The tycoon's wicked wife from the era of literature has been reborn.

Gao Qinghe, with one hand protecting her belly, pointed at her mother-in-law with the other and scoffed:
"You think you can do whatever you want just because you've been given a little kindness? Can't you tell who's in charge anymore?"

Snot and tears streamed down Qi Lianxin's face, making her look like a lunatic.

Upon hearing this, his eyes widened in shock, as if he had only just discovered that this was the true nature of his appearance.

Gao Qinghe didn't care whether she was shocked or not.

He said coldly, "Have I been too good to you and too gentle with you all this time? You can't get the money you lent out back, so who are you taking your anger out on? Do you think I'm your punching bag?!"

"Fine, you don't want me to handle this? Then I'll go call your son and daughter and ask them to come back and take care of it!"

As she spoke, she headed towards the hall. Qi Lianxin was so frightened that she sprang up and grabbed her, shouting, "You can't hit her! You mustn't hit her!"

Gao Qinghe ignored her and dodged her pull, picking up the phone.

In a panic, Qi Lian leaned over the phone, pleading, "Don't call! Don't call! I was wrong, it was all my fault!"

Gao Qinghe gave a cold laugh, "Get out of my way. If I can't control you, I'll let your son control you."

"Yes, yes, you can manage it, you can manage it, isn't that enough!" Qi Lianxin hurriedly shouted.

He looked up cautiously at Gao Qinghe, and seeing that she was holding the phone and not moving, he stood up shakily.

His eyes were fixed on Gao Qinghe's hand, as if afraid she would dial a number.

Seeing that her mother-in-law was obedient, Gao Qinghe finally put down the phone. "Wouldn't it have been better if you had done this earlier?"

He sat down on the sofa, raised his chin, and gestured for his mother-in-law to confess honestly.

With their roles reversed, Qi Lianxin resembled a wronged, crying young wife, her hands obediently clasped in front of her, head bowed, and timidly saying:
"They've spent all their money betting on the banker."

"What is buying the dealer?" Gao Qinghe asked curiously.

Qi Lianxin explained that there are two types of betting: large betting and small betting. Large betting costs 10,000 yuan, while small betting costs 1,000 yuan.

The big player is very profitable; he can repay 1,000 yuan every month, and after a year, he can get all his principal back.

The smaller bettor only pays out 100 yuan per month, and the bettor is released after one year. You can choose to continue betting or get your money back.

Upon hearing this, Gao Qinghe's heart skipped a beat.

Isn't this just a pyramid scheme?
Seeing that Gao Qinghe's eyes were not right, Qi Lianxin quickly said, "I didn't believe it at first either. Seeing that your aunt and the others could get money every month, I pooled together a thousand yuan with your aunt to buy a small house. I didn't expect that they would actually give us a hundred yuan last month."

"I was thinking that the more principal I had, the more interest I would make, so I invested all of my savings of two thousand yuan."

"Based on last month's situation, I should have received two hundred yuan in interest by the time this month, but I didn't expect this."

To my utter surprise, as soon as I arrived at Qijia Village today, my sister-in-law cried and told me that the person had run away!

Moreover, they had been searching for people for two days and only realized they had been scammed when they couldn't find anyone.

Two thousand yuan, not a single penny will be returned.

My younger brother's family also invested money. They made a living by farming and occasionally worked as laborers in the county during the off-season. The few hundred yuan they had painstakingly saved was all gone, making them even more heartbroken and devastated than Qi Lianxin.

Qi Lianxin couldn't utter any words of blame or resentment; she could only accept the fact that she had been deceived.

On her way home, she kept thinking about how to hide this from her son and daughter-in-law.

But the grief of losing the money was overwhelming, and when Gao Qinghe asked her that question, she instantly lost control of her emotions and just wanted to cry.

After Qi Lianxin honestly confessed, he waited to be scolded.

Gao Qinghe took a deep breath and swallowed back the words "idiot" that were about to come out of her mouth.

"Mom, have you done the math? Did you know that if you get a 100 yuan return every month on a 1,000 yuan investment, the annual interest rate is as high as 120%?"

Qi Lianxin was a little stunned. "How much?" "The highest interest rate a bank can get in a year is only 12%, and yours is even higher than loan sharks. Do you think that's possible?" Gao Qinghe tried to control herself, but she still couldn't help raising her voice.

Qi Lianxin trembled as her daughter-in-law yelled at her, wishing she could bury her head in her chest.

"Go ahead and curse me, I deserve to be cheated because I was greedy."

That's right, isn't that just greed?
Gao Qinghe didn't believe that everyone was unaware that it was a scam.

It was just greed and wishful thinking. They thought that since the harvest hadn't come so quickly, as long as they withdrew earlier than everyone else, they would make a profit.

What a smart bunch!

"How many people bought it? Did you really only buy two thousand?" Gao Qinghe interrogated him, still uneasy.

Qi Lianxin shook her head. She didn't know how many people had bought them, but her younger brother and sister-in-law told her that the whole village had bought them.

Many people from Qijia Village also followed suit and bought the product, seeing that their younger brother and sister-in-law's village had bought it, so they bought it along with them.

"I only have two thousand, and it took me so much effort to save up two thousand." I almost cried when I talked about it.

After crying, she pitifully begged Gao Qinghe not to tell Jiang Baohai, afraid of being scolded by her son.

Gao Qinghe's hands were itching to touch that timid and submissive look.

If this weren't her own mother-in-law, she would have given her a couple of slaps on the head long ago.

He even dared to yell at her just now.

"Didn't you say you didn't want me to interfere?" Gao Qinghe deliberately retorted.

Qi Lianxin turned her back and quickly wiped her nose, sniffing, "I'm your old lady, you can't just ignore me."

Recalling the scene of her son's outburst, Qi Lianxin swallowed hard, already starting to panic.

Gao Qinghe gave her a piece of advice: "If only you had known this would happen, you wouldn't have done it in the first place."

He patted his behind and stood up. "I'll ask you one last time, have you explained everything you needed to?"

Qi Lianxin grumbled discontentedly, "Is this how you interrogate an old woman like a criminal? I've confessed everything I can."

Waaah, her two thousand yuan! She even spent all of the fifty yuan she got from last month's rebate on chicken, duck, fish, and meat.

Gao Qinghe shook her head and tossed her a tissue, "Wipe your snot and stop crying like that."

Qi Lianxin looked up suddenly and gazed at her with surprise.

Gao Qinghe said irritably, "This is the only time. If I find out that you're hiding any other details from me, I'll tell Jiang Baohai and Jiang Yu immediately."

After issuing the warning, he smirked, unable to hide his smugness, and reminded his mother-in-law:
"Be more polite to me from now on. Only when I am the king can you be the prince, understand?"

Seeing her mother-in-law's overjoyed expression, Gao Qinghe scoffed again:
"Why didn't you show off your power to the first and third wives before? You finally learned some skills, but you use them all on your own family."

Qi Lianxin glanced at her, wanting to assert her authority as a mother-in-law, but then remembered that she had something on him that Qi Lianxin could use against her, and immediately wilted.

She only dared to whisper, "Isn't it all because you taught me?"

Gao Qinghe glared at him. "My hearing is perfectly fine. I'm not deaf."

Although Qi Lianxin felt the pinch of losing two thousand yuan, she breathed a sigh of relief after receiving her daughter-in-law's assurance that she wouldn't reveal the secret.

She wiped her face, tidied herself up, took off her apron, and asked in a slightly ingratiating tone:
What would you like to eat tonight?

Gao Qinghe stroked her chin and thought about it seriously. "Whatever."

Qi Lianxin: "..." What a tragedy! (End of Chapter)