The champion of "Singing With You" will receive a reward of 100,000 yuan.
Zeng Xiaoyi cried happily when she went on stage to receive the award. The program "Singing with You" has been running since last year. The new champion of each season will receive a bonus of 100,000 yuan, but after receiving the bonus, she will have to defend the title in the next season as long as there is no new champion. While defending the title, no matter whether she wins or loses, she will not receive any bonus.
One hundred thousand yuan is undoubtedly a huge sum of money for Zeng Xiaoyi, who is seventeen and about to turn eighteen.
The host obviously knew how to create a topic. When accepting the award, he asked Zeng Xiaoyi: "How would you spend this money?"
Zeng Xiaoyi cried and said, "I'll spend them to help my godmother and god sister. Without them, I wouldn't be who I am today."
During the months she lived in Lin Shuyue's house, Zeng Xiaoyi was under a lot of pressure. She had not received much good treatment since she was a child. Her parents had been telling her since she could remember that she was a child that no one liked, and that she should be grateful for their kindness to her!
Under such long-term brainwashing, Zeng Xiaoyi developed a mentality that if others are good to you, you have to return the favor double.
She had no choice even if she was anxious before, because she was still a high school student, Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing supported her studies, Lou Fengqin and Bai Wenhua provided her with food and drink, they had no other purpose, just wanted her to study hard, so Zeng Xiaoyi didn't even think about working. She couldn't put the cart before the horse.
The few months she lived in Lou Fengqin's home were the most comfortable time for Zeng Xiaoyi since she was 17 years old. In this home, she didn't have to be scolded every day, didn't have to do countless housework as soon as she opened her eyes, and didn't have to hide under the dim street light at the door to do her homework.
Her room in Lin Shuyue's house is not particularly big, but it is very cozy. This autumn is too hot, so she installed an air conditioner in her room. Lou Fengqin took her to buy and select bedding, all of which are the styles and colors she likes. She gets two sets of clothes every month, brand new, not left over from someone else's clothes, and they are very beautiful. Her room is brightly lit, and she has a delicious breakfast in the morning. Even if she does nothing, no one will say anything about her. If she does well in the exam, a large group of people will praise her to the sky.
She had been unable to give back before, but now she could. With all her worries gone, Zeng Xiaoyi felt relaxed. That night, she slept very soundly and had a very good dream. On the second day after the competition, Zeng Xiaoyi received the money from the program director. After deducting 20% of the income tax, there was still a total of 80,000 yuan.
After responding to the reporters who came to interview her, she met up with Lou Fengqin and others. As soon as they got in the car, she handed the bank card to Lou Fengqin like she was presenting a treasure.
Lou Fengqin pushed the card back to her: "Keep it to yourself, we don't want it."
Neither Lin Shuxing nor Lin Shuyue wanted Zeng Xiaoyi's money. Lou Fengqin raising Zeng Xiaoyi is just like having an extra pair of chopsticks during the meal. Her tuition and textbooks were all funded by Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing. She was very competitive. After going to school, she always ranked in the top five in every exam. Lin Shuxing was very happy. As for Lin Shuyue, Zeng Xiaoyi was one of the first people she rescued. She was very pleased that she could break free from her original fate.
Zeng Xiaoyi insisted on giving it to Lou Fengqin, and her reason was very simple: "My parents must have known that I won the championship. If I had the money, they would not let me go."
Zeng Xiaoyi would rather throw the money into the water to hear the sound than give it to her parents. Since May, her parents have ignored her. The only time they contacted her was to marry her to a man whose wife had died and who had two children about her age. Zeng Xiaoyi was heartbroken by what they had done over the years.
This is indeed a problem. Bai Wenhua thought about it for a while and said, "Why don't you take it, Ah Feng, and buy some real estate for Xiaoyi, and write her name on it when she comes of age."
Bai Wenhua is a very traditional person. As soon as he had money, he started buying all kinds of value-preserving things. Last month, he bought gold jewelry for all the women in the family. Zeng Xiaoyi also got a pair of earrings, which were very small, but this was Zeng Xiaoyi's first real jewelry, and she cherished it very much.
She now has a lot of spare money, and she can start searching for a house to buy. Zeng Xiaoyi's 80,000 yuan after tax is really a lot. The store that Lin Shuxing bought in Xiasha Village only cost 80,000 yuan.
Lou Fengqin took a look at Zeng Xiaoyi and thought that this method was indeed a good one. If Zeng Xiaoyi had a house, she would have a way out in the future and her life would not be so difficult.
"Okay." Lou Fengqin was going to ask around when she got back to see who was selling a house. It didn't matter if it was small. She would have the money to build a taller house when the time came. Lou Fengqin felt that with the current development of Pengcheng, this house would definitely become more and more valuable.
Zeng Xiaoyi directly put the card in her arms: "This is my gift to you, you don't have to buy me anything."
Zeng Xiaoyi didn't want it, but once the money was in Lou Fengqin's hands, it was no longer something she could control.
Lou Fengqin put the money away. This money was earned by Zeng Xiaoyi, and she was a little afraid that Zeng Xiaoyi's parents would take it away. Rather than letting them take it away, it would be better for her to keep it. At least she would not swallow Zeng Xiaoyi's money.
The next afternoon after the competition, the family set off to return to Pengcheng. Lin Shuyue was still sleeping in the car. At about 11 o'clock yesterday, Lin Shuyue received a call from Qian Miaomiao inviting her to dinner. It was hard to refuse the kindness, and she had already promised it before, so she had to get up in the middle of the night to keep the appointment.
The midnight snack lasted from twelve o'clock to three in the morning. Lin Shuyue drank a little too much and slept until noon. She was still sick when she got up to eat and got in the car.
Lin Shuyue felt that she had definitely drunk fake wine. She drank more during the Mid-Autumn Festival than this time, but she sobered up so quickly that time and didn't even have a headache when she woke up.
After returning home from Yangcheng, Lin Shuyue slept for a night and a morning, and only then did she feel that she was finally alive.
At this time, people at home were working, and people at school were going to school. Lin Shuxing followed Lou Fengqin to the store to work. After Lin Shuyue finished washing up slowly, she took out an apple from the refrigerator and ate it. As soon as the cold apple entered her mouth, her still confused brain instantly became clear. Just after taking two bites, there was a knock on her door, and it was very urgent, one knock after another.
Lin Shuyue frowned and went to open the door while biting an apple. Standing outside the door was a couple in their thirties. While knocking on the door, they kept looking around Lin Shuyue's house.
After seeing Lin Shuyue, the woman's eyes looked at Lin Shuyue back and forth like a searchlight.
"Who are you looking for?" Lin Shuyue's tone was not very good. Lin Shuyue had never met Zeng Xiaoyi's parents, but judging from the aggressive expressions of the two people, it was not surprising that they were the ones.
Lin Shuyue took a closer look and found that just as Zeng Xiaoyi had said, she did not look like them.
"I'm looking for Zeng Xiaoyi." The woman spoke in a very loud voice, and it sounded like she was yelling.
Lin Shuyue uttered an "oh" and her mind wandered uncontrollably. It was almost half past eleven, and Lou Fengqin insisted on cooking at home. It would probably take her only a few minutes to get home.
Speak of the devil, and they will appear. Lin Shuyue was just thinking about it when Lou Fengqin came back with Lin Shuxing, carrying a bag of vegetables. Lin Shuxing also carried a bag of fruit, which should be bananas. As they walked, they talked to Feng Suqing. Since the two, husband who practiced the great sutras and the mother-in-law was send to the bureau, Feng Suqing took care of the children alone, working at the construction site to earn money and taking care of the children. Although life was hard, there was also a goal.
She has a very good relationship with Lin Shuyue's family. Whenever she has something good, she will send a portion to Lin Shuyue's family. Seeing how hard she works, Lou Fengqin will bring Chaochao home to play when she is free.
At this moment, Lou Fengqin was about to bring Chaochao to her home to eat fruit. When she looked up, she saw the two people standing in front of her second daughter. The man was wearing a horizontal striped short-sleeved shirt, and the woman was wearing a light red short-sleeved shirt. They were looking at her second daughter with a critical look. Lou Fengqin frowned and strode over.
As she got closer, she just happened to hear the woman speak: "You are the reporter named Lin Shuyue, right? I am Zeng Xiaoyi's mother, and I am here to take her back."
Zeng Xiaoyi's mother is called Lu Ercai. She said she came to take Zeng Xiaoyi home with confidence, as if they were not the ones who had ignored Zeng Xiaoyi since May.
Zeng Guozhu, who was standing next to Lu Ercai, pulled on her sleeve. Lu Ercai turned around and looked at him, saying, "Hurry up and pack Zeng Xiaoyi's things and take them out. Otherwise, I will go to the police station and sue you for kidnapping a girl!"
Lu Ercai was not interested in the programs on TV. She never watched the TV at home. She just thought it was noisy. It was only yesterday when her son brought back the evening paper from the day before yesterday that she went to find out about it. Only then did she know that the prize money for the champion of the program Zeng Xiaoyi participated in was 100,000 yuan. What does 100,000 mean?
Lu Ercai and her husband couldn't earn that much in a year working in the clothing wholesale market! Zeng Xiaoyi could earn it by singing a few songs? This made Lu Ercai's heart change all of a sudden, especially this morning, she received a call from Hong Kong, someone actually said that they could make Zeng Xiaoyi a singer, a singer! Lu Ercai never dreamed that a singer would appear in her home! What's more, the person who called her said that he could give her 200,000 a year.
Lu Ercai couldn't sit still at all. She came here yesterday, but there was no one at Lin Shuyue's house. This morning, she and Zeng Guozhu looked at several real estate projects, just waiting for Zeng Xiaoyi for them to take her back so that they could get her 100,000 yuan. Then, in the name of guardianship, she would help Zeng Xiaoyi sign a contract to become a singer, and she would have 300,000 yuan in her account.
With the money she will saved over the years, she can buy a big house in a better neighborhood in Pengcheng. Next year or the year after, after saving for another two years, she can buy more houses. By then, she will have more houses and will not have to worry about finding a daughter-in-law. If she has more property by then, she can also give her third son a decent dowry!
When Lu Ercai thought of the wonderful life in the future, her heart warmed up. Although the future was bright, Lu Ercai did not want to give up the current benefits. She had inquired about it and found that Zeng Xiaoyi lived well in her so-called godmother's house. She used the best clothes and ate the best food. Lu Ercai did not want to spend a penny on Zeng Xiaoyi. She planned to take all these things away.
Lin Shuyue took a bite of the apple in her hand. The apple had been in the refrigerator for a long time, so it was icy cold and very sweet. She leaned against the door frame beside her, ready to watch the show.
"Want to sue us for kidnapping a young girl? Sure, go ahead and sue us, and sue us quickly." Lou Fengqin was not a person without plans. After Zeng Xiaoyi came to her house, she went to investigate near Zeng Xiaoyi's home. Zeng Xiaoyi's life was not going well.
After Zeng Xiaoyi refused to marry a man in his thirties and become a stepmother, Zeng Guozhu and Lu Ercai spread the word that there was no such person as Zeng Xiaoyi in her family. They also said that Zeng Xiaoyi had the nerve to run away, and that whether she lived a good or bad life outside had nothing to do with her family, and she would just treat her as a dead person.
Zeng Xiaoyi's reputation in the village was extremely bad. There were rumors that she seduced men at such a young age, eloped with a man when she was only sixteen or seventeen, and now her child was about to be born. There were even rumors that she was taking drugs and being a prostitute. Lou Fengqin had inquired about it and found that most of these rumors were made up by Lu Ercai.
As mothers, Lou Fengqin couldn't understand why there was a mother like Lu Ercai, as if Zeng Xiaoyi was not her daughter but her enemy! She even sent Zeng Xiaoyi to an internet addiction school because of a particularly ridiculous little thing!
Speaking of this, it was very contradictory. According to her understanding, Zeng Xiaoyi had never been liked by Lv Ercai and her husband, and she didn't even have pocket money. How could she be so willing to let Zeng Xiaoyi go to the Internet addiction school at this moment? You know, the tuition fee of the Internet addiction school is not cheap. The price for three months is not low. How could Lu Ercai be willing to spend this money on her?
Lou Fengqin had already whispered to Bai Wenhua that there was an 80% chance that Zeng Xiaoyi was not her parents' biological child. She was either sent to live with Lu Ercai or fostered in her home. There was another possibility that she was taken away by mistake. But the third possibility was quickly rejected by Lou Fengqin because when they went to find Zeng Xiaoyi to transfer to another school, they found that Zeng Xiaoyi's household registration was not under the name of Lu Ercai and Zeng Guozhu, but in the collective household of the village.
It is precisely because of this that Lou Fengqin agreed with Bai Wenhua's suggestion to buy real estate for Zeng Xiaoyi. After all, the money is in the bank card, and it is easy for Lu Ercai to get it, as long as she has the password or coerces Zeng Xiaoyi, but real estate is different. Without Zeng Xiaoyi's consent, no one can take her house away. And the procedures required for the transfer are numerous, and Zeng Xiaoyi can ask for help from the outside world at any stage.
Upon hearing this, Lu Ercai and her husband turned around and saw Lou Fengqin at a glance. They were not afraid at all. They had asked before, and in Zeng Xiaoyi's case, it was abduction of a girl, because this girl came to live in Lin Shuyue's home without the explicit consent of her guardian.
"When the police come, don't be afraid." Lu Ercai winked at Zeng Guozhu, and Zeng Guozhu took out his cell phone and called 110. They had already discussed it when they came. In order to prevent future troubles, they didn't need to be polite to Lou Fengqin's family, but to break off relations directly. It would be best to make Lin Shuyue's family dislike Zeng Xiaoyi and hate Zeng Xiaoyi. In this way, Zeng Xiaoyi would have no backing and no way to retreat.
Zeng Xiaoyi didn't need to go to school anymore. Since singing was so profitable, she could just sing. After all, it was useless for her to graduate from university. She studied for herself. When she got married, she couldn't leave the knowledge she learned at home. It would be better for her to drop out of school and sing. At least she could earn some money for her family.
Lu Ercai felt that she had raised Zeng Xiaoyi for seventeen years, and it was time for her to repay her. She spent one or two thousand yuan to send her to that Internet addiction school in the first half of the year, and now Lu Ercai still felt the pain as if her flesh was cut. Zeng Xiaoyi was a sensible child, and she loved her so much, so Zeng Xiaoyi would repay her a hundred times or a thousand times? So to sum up, Lu Ercai was really not afraid of Lin Shuyue's family at all.
She even called a reporter, who arrived immediately. The purpose of the call was to coerce Lin Shuyue's family. The reporter she found told her that once the news was exposed, Lin Shuyue's family would have to send Zeng Xiaoyi back to their family even if they didn't want to, otherwise the public opinion would overwhelm her family.
It was noon at this time. Whether they were natives of Pingsha Village or people who rented houses here, they had all heard of Lin Shuyue's family. Those who had not eaten yet did not plan to eat, and those who were eating came to watch the fun with their bowls in hand.
In just a few minutes, a lot of people gathered at the door of Lin Shuyue's house.
When they saw Zeng Guozhu really called the police, they were immediately shocked. Aunt Wang, who had a good relationship with Lou Fengqin, said directly: "Ah Feng, I told you a long time ago that you can't raise so many children at home, why bother raising other people's children? It's hard work and thankless. You didn't listen to me, now you're in trouble!"
Everyone in Pingsha Village loves Zeng Xiaoyi. She is pretty, well-behaved and sensible. She always rushes to do any work in Lin Shuyue's family.
But even though they like her, they are unwilling to raise Zeng Xiaoyi. As for Lou Fengqin, there are still many people who say that she is doing a thankless job. Some families who are not satisfied with taking advantage of others even want to send their own children to Lin Shuyue's house and let Lou Fengqin raise them.
For people like this, Lou Fengqin would send them back directly.
Lou Fengqin smiled at Aunt Wang, then turned around and turned cold: "You said you are Zeng Xiaoyi's parents, do you have any evidence to prove it?"
As soon as Lou Fengqin said this, not only Lu Ercai and Zeng Guozhu, but even the people around her looked at her in a strange way. In this world, who would ask others to prove that they are the parents of a child? Isn't this just being a hooligan?
When Lin Shuyue heard what Lou Fengqin said, she felt that it was similar to those remarks about proving that my father is my father and being asked to come in person to withdraw money from a deceased old man at the bank.
Lu Ercai laughed directly: "You are such an interesting person. Zeng Xiaoyi is my daughter. You can go to our village to ask around. Who doesn't know this? And who are you to ask me for an evidence to prove it? Do you think you are a police officer from the Public Security Bureau? How dare you ask me to prove it?"
"You are so powerful, why don't you prove that your two daughters are your daughters?"
Lou Fengqin hold the dish she was carrying to another hand and said calmly, "You are quite funny. You came to my house without any evidence and said that my goddaughter is your daughter. I asked you to provide evidence but you couldn't stand it and started to curse."
"Let me tell you, I've seen a lot of liars like you. Many human traffickers use the same excuse as you when they abduct and sell children!" Lou Fengqin can be said to be the person in Pingsha Village who is most familiar with human traffickers. As soon as she said this, she immediately gained the approval of the onlookers.
"What Ah Feng said makes sense. Look at their faces. They don't look like Zeng Xiaoyi. And they said they were here to pick Zeng Xiaoyi up, but they didn't even go to school. They came directly to Ah Feng's house to pick her up. Don't they know which school Xiaoyi attends?"
"It's possible. You say, these two scammers, could it be that they saw in the newspapers these past two days that Zeng Xiaoyi didn't live with her parents, but instead lived with her godmother Ah Feng, and that there was a lot of bonus money, so they thought of coming here to take the child away?" one person speculated boldly.
At this moment, everyone looked at Lu Ercai and her husband with alertness. After all, what he said made sense. Otherwise, why did they come just because Zeng Xiaoyi became famous, instead of coming earlier or later?
If they were really Zeng Xiaoyi's parents, why didn't they come before? Just to inform, Zeng Xiaoyi's tuition and miscellaneous fees for one semester in high school are 1,500 to 1,600 yuan, not including her food and drink!
Lu Ercai felt a little embarrassed by such looks and was about to lose her temper and curse when a middle-aged bald man wearing glasses and with a huge beer belly squeezed into the crowd, followed by a man carrying a camera.
He looked around, his eyes lingered on Lin Shuyue for a moment, then he walked directly to Lu Ercai and held up the microphone high: "Hello, ma'am, are you the mother of Zeng Xiaoyi, the fourth champion of 'Singing With You'?"
Lu Ercai swallowed the curse words that were about to come out of her mouth. She glanced at the camera, pinched herself, and burst into tears in pain. She cried, "Yes, I am. Comrade reporter, I have a hard life. I worked hard to raise Zeng Xiaoyi, and provided her with food and drink, and let her study. But once she became famous, she didn't recognize her parents."
Seeing that more and more people were gathering, Lou Fengqin handed the dishes to Lin Shuxing and asked her to go home first. There were so many people around and she couldn't let them run into Lin Shuxing.
Lin Shuxing took the things and went back.
Lin Shuyue had already recognized the reporter who came to interview her and distorted the truth. She took out her cell phone and called reporter Zhang from Pengcheng Entertainment News. Reporter Zhang was waiting in the hospital for the news that Yu Xiangwan was discharged. When he heard what Lin Shuyue said, his head became bigger.
Everyone in the journalist circle knows that Lin Shuyue's family sponsored a girl who was thrown into an Internet addiction school by her parents to quit Internet addiction, and after she graduated from the Internet addiction school, her parents wanted her to marry a divorced man? Pang Hui is now helping Zeng Xiaoyi's parents to confuse right and wrong. They will get traffic tomorrow and make money, but after everything is reversed, the reputation of their newspaper will definitely decline!
Reporter Zhang didn't bother to wait and called the editor-in-chief directly.
Pang Hui saw Lin Shuyue making a phone call, but he was not afraid at all. They were an entertainment newspaper, not a serious newspaper, and it was easy for them to report on the entertainment industry. Pang Hui could imagine how much of a sensation it would cause after he sent out this report. After all, the provincial TV station had a huge influence in Guangdong Province.
Pang Hui didn't care at all why Zeng Xiaoyi ran away from home, nor did he care whether what Lu Ercai said was true or false. All he wanted was traffic!
Lin Shuyue just watched Pang Hui and Lu Ercai singing the same tune, saying how difficult it was for Lu Ercai to raise a child these years, and how disobedient Zeng Xiaoyi was. In her mouth, it seemed as if all the vicious words in the world could be put on Zeng Xiaoyi.
Just as Lu Ercai was getting emotional, a beautifully dressed woman with a suitcase squeezed in from the crowd. She looked around first, then looked at Lu Ercai. When Lu Ercai saw her, her expression changed instantly: "You said that you have worked hard to raise Xiaoyi over the years, providing her with food, drink and clothes, and have never treated her unfairly?"
"You said you were especially nice to her? You said you liked her the most?"
"That's not right, Lu Ercai. I've given you a lot of money over the years, right? According to Xiaoyi's living standard, you can't spend all the money I gave you, right?"
As she spoke, Lu Ercai's face turned pale.
The exquisite woman took off her sunglasses and looked at Lin Shuyue and Lou Fengqin: "Hello, I am Zeng Xiaoyi's biological mother, Lu Yinglan."
As she finished speaking, the Good and Evil System issued a prompt [ Ding ~~~ The key figure 'Lu Yinglan' has been detected, and the limited-time task 'The person who is dead but still alive' has been started. The time limit is 30 days. Please investigate carefully and clear up the doubts in this case. ]
Lin Shuyue opened the system and found that Lu Yinglan, a key figure, had an evil value of only 5%. Lu Ercai and Zeng Guozhu both had a higher evil value than her.
So the question is, what does this person who is dead but still alive mean?
Lin Shuyue was a little confused. You know, before this, she didn't notice anything unusual.