Chapter 34: Disrupting The Natural Order?
Lu Qiaoge glanced at Cadre Liu, but had to admit that what he said was actually not wrong.
She had gotten a book about current laws from Director He, and she had already read it from beginning to end.
The current laws have no clear inheritance rights. According to the historical trajectory, the relevant legal regulations would not be promulgated until Now, children’s inheritance of parents’ property mainly relies on traditional habits, grassroots mediation, and sporadic legal principles.
The Marriage Law promulgated in 1950 had as its core the abolition of arranged marriages, concubinage, child brides, and other old systems, with relatively brief regulations on property relationships, because children’s property rights were not the legislative focus.
In practice, it was mainly based on traditional customs, such as what Shao Le just said, that he and Older Brother could fully divide parents’ real estate and property.
But his two older sisters had lost the qualification to divide the family property because they had already got married.
Although equality between men and women had always been advocated, implementing it was such a long process.
It was at this moment that a familiar inner voice came: 【Little fairy, I finally found you, hee hee.】
Lu Qiaoge quickly looked to the side, and sure enough, a calico cat was squatting on a tree not far away.
Because only the calico cat liked to call her little fairy or little master.
Other creatures all called her by her full name.
Lu Qiaoge quietly said to it in her mind: “I’m working here, it’s quite chaotic, go play somewhere else.”
The calico cat stood up and pointed to an old black cat squatting on the window sill of the next-door balcony, saying to Lu Qiaoge: 【Did you see that old black cat? It’s crying. It used to be the cat raised by Zhou Li’s mother. Master Zhou also liked this cat, but after Master Zhou died, Old Black Cat was driven out by Luo Guixiang. Because Old Black Cat wouldn’t leave, its leg was broken by Luo Guixiang’s son. Now Old Black Cat basically stays over by the boiler room.】
It seemed to have activated the surrounding aura. At this moment, Lu Qiaoge suddenly heard Old Black Cat’s inner voice.
【Little master, don’t die. Your mother left things for you,wuwuwu……】
Lu Qiaoge’s eyes darkened. Left things, where?
Her gaze fell on Master Zhou’s home on the first floor. Were the things in the room?
This was getting lively now.
Cadre Liu naturally didn’t know about such a secret. He hurriedly said: “I’m not wrong either. I’m telling you according to the relevant regulations.”
Zhou Li saw so many people watching her joke. She hadn’t rested properly since coming back, and was staying with her husband and child at Grandma Sun’s home. Luo Guixiang wouldn’t let her step into the room door even half a step.
She opened the medicine bottle and stared deadly at Luo Guixiang: “Surname Luo, you’re a woman with a viperous heart. If I die, it’s because you forced me to!”
The mute man holding the child suddenly knelt on the ground. The child was so scared it wailed loudly, and the scene became chaotic for a moment.
Lu Qiaoge shouted in her mind to the calico cat watching the excitement: “Go tell Old Black Cat to find an opportunity to pounce over and capsize the medicine bottle in Zhou Li’s hand.”
At this time, Lu Qiaoge couldn’t communicate with Old Black Cat and could only go through Hua Hua.
The crowd was noisy and chaotic. No one paid attention to the sudden meow meow meow sound, nor to Old Black Cat suddenly bristling its fur.
Cadre Liu anxiously shouted: “Don’t do anything stupid. We can discuss this matter.”
Then, looking at the unmoved Luo Guixiang, he jumped and shouted: “Old Luo, say something! After all, Zhou Li is also Master Zhou’s daughter.”
Luo Guixiang said slowly: “What do you want me to say? It’s always been like this in our compound. Which married daughter comes back to her mother’s home to live? Even if my daughter got married, doesn’t she have to go to her husband’s family? I say, the problem is still with Zhou Li’s husband. Since Zhou Li got married locally, she should live there. Why come back to the city? I really don’t understand.”
Cadre Liu glared his eyeballs: “Old Luo, how can you talk like that?”
Luo Guixiang retorted: “Am I wrong?”
Someone in the crowd echoed.
“Our housing is short now. If all married daughters come back, it would be a mess.”
“Yeah, yeah, that’s the reason. Wouldn’t that disrupt the ethical order?”
Zhou Li was filled with shame and anger. She and her husband had ended up together by a twist of fate. Her husband was an adopted son, and her mother-in-law’s family treated them like cattle and horses. Their two-year-old son had almost been sold by the old woman. She had no way out and that’s why she thought of returning to the city.
Things had already blown up over in the rural area. Going back so dejectedly, she might as well die.
Dying was good, dying would allow her to go there and ask her biological father why he found such a vicious stepmother for her halfway, forcing her into a dead end?
She raised the bottle to pour into her mouth. The crowd immediately erupted in screams of ah ah ah. Some ran toward Zhou Li, and the mute man crawled up and pounced over frantically.
But this time, Zhou Li wasn’t bluffing. She really didn’t want to live.
Because Zhou Li was backed against the wall, and because everyone hadn’t taken it seriously, there was no defense. By the time Zhou Li was about to drink the medicine, even the nearest mute husband couldn’t do anything no matter how fast he was.
Many people’s minds buzzed.
Cadre Liu’s vision went black, with a fleeting thought of it’s over, it’s over.
The current enemy was very potent.
Especially such a large bottle. Even if rushed to the staff hospital immediately, it couldn’t be saved.
It was at this moment that Old Black Cat, having finished communicating with the calico cat, leaped joyfully from the window sill toward Zhou Li.
The crowd only felt a black shadow flash by, and meow meow meow sounded in their ears.
Then they saw Zhou Li, whose hand was now empty, standing there in a daze.
The mute husband scrambled over, hugged Zhou Li tightly, and wept silently, which was heartbreaking.
Zhou Li stared blankly at Old Black Cat in the crowd, which had raised its head to look at her.
She pushed away her husband and rushed over in a few strides. Old Black Cat also took the chance to pounce into her arms.
Zhou Li in disbelief: “Little Black, Little Black, didn’t you die?”
Luo Guixiang uneasily frowned, but soon didn’t care.
Just a cat, a beast, what difference did living or dying make?
Many in the crowd breathed a sigh of relief. Someone shouted: “Isn’t this the cat raised by Zhou Li’s biological mother?”
“Oh my, this cat is really spiritual. It saved Zhou Li.”
Some old woman wanted to say it was the Buddha’s blessing, and some wanted to say it was Zhou Li’s biological mother Yu Xiu blessing her only daughter, but thinking of the current situation, they quickly shut their mouths.
But many people were secretly exchanging gazes.
Lu Qiaoge and Cadre Liu lowered their voices: “Cadre Liu, I’m a woman. Can I say a few words to Zhou Li?”
Cadre Liu was stunned for a moment, then reacted and hurriedly nodded.
Lu Qiaoge walked to Zhou Li, who was holding Old Black Cat and crying, and introduced herself: “Comrade Zhou, I’m the new cadre from the neighborhood committee. My name is Lu Qiaoge. Can I say a few words to you?”
Zhou Li slowly nodded.
Lu Qiaoge’s voice was clear: “Comrade Zhou, Cadre Liu and Comrade Luo are not wrong. Regarding the house your dad left behind, as a married daughter, without Comrade Luo’s agreement, you have no qualification to move in.”
