Li Decai snatched the key and opened the door himself.
As soon as the door opened, a strong smell of alcohol hit the door.
In the living room, Su Mingqiang was slumped on the sofa, still holding an empty wine bottle in his hand, with peanut shells and cigarette butts scattered on the floor.
Li Decai's face instantly turned bright red.
"Fine! Fine! We're locked up inside, eating and sleeping poorly, while you're here living a life of debauchery!"
Su Mingqiang opened his eyes groggily, and when he saw who it was, he actually smiled.
"Hey...father-in-law, when did you get out? What's wrong...the food at the police station wasn't good?"
"brute!"
Li Decai grabbed Su Mingqiang by the collar.
"Are you even human?"
As he spoke, he wanted to slap Su Mingqiang.
Fortunately, Li Jinhua, who was standing nearby, quickly stepped forward and pulled her father away.
"Dad! Don't do this!"
Afterwards, Li Jinhua led the group into the bedroom, ignoring Su Mingqiang who had collapsed onto the sofa again, and slammed the door shut.
Li Jinhua's eyes were already red when she turned around.
She took a deep breath, her voice trembling.
"Dad, Mom, do you know how hard it was for me to get you out of here? Please don't cause any more trouble. I begged and pleaded with everyone, pulled so many strings..."
"fart!"
Li Jinbao suddenly interrupted her, plopped down on the edge of the bed, and retorted.
"Our release has absolutely nothing to do with you! The police said it was just a seven-day administrative detention!"
Li Jinhua was struck dumb, frozen in place.
"Wh...what?"
Wang Guifang hurriedly tugged at her son's sleeve.
"Jinbao! How dare you talk to your sister like that!"
Li Decai sat on an old wooden chair.
He took out his pipe, carefully packed the tobacco into it, and then spoke.
"Daughter...when the police released us, they did say that the case wasn't serious to begin with, and the Su family didn't pursue it..."
"impossible!"
Li Jinhua was furious.
She suddenly ripped open her collar, revealing a bluish-purple hickey on her collarbone.
"I specifically went to see Vice Principal Zhang, and he told me personally that you were going to be sentenced! I... I slept with him for an entire afternoon! Only then did he agree to use his connections to get you released, at the Sijiucheng Hotel! He said you wouldn't be able to get out without this!"
The room fell into a deathly silence.
Li Decai forgot to even smoke the pipe he had just lit.
Wang Guifang was the first to react and rushed over to hug her daughter.
"My son..."
Li Decai then realized what was happening, immediately stood up, and kicked over the wooden chair.
"Damn his ancestors!"
His temples were bulging with veins as he cursed fiercely.
"That bastard surnamed Zhang! I'll chop him up!"
"dad!"
Li Jinhua grabbed her father's arm, tears streaming down her face.
"It's no use... He's the vice principal, he has connections everywhere... We can't win against him..."
Li Jinbao suddenly smiled sinisterly.
"So you just let someone sleep with you for free?"
He licked the corner of his mouth.
"You're so despicable."
"Jinbao!"
Wang Guifang rebuked her sternly.
But her son ignored her completely, lay down on the bed, and closed his eyes.
Li Decai had only been angry for a moment, but after calming down and thinking it over carefully, he looked at his daughter who was crying loudly and helplessly comforted her.
"Honey, let's just pretend we were bitten by a dog. It's good that we're all alright."
"It's all Su Jianguo's fault!"
At this moment, Li Jinbao, who was lying down, suddenly got up and pounded on the wall.
"If that old geezer hadn't called the police, how would we have ended up inside?"
He turned and stared at Li Jinhua, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.
"Do you know what kind of life we lived in there? We were treated like animals by those prisoners every day!"
Wang Guifang also wiped away her tears and chimed in.
"Exactly! Your brother gets beaten every day, while I, with my chronic leg pain, have to kneel on the cement floor to scrub the floor..."
She suddenly grabbed her daughter's hand.
"Jin Hua, this matter can't be left like this!"
Looking at the ferocious expressions on her parents' and brother's faces, Li Jinhua felt helpless.
She thought of her husband, who was dead drunk in the living room, and unconsciously lowered her voice.
"But, but... Mingqiang... has already been expelled from the family register by his father."
"What?"
The three spoke in unison.
Li Jinhua bit her lip and said aggrievedly.
"It happened the day before yesterday. Su Jianguo took his whole family back to the village to pay respects to their ancestors, and he specifically crossed Mingqiang's name off the family genealogy."
At this point, Li Jinhua realized that Su Mingqiang hadn't gone to work for several days, but she hadn't noticed because of her parents' situation.
He was immediately shocked.
"It's over, he hasn't been to work for days, and now he probably won't even keep his job at the factory..."
Upon hearing this, Li Decai dropped his pipe on the ground with a "thud," scattering ashes all over the floor.
His eyes widened.
"What? What did you say? You're going to lose your job?"
Li Jinhua nodded, tears streaming down her face once again.
"Dad, you don't know, a few days ago I took Mingqiang to see that old bastard Su Jianguo... that old bastard got 30,000 yuan in compensation!!"
"What? Thirty thousand??"
Li Decai was immediately alarmed.
Even Wang Guifang and Li Jinbao, who were standing to the side, were shocked.
Li Jinhua was startled by the three men's eyes, as if she were a wolf that had spotted its prey.
"I...I just wanted to get a share of the money, so I had Mingqiang threaten their family, saying...that if they didn't give me the money, they wouldn't be allowed to be buried in the ancestral grave after they died..."
"Foolish!"
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