Chapter 125: Downfall
“I wish you weren’t my own flesh and blood!”
Huang Zongbao gritted his teeth and growled lowly, his eyes as if he wanted to strangle her to death in one go.
How could he have such a daughter who knew no manners, righteousness, frugality, or shame?
Was this thing really of the old Huang family bloodline?
Going back eight generations, it was hard to find such a vicious and stupid piece of trash!
After extreme anger, his brain became unusually clear, and Huang Zongbao painfully pounded his own head twice.
He was wrong, terribly wrong.
Back then, he shouldn’t have made concessions for the child and for the family’s unity: letting the daughter take the Tang surname was wrong, and letting her take the daughter to live at her parents’ home all the time was even more wrong on top of wrong!
“Tian Tian, listen to me, your dad is saving you. If you don’t say it like that to the inspectors, you’ll all be sent to the farm reform…”
“Shut up! It’s all you, all your fault. Now I’ve become like this and my life is ruined—are you happy? Are you satisfied?”
“Pa—”
Huang Zongbao decisively slapped her backhanded again, immediately making the mark on her face perfectly symmetrical.
Just as she was about to open her mouth and scream, he said coldly, “If you dare say one more word, I’ll place a newspaper ad to sever father-daughter relations with you. I won’t care about you anymore from then on.”
Because of this slap with no mercy, Tang Tian’s face tilted to one side, with a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth and a brief ringing in her ears.
This was her good dad, the biological father who said he loved and cherished her the most.
Tears welled up in her eyes, but she stubbornly didn’t want them to fall, as if dropping them meant she had lost.
Holding back that breath, Tang Tian’s chest began to heave violently. After all these events, she had finally gained a bit of sense.
Turning her gaze to Qin Jianjun, who had been hanging his head like a turtle shrinking into its shell ever since the Huang family arrived, Tang Tian dispersed the mist in her eyes and turned back to stare straight at her dad.
“Fine, I’ll marry, but I want you to give me three turns and one ring, thirty-six legs, and eighteen hundred yuan as dowry! This is what you owe me!”
Qin Jianjun, beaten with a bruised and swollen face, heard her words and tried his best to control his excited heart and trembling hands.
Who would have thought, although she had lost a big backer, it turned out the Huang family still had quite some family assets. Tang Tian herself was still a little treasure lump?
Qin Jianjun, secretly delighted and feeling the two beatings were worth it, didn’t know that his prospective father-in-law was already furious to the point of exploding.
In just these few short days, Huang Zongbao had discovered that this daughter, whom he thought was just spoiled in temperament, was actually rotten to the core.
His eye sockets grew hot, and he suddenly realized he had unknowingly shed tears.
He quickly turned around, took a deep breath, and for the first time, his words carried a cold tone.
“If you still recognize me as your dad, then marry well. Whatever other families give their daughters, you’ll have too.
If you open your mouth demanding all those things and don’t want me as your dad…”
“I want these things, not one less! Once I’m married, I guarantee even in death I won’t step foot in your Huang family!”
Anyway, she took the Tang surname not Huang, and anyway Huang Zongbao didn’t treat her as a daughter—what difference did having or not having this dad make?!
Tang Tian didn’t think twice, not even waiting for him to finish speaking; that expression and those piercing words truly chilled her relatives to the bone.
“Good, good, good! You really are Tang Huan’s good daughter—good, very good!”
Without any more hesitation, Huang Zongbao strode away without once looking back.
The teardrop that heavily smashed onto the ground instantly created a splash, making Huang Mingzhu’s breathing tighten in pain. She wanted to call out to her brother, but her mouth ultimately made no sound.
“Tang Tian, you’ve hurt your dad’s heart too much, you…”
“I don’t need your fake kindness. As my aunt, the share you were supposed to prepare for my wedding, you’d better deliver it yourself…”
“I’ll beat you to death, you little beast!”
Huang Daneng, unable to listen anymore, broke free from the old woman’s hand, stepped forward, and delivered a slap. “The old Huang family has no such shameless thing as you. No one owes you what you deserve!”
“Zhuzhu, old woman, let’s go!”
He still wanted to live a few more years for his daughter. Staying longer and hearing one more word from that biological granddaughter might make him directly keel over from anger!
Huang Daneng grabbed one with each hand, pulling the two softest-hearted women in the family, and left the broken yard without stopping.
“What a thing! Truly not of the old Huang family bloodline!”
“His dad!”
“What? Where did I go wrong? That woman Tang Huan—big brother was truly blind to insist on marrying her despite everything. Even if she really put a green hat on him, I wouldn’t be surprised!”
“The more you say, the more outrageous it gets. You old thing, shut your mouth for me. If others hear, will you let your eldest son live!”
Huang Zongbao cursed and grumbled without holding back a bit.
The two standing in the yard heard it all crystal clear.
Tang Tian watched their departing backs, her gaze full of vicious hatred.
“Tian Tian…”
“Are you blind? Go heat up a pot of hot water for me!”
“I’ll go right now, Tian Tian. You go inside and lie down first. I’ll bring the hot water in shortly.”
“Don’t think I don’t know your little thoughts. Qin Jianjun, let me tell you, marrying me is your ancestors burning incense and accumulating blessings for eight generations. If you’re smart, serve me well, and then you and your whole family of paupers will have good days—got it?”
Clenching his fists tightly, thinking that her marrying him was now a done deal, Qin Jianjun exhaled a turbid breath.
The fawning smile on his face turned completely sinister the moment he turned: wait until he squeezes all her value dry, heh.
Toad?
Swan meat?
He would let her know what exactly that toad in his mouth had eaten.
……
Beijing City, Qinghe Lane Fu family.
“Bang—”
He slammed the enamel cup forcefully onto the table, making a loud bang. The bottom of the cup instantly chipped off a piece of white porcelain.
Fu Chenggong endured his temper to send the person away, then couldn’t hold back and burst into curses.
“Sure enough, a dog thing with unquenchable thieving heart!”
Wanting a post transfer?
Heh, as long as he was still around for a day, Xu Zixin that turtle grandson wouldn’t get to chase after Ning Yatou to continue harassing her.
“Looks like he thinks there aren’t enough lice on his head. Then I’ll give him more as a big meal!”
His straight posture burst with a terrifying aura. Fu Chenggong narrowed his eyes, hiding the increasingly intense ferocity within.
……
Gu City, textile factory.
To avoid Qiao Yuan, who was like hitting a southern wall with his head bleeding and still refusing to turn back, at mealtime Su Ning didn’t go to the canteen but gave Hu Yong her lunchbox money and ration coupons, asking him to bring back a portion.
Such a small convenient task, and with plenty of money and ration coupons given, Hu Yong naturally had no reason to refuse.
But just as she continued burying her head in writing yesterday’s report, Hu Yong, who had gone to the canteen not long ago, came rushing back holding two lunchboxes, bumping open the half-closed door.
“Su Ning!”
“What happened?”
Startled by his sudden commotion, looking at the report ruined by the big curved line from the pen under her hand, Su Ning pinched her brow in headache.
Hu Yong, usually so perceptive, seemed not to notice anything wrong—perhaps because he was too excited—his bright, spirited big eyes completely missing it.
He handed over the lunchbox that was hers, then pulled over Fu Jiaming’s chair and sat across from her desk.
“Su Ning, do you know what I just heard in the canteen?!”
Just looking at his flushed, beaming face, it must be some incredible gossip?
She simply put down the pen in her hand, raised her eyes, and cooperatively asked, “What did you hear?”
“Yan Bin’s group was sentenced—a dozen or so directly fed peanuts, the rest all sent down… sigh, but that’s not the most important!”
With Yan Bin gone, it meant another chaos in Gu City black market. Hu Yong wasn’t sure if he was happy or not; what truly surprised him was the news that followed.
Although he knew without a big backer, someone like Tang Tian would eventually court death, who could have known it would come so suddenly and so fast!
It was practically back-to-back—too damn coincidental, and truly exhilarating.
“Tang Tian and Qin Jianjun were caught screwing around and got cornered in their rented yard!”
“Hm?”
Thinking that because of her, Yan Bin had gone in early to take a bullet, this little butterfly Tang Tian flapping ahead into her miserable pit didn’t seem… all that surprising?
She and Qin Jianjun—one vicious and stupid, the other insidious and cunning—were quite the perfect match. Locking them down early would save them from harming others.
“Ha, cough cough…”
Wanting to laugh but having to hold it back fiercely, Hu Yong’s whole face looked somewhat ferocious.
“Laugh if you want to laugh. Am I going to report you for not being friendly to your coworker comrade?”
These incredibly familiar words hit Hu Yong’s funny bone; he couldn’t hold back anymore and slapped the table, bursting into loud laughter.
Refreshing, truly exhilarating!
“Su Ning, do you think once the factory knows about this, will they give some punishment or directly…”
It took a full two minutes for the laughter to stop. Hu Yong lowered his voice to ask, making a back-and-forth slicing motion across his neck with his finger.
