Rebirth of the Unworthy

Chapter 70

For children, setting off fireworks and firecrackers is always something to be happy about.However, the youngest of the Li family's Rongzi generation brothers and sisters is Li Rongxiu, and there are no younger children.

Not to mention that Li Rongxiu lived to be more than twenty years old in his previous life, even if he didn't, for some people, setting off fireworks during the Chinese New Year would not be very attractive.

Therefore, most of the fireworks and firecrackers of the Li family were set off by the servants of the family on the platform in front of the court. Everyone stood under the eaves and talked and laughed for a while, and then went back to the hall to watch the new year.

The second grandmother, Wang Qiong, did not forget to remind the servants to sweep up the debris after the fire, because the old house of the Li family is a relatively old wooden and masonry structure, and there are many grasses and trees planted in the front and back yards. If it is contaminated with spark particles, I'm afraid it will leak out.

Following the servants who watched the year, they responded one by one, and carefully swept up the fireworks and firecrackers in front of the court, and then piled them up on the left and right sides of the courtyard with snow, and then checked carefully to see that there were no omissions, before returning to the house Watch TV, play mahjong and cook dumplings.

As Li Rongxiu's classmate, Shen Yujun was arranged by Wang Qiong to sit next to Li Rongxiu at the table of Rong's generation during the New Year's Eve dinner.

This was the first time in his memory that he had a New Year's Eve dinner with so many "family members".When Shen Lixue was alive, every new year, he and Shen Lixue were the only ones making dumplings for dinner.Shen Yujun once felt lonely and desolate, so he asked Shen Lixue ignorantly why he didn't have a father or family.Later, when Shen Lixue cried, he stopped asking.

Later, Shen Lixue was forced to death by members of the Wang family, and the old man of the Shen family took him to the Shen family because of his reputation.It's just that everyone in the Shen family felt that he was an unlucky person, and they restricted the younger generations of the family from interacting with him on weekdays, and he was not allowed to sit on the table during festivals, let alone enter the ancestral hall.

Shen Yujun never felt that the Shen family who had driven his mother to death were his relatives, until later he was taken over by the Li family's uncle to the Alie family, and the Alie family did not have the habit of celebrating the Spring Festival.So for the first time in so many years, Shen Yujun felt the atmosphere of a family gathering around the table for a New Year's Eve dinner.

The chicken, duck and fish were brought up, and the hot dumplings were brought up. Grandpa Li Xizhao took a dumpling and bit it slowly, and the others started to move their chopsticks.Li Rongxiu moved closer to Shen Yujun, and said with a smile, "This is called Bite Chun."

The hot breath sprayed on his ears, and Shen Yujun only felt that half of his body was itchy.When I looked at Li Rongxiu again, I found that he was not in a hurry to eat the dumplings, but put them on the small plate in front of him, opened them with chopsticks, stirred them, and pouted in disappointment.Moved the broken dumplings to Li Rongyu's bowl.

Li Rongyu glanced at Li Rongxiu with a smile in his eyes, picked up the dumplings and ate them silently.

Noticing Shen Yujun's curious gaze, Li Rongxiu said secretly, "I'll see if I can get some copper coins."

When making dumplings, Mo Wanrou and Wang Qiong once stuffed a few copper wallets that were said to be passed down from their ancestors into the dumplings. Shen Yujun also saw it. He knew that some people pay attention to this kind of auspicious omen when they eat dumplings at the big banquet.But he didn't expect that Li Rongxiu would act so foolishly in order to get the copper coins.

Of course, I never thought that Li Rongyu, who seemed rigid and indifferent, would indulge his brother to such an extent.

Seeing this scene, Shen Yujun's heart sank slightly, and he felt that it was more difficult to realize his plan to take Li Rongxiu away.

So when Li Rongxiu broke open the second and third dumplings but found no copper coins, Shen Yujun took the initiative to move the small saucer filled with soy sauce and vinegar.Signal Li Rongxiu to move the broken dumpling to him.

Li Rongxiu said with some embarrassment: "That's not good, you can eat the cooked ones yourself. I can eat half of mine, and I will give the other half to my brother."

Shen Yujun heard the words with a smile, and said, "I'm a cat's tongue, and I don't like to eat things that are too hot. You stirred the stuffing to dissipate the heat, and it's just right for me to eat."

This excuse is quite thoughtful, but Li Rongxiu still thinks it is not good to do so.After all, Shen Yujun's situation is different from Li Rongyu's, and he is not the brother of his own siblings.There's no need to be so used to yourself.

Seeing Li Rongxiu's hesitation, Shen Yujun simply stretched out his chopsticks and grabbed all the dumplings from Li Rongxiu's bowl.

Seeing this, Li Rongxiu ignored it.

On the contrary, Li Rongyu and Li Rongjia looked over thoughtfully.Li Ronghao and Li Rongmei are not familiar with Dafang's children, let alone their classmates.I just feel that things of a kind flock together and people are divided into groups. Li Rongxiu has been spoiled by his family, and he didn't expect to make such weird friends.

After eating a few dumplings that were broken by Li Rongxiu, Shen Yujun also moved the chopsticks to the plate.It's not that he doesn't want to continue eating, but he's just afraid that if he does it blindly, it will leave too many traces, which will be bad.

It's just that as soon as he picked up a dumpling with his chopsticks, he keenly felt that the weight of this dumpling was different from other dumplings he had eaten.Thanks to those months of family trials, Shen Yujun is now very sensitive to many life-threatening matters.

He put the dumpling to Li Rongxiu calmly, and said with a smile: "After eating so many dumplings from you, I will borrow flowers to present Buddha and pick one for you."

Li Rongxiu didn't take it seriously, and continued his "point breaking" career with Shen Yujun's dumplings. Unexpectedly, the chopsticks just pierced the outer skin and penetrated into the stuffing, and felt the tip of the chopsticks touched something hard. Li Rongxiu was overjoyed, Quickly peeled off the dumpling stuffing, and saw a clean Kangxi Tongbao lying on a small plate, Li Rongxiu laughed and said, "I've got copper coins!"

Everyone smiled when they heard the words, Second Grandpa Li Xisu said with a smile: "It's hard for you to find out so quickly this year, it seems that Rong Yu doesn't have to eat dumplings until he's full."

Li Rongxiu smiled, picked up the copper coin and put it in a clean small plate, then divided the dumpling into two, ate half by himself and gave the other half to Shen Yujun with his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "You picked the dumpling for me, If you eat copper coins, you will share half of your luck."

Shen Yujun looked at Li Rongxiu's smiley face, then lowered his head and ate half of the dumpling with the chopsticks Li Rongxiu raised.Don't forget to say: "Thank you."

Li Rongyu, who was sitting on the side, looked over calmly, but felt a little apprehensive.It's just because in the past few years, the one who shared the dumplings with the younger brother was himself, the older brother.Now it has been robbed--

Sure enough, this boy Shen Yujun is cunning and hateful, he is not a good person!

After Li Rongxiu ate a copper coin, he immediately ate the dumplings peacefully.In fact, he felt hungry a long time ago, but he had been thinking about eating blessings before, so he had been distracted and had no time to eat.

This time he was enjoying the dumplings without distraction, but Li Rongyu worriedly said: "Eat slowly, and be careful that you will get your throat stuck in the copper coins."

"Impossible, how can I have such good luck." The reason why Li Rongxiu chose this wonderful way to "sieve copper coins" is actually because he has no choice.Because whether it was the 20-plus years in his previous life or the few years in this life, he has always had bad luck in eating copper coins.

If there is no such cheating behavior, Li Rongxiu's longest record is that he has not received copper coins for 12 consecutive years.People in the world don't worry about scarcity but inequality. It is conceivable how Li Rongxiu longs for copper coins.

Sure enough, in the next period of time, Li Rongxiu ate more than twenty or thirty dumplings in two mouthfuls, but he didn't get any more copper coins.Instead, Shen Yujun caught another dumpling with a copper coin and asked him to present it to his brother-in-law Li Rongyu courteously.

Later, Li Rongyu caught another dumpling with a copper coin, Li Ronghao also ate one, and the elders at the other two tables ate the rest.

Li Rongxiu, who was watching, complained, "Look at it. I knew it would happen."

After eating a meal, it was past two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the dishes were cold.The servants who were still accompanying the host's house to watch the old age came forward to change the remnants of the seats, and put dried fruits, fruits, various snacks, tea and wine on the table.Everyone gathers together to eat melon seeds and cook for the new year.

So the adults' mahjong tables and chess and cards were set up again.Li Rongxiu didn't like to play mahjong or chess, so he encouraged his brothers, "Why don't we play online games. Let's pass the time for the next dungeon."

While talking, I saw Li Rongmei's phone ringing non-stop.Li Rongmei picked up the phone and avoided going out.Li Rongxiu looked intently at Li Rongmei's sneaky appearance, Li Ronghao also joked with a smile: "The phone calls are frequent enough these days, could it be a relationship?"

After finishing speaking, he asked Li Rongxiu and others for details.Li Rongxiu said: "I usually have to go to class, my elder brother and my second brother both have to go to work, and I don't have much contact with Sister Rongmei...but she is like this now, it really looks like she is in a relationship."

Hearing this, Li Ronghao took a meaningful look at Li Rongxiu, then pointed at his sister-in-law Li Bingyue who was playing mahjong with his sister-in-law secretly, but smiled and said nothing.

Li Rongxiu also had a headache because of this.He didn't want the incident where his sister-in-law made a big fuss in Wancheng's old house in his previous life to happen again.As the saying goes, I would rather die as a fellow Taoist than die as a poor Taoist. If the matter involves Grandpa, even if I am a little sorry for Li Rongmei, he can't take care of it so much——

At best, she can find a way so that she will not marry in the capital for the rest of her life.

Li Rongyu and Li Rongjia who were sitting on the sofa were a little strange that Li Rongxiu cared so much about Li Rongmei's relationship.According to Li Rongxiu's personality of refusing to help when the oil bottle is down, when has he been so active before?What's more, Li Rongxiu's actions in the past six months did not reveal that he valued Li Rongmei very much - the birthday party he held for her was to fight Chi Junrui and Shen Manyao.

So his current behavior is really puzzling.

However, Li Rongxiu has always been leisurely, and often does some ridiculous things to pass the time.So even if everyone was surprised, they didn't diverge their thoughts to other places, they just thought that Li Rongxiu was bored again.Li Rongyu thought about it, and decided to warn him when no one was around, not to play pranks on Li Rongmei.She may not be able to stand Li Rongxiu's prank.

For a moment Li Rongmei answered the phone and came back with a sweet smile on her face.Li Rongxiu thought about it, and asked straight to the point: "Cousin, are you in a relationship?"

Li Rongmei was startled when she heard this, and quickly looked at Li Bingyue who was playing mahjong.Seeing that Li Bingyue was busy picking cards and didn't seem to notice the movement here, he smiled and said perfunctorily: "I have only been in school for a long time, and the schedule is so tight, how can I have the time to make friends."

Li Rongxiu nodded when he heard this, and said casually: "That's good—cousin, you come to Wancheng to study, and my sister-in-law asked our family to take care of you. My cousin also understands my sister-in-law's thoughts, so I don't need to say more. If Cousin, if you don’t fall in love according to my aunt’s wishes, I’m afraid that my aunt will turn her anger on us, saying that we don’t care about you, and don’t even care about the kind of friends you usually make.”

When Li Rongmei was told, her face turned red and white, very embarrassed.

Li Rongyu and Li Rongjia frowned, feeling that it was impolite for Li Rongxiu to be so persistent.Just about to change the subject, Li Rongxiu continued: "Cousin, don't blame me for being troublesome. It's because you just arrived in Wancheng and don't know much about the personnel there. If grandma and my mother will help you, You can always know the details of the people you associate with. But if you keep hiding it, it may be irreversible until my sister-in-law finds out about it, and it will be difficult for us to help you talk."

Li Rongyu saw that the more Li Rongxiu said, the more he didn't look like it, so he hurriedly said: "Didn't you just say that you want to play games, why don't you go to the computer quickly, what are you talking about here?"

Li Rongxiu shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly, got up and said to Shen Yujun: "My computer is in the suitcase, you can go upstairs with me."

Shen Yujun was so eager for this, he quickly stood up, looked at Li Rongyu and Li Rongjia and said, "Can you help me get the notebooks of Brother Rong Yu and the second brother of the Rong family."

Before Li Rongjia could speak, Li Rongyu had already stood up and said, "No, I'll go upstairs with you."

Li Rongxiu knew that his elder brother was going to teach him a lesson again, he stuck out his tongue behind everyone's back, and went upstairs.

When turning the corner, without waiting for Li Rongyu to speak, he said directly: "What I said just now was for everyone's benefit. Brother, you also know my sister's temper. If Cousin Rongmei really finds an unsatisfactory cousin behind everyone's back Brother-in-law, other people can do it, my sister-in-law will definitely eat our family raw."

At that time, their big house will not be in good hands, and they will be blamed instead.

Li Rongyu doesn't know Li Bingyue's temperament.It's just how to say what to say and how to do what to do.No matter what, what Li Rongxiu said just now was too hasty.It makes people feel uncomfortable.

"The more you are in the family, the more you should pay attention to the tone of your words. Otherwise, you are obviously kind, but you will create suspicion. Not to mention that our eldest family is impatient, but it seems that our eldest family looks down on their second wife. I am in a hurry to get rid of the relationship." Li Rongyu said, looked at Li Rongxiu helplessly, and said: "You have been loved by your parents and elders since you were a child, and I, as an older brother, also feel very good to you. But you have to understand, it is not Everyone grows up as wanton as you, and not everyone can be infinitely tolerant to you like your parents. So you should pay attention when you speak, because verbal disputes and grudges are the most stupid things in the world. "

Li Rongxiu didn't think so in his heart, but he nodded obediently and said: "I see."

When Li Rongyu saw Li Rongxiu's appearance, he knew that he didn't take his words to heart.But on New Year's Eve, he didn't want to make his brother unhappy because of an outsider, so he didn't say anything further.He only secretly glanced at Shen Yujun who was silent beside him, then went back to his room and took out the laptop.

Of course, Shen Yujun knew why Li Rongyu had said such a long talk to Li Rongxiu in front of him.So when the brother-in-law left Li Rongxiu and returned to his room, he said to Li Rongxiu, "If you are worried about your cousin, you can directly ask the people on the website to find out who she has been in close contact with, and then find a reason to call her." It's over if someone casually leaks it to your sister-in-law. Why bother to have so many things happen, it's not too much trouble."

Li Rongxiu waved his hand and said: "You don't know that my sister-in-law is the most difficult person. If she got the news from other places, she would also rely on the poor care of our elder sister, and then come The old house is making a lot of noise. My grandfather has high blood pressure, and his heart has not been very good in recent years. What if she comes to make a scene and make my grandfather hospitalized. Isn't this something that can't be done?"

Seeing that Li Rongxiu was so swearing, Shen Yujun couldn't persuade him anymore.He smiled again and said: "In this case, when we find out the details of the person who was in contact with your cousin, if it is good, we can find an excuse to praise him a little bit more in front of your sister-in-law while everyone is there." Sentence. Your sister-in-law is so smart, how can she not understand. At worst, your eldest wife will support him a little later. If this person is not good, then we will discuss it in the long run. "

Li Rongxiu thought about it, and felt that Shen Yujun's method was very good, so he smiled and said, "That's fine, then I'll put a message on the top of the website first."

Seeing this, Shen Yujun sat on the edge of the bed and waited for Li Rongxiu to work.

After finishing his work for a while, Li Rongxiu opened the suitcase and took out the computer bag, and said, "Let's go downstairs."

So everyone got together and played online games for hours.They didn't go back to their rooms until the next morning, after hastily eating porridge and rice, washed up and went to bed.

When Li Rongxiu woke up again, he was awakened by the sound of firecrackers.Turning his head to look at the electronic watch on the bedside table, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.No wonder every family set off firecrackers.

Li Rongxiu sat on the bed with the quilt in his arms and woke up for a while, then slowly put on his slippers and went down to the ground.After brushing his teeth, washing his face, and taking a shower, half an hour later, Li Rongxiu, who looked brand new, came out of the bathroom.Pulling back the tightly-blocked curtains, I saw heavy snow falling one after another outside.The heavy snow lasted all night, drifting between the sky and the earth like rubbing cotton, rendering the ridges, walls, flowers, trees, railings and the earth pure white.The whole world is instantly like a box wrapped in silver.

There was a knock on the door from outside the door, three times, three times, the sound was neither loud nor soft, not hurried, very restrained.

Li Rongxiu turned around to open the door, only to see Shen Yujun, who was completely dressed, standing at the door with a smile, holding a palm treasure in his hand.Smiling at Li Rongxiu: "There is already news about what you want to investigate. How about it, isn't it slow?"

Li Rongxiu raised his eyebrows, but did not answer Shen Yujun's words.He just took the palm treasure in his hand and looked through it carefully.

Regarding this first love of his cousin, Li Rongxiu in his previous life actually had an impression.Because at the time of his rebirth, this hard-working man who was beaten by his sister-in-law Li Bingyue has become an upstart in the upper class of the evening city after years of hard work.And a successful career and a happy family.He often went to various public places to show his affection with his wife, so that everyone in the empire knew that Wancheng had such a gentle and elegant husband and a good father.

And his subsidiary, because of the successful financing, was officially listed on the Federal New York Stock Exchange.

For a while, in the era when no matter what industry is connected to the Internet in later generations, cousin Li Rongmei's first love Huang Zhengxuan and his Internet technology company, under the advocacy of the major media, are really in the limelight.

In Li's father's words, although it is not as good as the background of the rich and powerful families in Wancheng, the unstoppable energy to ride the wind and waves with the characteristics of the times is enough to make people admire.

However, Li Rongxiu disagrees with the online propaganda that Huang Zhengxuan and his wife are model couples.In the previous life, those new media also advocated that Chi Junrui and Shen Manyao were true love.So what?Before Yao Pingting died, Shen Manyao was at best a mistress with a better family background.Even though Chi Junrui was married to Shen Manyao at the time of Yao Pingting, the scandals between Chi Junrui and the female stars still did not decrease.

It can be seen that the title of "model couple" has never been the same in their circle.

Gossip less.It is only said that in the information displayed by the palm treasure, Huang Zhengxuan, who will be a man of the hour more than ten years later, is a graduate student at Wancheng University, has also begun to show his business tentacles that are different from ordinary people.

Li Rongxiu held the treasure in his hand and meditated silently on the bed for a long time, thinking about how to "unobtrusively" reveal the existence of this person to his sister-in-law Li Bingyue when he was eating later.

Shen Yujun looked at Li Rongxiu's embarrassment, smiled leisurely, and said, "What's the embarrassment? I remember that you set up an education fund last year in order to win the title of the best student in the emperor's evening. Mainly Responsible for providing tuition and living expenses for those outstanding students to go to Ivy League universities for further study, as well as research and development funds for students to start their own businesses and establish projects. Anyway, this Huang Zhengxuan is also busy attracting investment for his electronic trading website. I took a look at his profile , that electronic trading website should have a good future. Anyway, your Li family is not short of the 100 million federal currency. Besides, it is not enough for you to pay real money now—you just say that you think his website is very good. He has a future, so it’s enough to pay attention to this person.”

Li Rongxiu thought about it, and felt that the excuse Shen Yujun provided was really good.Besides, he has memories from his previous life, and knows that although Huang Zhengxuan is having a very difficult time attracting investment, ten years from now, a mere 100 million federal currency will not even be able to buy one percent of this website.

Moreover, for the business model of online transactions gradually developed in later generations, the significance of having such an electronic online transaction platform is not measured by money.

It is said that the mysterious investor behind Huang Zhengxuan in his previous life made a lot of money in one fell swoop with the investment of 100 million federal coins.However, in Huang Zhengxuan's words, the smooth development of his electronic trading website is also due to the unique vision and wise decision-making of the mysterious investor.

Thinking of this, Li Rongxiu suddenly looked at Shen Yujun with a strange expression.Although the investors behind Huang Zhengxuan in his previous life always kept a low profile in front of the media.But some news is hard to hide from a business family like the Li family.If he remembered correctly, it seemed that the investor behind Huang Zhengxuan's Internet technology company in his previous life was none other than the new head of the Ariel family, Wendicatore Ariel.

Noticing Li Rongxiu's sizing up more and more strangely, Shen Yujun asked inexplicably, "What do you see me doing?"

"Nothing." Li Rongxiu shook his head and asked directly, "Do you want to invest in the electronic trading website in Huang Zhengxuan's hands?"

Shen Yujun nodded and said with a smile: "I really think this project is good. However, there are several Internet companies that I value, so it's not a must. If you like it, it's okay for you to invest in it."

Hearing this, Li Rongxiu smiled at Shen Yujun.He muttered to himself.

The earliest pillar industry of Li's Meihua is Meihua Department Store.To some extent, both department stores and online electronic transactions belong to the retail industry, and they also have something in common.However, the Li family has previously been involved in traditional industries such as real estate, infrastructure projects, automobiles, and department stores.Even though Li Rongyu once opened a financial venture capital company when he was studying in the Federation, but because of the Internet economic bubble in the previous few years of the empire, many businessmen lost their fortunes and went bankrupt.As a result, the well-established business families in Wancheng dared not get involved in the Internet industry easily, and missed this golden time.When everyone sees the benefits of the Internet economy and squeezes into this industry again... To put it bluntly, although relying on strong capital can grab some benefits, the biggest fat has long been taken away by foreign financial venture capitalists .

If in this life, I can promote Meihua Department Store to enter the Internet industry earlier, I can quickly make up for the sales gap in this area before other aristocratic families have noticed.As for whether to pick up on Shen Yujun's mistakes and invest directly in Huang Zhengxuan's website...

Li Rongxiu frowned. He had known Shen Yujun for so long, and he had also faintly noticed Shen Yujun's talent in business.Probably as Huang Zhengxuan said, perhaps no one in China understands online transactions better than Shen Yujun.So even if they cooperate, he would rather cooperate with Shen Yujun, a friend who knows everything.As for his predestined cousin-in-law...

If done properly, the three can also work together.Maybe he can also keep the relationship between his cousin Li Rongmei and her first love... from being beaten by the sister-in-law.

Li Rongxiu, who has always believed in the strength of a large number of people, and the excitement of a large number of people, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was good. He immediately stood up and said, "Let's go downstairs. I have to discuss it with my elder brother first."