"Okay, I won't say much more. Remember, be a good person and do good things, otherwise you will suffer retribution."
Seeing that there was another couple waiting to get their marriage certificate, Ma waved and told Li Jian and his friends to leave.
Facing the civil servant, Li Jian did not dare to show any temper. He took the marriage certificate with both hands, said thank you three or four times, and then he and Liu Ruyan each held a small carrot and prepared to go home.
The four of them turned around, and Zhan Xinyue finally saw their front faces.
The whole family looked haggard and thin, Li Jian had untidy beard and greasy hair. He was so careful that he peed his pants, but he couldn't change them, so his clothes were sticky and smelled bad.
Liu Ruyan, who always loved cleanliness, was not much better. Her skin was pale yellow and had some chloasma. She looked lifeless, except for her eyes, which showed resentment as she stared at Zhan Xinyue.
Zhan Xinyue raised her head slightly to meet Liu Ruyan's gaze.
"It's you who harmed our family. If you hadn't exposed the affair between us and Li Jian, we wouldn't have gone to the police station. Secretary Liu wouldn't have kicked us out of the Changhong Team, and we would have no choice but to return home."
The public security comrades had left long ago, and there was only Sister Ma at the Civil Affairs Bureau. Liu Ruyan was not afraid at all. She kept shouting, expressing her dissatisfaction and grievances.
"Do you know what kind of life we had back home? We were dragged to a party every now and then, with countless rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and even dog shit thrown at us."
"I just didn't want you kids to suffer like this, so I went through so much trouble to get to the Changhong team. I finally had two years of peace and quiet, but you brought me back to my original form. What did I do wrong?" Liu Ruyan shouted at the top of her lungs, looking like a madman.
Li Jian and his two children also stared at Zhan Xinyue with disdain.
Sheng Tunan took a step forward and was about to block the gazes of several people when he was stopped by Zhan Xinyue. "Don't worry, I can still handle this small situation."
Sheng Tunan paused and took a half step back, "Okay, let's stay here. I will never let you get hurt again."
Zhan Xinyue nodded, looked at Liu Ruyan and Li Jian fearlessly, and said calmly: "You are in this situation today because of your own faults, you deserve it."
"If you had been able to openly state your relationship as husband and wife at the beginning, the Changhong team would not have chased you away. However, you chose to conceal and deceive for your own selfish interests and to find a free helper. When the matter was exposed, you refused to repent and shamelessly pushed the responsibility onto me. With your attitude, I can say with certainty that you will never have a good life in this life, the next life, or the next life."
Liu Ruyan rolled her eyes in anger, but she couldn't refute a word. She knew in her heart that what Zhan Xinyue said was true. If she and Li Jian had just arrived at the Changhong team, she and Li Jian would have been able to be honest with each other. Secretary Liu was a man who would never have chased them away.
After all, there were many child brides left over from the 1970s, and they all lived well.
Furthermore, if she could endure more hardships, earn work points with Li Jian, and get along well with the Changhong team members, and their family could work together, her son would surely get better slowly.
But the more she knew that Zhan Xinyue was right, the angrier Liu Ruyan became.
There is a type of person who, even though they know they have done something wrong, still takes their anger out on others.
"You are not a good person either. You are about to get married, but you still dress so slutty." Liu Ruyan changed the subject and stared at Zhan Xinyue's slender and well-proportioned figure and scolded her.
These days, Zhan Xinyue ate well and didn't have to work in the fields, so she gained some weight. Her originally slim figure became curvy. In addition, she also used Chinese medicine to regulate herself, and her skin became a shade whiter than before. When she stood in the room, the whole room became brighter.
Zhan Xinyue came to get the marriage certificate today, and she specially changed into a bra. The beautiful long skirt wrapped around her perfect figure. In an era when people generally wore loose clothes in black, white, blue and gray, it was simply a dimensionality reduction attack.
Liu Ruyan was full of hatred and jealousy. She could not say anything better than Zhan Xinyue, and she was also far inferior to her in appearance, so she had to use the word "slutty" to tarnish Zhan Xinyue's reputation.
In the 1970s, “slutty” was an absolute derogatory term. If a lesbian was labeled as such, she would be criticized wherever she went.
"Haha," Zhan Xinyue raised her eyebrows, without any shame or anger, and said provocatively,
"Liu Ruyan, your tear glands are connected to your bladder, your eyeballs are leaking urine, and everything you see is lewd, right?!"