Chapter 17
170% Luck
“Li Muyao, don’t make it hard for your brother. You’re his sister so you must know his character. I’ll be honest with you. We’re here today to ask you to give us back the fifty thousand yuan.
“We’ll immediately go back home to get married when we get the money. Your mother also knows about this.
“Of course, you can take a leave and go back with us if you want. Otherwise, it’s alright even if you don’t attend our wedding!
“You’ve always looked down on me, your sister-in-law, anyway. It hasn’t been just a day or two.
“I used to think that you’d show me some respect for the sake of your brother, who’s been protecting you and doting on you since you were little. And now, you apparently don’t take your brother seriously as well.”
Liu Xiufang had dealt with the stupid Li Mufeng, so she had no burden at all when she provoked Li Muyao. In such a short conversation, she had been trying to destroy the brother-sister relationship between Li Muyao and Li Mufeng.
Li Mufeng’s face immediately darkened. He still felt a bit guilty when he saw his sister’s mockery and disappointment just now. However, after hearing what Liu Xiufang said, he instantly thought about the things Liu Xiufang said to him. “Your sister is a grown woman and she has her own thoughts. It’s normal that she doesn’t think about you all the time.
“Girls should get married after all.
“Most of them won’t remember their own families when they get married.
“You’re just her brother, who dropped out of school so she could stay in high school. She wouldn’t even miss her own mother.
“If Li Muyao truly has treated you as a real brother, she wouldn’t have tried to get between our relationship and she wouldn’t have stopped us from starting our own business. She would have supported you and encouraged you.
“Think about this. Did your relationship with Li Muyao get worse after she came to Yang City?
“Did she also contact you less?
“That’s because Li Muyao has a boyfriend. People’s hearts change.
“Li Muyao may have given those fifty thousand yuan to her boyfriend… Girls really treat outsiders better…”
“So, Mooncake, the money…”
Li Mufeng rubbed his hands as he lowered his head. He did not dare to look his sister in the eye. He gritted his teeth to get rid of his anxiousness. “Mooncake, Xiufang and I are going home to get a marriage certificate. That’s the dowry for her.
“Even though I prepared it for Xiufang, we decided to take the fifty thousand yuan to rent a store at the night market to sell fried noodles. From now on, I will not work in my master’s restaurant anymore.
“So, the money… Can you ask your manager if he can give it back to you?
“If your manager isn’t willing to do so, can you ask Color Hair to lend you some money?”
“That’s right. I’ve already asked around. That kid who always hangs out with you, Color Hair, came from a relocated family. So, he can even give you five hundred thousand or five million yuan, let alone fifty thousand.
“Anyway, Li Muyao, your brother and I have already decided. We’ll stay here until you give us the fifty thousand yuan back.
“We don’t care if we affect the business of the salon or if people here have opinions about you!”
Liu Xiufang contacted her lover secretly and knew that Li Muyao went to the hospital with a boy the night of the incident. The boy’s family was really rich and was a relocated family.
They even had shares in the beauty salon Li Muyao was working at.
Liu Xiufang thought if Li Muyao could marry someone from such a family in the future, she and Li Mufeng wouldn’t need to worry about money anymore.
So, Li Mufeng didn’t agree to take the fifty thousand yuan back at first, but Liu Xiufang induced him and did all kinds of tricks Li Mufeng liked in bed. There was nothing Liu Xiufang couldn’t deal with in bed.
Li Muyao told herself not to be mad, not to be mad!
Even though Li Muyao had already gone through such saintly behavior of her brother, Li Mufeng, once in her last life, she still felt especially bad when she had to experience it again. If Li Mufeng wasn’t her own brother, her fists wouldn’t have held back and she would really have beaten him up until he forgot his mother.
Li Muyao took a few breaths. “Li Mufeng, I can give you back the fifty thousand yuan, but there’s something I need to tell you. Please remember it!
“Your life is in your hands. No matter what happens in the future, don’t look for me, and don’t even think about asking Mom and our brothers to pay for your choices!
“Here’s one last reminder for you. Liu Xiufang isn’t a good woman. If you’re really starting your own business, please keep your money tight. Don’t let her cheat on you and give you another child of another man again.
“After all, a person either doesn’t cheat at all or cheat countless times!”
Li Muyao then went to borrow money from Color Hair. Before she even finished writing the IOU, Color Hair had already run to Tony to borrow fifty thousand yuan cash first and brought it to Li Muyao.
Li Muyao didn’t want to waste her time talking to a woman who was full of schemes like Liu Xiufang anymore and she immediately gave them the money. When Li Mufeng and Liu Xiufang left Wanhua, Li Muyao looked at the time and made a call. It was the time when her mother went out grocery shopping while her twin brothers were at home. Li Muyao told them everything about Liu Xiufang without hiding anything.
Of course, Li Muyao asked her two brothers to keep it a secret. After all, her mother had not been well. She couldn’t let her suffer from such a huge blow. She only wanted to let them know the reason why she wouldn’t attend Li Mufeng and Liu Xiufang’s wedding.
Seeing Li Muyao hang up the call, Color Hair ran to her and said with a smile, “Sister Yao, come with me to the lottery shop to buy scratch cards.
“A few apprentices from our dorm got some yesterday and someone won a hundred yuan.”
Color Hair squeezed the IOU in his pocket and felt sorry for Li Muyao. He couldn’t believe that a dumb brother like Li Mufeng could make things so difficult for his sister because of a woman. That was completely stupid.
Thinking that Li Muyao was in a bad mood, Color Hair wanted to make her happy. After pondering for a while, he thought about the new scratch cards at the lottery shop opposite them. Sister Yao might be happier if she won a prize!
“Let’s go, let’s go. I’ve already talked to Tony and the guys on the second floor and helped you take half an hour off.”
Color Hair didn’t give Li Muyao a chance to reject. He grabbed her hand and ran to the lottery shop on the opposite side, throwing two hundred yuan generously to the shop owner. “Boss, give my Sister Yao a hundred 2-yuan scratch cards.”
The shop owner also knew Color Hair. After all, they both did business on the same street.
The shop owner immediately took out a paper box full of scratch cards in front of Li Muyao and said, “Pretty girl, your forehead looks red today. You’ll certainly be lucky.”
“Hey, Boss, well said. Sister Yao has to be lucky today! Come one, give me a hundred tickets too!” Color Hair liked to hear people say good things about his Sister Yao. After hearing that, he generously bought a hundred 2-yuan scratch cards for himself as well.
Then, the shop owner got a super huge surprise for his words.
The person who brought surprises and shocks, and attracted onlookers around, was Li Muyao.
“Sister Yao, it’s okay if you don’t win. Do you want more? I still have twenty tickets left.”
Color Hair saw Li Muyao stop scratching with the coin in her hand all of a sudden. He thought she had already finished scratching a hundred tickets and was sad about not winning any prizes like he did after scratching eighty tickets. So, he comforted Li Muyao and put the rest of his twenty tickets in front of her.