Chapter 1

Old Li has insomnia again

In the past five years, Lao Li's family has experienced too many big changes.

Although my family had a low income and lived a tight life, my son and daughter-in-law were filial, my granddaughter was cute and sensible, and my daughter-in-law lived a careless life. In addition to being anxious that my son and daughter-in-law didn’t give birth to a seed that could be passed on to the family lineage for the family lineage, Lao Li was also embarrassed to have no money to pay the bill while drinking and eating with his old friend, Lao Hu. Others seemed to have nothing to do. As for the family lineage, Lao Li was not in a hurry. Anyway, he was about to retire in a few years. If he really couldn’t do it, he would leave early and let his son and daughter-in-law have another grandson. As long as the family could, his life would be perfect.

All the misfortunes came from three years ago. His son Xiaojun was in a car accident when he was out of the car. The car accident ruined his son Xiaojun's life at the age of 31. When the bad news came, Old Li suddenly felt that the sky had fallen, as if his whole life had been submerged in endless darkness from then on. The pain and regret made him toss and turn all night and unable to sleep.

Fortunately, time is a good medicine, which slowly erased the endless sorrow and pain of losing his son in his old age. He was poor and broken a family, and with no hope for succession, Lao Li cursed his fate from the beginning and slowly accepted this fate arrangement. He thought that after more than ten or twenty years, after he and his wife passed away, he would find a ridge of the field to quietly bury his ashes, and no one would burn incense and paper in the future. Unexpectedly, another incident disturbed Lao Li's already dead and silent mood.

Old Li's family has also been demolished

Five acres of land, two hundred square meters of homestead and two simple buildings, Lao Li, wife, daughter-in-law Zhou Yi, granddaughter Xiaoyu, and old comrade-in-arms who are secretary of the town party committee, also reported his deceased son Xiaojun. The old Li family was divided into a set of three bedrooms and two living rooms, four sets two bedrooms and two living rooms, plus five million compensation. Even if Lao Li dreamed for a lifetime, he never thought that he would become a millionaire one day, but his wealth really hit him directly like a pie falling from the sky, and smashed him unconscious.

Since I have money, I have never been rich in my life. I spent money to decorate it without hesitation. My whole family moved into a new building with three bedrooms and two living rooms.

With a new house, the family's economy has improved significantly as if it were earth-shaking. Lao Li's salary, his wife insisted on going out to work as a sanitation worker, and his daughter-in-law's income as a clerk in a shoe store plus the rent of four houses and the interest on deposits of more than 4 million yuan. In a month, the family's net income is 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. This makes Lao Li, who has been calculating all his life, suddenly doesn't know how to spend money. Lao Li, who has been suffering for a lifetime, finally has the confidence to invite his brother Lao Hu to go out for a few more wine every month. In addition, when he finishes his meal and drinks at home, he can feel at ease to add a plate of peanuts or a plate of braised duck to himself.

When I was used to hard life, Lao Li had already completely accepted his fate. Anyway, the unlucky family in the world is not just his family. Thinking of the past when he was in the army, those comrades buried in the snowy plateau had lived for decades, as if there was nothing to continue complaining. What's more, I couldn't think about it every day. After all, since Xiaojun's accident, the family lost the most important economic power, and the whole family was in trouble. It was basically spent every month. If it weren't for the old brother Lao Hu who had found various excuses to support Lao Li every month, the old Li's family might have been even more difficult. When survival became a huge pressure that was hard to escape, Lao Li did not have the energy and mind to think about it.

However, a good day suddenly came like this. With a brand new and luxurious new house, and with endless money, there was no need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation. Lao Li's worries suddenly popped up again. This worries were like weeds in the fields. When spring bloomed, it only rose up. But the more sunshine, rain and dew, it grew more lush. Every day, it covered the entire piece of land in his heart, as if the lush leaves were scratching in Lao Li's heart every day. There was an indescribable feeling, maybe feeling uncomfortable, maybe unwilling to give up, maybe more desires and thoughts...

The smile on Lao Li's face slowly turned into a sad face, but he couldn't tell anyone about this. The more he held it, the more he felt uncomfortable.