Ma Xiulan glanced at him and said, "You bit this ginseng and it disfigured you. I'll ask you to pay half, 5,000 yuan. As for the rest, if you're convicted, you won't be able to work. You still have about ten years left to work, so you can earn around 4,000 yuan. I'll give you a discount, so the total will be 8,800 yuan."
Zhao Youjie thought Ma Xiulan would ask for a couple of thousand yuan at most, which his parents could just chip in. Unexpectedly, she asked for 8,800 yuan. He started to curse:
"Why don't you go and rob it?"
"My son Zhao Dahai saved your Xingmin, and you said you wanted to repay me. So, please let me go."
Why didn’t he think of it before? Fortunately, he just thought of it in a flash of inspiration.
Ma Xiulan sneered: "Zhao Dahai is with Wang Erni, and you are already divorced. If you want to use this to plead for mercy, you have to get the consent of both Wang Erni and Zhao Dahai."
"Xingmin, go call your brother Dahai and Aunt Erni over now."
Soon Zhao Dahai and Wang Erni came over. After learning about the situation, Zhao Dahai was so ashamed that he couldn't even lift his head:
"I didn't help much with Xingmin's situation before. I was completely clueless. At first, I didn't know why I listened to that thug and called Xingguo and left, almost leaving Xingmin alone.
It's because Sister Xingmin is kindhearted that I didn't do anything wrong, but Aunt Xiulan is so righteous and still remembers my kindness. Now you come here to steal things, how can I have the nerve to ask her to let you go so easily."
Zhao Youjie said angrily, "How dare you, little bastard, watch your father die without helping him?"
Wang Erni stepped forward and slapped Zhao Youjie:
"You are a thief, what right do you have to scold my son? Besides, we are divorced. If you are in trouble now, why would you ask Li Shulan to save you instead of involving us?"
"By the way, could it be that Li Shulan instigated you to do this? After all, although you were a gangster before, you never did anything so outrageous."
Wang Erni suddenly figured out the key point. Before this, Li Shulan had instigated Zhao Youjie to put a strange man into her bed while she was drugged.
Zhao Youjie suddenly felt guilty. Seeing that Li Shulan hadn't come to rescue him for such a long time, he began to complain and said, "She made me do it. Go to my house and find her and my parents."
Zhao Dahai and Zhao Xingguo went to Zhao Youjie's house together. Aunt Zhao got up in the middle of the night and found that her son was not there, and Li Shulan came back in a panic.
She thought Li Shulan might have cheated on her son while he was away, so she slapped Li Shulan hard in the face. Li Shulan fell to the ground, hit her head on a small stool, and fainted on the spot.
Aunt Zhao was frightened at first, but then she saw that Li Shulan was still breathing, so she let her lie on the ground. She thought her son might have gone to ask Wang Erni to reconcile, so she didn't take it to heart.
Until Zhao Dahai and Zhao Xingguo came and asked them to go.
Only then did Aunt Zhao and Uncle Zhao realize the seriousness of the matter. When Aunt Zhao heard that she had to pay so much money, she acted like a rogue: "Your daughter-in-law is a country woman, how could she have such a rich ginseng?"
Ma Xiulan said calmly, "Whether this ginseng is real or fake, we'll know once we take it to the hospital and ask."
Uncle Zhao worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy in his early years. He was fortunate enough to see ginseng and recognized that it was indeed of excellent quality. To say that it cost ten thousand yuan to buy it may be a bit expensive, but ginseng is something that is priceless.
"We really can't afford such a large amount of compensation. Otherwise, we old couple will kowtow to you and apologize."
Ma Xiu Lan quickly stopped him. She didn't want to shorten her lifespan by kowtow twice to solve such a big problem. Besides, who knows how he would scold her in the future.
"If you don't have money, call the police."
Aunt Zhao hurriedly stopped them: "You can't call the police. We'll pay compensation. I have 500 yuan here."
Ma Xiulan shook her head and said firmly, "No, call the police and let the police negotiate compensation."
Uncle Zhao didn't want his son to get into trouble at his old age, so he clenched his fists:
"I can give you my house."
His house was gone, so he could take his wife and son to live with Wang Erni. Could Wang Erni still drive them out?
She didn't even consider the reputation of Zhao Dahai and his sister.
Ma Xiu Lan was secretly delighted, because when the house on Longyang Street was demolished, it would be a huge profit.
He looked very dissatisfied: "No, your dilapidated house is so old, how much can it be sold for? At most one or two thousand yuan, but you are responsible for more than seven thousand yuan. Only 500 yuan in cash compensation is not enough, it must be at least 3,000 yuan."
Aunt Zhao cried and made a fuss, and finally took out her last 1,000 yuan and borrowed another 1,000 yuan.
A total of 2,500 yuan was compensated, and Ma Xiu Lan planned to transfer the house to Zhao Xingguo and Zhou Anan.
After all, the damaged ginseng belongs to the eldest couple. Now that they have a house, they should move out. The longer the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law live together, the more conflicts they will have.
When it comes to transferring the ownership, Zhou Anan has to go in person. When she heard about this, she immediately refused.
She felt that if it weren't for Ma Xiu Lan, she might never have found her grandparents in her life. Now her grandparents wanted to hand over all the family property to her, and she didn't need this house. But Ma Xiu Lan was divorced, and the second and fourth sons were unfilial. They even agreed to let the eldest son be their son-in-law. How would she support them in their old age?
She had to consider Ma Xiu Lan and insisted on giving the house to Ma Xiu Lan.
Zhao Xingguo was originally happy because the house his mother had fought for him would help him gain some face in front of Zhou Anan's family, but Zhou Anan refused and said that she wanted to give it to her mother, and he couldn't possibly stop her.
He can't become an unfilial son like the second and fourth sons.
In the end, the house fell into Ma Xiulan's hands.
Ma Xiu Lan gave the 2,500 yuan compensation to the eldest brother and his wife.
She took 500 yuan to give to her brother Ma Mingqiang, but Ma Mingqiang refused to take it:
"Sister, you have taken care of me since I was a child, so it's a piece of cake for me to look after your home."
Finally, Ma Xiu Lan said that it was a dowry for Ma Xiaolian, and Ma Mingqiang reluctantly accepted it. He also told her a good news: Ma Xiaolian met a young man from the transport team, and the two were in contact. He would ask Ma Xiu Lan to check it out later.
Ma Xiulan agreed, asked him to set a time, and went there directly.
When Aunt Zhao and Uncle Zhao returned home, they beat up Li Shulan and Zhao Youjie, especially Li Shulan, the troublemaker who dared to instruct her son to steal.
Li Shulan had to give the money. If she refused, she would go to her son to make trouble. Li Shulan had no choice but to agree to find a way. While asking her son for money, she also went to find Zhao Youcai again.
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