Chapter 2 Two betrothal gifts!

"Son, how's work going?"

"Recently, everyone on the internet is talking about your boss Hengtai. How is it going over there?"

His mother's caring voice gradually brought Zhang Li back to his senses.

"Mom, I'm fine!"

"I'm an expert in the technical department, what are you worried about?"

"No matter how much trouble there is, it's impossible for me to be in trouble. I make a living by my skills!"

Zhang Li exhaled deeply in order to calm his emotions and prevent his mother from noticing anything unusual.

"That's good, you have always been our pride!"

"Linlin said she wanted to eat dumplings last time, so I made some for her. Can you contact Shufen and see when she can come over to pick them up?"

The mother didn't hear anything unusual and her voice was still full of kindness.

"Need not!"

"I'm on vacation recently and will be back in Chang'an tomorrow. I'll come find you guys tomorrow!"

Linlin is his eldest daughter, and Zhang Li doesn’t want to tell her mother what happened just now.

Don’t tell your mother too much about sad things. She can’t help you and she won’t be able to sleep!
He can't let his parents worry about him anymore!

"That's great, I'll pack more!"

"Look at how tanned you are after being so busy all day..."

The mother was very excited to hear that her son, who could only come home seven or eight times a year, was coming back.

"Don't bother, you still have to take care of my dad!"

"The company has a new project in Chang'an City. I applied to be transferred back. We will see each other every day from now on."

Zhang Li was foreshadowing his resignation.

"also!"

"Also, my son, the doctor said that we don't have enough money for hospitalization. I'm embarrassed to ask Shufang, but you..."

My father is a migrant worker. He was hospitalized half a year ago due to an occupational disease. Fortunately, my mother took care of him, but the cost was also very high.

"Well, when do you want it? How much difference?"

Take a deep breath,

Zhang Li tried hard to keep his tone normal.

"The doctor said to pay the full amount within a week, and this time I need to deposit 5 in advance!"

Remember the mother whose son earns nearly 20,000 yuan a month,

don't know,

My son only has 3000 left on him now...

"Okay! Don't worry about it, I'll find you when I get back!"

After talking to his mother calmly, Zhang Li hung up the phone...

Wow~~~
Who says men can’t cry!
The tension of hanging up the phone made something slide down the corner of my eye uncontrollably.

Looking at the familiar yet strange house in front of me,
He suddenly felt nauseous.

With a sound of "Wow",
With red eyes, Zhang Ting opened his mouth and spit out...

He vomited unrestrainedly, his vomit was mixed with tears, and his vomit was heart-wrenching!

Jingle Bell!
Jingle Bell!
The physiological reaction was abnormal and tense, and then I heard the phone ring again.

"Hello!"

I saw it was an unfamiliar number.
He could only quickly calm down and answer the phone.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang Li, we are from Juli Construction Company..."

I could tell it was the HR's tension, so I directly stated the conditions: "I'm 35 years old, is that okay?"

"Forehead…."

HR's hesitation made Zhang Li say nothing more: "Okay, thank you! Thank you for your help!"

Snapped!
hang up the phone,

The emotions are interrupted and the tension is no longer vomiting.

Looking around the house, he knew that this was no longer his home!

He is very messy.
My mind is a mess!
.....
.....
"drink!"

"What's so scary about divorce?"

"I've been divorced three times!"

"Divorce is so good. I can live a single life. I can play games when I want to play games. I can find a technician when I want to find a technician!"

West of Chang'an City,

Urban village food stalls,

Under the persuasion of his best friend, Zhang Li miserably drank cup after cup of beer.

beside him,

It was Li Hanqiang, who slept in the bunk below him in college and whom he had known for nearly twenty years.

My good brother is a native of Chang'an City.
His house had been demolished four times. He was a big and strong man, and had a lot of property before.

but,

Because of three divorces,

The family property was divided among his ex-wives, leaving only a storefront and half a tube-shaped building.

They live on rent every day.

After three failed marriages in which he was cheated on, Li Hanqiang hated women deeply.

After his parents passed away two years ago, Li Hanqiang, an only child, regarded Zhang Li as his only relative.

now,

I heard that my buddy not only resigned,
And they're divorced.

Li Hanqiang comforted her strongly...

"If you can't do that, then you can stay here with me. I'll take back the shop and we can open a small internet cafe. This was our dream when we were in college!"

“It’s impossible to work part-time again!”

"I am still the same boy as before~, without any change~~~"

Li Hanqiang, who wanted to comfort his good brother, started singing while imagining the future.

Zhang Ting just remained silent, drinking cup after cup of beer.

"brother!"

"It's better not to get married!"

"We will live together from now on!"

"Two men should live together, so that there will be two gifts, two houses, two cars... and they can also find a technician together!"

Seeing Zhang Li's distress, Li Hanqiang patted his chest and continued to comfort him.

"If all men are like this, what about the remaining women?"

Zhang Ting replied weakly.

“Women are technicians!”

Li Hanqiang said as a matter of course.

"Screw you!"

Zhang Li slapped Li Hanqiang's hand on his shoulder, picked up the wine glass, and the two of them clinked their glasses together and drank it all in one gulp. There's no going back!

The affection between the brothers has not faded.

But we can’t go back to our youth!

At this age,
We are no longer at the age of wearing only shorts and stacking our bodies together in a pyramid in the university dormitory...

"It's my niece Linlin, she's a little pitiful!"

"But it's okay. She will have two fathers who love her from now on. My shop and house will be left to my niece Linlin to inherit!"

Li Hanqiang felt a little regretful after drinking.

Two years ago,
His parents were mad at him because of his three failed marriages.

Zhang Li was busy taking care of all the funeral affairs.

At that time, in addition to Zhang Li and Li Hanqiang who were filial sons, Zhang Li's eldest daughter Linlin was also a filial son.

Li Hanqiang is especially nice to Linlin.

He is worried about what will happen to his children after the divorce.

"Linlin is not my biological child..."

Zhang Li did not hide anything in front of his good brother.

"what!?"

Hearing this,

The drunk Li Hanqiang sobered up immediately.

"Fuck him!"

"I'm going to find her!!!"

Li Hanqiang stood up angrily and roared.

"sit down!"

"drink wine!!!"

unfortunately,

Before anyone leaves, Zhang Ting has already grabbed them!

"Drink it!!"

"Let's go take a bath!!"

"I love you so much!"

Li Hanqiang became angrier the more he thought about it and pulled Zhang Li up.

Blocked by the tension, he also remembered that it was useless to ask for help, it was nothing more than a useless argument!

Damn Li Hanqiang,

I just want to release now!
.
after an hour,

Two men in big shorts sat in the steaming pool, both resting their heads on the marble edge.

Neither of them spoke.

It was quiet all around.

There was no other sound except the sound of flowing water.

Li Hanqiang knew that what his brother needed at the moment was relaxation.

He doesn't bother.

Li Hanqiang, with a white towel on his head, was soaking in the bath while feeling sulky inside.

Isn’t Linlin your brother’s biological daughter?
This is so infuriating!
Have you tested it?

What about the other two….???

“Quit!”

"divorce!"

"Father's hospital bills!"

"child…"

the other side,
Zhang Tingjing leaned his head against the edge of the pool, and gradually came back to his senses and started thinking.

I'm thirty-five years old.
Having experienced many hardships in life, he has no time to be too sad.

Now that it has happened,

What we need to do is not to feel sad, but to solve and deal with it...

"The most urgent thing is my father's hospital bill."

The tension with eyes closed, at this moment, needs money.

He had given all his salary for more than ten years to Zhang Shufang, and now he was penniless.

He didn't know whether Zhang Shufang had saved any money.

But even if there is,

He may not be able to get it, and he will have to go to court.

Far water cannot quench near thirst.

Li Hanqiang next to him was angry to death because of his three failed marriages and his parents.

I have become a person who just muddles through and lives one day at a time.

I definitely don't have 50,000 yuan in savings.

He then

Need to get money quickly...

【Ding! 】

Leaning against the hot spring, the water caresses my body.

In confusion,

A voice suddenly sounded beside Zhang Li's ears:
[Surveying and exploration personnel detected, daily small map treasure hunting system activated...]

[Scanning, please wait! ]

"what?"

His emotions fluctuated several times. He had just drunk a lot of wine and was now surrounded by hot water. Zhang Li's mind was still confused.

He thought he was hallucinating.

however,
Before he could react,
in front of him,

A semi-transparent panel pops up.

Lines of text are brushed out:

【Ding! 】

[Treasure Hunting System Scan Completed! ]

[Today's scan results are as follows:]

[1. You passed by the high-speed railway station today. You can find the lottery ticket on the small map - the lottery shop in the west of the high-speed railway north station square. On the shelf on the left hand side of the entrance, on the third floor, in the fifth column, the second scratch-off ticket can win a prize of yuan! ]

[2. You passed by Hengtaicheng Community today, and found on the small map that there is a lost wallet in the gap of the sofa in Hengtai Community, Building 8, Unit 1, Room 901, which contains US$3000 and RMB3000.]

[3. You passed by the Mizhi Rouqing Bath Center today. You discovered on the small map that there is a gold necklace hidden in the men's restroom on the northwest corner of the third floor of the Mizhi Rouqing Bath Center and on the upper left of the roof ceiling.]

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