Chapter 263- “I am a man who had died a few times already; this can’t be worse.” (3)
The biggest thing on the two’s mind right now was to go and marry Lili. They went over to Lili’s Xu Bao but, lo and behold, they had flipped sides and refused to engage with them.
“Lili, Lili. C’mon out.” Xu Bao shouted nervously.
“I’ve already told you that our Lili is not home. Get going already.” Mother Lili walked out with a big bucket of water and almost splattered them onto Lao Xu.
“Earlier you said you refused to marry because there is no house. There is a house now, and under your Lili’s name no less. Of course they must get married.” Wu Ailan was anxious too.
“Hrm! I never agreed to it. Your son is never good enough for my daughter. It was all one-sided. Don’t come over again or we will take actions on our part.”
“They don’t need to get married. Just pay us back the 30,000 yuan,” said Lao Xu as he gave Xu Bao a stare when he saw that he was about to say something.
“What 30,000 yuan are you talking about? I have never seen it nor know anything about it. Don’t be making stuff up like that.”
“My son paid 30,000 yuan for that house. That was our money. Either pay us back or marry your daughter.” Wu Ailan felt that everything was starting to turn black in front of her.
“When have you ever given 30,000 to Lili for a house? Can you prove it? We bought the house for Lili. 38,000 yuan in total. The two of us went to the bank to withdraw it and handed it to the seller. Those from the bank and the housing authority witnessed it. We didn’t spend a penny of your money. Stop making stuff up. Look at yourself. Poor, ugly, and doesn’t even have a job. You want to marry Lili? You must be kidding me.”
“Police! I am calling the police.” Wu Ailan was so angry that she was shaking.
“Go right afraid. Do you like I’d care?” Mother Lili wasn’t worried at all.
Lao Xu tugged at Wu Ailan. They had just called the cops and most definitely could not nilly willy call them again. Turning to Xu Bao, he asked. “Where did they buy the house from? Did you see the seller?”
“No. Lili had always been the one in contact with them. She said a relative of hers is in the process of getting a new place so they are selling their old place for cheap. When she found out from me yesterday that we have 30,000 yuan at home, she said she can have her parents come up with the rest so we can buy the house first. I… I was going to go with but Lili wouldn’t let me. I saw the title though,” said Xu Bao, stupefied.
Lao Xu really wanted to slap him across his face. So what if he had saw the title? His name wasn’t on it.
“So you weren’t involved in the entire process?” Wu Ailan could feel her head getting bigger.
“That’s not possible. Lili would never lie to me. Aunty, just tell me where Lili is. Let me go talk to her.” Xu Bao refused to believe that the kind and nice Lili would lie to him.
As they talked, they saw Lili walked over with a man in her arms while chatting and giggling. Xu Bao rushed up to her, his eyes beet red.
The smile disappeared on Lili. Lifting up her chin, she said, “This is my boyfriend and he works at the government. We will be engaging next month. I do not wish to see you again.”
“I am going to kill you both!” Shouted Xu Bao as he rushed up to the two of them.
They didn’t go to the police station earlier but they did now. Even the cops were speechless when they saw the Xu couple and Xu Bao. Xu Bao had his head lowered when he arrived at the police station and told the entire story.
There was nobody else there when he gave the money to Lili, nor was he there when the house was purchased. He had no way to prove that the money was his. There was no contract between them and the money for the house, indeed, came out of Lili’s father’s account. There was no way to prove that he had given the money to Lili. This issue would drag on for a while.
In addition to that, Xu Bao was to be detained for 7 days for beating someone and, if Lili’s boyfriend’s injuries were serious, he could be sued and go to jail.
Both Lao Xu and Wu Ailan were stupefied.
Yingying’s parents had already been out of jail for 3-4 days and still there was nothing.
Shu Yan said during lunch that day, “I don’t think they will dare to come. You don’t need to stick around all day long. You had taken quite a few days off already. I imagine your boss couldn’t be that happy about it. Don’t worry. We have just added two more workers here, plus Xiuxiu and me, there are four of us. The employees of Xianxue across the street can help out too when push come to shove. You don’t think so many of us can take the two of them?”
“Let me have someone look into why they didn’t come. Just be on guard,” said Feng Zeyu.
“That works too.” Shu Yan nodded.
“Lao Liu told me that you are going merchandizing tonight?”
Shu Yan gave him a surprised look. She didn’t think that he would point blank said it out loud that Lao Liu was his spy. Her lips curved upward some and she said, “That’s right. I ran out of many of the styles and need to get some more.”
“I need to go visit Duoduo as well. You don’t mind me tagging along, do you?”
Shu Yan couldn’t shake the feeling that what he said was very loaded.
“I don’t mean anything by it. It really is just a coincidence.”
Shu Yan acknowledged that. “The road will be rough tonight. You still want to go?”
Feng Zeyu’s fists that had been resting on his thighs clenched into fists instantly and he said, “I am a person who had died a few times in the past. Nothing could be as bad as that.”
