Chapter 980

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

So by the time lunch came around, Liang Xinghua found a gap and went to the office to look for Wang Erhai.

"That, General Manager Wang, I have something to tell you..."

Liang Xinghua's face showed some embarrassment.

After all, he cared about face.

Borrowing money, this kind of thing, he could only brace himself and come borrow.

Besides, before this he still owed the Wang Family over fifty thousand and hadn't paid it back yet.

Now he was coming to borrow from Wang Erhai again.

It was somewhat unjustifiable no matter how you put it.

"Xiong Hua Shu, what is it?"

Wang Erhai thought Liang Xinghua had come to ask him about the subsidiary company establishment matter.

Unexpectedly, Liang Xinghua hemmed and hawed, and finally said:

"General Manager Wang, that, I have an impertinent request, you see, cough cough... could you lend me twenty thousand yuan?"

Wang Erhai was stunned, puzzled:

"What do you need to borrow money for?"

Liang Xinghua could only tell the truth:

"This morning my ex-wife called me, saying she wanted me to pay ten months of child support in advance. If I didn't pay, she wouldn't let me visit my daughter in the future. Ten months, two thousand each month, that's twenty thousand. I just bought a used car and spent all my savings, so..."

Wang Erhai was even more puzzled:

"Why does Lan Menglian want you to advance twenty thousand all of a sudden?"

Liang Xinghua gave a bitter laugh:

"I don't know either. I asked her and she wouldn't say."

Wang Erhai frowned, deep in thought:

"Just afraid she's hiding something from you."

Liang Xinghua said:

"I think so too, so I plan to bring the money over to her after work tonight, then ask face to face what's going on."

Liang Xinghua added:

"General Manager Wang, please rest assured. This twenty thousand, as soon as next month's salary arrives, I'll immediately pay it back to you. Also the fifty thousand I owe your father, I'll also try to pay off within this year."

Wang Erhai waved his hand:

"That's not urgent. I know you're having a hard time."

Then he took out twenty thousand in cash from the drawer, handed it to Liang Xinghua, and also instructed:

"Later you ask clearly. Just afraid Lan Menglian got deceived by someone. She suddenly asks you for this much money — something unusual must be behind it!"

Liang Xinghua nodded.

Actually, even if Wang Erhai hadn't said it, he would have gone to ask clearly.

"Thank you, General Manager Wang!"

Liang Xinghua was endlessly grateful.

The Wang Family people were truly too good to him.

So good he felt deep guilt.

Actually twenty-some years ago his father Liang Yuanchao wasn't too good to the Wang Family either. His father Liang Yuanchao helped Yang Dafu post that announcement on the village committee bulletin board, which almost ruined Wang Erhai's mother's reputation.

Later his mother even went to dig up the Wang Family's ancestral grave, and hanged herself in the house they'd just built but hadn't renovated yet, and deliberately chose the very day Wang Erhai and Wang Dashan were getting married to hang herself.

To tell the truth, with so many things happening, if it were an ordinary family, they'd probably have become sworn enemies with Liang Xinghua long ago. Even if not enemies, they'd have cut off all contact forever.

But the Wang Family people didn't hold it against him.

Not only did Wang Erhai, this younger generation, not hold a grudge, even Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan didn't hold it against him. Feeling he had a hard life, they helped him quite a lot.

Now that Liang Xinghua has this job, it's all thanks to the Wang Family people!

"General Manager Wang, in the future if there's anything you need me to do, just say the word. Even if it's climbing a mountain of knives or descending into a sea of fire, if I so much as frown, then I'm not fit to be human!"

Liang Xinghua spoke these words from the bottom of his heart.

Wang Erhai was a bit at a loss whether to cry or laugh:

"It's just twenty thousand yuan. Look at the fuss you're making. Don't stand on ceremony with me. We're fellow villagers; helping each other out is perfectly normal."

But Liang Xinghua hurriedly said:

"It's not just the twenty thousand. Your Wang Family, you've helped me far, far too much! The kindness you've shown me, I'll remember for a lifetime!"

In a blink, evening arrived.

Liang Xinghua worked until past nine at night before getting off work.

He called Zhong Liying in advance, just saying he wouldn't go pick her up today, had to make a trip to his ex-wife's place.

Zhong Liying didn't say anything, just said she'd take a taxi back to the rental house herself, and asked if he'd be coming back tonight.

Liang Xinghua said, once he's done handling his ex-wife's side, he'll go back.

"Okay, then when you're about to come back, let me know in advance. I'll make a late-night snack for you to eat."

Liang Xinghua nodded, moved:

"Good!"

He had just hung up Zhong Liying's call and drove toward the rental house where Lan Menglian was.

At this moment, the mobile phone rang again.

It was surprisingly Lan Menglian calling.

Just as he answered, a barrage of sound came from the other end of the phone:

"Liang Xinghua, where did you die? Didn't we agree you'd give the money today? Are you going to make me miss my flight!"

Liang Xinghua really wanted to curse back, but after taking a deep breath, he still endured it.

It wasn't that he was magnanimous; he just felt there was no need.

Whether Lan Menglian lived or died, he fundamentally didn't care!

Additionally, the more Lan Menglian lost control of her emotions like this, the more it proved how correct his choice to divorce initially was!

"Don't rush, I'll be there in a bit!"

Liang Xinghua coldly replied with this one sentence.

"Did you bring the money?"

Lan Menglian coldly asked.

"I brought it."

Liang Xinghua replied, then asked one sentence:

"Is the daughter asleep?"

Lan Menglian didn't answer this question of his, but directly issued a warning:

"Twenty thousand yuan, you'd better not give me a single cent less, not a single cent less will do!"

Liang Xinghua didn't speak anymore, directly hanging up the phone.

He drove to Lan Menglian's side, stopped the car on the roadside, then hurriedly walked into the urban village lane.

Arriving at the door, he knocked on the door.

Before long, Lan Menglian came out and opened the door.

Liang Xinghua looked inside, only to see the narrow rental house, garbage everywhere, filthy and messy with no place to set foot.

Daughter Liang Ailan was curled up sleeping on the bed full of snack packaging bags.

Seeing this scene, Liang Xinghua couldn't help but frown:

"How did you make it this filthy and messy, can't you clean it up a bit? This environment is bad for the daughter's growth."

Lan Menglian coldly said:

"No need for you to care! Just know how to stand and talk without your waist hurting! Why don't you take the daughter away to raise! You fundamentally don't know how bitter and tiring raising children is!"

After Lan Menglian finished a round of complaints, she then asked:

"Did you bring the money?"

Liang Xinghua took out twenty thousand yuan and handed it over.

Lan Menglian was just about to take it, but he suddenly pulled it back:

"You honestly tell me, what are you taking these twenty thousand yuan to do?"

Lan Menglian still had that attitude:

"What I do needs you to care?"

Liang Xinghua then said:

"Your own money I can ignore, but this is the daughter's child support, I naturally have to care!"

Lan Menglian very arrogantly said:

"I'm taking it to do business, just wait, I'll soon earn a big sum of money, I'm not like you so useless, working outside for so many years, yet unable to earn money!"

Liang Xinghua's brows furrowed:

"Do business? What business do you want to do? Don't get scammed by others!"

Lan Menglian instead said:

"What business I do concerns you what! Reassure yourself! In this life I've only been deceived by you this bastard once, besides that, never been scammed again!"

As the two spoke, their voices grew louder and louder, the more they spoke the more it was like an argument.

The originally sleeping daughter was woken up by their noise.

Liang Ailan rubbed her hazy eyes, saw Liang Xinghua standing at the door, her nose soured, and she couldn't help but cry out:

"Dad, Dad, Lanlan misses you so much, where did you go these days..."