Secretary Lai pointed at Fan Jinglan's nose and cursed, "Is it you? Is it you who drove him crazy and let him run out in the middle of the night?"
Fan Jinglan covered her face, feeling wronged. "It wasn't me. Don't you know what kind of person your own son is? If he wants to do something, do you think I can control him?"
"You took revenge on him over that trivial matter? Tell me, how exactly did you drive him crazy?"
Fan Jinglan clenched her fists tightly. She wanted to turn around and smash this old man who couldn't distinguish right from wrong and only cared about favoring his own son.
But when she thought of her child, she held back.
“I didn’t drive him crazy. What good would it do me to drive him crazy? What ability do I have to drive him crazy? He was fine when he went out last night. You should know what he was doing. As for why he went crazy, you can only ask himself.”
Lai's mother was also unable to distinguish right from wrong, and joined Lai, the Party Secretary, in blaming Fan Jinglan.
"He goes out in the middle of the night because you're incompetent and can't take good care of your man. If you could satisfy him, would he need to run out in the middle of the night?"
Secretary Lai sighed heavily, "Why don't we hurry up and find him!"
The whole family immediately set out, and called on some relatives to search for Lai Chunming throughout the village.
Lai Chunming arrived at Qin Yumei's doorstep with a silly grin on his face. Qin Yumei couldn't help but laugh when she saw him covered in a mess and looking like a ghost.
"Lai Chunming, I never thought you'd end up like this. I wonder who helped me get revenge and made you look like this. It's truly gratifying. Seeing you in this miserable state makes me incredibly happy."
She hadn't been here long when Lai Chunming took a liking to her. He used threats and inducements, giving her small favors and even promising to divorce his wife for her. If she refused, he threatened to make sure she couldn't stay here. Instead of good opportunities, he forced her to do the hardest and most tiring work. He even went so far as to fabricate charges to bring her down.
She initially resisted, but soon gave in because she couldn't handle the dirty and heavy physical labor, and fainted every few days. At the same time, she was threatened by Lai Chunming with charges against her.
She maintained a relationship with Lai Chunming for a year. Later, Lai Chunming had a new target and handed her over to another man in the village, from whom she received some money.
She disliked that man intensely, even feeling nauseous at the mere sight of him. But there was nothing she could do; when she inexplicably slept with him, other villagers saw them and she had no choice but to marry him.
She knew that all of this was Lai Chunming's doing, that he had designed it, but she couldn't resist because she had no power to resist. Resisting would only make her life worse.
Fortunately, Heaven intervened and Lai Chunming received his just deserts.
Now is the perfect time for her to get revenge on him.
While Lai Chunming was sitting on the ground with his head down, rummaging through things, she found a thick wooden stick in her house, covered her face with a rag, and hit Lai Chunming's right leg hard with the stick, breaking his leg. Lai Chunming screamed in pain, and she quickly swung the stick again, hitting Lai Chunming's left leg.
Lai Chunming was in excruciating pain, but he didn't know who had hit him.
After reprimanding Lai Chunming, Qin Yumei dragged him to the entrance of an abandoned cellar, pushed him down, and then quickly ran home.
The Lai family searched for Lai Chunming in the village for a long time, and finally found him in the cellar around noon.
After several people worked together to pull him out of the cellar, he was a completely unrecognizable person.
One of his hands was crippled, and both of his legs were broken. Secretary Lai flew into a rage: "Who on earth did this to him?"
He asked Lai Chunming for the reason. Lai Chunming was in a daze and could only say, "Zhang Zhiqing, I'm sorry. I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have forced you to have a relationship with me. You and your child died unjustly. I... I will make it up to you. Please, don't take me away."
He wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but his legs were immobile.
Besides the Lai family, there were other villagers watching. Of course, Secretary Lai could understand what Lai Chunming was talking about. In order to prevent the villagers from hearing too much information, he quickly had someone carry Lai Chunming back home.
Those villagers, except for those from the Lai family, were all gloating. They were glad that the ghost of the educated youth who jumped into the river earlier could come out and teach Lai Chunming, this devil, a lesson.
Because the Lai family often bullied others by abusing their power, they have finally been punished this time.
After Lai Chunming was carried back to the Lai family home, the village secretary sent someone to call the village doctor to clean Lai Chunming's wounds.
He repeatedly asked Lai Chunming who had hurt him, and he was determined to make that person pay with their blood.
But Lai Chunming firmly believed that Zhang Ziyue had appeared and was going to take him to hell.
Where did you go yesterday?
“I don’t know. I saw Zhang Zhiqing. She wanted me to kill her. I don’t want to go to hell. I don’t want to go to hell. I don’t want to!” Lai Chunming clutched his head in anguish.
After the village doctor arrived, he cleaned Lai Chunming's wounds and asked Secretary Lai to take him to the hospital for treatment.
Upon arriving at the county hospital, the doctor informed Secretary Lai that Lai Chunming was destined to be a disabled person with both legs crippled. In addition to his legs, he also suffered a comminuted fracture of the hand bone and shattered genitals, none of which could be cured.
With his mental instability, he'll be worse than a child.
Upon hearing this, the Party Secretary's wife fainted on the spot.
Almost all members of the Lai family believed in ghosts and gods. Although Secretary Lai did not believe in them on the surface, he was a firm believer in them in private.
Fearing that the ghosts would find his house again, he asked Lai Chuncao to invite Shiva to his house to exorcise the evil spirits after she returned home.
Lai Chunming became a cripple, but fortunately he had a second son, Lai Changsheng.
Lai Changsheng is twenty years old this year. He has been a hooligan since he was a child. Due to his family situation, he was recommended to attend the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University two years ago. From now on, his second son will be his support.
Song Yinglan was caught cheating by her leader's wife once again, and was beaten black and blue as she returned to the educated youth settlement.
Lai Chunming's promotion was partly due to her connections. Lai Chunming was responsible for connecting her with those leaders, who would not only give her money but also promote her. In return, Lai Chunming would continue to connect her with even higher-ranking leaders. They were mutually beneficial, like grasshoppers on the same rope.
Lai Chunming is finished; she can only stay obediently at the educated youth settlement from now on.
Because of Lai Chunming's incident, most villagers believe that ghosts and monsters appear in the village at night. Before it gets dark, they all close their doors tightly, fearing that ghosts and monsters will enter their homes.
Li Hongying returned to the Lu family to marry Lu Chengye, but this time, when she knocked on the door, Lu's mother opened it and, upon seeing her, closed the door without saying a word, demonstrating her firm disapproval of her.
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