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Chapter 1471 A Confrontation with Xie Meilan! (Day 18, Sunday/Saturday, Requesting Monthly Tickets!)

"If you don't want to learn, then don't. Let's drink and chat about our stories."

He Chen naturally wouldn't force him to learn; this kind of thing requires him to awaken to it himself. However, awakening also requires a large number of real-life cases to open his eyes to the world and understand what kind of world it really is.

"These are all true stories from my friends, just listen to them and have a drink with them!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Lei's expression faltered for a moment. As long as he wasn't facing his wife, he was usually calm and wise, and he immediately guessed that the story of He Chen's friends was probably not good.

But now he really wanted to hear the experiences of those who had been there, to get some advice for himself, so after struggling for a while, he raised his glass and downed the wine in one gulp.

He Chen smiled and began to tell the story of Hua Zi, Xiang Nan, Shi Xiaomeng, and Zhao Xiaoliang.

It was someone else's story, but Shen Lei got red-eyed and drank too much.

These stories are heartbreaking.

Many details allowed him to match them up... which made him extremely uncomfortable.

But he couldn't say anything.

Because He Chen didn't mention him or his wife at all, and all the stories were supposedly from real friends with names and identities, so they didn't seem like fabricated stories to subtly advise him.

But the more he understood this, the more he felt like crying.

None of these people have a good marriage.

By piecing together some details that he cared about, he vaguely saw his future with his wife, and he didn't want it!
He Chen ignored him and, while explaining the details of these cases, raised his glass and urged him to drink another cup of wine.

Shen Lei is undoubtedly feeling extremely depressed right now.

With no hope for the future, he could only find solace in flowers and plants and cooking for his wife. He finally managed to get a job at his workplace that he felt was meaningful, but when he came home, his wife angrily complained that he wasn't making any money.

His wife's indifference and disdain, his hometown elders' disbelief upon learning of his income, and their contemptuous looks and tone, even when he went to his sister and brother-in-law's house for a meal, he was mercilessly scorned in front of his niece for being incompetent and not even qualified to participate in the internal competition.

Even if he is very Buddhist and able to adjust himself, these contempts and denials will still cause him to accumulate a lot of negative emotions.

He was mild-mannered and generally didn't argue. Only after drinking, when faced with his aggressive brother-in-law Na Jun's disdain for not giving him any face in front of his little niece, would he get a little carried away and argue a few words.

Now, after drinking so much with He Chen, and facing He Chen who agrees with his values, he listened and drank, thinking about his relationship with his wife, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Then I drank even more.

Men don't shed tears easily, but they are not sad yet.

A little venting is better for your physical and mental health.

Just as He Chen thought it was about time and was about to end things, Shen Lei's phone rang. As soon as he answered, Xie Meilan roared, "Where the hell have you been? Your broken little electric scooter is making a racket again, disturbing the neighbors in the middle of the night, do you know that?!"

"Just kick it," Shen Lei said, still drunk, but his first thought was to find a solution.

"If you want to kick someone, kick them yourself! Get back here right now! You've been drinking? Shen Lei, what do you want to do? If you don't want to live like this anymore, then don't!" Xie Meilan's anger on the other end of the phone was completely undisguised.

"I'll go back now." Shen Lei, having been scolded and brought back to his senses, quickly said this, and slowly got up to pay the bill and walk out.

He Chen paid the bill for him, then helped the unsteady Shen Lei home. When they got downstairs, they saw a cold-faced woman standing with her arms crossed in front of a small electric scooter lying on the ground, her eyes glaring at Shen Lei, whom He Chen was supporting.

This incompetent husband now dares to talk loudly about values ​​and meanings, and after she gets angry, he even dares to go out drinking, leaving her at home. Because the broken electric scooter was making noise and attracting the neighbors' shouts, she called and yelled at her husband, but the neighbors couldn't wait to listen to that, and in the end, they made her come downstairs to kick the scooter. "Brother Shen, why don't you fix the scooter? It wouldn't cost much!" He Chen complained sincerely.

This is actually quite outrageous.

Given Shen Lei's kind-hearted nature, even if he wanted to save money, he wouldn't do it on this, because it would disturb the neighbors.

"Shen Lei, did you hear that?!" Xie Meilan didn't look at He Chen directly at first, but when He Chen spoke up and it suited her, she took a closer look at He Chen's appearance, glanced at his clothes, and then followed up on He Chen's words to berate her husband, Shen Lei.

It wasn't just to vent her anger, but also to yell at the harassed neighbors, to distance herself from her husband, and to prove that she wasn't the one who wanted to disturb the peace.

"Enough!" He Chen suddenly spoke up after listening to her scolding for a while, just as Shen Lei's drunkenness was about to dissipate.

"Sister-in-law, right? I know a bit about your family's affairs. I can talk about Brother Shen, and the neighbors can talk about Brother Shen about this, but you have no right to scold him like this!"

Don't you think about why he's so frugal, unwilling to spend a little money to fix his electric scooter?

Did he not want to?
Or is he trying to disturb the peace?

He's the kind-hearted old man who would buy a few extra potted plants from an elderly woman selling them on a cold day when he saw her on the street and felt sorry for her so she could go home earlier!
How could he possibly want to disturb the peace?

His electric scooter broke down, but he couldn't bear to fix it because he really didn't have the money!

How come he, a civil servant, lives so frugally and has no money?
It wasn't even for your mother. His mother-in-law, who has terminal cancer, spent all his savings and incurred debt to treat her illness!

I know that Brother Shen is an honest man, not some cunning old fox who thinks he can get away with owing money. He's burdened with debt and feels pressured, so he can't wait to pay it back immediately.

This is the reason why he is so frugal, saving even small amounts of money, enduring the disapproving looks and criticisms from his neighbors, and continuing to use his electric scooter even if he has to kick it!

I heard you still owe your uncle 100,000 yuan, right?
Listen!

The older sister's cancer treatment emptied the savings of her daughter and son-in-law's family, but her own brother only lent her 10 yuan and didn't contribute a single penny.

Compared to this kind of relative, and Shen Ge, who emptied his savings and went into debt to treat her terminal cancer and acted as a dutiful son by her bedside during her hospitalization, your mother must have thought that Shen Ge was a very responsible son-in-law before she passed away, even better than her brother, daughter, or even her non-existent son, right?

He gave everything for you!

They even went so far as to violate some of his principles as a person!

He may be undecided as a good husband in China, but he is absolutely worthy of being called a good son-in-law!
How dare you talk back to someone like that?

So you're just like your uncle, watching and calculating when your blood relatives are getting treatment, contributing the least, yet still criticizing others for not contributing enough.
The person is dead, all the savings are gone, and there is debt. The son-in-law still has to spend hundreds of thousands to buy a high-end tomb for his deceased mother-in-law.

Where did the money come from?

Should we steal, rob, or sell?

If Brother Shen hesitates even slightly, you'll turn on him and yell at him, "I can't live well with you, and I can't die happily either."

Does this make you seem especially filial?

But where were you all this time?
You didn't fulfill your filial duties while she was alive, but now you're forcing your husband into debt to spend money to make you look good and put your mind at ease, right?
"Have you no shame?"

"..." Xie Meilan felt the chill outside was biting cold in the middle of the night, but after hearing He Chen's sudden angry retort, she felt unbearably hot all over.

Damn handsome guy!
That damned husband, Shen Lei!
How could he dare to bring in such a person, who stripped her naked in front of so many neighbors?
(End of this chapter)