Chapter 660: If I Get Angry, What Can I Do?

Li Ye slept at Zaojunmiao that night. At the crack of dawn the next morning, he heard Li Kaijian calling from outside his door.

"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye, it's almost dawn. Can you take me to the train station?"

"Huh?"

Li Ye opened the door and said, "I can certainly take you to the station, but I haven't booked your ticket yet! If you go queue up now, you might not be able to buy one..."

Li Kaijian urged him anxiously, "What ticket? Just buy a platform ticket and buy the rest on the train! Let's go, let's go. I remember there's an express train to Shanghai in the morning. Don't let me miss it..."

Seeing Li Kaijian so anxious, Li Ye said helplessly, "Dad, you finally made it to the capital; aren't you going to see your daughter and grandson?"

Li Kaijian froze for a moment, then muttered, "There's a lot to do at home. That urea production line you told me about is very important; I have to get back and arrange things..."

"..."

"Oh, oh, oh. Important, important. You're right."

Li Ye didn't want to expose a middle-aged man's lie, so he could only agree while driving Li Kaijian to the train station.

Fertilizer was indeed in short supply these days, and a urea production line was absolutely vital for the Qinghe Fertilizer Factory. But Li Ye, with his keen observation, knew very well that Li Kaijian was worried about Han Chunmei, who was still at home on an IV drip.

A couple for a day, a hundred days of grace; not to mention he and Han Chunmei had been together for six years.

Li Ye took Li Kaijian to the station. He didn't actually let him board the train and buy a ticket on board; instead, he spent double the money to buy him a scalper ticket.

Just before entering the station, Li Kaijian suddenly said to Li Ye, "You still need to tell your mother about this. Just say... say I forced you to send her and the child to Hong Kong. Blame me for any mistakes."

"..."

Li Ye glanced at Li Kaijian and "impatiently" pushed him into the waiting room. "Can you act like a man? You keep rambling on about this trivial matter.

Go inside, check your ticket, and get on the train! I have to take Xiao Yu to work; I don't have time to waste with you..."

"Oh, oh, then hurry up and go! Make sure you take good care of Xiao Yu."

Hearing Li Ye mention Watching Wen Leyu, Li Kaijian, the father-in-law, immediately turned around to urge Li Ye to go serve his wife. It was clear that both father and son had an innate nature for doting on their wives.

After Li Kaijian entered the waiting room, Li Ye let out a soft sigh.

He understood Li Kaijian's conflict and helplessness.

Li Kaijian actually wanted to be the big tree in the family, shielding the others from the wind and rain, and in the years past, he had indeed shouldered the responsibilities of a father.

It was just that suddenly, the family members around him had all become more capable than him, to the point where they even needed his son to clean up his messes. This sudden change left the former border defense company commander, who used to hold his head high, feeling lost.

Fortunately, Li Kaijian didn't have the potential to be a "scumbag." If this were decades later, who knows how many people would have abandoned "Han Chunmei" and turned around to kneel and lick "Fu Guiru"!

Li Ye left the train station and drove back to his new home on Fuyoujie. After arriving at the door, he found his sister Li Yue's car parked right outside.

It seemed that after his sister picked up Watching Wen Leyu from work last night, she had accompanied her home and stayed the night.

Li Ye unlocked the door and entered the courtyard, finding his sister and wife preparing to eat breakfast.

Watching Wen Leyu asked in surprise, "Xiao Ye, you came over so early? Have you eaten?"

Li Ye shook his head and looked into the pot. "Shrimp and egg noodles? Give me half a bowl!"

"Half a bowl isn't enough! Take my bowl; there's more in the pot!"

His little wife pushed her bowl toward Li Ye and went back to the kitchen to serve herself.

Li Yue took the opportunity to ask in a low voice, "Where's Dad?"

Li Ye said while shoveling food into his mouth, "He left. I just took him to the train station."

"He left?" Li Yue froze, then said with a sense of loss, "He didn't say a word before he came, and he didn't say a word when he left. Is he really our father?"

"Wasn't it you who pushed him toward me?"

Li Ye looked at Li Yue speechlessly, then saw the sorrow between his sister's brows.

He instantly understood Li Yue's feelings.

Han Chunmei's pregnancy must have made Li Yue very angry, which was why she had snapped at their father, telling him to "go find your son."

But when Li Kaijian really left without a word, she, as a daughter, felt soft-hearted again. After all, Li Kaijian had "lost his soul," so how could Li Yue, as his little cotton-padded jacket, not be worried?

So Li Ye didn't snap at his sister again, but said, "Don't worry anymore. I've already cured Dad's heart disease."

"You cured it? How did you cure it?"

"Heart disease? What's wrong with Dad?"

Just then, Watching Wen Leyu walked into the dining room with a bowl of noodles and heard Li Ye's words.

"Sigh~"

Li Ye sighed, let Watching Wen Leyu sit down first, and then said, "It's all family business, so I won't hide it from you. Dad accidentally got our stepmother pregnant."

"She's panicked, but she really wants to keep the child, so she came to ask for my opinion. If I let her keep it, she will; if I don't, she'll have an abortion..."

"..."

His sister Li Yue and Watching Wen Leyu froze at the same time, then almost simultaneously questioned Li Ye.

Li Yue: "Then how did you answer?"

Watching Wen Leyu: "You let her have an abortion?"

Li Ye shook his head. "No, I thought about arranging for Li Ying to go to Hong Kong to study, and let her accompany her there to wait for the birth. As for the future, we can only take it one step at a time!"

"Oh~"

"Phew~"

Li Yue and Watching Wen Leyu both breathed a sigh of relief. Clearly, a woman's maternal instinct had kicked in, making them both feel that ending a life was wrong.

However, after pondering for a moment, Watching Wen Leyu said, "This matter must be handled properly; we can't give anyone a handle to use against us."

Li Ye nodded in agreement. "Hmm, let's discuss it properly later."

Although Watching Wen Leyu was kind-hearted, she didn't lack political vigilance.

"This... you are spending so much money, you should probably talk to Watching Wen Leyu and your mother about it!"

"No, this money is being spent by you," Li Ye said, pointing at his father. "All the expenses for the three of them will be counted on your head. You owe it for now, and you will pay it back later."

Li Kaijian's mouth opened, as if he wanted to scold someone, but in the end, he didn't say it.

Why did Li Zhongfa let Li Ye make the decision? Because only Li Ye could arrange things properly!

How strict is the two-child policy these days? If the mainland fines for over-quota births, let alone Li Kaijian's position as deputy factory director, Li Ye might even be implicated. Otherwise, why would Han Chunmei say not to implicate Li Ye?

"I'll pay it back, I'll pay it back. But... it might take many years."

Li Kaijian was a man after all; he gritted his teeth and agreed to Li Ye's request. Even brothers must settle accounts clearly; the child Han Chunmei is carrying is Li Ye's younger brother!

"Sigh,"

Li Ye sighed and said, "I planned it with Watching Wen Leyu a few days ago. Your fertilizer factory can only produce ammonium bicarbonate now; it has no development prospects.

So Watching Wen Leyu found someone to research it and decided to invest in a urea production line for you in the name of the Zhongxin Company. You are responsible for the work, and we will list the profits generated for you separately..."

"No, no, no, just give me a high salary, just like the standard your grandfather has; that's fine. I can't let people laugh at me."

Li Kaijian immediately refused when he heard he had to take money from Watching Wen Leyu's hands; he couldn't afford to lose that face.

"Dad! Do you think this money is for you?"

Li Ye said helplessly, "This money is for them. Li Juan and Li Ying call you Dad, so spending your money is justified. Not to mention if you have another younger brother or sister later."

"But if you let them spend my money, do you think they feel at ease? Won't outsiders gossip? If there's too much gossip, won't family conflicts easily arise?"

"..."

Li Kaijian was stunned for a long time, then suddenly shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"No wonder your grandfather told me to come find you. You little brat really are full of devious ideas."

"..."

【Sigh, I just arranged everything for you, and you've perked up, haven't you? I... forget it, I won't argue with you.】

"If you hadn't agreed to let her give birth, would your father have resented you for the rest of his life? You are his own son, after all."

"If you had agreed to let her give birth, would I be angry? Even if I were angry, what could I do to you? Hmph, they got an extra grandson, but they made my son run around and spend money and effort. What a good calculation."

"..."

Li Ye slowly began to get the taste of it.

【So, the logic of this world has all been figured out by you "old folks," right?】

In this matter, no matter what decision Li Zhongfa and Wu Ju made, they would offend someone—either Li Kaijian or Fu Guiru. Only by letting the kind-hearted Li Ye take the initiative to shoulder the responsibilities of the eldest son and brother could the family remain harmonious.

It seemed like they had given the power of life and death to Li Ye, but in fact... they had long since anticipated what the kind-hearted Li Ye would do. ===== CHAPTER 661 =====