Chapter 163 The Human Heart Is Unpredictable
"...Lin Jiefang dares to treat his former benefactors so kindly. Aren't you afraid that he'll discard them after they've served their purpose, like a dog that's been cooked after the rabbit is caught?"
When the bride's uncle received the note and saw the first sentence, he frowned slightly, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, but not to the point of being frightened. There's nothing wrong with people pursuing profit.
They had the money and power that Lin Jiefang wanted, and Lin Jiefang was the husband his niece wanted. It was simply a matter of each getting what they needed.
But the next sentence hit the bride's uncle like a club on the head.
"...You think you can outsmart him? How come you didn't know your niece was pregnant? He's renting a place and pretending it's a new house, passing off secondhand junk as new, how come you didn't know?"
The bride's uncle felt a chill run down his spine, and his eyes gradually turned cold.
"...It's true that old ginger is spicier, but there's also a saying that the new waves of the Yangtze River push the old waves forward, and the old waves fall on the beach. Lin Jiefang is ruthless and meticulous. I was lucky because he was unguarded. How long do you think it would take for him to fall on the beach and lie dormant under your control?"
This sentence caused the bride's uncle's expression to suddenly turn into one of horror.
He suddenly looked up at the man who had passed him the note.
Xiao Zhanyou asked him, "Have you finished reading?"
"Are you one of Li Banxia's people?"
Xiao Zhanyou didn't reply to him. He took the note from his hand, took out a matchbox, struck a match, and burned the note to ashes.
Seeing the last bit of ashes fall to the ground, Xiao Zhanyou turned and left.
The bride's uncle stared at the ashes on the ground with a grim face; his expression was extremely unpleasant.
Li Banxia quickly received a call from Xiao Zhanyou, who reported back, "The auto parts factory director only got one daughter from the bride. The reason they were soft-hearted and wanted to save Lin Jiefang was that the bride said Lin Jiefang promised that the first child would take their family name. Can the note make them give up saving Lin Jiefang?"
To be honest, Li Banxia didn't know.
She was actually unsure of herself.
She didn't have any connections to compete with people of the bride's uncle's social standing, so she had to rely on herself.
She wasn't exaggerating when she said those things.
How did Lin Jiefang climb up to the top so quickly in his past life?
The bride's uncle certainly deserves a lot of credit.
Although she didn't know the details, she wondered what Lin Jiefang had done after taking office that caused the Zheng family, which had a nephew-in-law who was the top leader, to decline so quickly.
The bride's uncle, surnamed Zheng, was forced to retire due to illness, and the director of the auto parts factory was forced to retire early. The family fled Beijing in a sorry state.
The shady dealings involved are quite evident.
There was no way she would let the tiger return to the mountain, but if the Zheng family insisted on interfering, all she could do was use this method to make the Zheng family and the bride's family suspicious.
With suspicions raised, neither the Zheng family nor the bride's family would give Lin Jiefang a chance to climb the social ladder.
We can't eliminate future troubles, so it's better to pull out its teeth and prevent Lin Jiefang from having a chance to get back on his feet for a while.
And then...
Then we can only proceed cautiously, taking things one step at a time.
She didn't tell Xiao Zhanyou these things; there was no reason for someone who had helped her to fall into the same anxiety and panic about the unknown as she did.
Li Banxia took a deep breath and said to Xiao Zhanyou, "Let's see how things go. Zheng is capable of entering the municipal government, so he must understand the hints I gave him. He should have his own considerations."
"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it and let you know as soon as I have any news."
After hanging up the phone, Li Banxia looked into the receiver and sighed softly.
Liu Mingcui frowned and looked over, "What exactly happened? Your phone call is completely confusing to me."
Li Banxia glanced at her and briefly summarized the cause and effect to Liu Mingcui.
Liu Mingcui almost exploded.
"What goes around comes around! Lin Jiefang, that ingrate, deserves it! Neither of them is any good. Is Su Youfu blind? Blind to fall for this kind of scum?! Besides being good-looking, he's full of bad intentions. All these years you've done housework, raised children, and taken care of his mother for him, and he hasn't seen a thing! That bastard..."
Li Banxia laughed, "Don't insult the dog. After being raised for so many years, it should know who its owner is by now, this..."
She pouted and shook her head with a look of disgust.
Liu Mingcui chuckled and lightly patted her on the shoulder. "No matter what, they've gotten what they deserved. But... with the bride's family being so powerful, what if..."
After saying that, he shook his head and said, "If their family had any shame, they wouldn't have gone to save it. If they didn't care about their reputation, they should at least consider their status and position. Saving such a thing would be like raising a tiger to cause trouble later."
"Yes, indeed. I wish they were as insightful as you." Li Banxia nodded with a smile.
Liu Mingcui spat into her palm and reached out to scratch Li Banxia.
"You, Li Banxia, are you praising me or insulting me...?"
The next day, Li Banxia didn't receive a call from Xiao Zhanyou. Instead, early in the morning, Su Laosan received a strange phone call.
The other party claimed to be Fang Erniu's cousin.
"Cousin-in-law, my cousin asked me to call you over to help out. There are too many people and not enough men in the family, so it's a bit overwhelming. You can come over and introduce yourself to the family, and also act as a relative of the woman's side to give me some encouragement..."
Putting everything else aside, Su Laosan was quite pleased with being called "brother-in-law."
He chuckled twice, then realized something was wrong. He asked for the other party's address before asking what Fang Erniu was doing and why she wasn't calling him.
My cousin on the phone gasped twice nervously before saying, "She...she has an upset stomach. We came together, and she...she's taking a dump in the outhouse..."
Su Laosan frowned.
"She was fine the day before yesterday, how come she got an upset stomach as soon as she came to your house?"
"Brother-in-law, come quickly, you'll know when you get here," my cousin said.
Su Laosan felt something was off and said he would go home to change his clothes and come over later.
My cousin said "okay," hung up the phone, and ran home.
A thin, short woman stopped her. "Did you get through on the phone?"
"The call went through. My cousin-in-law said he'll change his clothes and come over later."
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Be smart these next few days, don't mess things up, or I'll break your legs."
"Mom, I don't dare," my cousin replied timidly.
The woman glared at her and said, "What are you standing there for? Go do your work."
After hanging up the phone, Su Laosan went home and told Li Banxia about it, also expressing his concerns.
"Mom, I need to go see Erniu. It doesn't make sense that she asked a complete stranger to call me. Even if she has a stomachache, it'll only last a little while. How come she can't even make a phone call?"
These words made Li Banxia's heart jump.
What did they say?
"Tell me and I'll find out when I get there."
Su Laosan frowned deeply. "She was complaining to me the day before yesterday about her cousin, saying that she didn't want to get married at first, but in the blink of an eye she was happily preparing for her wedding. I'm not at ease with that. Mom, do you think they can't let Erniu marry in her place?"
Li Banxia glared at him, asking if he knew how to speak properly.
"Isn't Erniu's mom here too?"
Su Laosan scratched his head and said, "Oh, then he rubbed his chest, looked at Li Banxia, and said, "Why do I feel so uncomfortable? I always feel like something's going to happen. Mom, I have to go see her."
Seeing his reaction, Li Banxia hesitated for a moment before nodding.
He said, "Okay, go ahead. The wedding is today, right? Remember, no matter what they say, you and Erniu need to be back before 3 o'clock. Taking a taxi will be faster. If I don't see you at home before 3 o'clock, I'll call your Uncle Xiao and we'll go look for you together."
Su Laosan exclaimed "Ah!" and ran back into the house to change his clothes before coming out.
I hurriedly took a taxi to the place mentioned on the phone and immediately saw Fang Erniu sitting on the long bench at the entrance, clutching her stomach and looking unwell.
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