Chapter 59 Human greed knows no bounds.
"Did you arrange for someone to handle Xiao Weilai's shop and Xiaobao's school enrollment procedures?"
Before getting out of the car, Wen Ni asked Lu Jinye.
"Want to thank me?"
"You're overthinking it." Wen Ni smiled, her eyes full of slyness. "If anyone should be thanking someone, it's me. I personally pulled you back from the brink of death this time!"
"What do you want?" Lu Jinye understood her intention.
"Hmm~ I haven't decided yet, you can owe me for now."
After saying that, Wen Ni opened the car door and got out of the car.
Just then, the car carrying Wen Cheng, Li Yuanchang, and Xie Wei arrived at the village entrance.
"Master Lu said this is your family matter and you should handle it yourself. We'll wait for you here at the village entrance!"
After Qin Yuan got out of the car and gave this instruction, he saw Wen Ni nod before getting back into the car.
Xie Wei listened to the whole thing from the side, turning his head to look at the dark car window, his curiosity about this Master Lu growing stronger.
He had asked Wen Cheng in the car earlier, but Wen Cheng remained tight-lipped. However, the only thing he was certain of was that [Master Lu] was not Wen Ni's boyfriend!
"Before coming here, I asked around and found out that after Wen Ni demolished her old house, Wen Yuanshan and Sun Yuling have been staying at the village secretary Wang Zhongshan's house," Li Yuanchang said. "It's getting late, let's hurry back!"
"good."
Wang Zhongshan's home is at the east end of the village.
Although the door was closed, the lights were still on inside, and the sound of a child crying could be heard when the door was knocked on.
"Coming, coming! Who is it? It's so late..."
"Uncle Wang."
"Xie Wei? What are you doing here..." Wang Zhongshan was surprised to see Xie Wei, but just as he was about to smile, he saw Wen Ni leaning against the door...
The friendly smile vanished instantly.
"Xie Wei, how did you end up associating with those two unworthy descendants, Wen Ni and Wen Cheng?"
"Uncle Wang, please don't say that about them. I think there must be some misunderstanding!" Xie Wei quickly stopped Wang Zhongshan from closing the door. "Wen Ni and Xiao Cheng came back this time because they have something to discuss with Uncle Wen."
"Something's wrong? What could possibly be wrong with them?"
Wang Zhongshan scoffed disdainfully, "If you ask me, they couldn't make it on the outside, so they had no choice but to come back and beg Wen Yuanshan for forgiveness, right?"
"Weren't you full of backbone when you made those tough statements and did those ruthless things? Why didn't you think about the consequences now?"
The village was quiet late at night, but Wang Zhongshan's shouting immediately disturbed the neighbors.
They all threw on a coat and went out to see what was going on!
Wen Yuanshan and Sun Yuling were also startled by the commotion and came out. Sun Yuling was holding a swaddled baby in her arms.
"Why do you talk so much, old man? They haven't even said what they're here for, and you're just making things up out of thin air?" Li Yuanchang stepped forward and confronted Wang Zhongshan directly. "Quickly call Wen Yuanshan out, we'll leave as soon as we're done!"
"And who are you to Wen Ni?"
Stepmother Sun Yuling suddenly spoke up. She stared at Li Yuanchang, looking him up and down, and then looked at Wen Ni.
Wen Ni's clothes were still covered in coal dust, and her pants were tattered from the fall earlier. She looked quite disheveled!
But Sun Yuling had no idea of the intricacies of the situation. A mocking smile instantly appeared in her eyes, and she said sarcastically, "What's wrong? Looks like the powerful Lu family didn't want you last time, so you've found someone else to cling to?"
"You're such a natural vixen, you can't live without a man! How did someone like you even get into the army? The army doesn't know about all the filthy things you've done, otherwise they would have kicked you out long ago!"
The military? When did Wen Ni join the military?
Wang Zhongshan and the other villagers had never heard Wen Yuanshan and his wife mention this before, and they were all quite surprised!
Xie Wei suddenly realized why Wen Ni was so skilled; she had dropped out of school three years ago and joined the army. This explained her dramatic change.
Have you said enough?
Wen Cheng trembled with anger, his eyes red as he scanned everyone's faces. "It's always been like this. You never give us a chance to explain. You just unilaterally try to smear my sister and me and make up lies!"
"What explanation do you two siblings have? The facts are right here; we didn't make things up for you!"
The villagers, led by Wang Zhongshan, quickly tried to shirk responsibility.
"Wen Ni! What are you doing here so late at night with Wen Cheng? Are you deliberately trying to make things difficult for us?!"
Wen Yuanshan glared angrily, feeling nothing but resentment and disgust towards his two children!
Eighteen years of father-son relationship
It couldn't withstand Sun Yuling's three years of humiliation.
"How come I'm the one causing you trouble? We haven't exchanged a single word since the beginning; you've all been raving about yourselves!"
Wen Ni's words were clear and melodious, and her composure made her seem detached from the situation.
"Give me your household registration book, then sign and put your fingerprint on this consent form, and I will take Xiao Cheng away from your sight, promising never to appear again until the day you die!"
"Don't even think about it! I won't give you anything!" Wen Yuanshan rejected the idea outright without even asking a question!
Sun Yuling's eyes lit up. "You want your household registration booklet? That's not impossible! But you can't use it for free!"
"Yuling, you..."
Wen Yuanshan didn't understand Sun Yuling's meaning. Sun Yuling glared at him secretly, looked down at the child in her arms, and pulled him away from her, whispering, "She can't do anything with the household registration book. It's probably for Wen Cheng's school registration! Now that we have a child, we don't have a house and we're even struggling to make ends meet. Why don't we take this opportunity to get her to take out some money as a gift for her younger brother!"
"You've thought of everything..." Wen Yuanshan nodded repeatedly.
Sun Yuling winked at him, then looked at Wen Ni and made an outrageous demand: "One million! As long as you come up with one million, I'll give you the household registration book right now!"
"One, one million!?"
Xie Wei and the others were so shocked they couldn't close their mouths!
Sun Yuling is really daring!
Where would an ordinary family come from to come up with a million? Not to mention that Wen Ni and Wen Cheng are just two teenagers!
"sister……"
“Okay, it’s just one million.” Wen Ni didn’t hesitate at all and gestured with her hand. “Brother Li, go find Qin Yuan and tell him to find a way to get one million in cash right now.”
"Huh? Oh..."
Li Yuanchang was taken aback at first, then understood and shut his mouth, turning around and heading towards the village entrance.
Seeing that Wen Ni agreed so readily, Sun Yuling couldn't help but regret that she hadn't asked for enough; she should have asked for two million!
Wen Cheng, standing to the side, tugged at Wen Ni's sleeve, her face contorted in distress as she murmured, "Sister, one million is too much. I might as well not go to school!"
He knew that one million was nothing to Wen Ni at the moment, but the thought of fulfilling Sun Yuling's wish, handing the money over to her so that they could live a good life made him feel uneasy!
"Don't worry, leave it to my sister."
Wen Ni smiled faintly, reached out and pulled over a chair in the yard to sit down, waiting for Li Yuanchang to come back with the money!
The group exchanged glances, all filled with doubt.
Can she really come up with a million?
Putting everything else aside, where did she get a million in cash in the middle of the night? Is she just bragging?
Time passed second by second.
The pitch-black night was beginning to break, but Li Yuanchang still hadn't returned.
"Can you come up with this money now?"
"Is this some kind of scam?"
The villagers, eager for news, had been keeping watch for most of the night and were starting to feel restless.
Sun Yuling's face was also gloomy, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Wen Ni, are you playing me?"
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