Chapter 52 Dog-eat-dog
But that night, Zhang Yaozu was in a state of impotent rage, and Zhang Fugui and Wang Xiang also experienced the thrill of going from heaven to hell.
"Quick, quick, quick! Burn, burn, burn!"
"Oh my god, marrying a daughter is such a sweet thing!"
The two of them were counting the money at home with great excitement, burning each one they counted. Zhang Fugui was dissatisfied with the slow burning, so he brought a bucket of oil and poured it on the money. With a roar, a huge fire broke out.
"Ouch!" Sparks splashed on Wang Xiang's face, and a large blister instantly appeared. Another spark flew onto her clothes, which immediately caught fire.
"Ah - help!" Wang Xiang screamed and rolled on the ground, and Zhang Fugui hurried to rescue her.
The two men rolled from the bedroom to the front door. The fire on their bodies was extinguished, but flames shot up into the sky in the bedroom.
200,000 yuan turned to ashes in an instant. The couple’s only self-built house caught fire!
"Mother..." Zhang Fugui woke up as if from a dream, his legs suddenly shaking: "What have we done?!"
“Ah—” Wang Xiang screamed sharply: “Money, money! Our money!”
......
In the blink of an eye, the sky was already turning pale.
"Ah—our money..."
"Ah—our house..."
The two old men put out the fire all night, and it was finally put out. They sat on the roadside, crying and wailing, their bodies dirtier than refugees, and many people around them were woken up to watch.
The entire three-story self-built house was completely burned black, and every item in the house was burned to ashes. Not only was the 200,000 yuan lost, but the couple's 50,000 yuan savings were also gone.
The two people were filled with despair.
Ah, the betrothal gift! The 200,000 betrothal gift they just sold!
What should they do now about Yaozu’s marriage and their family’s house?
I can’t even afford the money for my next meal!
"You cheap bitch!" Zhang Fugui suddenly punched Wang Xiang: "Why did you burn the money, huh?!"
Wang Xiang screamed in pain: "Husband, what are you doing? Didn't you want to burn it? Besides, you didn't stop me..."
Bang! Another punch! Zhang Fugui's eyes were bloodshot, and he just wanted to find someone to vent his anger on: "You bitch, you dare to talk back? I'll beat you to death!"
Wang Xiang was also very angry and immediately started fighting with him.
When the onlookers pulled them apart, Zhang Fugui's head was covered in bald patches, as if pecked by a chicken. His face and body were covered in nail marks and slap marks.
Wang Xiang was holding her stomach and groaning on the ground, with bruises all over her body.
"What should I do? What should I do..."
Just as I started to wail, something even worse happened.
Niu Tiechui is coming to kill us, and he is here to demand justice.
"What?! Zhaodi ran away last night? You and Yaozu?" Wang Xiang and the others were shocked after hearing what Niu Tiechui said. "How is this possible? Where did Zhaodi go?!"
Bang, Niu Tiechui punched them in the face.
"Are you still asking me? Didn't you all see Zhang Yaozu and I enter the bridal chamber yesterday? Did you try to stop us? Zhang Fugui, Wang Xiang, you're so calculating! You're trying to get something for nothing, and you've even managed to trick your grandfather!"
"I'm telling you, Zhang Yaozu is locked up in my house right now! If you don't bring Zhang Zhaodi back, you'll forget about having a son!"
Zhang Fugui was punched and angry. He wanted to fight back, but he was no match for Niu Tiechui and was pinned to the ground and beaten by Niu Tiechui.
Seeing Niu Tiechui going crazy, the onlookers didn't dare to provoke him. They just waited patiently for Niu Tiechui to hit him enough before leaving.
"Good grandpa, great-grandpa, please stop, please stop!" Zhang Fugui cried on the ground: "I'm going to call Zhaodi right now, please stop..."
......
Shu Yan returned to reality and took a nap. When she woke up in the morning and just started to play the story, Zhang Zhaodi's phone rang.
"By the way, system, if I change the plot, will they suspect me?" Shu Yan poked the system.
The system jumped aside and licked its fur: [No. Any changes made here, including any anomalies caused by the use of props in real life, will not be suspected by anyone (except the victim) of being yours.]
[Humph, they are all so amazing.]
"Okay, okay, you're awesome. You're awesome."
At this time, Zhang Zhaodi had already picked up the phone, looking hesitant: "Pandi, Dad... called."
"Take it." Shu Yan said, "Remember, it's them and Zhang Yaozu who are behind this. If you don't agree to get married, nothing will happen to you."
Zhang Zhaodi received her encouraging gaze and mustered up the courage to answer the phone: "...Dad?"
"Zhang Zhaodi!" There was a loud explosion, and Zhang Zhaodi was so scared that she almost threw away her phone.
"Do you still remember that I'm your father?!" Zhang Fugui scolded his daughter arrogantly: "Where the hell were you last night?! Why don't you come back and apologize to Niu Tiechui?!"
"Dad, last night... it was Yaozu... who entered the bridal chamber by himself and Niu Tiechui." Zhang Zhaodi calmed herself down and said as Shu Yan had instructed, "You two didn't try to stop them. You were clearly all in this together, conspiring together!"
"Yaozu, Yaozu and Niu Tiechui are on good terms. What's the point of me getting in between them? I won't go back. You can't force me to do that!"
Zhang Fugui was angry!
"You little bitch, who told you this was a conspiracy between us?! I'm telling you, we've already accepted the betrothal gifts. You want to make a fuss about this? No way!" He finished, pounding the ground twice to intimidate her.
Shu Yan deleted the word "who", changed "收" to "骗", and changed "地" to "恤".
"You little bitch, I'm telling you this was a conspiracy between the two of us!" Under Niu Tiechui's angry glare, Zhang Fugui roared, "I'm telling you, we were defrauded of the betrothal gifts. You want to make a fuss about this? No way!"
Niu Tiechui: “?”
Onlookers: “?”
These days, scammers are more arrogant than the big geese in the village. They don't even pretend. It's really a case of a knife pulling the butt, and I've opened my eyes.
"Okay!" Niu Tiechui was about to speak when suddenly, Zhang Fugui rushed to him and punched him in the chest with his little fist to intimidate him.
Niu Tiechui was furious. He hadn't even hit Zhang Fugui yet, and this bastard actually dared to hit him?
Zhang Fugui was so happy that he got a few more big fists, and the bald hair on his head became even balder, just like the map.
Zhang Zhaodi's fingertips trembled. She hung up the phone and sobbed, "Pandi, they really are in partnership. They really are in partnership..."
"Not only did they sell me for the bride price, they also asked Zhang Yaozu to steal my husband, who is my lifelong event! I gave Zhang Yaozu everything, and it wasn't enough. They also want to ruin my life!"
Shu Yan held Zhang Zhaodi and tried to comfort her. She opened the dashboard, and Zhang Zhaodi's sobriety level skyrocketed, reaching 100% in an instant.
"Okay, okay, Zhaodi, don't cry. They don't love you. You have to love yourself."
In fact, although this was not a partnership between Wang Xiang and Zhang Fugui, Shu Yan knew very well that it was only because Zhang Yaozu didn't like Niu Tiechui.
If Zhang Yaozu really had that intention, Wang Xiang and Zhang Fugui would definitely do such a thing.
Shu Yan didn't feel that she had wronged them at all.
The phone rang again. This time it was Wang Xiang.
"Zhao Di, please come back..." Wang Xiang resorted to crying: "Your father is almost beaten to death. How can you bear to hurt your father like this..."
Zhang Zhaodi's eyes filled with tears. After a moment, her voice was cold: "You haven't done anything evil or hurt anyone. Why would Niu Tiechui beat you to death? Dad, Mom, I will never sacrifice my life's happiness for you again. Just give up on this idea!"
After saying that, Zhang Zhaodi hung up the phone.
"Big woman!" Shu Yan and Zhang Zhaodi high-fived.
Zhang Zhaodi blocked Zhang Fugui and Wang Xiang directly, hugged Shu Yan and kept saying thank you for a long time.
Half an hour later, Zhang Zhaodi finally stopped crying and thought of a question: "Pandi, will they come to arrest me?"
"Don't worry, they can't catch you."
Sure enough, when Zhang Fugui and Wang Xiang found out that Zhang Zhaodi had blocked them, they were so angry that they kept cursing.
In order to divert Niu Tiechui's fire and prove their innocence, they proposed to follow Niu Tiechui and take people to capture Zhang Zhaodi.
[Niu Tiechui brought a few gangsters and went around the town with Zhang Fugui and others to ask about Zhang Zhaodi's whereabouts.
Soon, someone saw Zhang Zhaodi staying at the hotel last night and told her about it, so Niu Tiechui and others rushed into the hotel room and forced her out.
Shu Yan changed "someone saw it" to "no one saw it" and changed the second hotel to a funeral home.
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