"Where's Zhou Jun! Where's that bastard Zhou Jun!" Father Lin was shaking with anger. "He hurt my daughter like this, I'm going to skin him alive!"
"Yeah, where's Zhou Jun? Why haven't I seen him? Could he still not know about Yan Hong jumping into the river?"
"The whole village is here, how could he not know?"
Everyone looked everywhere for Zhou Jun.
Qin Youfu frowned and said to the people around him, "You guys, go find out where Zhou Jun is."
"Okay, Captain."
"No need to look for me, I've always been here." A voice came from the corner outside the crowd. It was Zhou Jun with an expressionless face.
Everyone was shocked, and then they were terrified. This man had been standing in the corner, watching his wife almost die without any reaction. How could a person's heart be so hard?
It wasn't the coldest time of the year, but everyone was shivering. People like this are really scary.
"What a piece of shit!" Wu Guixiang couldn't help but curse.
Su Qingyun frowned, feeling disgusted with this irresponsible man from the bottom of his heart.
Father Lin looked at Zhou Jun with bloodshot eyes. "You just watched Yan Hong jump into the river like that. Are you still a human being?"
"How has our Lin family wronged you? Why do you treat us like this?" Lin's mother burst into tears.
Zhou Jun frowned. "I just found out and came here too. I thought she was just saying that out of anger. How could I have known she would actually jump?"
His light tone made people almost shudder.
"You bastard, how dare you say such words!" Father Lin was so angry that he wanted to rush towards Zhou Jun, but was stopped by the villagers.
"Uncle Lin, calm down."
"The captain is here and will do you justice."
Qin Youfu's face turned pale as he looked at Zhou Jun. "When you came to register, I asked you if you had discussed this with your family. What did you answer me?"
Zhou Jun's frown deepened. "Captain, I'm a high school graduate and an educated youth. I'm under 40. Is there anything about me that doesn't meet the registration requirements?"
Qin Youfu's face completely darkened. "No, but everything we do is based on family unity. If Li's actions cause harm to others, I will also speak up when you are subject to political review."
He was rarely angry, and his tone was threatening. What Qin Youfu hated most was people who destroyed the unity of their Luoshui Village. Before, it was Lin Jianfeng, and now it was Zhou Jun. These educated young people were more difficult to deal with than the other.
Zhou Jun was stunned for a moment, apparently forgetting about the political review.
He suddenly looked at Lin Yanhong, "Yanhong, please speak up. You know how I treated you before. I just want to go to college now, and you don't support me?"
Lin Yanhong raised her eyes and looked at the man she had shared the bed with for so long. She felt as horrified as if she had seen a demon. She couldn't understand why people could change so quickly. The day before, he was such a considerate husband and loving father, but overnight, he seemed to have become a completely different person, his heart harder than stone, determined to leave her and her son to apply to some stupid university.
"Brother Jun, I just want to ask you, is it true... even if I died today, you would still go to take the college entrance examination, right?" Lin Yanhong asked with red eyes and a trembling voice.
Zhou Jun's brows flashed with impatience. "I told you, I'm not abandoning you. Once I get into university and settle down there, I'll come back to pick you and your son up."
His tone was firm, as if he was certain that he would be admitted to university.
Lin Yanhong smiled bitterly, "Do you believe what you said?" Those who left hoped for him to come back, just like hoping for the sun to rise from the west. It was all a vain wait.
Zhou Jun was silent.
Lin Yanhong burst into tears. Children are sensitive to their mother's emotions, and Xiaomu cried even louder in her arms.
A hint of emotion flashed across Zhou Jun's eyes, and then quickly disappeared.
No one knew how much he wanted to leave here and go to college. He didn't want to spend his whole life here, and he didn't want others to mention him as just the Lin family's son-in-law.
Su Qingyun saw the burgeoning ambition in his eyes and suddenly thought of another person, Lu Cheng.
Why do these people, wanting to climb up, always have to step on others to get there? Family and love, in their eyes, are things that can be discarded at will. When they finally get what they want, will they really be happy?
Everyone cursed Zhou Jun even louder, not caring at all.
"What a piece of shit! If I were the Lin family's parents, I'd break his legs and see if he still takes the exam!"
"The Lin family treated him so well, ensuring he had enough food and clothing, yet he still did something like this? It's true that you can only judge a person by their appearance but not by their heart! His conscience has been eaten by a dog!"
Mother Lin burst into tears, "Oh my God! Why did this happen to our family? It's such a sin!"
Father Lin hunched over, looking as if he had aged decades in an instant. "It's my fault. I shouldn't have let that bastard into our house. It's my fault."
Lin Yanhong looked at Zhou Jun, her eyes seemed to contain a thousand words. She seemed to have finally made up her mind and said, "Brother Jun, go ahead. If you want to take the exam, then go ahead."
"Yanhong..." Zhou Jun didn't expect her to agree. He was stunned and seemed a little reluctant.
Lin Yanhong closed her eyes and opened them again. "Go after what you want. I can't stop you. Let's get a divorce."
Lin's father and mother were both anxious, "Yan Hong!"
"Mom and Dad, let's just leave it at that." She couldn't change his mind even with her life, so what else could she change?
Perhaps it was because people who had died once could see the true face of others more clearly. Lin Yanhong only now realized that the man she had been with day and night for several years was actually never as honest and steady as he appeared to be.
He just had no choice before, so he could be at ease with her and her son. But now it's different. He has other choices in his life, and they are naturally excluded.
"Divorce? Oh my god, is there anyone getting divorced in our village?"
"How did it get to the point of divorce? Xiaomu is only this young, it's really a sin!"
"The Lin family is so unlucky to have such a live-in son-in-law!"
Zhou Jun stammered a few times, but finally nodded, "Okay, divorce, I don't want anything."
Lin Yanhong's body shook. Although she knew that he had made up his mind, her heart was still shaken by his decisiveness. "Okay." Her voice was trembling.
The parties involved have been identified, so Qin Youfu can't say anything.
However, he looked at Zhou Jun with a deep look in his eyes. After passing this level, the political review would not be so easy to pass.
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