Xiulan started making lunch.

Wang Erhai was still working at the Village Committee Office.

Wang Zhanggen, meanwhile, sat his butt down in the living room, crossed his legs, smoked, turned on the TV to watch an Anti-Japanese Divine Drama, and waited for the noon meal.

Wang Dashan went into the kitchen and told Li Xiulan he wanted to help cook.

Li Xiulan wouldn't let him help, and even said Wang Dashan was a Big Boss now; coming into the kitchen to cook would take away his business luck.

Who knows where she heard that saying from.

Wang Dashan had never heard of any rule that doing business meant you couldn't cook.

Back in Guangzhou, he had personally cooked in the kitchen who knows how many times.

But since Mother had said so, he couldn't go against her wishes.

He had to come out of the kitchen and, taking advantage of this free time, went to the Village Committee Office to find his second brother and chat, asking how he'd been lately.

Arriving at the Village Committee Office, he happened to run into Wang Erhai handling a villager's matter.

"Uncle Zhenxing, your situation is quite tricky."

The one coming to the Village Committee to seek help was none other than Li Zhenxing.

Didn't Li Zhenxing's daughter, Li Yuncui, give birth to a son a while back?

To be with Zhou Zhihao, Li Yuncui ultimately chose to conspire with her mother and together they gave the child away.

Upon learning this, Li Zhenxing was extremely angry, extremely furious.

He had a huge fight with his wife Luo Jiaxin over it, and even called to scold Li Yuncui.

Later he sought out Zhang Zhongtian for help.

As a result, Zhang Zhongtian went to the County Town with him, found the County Town police to investigate, but in the end no results came of the investigation.

That Mei Yi who took the child had long since disappeared without a trace, her whereabouts unknown.

The contact number Mei Yi left when renting the house had long become a dead line.

To find her was simply harder than climbing to heaven.

Li Zhenxing himself ran around the County Town for a period of time and found no clues whatsoever.

Before, he had asked Zhang Zhongtian to use all sorts of connections to help, but now Zhang Zhongtian could barely protect himself, so he was too embarrassed to trouble Zhang Zhongtian again.

So he could only come to seek help from Wang Erhai, this Temporary Village Cadre.

"Erhai, you must help me. That is the only family lineage of our Li Family!"

Strictly speaking, the child Li Yuncui gave birth to was Li Zhenxing's maternal grandson, and did not count as the Li Family's lineage.

But Li Zhenxing had no son, so he treated his maternal grandson as a grandson.

In the past, when he was young and ignorant, the world within his sight was everywhere promoting "one child is best," and he actually believed it. Moreover, after Luo Jiaxin gave birth to Li Yuncui, she didn't want to have more children. He himself, when young, didn't want to expend too much energy on children, so he didn't have any more.

Now past fifty, to say Li Zhenxing had no regrets in his heart would be impossible.

But regret is useless.

If he were a successful man, he might still be able to dump Luo Jiaxin and find another woman to bear him children.

But as it happens, he is not only unsuccessful, he is a complete failure.

At fifty, his business failure sent him back to before liberation overnight. The building in the County Town has been sold to pay debts, and even so, he is still entangled in debt.

Under these circumstances, what woman would be willing to bear children for him?

So Li Zhenxing regarded this maternal grandson as his only pillar.

Not just a pillar for lineage inheritance.

But also his spiritual pillar.

That was his reason to live on.

"Uncle Zhenxing, I'll contact my friends in the County Town later and ask if any of them know Mei Yi."

Wang Erhai comforted Li Zhenxing:

"Don't be too sad. Things have come to this; try to look at it openly. Your daughter has a boyfriend now, right? Maybe before long she'll be pregnant again."

Li Zhenxing said angrily:

"She can't get pregnant for shit. She ruined her body long ago. The doctor said she can never have children again!"

Hearing this, Wang Erhai couldn't help but be stunned.

Only now did he understand why Li Zhenxing cared so much about this maternal grandson.

So it turns out Li Yuncui can't have children anymore.

Li Zhenxing then said:

"Erhai, isn't your big brother really capable? I heard he's a Big Boss in Guangzhou. Why don't you help me contact your big brother, let him help look? Maybe that Mei Yi is in Guangzhou."

Li Zhenxing had just finished speaking when Wang Dashan walked in.

"Uncle Zhenxing, what do you need me for?"

Seeing Wang Dashan, Li Zhenxing was immediately overjoyed:

"Dashan, you're back, that's wonderful, I want you to help me find my grandson!"

Li Zhenxing had always treated the child Li Yuncui gave birth to as his grandson.

Wang Erhai corrected him:

"Big Brother, he's talking about his maternal grandson. That child was given away by his daughter to a woman called Mei Yi, and now he wants to find the child again, but Mei Yi has disappeared and can't be contacted at all."

Hearing this, Wang Dashan couldn't help but feel sympathy for Li Zhenxing, and at the same time, some puzzlement:

"Uncle Zhenxing, that child is your daughter's own flesh and blood, how could she bear to give him away?"

Li Zhenxing sighed:

"It's all my fault. I spoiled and raised a daughter with no conscience, no morality, selfish and self-serving. For the sake of so-called love, she abandoned her child!"

The more Li Zhenxing spoke, the angrier he got:

"I want to see, when the time comes and she can't give birth, whether Zhou Zhihao will still want her. She'll have a bad time of it later!"

Wang Dashan looked at Li Zhenxing with eyes full of sympathy.

He knew this woman Li Yuncui. This woman was simply a debt collector sent to Li Zhenxing's home.

Li Zhenxing and Luo Jiaxin treated Li Yuncui extremely well. When Li Yuncui was little, the couple spoiled her in every way. Whatever Li Yuncui wanted, they gave her. Whatever Li Yuncui wanted to eat, they let her eat it.

The result of so much doting was a daughter who turned into a spiritual young girl. To this day Li Zhenxing still doesn't know which step went wrong.

Didn't the ancestors say to "raise sons poor, raise daughters rich"?

How come the richly raised daughter turned into this ghostly state?

Can only say, this couple Li Zhenxing and Luo Jiaxin have a bit of culture, but not much.

Secondhand principles, they only heard half of them.

Actually the ancestors' original words weren't "raise sons poor, raise daughters rich", but "raise sons poor in ambition, raise daughters rich in virtue". This and "raise sons poor, raise daughters rich" are completely two different matters.

Bottom line, children are "mud figurines" pinched into shape by their parents' own hands. Whatever shape the children are pinched into, the parents bear great responsibility.

Li Yuncui's current ghostly state, isn't it just what Li Zhenxing and Luo Jiaxin spoiled her into?

Who can they blame?

If they want to blame, blame themselves.