Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Xie Chunlei slept in the guesthouse for one night. After getting up the next day, he went out to have breakfast and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some gifts. Then, he went to visit Gu's family.

The Gu family entertained him warmly for Lin Shu's sake.

But after all, something had happened to Lin Mei, and she hasn't been found yet, so it was impossible for everyone to speak freely at the table. They just exchanged pleasantries and said they would do their best to help find the person who had happened to Lin Mei.

In the bedroom on the second floor.

Liu Xiao'e brought the food up and helped look after the children while Lin Shu ate.

"I just learned the truth from Chunlei. It all started because his mother forced Meizi to go to work with him. The ridge was slippery, and Meizi accidentally slipped and fell from the ridge into the field below. Plus, another girl who wanted to hold Meizi back fell on her, causing her miscarriage."

"What kind of thing is this? My daughter-in-law is pregnant, but she still forces her to go to work despite her big belly. Is this the only thing the Jie family needs? I think she is just being naughty!"

Now, the daughter-in-law insisted on coming to the provincial capital to relax after recuperating after her period at her parents' home, but she ended up getting lost.

Liu Xiao'e glanced at Lin Shu who was chewing slowly, and thankfully said, "I'm sorry to say that I broke off the engagement with them. If you had met such a troublesome mother-in-law, you would probably have a hard time in your life."

Comrade Liu Xiao'e is very satisfied with her current mother-in-law. After these days of contact, she feels that educated people are different from rural people like them. They speak softly, are reasonable, and treat others warmly and generously.

"Xie Chunlei's mother is not an easy person to get along with. Lin Mei's current situation is all her own fault."

Lin Shu didn't feel much sympathy for Lin Mei. It was all her own fault. In her previous life, she had ruined her reputation, and before she could take revenge on her, she had already disappeared.

Isn't this retribution?

Liu Xiao'e went downstairs carrying the empty bowl.

Lin Shu lay down beside the crib, gently teasing Dabao's little face with her fingers, "You heard it, right? In the last life, Lin Mei and Jie Chunlei formed a happy family, but in this life, their fate has changed. What do you think happened to Lin Mei? Is there any chance to find Jie Chunlei and continue their relationship?"

Dabao yawned. As for Lin Mei and Jie Chunlei, he just knew them and knew there were these two people, but he was not actually familiar with them.

He doesn't even care whether the family is happy or not.

Now he only hated that he was too small and could not do anything he wanted to do.

Xie Chunlei went to the Gu family and had a more intuitive understanding of Lin Shu's in-laws. Sometimes when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, he would think of this and couldn't understand why the Gu family, with such good conditions, would choose a rural girl like Lin Shu when they could find any kind of daughter-in-law.

After staying in the provincial capital for three days, there was still no clue.

Lin Mei seemed to have disappeared without a trace, and Xie Chunlei stayed in the provincial capital for four days. Because the holiday was coming up, and he didn't have much money, he couldn't afford to spend money in the provincial capital. Therefore, he had to return to the county town to wait for news.

Back at the Xie Family Production Team, Xie's mother saw her son coming back on his bicycle and frowned: "You took so long to come back this time. Did you work overtime at the company, or did you go out to fool around?"

Xie Chunlei rushed home, dusty and dusty. He parked his bicycle, threw his luggage into the house, and sat in front of his mother. "Mom, do you know where I have been these days?"

"Where did you go?" Jie's mother didn't even bother washing her clothes and wiped her hands on them. "Apart from going to work these days, don't tell me you went to Xiaohe Village?"

"I'm telling you, Chunlei, your wife goes wherever she falls in love with. She even got herself into trouble when she got pregnant. Why would our Jie family want her? She's a piece of trash!"

"Mom, we have to be reasonable when things happen. Meizi is fine at home. If you hadn't forced her to go to work, would she have had a miscarriage?"

Xie Chunlei thought of the aborted child and the missing Lin Mei, and seeing that Xie's mother was trying to make trouble again, his face instantly darkened and his tone of voice became stern.

Jie's mother's heart skipped a beat, knowing that what was coming had finally come. Her son was blaming her in his heart.

"Okay, do you still think it's my fault?" Jie's mother felt guilty, but as a mother she would not admit that she was wrong in front of her juniors.

She yelled at the top of her lungs to cover up her guilty conscience: "You also grew up in the countryside. Look at our village. Which daughter-in-law doesn't go to work when she's pregnant? Your store has no business. What's wrong with me letting her go to work? Shouldn't she go to work? She wasn't so pampered when she was at her parents' home. It's because of you that she has become so pretentious now!"

"I think you are the one who is most responsible for her miscarriage. If you hadn't spoiled her, she would have gone to work with you after you got married, and there wouldn't have been so many problems. The second person who is at fault is that damned Mrs. Song. If she hadn't been scaring people from behind, how could your wife have been frightened and fallen off the ridge of the field?"

"You don't dare to find fault with outsiders, you only know how to bully me at home, Jie Chunlei, you have been away for a few years and you think you are capable, right? You are only good at bullying at home, if you have the guts, go and settle the score with Mrs. Song and Jie Chunmei!"

Xie Chunlei kept a gloomy face, looking at the crazy woman in front of him. When she shut up, he said unhappily, "Mom, did you know that Lin Mei was in a bad mood because of the miscarriage and went to the provincial capital to relax, but she disappeared on the train?"

Jie's mother was slightly stunned, not understanding what he meant, "What do you mean by missing? What are you talking about?"

Xie Chunlei sneered, "Missing means that Mei Zi disappeared on the way to the provincial capital. I don't have a wife anymore! Are you satisfied now?"

After hearing this, Jie's mother became anxious. "The people in the Lin family are sick. Why would they go to the provincial capital for no reason? They are just bored. They go to the provincial capital when they are in a bad mood to show that they are capable. Now, they disappeared on the way!"

Thinking about the fact that the daughter-in-law she had spent so much money to marry was gone, Jie's mother was in tears. What should she do?

The words "the Lin family is sick" made Xie Chunlei stunned for a moment. To be honest, he also felt that the Lin family was just pretentious. Everyone has bad moods sometimes.

If you are in a bad mood, you run to the provincial capital. You must be bored.

Xie Chunlei sat down on the stone steps helplessly. "I went to the provincial capital these days and reported the case to the police station, but Mei Zi has not been found. What should I do now? My Yue family still doesn't know about Mei Zi's disappearance. If I tell them, I don't know what they will do."

When Jie's mother thought of her equally difficult mother-in-law, she shuddered all over. "Speaking of this... speaking of this, it's not our fault. Her daughter got lost in her home, so it's not our fault."

"The most important thing is that we didn't even know that Mei Zi went to the provincial capital. No matter what happens, it has nothing to do with us."

It is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm, and Jie's mother is no exception. When she learned that Lin Mei was missing, the first thing she thought of was her own loss, and then she tried to evade responsibility and distance herself from the matter.

"I'll go to Xiaohe Production Team tomorrow for this matter." Xie Chunlei prepared to get up, take a shower and change clothes.

Only after he left did Jie's mother have time to sit down and think the whole thing over.

When she thought about the money she spent on marrying a wife, she wanted to slap her thigh.

As for bringing Lin Mei back and letting her continue to be her family's daughter-in-law, she had never thought about it.

A woman has been missing for so many days, and no one knows what happened. What if...

Her family doesn't want to be taken advantage of. They won't accept a daughter-in-law who has gone missing. They'll return her!

When Xie Chunlei came out of the shower, she said to him again: "Mei Zi went to the provincial capital to relax. Did she want to go find that bitch Lin Shu?"

"Mom, don't speak so harshly." Xie Chunlei frowned, feeling that the words were extremely harsh.

Mother Jie snorted coldly, "We are talking about Mei Zi now. Please don't think I am being harsh. Mei Zi went to look for that bitch Lin Shu, but now she is missing. The Gu family must be responsible as well. If they hadn't been late in picking her up, how could Mei Zi have disappeared? You should talk to Li Xiu about this, and let the Gu family divert some of Gu Xiu's hatred."

"Mom, we need to be reasonable in what we say and do." Xie Chunlei sighed helplessly, "The Gu family didn't even know that Mei Zi was going to the provincial capital, so how could they go to the station to pick her up?"

"Li Xiu sent Mei Zi to the provincial capital, but she didn't tell the Gu family?" Jie's mother found it unbelievable. How could there be such a careless mother?

You sent your daughter thousands of miles away, to a place where she is unfamiliar with the place, and you didn't even tell anyone?

"Well, the Gu family doesn't know the specific date." Xie Chunlei didn't want to say more to her.

Jie's mother instantly felt relieved and thought that even if Li Xiu came to her house to make trouble, she would not be afraid of her.

......

After resting for a night at home and regaining enough energy, Xie Chunlei came to Xiaohe Village.

Standing in front of the door of the second room of the Lin family, he pushed the door open and walked in.

Li Xiu was cooking in the kitchen when she heard footsteps. She walked out and saw that it was Jie Chunlei. She immediately lost her good face and said, "Why are you here? I told you that Mei Zi went to the provincial capital to relax. You can talk about her affairs after she comes back from the provincial capital."

Xie Chunlei looked at his mother-in-law who was as stupid as a pig, veins on his forehead throbbing. He took a deep breath to suppress his anger, "Mom, when you sent Mei Zi to the provincial capital, did you tell them on the same day to pick her up at the train station?"

"Need I say that?" Li Xiu looked at him like he was a fool. "Mei Zi knows the address. When she gets to the provincial capital, she can find it by asking others. Is it necessary to spend money to send a telegram? Mei Zi is smart. You don't have to worry about this."

Xie Chunlei was so angry at this self-righteous idiot that he laughed: "Mom, do you know? Because of your self-righteous thoughts, you didn't inform Lin Shu that Mei Zi is missing!"

"Mei Zi is missing?" Li Xiu turned around suddenly, with a bad feeling in her heart, staring and asking: "What do you mean? Have you contacted the provincial capital?"

Xie Chunlei scolded angrily: "What do you mean? What I mean is that when I learned from you that Mei Zi went to the provincial capital, I immediately called the provincial capital."

"The person who answered the phone was your nephew-in-law. I learned from him that they didn't know that Mei Zi was going to the provincial capital, and Mei Zi didn't go to his house. Mei Zi is missing!"

"Mei Zi clearly got the Gu family's address, how could she not find their house?" Li Xiu was dumbfounded.

"Humph, do you think that the provincial capital is our rural area? The basic situation of each village is known in the nearby villages, and we can find out with a little inquiry?"

"That's a big city. Even if Mei Zi has the Gu family's address, can you guarantee that when she asks for directions, she'll meet good people?"

"And on the train, people from all over the country gathered there. Mei Zi, who has never been far away, what if she runs into a bad guy? Can she, a woman who has never seen the world, handle it?"

Xie Chunlei wanted to poke a hole in her head, "You are still her mother, have you never thought about these issues? You are not thoughtful and have no insight, so don't give her such bad advice."

This was quite rude of him, and Xie Chunlei was furious.

Li Xiu was extremely anxious, and automatically filtered out Chunlei's nonsense, and asked hurriedly: "Has Meizi arrived in the provincial capital now? Hang up the phone, what did Lin Shu say? Tell me quickly."

Xie Chunlei took a deep breath and recounted his personal trip to the provincial capital. "With the help of the Gu family, the police at the police station suspect that Mei Zi did not get off the train at all. There are so many stations along the way, and we don't know where she got off the train. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find someone now. No one can guarantee whether the person can be found. You must be mentally prepared for this."

After hearing what Xie Chunlei said, Li Xiu instantly broke down. She fell to the ground, slapped her thigh and cried, "Oh my, how can I live like this!"

"If I can't find Mei Zi, I won't live anymore! My Mei Zi, why are you so miserable? You have an unreliable husband and a vicious mother-in-law who caused you to have a miscarriage. If you hadn't had a miscarriage, you wouldn't have encountered such a terrible thing!"

Li Xiu felt so regretful.

If I had known this would happen, I would have asked Jie Chunlei to take the person back.

If he had been taken back, there wouldn't have been all these troubles later.

But now she couldn't admit that she was wrong, she wanted to blame it all on the old hag from the Jie family.

Xie Chunlei frowned, "Mom, now is not the time to be sad. We should actively look for Mei Zi. I believe Mei Zi may have lost her way. Once she finds the way, she may come back at any time."

Li Xiu paused, wiped her tears, and asked, "How can we actively look for him?"

"You should call the provincial capital from time to time to inquire about the situation. I will also ask my colleagues in the supply and marketing cooperative to ask colleagues in other places to keep an eye on it."

"Yes, yes, there are supply and marketing cooperatives all over the country. You can ask people to keep an eye out. I believe you can find Mei Zi soon." Li Xiu nodded. As for the provincial capital, she would call them when she has time.

In short, Mei Zi was lost in the provincial capital, so they have the obligation to help find Mei Zi back.

Xie Chunlei thought he had calmed Li Xiu down, so he returned home in the afternoon and prepared to go to work at the supply and marketing cooperative the next day.

But the next day, before he even got up, a woman's scream was heard outside the door.

"Ah! Li Xiu, you slut, let go of your claws!"

"You old hag, you are a troublemaker. My daughter has had a miscarriage and now she is missing! I want to take your life now!"

"You have to compensate my daughter, you have to compensate my daughter!"

Li Xiu rode on Jie's mother's body and slapped her left and right, causing her eyes to go dark and full of stars.

"Hey, mother-in-law, stop hitting me. Let's talk it out! Stop hitting me, stop hitting me!"

Xie's father was standing nearby, jumping up and down anxiously. Two women were fighting, and as a grown man he didn't know whether to break up the fight or not. He was at a loss as to what to do when he saw Xie Chunlei rushing out of the room.

"Hey, Boss, quickly pull your mom and the others away! Ouch, don't scratch their faces, it will disfigure them!"

There were several bloody scratches on Li Xiu's face. She endured the pain and wanted to slap him a few more times, but Jie Chunlei hugged her from behind and dragged her back.

Li Xiu was unwilling to give up, and since he couldn't reach it with his hands, he kicked it with his feet.

Just as Jie's mother, with her messy hair, had taken a breath and had no time to sit up, a kick came and hit her in the mouth.

The pain was so severe that she covered her mouth for a long time before she recovered.

"Bah! Li Xiu, if I don't beat you to death today, I'll take your last name!"