Chapter 313: Not Letting Go Even After Death
Ye Wanxi shook her head: "No. The meaning of marriage exchange is that a family with both sons and daughters exchanges with other families with both sons and daughters. They exchange their daughters for the other family's sons to be their wives, and then exchange the other family's daughters back for their own sons to be their wives."
Song Yulan was devastated. What was the difference between this and selling her daughter as a dowry?
"Yes, yes, that's exactly what they meant. Their initial plan was to raise Xiuzhen and then use her to arrange a marriage exchange. But they didn't expect Xiuzhen to be so ambitious and get into university. Despite her family's objections and attempts to imprison her, she secretly took the little money her grandmother had given her before she died and ran away, which prevented them from succeeding. Otherwise, Xiuzhen probably wouldn't have graduated from high school, and her heartless parents would have used her money to arrange a marriage exchange for their son."
The aunt in front chimed in, not to be outdone: "I remember when Xiuzhen first went to university, those two old men and women even went to Xiuzhen's school to cause trouble. They almost got Xiuzhen's student status revoked. Xiuzhen had no choice but to promise to work part-time every month to earn her living expenses and tuition fees, while also sending them money."
"What kind of rubbish parents are these? Not only do they not help their child with school, they also ask her for money. If she doesn't give them the money, they want the school to expel her. Why don't they just die!" Song Yulan was so angry that she wanted to hit someone every minute.
"Isn't that right? These days, college students are incredibly valuable. Our village is poor, and we can't produce even one every few years. Xiuzhen is so promising; if she were from another family, she would be a source of pride. But they can't stand to see her doing well. They wish they could eat her flesh, gnaw on her bones, and drink her blood dry."
"Sigh, Xiuzhen is really unlucky. She has such parents and such a greedy younger brother. I heard that they went to make trouble for Xiuzhen a few times afterward, especially after Xiuzhen started working. They complained that Xiuzhen sent home too little money every month and went to her workplace to make trouble a few times, almost causing Xiuzhen to lose her job."
“After her brother got into gambling debts, that family must have caused trouble for Xiuzhen again, or threatened her by phone, otherwise Xiuzhen wouldn’t have run away. It’s just a pity that in the end, she couldn’t escape their control, and she even lost her child.”
After the aunt said that, the atmosphere in the car became somewhat somber.
Ye Wanxi sighed as well, angrily saying, "This family is really too much! They don't even treat Xiuzhen like a human being. Aren't daughters human too? They even pushed a pregnant woman! His brother is a murderer; Xiuzhen was killed because of him!"
Others chimed in, "Isn't that right? If he hadn't pushed her, Xiuzhen wouldn't have had such a severe hemorrhage, and the baby wouldn't have been lost. And that's not even the worst part; there's something even worse."
"What's even more outrageous?"
"Didn't their whole family go to Xiuzhen's company to find her? After Xiuzhen was pushed down, it was her boss who took her to the hospital. As a result, after Xiuzhen died, her parents and brother started extorting money from others, saying that their daughter died in their company and that they had to be responsible and pay them a large sum of money, otherwise they would sue the company."
"Shameless!" Song Yulan grew angrier as she listened. "They don't even let go of someone who's dead, and they're still trying to extort money in her name? Aren't these people afraid of retribution? Don't they have nightmares at night?"
Ye Wanxi's face had already turned cold at some point. Hearing her words, she scoffed, "Some people will do anything for money. Extorting money from wherever they want is always their favorite pastime, isn't it?"
Gao Min frowned, also curious about what happened next: "What happened next? Did they get the money?"
"They got scammed. It even made the news. A lot of people said they shouldn't have given them the money, but there was nothing they could do. The law said they had to pay compensation, so the boss had to accept his bad luck and pay them a sum of money. Apparently, it was quite a lot. Xiuzhen's brother's current wife was married with that money."
The aunt disagreed with what the older woman said: "You're really mistaken. The money the company lost was used to pay off gambling debts, and the money for Xiuzhen's brother's wedding was separate."
"Other? What else could there be?"
The two of them ended up talking and getting closer together.
The aunt lowered her voice and gestured with her two thumbs together: "That kid from the Wu family..."
The woman quickly understood, and her expression became subtle: "You mean... this family is really crazy for money, they won't even spare a corpse."
The family members listened to the two speaking in riddles, looking completely bewildered.
Before they could ask any more questions, the old man suddenly steered the conversation to the baby in Lin Xiuzhen's belly.
"Xiuzhen is foolish. She studied so much, but even after going to the big city, she was still deceived by a man. With such a big commotion surrounding her incident, the child's father didn't even show his face. He probably abandoned her and her child a long time ago."
"Everyone says good people are rewarded. Xiuzhen was such a good child, how come she suffered her whole life and couldn't even rest in peace after death? On the other hand, that family of bastards who eat people without spitting out the bones did so many bad things, but nothing happened to them. Why is God so blind?"
Song Zhaoming felt complicated as he listened to the old man's ramblings.
He just tried searching for news about this on his phone and found that he had seen this news before!
Unfortunately, the news report did not include any photos of Lin Xiuzhen, only videos and screenshots of her parents and brother causing trouble at the company, all of which were heavily blurred out.
If it weren't for the fact that locals knew what had happened to this family, they probably wouldn't be able to recognize them from these few photos.
Thinking of this, Song Zhaoming couldn't help but feel remorse. If only he had been more careful, if only he had paid more attention when the news was first published, perhaps...
The old man was completely unaware that the person he was talking about was sitting not far away from him. After lamenting the inhumanity of that family, he began to recount the various ways in which Xiuzhen had been abused by that family since childhood, making everyone feel increasingly depressed.
The car drove on for the entire journey, and Ye Wanxi and the others listened the whole way. When the car stopped, the older woman couldn't help but say a few words to Ye Wanxi.
"Xiuzhen is gone, and none of you should go to her house. Judging from your outfits, anyone with eyes can see that you are well-off and wealthy. Do you think those bloodsuckers in her family will let you go? Who knows what kind of despicable things they will do to skin you alive. Leave now before anyone knows you're here, and don't ever come back again."
Ye Wanxi readily agreed, and only after the others left did she turn to the Song family members and ask, "Is there anything you want to ask?"
"They just said the baby didn't survive."
"The child is fine, they just abandoned him."
"Throw it away!"
(End of this chapter)
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