"Ahem!" Yan Er coughed a few times before taking a breath. "I don't know. I only found out when Third Aunt called me."
Someone at the door muttered, "How could you not know just because there's a wall between us? I guess you're just pretending not to hear it!"
"That's right. Yan Yongxin beat Hai Li even worse than he beat outsiders. We heard it all behind your house. How could you not hear it?"
Yan Er felt as if his face was about to burn under the gaze of everyone, "It's none of my business. We have already separated..."
"They're here! Yan Yongxin and Mrs. Yan are here." The villagers outside shouted.
Zhou Huaian turned his head and saw a short, wretched man with a greasy face and an old woman with a skinny face walking to the door.
He stepped forward and pointed at Yan Yongxin, "Are you Yan Yongxin?"
"Who are you?" Yan Yongxin saw that he looked strange and turned around to run, but the villagers spontaneously gathered together and blocked him at the door.
Everyone had long disliked Yan Yongxin to the extreme. When he lost money, he would steal things in the village, even chickens.
Especially those who lived near his home, they all hoped that Zhou Huaian would break Yan Yongxin's legs to prevent him from going out to harm them.
Zhou Huaian grabbed Yan Yongxin and pressed him against the door panel with a bang, then bent his knees and pressed against his crotch.
"Ah——" Yan Yongxin almost fainted from the pain, but the pain made him more awake than ever.
Zhou Huaian slapped him hard a few times, "Are you still a human being?"
"Let me go..." The short Yan Yongxin was like a half-grown child in front of the tall Zhou Huaian. He didn't even have the strength to resist when he was caught by him. He struggled and cursed: "Where did this wild man come from? Let me go..."
Uncle Chen spat in his face, "Bullshit, that's Hai Li's cousin. Do you think that just because the Luo family is dead, the Chen family is also dead?"
Zhou Huaian punched him in the stomach, "You're good at hitting women, right? If you're brave, come and fight me!"
"Ouch——" Yan Yongxin's face was swollen from being hit, and it turned pale in pain...
"Ah~" Seeing this, Granny Yan was so anxious that her hoarse voice was out of tune, "Yongxin, Yongxin! Second Brother, you are a dead man, why don't you help me quickly——"
Yan Er just stood there motionless, "…" He deserved to be beaten to death. My throat still hurts now!
Granny Yan looked at the villagers who were watching and saw that no one was offering a hand to help. She glared at them with resentment and howled, "How heartless! Outsiders have come to the village to fight, and you are just standing there watching the fun like dead people."
Everyone curled their lips and moved aside.
"You bastard, I'm going to fight you." Upon seeing this, Granny Yan roared and rushed towards Zhou Huaian with open claws.
Suddenly, someone grabbed her hair from behind and pushed it down hard. "Ouch!" Mrs. Yan's screams almost blew the roof of the clinic off.
Zhou's mother grabbed her hair, pulled her to the ground, straddled her, and slapped her in the face, "You conscienceless old hag, you're not a woman, are you? You've given birth to children, how could you have the heart to do that to me..."
Aunt Chen would sneak up on her from time to time and attack her, "Poisonous woman, slut, slut..."
Granny Yan struggled and howled, "You are a jinx, a jinx that brings misfortune to both mother and children, a hen that doesn't lay eggs..."
When Yan Er saw his mother was in trouble, he wanted to step forward to help, but Zhou Huaian glared at him and he shrank aside, not daring to say a word.
Aunt Chen kicked her again, "You old hag who has no children or grandchildren. There is no mother-in-law as vicious as you in the world. If a girl marries into your family, that family will be in trouble for the rest of their lives."
Yan Er's wife stood in the crowd with a big belly. Thinking of what happened to Luo Haili, she touched her belly and became more and more scared.
Aunt Chen turned around and shouted to everyone, "Fellow villagers, have you ever seen such a vicious family? My daughter Hai Li was five months pregnant, but Yan's mother and son beat her together, and the baby boy she was pregnant with was aborted by them.
He also scolded her every day for being a hen that didn't lay eggs. Even if he sold all the grain he had just harvested, it wouldn't be enough to pay off his gambling debts. This morning, he asked Haili to go to her aunt's house to borrow money to pay off her gambling debts. Money didn't come from the wind, so where could someone get so much money to fill his hole?
When the Yan family saw that Haili didn't bring the money home, they beat her unconscious. This life is unbearable. Today, as her aunt, I have made the decision. Divorce! Must divorce!"
When the villagers heard her talking about divorce, those who had been helping to speak up fell silent, and some even began to whisper to each other.
"She's my sister, and I agree with the divorce. If she doesn't divorce, she'll be beaten to death sooner or later."
"Just get along if you can. There is no man in the world who doesn't beat his wife. If you divorce, you won't even be able to hold your head up high when you go back to your parents' house."
Nowadays, people believe that it is better to destroy ten temples than to destroy a marriage. They think that encouraging people to divorce is a detrimental thing and that divorce is shameful. Even if a woman is beaten to death by a man after marriage, she must die in her husband's house.
Granny Yan yelled, "I spent two hundred dollars to buy that bitch. If you want a divorce, you have to give me back the money."
Yan Yongxin pushed Zhou Huaian away when he was not prepared and shouted, "Yes, my family bought Luo for 200 yuan. Return the money with interest and take the money-losing item away."
Today he was lucky, if he could get 200 yuan, it would be enough for him to make a profit. When he won the money, he could have any woman he wanted.
Zhou Huaian kicked him on the butt, and Yan Yongxin flew out and fell to the ground, in so much pain that he didn't react for a long time.
"You are worse than pigs and dogs!" Zhou Huaian picked him up and pointed at the propaganda slogan on the wall, "Open your dog eyes and take a good look. Buying and selling women and children is illegal and you will be sentenced."
"The Yan family and the Luo family not only buy and sell women, but also favor boys over girls and abuse women and children. I will report them to the police later. You just wait to be sent to dig the river and build a dam!"
Yan Yongxin lowered his head and pretended to be dead, "..." Even if I can't beat you, there will always be someone who can beat you.
"Secretary Liu, Captain Sun is here." Someone shouted, and everyone moved to the sides, making way.
The young Secretary Liu stepped forward and said to Zhou's mother, "Auntie, please stop hitting me. Let's get up and talk it over."
Mother Zhou and Aunt Chen let go of Granny Yan and stood up. "The secretary said that we will give you a favor, otherwise we will tear this old woman to pieces today."
Granny Yan yelled at the two men, "Secretary Liu, are you just going to watch people from other villages come to the village and beat people up?"
Captain Sun gave her a disgusted look and said, "What's the point of lying on the ground? Hurry up and get up."
Mrs. Yan had no choice but to get up dejectedly.
Zhou Huaian left Yan Yongxin behind, took out a cigarette and gave one to each of them, and then distributed one to the men present, "Secretary, Captain, go in and see how my cousin and niece have been abused by the Yan family?"
"You see, there are slogans everywhere. They dare to buy and sell women, abuse children, gamble, and when they lose money, they force their wives to borrow money from their families to pay off their gambling debts. If they can't borrow money, they beat them to death.
If my cousin is really beaten to death by them today, the Guangming Brigade will be famous in the whole Baima Town. No, at least it will be a big news that will shock the whole Ning'an."
Secretary Liu said: "It is wrong for them to do this. We will deal with them."
They heard about it on the way. They didn't expect that the mother and son of the Yan family would actually beat someone to cause a miscarriage. If this continued, something bad would happen sooner or later.
If you can get a divorce, it’s better to do so, to avoid someone getting killed and yourself getting into trouble.
Aunt Chen said, "Secretary Liu, we only have one request, a divorce. If we don't divorce, my poor niece will be beaten to death by the Yan family sooner or later."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes, my cousin also said that she wants a divorce." (End of this chapter)
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