Chapter 617: Relatives and Friends Who Beg for Money
Su Mingzhe went to the hot pot restaurant. After driving his G-Class back home, he put his cell phone on the table and waited for the call.

Not long after, the phone rang.

I looked at the caller ID: "Lan Weiwei".

Su Mingzhe felt a little disappointed that the first caller was not Yang Tao, but he still picked up the phone:
"Hello, Weiwei."

As soon as Lan Weiwei answered the phone, she asked:
"Brother Su, where are you now?"

"I am home."

Su Mingzhe's tone was flat, cold, and even without a trace of emotion, which made Lan Weiwei unable to ask the questions she had prepared.

Both parties were silent for a while, and then Su Mingzhe spoke again:

"Weiwei, are you still drunk?"

After hearing the man's caring words, Lan Weiwei decided to proceed as planned:
"Brother Su, I have something to do now and I want to come to you, is that ok?"

"of course."

Su Mingzhe agreed.

A few minutes later, the doorbell rang.

When Su Mingzhe opened the door, he saw Lan Weiwei, wearing an over-the-knee starry skirt and flesh-colored stockings, standing gracefully at the door, looking extraordinary.

They went into the living room and sat down.

Lan Weiwei took a sip of the yogurt the man handed over, then with a shy look on her face, she thanked the man:
"Brother Su, I drank a little too much last night, so I'd like to trouble you to take me home."

"I'm glad you're okay. Actually, I was also drunk last night."

Su Mingzhe neither denied nor admitted anything.

The two chatted for a few sentences, and Lan Weiwei was about to ask the man some questions when Su Mingzhe's phone on the table rang again.

Su Mingzhe picked it up and looked at it. The caller ID showed 'Duan Xifeng'.

This was expected.

"Weiwei, please sit down first. I'm going to answer a call."

"Brother Su, you are busy."

Lan Weiwei waited for the man to go to the bedroom to answer the phone, then looked around the large flat design.

This large flat was bought by Su Mingzhe when he first came into this world.

At that moment, Su Mingzhe didn't have much money to use.

At this moment, Su Mingzhe is already a billionaire with a net worth of tens of billions.

The reason why he continued to live in this large flat was because Zhang Pan and Li Youyou were here.

If it weren't for these two women, Su Mingzhe would never have come to live here.

However, Lan Weiwei didn't know about these things.

She looked around and fell in love with the luxurious decoration style of the house.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, she stood up, turned around, and came to the door of the master bedroom.

Unfortunately, Su Mingzhe closed the bedroom door.

Lan Weiwei listened quietly for a while, but heard nothing.

The phone call between Su Mingzhe and Duan Xifeng lasted for quite some time.

As soon as the phone was connected, Duan Xifeng started asking questions, blaming, scolding, and even yelling at him.

Su Mingzhe had a good attitude.

An apology is due.

Su Mingzhe even expressed his willingness to take responsibility for Yang Tao.

Unfortunately, Duan Xifeng is not a fool. He knows that Su Mingzhe already has a girlfriend.

Su Mingzhe wants to be responsible, but how can he be responsible?
Finally, seeing that Su Mingzhe had a good attitude, Duan Xifeng told him again that Xue Sumei was coming to settle accounts with him.

"Old Su, when I first introduced Taozi to you, you didn't agree. Now you...ah..."

"it's all my fault."

Su Mingzhe doesn't put on airs as a wealthy man, nor does he use the excuse of "blacking out from drinking" to prevaricate.

He lowered his voice and said finally:

"Xifeng, please talk to Aunt Xue for me. I'm willing to do anything I can do."

"Let's do this for now. I'll let Su Qing ask Taozi what she means."

Duan Xifeng also heard from his wife Su Qing that Yang Tao was slept with by Su Mingzhe.

Duan Xifeng was not clear about the specific situation.

Now, seeing that Su Mingzhe had a good attitude, Duan Xifeng told Xue Sumei and Su Qing about the situation.

Xue Sumei naturally wanted Su Mingzhe to marry her daughter.

Yang Tao was firm in her attitude and said that she and Su Mingzhe just slept in the same bed and did not do anything else, so she did not need Su Mingzhe to be responsible for her.

Seeing her daughter being so stupid, Xue Sumei was so angry that she wanted to go find Su Mingzhe to make trouble.

Seeing her biological mother making more and more trouble, Yang Tao felt ashamed and anxious. In desperation, she simply threatened to commit suicide, which forced Xue Sumei to temporarily stop mentioning the matter.

However, after this happened, Yang Tao's family will definitely not have a peaceful New Year.

After the Chinese New Year, Su Mingzhe wanted to strike while the iron was hot and come to find Yang Tao to deepen their relationship.

Unfortunately, because of the huge conflicts with her family during the Chinese New Year, Yang Tao's attitude towards men began to become cold.

Seeing that Su Mingzhe kept harassing her, Yang Tao simply avoided the man.

Fortunately, Su Mingzhe was very patient and did not expect to take down Yang Tao in one go.

Compared to Yang Tao's firm will, Lan Weiwei's progress was very fast. Since Lan Weiwei's identity had been used to its full potential, Su Mingzhe stopped pushing her.

On New Year’s Eve.

Su Mingzhe and Lan Weiwei held a New Year's Eve exchange meeting.

After the two of them talked, Su Mingzhe took a tough attitude and said that he would only give her money and would never marry her.

Lan Weiwei was not a chaste woman, and seeing the man's tough attitude, she had no choice but to ask for a huge sum of money. She asked the man for a villa, a luxury car, and finally one million yuan a month as a maintenance fee.

Su Mingzhe met all of Lan Weiwei's requests.

However, Su Mingzhe also had a request to her, which was to keep the relationship secret and not allow anyone to know about it.

Lan Weiwei also didn't want the news of her being kept to become known to everyone in the city, so she easily reached an agreement with the man on this point.

After the fifth day.

Zhang Pan returned from his hometown with red and swollen eyes.

Just as Su Mingzhe and Zhang Wang expected, the 30,000 yuan she gave to her mother was all given by her mother to her lover, Uncle Wang, who lived next door.

Because of this, Zhang Pan had a big fight with his mother and asked her to return the money.

Unexpectedly, Uncle Wang not only did not return the money, but also broke into Zhang Pan's room in the middle of the night and wanted to bully her.

Fortunately, Zhang Wang was also at home. When he heard his sister shouting for help, he ran over.

Uncle Wang still thought that Zhang Wang was just a little brat who allowed himself to be beaten and scolded by him in the past, and he didn't take Zhang Wang seriously at all.

If you haven't seen me for three days, you should look at me with new eyes.

Zhang Wang was in the security team and had been trained by the captain for more than half a year. He learned a lot of fighting skills and with just a few punches and kicks he drove away Lao Wang from next door who wanted to bully his sister.

Zhang Pan's biological mother was also mentally retarded. After discovering the situation, she not only did not repent, but instead helped her mistress and scolded her son and daughter for being unfilial.

Faced with this weird mother who couldn't tell right from wrong, Zhang Pan and Zhang Wang didn't tolerate her and directly severed the mother-son and mother-daughter relationship with her.

That night, Zhang Pan and Zhang Wang, brother and sister, left their rural hometown overnight and took the train back to Yanjing the next day.

After returning to Yanjing, Zhang Pan and his sister both changed their mobile phone numbers to indicate that they wanted to draw a clear line with the past.

Zhang Wang continued to go back to the factory to work.

Zhang Pan worked and studied day and night, filling his time.

Su Mingzhe knew that Zhang Pan was strong-willed and did not stop her.

Just wait for Li Youyou to come back and let Li Youyou persuade her more.

After the Spring Festival.

Everybody is partying.

As Su Mingzhe's net worth skyrocketed, the friends who had been supported by him at the beginning also received rewards hundreds of times higher.

As expected, he invested 200,000 yuan, and if he withdraws it now, it will be at least 20 million yuan.

If Guo Yan invested 500,000, that would be 50 million.

Manzu, who invested the least, also invested 50,000, which is 5 million.

Although everyone knows the principle of "don't show off your wealth", it can't stop the family from having too many relatives and friends.

In addition, many people were talkative at the party and spread the news.

Our circle is neither big nor small.

Within the time of the Spring Festival, basically all the friends and relatives who could know the news knew about it.

These people can pay tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars just because of a word from Su Mingzhe, which shows how generous they are.

Some people around them knew that they were rich, so they naturally asked them to borrow money.

In the past, this was called "taking advantage of the autumn wind" or "attacking the local tyrants."

In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Granny Liu went to the Grand View Garden twice to "beg for money".

Su Mingzhe has traveled through so many worlds and has experienced this kind of thing countless times.

When faced with people who ask for money in exchange for something, Su Mingzhe can naturally deal with it easily.

However, people like Guoran, Guoyan, Manyi, and Longxia are all generous in character, and their relatives and friends come to them to borrow money.

As long as those people howled a few times and cried a few times about being poor, they would not be able to hold back and would turn out their pockets and let the other party search them.

And that’s just the amount of savings they have.

Even though all my savings had been drained out, relatives and friends still kept asking me for money.

For example, Guo Yan couldn't help but find Su Mingzhe and said that he was ready to withdraw the investment money.

Su Mingzhe had long been prepared for this kind of thing to happen. Seeing that Guo Yan insisted on asking for money, he took out the original contract and said with a smile:

"Jelly, the contract clearly states that the investment period is three years, and if you withdraw it within three years, you can only protect your principal. Are you sure you want it now?"

"Brother, please stop kidding me. I really need the money."

Guo Yan is a guy with strong limbs but a simple mind.

When someone came to him to borrow money, he would just pay without saying a word.

The little fortune his father had accumulated was almost spent by him.

As a childhood friend, Su Mingzhe thought he had to live up to the fact that Guo Yan had called him "brother" for so many years, so in the face of Guo Yan's pleading, he still said in a firm tone:
"Jelly, even if you are waiting for the money, I can't do anything about it. After all, a contract is a contract. If you violate the rules, you will be fined. How about this, you call my uncle Guo, and if he agrees that you can terminate this investment contract, I will give you the money."

Guo Yan naturally didn't dare to look for his biological father, so he had no choice but to set his sights on a few other childhood friends.

When we first started investing, everyone invested together.

Now that Su Mingzhe is unwilling to terminate the investment agreement, Guo Yan thinks that it would definitely work if he asks everyone to say a word for him.

Thinking of this, he excitedly found his childhood friends and initiated a Lantern Festival dinner party.

(End of this chapter)