Chapter 1588: Chapter 1592: Worried Sick
Ye Xingbei looked at her phone and said, “So Shi Siyuan just became more and more reckless, never had a proper job, and occasionally when his parents found him one, he would only work sporadically. Every day he mingled with unsavory people and, over a year ago, picked up the habits of gambling and drug use…”
Ye Xingbei frowned, “A doting mother leads to a ruined son!”
She smacked the bed and said angrily, “I always get so mad when I see things like this! There aren’t many children born bad in this world; most of them are spoiled by their parents. Parents always think they’re pampering, loving, and caring for their kids, but little do they know, they’re harming them and leading them to ruin!”
Gu Junzhu nodded, “Shi Siyuan’s parents are the typical kind of parents who spoil their children like killing them.”
He tapped his phone with his fingertip, flipped through a few pages, and lightly knocked the screen with his knuckle, “Look at this. In recent months, Shi Siyuan has been frequenting casinos, placing larger and larger bets, losing until his eyes turned red, desperate to recover his losses, he started dealing with high-interest loans. So far, Gu Qi can find that his loans have already amounted to tens of millions.”
“Tens of millions?” Ye Xingbei clicked her tongue, “Isn’t that way too much? Even if Shi Sixin’s family conditions are decent, they can’t afford tens of millions in debt, right?”
“That’s right,” Gu Junzhu said. “Last month, high-interest lenders came to collect the debt. To pay off Shi Siyuan’s debt, his parents sold their only house, paying off over nine million in debts, but even so, Shi Siyuan’s debt wasn’t fully settled.”
Gu Junzhu tilted his head to look at her, “You know, with high-interest loans, even if there’s only a few thousand or tens of thousands left unpaid, they can snowball to the extent you can never pay them off in a lifetime.”
Ye Xingbei nodded repeatedly, “Yes, I understand. I saw a news story where a student, vainly, took out a high-interest loan of eight thousand yuan behind his parents’ back to take his girlfriend on a trip. By the time his parents found out, the eight thousand had turned into eighty thousand. His parents were ordinary farmers who couldn’t earn much money, too, and they had to sell the family house to help pay it off.”
She sighed and rubbed her arms, “High-interest loans, like drugs and gambling, must never be touched! Once touched, at best it’s financial ruin, at worst it’s complete destruction of family, truly scarier than floods and wild beasts!”
Gu Junzhu chuckled, “Scarier than floods and wild beasts?”
“Yes,” Ye Xingbei nodded seriously, “How many people will encounter floods and wild beasts? But high-interest loans, drugs, and gambling are things anyone can encounter. Someone with slightly weaker self-control might just step onto this no-return path.”
“That’s one way to look at it,” Gu Junzhu kept looking down at his phone, “Clearly, Shi Siyuan is on such a no-return path.”
“So?” Ye Xingbei also looked at the phone, “Are you suspecting Shi Sixin might have been bought off to poison Xiao Yue in order to pay off Shi Siyuan’s gambling debts?”
Gu Junzhu nodded, “It’s highly possible… look at this…”
He tapped the phone screen, flipping to a page to show Ye Xingbei, “Xiao Gu Qi found that previously, Shi Siyuan’s drug use and gambling were minor, involving ordinary drugs and low gambling amounts, which the Shi family’s economic status could completely cover. But two months ago, his drug use turned to very expensive B drugs, and his gambling went to Beijing’s most famous underground casino, turning from small bets to extravagant ones, ultimately leading to millions in high-interest debt…”