"Lu Yunzhi, your phone number is at the village entrance!"
A male voice suddenly rang out from outside. Lu Yunzhi came back to his senses. Could it be that Qianqian had gone out to buy something? With this thought in mind, he rushed to the village entrance without pausing for a moment.
"Hello, this is Lu Yunzhi." He pressed his hand against his wildly beating heart, took a deep breath, and managed to say the words in a calm tone. But the cold words from the other end of the phone made him feel as if he had been plunged into an ice cellar.
"Hello, I'm Qianqian's mother. I'm calling you to tell you two things. First, I've brought Qianqian home; second, just now, Qianqian agreed to divorce you."
"This...this is impossible!" Lu Yunzhi said urgently, "I want to hear Qianqian tell me herself!"
I...."
Before he could finish speaking, the phone went dead; the other end had hung up, utterly heartless.
Only now did Lu Yunzhi's hand holding the phone tremble uncontrollably. If this were true, what should he do next? No, it couldn't be true, he told himself a hundred times. He had to see Qianqian now. With that thought in mind, he went to the bus stop.
As soon as Lu Yunzhi arrived at the bus stop, he encountered the entire Lu family.
It turned out that today was Qi Ran's discharge day. Old Mrs. Li was afraid that her eldest daughter-in-law might have some accidents on her way home, so she specially asked the family to speed up their work today so that they could go to the village entrance to pick up her in the evening!
The two women from the second wife's family were all fawning. The third wife's family only sent Lu Yunchuan; expecting Shen Qian to give up her rest time to pick up Qi Ran was simply a pipe dream. The fourth wife's family didn't show any expression on their faces, but they were definitely unhappy about it. She was just pregnant, yet she acted like the emperor of the whole family. And everyone had to pick her up and drop her off when she came back.
Grandma Li beamed as she looked at Qi Ran's protruding belly. With just five or six more months of careful care, she would have a grandchild!
She glanced into the distance and, what a coincidence! Her fifth son was being so considerate today; he had come immediately after receiving the news that the whole family was coming to pick up the eldest son's family. She waved to Lu Yunzhi: "Fifth son, come here quickly!"
The eldest son and his family will be here soon!
"Mom, I still need to go find Qianqian." Lu Yunzhi subconsciously refused.
Upon hearing this, Old Lady Li realized that this was what her eldest son's daughter-in-law had told her on the phone earlier that day. Besides telling her that she was about to be discharged from the hospital, her eldest son's daughter-in-law had also told her that her fifth son's wife had been taken home by her own mother and that she planned to divorce her fifth son.
Old Mrs. Li was displeased upon hearing this. Her son was so outstanding; marrying Shen Qianqian was an honor for her! What other family would have a daughter-in-law spoiled like Shen Qianqian? Only her kind-hearted fifth son would be willing to do that. Now that the Shen family wanted a divorce, that was perfect; the Lu family didn't really want this daughter-in-law.
She thought the village clinic nurse would be perfect; she looked plump and would definitely be fertile. If her fifth son married her, maybe in a year or two, the Lu family would have two little grandchildren!
Old Mrs. Li rushed forward and grabbed Lu Yunzhi's arm. Lu Yunzhi tried to break free, but before he could exert any force, Old Mrs. Li fell to the ground with a cry of pain.
"Oh dear! My son wants a wife more than his own mother!!"
Upon hearing this, Old Man Lu was furious. He told his fourth son's wife to help Old Lady Li up, then stepped forward and slapped Lu Yunzhi hard across the face: "You heartless bastard! Do you know how hard it was for your mother and me to raise you all these years? You were our favorite among our five sons, and this is how you treat us?"
Old Man Lu's loud voice soon attracted a crowd of onlookers, who criticized Lu Yunzhi, and some even mingled in the crowd, shouting that Lu Yunzhi had been corrupted by Shen Qianqian.
When Old Lady Li heard this, she sat down on the ground and started wailing and crying. She insisted that Lu Yunzhi come home with her, or she would kill herself by smashing her head against the wall in front of the whole village.
Lu Yunzhi's face burned with pain, and various voices echoed in his ears, mostly accusing him of being unfilial. In a daze, he was dragged back home by the entire Lu family amidst the throng of people. He wanted to resist, to escape, but a seed of inferiority sprouted within him—if he brought Qianqian back, would she truly be happy? Could he really give her happiness?
Lu Yunzhi couldn't sleep all night.
Meanwhile, Grandma Li and Qi Ran also had a sleepless night.
Grandma Li faked a fall today, but her bottom still hurt really badly when she landed on it. She couldn't sleep at all when she lay flat on her back, the pain from the pressure on her bottom was unbearable. Besides, she had to keep an eye on Lao Wu to make sure he didn't sneak out to find Chen Qianqian late at night; otherwise, her fall would have been pointless.
Qi Ran received the lucky gift from the system after successfully preventing Lu Yunzhi from going to find Shen Qianqian.
It was worth it; I also discovered that the system had been upgraded, and the shop and task functions had been opened. Luckily, I had the foresight to guess that Lu Yunzhi would take the bus to the city to find Shen Qianqian after hearing the hospital nurses discussing that Shen Qianqian had been taken home by Zhang Wei. So I immediately asked Lu Yuncheng to call Grandma Li and ask her to bring her whole family to the bus stop to pick her up.
She refused to believe that the entire Lu family couldn't stop Lu Yunzhi from going to find Shen Qianqian. And now, not only had she successfully stopped him, ensuring he'd never see Shen Qianqian again, but she'd also unlocked a new function for the system. It was simply wonderful.
Originally, with Shen Qianqian around, the whole family would have taken care of her a bit. Now that Shen Qianqian is gone, and because of her pregnancy, all the family's attention is on her. She dreams of her future, of her luck skyrocketing and her becoming rich, and she couldn't sleep all night thinking about it.
the next day.
Apart from Lu Yunzhi, Qi Ran, and Xu Tianqing, the fourth son's wife who stayed behind to cook, everyone else in the Lu family went out to work. Before leaving, Old Lady Li reminded her fourth son's wife to keep a close eye on Lu Yunzhi, and she also found the big iron lock in the house, determined to lock Lu Yunzhi up for a day.
Lu Yunzhi thought about it all night and finally came to his senses. He remembered what Qianqian had been telling him.
If they work together, there's no mountain they can't climb, no river they can't cross. If he gives up now, they might truly have no future.
He figured everything out, pushed open the door, and bumped right into Xu Tianqing.
He was still pondering how to tell his fourth sister-in-law. But when Xu Tianqing saw him, she was completely stunned.
He covered his eyes, muttering, "I didn't see anything, Lao Wu has been at home the whole time!"
She also hoped her beautiful younger sister-in-law would come back soon! So she simply pretended she knew nothing.
Alright!
"Thank you, Fourth Sister-in-law." Lu Yunzhi apologized to Xu Tianqing. Because the door was locked, he had to climb over the wall. Fortunately, his previous experience in the army made it relatively easy for him to climb over the wall.
Lu Yunzhi successfully scaled the wall and headed straight for the county town.
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