Jiang Yumei looked at the 50 yuan in her hand, and her tears flowed even more fiercely. In the past two days, she had experienced the coldness of human nature, falling from a glamorous "god-daughter" to homelessness.
The Zheng family not only kicked her out of the house, but also threw all her clothes on the street. What made her even more devastated was that Grandma Sun took the opportunity to take Xiaoming away, saying that she wanted the child to live a proper life with his grandmother.
"Master Li..." Jiang Yumei tried to catch up, but tripped over her tattered shoes and fell to the ground.
Just then, two young men passed by and saw Jiang Yumei on the ground. One of them sneered:
"Hey, isn't this the one with the deputy factory director...? What, looking for your next target?"
"That's right, I heard she got kicked out and is now looking for men everywhere."
Jiang Yumei buried her face in her arms, not daring to look up. She never imagined she would fall to this state.
Meanwhile, Li Chenyang ran all the way home, his heart pounding. When he entered, Ye Xiaoxiao was teaching Li Zhonghao his homework.
"Why are you running so fast?" Ye Xiaoxiao asked, looking up.
"No...it's nothing. I just finished cleaning up the shop. I was afraid you'd be waiting too long." Li Chenyang wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Ye Xiaoxiao looked at him suspiciously: "Why are you sweating so much?"
"It's hot..." Li Chenyang stammered.
"Dad, why do you look so pale?" Li Zhonghao asked innocently.
"It's nothing, Dad's just a little tired," Li Chenyang quickly changed the subject. "How was your homework today?"
That night, Li Chenyang tossed and turned, unable to sleep. He thought about Jiang Yumei's pitiful state and what would happen if his wife found out he had given her money; the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
Ye Xiaoxiao wasn't actually asleep. She sensed Li Chenyang's unease and sneered inwardly: This man must have run into that bitch.
Sure enough, the next morning, Ye Xiaoxiao heard from her neighbors that someone had seen Jiang Yumei wandering around Chunming Road the night before, dressed in rags, looking like a madwoman.
"That woman brought it on herself," Aunt Wang said. "I heard she doesn't even have a place to live now."
"Serves her right," Aunt Liu chimed in. "A shameless woman like that deserves to be treated like this."
Ye Xiaoxiao listened to the gossip with a secret sense of satisfaction. This is what happens when you seduce someone else's husband.
However, she also noticed that Li Chenyang had been absent-minded these past two days. In the morning, when Zhiming said that 50 yuan was missing from the store, he only vaguely said that he might have misremembered.
"Li Chenyang." After finishing work that evening, Ye Xiaoxiao called out to her husband, who was heading to the warehouse.
"Huh?" Li Chenyang replied guiltily.
"Did you run into Jiang Yumei?" Ye Xiaoxiao looked directly into his eyes.
Li Chenyang's expression changed: "No...no."
"Really not?"
"No, really."
"What about the 50 yuan that's missing from the store?"
Li Chenyang's forehead was sweating: "Um... I might have remembered it wrong."
"You gave it to her, didn't you?" Ye Xiaoxiao sneered. "You're soft-hearted? You feel sorry for her?"
Li Chenyang was caught off guard and stammered, unable to speak.
"Li Chenyang, are you stupid?" Ye Xiaoxiao stomped her foot angrily. "She's faking it! Do you really think she's that pitiful?"
"I...I just saw the way she looked..."
"Don't you know that she brought that on herself?" Ye Xiaoxiao interrupted him. "Giving her money will only make her think you're easy to fool!"
Li Chenyang lowered his head and remained silent.
"If you dare give her any more money, I'll take the child and go back to my parents' home, and I'll never come back," Ye Xiaoxiao threatened.
"No, no, I won't," Li Chenyang quickly assured him. "I'll stay far away from her from now on."
Ye Xiaoxiao snorted coldly: "You'd better keep your word."
The matter wasn't over yet. The next day, Ye Xiaoxiao heard that Jiang Yumei was loitering around the area again, keeping an eye on their shop from time to time.
"That shameless bitch!" Ye Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth. "It seems she won't give up until she's taught a lesson."
Just then, Old Mrs. Sun came to the door.
"Xiao Ye, I need to talk to you about something." Grandma Sun looked worried.
"Aunt Sun, please speak."
"That Jiang Yumei is always hanging around outside, saying she's going to take Xiaoming away. I'm really worried about her."
Ye Xiaoxiao's eyes darted around: "Auntie, you mean..."
"I want to send Xiaoming back to his hometown. His aunt is there and can take good care of him," said Grandma Sun. "I'm just afraid that shameless person will find out and cause trouble again."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, then said, "How about this, I can help you with something."
"ah?"
"Don't worry about how to do it yet, just make sure Jiang Yumei can't find Xiaoming," Ye Xiaoxiao said confidently.
Upon hearing this, Grandma Sun thanked her repeatedly.
After seeing Grandma Sun off, Ye Xiaoxiao immediately called an acquaintance at the police station. Over the years, she had become familiar with the people at the police station through her business dealings.
"Hey, Old Zhang, I need your help..."
Three days later, several police officers from Chunming Road Police Station came and took Jiang Yumei away from the area where she was wandering.
It turns out that someone reported her for fraud, saying that she went around begging for alms, threatened to commit suicide, and disturbed public order.
Meanwhile, Xiaoming had already been sent to his aunt's house in another city.
Jiang Yumei was detained for fifteen days, and when she was released, she looked haggard. She returned to Chunming Road and found that Xiaoming was long gone.
"Where's my son?" she rushed to the Sun family's house. "Where did you take my son?"
"I don't know," Old Mrs. Sun sneered. "You abandoned your son here, and now you come asking me."
"You..." Jiang Yumei wandered the streets in a daze, asking every acquaintance she met about Xiaoming's whereabouts, but no one paid her any attention.
That day, she wanted to go find Li Chenyang again, but found a notice posted at the shop entrance:
"This shop does not serve unauthorized personnel. Any harassment will be reported to the police."
Jiang Yumei stood at the door in a daze when she suddenly saw Ye Xiaoxiao carrying her daughter out of the store.
"You..." Jiang Yumei wanted to say something.
"What? You want to cause trouble in our shop?" Ye Xiaoxiao sneered. "You'd better stay away from us, or you'll be the one who suffers."
"I just wanted to ask..."
"There's nothing to ask," Ye Xiaoxiao interrupted her. "You should bear the consequences of your own actions. Don't think that playing the victim will make someone sympathize with you."
After Ye Xiaoxiao finished speaking, she picked up her daughter and left, leaving Jiang Yumei alone shivering in the wind.
A few days later, Jiang Yumei was seen on the street again, but she had become mentally unstable, asking everyone she met, "Have you seen my son?"
Later, Jiang Yumei disappeared from Chunming Road. Some said she went back to her hometown, others said she went to another place; in any case, no one ever saw her again.
This incident served as a wake-up call for Li Chenyang. From then on, whenever he saw a lone woman coming to get her things repaired, he would have Zhiming handle it and dared not approach her himself anymore.
Ye Xiaoxiao received a reward from the system.
[Complete the task of freeing Jiang Yumei from harassing Li Chenyang. Reward: 10,000 yuan.]
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