Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Great news: The Li family is finished

Qingmei didn't know if Zhou Wu would beat Li Xianjin to death. She was worried that Zhao Xiaoxing still had feelings for Li Xianjin, so she asked her, "What if he didn't kill him but crippled him, and he needs you to serve him?"

Zhao Xiaoxing raised her hands and said fiercely, "Slap him every day until he voluntarily divorces me!"

Qingmei applauded her and cracked an egg for her as a reward.

Zhao Xiaoxing ate the eggs, leaned on the bed, held Qingmei's hand and said, "Zhou Wu might come over at this time."

"It's just right that you're here. Let's clean them up one by one." Zhao Wuhe came over with the medicine bowl. Qingmei took the bowl and picked up the spoon to feed Zhao Xiaoxing.

Zhao Xiaoxing glanced at the bowl and took it in her hand: "There's no need to feed me mouthful by mouthful of this little thing." She raised the bowl and drank it.

Zhao Wuhe smiled and said, "If I say we three are a family, some people will definitely believe it. We are all impetuous."

Qingmei also laughed: "It's just that talented people from all the way gathered together."

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The Li family was still fantasizing about getting the remaining money the next day. Li Xianjin hadn't drunk enough, so after leaving Qingmei's house, he shamelessly went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a loan of one yuan and fifty cents, saying he would pay it back tomorrow.

In the evening, he finished his drink and went to buy something on credit. He even made a scene at the supply and marketing cooperative, saying that the salesperson had overcharged him.

There was nothing they could do but give him half a pound of liquor to drive the drunkard away.

The sounds of singing and dancing from the threshing ground party reached his ears. Li Xianjin, staggering with his wine bottle, muttered, "A bunch of poor souls entertaining themselves, how can they be as happy as drinking and eating meat?"

The party was hosted by the educated youth from the educated youth site. The young educated youth sang and danced, and also mobilized the masses to participate in the yangge dance.

The scene was filled with singing and laughter, creating a joyous atmosphere.

Li Xianjin thought of drinking while watching the educated youth dance, so he went to the threshing ground.

The threshing floor was filled with heads, so densely packed that there was no place to stand. The surrounding tree trunks were also filled with people watching the show.

Li Xianjin didn't squeeze in, so he simply climbed onto the straw stack and sat down. He drank some white wine, took a handful of peanuts from his pocket, tossed them into his mouth, and swung his legs in a relaxed manner.

Four or five young men were sitting on a nearby straw stack, envious of his carefree appearance. Behind Li Xianjin's back, they whispered, "I heard he got rich, but I wonder where he got the money from."

"We all have a count of our money, so who knows where it came from?"

...

Li Xianjin couldn't hear them talking, but he heard a clear and sweet voice singing: "On the third and fourth days of the first lunar month, the village has a holiday. Let's go visit our friends~~"

This is an adaptation of the Errenzhuan opera "Returning to My Mother's Home". The singing female comrade's voice flows like a spring, melodious and pleasant, and each part is greeted with cheers and applause.

Li Xianjin was also attracted by the singing, and found it somewhat familiar.

He suddenly stood up from the straw stack and looked towards the center of the threshing floor, and was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat!

The one singing is none other than my childhood sweetheart who remarried today!

Why is she here?!

Li Xianjin missed a step and fell off the straw stack. He ignored the pain and rushed in to find Qingmei.

Oh no, oh no, Zhou Wu hasn’t waited for anyone yet.

After Qingmei finished singing, she was invited to dance the yangge together.

Qingmei wore the cotton-padded jacket she got when she went to the city last time, with a red silk ribbon tied around her waist. She imitated the other sisters-in-law by twisting her waist and hips, and danced along with them without any stage fright.

It was her first time to participate in such an event. She was all smiles in the yangko team, with dimples appearing on her face, making her look beautiful and innocent.

Mrs. Fang couldn't help wanting to go up and twist as well. As she walked over, she heard someone she didn't recognize say, "It's good that the young widow left the Li family. It's like she's been reborn. Look at her fresh energy."

"She's actually a very nice person. Last summer, I encountered a snake while digging shepherd's purse in the mountains, and she was the one who drove it away for me with a small stick."

"Really? Oh, then we can hang out with her in the future. My husband even asked me to learn how to stew fish from her."

"That's right. Since we've split up the family, she's no longer considered a member of the Li family. We don't have to worry about that old lady's opinion when we move around."

Mrs. Fang also took the opportunity to say: "We are neighbors, and we get along well with each other."

......

They were still talking here, unaware that Li Xianjin, who was about to run over, was caught and taken into the woods.

Zhou Wu stood in front of him, exhausted, with a ferocious expression like a demon crawling out of hell.

Li Xianjin spat out the blood foam in his mouth and saluted with both hands: "Brother, it was the widow who deceived us. Go catch her, she is dancing in there!"

Zhou Wu narrowed his eyes: "Did she really lie to me?"

Li Xianjin swore to the heavens: "We are brothers, how could I lie to you?"

Zhou Wu reserved his opinion on this and said in a deep voice: "Go and call her over."

Li Xianjin slapped his head and said, "She pretended not to be home this morning just to avoid me. Why don't you come with me?"

Zhou Wu was furious and shouted, "Go ahead! If you take my money, you have to come home and sleep with me!"

Li Xianjin was released and tumbled and crawled to the threshing ground. The people outside saw his face covered in blood and were so frightened that they split into two groups to let him in.

Zhou Wu saw Qingmei standing in the yangko team at first sight. She was just as he had been thinking about day and night, with a graceful figure and attractive curves.

He gazed greedily at Qingmei's face. She was indeed a widow famous for her beauty in the surrounding villages. Every time he looked at her, she seemed more charming and attractive than before.

"Who are you? Why are you ruining our party?!" The educated youth who was hosting the show put down the microphone and pointed at Zhou Wu and the others who had come to the center, saying, "Get out now!"

Before Zhou Wu could exert any strength, the educated youth in his teens was pushed to the ground by him.

Zhou Wu waved to Qingmei and said, "Come here quickly before I lose my temper."

Qingmei tilted her head and looked at Zhou Wu, saying coldly, "You still want to snatch someone away in public?"

Zhou Wu's eldest brother said, "You woman, do you really think we're easy to fool? Huh? My eldest brother is having a banquet at home today and has been waiting for you all day. Why aren't you coming to the wedding you promised me?"

This was like a frying pan, and everyone in the threshing floor heard it.

Qingmei crossed her arms over her chest. Zhao Wuhe and Zhao Xiaoxing stood behind her to protect her. Qingmei said coldly, "Go find whoever agreed to marry you. I never agreed!"

Zhou Wu had very thick eyebrows, and he had the blood of a natural butcher. He pointed at Li Xianjin and said, "You didn't tell him? He even took my money!"

Qingmei told him clearly, "I didn't see any money! I didn't even want the pig's trotter his mother gave me. We finally divided the family property, so I won't pay any attention to them."

Zhou Wu's gaze seemed to carry substantial weight as it swept across Qingmei's face. He grabbed Li Xianjin's neck, pulled him in front of him, and said, "Separate the family? Why didn't you tell me you had already separated? Was she telling the truth?"

Li Xianjin was terrified. He had heard rumors about Zhou Wu. He shuddered and said, "Divided...divided."

Zhou Wu was so angry that he threw him to the ground and shouted, "After the family was divided, you still care about her business?! You and your family are ganging up on me? Do you really think I'm made of tofu?"

He turned around and said to Qingmei, "I know, you're involved in this, too!"

Qingmei wasn't afraid of him at all. Everyone in Donghe Village was here, and they wouldn't let someone from another village run wild. She calmly asked, "What's it to me?"

Zhou Wu said coldly, "Wait until I break his legs, and then I'll come back to you."

"What are you looking for?" Zhao Wuhe rushed forward, pointed at Zhou Wu and said, "This is not your mountain. How dare you shout in Donghe Village? Do you think you can steal the girl?"

Captain Jin came over upon hearing the news, followed by a group of officers, who were holding sticks in their hands and making a protective gesture.

Captain Jin said, "Marriage is voluntary. Banditry is not popular nowadays! If you want to be a bandit, be prepared to be shot!"

Zhao Wuhe grabbed a stick and held it across his chest, angrily saying, "As long as I'm here, I'll protect her. If anyone dares to touch her, I'll kill them first!"

Li Xianjin was so scared that he burst into tears. He knew that the matter had become a big deal. He pointed at Qingmei and said, "You, you return the money to him, and pretend this never happened."

He turned around and said to Zhou Wu, "Zhao Wuhe is the officer's mother. Don't fight with that old woman!"

Zhou Wu narrowed his eyes. He had heard that Donghe Village was a place of good feng shui and had produced two military officers. It turned out that their mother was standing in front of Qingmei.

Zhou Wu looked at Qingmei deeply and said, "Return the betrothal gift first." His family was rich and he didn't care about the eighty yuan, but he was afraid that she would take the money and run away.

But Qingmei said: "I said, I didn't get your money at all."

This was not a lie. Qingmei took the savings from Li Xianjin's family.

Captain Jin saw that money was involved, so she stood aside and waited for them to sort it out. As long as they didn't hurt anyone, everything would be fine.

At this time, Mrs. Fang stood up and pointed at Li Xianjin and said, "His mother only gave Qingmei a pig's trotter, and she didn't want it. You don't know, he was eating and drinking delicious food in the village during the first month of the year. Who knows if it was all your money!"

Several salespeople working at the supply and marketing cooperative were also watching the performance. Seeing this, they came forward to testify, "Li Xianjin spent 80 yuan at our supply and marketing cooperative in the past two weeks. We have a tally of his food and drink bills! We even checked this afternoon and it was all spent on food and drink."

Someone else shouted, "He also treated me to several days of drinking, all good wine, and even pig's head!"

After he said this, more people who were watching the fun said, "He invited me. The cigarettes, alcohol and meat were all good, but he was a bit immoral. He acted like a big shot and refused to tell me where the money came from. If he knew that was how he got it, I wouldn't go."

Zhou Wu's face grew increasingly gloomy. He was certain that Li Xianjin's family had deceived him. Qingmei, as he had expected, was adamantly against remarrying him. Li Xianjin's claim that she had agreed was absolutely false.

Zhou Wu had never been fooled around like this in his entire life. The banquet in his courtyard kept getting hotter and colder. The people who came to bring gifts sat there from morning till night without eating a single bite.

The more Zhou Wu thought about it, the angrier he became.

Li Xianjin wanted to explain, but Zhou Wu asked him, "Did you spend that 80 yuan?"

"It's me." Li Xianjin nodded, then shook his head to explain that this eighty and that eighty were two different things, but Zhou Wu punched him again, making his eyes go black.

Zhou Wu knew that he couldn't take Qingmei away today. There were thousands of people at the threshing ground. If he insisted on taking Qingmei away, he would definitely not be able to leave Donghe Village today.

He grabbed Li Xianjin's collar and said only one thing to Qingmei: "I will definitely get you."

Qingmei looked at Zhou Wu's dark and fierce expression, and slowly put her hand to her waist, where she hid a fruit knife.

Zhao Xiaoxing behind her was so frightened that she almost couldn't breathe.

Captain Jin didn't want him to take Li Xianjin away, but Zhou Wu pushed her away and said, "I want to ask him for money. It's only natural to pay back a debt. Do you in Donghe Village still respect the law?"

Captain Jin had no choice but to let them take Li Xianjin back.

Zhao Wuhe, Fang Dasao and others escorted Qingmei to the Gu family compound to prevent Zhou Wu from taking the opportunity to kidnap her.

The others just watched the fun and followed Zhou Wu and the others to Li's house.

There were empty wine bottles and cigarette butts piled up under the wall of Li's house. Zhou Wu and his brothers looked at each other. This was definitely the case. All the money was spent on food and drink by Li Xianjin.

Li Laoer was in the house and had no idea what was happening outside. Sun Xiufen was serving him water.

Seeing Zhou Wu standing at the door with a ferocious look on his face to collect debts, he couldn't swallow a sip of water, his lips twitched and he rolled his eyes.

How could a living son be worse than a dead one?

Sun Xiufen was shocked at first, but then she naturally mentioned Qingmei: "I don't have any money. I gave it to that widow!"

But the people who were watching the fun were not happy and started to say, "Nonsense! Your son even admitted that he spent the money."

Sun Xiufen was dumbfounded. Zhou Wu only said two words: "Give me money."

Sun Xiufen sat down on the ground and began to wail: "Where do I have money? This damn widow cheated my family."

She said that it was useless without money, so Zhou Wu and his brothers began to search through all the drawers and cabinets.

Li Xianjin, his face swollen, didn't dare to stop them. Sun Xiufen got up and ran to the door, begging the onlookers, saying, "Please save our family! We're being bullied and they want to ransack our house."

No matter how she cried and howled, no one paid any attention to her. It was because the Li family didn't get along well with others.

Knowing that she had been cheated by her childhood sweetheart, Sun Xiufen was speechless and could not explain herself clearly, so she watched helplessly as her house was ransacked and turned into a mess.

She didn't know what she was thinking when she saw Zhao Xiaoxing in the crowd.

She rushed over in two steps, grabbed Zhao Xiaoxing's arm and dragged her into the yard. She didn't know where she got the strength from.

She said to Zhou Wu who was rummaging around in the house: "I'll give her to you. We don't want her anymore. She can't compare to Qingmei, but she can be your slave—"

Before she could finish, Zhao Xiaoxing raised her hand in anger, raised her arm high towards Sun Xiufen, and a slap suddenly sounded in the yard.

Sun Xiufen was stunned. She stood there and murmured, "You dare to hit me? You dare to hit your mother-in-law? Oh my God, my life is going to be miserable—"

Zhao Xiaoxing said in shame and anger: "You old fool, why don't you give yourself to them!"

Sun Xiufen got up from the ground and wanted to tear Zhao Xiaoxing apart, but was pushed to the ground by Zhao Xiaoxing, who had been doing heavy work for many years.

"I can't live like this. Everyone is watching. My daughter-in-law is beating her mother-in-law. I can't live a day like this!"

"If we can't live together, then we can get divorced." Zhao Xiaoxing mustered up her courage and said, "If I'm not having a good life, then no one else can expect to have an easy life!"

Zhou Wu and his two brothers walked to the gate of the yard. Hearing this, he looked at Zhao Xiaoxing in surprise. Zhao Xiaoxing was no longer afraid of anything and glared back.

Zhou Wu just found it interesting. He looked at Zhao Xiaoxing and said, "You really don't want to come with me?"

Zhao Xiaoxing spat on the ground and said, "I may not be as good as Qingmei, but you are not worthy of me either!"

When Li Xianjin came out and heard this, he was so scared that he almost wet his pants again. He hurriedly said, "Shut up, don't say anything."

Zhou Wu limped two steps, walked up to Zhao Xiaoxing and said, "If I let you replace Qingmei, will you hate her?"

Zhao Xiaoxing said with determination, "Take them away if you want. I'll hang myself when I get to your house! If I have to hate someone, I'll hate you bastards. Even as a ghost, I'll cry at your bedside!"

Zhou Wu kicked Li Xianjin and stared at Zhao Xiaoxing: "You are much more courageous than your man. He is not worthy of you."

"Then I won't go with you." Zhao Xiaoxing put her hands on her hips to give herself courage and hummed twice.

Li Xianjin wanted to interrupt but was afraid, so he shrunk his neck and sat next to Sun Xiufen to prevent her from rolling on the ground.

His father fell in the house and seemed unable to get up, and his mother didn't even go over to check on him.

Zhou Wu lowered his head and said to Sun Xiufen, who was rolling on the ground, "I don't want the money. I'm leaving."

Sun Xiufen stopped and said, "Really?"

Zhou Wu smiled, still a little frightened. He said in a deep voice, "Really."

Sun Xiufen gritted her teeth, pointed at Zhao Xiaoxing and said, "Do you still want that woman?"

Zhou Wu glanced at Zhao Xiaoxing and said, "It's too ugly. I don't want it."

Zhao Xiaoxing was so ashamed and angry that she pushed her mother-in-law to the ground and ran out.

Sun Xiufen didn't care about Zhao Xiaoxing. When she saw Zhou Wu and the others had really left, she quickly got up and said, "Son, that's great. Zhou Wu doesn't want our money anymore."

Li Xianjin struggled to get up from the ground, his face swollen like a pig's head as he said, "I knew they were kind after all. They say they don't want eighty yuan, but they must have a lot of money to do it."

The mother and daughter went into the house, helped Li Laoer up, and found that Li Laoer had urinated on the floor.

"Dad, what's wrong with you?" Li Xianjin took a few steps back in disgust, spreading his hands and saying, "Are you having a stroke?"

Li Laoer almost fell to the ground again with his mouth twisted, trembling and unable to speak.

Sun Xiufen burst into tears: "God damn it! My father had a stroke because of them. My son, please go find a doctor to treat your father. He is dying."

Li Xianjin rushed out and went to find a doctor to treat his father.

Halfway through the walk, I suddenly remembered that people who have had a stroke will still be paralyzed even if they are cured. Although I didn't know whether it was true or not, I finally slowed down my pace.

There is no money at home, and medical treatment costs money. His father is not as good as him in managing the family.

He was walking on his own, not noticing that someone was following him.

......

Zhao Xiaoxing did not go home that night, but went to Zhao Wuhe's house. The other women got together and drank a bottle of white wine.

"He really left after he said that." Zhao Xiaoxing didn't drink alcohol, but had a stewed egg in brown sugar water. She was imitating Qingmei and Zhao Wuhe about the scene that night, her face flushed with excitement.

If bandits don’t want money, what else can they want?

Although Zhao Xiaoxing is stupid, she can understand this kind of thing. Why can't the Li family understand it?

Qingmei patted her shoulder and said calmly, "Evildoers will be punished by their own evildoers."

The sixteenth day of the first lunar month is the day to set off the lanterns.

The red lanterns outside the door should be taken down to indicate that the New Year is over.

The custom in the morning is to eat noodles, dumplings on the first lantern and noodles on the second lantern. Of course, lighting the lanterns is on New Year's Eve.

Qingmei made hand-rolled noodles for them using thin commercial noodles.

The white noodles cooked with green plums are strong and chewy, with one portion of sour and spicy green bean stew and another portion of minced meat and egg stew.

After Zhao Wuhe and her grandmother finished their meal, she sent her to the county town to watch a play. It was "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", one of the eight model operas, and it was a rare Peking Opera version.

Zhao Xiaoxing gulped down two large bowls of food, rubbed her stomach and sat outside in the fresh air.

"What kind of life did I live before?" Zhao Xiaoxing squinted her eyes comfortably, imitating Li Xianjin's way of crossing her legs and feeling the warm winter.

Qingmei stood beside her, holding a teacup and said, "It's not too late to wake up now."

Zhao Xiaoxing said, "I'm going to go back and talk to him about divorce. He's going to give me away. My heart is broken and there's no way I'll ever get better."

Qingmei secretly looked at her expression. She saw no hurt but only joy. Qingmei knew that she was looking forward to a new life.

"You really don't want me to accompany you?" Qingmei asked, "Their family is afraid that you can't win over them."

Zhao Xiaoxing said, "If you can't win the argument, I'll beat you up. You've beaten me up a lot in the past anyway."

She wanted to say something else when she suddenly heard a heart-wrenching cry from outside: "My dear daughter-in-law, please help me, I beg you."

Zhao Xiaoxing was stunned for a moment, then turned to Qingmei and said, "Is it Sun Xiufen?"

Qingmei said in a cold voice: "Who else could it be? I'm telling you, don't be soft-hearted no matter what she says."

Zhao Xiaoxing wiped her mouth and said, "I'm soft-hearted. I'm not a human being."

When they opened the door, they saw that Sun Xiufen looked like she had aged twenty years. Her already gray hair had turned completely white, her face was sallow, and her eyes were bloodshot.

Not only did she come alone, she was also followed by several staff members and fellow villagers.

After a night of tossing and turning, Sun Xiufen was trembling all over and unable to speak. The women who had come with her all said at once, "Your husband is a bad guy. He was beaten and thrown to the village entrance in the middle of the night. Now he's lying on the kang at home."

"Your father-in-law had a stroke and didn't get treatment in time, so he's now paralyzed in bed!"

Sun Xiufen's lips trembled as she tried to pull Zhao Xiaoxing's hand and ask her to go back with her. Zhao Xiaoxing put her hands behind her back and tried to harden her heart.

Qingmei was listening behind her and was not surprised at Zhou Wu's behavior at all. This was what he would do.

The Li family actually still hopes that Zhou Wu will let it go. They are really dreaming.

In the original text, Zhou Wu is the most vicious supporting character in the book.

"What does it have to do with me if they're paralyzed?" Zhao Xiaoxing said, imitating Qingmei's cold and aloof manner, pursing her lips. "Your family even wants to give me away and doesn't treat me as a family member. Why should I go back and suffer?"

Sun Xiufen's family was in turmoil, and she felt like her soul had been taken away. She slapped herself twice and said pitifully, "After all, I've been in the Li family for so many years, are you so cruel? I was wrong. I hit myself. You don't have to do it. I apologize to you."

Qingmei looked at the crowd, and there was some pity in everyone's eyes. Her man and son were paralyzed overnight. Most people would not be able to endure it.

Zhao Xiaoxing pursed her lips tightly and stared at Sun Xiufen.

Seeing her like this, Sun Xiufen slapped herself a few more times.

A young girl who had come with them couldn't stand it anymore and said, "How can a daughter-in-law be so cruel?"

Zhao Xiaoxing didn't know how to answer, so she turned to look at Qingmei.

Qingmei said coldly, "If you think she's cruel, then go marry into the Li family. Don't be so self-righteous. If you're willing, I'll help you find someone for free."

The young girl said, "That's not what I meant. I just couldn't bear to watch it."

Qingmei sneered and said, "If you can't stand it, then go ahead and become the one. No one will stop you. If you can't stand it and don't become the one yourself, but want someone else to become the one, how can you be so filial? Who can't say it with their mouth? It's obvious that you are the one who does it?"

The young girl waved her hands and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I don't want to do that. Who wants to serve two paraplegics?"

Her mother was also nearby, and she twisted her arm in anger: "You don't want to say anything? Do you have the right to speak? I don't see how you usually serve me."

The young girl stammered, "I didn't say that."

"You can't undo what's spilled, and that's true of words. You're not a child anymore, you should understand this."

Qingmei nodded and said, "If you don't want to, then shut your little mouth. Otherwise, my slap won't have eyes. If you can only make sarcastic remarks, you better be careful of my slap."

The young girl couldn't stand such ridicule, especially from a widow. She dragged her mother away with a red face, not wanting to watch the fun anymore.

Zhao Xiaoxing looked at Qingmei gratefully, then mustered up the courage to glare at Sun Xiufen.

Sun Xiufen calmed down and said, "In the past, our Li family has wronged you so much. Now we are suffering retribution. I beg you to forgive me and help me."

She said she would kneel down and kowtow to Zhao Xiaoxing. Zhao Xiaoxing was suddenly panicked. She never dreamed that Sun Xiufen would kneel down and beg her.

Those who followed the crowd started talking about it. Although they knew that the Li family was not a good family, they thought that Zhao Xiaoxing was a little too heartless when they thought about the disaster they had suffered.

But they were also afraid that Qingmei would ask someone else to serve her, and it would be too embarrassing to be ridiculed by the widow, so no one spoke up to interfere.

Qingmei stood in front of Zhao Xiaoxing and looked coldly at Sun Xiufen who was kowtowing.

Others cannot bear the kowtow of their elders, but Qingmei can.

By the time Sun Xiufen hit her forehead and started bleeding, she was almost unable to stand up.

Qingmei reached out and grabbed Sun Xiufen's arm, smiling and saying, "Who said I won't help? Wait until Xiaoxing changes her clothes and then I'll go back with you."

Sun Xiufen said in a daze: "Really?"

Qingmei nodded: "Really."

Sun Xiufen was so excited that tears and snot streamed down her face, and she reached out to pull Zhao Xiaoxing away. She realized that Qingmei was Zhao Xiaoxing's backbone.

Zhao Xiaoxing's eyes almost popped out of her head: "Who said we wanted to go back?"

"Wait." Qingmei pulled her back to the yard and said, "Listen to me."

Zhao Xiaoxing collapsed and said, "I want a divorce. I don't want to take care of paralysis."

Qingmei poked her forehead with her finger and said, "If you speak now, you'll definitely get stabbed in the back."

Qingmei had a clear vision: Zhao Xiaoxing needed to maintain her reputation if she wanted to stay in Donghe Village. Otherwise, if word got out that she ran away from her in-laws when things got tough, it would be bad for her in the future. Besides, if she wanted a divorce now, the Li family would definitely not agree, and dragging it out was a waste of time.

Zhao Xiaoxing was about to cry: "Then I can't get a divorce? Don't tell me I'll have to take care of the paralytic's shit and urine for the rest of my life! I still want to eat delicious food, I won't do that."

Seeing that she was being stubborn again, Qingmei reminded her, "So you were bragging to me yesterday."

"yesterday?"

"Yes, you asked yourself yesterday, what if Li Xianjin wasn't killed but was crippled?"

"What should I do?" Zhao Xiaoxing's eyes suddenly lit up. "I'll beat him the same way he beat me before! Eighteen times a day, in different ways, until he can't stand it anymore and asks for a divorce!"

"That's right." Qingmei smiled and nodded. "We have to pay back for the beatings we suffered in the past. Divorcing them so easily would be a bargain. They begged you to come into our house, and now they have to beg you to leave."