Scumbag Handbook

Xiao Le's hesitation and unspoken words aroused the heart of Mrs. Li, who was already fond of random suspicions. She asked anxiously, "What did she say? Did she speak ill of me?"

"How should I put it, there are good and bad," Xiao Le quickly put the phone into his pocket, "I just mentioned some trivial matters, old aunt, don't think too much, I still have something to do at home, I will talk to old aunt later."

"Hey, hey, don't go!"

Mrs. Li grabbed him tightly, her old hands clinging tightly like withered vines, and her somewhat cloudy eyes were full of eagerness.

"Let the old woman listen to it. I won't tell her that you told me."

Xiao Le hesitated.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li raised her hand and swore, "If I tell the story, I will die!"

Dude, this oath cowhide.

Reluctantly, Xiao Le took out his mobile phone and turned on the recording, "This is the conversation between me and my brother, I will fast-forward it, the old aunt can just listen to the latter part."

"Okay, okay," Mrs. Li didn't care what they said, and waited for the recording with her ears pricked up. As soon as she heard a sentence, Mrs. Li's face turned dark.

One is that the voice is indeed Li Ersao's, and the other is that the first paragraph says: My mother-in-law thought I was working in the hospital, and she had resigned for several years, but the people in my hometown didn't know about it, so it was annoying.

The next thing is to complain that the old lady Li and the old man Li are very tight-handed. Every time they make an excuse to ask them to get some money, they have to say it is a loan, but because there is no IOU, they will not have to pay back the money.

Seeing that Mrs. Li was trembling with anger, Xiao Le turned off the recording, and said to her, "That's all, old aunt, don't be angry, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is already difficult. Besides, I heard that Mrs. Li's natal family is good. See It’s normal not to be a farmer.”

Mrs. Li became even more angry.

"However, you really borrowed money, didn't you owe me an IOU?"

Xiao Le looked at her worriedly, "That's your pension money. My parents often say that after all, children have their own homes, it's good for the elderly to have some money in their hands."

"No, who knows they won't pay it back?"

In fact, I also thought about not paying it back, after all, it is not their real private money, it was handed over by the eldest couple, but now Zhang Lijuan has started to make trouble...

When Mrs. Li thought of this, she felt a little out of breath.

"Don't worry," Xiao Le stroked her back twice, and said softly, "It's easy to say, next time they come back, just ask them to issue an IOU, not to mention that they still haven't paid it back. , with IOUs in hand, they are always more filial."

Yes!

This is the handle!

Mrs. Li squinted her eyes and thought about it, Xiao Le took the opportunity to say goodbye.

After the old lady thought it over, she hurried to tell old man Li about it.

In the end, she was scolded by old man Li first, because she told Xiao Le about all the family affairs, and she knew about their affairs only after moving here for a long time.

Later, I felt that Xiao Le's idea was really good.

"In this way, the mouth of the eldest daughter-in-law can be blocked, and the second daughter-in-law can be controlled. This can be done. It happens that the second daughter is coming back this weekend, so let him write."

Old man Li felt that his breathing became a little lighter.

In the evening, Xiao's mother and Xiao's father came to visit, Li Hongbing went to bed after eating, and Li Xiaomei cleaned up the kitchen, so there were only four of them in the main room.

Xiao's mother whispered, "I've heard what Xiao Le said, old sister, you guys are so big-hearted, you can give as much as you want, and give back so much. If there is only one child, it's okay, but there are more children. Doesn't the daughter-in-law think that you are partial?"

"That's right, the eldest daughter-in-law is saying that we are eccentric, and the palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. Where can we be eccentric?"

Mrs. Li's words made Xiao's mother smile, and then Xiao's father took out a black and white paper, "This is an IOU written by us. It only needs to fill in the amount, the date of borrowing, and the date of repayment."

"My husband used to do a little work in this area, so I asked him to write one. I don't know if you can use it. This is a professional loan IOU and has legal effect."

Xiao's mother said, and handed the paper to Mrs. Li, who took it carefully, "Oh, you are still thoughtful!"

"Thank you, thank you," Old Man Li also thanked.

"They are all neighbors, so what do you say?"

Mother Xiao and the others left after finishing their work.

When I got home, Mother Xiao asked Xiao Le, "You child, you have a lot of ideas, but this family is really outrageous. The old man borrowed money from the elder son to the younger son, saying it was a loan. In fact, if there is no such thing as the younger sister leaving , I’m afraid it was given directly.”

It's just to stop Zhang's family's mouth and save face.

But after Xiao Le listened to the recording for Mrs. Li, this face became a real money saver.

After all, the second daughter-in-law who was too nice in their eyes didn't seem to be so filial.

This pillow wind will affect the second child's filial piety to them.

In the final analysis, the old couple loves themselves the most, followed by the second and third, and the eldest is the last.

On Friday afternoon, Mo Cheng saw Li Hongbing sitting on the path eating cucumbers picked from his own field, and he walked over, "Why don't you go home and drink water?"

"Drink it all," Li Hongbing pointed to the big water glass next to him. "Actually, it's the same as going to the river to drink. The water in our country is clear, but we are used to drinking cold boiled water. If you don't have it, you can eat cucumbers."

He is not picky at all.

After Li Hongbing finished speaking, he remembered what Mo Cheng had said about him being pitiful before, and he thought of Zhang Lijuan who had not contacted him, so he asked in a muffled voice, "You...you said I was pitiful before, remember?"

"Remember," Mo Cheng clasped his hands and looked sideways at him.

"Why do you feel sorry for me?"

Li Hongbing continued to question.

"Listen to the truth?"

"Of course!"

Mo Cheng was silent for a while, and then asked, "Then how do you think your life is going? Evaluate yourself."

Li Hongbing, who was asked back, took another bite of cucumber, and said after a while: "Before I got married, I was out of work all day, just taking care of my younger siblings. After I got married, I was full of energy. After I had children, I felt more like myself I am the happiest person in the world, now my parents are in good health, and my children are growing up healthily, if... Lijuan's incident didn't happen, I think I am very happy."

"Where is happiness? Is it because I work in the dark every day, and I can't spare any time to spend time with my wife and children, and even drag them to work together, or I don't have any money in my hand, and I have saved money." , but cannot be manipulated at will.”

What Mo Cheng said made Li Hongbing want to refute.

But Mo Cheng didn't give him time to refute, and continued, "Put it in another way, if I were a sister-in-law, before I married you, my parents were loving, and my elder brother was very kind to me, and I have what my elder brother has."

"After I marry you, I will not talk about working with you every day. Since I am married to you, I am willing to endure hardships and stand hard work with you, but my in-laws don't like me. Compared with my uncle and sister-in-law, my in-laws are also the worst. Like my husband."

"It's hard to have a child, but in the eyes of my parents-in-law, the children of my uncle's family are the ones they like the most. They don't care much about our children, and they have to take charge of our small family's income. Every time they get sick, or want to give me When parents buy something, they can’t even find a red coin in their pockets.”

Mo Cheng's voice gradually became heavy.

"And my husband only knows how to work every day, he only knows how to be filial to his parents, he should do what his parents say, and even his daughter listens to the patriarchal sayings of the old man when she is studying. She has good grades, but you want her Studying at work."

"I do not...."

"Didn't you agree?"

Li Hongbing covered his head, and also remembered what Zhang Lijuan said crying that day. He had heard their mother and son discussing...

"I'm a sister-in-law, and I divorced you a long time ago," Mo Cheng said mercilessly, "She also persisted because she hated you and the child, but now you have given up on your own child, she can accept it Is this you?"

No, so she chose to shoulder that responsibility by herself.

When Li Hongbing came back to his senses, Mo Cheng had already left for a long time.

He sat there until it was dark, and the mosquitoes didn't feel itchy when they bit him.

"Dad, why don't you go home?"

When the light of the flashlight shone on him, Li Hongbing suddenly felt that his body, which was hot and uncomfortable from being bitten by mosquitoes, suddenly felt comfortable.

He turned his head and saw that it was indeed Li Xiaomei.

"How did you come?"

"Why did I come here?" Li Xiaomei resisted the urge to roll her eyes, "I didn't go home after dark, can I not worry? It's just my grandparents urging me to eat, and I'm already eating."

Li Hongbing pursed his lips and waved to Li Xiaomei, "Come, sit here."

Li Xiaomei always thinks he is weird, but she doesn't want to go back so early, she misses her mother a little, and when she misses her, she doesn't want to see the family.

So Li Xiaomei sat down next to Li Hongbing.

"Is there anything you want to say to me?"

Li Xiaomei asked.

"Little sister, let's go to the police station tomorrow to ask about the name change."

Li Hongbing's words were like a thunderbolt, which struck Li Xiaomei.

She was a little dazed, more afraid, "Do you not want me to study anymore?"

"No, no," Li Hongbing saw her misunderstood, and quickly waved his hands, "I just want to change your name."

"Really?"

"real."

"Don't lie to me again."

"it is good."

It was rare for the father and daughter to sit together and talk like this, and they didn't go home until around eight o'clock.

When passing by Xiao's house, he saw Xiao Le and the others grilling fish, and Xiao's father had grilled a piece of fish, so he quickly asked Xiao Le to take it to eat.

"Slow down, be careful it's hot."

Xiao Le was still eating baked rice cakes, so he could only nod upon hearing this.

Xiao's mother brought cold beer, behind him was Mo Cheng, who came over with a glass.

The small table in the yard was full of food. Seeing Li Xiaomei and the others, Xiao's mother warmly greeted them, and forced them to eat some barbecue before letting them go.

When Li Hongbing left, Xiao Le accidentally burned his hand, and was surrounded by Xiao's father and Xiao's mother, and Mo Cheng also brought ointment.

But seeing that Mo Cheng had a wound on his finger, Xiao's mother and Xiao's father started talking about him again.

The family is so warm and harmonious.

Li Hongbing looked away, and went home with Li Xiaomei. The food was cold, and no one cleaned up the table. Old man Li and old lady Li were watching TV. Seeing them coming back so late, they complained.

No one cared why Li Hongbing came back late.

Li Xiaomei has long been used to it, so she rolled up her sleeves and went to clear the table, "Dad, I'll heat it up again, and you can eat some more."

In the Xiao family, Li Hongbing was embarrassed to eat too much, and naturally he was not full.

"it is good."

Li Hongbing nodded, helped clear the table, then ate another meal in the kitchen, and lay on the bed at night, unable to fall asleep.

The next day, with dark circles under her eyes, she took Li Xiaomei out early in the morning.

When they came back in the afternoon, Mrs. Li was eating watermelon at Xiao's house and talking to Xiao's mother.

Xiao Le was also among them, and Mo Cheng was in a place where the swings were not very secure.

I didn't see Father Xiao.

When they got home, they found that Father Xiao was at Li's house.

Father Xiao was talking about feng shui with old man Li, and both of them believed it a little bit, but no, they couldn't stop once they opened their mouths.

Seeing them come back, Xiao's father casually asked where they had gone, but Li Hongbing didn't hide anything, "Take my younger sister to the police station to ask about the name change."

"It's okay to change your name. Although my little sister sounds good, it's like a nickname. When you come to a big city, this name is familiar, but it will be better to change it."

I wanted to say that some nasty people like to make jokes about the name of "little sister", but I thought that the simple farmers might not know this kind of joke, so I changed my mouth.

"What are you fussing about, isn't my little sister also very good?"

After Xiao's father left, old man Li complained, "For such a small matter, today's work was delayed for a long time."

"I'll help!"

Before Li Hongbing could speak, Li Xiaomei hurriedly said, "I will help with the work."

The old man Li glanced at him, then looked at the silent Li Hongbing, and suddenly said, "Hongbing, come in, I have a word with you."

"Dad, you promised me to change my name."

Li Xiaomei grabbed the corner of Li Hongbing's clothes nervously.

"If you want to change it, I won't lie to you."

When Li Hongbing came to the main room, the old man Li pointed to the stool next to him. After he sat down, the old man Li said, "Don't worry about Xiang Kang's mother, she will be back sooner or later. We gave the second child some money, but the money is an IOU, and they don't just take it away..."

After Li Xiaomei finished eavesdropping, she went back to her room and used her "old and poor" mobile phone to send the content of their conversation to Li Xiangkang.

Li Xiangkang was packing up his things and was about to go home in the afternoon. When he heard that his "old poor boy" had a text message, he picked it up and looked at it. After reading it, he sneered and replied, "I'll be back in the afternoon."

When Li Xiangkang came back, it was almost dark.

Coincidentally, as soon as he arrived at the creek, he saw his second uncle and two cousins ​​crossing the creek with big bags on their backs.

There were two people standing not far away, one taller and the other, the taller one saw him first and waved at him.

Li Xiangkang took a closer look, and it turned out that they were the two young uncles of the Xiao family.

He quickened his pace, greeted Li Hongwen and the others, then passed them, and walked in front of Xiao Le with a big bag on his back.

"Little sister said you are coming back today." Xiao Le smiled and looked at the swarthy boy, "We made braised pork ribs tonight, let's have dinner at our house and call my little sister."

Li Xiangkang glanced at the three people behind him.

"I'm so grown up, I don't know how to cook? What are they doing?" Xiao Le's words made Li Xiangkang smile.

"it is good!"

So the three left quickly without waiting for Li Hongwen and the others to approach.

It was getting dark today, and Li Hongwen couldn't see clearly with his glasses on, "Apart from Li Xiangkang, who are those two?"

"I don't know him, maybe it's the new Xiao family uncle that Mom said, Dad, do we have to spend the summer vacation here?"

"Yeah, I want to go home."

Li Xiangfa and Li Xiangcai complained one after another, and Li Hongwen comforted them softly, "You can eat bacon and sausage when you get home. Didn't you say that the bacon smoked by my aunt is the best?"

"But didn't mom say that my aunt is gone?"

"People are gone, but the bacon is here, let's go faster and go back to eat earlier."

Passing by the door of Xiao's house, they saw that the door of the main room was closed. The three of them took a look, and then walked towards the path.

When I got home, I found that there were only old man Li and his wife in the house, and they were watching TV.

One holds a watermelon and eats there.

There was no movement in the kitchen, let alone food, and there was not even a sip of boiling water.

"Mom and Dad, where is Xiang Kang? He was walking in front of us just now, why didn't he see anyone?"

Li Hongwen asked while holding back his hunger.

"Oh, just now Xiao Le came over and told them to go over for dinner. He said it was an appointment to meet for a while. Are you hungry? I'll go cook."

Mrs. Li got up and said.

The faces of Li Hongwen and the two children were wrinkled, and the food cooked by Mrs. Li was unpalatable.

"dad....."

Li Hongwen, who was watched by the child, could only twitch the corners of his mouth, "It's rare to go home, so I'll make it for my parents."

Of course the two elders are happy.

And here Li Hongbing was also temporarily pulled over by Xiao Le, Mo Cheng took out the beer, Xiao's mother took the drink, and several people ate around the big round table.

Li Xiangkang was very sweet, and made Xiao's mother and Xiao's father amused.

Li Xiaomei was rather shy, she had eaten early, and she was doing the questions next to her, while Li Hongbing was being given alcohol by Mo Cheng and Xiao Le.

When they left, it was Li Xiangkang and Mo Cheng who helped him back.

The drunk Li Hongbing kept calling Zhang Lijuan's name.

It was so loud that it could be heard in almost every room.

The old man's sleep was not good, which caused Mrs. Li to yell and scold him several times.

On the way, only Li Xiangkang got up and fed him water several times and wiped his sweat.

Li Hongbing remembered all these things when he got up, he was conscious and couldn't control his body.

After sitting on the bed for a long time, Li Hongbing suddenly lay down again.

He didn't get up, and Li Xiaomei and Li Xiangkang were called by Xiao Le to Xiao's home to cook early in the morning. Mrs. Li and Old Man Li saw that no one was cooking, and the two children of the second family were hungry, so they knocked on Li Hongbing's door.

Li Hongbing sat up, and after waiting for a while, he lay down again.

This is the first time pretending to sleep.

"I just know how to drink! Second child, why don't you do it, we really want to eat the noodles you cook."

Li Hongwen has always been a "filial" child, so he naturally rolled up his sleeves and cooked noodles.

Just when the noodles were about to be served, Li Hongbing got up, with his messy hair, "Help me a big bowl."

After speaking, I went to wash my face and brush my teeth.

Li Hongwen squeezed his chopsticks, "Brother also drinks too much, it hurts his health and makes the old man worry."

"Except for Xiang Kang, no one came to see me last night," Li Hongbing twisted his facekerchief, and replied softly, "I got drunk and made the old lady scold me, I remember."

Li Hongwen felt a little guilty, because his two children also scolded a few words.

While eating noodles, old man Li said to Li Hongbing, "The two children went to Xiao's house again?"

"Ah."

Li Hongbing nodded.

"When we go to eat and drink at other people's homes, what do they think of us? You have to take care of these two children. Xiang Kang is so old, why is he still like my little sister?"

"Ah."

Li Hongbing continued to nod.

Seeing that he was not in the right mood, Li Hongwen smiled and said, "Dad, this is actually quite good. I heard that Uncle Xiao is a high school math teacher. No, I also want to ask Uncle Xiao to help teach Xiang Fa and Xiang Fa later." fiscal."

"Speaking of this, second child," old man Li put down the bowl and looked at him, "what's the matter with your wife?"

"what?"

"Someone saw her working in that big supermarket in Dongqiao, why didn't she work as a nurse?"

Mrs. Li asked.

Li Hongwen didn't expect them to know about this, but he would be seen by the villagers sooner or later, so he replied calmly, "Her salary is three to four thousand now, we plan to buy a house, and we can't live in the old man's house all the time, otherwise The village should say that I am the door-to-door son-in-law."

You have lived here for so many years, and now you feel embarrassed?

Li Hongbing didn't know why, and wanted to complain about this sentence, but he didn't say it.

"The salary is not bad," Mrs. Li remembered the other party's arrangement of her own words. When the boss was unhappy and wanted to say something, the old man Li glanced at the two grandsons who were buried in noodles, and gave Mrs. Li a look.

Only then did Mrs. Li stop talking.

"Parents said that you borrowed their pension money and issued an IOU?"

No one expected Li Hongbing to say such a sentence suddenly.

The smile on Li Hongwen's face froze, he looked at his parents, IOU?What IOU?

The old man Li, who was afraid of things getting worse, nodded again and again, "Of course, I misunderstood Mrs. Kang, thinking that the money we gave my second child for nothing was an IOU, right?"

He winked at Li Hongwen, although he didn't know what was going on, but now Li Hongwen could only nod.

"Yes, we issued an IOU. Why, sister-in-law misunderstood? Speaking of which, when will sister-in-law come back? This family is full of work. "

"do not know."

Li Hongbing picked up the empty bowl and went to the kitchen.

"He's thinking about Xiang Kang's mother in his heart. It's not like you haven't heard the nagging for the past two days. It's louder than a female cat in heat. Don't take it to heart."

Old man Li comforted Li Hongwen, who was not very pretty.

In the past, the boss didn't have this attitude towards the second child. It can be seen that after hearing what Zhang Lijuan said, he felt that they gave the money to the second child. Fortunately, there was an IOU.

So after dinner, Mrs. Li went to wash the dishes. Old man Li took out the IOU and asked Li Hongwen to write it.

"I've asked everything clearly. You write the amount of money here, and the dates of borrowing and repayment here, and then sign and stamp it."

Li Hongwen:......

If this is really signed, wouldn't the money really have to be paid back?

"Brother Hongbing, I want to ask you for help."

Mo Cheng walked into the courtyard and said to Li Hongbing who was doing the laundry.

Li Hongbing took last night's dirty clothes to wash, raised his head upon hearing this, "Say."

The arrival of Mo Cheng made old man Li nervous, and urged Li Hongwen to sign quickly.

Li Hongwen couldn't think of a way to refuse for a while, so he could only manipulate the amount.

But before writing, Old Man Li said, "The total is 500 yuan, let's write."

Li Hongwen: ...

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