"mom!"
Yun Muye squeezed through the crowd and strode forward to snatch the pliers from Li Yuling's hand. Li Yuling saw her son and her anger burst out.
"Son, this woman cheated me out of my money. This is the first time in my life that someone has cheated me. She's willing to tell any lie for money! I've never met such a shameless person in my life!"
Zhao Xudong stood in the crowd with his face flushed red. He wished he could find a hole to crawl into. Even when he divorced his ex-wife, he had never been so embarrassed.
"Auntie, I'll open the door right now, go in and ask her for it!"
Zhao Xudong opened the door with the key, and Li Yuling rushed in first.
"Wang Zhaodi!"
Wang Zhaodi was frightened when she heard the door open. She looked around for a place to hide. In panic, she climbed up to the window and wanted to jump out to escape. Li Yuling saw the person on the windowsill and was so scared that she stood there.
"Ah! What are you doing? You want to jump off the building for twenty dollars? Is it worth it? Come down quickly!"
Of course, the curious women couldn't miss this excitement and rushed in. When Yun Muye and Zhao Xudong heard the word "jump off the building", their faces instantly became solemn and they strode in. The small house of more than 70 square meters was crowded with people.
Wang Zhaodi held onto the wall, shivering as she stood on the second-floor windowsill. Zhao Xudong hurried over and stretched out his hand, wanting to carry her down. Wang Zhaodi screamed,
"Don't come over here! If you come over here again I'll jump!"
Zhao Xudong stopped where he was, not daring to take another step forward.
Yun Muye advised calmly, "Come down first. It's dangerous standing there. This is the second floor. You won't die if you jump, but you'll be crippled. Are you sure you want to cripple yourself for twenty dollars?"
Wang Zhaodi held the wall with one hand and tightly wrapped the corner of her clothes with the other hand. Her teeth chattered and her eyes were filled with tears.
"Auntie...Auntie, I'm...I'm sorry...I...I didn't mean it...I...I was forced by my brother. My parents told me since I was a child that I should love my brother and meet all his requests, otherwise they would beat me to death.
My brother came to me yesterday to ask for money. I don't have a penny left. If he doesn't get the money, he'll go to my parents and complain. If he does, I'm doomed. I'll be beaten to death!"
After Wang Zhaodi finished speaking, she lowered her head and began to cry, her shoulders heaving.
Everyone sighed, Wang Zhaodi is also a poor person!
The women began to persuade Li Yuling, "Auntie, just think of it as a good deed and don't take the twenty yuan."
"Wang Zhaodi is so pitiful!"
"I understand Wang Zhaodi. My parents are the same. They only love my brothers and not me."
"It's just twenty yuan. It's nothing to Aunt Li, but it's different for Wang Zhaodi. That's her life!"
Li Xiufang spat, "Don't want it anymore? That sounds nice, but it turns out it's not your money. You're all pretending to be nice people. If you're really that kind, why don't you each take a dollar and pay Wang Zhaodi back for her?"
When the women heard this, they all shut up and stayed still. Li Yuling sighed.
"Wang Zhaodi, I'm not upset about the twenty yuan. Everyone has difficulties. If you really came to me with difficulties, I wouldn't care. I'm angry that you lied to me. You lied to me once, and I no longer trust anyone. If someone really comes to me in need one day, I'm afraid of being deceived and refuse to help. Wouldn't that hurt them?"
Li Yuling's words made Wang Zhaodi feel ashamed and uneasy. She looked up at her with tears in her eyes.
"Auntie, I'm sorry. I know I was wrong. Wuwuwu..."
Zhao Xudong and Yun Muye looked at each other and nodded. While no one was reacting, they jumped onto the windowsill together, one on the left and one on the right, grabbed Wang Zhaodi's arms tightly and pulled her off the windowsill.
"Ah!" Wang Zhaodi was frightened and knelt on the ground with her legs so weak that she could not stand.
Li Xiufang quickly ran to the windowsill and closed the window to prevent Wang Zhaodi from jumping off the building again.
Li Yuling walked to Wang Zhaodi, feeling terrified, and scolded her with trembling lips.
"How could you waste your life like this? If you really jumped off the building because of me today, and something happened to you, how would I live in the future? I will always be burdened with this debt and will never be able to rest in peace!"
Wang Zhaodi knelt on the ground, hugged her legs and cried bitterly.
"Aunt, I'm sorry. I will definitely pay you back. Please give me some time."
Li Yuling bent down and pushed her away. "Forget it, you don't have to pay me back. I'll just consider it a lesson learned and won't be so kind in the future."
Yun Muye helped Li Yuling home, and Zhao Xudong quickly took out the only fifteen yuan left on him and stuffed it into Li Yuling's pocket.
"Auntie, take this money first. I'll pay you back when I get my salary next month."
Li Yuling pushed it back, "No need."
She turned to Yun Muye and said, "Son, go home. Mom has a severe headache and wants to go back and rest."
"Okay." Yun Muye helped Li Yuling go home.
"Mom, I'll take you to the infirmary and ask the doctor to prescribe some medicine for you."
"No need." Li Yuling shook her head. "I'll just rest for a while."
If it were in the past, Li Yuling would definitely go to the infirmary to chat with her future son-in-law and get closer to him. But today, she was in no mood.
When they got home, Yun Muye helped her to bed, covered her with a quilt, poured a glass of honey water and put it on the table. Li Yuling took a sip of water and said to her son.
"Son, go to the kindergarten to pick up Xiao Tangyuan from school at 5 o'clock. Yunshuang has to attend teacher training after get off work today and will not be able to take Xiao Tangyuan home."
"Okay, you have a good rest and I'll cook when I come back."
"Go out, I'll get some sleep."
Li Yuling waved her hand to send the person away, put down the cup, crawled into the quilt, closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Downstairs, everyone left, leaving only Zhao Xudong and Wang Zhaodi.
"Xudong, I'm sorry, I embarrassed you."
Zhao Xudong sat on the chair feeling tired. He wanted to get a divorce again. It had been less than a month since he got his marriage certificate, and now he wanted to get a divorce certificate. Everyone in the family compound was like him, getting married and divorced, and getting divorced again and again. It was so embarrassing.
Wang Zhaodi saw Zhao Xudong's gloomy face and silence, and she felt uneasy. She tucked the corner of her clothes tightly with her fingers, and her hair turned white from pulling. She was afraid that Zhao Xudong would ask for a divorce.
She had been exploited by her parents and brothers since she was a child. She finally found a man with good conditions. Even if he was married for the second time, she was willing to marry him. One reason was to escape from that home, and the other was to subsidize her younger brother. Zhao Xudong gave her a lot of allowances every month, and she would never divorce him even if she died.
"Xudong, have you eaten? I'll make you a bowl of noodles."
"No need to rush!" Zhao Xudong stood up and looked at her. Since they couldn't get a divorce, he would leave and go back to the dormitory. After a year or two, he would get a divorce.
"From today on, I'm going to live in the dormitory and won't be back. You'll have to take care of yourself!"
Wang Zhaodi's heart sank. She was so panicked that she didn't know how to win him back. She could only cry and beg him not to leave her.
Zhao Xudong opened the door and left irritably.
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