Chapter 979: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 979: Give Me Twenty Thousand Yuan

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

The next day, early in the morning, Liang Xinghua and Zhong Liying woke up in bed.

The two of them tidied up briefly, then went out together to eat breakfast.

After finishing breakfast, Liang Xinghua drove Zhong Liying to Zhihui Human Resources Company; after dropping off Zhong Liying, he then went to Liguo Mountain for work.

Today Huo Guoqiang gave him a lot of work tasks; he didn't complain in the slightest, but instead was full of energy, feeling this was Huo Guoqiang's regard for him.

His days here were becoming more and more promising.

On the other side, however, his ex-wife Lan Menglian presented a completely different scene.

In the shabby rental house, Lan Menglian slept until past ten o'clock in the morning.

The room was both dirty and messy, garbage thrown everywhere.

If it weren't for her daughter being hungry and making noise to wake her, she might not have gotten up at all.

Not long ago she met an online friend; the two hit it off as soon as they met, and quickly developed a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.

Most importantly, that online friend of hers, knowing she was divorced and had a daughter, actually didn't dislike her in the slightest.

The other party did business; his family ran a company, with assets of several million. A few days after meeting her, he went back, after all his company was quite busy.

Not long after that online friend returned, he told her he was doing an investment with a two hundred percent return rate, guaranteed to make money, and asked Lan Menglian if she wanted to invest together.

Lan Menglian agreed readily without much thought:

"Sure, I want to invest, but right now I don't have much money on hand."

The other party said:

"No problem, invest however much you have; how much can you invest?"

Lan Menglian said:

"At most ten thousand."

The other party said:

"Okay, no problem. Transfer the money to me, I'll help you invest it, guarantee within half a year I can let you earn twenty thousand."

Based on trust in the other party, Lan Menglian transferred ten thousand over.

Ten thousand, to some wealthy people, might not count for much.

But to Lan Menglian, this jobless woman, it was a not-small sum.

The money was transferred, but less than half a month passed — just last night — when the other party told her the project had some issues; if she wanted to recover the funds, she had to continue investing money; if she didn't invest more, even the principal wouldn't come back, while continuing to invest would yield even higher profits.

"How much more to invest?"

Lan Menglian already faintly sensed something was off.

The other party said:

"Twenty thousand. Invest another twenty thousand, and in half a year you'll get sixty thousand."

Lan Menglian frowned, couldn't help feeling depressed, and replied:

"But I don't have that much money on hand right now."

The other party said:

"You can go borrow — borrow from friends; if that really won't work, go borrow online loans. Anyway, in half a year you'll get sixty thousand returns; just pay it back then."

Lan Menglian didn't know what to say.

She somewhat wanted to refuse, but the ten thousand she'd invested — if she couldn't get it back, it would kill her.

So last night she tossed and turned, suffering insomnia all night.

Waking up this morning, she made a decision.

Invest! Must continue investing!

The previous ten thousand invested — no way could it just be lost for nothing!

But she herself had no money left; what to do?

Borrow from friends — she didn't have many friends, and was too embarrassed to ask.

Borrow online — she didn't trust it, afraid of falling into predatory lending.

So in the end she thought of Liang Xinghua.

Although she knew Liang Xinghua had left with nothing in the divorce, and most likely didn't have twenty thousand on hand right now either, she still had to brace herself and make Liang Xinghua cough up this sum!

Who told Liang Xinghua to be her ex-husband? She had sacrificed too much for Liang Xinghua's family before; making him fork out some money now to compensate was only right and proper!

So she immediately called Liang Xinghua.

At this time Liang Xinghua was busy with the Liguo Mountain subsidiary establishment matters; seeing Lan Menglian call, he couldn't help being stunned.

His first reaction: had something happened to his daughter?

So he hurriedly answered.

"Hello, what's wrong?"

"Give me twenty thousand." On the phone, Lan Menglian opened her mouth and demanded money from Liang Xinghua.

It could be called extremely direct, extremely righteous and confident.

Liang Xinghua was immediately angered into a laugh.

"Big Sis, how long has it been since I left with nothing? You think I have that kind of money? If I could earn this much in such a short time, I wouldn't have been called a good-for-nothing by you!"

Liang Xinghua had actually earned several tens of thousands in this period after the divorce; only yesterday he just used it to buy a car, so right now he indeed didn't have that much cash on hand.

Additionally, he would not tell Lan Menglian that he was no longer the Liang Xinghua who was once good-for-nothing; he had to keep this secret, otherwise Lan Menglian would cling back to him, and then he would be in trouble.

He had already begun a brand-new life; as for Lan Menglian's side, aside from a trace of lingering attachment to his daughter, he would not concern himself with the rest.

"I don't care, you must give me twenty thousand yuan, otherwise don't even think about coming to see your daughter in the future!"

Lan Menglian directly lost her temper, not wanting to reason with Liang Xinghua at all.

Liang Xinghua was furious; his originally excellent mood was ruined by this unreasonable woman.

"It was already agreed on before, two thousand child support every month!"

Liang Xinghua replied angrily, "This month's two thousand, I already gave to you long ago, did you spend it this fast? What do you need twenty thousand for!"

Lan Menglian said coldly:

"Don't you mind what I'm doing, you hurry up and give me twenty thousand, just treat it as an advance on the next ten months of child support!"

Liang Xinghua was so angry he wanted to curse:

"I don't have that much money!"

But Lan Menglian said:

"Then you can go borrow from friends, or borrow online; anyway I don't care, I just want you to give me twenty thousand yuan, otherwise you can forget about ever seeing your daughter again!"

These words from Lan Menglian thoroughly infuriated Liang Xinghua.

But Liang Xinghua had no way to deal with her, because he knew that this stinking woman, when she turned ruthless, was capable of doing anything.

If he didn't advance her twenty thousand in child support, she might really take their daughter and hide, letting him never see his daughter again!

"Fine fine, I'll come find you tonight, and give you the money then!"

In the end Liang Xinghua compromised.

He could ignore Lan Menglian's life and death, but he could not disregard his daughter.

Additionally, he also wanted to figure out what Lan Menglian suddenly needed so much money for?

The living expenses for the two of them, mother and daughter, if they were frugal, two thousand a month was already more than enough.

Suddenly demanding twenty thousand, there was definitely something she was hiding from Liang Xinghua!

Liang Xinghua hung up Lan Menglian's call, and began to worry over these twenty thousand yuan.

He had just bought a car, and had no savings on hand.

What to do?

Could it be he had to go ask Zhong Liying for a loan?

The first person he thought of was Zhong Liying.

But on second thought, he had only just confirmed a relationship with Zhong Liying, going to ask her for money would be too inappropriate.

So in the end he thought of Wang Erhai.

Decided to go borrow from Wang Erhai after all.

Wang Erhai is a very good person, and not short of money either; borrowing twenty thousand from him should be no problem.