The villagers looked at each other in bewilderment. Several elderly people held their wine glasses in mid-air, forgetting even to put the meat on their chopsticks into their mouths.
The old Party Secretary stood up shakily, his white beard trembling.
"Jianguo, you need to think this through carefully. Being expelled from the party is no small matter. No matter how unruly Mingqiang is, he's still your own flesh and blood!"
"Exactly, exactly."
Zhang the blacksmith put down his wine bowl, his dark face full of worry.
"A child is just being disobedient; a good scolding is enough. Why actually expel him? If word gets out, how will Mingqiang ever face anyone again?"
Su Jianguo stood on the bench, his gaze resolute.
"Dear uncles and brothers."
He looked around at the crowd, his voice low and firm.
"I, Su Jianguo, will pretend I never raised this son. That's settled then."
Wang Guixiang suddenly stood up from the crowd and tugged at Grandpa Su's sleeve.
"Father, please persuade my elder brother! No matter how bad Mingqiang is, he's still a member of the Su family!"
Grandpa Su sat in the main seat, his expression not very good.
"cinnamon."
The old man's voice wasn't loud, but it silenced the entire room.
"Do you know what that beast Mingqiang said? He said that after his father dies, he wants to bury us two old folks separately and scatter our ashes in Beihai Park!"
"What?"
The villagers were in an uproar.
Carpenter Li's wife slammed her hand on the table and stood up.
"This is outrageous! How could anyone utter such blasphemous words?"
"That's not all."
Su Jianguo continued.
"He also threatened me, demanding money from me, saying that if I didn't give him money, he wouldn't even let me be buried in my ancestral grave after I died."
Upon hearing this, the old Party Secretary's eyes widened in surprise.
"Seriously, this is outrageous! What kind of son threatens his father like this?!"
Su Yufen held her two children, tears streaming down her face.
"My older brother came asking for money last night, which made Mom faint from anger, and Dad's blood pressure went up..."
"That's enough!"
Su Jianguo's loud shout silenced the entire courtyard.
"Village Party Secretary, please provide the family genealogy!"
The old Party Secretary looked at Grandpa Su, and the old man slowly nodded.
The village party secretary sighed and waved to the young man beside him.
"Go to the ancestral hall and get the Su family genealogy."
A commotion broke out in the crowd.
Several young men around Su Mingqiang's age exchanged glances, some whispering, "Really famous? Then Brother Mingqiang is doomed, isn't he?"
"Serves you right!"
Gou Dan took a big bite of the pig's head meat in his hand.
"This kind of unfilial son would have been drowned in a pig cage in ancient times!"
Before long, a yellowed, thread-bound book was solemnly brought in.
The old Party Secretary trembled as he opened the thick family genealogy book. The yellowed pages were densely filled with the names of more than a dozen generations of the Su family.
Su Jianguo took the brush, dipped it in ink, and drew a thick black line over the three characters "Su Mingqiang".
The ink spread, as if nailing a coffin into the name.
"From this day forward, Su Mingqiang is no longer a descendant of the Su family! He will not be buried in the ancestral grave after death, nor will he be allowed to be worshipped while alive!"
...
at the same time.
In a residential compound for government employees in Beijing, a crisp slap pierced through a tightly closed window.
"You shameless slut! How dare you come back?"
Liu's mother's hysterical screams echoed in the living room.
Liu Meijuan covered her face and collapsed to the ground, her hair disheveled and a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth.
Two buttons on her fashionable polyester shirt were ripped open, revealing several fresh scratches on her collarbone.
"Mom, I really didn't know things would escalate like this..."
Liu Meijuan's voice was trembling with sobs, but she dared not look up.
"have no idea?"
Liu Dajun, the eldest brother of the Liu family, kicked her in the shoulder.
"When you were working with Deputy Factory Director Wang's son, did you ever think about the consequences? Now Dad's been taken away by the Discipline Inspection Commission, and I've lost my position as section chief! You've ruined our whole family!"
Liu Meijuan's younger brother, Liu Xiaojun, sneered from the side.
"Sis, weren't you so capable? You were messing around at the textile factory, and now look what happened, you've even gotten Dad into trouble."
Liu's mother grabbed a feather duster from the coffee table and started hitting Liu Meijuan with it.
He smoked while cursing.
"I'll beat you to death, you shameless bastard! You gave up being the daughter of the Industry and Commerce Bureau Director to become a slut! Now the whole of Beijing knows you're pregnant with an illegitimate child and still want to find someone to take the fall!"
Feather dusters rained down on Liu Meijuan's back, and she curled up into a ball, whimpering in pain.
An expensive Jingdezhen vase in the living room was bumped and shattered.
"Mom, please...please stop hitting me..."
Liu Meijuan protected her stomach.
"I'm pregnant..."
"child?"
Liu's mother grinned maliciously and grabbed her daughter's hair.
"Who knows whose son this is! Get it aborted tomorrow!"
Just then, the telephone in the room suddenly rang.
Liu Dajun impatiently grabbed the receiver.
"Who is it?... What?! Deputy Factory Director Wang is out?... A letter of leniency?... Okay, okay, I understand!"
After hanging up the phone, Liu Jianjun's face lit up with ecstasy.
"Mom! The Wang family received a letter of understanding from the Su family and have been released!"
The feather duster in Liu's mother's hand fell to the ground with a "thud".
"Really? Then...then your dad..."
"There's still hope! If we can get Su Mingde's letter of forgiveness, Dad will be saved!"
Liu Jianjun rubbed his hands together excitedly.
"If the Wang family can do it, we certainly can too!"
Liu's mother had already given up hope.
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