Chapter 72 Chapter 72 Escape
Zhao Ruyue stood up and patted her pants. "Sister, I still have to go buy some goods. I'll be busy now. I'll come and chat with you when I have time."
The shop owner was talking happily. She felt that she could get along well with this beautiful girl, even though they didn't even know each other's names.
She felt a little sorry for being interrupted, but she couldn't delay other people's business.
I could only respond, “Hey, okay, okay, you must come chat with me again when you are free!
This is a store I opened in my own house. It will remain open and will not go bankrupt. I will be here to run the store and you can see me anytime you come. ”
Zhao Ruyue also nodded in agreement.
But this time she had to pull a truckload of goods back to store them, and she didn't know when she would come to the county town next time, let alone come to this store again.
The next time might be a long time coming, and the proprietress might not even remember her.
After getting in the car, Zhao Ruyue exchanged a few words with the driver, and the driver drove away.
The car slowly drove towards the bus station exit.
However, the entrance and exit of the county bus station is relatively small and can only accommodate smaller cars.
If a long-distance bus is coming in or out, cars coming in the other direction must stop nearby and wait for the bus to leave before they can pass.
It was a bad luck that they came out just as a large bus came in from outside.
There were so many cars coming out that they could only pull to the side.
The driver parked the car next to a minibus going to the countryside.
Zhao Ruyue looked around aimlessly, and unexpectedly she saw a familiar person on the minibus going to the countryside.
Zhao Hongli’s wife——Donglan.
She had slightly yellowish, slightly curly hair, a mole near her mouth, and very fair skin. It was exactly as the store owner had described.
But her pale face made the bruises on her face particularly obvious.
Zhao Ruyue originally thought that she might have been forced or deceived.
But when she turned around and looked into the distance, Zhao Ruyue saw a very obvious, slightly shy smile on her face.
It doesn't look forced, so does she know what she's doing? Or were you cheated?
The man next to her is not her husband Zhao Hongli.
She was sitting on a bus going to the countryside, not a bus going to a big city.
The words on the hood of the car stated that the final stop was also a township in the city. That township was very far away from Rongxi Town, but it was not a big city outside the city.
It seems that Donglan just found an excuse to satisfy the curiosity of the convenience store owner.
What surprised Zhao Ruyue even more was that Donglan was accompanied by her young daughter Zhao Sikui.
But her eldest daughter, Zhao Silian, was not there.
This made Zhao Ruyue wonder, could it be that she and Zhao Hongli divorced privately?
Would a man like Zhao Hongli, who is traditional in thinking, chauvinistic and concerned about his reputation, be willing to divorce?
Two people each raising a child?
Donglan looked away and then noticed Zhao Ruyue sitting in the pickup truck.
Her expression became panicked, with a look of pleading in her eyes.
Zhao Ruyue couldn't tell whether she wanted him to save her or to pretend she didn't see it and not tell anyone when she got back.
Zhao Ruyue thought about it, then took out a pen and a notebook for writing the purchase order from her bag.
Turn to a blank page and write a few words: Did you meet a liar?
Donglan shook her head. She also wanted to find paper and pen, but she didn’t bring them.
Just as I was wondering what to do, I suddenly saw Zhao Ruyue on the opposite side blowing a breath on the glass and then scratching the foggy window.
Donglan hurriedly blew onto the glass in front of her.
He wrote one word in one breath: This is my new husband. I got the marriage certificate with him, but Zhao didn’t get it.
Seeing this, Zhao Ruyue understood that she had no right to interfere in this matter.
Even though she is Zhao Hongli's cousin, she can't do anything about it.
Zhao Ruyue was very shocked. She only found out today that Zhao Hongli and Donglan had two children but they didn't even get a marriage certificate.
Maybe they are in a de facto marriage?
But Donglan got married to this man again.
Now the two of them are legally husband and wife.
Zhao Ruyue had never seen such a thing before and didn't quite understand it.
In this case, does the de facto marriage still count?
Whose wife is Donglan after all?
The two were silent for a while.
Zhao Ruyue wrote the last sentence on the paper: I saw nothing today.
While waiting, the driver got off the car to buy some cigarettes.
When he got on again, the bus in front had already entered the bus station.
The minibus going to the countryside had already left, and the car blocked behind their car was honking its horn.
The driver didn't even have time to open the cigarettes he had just bought. He stuffed the cigarettes into his pocket, started the car and drove away.
After Zhao Ruyue finished shopping, she returned home and, together with Ning Shaoming and the driver, unloaded the things into a small room in the house that was used as a warehouse.
Ning Shaoming put the goods in place and paid the driver.
Originally, Ning Shaoming wanted to invite the driver to have dinner with him, but the driver had something to do at home and didn't seem to be polite in refusing, so he didn't continue to persuade him.
He quickly made a portion of fried rice noodles and packed it for the driver, who then left in a hurry with the noodles.
There were no customers in the store at this time, and it was not yet time for the children to go home from school.
There were only Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming in the store.
Zhao Ruyue was worried that she would not be able to eat in the evening, so she did not eat the rice noodles. Instead, she took a bowl of mutton soup and drank it slowly.
Ning Shaoming sat down next to her and told Zhao Ruyue that the business in the store was pretty good today: "Today is the last day to deliver fried eggs, and there are more customers than yesterday."
Zhao Ruyue said in annoyance: "If I had known earlier, I should have moved faster and come back earlier to help you."
Ning Shaoming told her something that surprised her: "My sister-in-law passed by the store and saw that I was too busy, so she came in to help me with the work for half a day."
"The sun rises from the west? For no reason, my sister-in-law comes to help." Zhao Ruyue said, and actually glanced out the window.
It is afternoon now and the sun is gradually moving westward. Obviously, the sun did not rise from the west today.
And Wang Haiyan didn't come to help out of kindness for no reason.
Ning Shaoming was also helpless: "My eldest brother called last night and said he would be home tomorrow morning."
"Didn't he say he was doing well over there? Why did he come back suddenly?"
"I don't know the details. My sister-in-law said that my brother didn't explain in detail on the phone and seemed reluctant to talk. She wanted me to wait for my brother to come back and have a good chat with him to find out what happened."
"Then will Xiaochun come back with us?"
"My eldest brother said he would take Xiaochun back with him as well."
Zhao Ruyue said, "Then wait until they come back and ask. Xiaochun and you have a good relationship. Even if Big Brother doesn't tell you, you can ask Xiaochun in private what's going on."
Neither of them could guess what had happened to Ning Shaoxian over there, so they could only temporarily drop the topic and talk about other things.
As they chatted, Zhao Ruyue told Ning Shaoming about her encounter with Donglan at the county bus station.
Ning Shaoming's first reaction was to nervously advise her: "Don't get involved in this.
When it comes to other people's affairs, you can't interfere, not to mention that you are just a cousin from the same clan. Even if she is your biological cousin, you will get yourself into trouble if you don't do it.
Zhao Hongli seems to be a nice guy when he's not drinking, but his drinking behavior reveals his character. If you tell him about this, he may not show anything in person, and he may be blaming you in his heart for not helping him bring his wife back on the spot. ”
Zhao Ruyue said: "I understand. I will definitely not care about his affairs. After all, I am not his biological sister. Let's just pretend we don't know about this."
Although Zhao Ruyue decided not to tell anyone, she couldn't help but pay more attention to the news about Zhao Hongli's family than before.
However, Donglan had been gone for several days, and Zhao Hongli was still drunk every day.
His wife hasn't been home for so many days, but he is not worried at all.
When others asked him about it, he had the nerve to accuse Dong Lan of being irresponsible.
They say Donglan is not decent and is not qualified to be a wife or a mother.
He blamed Donglan for always going back to her parents' home, and said that he would give her a good beating when she came back.
That is to say, I am not so busy now, and I pay more attention to Zhao Hongli's family.
Zhao Ruyue only then realized that Donglan had returned home once before.
The time was two days before Zhao Ruyue met her at the bus station.
It’s just that before that, Zhao Ruyue was busy with the business in the store and the moving.
I didn't have time to go back to the old house to chat with my neighbors, so I didn't know about this.
It is estimated that Donglan was beaten by Zhao Hongli at that time.
Zhao Ruyue heard about Zhao Hongli's return home when she met Zhao Hongli's sister-in-law at the market, where she took Donglan's eldest daughter to buy meat.
His sister-in-law said: "Donglan came back before and said that her mother was too ill and wanted to see her two granddaughters, so she came back and wanted to take her two daughters to her mother's house to visit their grandmother.
But that wicked Zhao Hongli refused to let her take the child back.
Do you know what he said? He actually said that since Donglan and the two children were gone, there was no one to do the housework at home.
Tell me, which father would treat others like him?
The housework is actually done by an eight-year-old and a three-year-old child!
Donglan begged for a long time, but he refused to give in.
She was not allowed to take the child back to her parents' home.
Donglan wanted to secretly take the child away at night while he was asleep, but unfortunately he found out and beat her up!
Luckily we heard the noise and rushed over!
You don’t know, the way he beat people was as if Donglan was not his wife but the enemy who killed his whole family!
I thought he was drunk and unconscious before, so he beat people without restraint. Who knew that he could beat people to death even when he was not drunk!
Later, Donglan begged him again, saying that he should only take the younger one back, so that the old man could see one before he died.
He agreed because he felt that the younger one couldn't do much work at home and needed someone to take care of him. ”
Zhao Ruyue couldn't calm down for a long time after hearing this. She was a little glad that she didn't tell Zhao Hongli about meeting Donglan in the county town.
Even in the secret place of my heart, I had a thought: Fortunately, Donglan left instead of being beaten to death.
In the nearby villages, someone was telling everyone that his wife had run away with someone else.
It's not like his wife was buried by that man himself before.
Zhao Hongli was in that condition. If Donglan didn't run away, what would happen if she was beaten to death, or her organs were damaged or she became disabled?
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