Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 445 The Foolish Filial Man’s Wife 60_1

Chapter 445: Chapter 445 The Foolish Filial Man’s Wife 60_1

Zhang Zhaodi was intent on saving Liao Bin, but she couldn’t manage it with the entire family relying solely on her. When Liao Kai received her call, all he did was listen without any response.

Just when Zhang Zhaodi was running all over the place, trying to find connections to help Liao Bin, even more devastating news emerged.

Liao Bin had gotten into trouble again. Of course, it was someone locked up with Liao Bin who was discovered to be involved with a break-in case. Just like that, a series of connections were drawn, leading to someone ratting him out.

And the cases he was implicated in were not just one or two, but several.

Zhao Wenjin wasn’t very surprised by the crimes someone carried. "Hooligans with no money and a tendency to spend extravagantly—it’s obvious what their sources of income would be."

Liao Kai, thinking of the news he had just learned, couldn’t help but sigh, "This time, Liao Bin really managed to kill his father."

"Wasn’t he always a dad-screwing bastard?" He was already locked up, wasn’t it clear he was a dad-screwing bastard, and now they were saying he screwed Liao Jun over.

"Some time ago, there was an incident in the small storage room of the kitchen where my older brother works, and a bunch of valuable ingredients were stolen."

"Probably worth around seventy or eighty thousand," Liao Kai said, still shocked by the amount.

Especially considering that most people were earning just a few hundred yuan, and very few could claim a salary above a thousand in those days.

Zhao Wenjin immediately understood why they said he was a dad-screwing son, "Indeed, quite a dad-screwing act."

"It’s not a small amount at all, now no one can save him," Zhao Wenjin actually felt relieved.

The elderly lady knew Zhao Wenjin was a tough nut to crack, and was also worried about being confronted with dogs again like last time. Helpless, the elderly lady could only focus her attention on Liao Kai.

Although he wouldn’t change his mind, having to deal with this continuously was truly annoying.

"By the way, knowing that Liao Bin was involved, do you think your brother’s workplace will have any thoughts about Liao Jun?"

Even if they knew this incident might not be related to Liao Jun, everyone would still feel it was.

"They let my brother go because the unit wasn’t doing well. Besides him, they also laid off a few other employees."

"He was the only one from the kitchen department to be laid off." The implication was actually pretty clear.

They thought he was involved, even though there was no evidence linking him to the incident, but the leaders felt uneasy, and someone had to be held accountable.

He was laid off, huh? In my previous life, this didn’t happen. But then again, Liao Jun and his spouse weren’t worried about money then.

Liao Bin might have known some hoodlums, but he knew there were things he couldn’t do. And he would not have acted this time if not for the lack of money.

"If Liao Jun was laid off, wouldn’t Feng Lili be affected too?" With something this big, Liao Jun wouldn’t be the only one with bad luck, Feng Lili would be involved as well.

Liao Kai hummed in agreement, "She was laid off too, but she’s fine; she’s about to go to America, saying she’s going to marry a man over there."

In such a short time, Feng Lili was actually going to get remarried, and to someone overseas no less.

Zhao Wenjin wasn’t too surprised, but Liao Kai noticed it, "Don’t you find it strange?"

"I saw her applying for a passport when I went to handle some matters. If she wasn’t planning on going abroad, why would she need a passport?"

"I just didn’t expect that she was going to get married. I originally thought she was going abroad to work." She couldn’t let on that she had suspected Feng Lili wanted to marry a foreigner all along.

Seeing her applying for a passport, "She really had it planned out in advance. My mom even said before that her divorce was just to scare people and that she wouldn’t really go through with it."

"Turns out she’s had this idea since then." No matter how unhappy she was with Liao Jun, hearing about this still didn’t sit well with her.

Watching the huffy Liao Kai, Zhao Wenjin thought he really was a drama queen, "Didn’t your brother always say he could find a young girl to marry?"

"How come people can’t just marry a foreigner and now, look at Feng Lili, she really is on her second marriage, but your brother, up until now..."

Zhao Wenjin spread her hands, "No wife, no wife, son, son locked up, job, job gone."

"Liao Kai, do you know what middle-aged people are most worried about running into?" Zhao Wenjin asked him.

"No wife, no job, and a son who’s turned out to be a disappointment." Zhao Wenjin had already said so much, if he still didn’t know the answer, then he really was a big fool.

"Right, Liao Jun just happens to be unlucky, he’s encountered it all."

"Don’t worry, he’s your mom’s precious big son, someone so outstanding will surely rise again," Zhao Wenjin said sarcastically.

"Especially since he wanted to open a store in the first place, now is the perfect time to hustle and open one."

"No money, my mom came straight to me today asking for financial aid," Liao Kai remembered the look on Zhang Zhaodi’s face, as if his brother’s future depended on him, and just the thought made him speechless.

"I told him, ’no money,’ and then I made a suggestion that if there’s no money for a store, he could set up a stall. Setting up a breakfast stall every day would also make money," Liao Kai felt aggrieved just thinking about it.

"They said I was insulting Liao Jun." Liao Kai got angrier the more he thought about it and grabbed the teacup on the table, downing it in one gulp.

"How did I insult him? If he can manage a breakfast stall well, I’d really admire him."

The more Liao Kai saw of Liao Jun, the more he felt that the guy was all talk and no action.

"A few couples in our alley who run breakfast stalls have raised several kids and can afford to buy houses in Capital City."

Certain stalls have really shown their start from scratch and their settling down in Capital City, raising kids and buying houses. If they weren’t making money, could they accomplish all this?

"I’ve been working in the office for so many years, I haven’t been allocated a house, nor have I bought one, and they are already preparing to buy their second one."

"Even if it’s a single-story house in a courtyard, it’s still a house," Liao Kai shook his head.

"Liao Jun’s skills aren’t bad, but does he know how hard it is to run a restaurant?" Liao Kai often bought breakfast and knew how hard it was to make.

"You think you’re the only one who knows?" Zhao Wenjin gave Liao Kai a disdainful look, "He knows, that’s why he doesn’t want to do the breakfast business."

"He thinks running a restaurant is easy, he can act like a head chef, only getting involved when the other chefs are too busy."

"Usually, it’s just giving orders." When the original host would cook for guests at home, that’s how Liao Jun operated.

Huh? Liao Kai had never thought about it that way, "Isn’t he, isn’t he a chef?"

"Why does he still need to hire chefs?"

"Doesn’t he know how much it takes to start a restaurant? And about hiring servers and dishwashers and all that."

Liao Kai was truly speechless, "Why is it good for a chef to open a restaurant? It’s because you can save the chef’s wages."

"When business picks up, it won’t be too late to hire chefs." Liao Kai shook his head incessantly, "Forget it, forget it, if they want to open a store, let them open it."

Some things he simply couldn’t interfere with, "Anyway, I have no money."

No matter how fanciful their talk was, Liao Kai wouldn’t consider investing.