Chapter 59 I will never eat anything else again
Liang Jinyu suddenly remembered the bowl of chicken soup they had placed at the door last night. She hadn't noticed it before, but now that she thought about it, it seemed to be indeed missing.
The child in the house was still crying and the woman was swearing.
"Dani." Liang Jinyu said, meeting Dingfang's eyes.
Although the two of them didn't drink, Dani did!
"You go to the grocery store first, and I'll go to Chen's house to take a look." Liang Jinyu weighed the pros and cons.
Liang Dingfang disagreed: "I'll go with you."
"You should hurry to the city now. It will be dark when you come back after finishing your work. If you delay in the morning, you won't be able to finish your work. Don't worry, everyone in the village is here in broad daylight. Chen Laifu won't dare to do anything to me."
At most, he was a malicious person. Besides, Liang Jinyu had no intention of negotiating with Chen Lai Fu. She just went to confirm Dani's safety.
Liang Dingfang was still worried. He couldn't imagine what would have happened if they hadn't been alert yesterday.
"You can't keep following me. Stop dawdling and hurry up." Liang Jinyu pushed the other person and urged.
Liang Dingfang had no choice but to remind her: "If anything really happens, sister, please wait for me to come back and don't take any risks on your own."
After receiving Liang Jinyu's repeated assurances, Liang Dingfang trotted out of the village.
Liang Jinyu did not waste any time and went straight to Chen's house.
Just when they were halfway there, they saw someone running towards the Chen family. When he turned around, he noticed Liang Jinyu and stopped immediately.
"Mrs. Liang, run faster." the other party shouted.
Liang Jinyu recognized her voice. It was the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, who lived two acres of land away from the Chen family. Everyone in the village called her Sister Osmanthus.
Liang Jinyu quickened her pace and chased after her: "Sister Guihua, why are you running so fast? Where are you going?"
Sister Guihua has a big round face with a black mole on her eyebrow. Every time she talks, her eyebrows are beaming with joy, and the black mole becomes very eye-catching.
"Why, you don't know yet? Come with me now, or your daughter will be beaten to death!"
"What did you say?"
"Don't ask any more questions. Just hurry over. Although Dani is not your biological daughter, I can see that you have feelings for her. Do you think it is necessary to beat someone to death just for a bowl of chicken soup? I never thought that Chen Laifu, who looks so honest, could be so cruel."
Chen Laifu is actually taking his anger out on Dani? He is really crazy!
Liang Jinyu was furious and shook off Sister Guihua's hand and ran towards Chen's house.
"Hey, wait for me."
Sister Guihua followed closely and shouted.
At the gate of Chen's courtyard, Chen Dani, who had escaped with great difficulty, slipped and sat down in the mud.
Chen Lai-fu chased after her with a stick, and when he saw her, he hit her hard on the back with the stick.
Chen Dani screamed in pain, holding her head and shouting for help.
On the ridge next to the field, a villager advised: "Just eat it, there's no need to beat it like that, it's normal for a child to have a greedy mouth."
Chen Laifu's face was covered with bruises and he walked with a limp. In the past, Chen Laifu would have pretended to be angry, but now he didn't even pretend, his face was terribly gloomy.
"I let you lie to me and take advantage of others. Have you forgotten who your father is? If I had known you were an ungrateful person, I should have strangled you to death!" Chen Lai Fu cursed viciously and raised a stick to hit Dani on the head.
Chen Dani was not a pushover either. She grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it at Chen Lai Fu's face.
However, the force was not enough and the mud only stained Chen Lai Fu's cheeks, which even made him more angry.
The muscles on Chen Lai Fu's face twitched uncontrollably and his eyes became ferocious and cruel.
Chen Dani cursed her mother in her heart, and she retreated on the ground in fear, but she said mercilessly: "I am your biological daughter, do you really want to kill me? Well, if you have the guts, do it. Believe it or not, I will tell you all the dirty things you have done now!"
"Dani!" Liang Jinyu, who rushed over, shouted loudly.
Chen Dani's face lit up with joy, and she was about to get up to look for Liang Jinyu, but she heard a sinister threat from Chen Lai Fu above her head.
"Just try and see if you dare!"
Chen Dani's body froze instantly, and she greeted all eighteen generations of Chen Lai Fu's ancestors in her heart.
"Chen Lai Fu, are you crazy? Why did you hit her?" Liang Jinyu walked over quickly and asked angrily.
The villagers nearby also started to criticize Chen Lai Fu. After all, they were his own children, so how could he be so cruel to them?
Chen Laifu did not respond to the condemnation from the people around him. He just held up a stick and asked Liang Jinyu: "Do you still want to divorce?"
Liang Jinyu glanced at Dani lying in the mud. She understood what Chen Lai Fu meant. He was using Dani to threaten her!
"We shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Divorce is good for both of us."
As soon as Liang Jinyu finished speaking, there was a "bang" and Chen Lai Fu threw the burden on Dani's back without hesitation.
Everyone gasped in shock, and Chen Dani lay on the ground in so much pain that she was unable to get up.
"Are you sure you want to divorce?" Chen Lai Fu asked again, his eyes becoming lifeless.
Liang Jinyu's nails almost dug into the flesh.
"Divorce!" she said affirmatively.
Chen Laifu said to Chen Dani sarcastically: "You heard it, she doesn't care whether you live or die. You even helped her to deceive me and your father! It's all your fault that I'm in this state. You're wasting food if you live!"
Chen Dani held her head in horror, thinking to herself, no wonder there was no description of Chen Dani in the book, had she died a long time ago?
But the expected pain did not come, instead there was an unexpected hug.
Chen Dani looked up in disbelief, and what she saw was Liang Jinyu's young face, who was trying her best to endure the pain.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Even though he was shaking with pain, he still had the mind to comfort her.
[What a fool! No wonder Chen Laifu played him around like that.]
Chen Dani thought sadly in her heart, emotions surging rapidly in her eyes.
Finally, she pushed Liang Jinyu away and almost crawled to Chen Laifu's legs.
"Dad, Dad, I was wrong. I will never eat outsiders again. Please forgive me." Chen Dani rubbed the mud on her face on Chen Laifu's legs and cried pitifully.
This sudden change surprised everyone present, even Chen Lai Fu was speechless for a long time.
Liang Jinyu rubbed his back and stood up. The force of the beating was quite strong and there was probably a bruise on his back.
Looking at the crying Dani, Liang Jinyu was curious about what she was doing.
"Don't waste your time on me. I will never go with you! My surname is Chen, and I'm from the Chen family. And you, you are just an outsider. Don't meddle in other people's business from now on!" Chen Dani hugged Chen Lai Fu's trouser legs and shouted angrily at Liang Jinyu.
Someone couldn't stand it any longer: "How can you talk like that? If your mother hadn't stopped you, you would have been dead."
Chen Dani scolded her: "You are talking nonsense. My father has been the best to me. He would never really beat me to death. It's all the fault of that Liang. If she hadn't insisted on divorcing my father, why would my father be angry? It's all her fault. She is a bad woman. I will never trust her again!"