"Silence! I haven't finished asking my question! No arguing allowed!"
This whole thing was originally Li Nannan and Chen Yuan's fault. If Chen Yuan had taken the blame, Li Nannan might have received a lighter punishment. If Yu Jiu had hit Li Nannan, there might have been some disputes. But now that Chen Yuan has turned against them so completely, there's nothing more to say.
Yu Jiu is fine, but Li Nannan and Chen Yuan are going to be detained. Chen Yuan has already paid the money, so that's fine. If Li Nannan and Chen Yuan don't want to be detained and go to jail, then they'll have to pay Yu Jiu a sum of money again. That's all she needs to be satisfied with.
Anyway, this is just a civil dispute, a trivial matter, as long as the parties involved agree.
"How much compensation?"
Li Nannan's father asked with a dark face, "How embarrassing! How incredibly embarrassing! Where the hell is Li Guanhua? Why hasn't he come back yet after so long!" He took his anger out on his son who hadn't returned.
"Um, just one person..."
Liu Ming was about to say ten yuan, which was already a high price, since ten yuan was a huge sum of money these days, but Xu Zi interrupted him first.
"Fifty."
"Fifty for each person. The young educated youth's hand won't heal for several months. She won't be able to work or earn work points for these months, and these losses will have to be compensated. She was also frightened and can't sleep day or night. She keeps having nightmares about the fat man and this Li Nannan bullying her. If this continues, her body will definitely not be able to take it."
I need to take her to the hospital and buy her supplements; fifty yuan each, that'll be enough!
Xu Zijiang said in a firm and powerful voice.
···
Upon hearing this, the police station fell into complete silence; you could hear a pin drop. Li Nannan's father glared hatefully at Xu Zijiang.
"Don't go too far! What does fifty yuan mean? Can you even earn that much in a year? You're asking for an exorbitant amount! Just because we're rich doesn't mean you can ask for anything you want! Why don't you just ask for five hundred yuan!"
"You want to give us five hundred? That's fine, five hundred it is."
Xu Zi calmly changed the amount.
"puff."
Yu Jiu couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh. Xu Zijiang really has a thick skin.
"you!"
Li Nannan's father clutched his heart, nearly dying of anger. Damn it, it's true what they say, "Poor places breed wicked people!" This wicked person! If they were where they lived, their family wouldn't be suffering like this, being bullied like this! He knows a ton of people like that!
That's why they say even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake.
"Fifty yuan is definitely too much. How about twenty yuan per person?"
Liu Ming glared at Xu Zijiang, signaling him not to go too far. However, Xu Zijiang insisted on his own opinion, and after some haggling, he finally got forty yuan from Li Nannan. Since Chen Yuan had given him thirty yuan before, he only needed to give him twenty yuan today.
Yu Jiu broke two fingernails. Although he didn't earn a hundred yuan, he still got ninety yuan, which was quite valuable. Liu Ming almost wanted the two of them to break his fingernails too, and then give him ninety yuan as well. If breaking two wasn't enough, he could have three or four broken, or even all of them!
"Here, take this money and buy yourself a coffin. You're so short of money, consider this your family's money for your coffin. The sooner you die, the sooner you'll be reborn!"
Li Nannan threw the forty yuan on the ground, wanting Yu Jiu to pick them up one by one like a beggar.
However, Yu Jiu wasn't going to tolerate her bad habits and stared at her coldly.
"I'll count to three, and you'd better pick up this money and put it obediently in my palm, otherwise..."
Li Nannan recalled the memory of being beaten to the point of near death. Her frail body trembled involuntarily, and she bent down to pick up the money and place it in Yu Jiu's hand.
"whispering sound."
Yu Jiu scoffed, put the money in his pocket, and walked away with Xu Zijiang without looking back.
"Yu Zhiqing, Yu Zhiqing, wait for me! Yu Zhiqing, I have something to tell you!"
Chen Yuan, his fat trembling, followed along eagerly, treating Yu Jiu like a bone, practically ready to gnaw on it.
"What the hell is there to say! If you follow us again, I'll kill you, you believe me?"
Xu Zijiang became agitated upon hearing his voice. Just then, a branch of a large tree nearby drooped down, and the trunk was quite thick. He reached out and grabbed the leaves, climbing up the tree. He pressed down hard, and with a snap, the branch, as thick as his wrist, broke.
"Do you want to become like this tree, missing an arm or a leg?"
Xu Zi asked him in a cold tone.
Chen Yuan finally realized he was afraid. He took a few steps back in fear and stood still, watching helplessly as Xu Zijiang and Yu Jiu walked away.
"At least they're not following us anymore."
With that greasy, disgusting gaze gone, Yu Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. If Chen Yuan had continued to stare at her like that, she would have thrown up her dinner from the night before.
"If it happens again, I'll beat him up myself, don't be afraid."
Xu Zi touched Yu Jiu's hair, gently comforting him, his eyes deep and his ruggedly handsome face full of tenderness.
"I wasn't scared, I just felt disgusted."
Yu Jiu curled her lip in disgust, feeling it was a sin to be liked by someone like this, not because she was particularly charming.
"It's disgusting. To make it up to you, I've decided to take you to a state-run restaurant for dinner. How about it, do you want to go?"
Xu Zi raised an eyebrow and asked in a dashing manner.
"I'm not going."
Yu Jiu shook her head. She wasn't in the mood. Arguing with people would tire her out. She wanted to go back.
"Shall we go to the department store to buy some things?"
"I don't want to go."
Yu Jiu shook her head again; there was nothing she wanted to buy right now.
"That···"
Xu Zi racked his brains, trying to cheer Yu Jiu up, but he only knew these two tricks and couldn't think of anything else. After a long pause, he finally tentatively asked...
"Then I'll give you a day off? You don't have to work if you don't want to. With me here, no one will dare to gossip about you."
"That's too conspicuous, no good. I'll earn fewer work points. I can't finish five work points' worth of work, and you'll have to help me. Next time I'll do three work points' worth, so I won't be unable to finish."
"good."
Xu Zijiang agreed without hesitation, but secretly regretted it in his heart. Then there would be no excuse to help the young educated youth with their work, and how would he show his strength in the future?
"Let's go back, I'm tired."
Yu Jiu yawned, tears welling up in her eyes, and her eyelids drooped wearily.
"Um."
Xu Zijiang saw that she was truly exhausted, so he didn't cause any more trouble and quietly accompanied her back. He did want to carry the young educated youth back, but that would be too intimate, so he decided to wait.
On the other hand, Li Guanhua tried to contact several people, but the answer he received was that educated youth were restricted from returning to the city, leaving no room for negotiation. He went to his parents dejectedly and told them the news.
Li Nannan was beaten and locked in a dark room. She hadn't eaten properly for the past two days, and she was just angered again. She was shocked, angry, and worried. Her blood rushed to her head, and she rolled her eyes and fainted.
"Nan Nan, Nan Nan, what's wrong? Don't scare Mommy!"
The Li family rushed her to the hospital for an IV drip. It wasn't anything serious; it was just a sudden surge of anger that caused her to feel unwell, and she would recover with rest. The only problem was that they couldn't go back home. How could she recover like this? She kept waking up and then becoming dizzy again, which annoyed the two men in the family. After staying with her for two days, they said they had to go back.
“Your parents and brother still have to work and live, so they can’t stay here with you all the time. Besides, going to the countryside was your own idea, and you even secretly signed up. Since you can’t go back, then just live your life here. Don’t worry about money; we’ll send you money.”
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