Chapter 38 Sun Zhiqiang, stop acting!
The looks on the faces of the Sun family made Xu Yao feel nauseous.
She felt as if she was trapped in a quagmire, surrounded by sticky malice that engulfed her and made it hard for her to breathe.
The street office's procedures were so complicated and cumbersome that she felt overwhelmed.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The pain from her past life came flooding in like a tide, drowning her.
No!
She can't make the same mistake again!
She wants to escape from this quagmire and these vampires!
At this moment, Sun Zhiqiang suddenly changed his expression, his eyes were slightly red, and his voice was choked with sobs: "Yaoyao, I know that I did not do well in many places before, and I also have my difficulties... My father is in poor health, and my mother is impatient. I am also very embarrassed to be caught in the middle. Please give me another chance, I will treat you well in the future, for sure!"
He said this with such sincerity that if you didn't know him, you would think he had suffered a great injustice.
Some villagers around who didn't know the truth began to whisper, and some even cast reproachful looks at Xu Yao.
"Hey, what's going on here? If you don't know, you'd think you're Dou E!" Xu Yao sneered, mercilessly exposing his disguise, "Sun Zhiqiang, stop acting! Your little tricks may fool a three-year-old child, but you want to fool me? Forget it!"
Sun Zhiqiang was choked by Xu Yao's words, his face turned red, like a rooster whose tail was stepped on.
Everyone in the Sun family, who had originally thought that Xu Yao would be soft-hearted or at least hesitate, were dumbfounded, like a group of eggplants hit by frost, drooping their heads.
"You...how can you be so cruel, girl?" Seeing her son being humiliated, Sun's mother quickly jumped out to help, "Zhiqiang is sincere, you..."
"Really? Haha," Xu Yao interrupted her without any hesitation, "Do you really want me to marry you and work like a slave, taking care of your family? Do you really want me to watch my parents suffer and not lend a helping hand?"
Seeing that Sun Zhiqiang's plan failed, the third sister who had been hiding behind and watching the fun finally couldn't help it. She said in a shrill voice: "Xu Yao, don't be so ungrateful! I think you have someone else in your heart, so you deliberately find an excuse to break off the engagement!"
Xu Yao sneered in her heart. This Third Sister really couldn't hold her temper anymore. She pretended to be surprised and said, "Third Sister, you can't say that. When did I have someone else? Do you have any evidence?"
The third sister hesitated for a long time but couldn't explain it clearly.
Xu Yao pressed on: "Third sister, if you can't produce evidence, I will sue you for defamation! I think you just can't stand seeing me doing well, and you deliberately want to ruin my plan to break off the engagement!"
The third sister's face turned red and white, as colorful as a color palette.
She didn't expect Xu Yao to be so tough. She was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to refute.
The villagers who were watching the excitement around also started talking about it. Some supported Xu Yao, while others felt that she was too disrespectful to the Sun family.
For a moment, the street office was bustling with activity.
"You...you are slandering me!" The third sister was furious and pointed at Xu Yao's nose and cursed, "You..."
Xu Yao glared back without showing any weakness: "I am slandering you? Where's the IOU? Take it out!"
"I...I..." The third sister's eyes flickered and she didn't dare to look directly into Xu Yao's eyes.
Xu Yao knew that she had touched her sore spot.
She sneered, her tone cold: "Third sister, you'd better return the IOU to me, otherwise..."
She paused deliberately and didn't finish her words, but the threat was self-evident.
The third sister’s face was pale and her lips were trembling, but she couldn’t utter a word.
The air seemed to freeze, and everyone's eyes were focused on the two of them.
"What else?" The third sister finally mustered up the courage and asked tremblingly.
Xu Yao's lips curled up into a cold smile, her eyes as sharp as a knife: "Otherwise, I will let you know what it means to regret it!"
"Enough!" A sudden shout was like thunder out of the blue, making people's eardrums buzz.
The director of the subdistrict office finally couldn't bear it anymore, and his already serious face became even gloomier than before.
He slapped the table, and the lid of the teacup on the table jumped up with a "bang", and then fell back to its original place with a "click". The splashed tea left a dark mark on the table.
The sudden noise startled everyone who was arguing, and they fell silent instantly like a group of ducks whose pause button was pressed.
"What do you think this place is? A vegetable market? It's so noisy and disgraceful!" The director's voice was not loud, but it carried an unquestionable majesty, like a sharp knife, piercing straight into everyone's heart.
The Sun family members were intimidated by the director's aura. They shrank their necks and dared not breathe.
Especially Sun's mother, who looked like a victorious rooster just now, now looked like a plucked quail, hiding behind the crowd with her head down, fearing that she would be criticized by the director.
Xu Yao looked at the director's reaction and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this tactic of "killing with a borrowed knife" was correct.
She sobbed twice, pretending to be aggrieved, and her tears fell like beads that had broken off the string, but she wiped them away stubbornly with the back of her hand, which was heartbreaking to see.
"Director, please make the decision for me!" Xu Yao choked with sobs, her voice trembling slightly. "I really didn't mean to break off the engagement. It's just that the Sun family has gone too far! They...they..."
She seemed to be hesitant to speak, as if she had something to hide.
The director frowned, looking at Xu Yao's tearful face, and felt a little bit reluctant.
Although he is old-fashioned, he is not unreasonable.
He pondered for a moment and slowly said, "Comrade Xu Yao, if you have anything to say, just tell me. I will handle it impartially."
Xu Yao took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind. She raised her head, looked at the director with a firm gaze, and said word by word: "I suspect that the Sun family has an illegitimate source of income!"
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like throwing a huge rock into a calm lake, causing a thousand waves.
The surrounding villagers were in an uproar in an instant, with all kinds of discussions, exclamations, and questioning voices intertwined together, like a pot of boiling porridge, bubbling.
"What? Illegal source of income? This is no small matter!"
"No way? The Sun family looks quite honest..."
"You can only know a person's face but not his heart. Who knows what they are doing behind his back?"
The Sun family members were struck by lightning, their faces turned pale, like puppets with their souls taken away.
They blamed each other, passed the buck to each other, and were in a mess like a group of headless flies.
Sun Zhiqiang was so frightened that his soul flew out of his body. He fell to his knees with a plop, hugged Xu Yao's legs, and begged with tears in his eyes: "Yaoyao, you can't do this to me! I...I am doing this for your own good!"
Xu Yao shook off his hand in disgust, stepped back a few steps as if avoiding the plague, and looked at him coldly: "Sun Zhiqiang, stop pretending! I can see your true face clearly!"
Mother Sun was also panicking. She didn't care about her image and rushed over to scratch and claw at Xu Yao, cursing non-stop: "You little bitch! How dare you slander our family? I'll fight you!"
Xu Yao was prepared and nimbly dodged Sun's mother's attack.
She watched her grandson's mother throwing a tantrum coldly, without a single ripple in her heart.
The humiliation and pain she suffered in her previous life had already made her completely give up on the Sun family.
The third sister huddled in the corner, trembling like a frightened rabbit.
Her eyes flickered and she didn't dare to look anyone in the eye, for fear of becoming the target of public criticism.
The director frowned even more tightly as he looked at the chaotic scene in front of him.
He banged the table hard and shouted, "Stop it! If you continue to make trouble, I will arrest you all!"
Only after hearing the words "arrest him" did the Sun family quiet down.
Although they are scoundrels, they still have awe for the "iron rice bowl".
The director's eyes swept over the Sun family members one by one, and finally fell on Sun Zhiqiang.
He asked in a deep voice: "Sun Zhiqiang, do you have any explanation for what Comrade Xu Yao said?"
Sun Zhiqiang opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.
He lowered his head guiltily, his hands clenched tightly together, his knuckles turning white from the force.
"Since you don't speak, I can only..." The director paused, his eyes full of thought.
"It's male," Sun's mother still wanted to rescue him.
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