Chapter 183: “who Did He Provoke?”
“Lin Zhao.” Qiu Lian glared at Lin Zhao, her gaze heavy, shrieking miserably: “You have to force me to death before you’re satisfied, right?”
Lin Shisheng blocked Lin Zhao, his tone sarcastic, “Zhaozhao isn’t wrong.”
“Don’t act like everyone has wronged you. It wasn’t my sister who forced you to steal someone.”
After speaking, he no longer looked at her and nodded to Public Security.
It was a strict time. With this matter blown up so big, the only outcome awaiting Qiu Lian and the scoundrel was… education, doing the dirtiest and heaviest work, with an indefinite time limit.
Qiu Lian’s face turned pale, crying with her pig-headed face, softening and begging, “Husband, don’t be so ruthless to me. For the sake of our two daughters, spare me. I promise I won’t make trouble again…”
She cried until tears and snot smeared her face, looking wretched beyond words.
Lin Zhao sneered coldly.
Now she remembered Xuanxuan and Zheng Zheng?
What had she been doing the previous years?
The onlookers whispered among themselves, with occasional laughter.
“So wretched. Qiu Lian used to be so arrogant, showing off to everyone how good her man was to her, how her parents-in-law valued her, how the little girl adored her. Turns out her status in her husband’s family is just like that. She really knows how to brag.”
A girl who grew up with Qiu Lian spoke up, “People have to have a conscience in this world. Things obtained through scheming can’t last long.”
Thinking of how Qiu Lian mocked and looked down on her own family, and the provocative words she repeatedly said to her mother-in-law, she just wanted to sneer.
She knew Qiu Lian would eventually get herself killed sooner or later.
See.
It happened!
Public Security demanded Chen Zhuangshi and Qiu Lian follow them back to the city.
The scoundrels’ minds flashed with the terrifying scene they saw in the county, struggling like mad.
“I was forced.”
“I was seduced.”
Both spoke at the same time.
Hearing each other’s voices, their expressions changed slightly, and they became sharp all over.
“Chen Zhuangshi, you have no shame. Clearly you forced me.” Qiu Lian shrieked, lunging to hit Chen Zhuangshi’s face.
Chen Zhuangshi couldn’t beat his strong wife, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t beat Qiu Lian.
He slapped her.
It made Qiu Lian spin in a circle.
“You dare say you didn’t want it?” Chen Zhuangshi’s mouth curved up, his expression sarcastic.
“You dare say you didn’t come to me on your own? If you didn’t want it, why didn’t you return to Dongfeng Brigade? Why stay at your maternal family all this time? Isn’t it because you wanted to have fun with me? Now that you’ve had your fun, you want to pin all the blame on me. Qiu Lian, let me tell you, don’t even think about it. I’m not your useless husband. If you piss me off, I’ll kill you.”
Lin·Useless·Shisheng: “……”
Damn it, who had he provoked!
Lin Zhao had a cold face, raised her hand and gave the scoundrel a big slap, “Watch your politeness when you speak, don’t force me to slap you!”
Chen Zhuangshi yelped, clutching his forehead, tears nearly falling.
Fuck.
How does this woman have such brute strength, even fiercer than his wife.
Chen Zhuangshi didn’t dare harm innocents anymore, just grabbed Public Security and cried, “Public Security comrades, believe me, I’m really innocent.”
“If you don’t believe me, ask the villagers. I’m an honest man. If I wasn’t seduced, how would I commit such a principled error? My wife is so capable, why would I need to? Right?”
“I was harmed by that bitch Qiu Lian.”
“I know I was wrong. Let me off this time, I’ll change, I’ll change right away. I promise I won’t mess around again, okay?”
Chen Zhuangshi knelt and slid smoothly, as shrewd as could be.
He didn’t want to suffer.
A big man was about to cry.
Public Security comrade shook his head, “Release is impossible. Your attitude of admitting fault is good, so we can consider leniency.”
Chen Zhuangshi knew an arm couldn’t twist a thigh, so he played smart, smiling obsequiously, “I admit it, I admit everything.”
He was caught red-handed; what else could he do but admit?
Resisting stubbornly was worse than honestly admitting fault for a lighter sentence.
After Chen Zhuangshi’s words, others looked at Qiu Lian even more strangely.
Oh, so it was Qiu Lian who initiated it.
Tsk tsk tsk.
Really an unchaste woman.
The Lin family is such a good family, how could she not cherish it? If it were them, they would live honestly.
Qiu Lian’s face turned ashen white.
“Public Security comrades, Chen Zhuangshi is talking nonsense. He forced me. Yes, he forced me. I’m just a weak woman with little strength. Once he targeted me, how could I escape…”
Before she finished, Chen Zhuangshi spat in her face, “Shameless stinking wife. Clearly you said life in the Lin family was hard, your man wasn’t considerate or responsible, gave you cold faces every day, your mother-in-law was fierce, and you felt stifled in your husband’s home… Weren’t those your words?”
Chen Zhuangshi dared to have an affair, so his temperament goes without saying; his mouth was sharp as could be.
“You said I was more considerate than your man, and being with me made you happy as could be. Didn’t you say those words?”
Qiu Lian’s face turned green, a flash of guilt in her eyes.
Onlookers: “Eh…”
Public Security: No rush, watch more.
Chen Zhuangshi didn’t stop, with his bruised face, he continued mocking coldly, “What are you pretending for!”
“I, Chen Zhuangshi, may not be a good thing, but I dare to act and take responsibility. I did engage in illicit affairs, I admit that, but I didn’t seduce you. You came to me first!”
“You delivered yourself to my door; could I refuse? Only a fool would turn down free benefits.”
These words were particularly degrading. Qiu Lian was so angry her face flushed and neck thickened, “Chen Zhuangshi!”
“What are you yelling for? I know my own name; no need for your reminder.” Chen Zhuangshi stuck out his neck, curled his lips, muttering: “Play is play, fight is fight, but nothing beats your own wife.”
In front of the glib-tongued Chen Zhuangshi, Qiu Lian’s little tricks weren’t enough.
She panted heavily, clearly furious, wanting to say more, but Public Security, stuffed with the show, spoke: “Let’s go, no more dawdling.”
Qiu Lian looked pleadingly at Lin Shisheng, but he averted his eyes, her heart instantly cooling.
As if suffering a huge shock, her shoulders drooped.
Villagers loudly condemned.
“Our village is unlucky too, to have such a person. Which brigade would dare marry our village girls now?”
“Exactly, one rat spoils the whole pot of soup.”
“Destroying others’ families; people like this should be sunk in a pig cage!”
“Tired of good days!”
…
An overly righteous aunt threw rotten vegetable leaves at the scoundrels’ heads.
“Pah! Shameless!”
Chen Zhuangshi felt he was a bit shameless and didn’t retort.
But Qiu Lian didn’t think she was wrong, only annoyed at being caught carelessly. She brushed off the yellowish rotten leaves from her head, glaring at her “attacker” with hatred in her eyes.
“What are you glaring at? You do shameful things and still glare at people. You really were spoiled rotten by your parents who can’t tell right from wrong.” The aunt said angrily.
Qiu Lian’s ferocity didn’t subside, “None of your damn business.”
Villagers were furious.
Someone who ruined the brigade’s reputation still dared to boss around; really giving her face.
Then…
Whatever was in hand was thrown. Soon, Qiu Lian looked even more wretched.
She looked at each one, memorizing the faces of those kicking her when she was down, her eyes full of hatred.
No matter how much hatred Qiu Lian harbored, she was ultimately taken away by Public Security.
In these times, marriage didn’t require registration; just a banquet sufficed. Lin Shisheng got a certificate from Brigade Headquarters and terminated his marital relationship with Qiu Lian.
Looking at that thin piece of paper with a small red stamp, Lin Shisheng felt his whole body lighten.
He grinned, his smile growing brighter.
One couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud.
“Cough… Sorry, it feels like being released after serving a sentence; it’s just too exciting.” Lin Shisheng looked apologetically at his good brother and Lin Zhao. Saying this, his smile didn’t diminish at all.
Wu Guodong punched his shoulder, “Brother, congrats. Borrowing a phrase I heard, I wish you smooth paths ahead.”
Jianjun glanced at Wu Guodong, scalp tingling from being dragged in. Congrats was fine, but copying educated youth’s fancy words—what was he, with no ink in his belly, supposed to do?
He glanced resentfully at his childhood friend, saying dryly to Lin Shisheng: “…Congrats, may your future days all be sweet.”
Seeing this, Lin Zhao couldn’t help but smile.
Second Brother’s friends are so interesting.
Lin Shisheng said: “Thanks.”
He was in an extremely good mood.
Lin Shisheng regained his freedom thanks to Wu Guodong and Jianjun taking turns watching the Qiu family, netting the scoundrels. Grateful for his buddies’ help, he raised his hand, “This afternoon, let’s eat meat at the state-run restaurant. My treat.”
Wu Guodong and the one called Jianjun were countryside men, naturally inferior to city folk, always detouring past the state-run restaurant for fear of ridicule.
Hearing Lin Shisheng’s words now, they couldn’t believe it.
“Shengzi, you mean it?” Wu Guodong said.
Jianjun asked: “Do you have money and ration coupons?”
At this, Lin Zhao spoke, “I do. Guodong bro, Jianjun bro, you’ve helped my second brother so much; he must treat you to a meal. Eat boldly this afternoon.”
Jianjun gave a thumbs up, “Little Lin sister is generous.”
Wu Guodong elbowed Lin Shisheng, “Shengzi, our little sister is really good.”
“Get lost, she’s my sister.” Lin Shisheng laughed and cursed.
The four laughed and joked.
Lin Zhao and Lin Shisheng arrived at the Qiu house, smashing whatever they saw.
The playing-dead Qiu family sat up in shock from their deathbed illness, shouting and trying to stop them, but couldn’t.
Qiu Lian’s younger brother grabbed tools to fight back, “I’ll fight you all!”
“Bang!”
Lin Shisheng punched his eye. The lazy good-for-nothing instantly had a bruised eye, hugging his head and squatting there crying.
He howled to the sky: “Dad, Mom, this life can’t go on.”
Crying with hiccups, his voice grating.
Knowing he got beaten because of Qiu Lian, he started cursing filthily.
Qiu Lian’s younger brother’s wife also cried.
But what use was crying? Who made Qiu Lian a Qiu, who made the Qiu family do shameless things?
The Lin family didn’t care for compensation, just wanted to vent. They smashed the Qiu house to vent, and before leaving, left words—
From now on, the Lin family and Qiu family are irreconcilable. Whatever benefits the Qiu family took from the Lin family, they didn’t want them back; consider it smashed as compensation for their house.
Old Woman Qiu was so angry she couldn’t speak, slapping her thigh hard, hating: “Gone, all gone.”
“Unfilial daughter. If I knew Qiu Lian would do such shameless things, I shouldn’t have raised her.” Old Man Qiu looked at the wreckage everywhere, eyes bloodshot, wishing he could tear Qiu Lian apart.
Qiu Lian’s sister-in-law looked numb.
She had warned them.
She told them to discipline the sister-in-law.
The Qiu family coveted the benefits Qiu Lian brought back, didn’t care, even helped cover up. This family really had no bottom line.
–
Qiu Lian and her scoundrel became the typical example in the county for cracking down on illicit affairs, cursed by the whole city.
They were finally forcibly sent for education.
Because of the mutual blame-throwing before capture, the once hot-and-heavy adulterers tore faces in the farm too, causing much laughter.
Chen Zhuangshi had a capable uncle, who got him back after half a year of hard labor in the farm. Upon return, he heard his wife was pregnant with his child.
Chen Zhuangshi: “???”
Chen Zhuangshi: “!!!”
He had a son?
He went to confront, and got beaten badly.
Chen Zhuangshi wasn’t angry, rubbed his hands in various groveling ways, ran to his father-in-law’s house daily to fawn, swearing never to mess around again, wouldn’t keep money in hand, all give to his wife.
Chen Zhuangshi’s wife trained him like a dog, making him behave. Two years later, she took the child back to the Chen family with him.
After having a son, Chen Zhuangshi really changed into another person, worked diligently, didn’t chase young wives, just revolved around his wife and child.
As for Qiu Lian, she offended Chen Zhuangshi to death in the farm; a petty man wouldn’t help her.
–
Lin Xuan and Lin Zheng saw the divorce certificate paper from their parents.
Zheng Zheng looked at her sister and asked her dad, “She won’t come home again, right?”
“Right.” Lin Shisheng ruffled his youngest daughter’s hair.
“Will Dad remarry?” Zheng Zheng asked again.
Lin Shisheng was stunned, then smiled bitterly, “One marriage is enough. From now on, I’ll guard you two, raise you both successfully, and my mission is complete. When I’m old, I’ll live with your aunt and uncle, fish, play chess, grow flowers…”
Zheng Zheng’s brows were serious, “Dad, I’ll take care of you, provide for your elder care.”
“Me too.” Xuanxuan said.
“Good.” Lin Shisheng’s smile was open and bright, broader than Xuanxuan and Zheng Zheng had ever seen.
He glanced at his daughters, told them to stay good at their aunt’s, and Lin Shisheng returned to Dongfeng Brigade.
The family was still waiting for news.
Over half an hour later.
Lin Shisheng got home. The Lin family, upon hearing the news, all felt relieved inside.
Out of regard for Lin Shisheng’s face, they didn’t show it, just nodded to indicate they knew.
Song Xiwei took out money and ration coupons, “Little Second, go buy a jin of meat. We’ll make dumplings this afternoon.”
Hearing dumplings, the children were thrilled.
“Yay, dumplings!!” Er Dan cheered.
Xi Bao frowned her little brows, “Xuanxuan sis and Zheng Zheng aren’t home, what to do? Send some to them. If sending, also send to aunt and Yu Bao and the others.”
Lin Shisheng smiled, “Xi Bao is so thoughtful. Don’t worry, Xuanxuan and Zheng Zheng are eating and sleeping well at your aunt’s; they won’t miss a dumpling.”
Then, he looked at his parents, “Dad, Mom, I want to renovate the room, okay?”
“How do you want to do it?” Song Xiwei asked curiously.
“My room is big; I want to imitate the kids’ rooms like Yu Bao’s, set up one for Xuanxuan and Zheng Zheng.” Lin Shisheng explained.
Song Xiwei had seen the four cubs’ rooms; they were indeed nice, “If you want to do it, do it.”
“Since we’re doing it, might as well do for Da Dan and the others too. I’ll pay.”
Lin Shisheng: “Alright, I’ll find the carpenter later.”
With the family completely cutting ties with the Qiu family, Lin Zhao was in a great mood, feeling the sky truly blue, clouds truly white, flowers truly fragrant. At home, she focused on making gourmet food for the little ones.
A group of little friends sat at the kitchen door, eating fragrant meat jerky, smiles radiant.
Military Region.
The guard was earnestly persuading the leader, “Leader, you shouldn’t travel now. Doctor Sun suggests you rest. I think…”
Before he finished, he was interrupted by the vigorous man, “Think what? That matter is more important. Before the country, personal matters are small.”
